User talk:Talk2menow717

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Hello, Talk2menow717, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Bahá'í Faith. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Smkolins (talk) 01:12, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
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See the talk page of the article. There is some discussion as to the formulation, word choice, of your additions (see Talk:Bahá'í_Faith). You may also want to know about the Bahá'í Faith project page. Smkolins (talk) 01:15, 22 April 2010 (UTC)


 * If I can just add here - just a reminder that this article, and this site, are NOT specifically "Baha'i". In fact this is a secular site - and the article is a reference for non-Baha'is - as far as possible written to be comprehensible to them, and to include (possibly at some length) matters of interest to THEM about the Faith - regardless of the degree of concern of Baha'is about the natters in question! We are lucky to have a generally fair article, respected by many NON-Baha'is as one of the "best" (in academic and encyclopediac terms) on Wikipedia. In part to preserve this very desirable situation, which in itself reflects well on our Beloved Faith, regular Baha'i editors of the article habitually go to considerable lengths to avoid anything that reads TOO much like a book or magazine article written specifically to deepen believers, or even to attract seekers. If you think about it that is not really such a bad idea. We want to present things in terms that people who are neither believers nor seekers can readily understand - and to answer - with complete candor - any questions they might have. Even their opposition to the Faith (If, God forbid, they are inclined in that direction) should be better informed, and therefore less likely to provoke persecution or unfair treatment.


 * The result is that some things inevitably get put differently. Not that the article is perfect, but think about these things before you edit the existing text - if you're not sure bring it up in discussion first and see what we all think. In a way WIkipedia is just a little like an LSA discussion (a VERY open one!) --Soundofmusicals (talk) 11:12, 22 April 2010 (UTC)