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PLANS

As a friendly suggestion: reduce your arguments to a cogent paragraph or two; this is more effective and leaves a better impression than sprawling pages. Even I, sympathetic to your point here, shudder at the format! Best wishes. Hgilbert 14:45, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for telling. I don't like long drawn out discussion back and forth about details. That's why I try to be as thorough as possible from the beginning in my argument. But the thoroughness does't seem to impress my main opponent. Or maybe I just read too much Steiner ... ;-) --Thebee 18:08, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to join a Project

Dear TheBee, I am starting a project to overhaul and balance the article on Waldorf ed. I would like to invite you to take part because of your ongoing contributions to the page. Please le me know at my Talk page if you would like to participate. Wonderactivist 16:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Dear Wonderful Bee,

I will send your friend an invitation to join the project and will be thrilled to list you as a participant. Unfortunately I broke a finger last week and have not been typing much - I will set up the project pages later today.

I understand everyone's concern...and I also love Waldorf ed...but I also love Misplaced Pages and find that it is just necessary to intervene to make this a fair, unbiased page which is notthetopc of ongoing edit wars. Please understand that one of the ideas I plan to advance with this project is no outside links other than to scholarly articles. This step alone would end many of the ongoing problems.

My own page and other homescholing pages have been removed from this page - as the homeschooling page offers resources which will help them find everything - and has gone through its own process of reducing huge numbers of links to just a few.

I hope you know that I respect your contributions to the page over time and will welcoe you asa member of the team to make this a more stable article.

Best wishes,

Lucie Wonderactivist 15:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

New Project Page

Dear Bee, I just want to again invite you to join the project - the project page has been moved to its proper Wiki place (I am here a year and still a newbie really),User:Wonderactivist/Waldorf Project Team Page. I really think you have a whole lot to offer this project amnd with the help of unbiased Wiki editors, I believe we can end the ongoing edit wars that have been the waste of so much time for so many really good people. Please do join us, we're currently talking about the introduction. Wonderactivist 02:19, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Can you contact me?

I'd prefer to keep all wiki related discussion on-wiki if you don't mind. When conversation goes behind closed doors there's always somebody ready to shout Cabal!!! or similar. If your question relates to the Waldorf Education article it's in the best interests of everybody to keep all discussions open and transparent. That said, how can I be of assistance? I'm also looking into the other points you raised now and will help out shortly if I'm able to. -- Longhair 00:32, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Dispute resolution

Misplaced Pages has several levels of dispute resolution detailed at Misplaced Pages:Resolving disputes. If there's editor behaviour that you are not happy with, feel free to provide me with the actual diffs where you feel the editor concerned may be breaching Misplaced Pages policy. I will be happy to act accordingly if it is proven breaches of policy are occuring. Of course, you are welcome to initiate any dispute resolution procedure you deem necessary without my intervention. I trust this advice is the best course of action for now considering the size and length of the dispute, but if there's any other way I can be of some assistance please let me know. -- Longhair 07:51, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

...and a belated Welcome to Misplaced Pages!

Welcome!

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Waldorf debate

Pete K was the one who mentioned this debate had been raging for decades. I never made any assumption as such but I'm aware this issue hasn't recently began here at Misplaced Pages. He's currently serving a 24 hour block from editing, imposed by myself for a violation of the three revert rule. He is welcome to return once his block expires. Please be mindful of this policy so it doesn't catch you or anyone else out. I'm not interesting in taking any sides, but I will keep the article free of edit warring and personal attacks from both sides. Thanks for your assistance to date. I'm here to help further if any other issues arise. -- Longhair 01:39, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

"Decades" is an overstatement, maybe typical of Pete. Maybe 9 years in a more organized form initiated by "PLANS, starting its anti-Waldorf campaign by picketing against a public Waldorf methods school, spreading and supporting allegations that anthroposophy is a satanic religion and that public Waldorf methods schools teach Wicca to the pupils.

Some years later, the President and Secretary of PLANS then hired a Private Detective to "in secret" sneak in at a voluntary, private, off campus, outside school hours Advent celebration with K-grade 3 children of the coming Christmas with a video camera hidden under his coat, to prove to school districts that Waldorf methods schools are religious in a way that violates the U.S. Constitution. See the history of the WC.

Maybe you can call that debate.

How do you - strictly as Admin at Misplaced Pages - view the repeated insertion of identical material in a short introductory page to a sub section of an article, that belongs in the sub section, and is discussed there, by someone (PK) who refuses to discuss the issue in connection with its proper page? Or can't I ask you how you - purely as Admin - view Misplaced Pages guidelines and their application?

To tell you honestly, this debate at Misplaced Pages is killing me.

Thanks for your comment and support,

--Thebee 02:06, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Question regarding NPOV

You asked on my talk page a Question regarding NPOV - my response: Talk:PLANS#NPOV_-_In_support_of_Plans and . I agree with the issue you raised. This is not really a content dispute I want to get dragged into but I am happy to support the observation of Misplaced Pages policies, if necessary expalining them to users.--Arktos 09:28, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Will you do this in this case? Thanks, --Thebee 10:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I will provide my opinion on matters of policy, but I know all but nothing about Waldorf or PLANS. The way out of content issues to my mind is with citations of reliable sources and I think the Wkipedia policies and guidelines provide useful parameters to operate within.--Arktos 10:34, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Will you implement what you tell with a request at the page? Thanks, --Thebee 10:38, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

As per above, or are you looking for more?--Arktos 10:40, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Would you suggest I delete the argumentative section, referring to violation of http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#The_neutral_point_of_view or take some other action? --Thebee 10:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Allow 24 hours for a response to the tag and in the mean time think how to phrase more neutrally if possible rather than remove altogether. Replace with more neutral text after 24 hours (some will say 24 hours isn't long enough but on a volatile article I think it is) - perhaps having allowed discussion on proposed replacement text on talk page first. If you had placed what others deemed controversial text, how would you like it to be dealt with? - how would good faith be demonstrated? The end state needs to be neutral though, so its not only about being nice.--Arktos 10:50, 3 September 2006 (UTC)