Clear insight

Proposal to collaborate on Gabriel of Urantia material

Hello User:Clear insight, I appreciate your byline on your user page. I took, am interested in spiritual matters in as unbiased of a way as possible. Full disclosure: I am a Urantia Book reader, but I strive to be as objective and neutral as I can about it on Wikipedia.

I see over time you've contributed to some of the following pages:

• Global Community Communications Alliance
• CosmoPop
• Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage

Would you be interested in collaborating with me on simplifying/consolidating them? I saw a proposal on Talk:CosmoPop to consolidate all material into a page about Gabriel of Urantia (though we'd have to use his birth name, per [[MOS::LEGALNAME]]). There are multiple, independent, reliable secondary sources covering his activities over the years.

User:WikiDan61 also seems to have expressed interest in this topic, and he is a WikiPedia Master Editor here and perhaps he could offer us some guidance, advice, or leadership on the matter? Brad606 (talk) 16:20, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

I've been somewhat inactive on Wikipedia lately, real life having called me away. I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to do the deep dive needed to clean up and consolidate all of the material about CosmoPop and Gabriel of Urantia. I do wish you luck with the effort though!

Thanks! I'll go ahead and begin the effort solo if I don't hear anything from you User:Clear insight by Fri 12 Feb 2021. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brad606 (talk • contribs) 18:50, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi User:Brad606,

Yes, I'd be interested in working with you on this. What kind of edits did you have in mind?

Great, I'm interested to get your thoughts on my initial idea. I've added two sections below with my initial ideas Talk:Clear insight. Please let me know what you think, edit the outline directly, add comments, etc. SInce you know Anthony and his work so well, I think you can help a lot! Brad606 (talk) 00:05, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Outline for Anthony Delevin new article

• Opening. Start with something like "Anthony Deleven (born 1946), also known as Gabriel of Sedona, Gabriel of Urantia, and Taliasvan, is a spiritual teacher, minister, and musician who most known for co-founding a spiritual organization that has been located in several places throughout Arizona." (we would work on the best version of this, of course... that's just a 5-minute sketch)
• Biography. Section with his short biography.
• Global Community Communication Alliance. Simplify and move Global Community Communications Alliance to this section, and then redirect that page to Anthony's main page.
• Avalon Gardens. Greatly simplify and move Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage now that it is not in operation. Then delete/redirect that page.
  • Alternatively, since it's no longer in operation, this could be simplified into a few sentences and added to the Biography section.
• Musical Recordings. Condense and move the CosmoPop article into this section, ass suggested in Talk:CosmoPop, and then redirect that page to Anthony's main page.
  • Ensure "CosmoPop" is mentioned overtly in here. A "selected recordings" list might be more appropriate than a full discography.
• External Links. Link to GCCA and any other relevant sites (e.g. does he have a recording-artist page where his music can be seen or bought?)

After cleanup is complete, I'd suggest some light cleanup of other pages in Wikiepdia that link to this material:

• Suitably Adjust lists on these pages:
  • List of cooperatives
  • List of intentional communities
  • New Age communities
• Edit The Urantia Book to appropriately represent this refactoring and cleanup.
• (optional) Clean up links from other articles that go to the redirect pages. Not totally necessary, since Wikipedia will automatically honor the redirects. Brad606 (talk) 00:05, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nothyself (talk • contribs) 23:51, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Clear insight. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Gabriel of Urantia or Global Community Communications Alliance, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Schazjmd (talk) 00:22, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of CosmoPop for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article CosmoPop is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CosmoPop until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:32, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

If you have a conflict of interest in regard to this article, as is suggested above, it would of course be appropriate to note this when making any comments at the AfD discussion. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:32, 30 October 2021 (UTC)