Talk:Christianity/Archive 13

message: I think that we can all benefit reviewing the Wiki policy on NPOV. I know we all think we know it, but in practice, I think many of us can slip back into non encylopedic mind frames. I excerted several sections and include them below so that we can review this and see how it applies to solving the ongoing conflicts here. I feel that if we did follow these guidelines from the start we would have avoided a lot of needless edit conficts. I think Storm Rider tact refects the a Wiki NPOV stance, and I hope that after reading the text below, we can all come to an agreement with him about allowing the content I've been advocating inclusion for. Giovanni33 08:23, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki NPOV Policy Review

message: ::Hi, looks like I'm back (for now). I've been a bad boy and had to be punished. hehe Thanks, Ann. :) I agree with Storm Rider and feel that most of us here do have a general consensus already that my point of view while it may be a minority one is not extreme or fringe, which would justify supression. The fact that I can easily point to prominent scholars even within the field of reglious studies departments who argue this, proves its a at the very least a significant minority view. This is all the more the case given the those who argue otherwise have only asserted it but have not backed up their claims with any references, much less purported refutations of these views. Again, I think most of us here agree that its a signifant minority view. The question now, then, is how much and in what way do we incorporate it in this article within the section on history and origins? I'm willing to compromise (as I always have), and make it short, with a link to Early Christianity where is should be allowed to have a more promient role (its being suppressed there too--even more so where it was mostly being reverted back to a stub). In anycase I'm confident that we editors all being reasonable intelligent people can come to a sensible agreement.Giovanni33 03:04, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Giovanni. I'm new too and wondered about the changes I kept seeing when I was browsing this Wiki article based on a search I did. I was very happy to see the information about early Christian influences presented in the way you have argued for. The reason why I became interested in participating was because I was disappointed that at other times this information was no longer available. I see now why. I hope that my own experience and help for others to realize that it would be a good thing to include. It does not confuse people (that much), and confusion is not always a bad thing. All learning first begins with confusion. It only makes for a better education to be exposed to these forerunners to modern Christianity, which so many people are rather ignorant of. I made my first edit, a very humble one based on your suggestions above, and ones I know keep the article accurate. I hope they can restore to the version I saw before that had all the links included to the other mystery cults. I do not now how to find that version or how to restore it. I am still learning. Thank you, Richard. 198.144.207.115 06:35, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Consensus edits Part Two