Talk:Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa

message: It sticks out hard. It doesn't have anything to do with the religious aspects surrounding it either, even if you strip those completely away it's still offputting and feels like something Aum Shinrikyo or the Sannyasins would've spent money on to have written about their own private property.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.42.170.138 (talk) 09:03, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: This article reads like cult propaganda

message: The city officially changed its name soon after incorporating, so it seems like the main article should be Maharishi Vedic City, and Vedic City should redirect to that, rather than vice versa, as it is now. I think it's just a matter of copying all the content to Maharishi Vedic City, then removing the redirect, then adding a redirect to Vedic City, right? TimidGuy 18:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change redirect so that "Maharishi Vedic City" is main article 

message: Vedas = Hindu. But even otherwise, the Vedic City is obviously associated with Hinduism . Whether or not the residents call themselves Hindu is irrelevant, since the city is notably connected to the holy texts of Hinduism.Bakaman 22:23, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems misleading. Just because the Hindus consider the Vedas holy texts doesn't mean that anything associated with the Vedas is associated with Hinduism. Maharishi has sought to identify the universal aspects of the Veda, rather than focusing on aspects that are culturally specific. He sees Hinduism as a culture that has grown up around this timeless knowledge but considers the knowledge itself to be eternal. By way of analogy, it's almost as if someone would categorize a city as Roman Catholic because some of the inhabitants read the Bible. Roman Catholicism is simply a specific cultural context for the more general notion of Christianity. Also, I think self-identification is important. No one in Maharishi Vedic City has any idea what constitutes Hinduism, and nor do they seem themselves as practicing Hinduism. They practice Transcendental Meditation. They live in houses that use features described by Sthapatya Veda. They take advantage of certain health guidelines offered by Ayurveda. If the residents in a certain city, say New York, practice Yoga, which they do, should that city then be added to the category Hinduism in America? I feel like Wikipedia should strive to be accurate, and associating Hinduism with Maharishi Vedic City seems inaccurate. The article you cited doesn't say anything about the city being Hindu. TimidGuy 19:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hindu?

message: Replying to this edit summary: "Are they official legal residents? Only US Census Bureau data are supposed to be used for population."
Yes, they're official legal residents. They have visas. Consider college campuses. All students are counted during a census, right, regardless of country of origin? This city is growing pretty fast. The Des Moines Register has also covered this. Seems like limiting to census data is misleading, since that data can't really track in a timely fashion the growth of this city. Even before the arrival of pandits, newspaper accounts give a population of well over 400. There are a lot of people there now -- approaching an order of magnitude beyond the census data. Seems like Wikipedia ought to be up to date. : ) And it can all be sourced. But whatever. TimidGuy (talk) 21:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  population 

message: I don't think we have an article on this. It would be great if someone who knew more about this subject than I do could create an article or just provide a definition or explanation of what these are and why they are important. Thanks, Kafka Liz (talk) 02:32, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kalash? 

message: What is the proper pronunciation of the city name? When the town was first founded, I remember it was intentionally pronounced "VAY-dic" to make it sound more Iowan. When the name was changed, there was was some confusion about how to pronounce "Mahahrishi". Most pronounced it "ma-ha-REE-she", but ads on Iowa Public Radio sponsored by the Maharishi Institute pronounced it "ma-HAR-ish-ee". Curious, Bill Whittaker (talk) 16:16, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: We have the sentence: "Residents may believe that group practice of this technique "will create coherence for the whole country".  We could also say that "Residents may believe that black is white and up is down".  Can't we do better?  --BwB (talk) 20:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you questioning the "may" part?  Nyttend (talk) 01:31, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd not paid attention to this sentence before, so good point.  I asked you before, not to challenge you, but to clarify whether you were questioning that part or another part of the statement.  What about simply removing it?  Nyttend (talk) 00:55, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Double Speak?

message: In the lede we are told that MMY founded the TMM, but the references do not support this.http://www.maharishivediccity.com/American Way magazine, Home and Peace, William Kissel Perhaps we can find other references, or delete text. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigweeboy  (talk • contribs) 
:It's not hard to find Sources that say he founded it. I'll add one   Will Beback  talk   18:55, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: TMM

message: The usual standard across Wikipedia is to limit these sections to those who have articles written about them, i.e. "blue links". Exceptions are made for those who clearly meet the notability guidelines even if articles haven't yet been written. I don't see how the three people added to the article would meet those guidelines. Unless more info is added or articles are created I suggest that we remove those.   Will Beback  talk   21:54, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable residents

message: *Detours magazine is a travel magazine produced by students at Truman State University. It focuses on the tri-state area of Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. It was first published in 1996 and features little-known treasures throughout the Midwest. Story ideas and contributions are always welcome. 
The automatic use of student publications as reliable sources for non-collegiate articles has not, so far as I know, received consensus by the community, and instead are treated on a case-by-case basis. Truman State University has fewer than 6,000 students, making it on the small-to-medium size. It does not have a journalism school, nor a notable student newspaper. It does have a masthead with an editor and staff. I've written to their email address to ask how ling they've been publishing, etc. Anyway, does anyone have a problem with using a student newspaper or magazine as a source for TM-related articles? I'm not sure that travel magazines, student or commercial, have a good reputation for reliability.   Will Beback  talk   10:35, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Good research. Since there are so few of us here on this article, we could run it by the folks at RSN. I'm happy to go with whatever the consensus is there.-- — Keithbob • Talk •  20:21, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it.   Will Beback  talk   23:25, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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