User talk:Dfgh101

Please be more constructive on your edits. If that picture particularly concerns you, you should carefully review the years of effort to bring about the present compromise as at Talk:Bahá'u'lláh/Archive Picture. --Smkolins (talk) 17:22, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * What Smolkins said! Not ideal - and of course it would be even nicer if the Image of the Blessed Beauty wasn't here - but realistically, that isn't an alternative. Specifically, the UHJ (in another context, but applicable here) very wisely remarked that we have no control over how non-Baha'i web sites treat the Faith. Thrashing around as it was our right to dictate what people who do NOT share our beliefs are allowed to look at tends, in fact, to produce a very bad impression, and gives ammunition to the self-appointed enemies of the Cause who would like to see us portrayed as religious fanatics. Rather against the odds, we have a generally fair and dispassionate article here, something that cannot necessarily be guaranteed in a Non-Baha'i environment like Wikipedia (just read some of the hysterically anti-Baha'i comments on the link!). The important thing is - we (Baha'i Wikipedians) have secured a compromise (the non-Baha'i consensus is that the Image should go at the top, as is the rule with biographical articles) and if it is to be deleted from the bottom that's where it will end up! The last thing we want is another long acrimonious debate. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 23:28, 11 November 2014 (UTC)