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Author Topic: Editor needed at Sathya Sai Baba  (Read 2548 times)
Howard C. Berkowitz
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« on: February 18, 2009, 04:26:46 PM »

I'm no expert on the subject, but I believe an editor's guidance is needed at Sathya Sai Baba.
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Prime Minister, you can't take the bull by the horns if you're grasping the nettle. I mean, if you grasped the nettle with one hand, you could take the bull by one horn with the other hand, but not by both horns because your hand wouldn't be big enough, and if you took a bull by only one horn it would be rather dangerous because...' (Yes Prime Minister II, pp. 221-2)
Howard C. Berkowitz
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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2009, 09:48:10 AM »

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not terribly concerned about the topic of http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Sathya_Sai_Baba.  I am no expert on Indian religion.

Nevertheless, there is a situation, with this article, which seems to set unfortunate precedents for neutrality, CZ credibility, and resistance to being edited.  From a procedural standpoint, it's not clear why the article should even be here -- it was imported from WP in early 2007, nothing was done to it except the importer asked for time, and, when several people have tried to lower-case "e" edit it, there has been some resistance to things that appear to be more a matter of general CZ policy for neutrality, and also tight editing.

There may be a belief, on the part of the importer, that CZ's role should be that of a critic of a cult, because no one else is doing so. We have now completely stalled over his insistence on "hagiography" over what I see the more neutral term "biography".

Any ideas?
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Prime Minister, you can't take the bull by the horns if you're grasping the nettle. I mean, if you grasped the nettle with one hand, you could take the bull by one horn with the other hand, but not by both horns because your hand wouldn't be big enough, and if you took a bull by only one horn it would be rather dangerous because...' (Yes Prime Minister II, pp. 221-2)
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« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2009, 10:28:07 AM »

See what I just wrote on the bottom of the Talk page of that article concerning Hagiography.
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