Talk:Alice Bailey

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?	No
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
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 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)

John, thanks for the reminder. I've put in ten or so CZ links though many of the articles I need to link to are not yet in CZ. I've coded it as not under linked at the moment since I think most of what can be done has been. More links are needed but can't be done until they become available in CZ. Also, many are relatively esoteric subjects like Theosophy and Mysticism and it may be some time before these appear in CZ. James Davis 16:30, 28 October 2007 (CDT)

Thanks. You can still add links to articles that don't exist yet. Use your own judgement, however: if you think it unlikely that we'll have an article on this in the medium to long term, or ever, then don't add it. John Stephenson 23:56, 28 October 2007 (CDT)

Photos

If anyone has print publications with photos of this woman, kindly add some sources for the photos that may appear so we can find out the provenance. I've turned up dead ends on this and this. Stephen Ewen 00:48, 29 October 2007 (CDT)

Hi Stephen, thanks for you input. I just wrote to the publishers of her books requesting permission for use of a photo or photos in the article. James Davis 10:16, 29 October 2007 (CDT)