Talk:Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso

message: This reads much more like a traditional panegyric for a revered figure than an encyclopaedia article. Example: Under Early Life "...no text was unknown to him". That's obviously not literal truth - or if it is, then evidence should be presented to substantiate it, as it is apparently a remarkable claim. 
I think the article should be rewritten, avoiding this traditional tone.
MrDemeanour 10:10, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to disagree. That statement, like the others, is qualified properly - "it was said that." The article reports on how he is revered. Sylvain1972 14:18, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Much of this article is written in opinionated, unprofessional style. "Reading through his works, it seems he was equal parts Aristotle, Nostradamus, Shakespeare, Donne (especially in Mipham's early didactic compositions), Blake, and -- when it comes to his rare forays into commentary and prophetic laments of history's demise -- one admits there is a bit of an angst-ridden Eliot in places." This should be an enc article, not a series of personal musings. 129.137.249.51 (talk) 12:52, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Would you care to change that? --Gimme danger (talk) 15:15, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I suspect a little bird might have been responsible for that. Please, by all means bring it back in line with WP. 71.139.8.71 (talk) 04:12, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

text: I've removed the sentence that you gave as an example, but don't have time to clear out the rest of the article. --Gimme danger (talk) 15:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Encyclopedic prose 

message: More than twenty pages of first-class source material on Mipham's life is available on-line through Google Books: The Life and Works of Mipham Rinpoche - from Pettit, John Whitney. Mipham's Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating the View of Dzochen, the Great Perfection. Boston: Wisdom Publications (1999).  p. 19-39. Material from this could be used and cited to improve this article. Chris Fynn (talk) 08:59, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion

message: I've taken the plunge and begun a major overhaul of this article - trying to make it much more concise and better organized as well as more biographical and less haigiographical. Wth this in mind I've performed some pretty major excisions on the rambling and speculative parts - removing all references to Shakespeare, Tiger Woods and so on which simply didn't belong in an encyclopedia article on Mipham. I've tried to keep all the relevant parts and organize the content more coherently and, as requested, attempted to make the prose a little more encyclopedic and "neutral". Need to add references. This exercise will undoubtedly take some more days to complete - hope people will bear with me till then before screaming. Chris Fynn (talk) 17:13, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Drastic Surgery!

message: The article now reads more factual rather than speculative. Is there some other "dispute" going on beyond that former critical consensus? Can we remove the June 2008 Neutrality Tag? It seems misleading at this point, unless... is nyone actually disputing recognition one of the 'emanations'? 70.137.148.197 (talk) 02:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I just removed it - it shouldn't have been on so long in the first place, seeing as it was added by an anon user without explanation. Sylvain1972 (talk) 20:58, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality Tag

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