Talk:Tolly Burkan

message: His mentions include:
USA Today 4-2-90  Page 1, Section D
Philadelphia Inquirer 5-1-02 (http://www.firewalking.com/glasswalking_article.html)
Wall Street Journal 4-18-89 Front page
Los Angeles Times 4-11-84 Front page
Author of:
Extreme Sprituality (Amazon rank 116,000)
Let It Be Easy (Amazon rank 109,000)
Dying to Live (Amazon rank 865,000)
Mentioned in the following books:
THE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS OF PROSPERITY
by Edwene Gaines
Rodale Books 2005
MIND GAMES
by Michael Powell
Barnes & Noble 2004
IF YOU MAKE THE RULES, HOW COME YOU'RE NOT BOSS?
by Elaine Smitha
Hampton Roads Publishing Company 2004
SECRETS OF SUPERSTAR SPEAKERS: WISDOM FROM THE GREATEST MOTIVATORS OF OUR TIME
by Lilly Walters
McGraw-Hill 2000
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH IN SPIRIT
by Alan Cohen
Hay House 1996
QUANTUM LEAP THINKING
by James J. Mapes
Dove Books 1996
HARPER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYSTICAL AND PARANORMAL EXPERIENCE
by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Harper Collins 1994
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DAVE BARRY
by Dave Barry
Wings Books 1994
THE NEW AGE CATALOGUE
by the Editors of BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT
Dolphin Doubleday 1994
FIREWALK: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PHYSICAL IMMUNITY
by Jonathan Sternfield
Berkshire House 1992
FIREWALKING AND RELIGIOUS HEALING
by Loring M. Danforth, Ph.D.
Princeton University Press 1989
RETURN TO THE GARDEN
by Shakti Gawain
New World Library 1989
TOO MUCH IS NOT ENOUGH
by Orson Bean
Lyle Stuart 1988
DAVE BARRY'S GREATEST HITS
by Dave Barry
Ballantine Books 1988
HEALING STATES
by Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
Simon & Schuster 1987 
Web Site: Firewalking.com
:Pasted from my talk page. Arbustoo 00:45, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publicity 

message: Someone just added New Thought Movement and New Thought writer cat tags to this article, but there is no textual refence to this person being associated with the New Thought Movemenet in any way. Please expalin the reason, or the cat may be deleted. Note that simply writing about spirituality or unusual techniques of spiritual attainment does not mean that a person is associated with New Thought. Thanks. cat Catherineyronwode 11:54, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can you explain his connection to New Thought 

message: "During the 1970s, Burkan gained his reputation by creating innovative, cutting-edge methods for developing human potential." This reads like an advertisement and needs to be changed for NPOV.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.247.44.130 (talk) 01:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This appears to be a joke and regardless, even if true, the talk pages are not for general discussion of the subject (or random factiods). Arbalest Mike (talk) 23:34, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisement 

message: Does the citation actually claim his class was the world’s first firewalking class?  It seems more appropriate to say that at such and such a time he began teaching classes, etc. The linked article on Fire-walking says that it has been practiced since 1200 BCE. That alone is enough to edit the statement as suggested but the question is if the citation actually makes the claim that his class was the world's first? If there is no support for the claim in the near future I will make the edit. Arbalest Mike (talk) 23:42, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur; such a statement is rather ridiculous. Primefac (talk) 23:58, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. Change made. Arbalest Mike (talk) 00:22, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  world’s first firewalking class 

message: There are numerous aspects of the edit history of this article that bring up WP policy issues but I don't feel qualified to address them directly.  Maybe a more experienced editor can decide what should be done, based on the following and maybe more.
Potential sock puppetry 
* Most of the edits to main article are associated with raw IP addresses rather than user names.
* My recent good faith edit (clearly supported by WP policy) was reverted (as vandalism, no less) by a user at a raw IP address.
* The edit history associated with raw IP addresses seems to focus on adding positive claims and removing others.
Edits by persons close to the subject
* There is already a maintenance tag that suggests this but there is more to it than that.
* The article was created (and has been edited) by a user with a user-name that is the same as the subject.  
* This user's edit-history comments actually claim that he is the same person.  
* All of this user's edits are of his biography and the related subject of fire-walking (i.e., no other interest in the WP)
Arbalest Mike (talk) 18:29, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that  hasn't edited in eight years, we can pretty much consider that account abandoned. Other than RPP, I don't think there's really anything we can do to stop IPs adding promotional facts to the article other than simply reverting them. I would suggest AFD but Burkan is probably notable enough for that not to stick. Primefac (talk) 20:06, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am fine with the way the page is written now and I have no overwhelming desire to do battle with the people associated with the pages in question but out of curiosity I've done a little digging. I happened to notice that the (static) IP address that reverted my edit has has made 50 edits to the same family of pages and a the last router on the way to that IP address is pretty close (maybe 20 miles) to the address where the domain name of the subject person is registered and also located near the PO box listed on said person's web site site.  So while the subject's account is no longer used for editing the page it is being edited from his neighborhood. Again, the page as it is, seems neutral enough to me. Arbalest Mike (talk) 20:19, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  New user  may be a sock puppet of , given the recent edits to Firewalking.  Tayste (edits) 23:33, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible WP policy violations 

message: WP:ELOFFICIAL is rather unambiguous in stating that official websites are generally considered appropriate. I see no reason why this one should be treated differently. Huon (talk) 17:28, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.tollyburkan.com is the official site of Tolly Burkan (surprise surprise), and I see absolutely no reason why it cannot be included in the External links section as the official site. WP:ELOFFICIAL allows it, as does almost every other policy I can find. Primefac (talk) 17:29, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official website 

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