Talk:Amy Carlson (religious leader)

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calling a cult leader a "religious leader" and the cult a "new religious movement" is exceptionally silly and violates the npv rules, this page reads a lot more like a press release than a factual wikipedia page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.143.201.182 (talk) 23:27, 5 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Per MOS:CULT, cult is a pejorative term that is generally avoided in academic discussions of new religious movements. Wikipedia should aspire to have an academic, rather than a populist perspective. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:29, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * seems curious that this "pejorative" is in the title of a vast majority of the cited articles but only used once on the wiki page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.143.201.182 (talk) 23:31, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia aspires to be better than newspapers. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:36, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * that might be the most silly thing anyone has ever written about wikipedia considering it is built on the back of citing valid sources. but in any case, i can see why you'd argue that considering your use of MOS:CULT is invalidated by its own rules - each of the citations used for this cult's description both in title and text as per the rule call it a cult, not just as a pejorative, but as a description of what it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.143.201.182 (talk) 23:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * As a cult is a religious movement, I don't see the problem.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 02:54, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * A "cult" is not necessarily a religious movement, see NXIVM for an example of that. Carlson's followers had/have genuine religious beliefs that should be treated in the same way we treat all other religions beliefs. The current lead is in line with the guidelines at MOS:CULT. Hemiauchenia (talk) 03:09, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't know, NXIVM seems like religion cloaked in a thin veneer of pseudoscience to me.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 02:09, 3 March 2024 (UTC)