User talk:The One True Fred

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-Poli (talk • contribs) 22:01, 2005 July 25 (UTC)

[edit] Golden Dawn tradition

Now redirects to Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Most of the info was duplicated/summarized from the latter article, except for the individual sections about each modern order. However, almost all the info came from said order's websites. WP only allows such website references in an article about the group the website is about. Thus several pages were created, one for each order, Golden Dawn tradition is now gone, and the individual pages are linked from a new, short section of Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This ends an edit war on Golden Dawn tradition and ensures it won't simply be moved back to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn article. It can only move to the individual articles - but since web references can't be used except autobiographically, no material from any other websites can be added to the independent articles - edit war over. :-) -999 22:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I can see how you would think so... But right now the real precipitators of the edit war are scratching their heads trying to figure out what happened (look at the last few changes and self-reverts on Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn to see what I mean). It seems that WP has a rule against members of an organization writing an article about their own group, so.... they have to find someone else to do it. But somehow, they've insulted or offended anyone who might be interested in doing so... funny, that. -999 23:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)