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Good Faith Edit Reverted.
editAdwalking, you have reverted good faith edits from myself and Feline Hymnic without explaining why. I will put the edits back, absent any justification for their removal. To be clear, the edits are:
1. Removal of an unsourced claim that Blessit has carried 19 billion pounds. That claim does not make any sense. Did he carry this weight all at once? What does it even mean otherwise? 2. Removal of mention of his divorce, even though that is a matter of public record, and included in his autobiography "The Cross" by Arthur Blessit.
Please do not revert the changes again without discussion and consensus here, as that would be against Wikipedia edit warring rules.
Further reverts
editFollowing reverts of my latest edits without comment, I have posted a request on editor assistance to avoid edit warring.
Wikipedia editors: User Adwalking appears to be the subject of this page and also its principal editor. He is removing good faith edits without comment. Sirfurboy (talk) 11:32, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Political Section
editJust looked at your updates, Mesmeilleurs, and all seem fair but for the total removal of this:
He made a failed bid for the 1976 Democratic nomination for President. After, he said, in an apparent indirect reference to Jimmy Carter, "we need a born-again, soul-winning witness in the White House".[1][2] He is reported as saying "he is a happy loser because spiritual and moral reform has become a major campaign issue anyhow."[3] He withdrew from the contest after contesting the New Hampshire and Florida primaries.
I spent several hours hunting down the third reference there and reading it through, as well as reading Blessitt's own account. I think the fact that he felt having a born again Christian in the Whitehouse was important enough to be worth a mention, and his quote about being a happy loser for that issue tells us something about the man (as he was then). Grateful if we could agree a form of words that re-incorporates that information, or a good reason why it is not relevant.
On the CN you inserted, the information is in Arthur Blessitt's account on his website, but I think can also be inferred from the above deleted citation (third one. I could not access the second as it involved payment). Sirfurboy (talk) 15:04, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
References
- ^ See "Blessitt for President"
- ^ "Evangelist Is Happy Loser In Presidential Bid" (Associated Press), as printed in the Poughkeepsie Journal, 17 July 1976, p. 9. Newspapers.com
- ^ "Leadership Needed" (Associated Press), as printed in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, 30 July 1976, p. 16. [1]
Religious Views
editActually I have a second quibble with your edits Mesmeilleurs. You removed reference to his being in the Charismatic wing of evangelicalism, and my reference specifically provided evidence for that. The charismatic element of his theology is probably especially important when considering Blessitt's reference to God talking to him. It is quite a major distinction in evangelicalism too. Sirfurboy (talk) 15:10, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
Cross Walk
editI think this should be in there in some form (just deleted): "He completed every nation and major island group on June 7, 2008, but is still walking."
The point of that is he set a goal to visit every nation and island group, and he completed that on June 7. It is not clear how we count nations and island groups, but he clearly did go pretty much everywhere, as you can even find pictures of him on Tristan da Cunha! So how about something like "He completed the goal he set himself, to visit every nation and every island group, on 7 June 2008." ? Sirfurboy (talk) 18:07, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
Should this be changed?
editAs we have already said he went everywhere, do we need to have this: "He has carried the cross through such places as Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, China, South Africa, Lebanon, India, Antarctica, Palestine, Israel, Cuba, Libya, Northern and Southern Yemen, Vietnam and Mongolia." ? It is patently true, but presumably only notable if there is some reason going to these places was especially problematic. It probably is notable that he travelled in muslim majority countries without major incident, but any suggestions on how this might be improved? Sirfurboy (talk) 09:19, 24 July 2019 (UTC)