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GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Ruth Norman/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Crisco 1492 (talk · contribs) 03:58, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Any images at all possible? Even fair-use ones of her? Image of Tesla (like this)? Image of the Unarius Academy of Science?
  • AGF on offline sources.

In the introductory paragraph it is stated that Norman was a native of California, but in the "Early Life and Marriage" paragraph it states that she was born in Indiana. This seems contradictory. ;Lawrence Ames (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.124.92.254 (talk) 16:11, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Further discussion

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Urantian or Unarian?

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The sentence "Kirkpatrick and Tumminia state that the Urantian canon appears to be impenetrable..." had the following astute comment: <Urantian or Unarian? Urantian is a different kettle of fish>. As Urantia is a new religious movement as well, the source might conceivably have mentioned it (in which case the sentence would be irrelevant), but a quick check shows Unarius was meant after all. Lusanaherandraton (talk) 23:32, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, thanks for doing that. I screwed that up, I have written about the Urantian canon in the past as well, so I really should have caught that! Mark Arsten (talk) 23:36, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization

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Should she be placed in Category:People from San Diego, California, Category:People from Pasadena, California, Category:People from Indianapolis, Indiana and Category:New Age writers (did she write any books herself?).(User:Mercurywoodrose)50.193.19.66 (talk) 18:51, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would answer yes to all those questions. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 18:55, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I concur +1 for the reversal of the Prophecy and Therapy section large removal

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Hi, +1 I agree with the person that undid (undo'ed) the large edit where an anonymous person removed a large paragraph about Norman betting $1000 that the Earth would be visited by aliens within a certain year. There were good cite/ref's. Glad that this edit occurred and undid the large removal! I was going to copy paste the removed text to the Talk page at least for posterity.. --Peter aka Vid2vid (talk) 02:08, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

oops here is the "diff" link.. --Peter aka Vid2vid (talk) 02:12, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"The couple discussed numerous details about their past lives"

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I am very uncomfortable with the following being stated in wikivoice: "The couple discussed numerous details about their past lives.... The existence of past lives is a fringe belief and I think something like "alleged past lives" is more appropriate. Courtesy ping Mark Arsten. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 19:17, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. That wasn't my intention, of course. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:03, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]