User talk:219.89.51.124

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hello Jean,

Thanks for getting involved in the Alex Sanders article. I moved the discussion you gave in the footnote section to its appropriate place in the discussion page: notice at the very top of the article is a series of "tabs", one labelled "discussion". Click that and you get to the discussion page for the article, where comments, questions and criticisms are raised. Another forum you might be keen to check out is The Alex Sanders Project, a yahoo group with the purpose of fleshing out lesser-known details of Alex's life. I've only just joined that myself (the administrator was a bit slow getting around to granting me membership), so I haven't yet explored that fully, but there's some interesting information there.

Anything you feel like contributing here at wikipedia would be greatly appreciated (by myself, and I'm sure by many others). I check the Alex Sanders page regularly, so you'll probably find me editing some of your contributions. If there's anything I can help you with, just leave a note for me on my talk page. But don't hesitate to edit, and don't worry if your formatting is not quite right at first; the main thing is to get the information down and others can come and make it look pretty later.

Also, I can recommend registering in Wikipedia with a username, since this makes you a much more recognisable face with the other regular editors. It also gives you a few tools you don't have otherwise, such as a "watchlist" that lets you know when pages you are interested in have changed.

Welcome to Wikipedia, and I hope you enjoy editing as much as I do! LLL Fuzzypeg☻ 00:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alex Sanders : Fuzzypeg

Thanks for yours.. i will contribute a little of bit local knowledge now and again to Wikipedia.. but the editors can do the editing. There is a empty link for Ordine Della Luna, that you may like to add some of this material.. you probably have seen some of it before:

The Ordine Della Luna (the Order of the Increasing Moon) is also known as the worlds oldest coven. It was a mystical order that carried the influences of Platonists such as Georgius Gemistos Plethon and other ecclesiastics of the Byzantine Church to the Council of Ferrarra; and hence also influenced the Medici Court. The Paleologus dynasty ruled Constantinople from 1261 to 1453 and the Ordine Della Luna was the sanctioned Chivalric Order dedicated to the Blessed Virgin (the Queen of Heaven and Mother of God) where it was instituted in 1464 by Renato d' Angio, the King of Gerusalemme, Sicily and Aragon. The standard is represented from an increasing moon in gold on which word LOZ is recorded to the burin. The crescent was suspended by means of three chain stitches to the collar composed from three chains of gold.) In the late 1960's Alex Sanders of Eastbourne (the founder of Alexandrian Wicca) received charter from Prince Palaeologus (a direct ascendent of the original royal family) and was knighted as the Grand Prior of the Ordine Della Luna for England and Wales. Reputedly Alex Sanders especial work within his charter of the Ordine Della Luna was (a) as chivalric vessel for the Holy Mother under her guise as the Goddess by various Celtic names of England and (b) the continuation of the Byzantine esoteric whom Alex developed a especial system of Angelic and Planetary magics. - Jean de Cabalis Ref: there are various references throughout the net and persons still alive who are members of Alex Sanders Ordine Della Luna / Nova. I am certain the editors can find them.

There are limits, however, to what Wikipedia policy considers reliable sources and what it considers unreliable. Anything that has appeared in print somewhere is more authoritative than an anonymously run website. I happen to have met a couple of the people involved and have confirmed that they are what they say they are, but that doesn't hold water here, where original research is inadmissable.
As far as I can tell, the rules are a little vague — websites may be admissable if their authors are readily identifiable, and especially if they are reasonably well-known people or organisations. But any references we can find in print are a great help, and go a long way towards vindicating the use of more obscure sources.
Regardless, I'll start searching the net and see what info I can compile. Thanks again, Fuzzypeg☻ 03:39, 10 October 2006 (UTC)