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POV?
This article discusses a contemporary religious group exclusively in political terms. It cites two sources, one of which was written by the group's founder in the 1930s, and the other of which is a historical work exclusively dealing with the antebellum history of the group. The article is also written exclusively by an editor with a history of misrepresenting/misinterpreting sources to make broad claims that aren't actually supported by said sources.
I don't know enough about the current ideology of the group to say whether the information regarding the pre-WWII group is still accurate for today, but the article currently fails to convince me.
(For the record, I'm the same person as on the Kenji page, now editing from a phone.)
182.249.240.34 (talk) 03:08, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
- So lets see Jacqueline I. Stone, Tanaka Chigaku himself and the website are unreliable sources then? And the fact that I created this article, an article you would probably not like to see to appear at all are problematic to you? This by somebody who refrains to use his original username --- looking at the history, no wonder. Wonder who has a POV issue now. --Catflap08 (talk) 11:11, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
- You did not cite the website at any point. Tanaka Chigaku himself is a very old, primary source. And Jaqueline I. Stone is a reliable source, but she is not actually discussing this (still-extant) group; she is discussing Japanese nationalism in the pre-War period. Therefore, writing the article on the contemporary group based solely on her work is problematic. And my edit history is at least as irrelevant as yours. 126.0.96.220 (talk) 14:18, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
- Wait, what exactly do you mean by "I created this article, an article you would probably not like to see to appear at all are problematic to you"? Could you please speak coherently? 126.0.96.220 (talk) 14:22, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Hijiri88 Please elaborate on how the neutrality is still disputed? Meanwhile more sources have been added. Are you the same author of previous IP edits? --Catflap08 (talk) 10:55, 26 February 2015 (UTC)Fifth !! reference just added. --Catflap08 (talk) 11:57, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- Indeed I am, about which topic I was perfectly open with you last summer. About the sources: you added a single reference to an already sourced statement that it was founded by the nationalist Tanaka Chigaku. It doesn't change the fact that this still-extant religious organization is being described exclusively in terms of its nationalist founder who's been dead for decades. What happened after the war when the occupation forces forced the separation of church and state and cracked down on right-wing and nationalist elements in society? What happened after that? These questions need to be addressed in the article for it to a balanced description of this still-extant religious organization. I will admit that I am not the one to answer them (I heard only brief mentions of this organization in relation to Miyazawa Kenji before your little stunt on the Kenji article), but if you are not willing to answer them then you can't claim the article is up-to-date and neutral. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:39, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- I see you added a second source, again to the already-referenced statement
Its membership reached its peak with 7,000 adherents in 1924 and 23,000 in 1950. Nevertheless the organisation is mentioned as an example of how Nichiren's teachings were interpreted in a nationalistic fashion, also referred to as Nichirenism, and influenced Nichiren Buddhist based new religions in terms of propagation.
- How does continuing to put make-up on this pig changing the fact that it's still a pig?
- Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:43, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Pick and choose. All sources boil down to what is said in the text. I can not make up refrences: https://books.google.de/books?id=uiZi2mgC5a4C&pg=PA281&lpg=PA281&dq=Kokuch%C5%ABkai%E2%80%8E&source=bl&ots=c0yrCJEJ9l&sig=47ZSASS-KGDFin7Rb5Ar2FgBl6Y&hl=de&sa=X&ei=HQHvVNeJCYGvUYqpgeAP&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Kokuch%C5%ABkai%E2%80%8E&f=false
I agree that the article could be elaborated on but for what IS said the references suffice. Kokuchokai is on the fringe today not so much as in the days it was founded. I found no source saying that it’s a peaceful mediation class. --Catflap08 (talk) 12:48, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- You're looking at the free previews on Google Books, and none of them appear to give any detail on the modern organization. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:11, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- Well to this point the article is not about the modern organisation this is all info online – quite a lot actually and the sources are relevant. None online resources are also stated. This is still not enough evidence to claim the article is not neutral.--Catflap08 (talk) 13:42, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- And what if our article on the Catholic Church included only information on that groups activities before the Second Vatican Council? Would that article still then be neutral and balanced? We would tag such an article to be improved. So that's what I did. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:08, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- That has nothing to do with neutrality. That would be the case if the article would be unbalanced. The article reflects what available sources so far state. Comparing this Organisation to the Catholic Church is quite absurd.--Catflap08 (talk) 14:32, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- None of the sources you found (or cherry-picked?) describe the modern organization because none of them are about the modern organization. Every last one of them discuss Chigaku and/or the group's origins, and nothing post-1945. I provided reasons why I assume -- again, an assumption, but not one you have yet been able to dispel -- this organization has seen significant change since 1945, as has the Catholic Church. If our article on the Catholic Church failed to even mention Vatican II or later developments I -- and likely most other good Wikipedians -- would call it unbalanced. The comparison is apt. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- Well that’s what the article is so far about, is it not? The article was indeed created by me and only by using referenced sources. If the organisation has changed so considerably then add the referenced material. I would be careful to accuse other people by the way.--Catflap08 (talk) 14:52, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- And you removed the neutrality tag without addressing it, as part of your expressed plan to reinsert the unsourced claim that Miyazawa Kenji was a nationalist into the article. You want to wikilink this article, which claims somewhat dubiously that the organization is primarily political in nature, in the lead of that article. You don't want to go out and do the research on the modern Kokuchukai in order to clean up this article because you're afraid it MIGHT contradict you, and you don't want the article to explicitly state that it is unbalanced because that would defeat the purpose of wikilinking from the Kenji article. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:23, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- Well that’s what the article is so far about, is it not? The article was indeed created by me and only by using referenced sources. If the organisation has changed so considerably then add the referenced material. I would be careful to accuse other people by the way.--Catflap08 (talk) 14:52, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- None of the sources you found (or cherry-picked?) describe the modern organization because none of them are about the modern organization. Every last one of them discuss Chigaku and/or the group's origins, and nothing post-1945. I provided reasons why I assume -- again, an assumption, but not one you have yet been able to dispel -- this organization has seen significant change since 1945, as has the Catholic Church. If our article on the Catholic Church failed to even mention Vatican II or later developments I -- and likely most other good Wikipedians -- would call it unbalanced. The comparison is apt. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- That has nothing to do with neutrality. That would be the case if the article would be unbalanced. The article reflects what available sources so far state. Comparing this Organisation to the Catholic Church is quite absurd.--Catflap08 (talk) 14:32, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- And what if our article on the Catholic Church included only information on that groups activities before the Second Vatican Council? Would that article still then be neutral and balanced? We would tag such an article to be improved. So that's what I did. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:08, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- Well to this point the article is not about the modern organisation this is all info online – quite a lot actually and the sources are relevant. None online resources are also stated. This is still not enough evidence to claim the article is not neutral.--Catflap08 (talk) 13:42, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Well I would hold my horses on that one. A plan?? Are you serious? From all that I can see you do not like Kokuchokai being mentioned along with Miyazawa. Even if the foreword that I included on the talk page on Miyazawa would not exist any reference that would enlighten us on what you call modern Kokuchokai would not be of much help as Miyazawa was a member in the days the group was founded. Again the reasons you bring forward to dispute the neutrality of the article seem rather POV.--Catflap08 (talk) 16:01, 26 February 2015 (UTC) So now we have seven references on what an article of four sentences is so far about. --Catflap08 (talk) 20:59, 26 February 2015 (UTC)