User talk:Drsarahmoore

Your Edits to Santiniketan Park Association
Hi Sarah,

I stumbled on the article about The Family by following a maze of links: the first person to record all of Bach's Cello Suites, Pablo Casals, once performed at Osborne House, Queen Victoria's summer home. Jack Llewelyn Davies studied there while it was a naval college. His guardian, J. M. Barrie, the author of the Peter Pan series, was suspected to have had psychogenic dwarfism, which Casandra had from years of abuse.

I've read the online extract from your memoir. The abuse you describe in it is nothing short of horrific. So I can understand why you made this edit to show how repulsive the organisation is. However Wikipedia articles should not express an opinion - they should be from the neutral point of view. They should let the facts speak for themselves. Wikipedia's stance on strong opinions is best expressed in the essay beware of the tigers.

I've tried to correct the mistakes that you pointed out in this edit. If you don't feel comfortable correcting mistakes yourself, it's better to point them out on the talk page; also see the conflict of interest guideline, about editing topics that you are closely associated with.

Kind regards, Graham 87 10:04, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

hi graham, obviously i'm not going to be totally neutral, however my book did get published and part of it at least is on line. and no-one sued me, neither did the cult contest any of it. in fact they have paid out money to two of my 'sisters' since after being sued by them. your edit of my edit was a bit rough i reckon. that is you simply edited out everything i said. there are facts available. do i have to be a lawyer or something to write edits, or is no-one involved actually allowed to write anything on wikipedia about stuff they're involved with, in case you guys get sued or something? i'm happy to tone things down if you want, but this article lacks - to say the least - definitiveness. alright being sarah hamilton-byrne may mean i'm not going to always be the only one who gets up and says something definitive about the situation, but you've gotta admit that i must have some right to take whoever wrote the article to task about the inaccuracies, and to see that at least a bit of what is in the public domain about me and my family (and Family) approximates the truth! cheers sarah moore


 * Hi Sarah,

The reason for the conflict of interest guideline is that most people involved with a subject can't write with a neutral point of view about it. It was designed to give guidance to people trying to advertise things here, and some parts of it don't fit well with this situation, now that I think about it. I probably was a bit rough with your edits - I should've tried to integrate them, rather than just deleting everything you wrote. But I tried to fix the inaccuracies you pointed out.


 * If there are more inaccuracies, note them down at the talk page of the article, using the new section link. If you want to edit the article, try to use the same writing style as the article, make sure the text flows properly, and note where you got the info from. Don't worry about the formatting; I'll be able to fix it. Anything from books about the subject like your memoir or relatively reliable media (e.g. the ABC, the SMH, The Age), is fair game for the article.


 * For the record, I'm not a lawyer; I'm just a regular Wikipedia admin. Most Wikipedia guidelines are designed to improve the layout/tone of the encyclopedia, and have nothing to do with legal concerns; Libel is the only exception I can think of off-hand. Graham 87 11:21, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

dear graham there was an article in the newspapers here in victoria recently about anne hamilton-byrne and myself. the link would be under herald sun and it was published on the 18th june i think. whilst it misquoted me, i did write and publish a blog as to why i see anne again and that was the information that the journalist used to write the article. the link to the blog is http://drsarahmoore.blogspot.com yours sincerly

sarah hamilton-byrne/moore


 * Hi Sarah, thanks for the info. Do you mean this article? I'll add info from the Herald Sun, as well as your blog, to the Wikipedia article. I can't do it right this second but I'll do it shortly; I think I'll need to restructure the article a bit so that the information fits in. For now I'll add them as external links to the SPA article.


 * I'm amazed by the way you deal with your past, yet also give back to the community and society.

Regards, Graham 87 02:31, 4 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh - is the publishing date of the 16th of August correct? Graham 87 02:33, 4 September 2009 (UTC)