User talk:Violadude63

Help me! Another editor is repeatedly reverting to his own article.
✅ Please help me with... Violadude63 (talk) 14:22, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * If an editor is violating the three revert rule, the best course of action would be to first warn them using the and if they persist, report them to Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. - Examknow  talk  14:45, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

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Georg David Hardegg moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Georg David Hardegg, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Spiderone 15:18, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks for your message. I had spent some time finding relevant sources and citations but despite several attempts to insert them I was unsuccessful. Violadude63 (talk) 10:03, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

March 2021
Hello, I'm Ahmetlii. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Baháʼí Faith in Scotland, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Ahmetlii (talk) 16:52, 27 March 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't understand why you have removed the entire section which I have been gradually inserting over the past week, when the problem you refer to appears to be in the two lines I have just added, under the heading, Glasgow? Violadude63 (talk) 17:02, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello Violadude63, the user above appears to have accidentally clicked on the button that reverts all edits in a row — the people who review recent changes see so many edits that they do occasionally click the wrong button. Most of the time editors won't notice that you've replied unless you notify them, for example by writing at the start of your message. – Thjarkur (talk) 20:59, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Further on Buchman
How very interesting. I didn't particularly remember reading of Frank Buchman. I suggest further research. I found several more mentions of him in addition to the topic of Queen Marie:

- Mentioned as founder of a Christian reform movement, (p4) that Bushman's movement interested Queen Juliana and her mother of the Netherlands and describes core of movement despite being unable to stop the build up to WWII and then the Cold War (p229).
 * The Babi Question You Mentioned…, by Jelle de Vries, Peeters, 2002, of series New Religious Identities in the Western World v3, series eds. P. S. van Koningsveld, W. A. R. Shadid, G. A. Weigers, ISBN 9789042911093, OCLC 49722155

- Notes that Nakoda Indian Chief Walking Buffalo supported Buchman's movement in the 1950s-60s after his retirement in 1935.
 * Equals and Partners…, Patricia Verge, FriesenPress, 2018, ISBN 9781525518690, OCLC 1151050819, p138

- Notes Ola Pawlowska worked with the Moral Rearmament movement in the US in the 1940s, (pp93-4)
 * Legacy of Courage…, by Suzanne Schulman, George Ronald, 2008, ISBN 9780853985242, OCLC 271770667

- Notes John Esslemont reports that Buchman and friends had visited Shoghi Effendi in early 1925(p148-150)
 * Youth in the Vanguard…, by Marion Carpenter Yazdi, Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1982, ISBN 0877431736, OCLC 311659213

- A Danish later Baha'i saw his father join the Oxford Movement which had ill feelings of.
 * Citizens of the World…, Margit Warburg, Brill Publishers, 2006, Numen Book Series Studies in the History of Religions v106, Eds by W. J. Hanegraaff, P. P. Kumar, ISBN 9789047407461, OCLC 234309958

- Baha'i World v. 8 notes the Oxford Movement was among the Christian revitalizations movements at a Geyserville Baha'i School Class in 1939. (p102)

- Mentions "turning to the teachings of the Baha'i religion" a month or so after Carol's efforts failed and some of why it appealed to her(p337) and also that Bushman's relationship/guidance to Marie was also at some pains of the some hosts of the Queen at some point in her life who asked her to distance herself from him(p350)
 * Queen of Roumania: the life of Princess Marie…, by Hannah Pakula, Eland, London, 1989, ISBN 9780907871910, OCLC 906536208

- Several pages here mention Bushman and the Oxford Movement in various connections (and also several pages in connection with the Baha'is (systematically misspelled 'Bahai'.))
 * An African Victorian Feminist…, by Adelaide M Cromwell, Routledge, 2013 (there are several editions - 1986 F. Cass, London; 1992 by Howard University Press, Washington DC; 2004 by?, 2013 by Routledge Press,) ISBN 9781317792116, pages??

- Mentions Buchman becoming successful since Oxford in 1921 and then went to South Africa. There are certainly more hits to find! Smkolins (talk) 11:52, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Religion in Britain Since 1900, by George Stephens Spinks, Edgar Leonard Allen, & James William Parkes  pub by Andrew Dakers, London, 1952, OCLC 2130517, pp211-2


 * Many thanks. I was brought up with Moral Re Armament and met Buchman when I was about 12. My upbringing with MRA helped me in my investigation of the Baha'i Faith much later. I can't find the reference to Buchman meeting Shoghi Effendi in 1925 which you mention. It might be good to include this on the Wikipedia page on Buchman, which I have already edited. Violadude63 (talk) 12:26, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

helping on sandbox
Hi, I worked first on fixing more technical aspects but then was wondering how this would fit in the main space of the article. It seemed the spirit of your aim was to have a bit of a spiritual biography - which could work as a separate section down page more from the biographical timeline. Or it could work as a separate article if grown enough with sources. That began by bringing in content from the main article as a framework of her overall spiritual growth. But I want to stop more or less mid-development to consider how it is you want to proceed. I think there is a lot of good work in what you began but how to use it - small section inside the article main space, separate larger section down page but still in the main article, or indeed could it be a full standalone article summarized back in the main article. What are your thoughts? Smkolins (talk) 16:26, 18 September 2022 (UTC)


 * My original intention was to insert this new section after the section in the Queen Marie page which finishes with the sentence, "Marie would be received into the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1926, mentioning a desire to be closer to her people.[66]"
 * I had been encouraged to go ahead and publish [by Fares] but I'm aware that it's probably better to really plan where best to put it. I'm not going to be able to do any work until after September 26th but if you have any thoughts on how to proceed please share. I realise how vitally important it is to get this right. Violadude63 (talk) 17:38, 18 September 2022 (UTC)