User talk:Gford1

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Brinsmead and other Des Ford-related pages
Thanks for your input into the Brinsmead article. Out of curiosity, I assume it was in response to my request sent through the Good News Unlimited website? I would like to request that you put the comments up on a website, such as the GNU one. Please see the official Wikipedia policy Verifiability. Part of it states:
 * "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. "Verifiable" in this context means that any reader should be able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source."

See also No original research. Because you simply typed it into the page, it means that noone can verify those details in a published source. I have been repeatedly making similar requests to the other contributors to the article, who have done the same. As time permits, I plan to clean up the article substantially, and remove these unreferenced comments. After all, Wikipedia is strict with biographies of living persons. I hope that at that time, we can include your comments as we can reference them from a reliable source (ideally put Des' "signature" to the comments as well). However thanks for helping to clear this up. Here is a permanent link to your edit, if it helps.

Incidentally we met briefly once, at a talk Des gave in northern Sydney. I asked for his email; he said he didn't know it, and directed me to you! (I didn't end up sending anything, in consideration of his comment that he can't keep up with the backlog of emails)! I was a new Adventist at the time, and was curious to see what all the fuss was about this "Des" character.

You might like to have a look at the Desmond Ford article, which I have expanded a lot recently, which no doubt will be of interest to you. I also wrote Glacier View controversy just recently. The related project is WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church (shortcut WP:SDA) which aims to improve the neutrality and detail (including citations!) of Adventist-related articles. Feel free to join.

Please feel free to email me with any questions or comments, Wikipedia-related or otherwise. Cheers, Colin MacLaurin 07:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)