Talk:Lakeland revival

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[edit] Suggestions

This revival is a short-term event, recently iniciated and without committed funding, that may be unencyclopedic by nature. For the claims made, more and better references are needed. The text is written like a fan letter and needs a more balanced approach. Geographical location is not precise, and visitors' options are not given.--Wloveral (talk) 21:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't really understand your argument. Since when does Wikipedia exclude events because they're short-term, recent, unfunded? I agree that more references could help, as well as some further (balanced) expansion of the article. But this is a noteworthy event, being televised globally, talked about in Europe, Australia and elsewhere (there's talk of it throughout my bible college in Melbourne, for example). It IS of global interest. And what do you mean about visitors' options? — SimonEast (talk) 13:23, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree, the event is unencyclopedic, and the entry reads as though written by an entirely credulous fanboy/girl to boot. 71.109.39.108 (talk) 00:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

This is the latest in a series of similar incidents - like the Toronto Blessing - and should be recorded somewhere as examples of humanities foibles. I have started discussions about this at iidb, skepticforum, james randi and talk rational - someone else can write it all up!

Their choice of artwork - people blowing ramshorns is of academic interest by itself!

Clive Durdle —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.12.222.230 (talk) 19:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

My apologies I am new at editing wiki and therefore do not understand the protocols,

Please find below links to discussions I have started about this, some are a bit confused but there is valuable stuff in there (including miracles of gold teeth!)

again, there should be an article about this, I don't know where, possibly pentecostal sects 2008 or something.

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=115436

http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=243375

http://www.skepticforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=9821

http://www.talkrational.org/showthread.php?t=2190

--82.12.222.230 (talk) 14:08, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Clive Durdle

[edit] Neutrality

The only two sources for the individuals being "raised from the dead" are a Christian blog and a Christian online music magazine. If this is really happening it should be pretty easy to get some reliable third party sources on this. As it is this article is pretty slanted to one particular point of view - i.e. "this is a real Christian revival". This article really lacks much outside perspective.Brian0324 (talk) 17:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)