Talk:Order of Angell

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[edit] Change from "Michigamua" to the "Order of Angell"

I've effected a number of preliminary changes primarily to bring the article up to date with the organization's current name and made a few minor edits of items that were biased against OA. In referencing the organization's history, I use the generic nouns (i.e., organization, group) to avoid the inaccuracy of using either the name Michigamua (which indicates that the organization is still named that) or the name Order of Angell (which suggests that such was the name at the time referenced) and to avoid the awkwardness of temporal contextualized phrases such as "Michigamua, as it was named at that time,...", "the former Michigamua...", or "the group that would later be named the Order of Angell...". Temporal contextualizations like "then-President Clinton" don't work here ("then-Michigamua").

I also modified a few statements to be more neutral; however, I left most of the article as-is. I intend to do more neutralization of the article to bring it in line with Wikipedia standards--and in fairness to members of the organization such as myself (which I'm revealing in the spirit of good ethics and transparency)--in the near future, though I will only contextualize and not remove "anti-OA" opinions, disputed claims, and biased assertions. Likewise, I will contextualize any "pro-OA" opinions, disputed claims, and assertions that a reasonable person would consider biased. I am certainly open to further modifications to remove any potential "pro-OA" bias that my revisions might leave.

Cory Fryling 06:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)