Talk:Alice Bailey

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Article Checklist for "Alice Bailey"
Workgroup category or categories Philosophy Workgroup, Religion Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status Developed article: complete or nearly so
Underlinked article? Yes
Basic cleanup done? No
Checklist last edited by John Stephenson 01:11, 27 October 2007 (CDT) James Davis 14:39, 12 October 2007 (CDT)

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Attribution

Note: I was the primary author of the Alice Bailey article on Wikipedia. When I left, I brought the best portions of it here (or rather what the article use to be.) The portions I brought here were already substantially different than the rapidly stormy and unstable version on Wikipedia. I've done new major revisions, reworking, and condensing in this Citizendium version so that the material reflects some key points of her life, her main themes and the thoughts of some of her more reputable critics. When I last looked, the Wikipedia version was being turned into a caricature of Alice Bailey's ideas with excessive focus on minor themes. The Wikipedia version is what results from an unchecked edit war with many contributions from some editors who did not know much about the subject or how to distance their personal views from it. James Davis 13:56, 12 October 2007 (CDT)

Quotes

Just FYI--my observation is that articles which contain more quotes than substance, or significant quote amounts often come under scrutiny. I'm pretty sure that's what happened to the article on Mien Kampf (it's redlinked now.) --Robert W King 18:34, 11 October 2007 (CDT)

Robert, thanks for your observation. I've followed your implicit suggestion and radically reduced the number of quotations and made the whole article much tighter. James Davis 10:51, 12 October 2007 (CDT)

Linking

Can you also go through and link the article to others, by placing [[ and ]] around keywords? Thanks. John Stephenson 01:11, 27 October 2007 (CDT)