User talk:Benjamin deutscher

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Benjamin deutscher! Thank you for your contributions. I am Soundofmusicals and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Soundofmusicals (talk) 06:06, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
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Your edits to the Bahá'u'lláh article
Baha'i editors of Baha'i articles on Wikipedia need to be aware that this is not a Baha'i site. The Baha'i articles are not here as a direct teaching tool (although we hope that they will at least increase goodwill and reduce ignorance) nor even something that would pass the Baha'i review process, but as a balanced, dispassionate view - as part of a general, secular encyclopedia. As an example of how things have run in the past - we fought long and hard to have the Blessed Beauty's photograph removed from the article - at length we had to compromise with other, non-Baha'i editors (some of them relatively friendly but uncomprehending why this is so important a question for us, and some very hostile indeed) and got a "consensus" agreement that the photo would be at the very bottom of the article (so don't go there if you want to see the photo He preferred himself, and that when you go on pilgrimage!) Generally - if something is "outwardly true", or "fair criticism", even if it is not quite how we would put it ourselves - then it often needs to be allowed to stand. The most difficult part of being part of the "Baha'i editors" team is the necessary reaction with those hostile editors, who of course periodically make edits that are as repugnant as they are ignorant and distorted. It's not an easy job, and a very lonely one too, at times, but... --Soundofmusicals (talk) 06:30, 31 July 2017 (UTC)