User talk:Oneworldjp

I'd invite you to add similar articles for countries (just about 120 to go....) :-) - seeCategory:Bahá'í Faith by country and I've been at it since early 2008. Smkolins (talk) 19:37, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Image of the Blessed Beauty
I know from experience what a shock it can be for a Baha'i who is also a very new editor on Wikipedia to have the picture of Baha'u'llah thrust on him, as it were, by this article. On the other hand you do need to have a look at these two links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h

And, even more relevantly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h/Photo

Many Baha'i editors, recognising that this is NOT A BAHA'I SITE in any way, actually support the retention of the image - although we are grateful that it is at the bottom of the page, and that there is a warning at the top so that we are no actually "compelled" to view it inappropriately.

In my opinion, and you are of course quite entitled to a different one - expecting to be able to compel others not of our Faith to comply with Baha'i law (especially on such matters as reverence for an image with sacred connections) - while typical of certain other religions - should be considered fanatical and inappropriate in a Baha'i context. Quite apart from anything else it give non-Baha'is a (quite incorrect) impression of the Faith as fundamentalist and intolerant. In any case (and as the UHJ themselves have pointed out - in a similar context) we very simply have no control of what appears on Wiki. Baha'is did not put the image there, and would (obviously) prefer it was not there, but this is a public site that doesn't belong to us - and if we were too obstreperous we would only get it up at the head on the article (where it was, originally) and with no warning either.

ANYWAY - nice to have another Baha'i editor on Wiki - looking forward to your constructive edits of Baha'i (and non-Baha'i) subjects.