[Cz-religion] [SPAM] - Prem Rawat & Jossi Fresco - Bayesian Filter detected spam

[Stockman, Robert]

On January 3, 2008 I received a suggested article about Prem Rawat from
someone who felt strongly that our article had biases. I am not sure the
biases he pointed out were large (I exchanged a series of emails with
him over two months) and encouraged him to write something that I could
look at. Unfortunately, all of January I was occupied with launching a
new educational website and we are still digging out from the
complications, so I haven't been able to get back to him. Making it more
complicated is the issue of anonymity; I am not sure this person who
sent me an article wants his name spread around because he himself is
known to have problems with Prem Rawat. I know so little about the
subject that I do not feel qualified to make judgments about the
original article (which I did read) or the proposed article (which I
have not). It is very hard to know what one should do when articles
appear to have biases. The Wikipedia approach is to make sure both sides
are argued, but then one has articles that deal with just about every
imaginable controversy imaginable by giving both sides. An unbiased
observer usually wouldn't bother writing about the various controversies
at all, or would give them limited space.

		-- Robert Stockman

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Sanger [mailto:sanger at citizendium.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:20 PM
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Subject: [SPAM] - [Cz-religion] Prem Rawat & Jossi Fresco - Bayesian
Filter detected spam

All,

If you'll examine the following article,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/the_cult_of_wikipedia/

you'll see that one Jossi Fresco was (and apparently still is) very
closely
related to Prem Rawat (aka Majaraji).  He has joined CZ

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Jossi_Fresco

has taken an unusual interest in our own Prem Rawat article,

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/TI:Prem_Rawat

which I moved to the topic informant (TI) namespace.

Could I ask someone--whether you're a member of the Topic Informant
Workgroup, the Religion Workgroup, or the Constabulary--to review all of
Jossi Fresco's contributions, here

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jossi_Fresco

and move all Prem Rawat-related pages, as appropriate, to the TI:
namespace?
If there are any more to move (as I suspect there are), please be sure
to
add a link to the page from the Topic Informant Workgroup.  I do know
that
there are subpages of the Prem Rawat article that still need to be
moved.
We should probably just remove the {{subpages}} templates altogether and
"manually" link the article with its subpages, since the subpage
template
won't work within the TI: namespace.  That's no great trouble, really.

If you can take a little time to get "on top of this," won't you please
write back the groups in the "to" line and let us all know that you've
got
it handled, to make sure no one starts to redo your work?

Finally, to any Religion Workgroup editors who have read this far: since
in
the opinion of some Prem Rawat is the head of a "cult," and as cult
leaders
frequently have idiosyncratic "takes" on common topics (to put it
nicely), I
think we should doublecheck the information in all of these articles.

Thanks in advance!

--Larry

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