Talk:Theosophical Society Adyar

Latest comment: 9 years ago by CorinneSD in topic Lead image

It is nonesense to have this organisation be called 'theosophical society of India'. http://www.ts-adyar.org/ is the TS main website, and yes, Adyar is in India, but the TS is never called 'of India', because it is a world-wide organisations (as the international links in the links-page testifies).

kh7 11:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Recent additions has made the article unnecessarily long. Added material may be available elsewhere on Internet and replacing the material with links would shorten the article.

Senzar (talk) 04:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

There were a lot of nitty gritty details of internal administrative matters about which the pubic is not interested. These can be found in other sources in Internet and hence have been deleted. Also the article was too long and with the deletion, the length has been reduced

Senzar (talk) 04:40, 7 August 2009 (UTC) During the last few days we saw quite a few additions. Most of these seem to be emotional reaction by one or more disgruntled former employees and public has no interest in nitty gritty administrative complaints. Public's interest is in what the organization stands for and how it is furthering its objectives and some important historical material. For those interested in discussing specific internal and administrative issues there are several other Internat forums such as theos-talk in yahoo.groups.com theosophical.ning.com, theosophy.net. Some of these are mentioned in the article.Reply

Senzar (talk) 06:07, 9 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

Cleanup section

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Section Theosophical Society is in a crisis due to allegations of corruption & violation of rules. has a too long section name. The facts might be relevant for the article, but it is formated as a news item. What are these allegations about in detail? NPOVly: what views are expressed? The Theosophical Society Adyar, of course, but who are the allegators? The links provided should be read and synthetized into factual statements, like who says what. The links need to be reformated to references, in the ordinary WP way. ... said: Rursus (mbor) 13:40, 9 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

I have removed the section, as the content was unsourced. — goethean 16:57, 19 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV

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Theosophical Society and Jiddu Krishnamurti

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In the last sentence in this section, we read a statement that starts, "It is remarkable that...." Not only is no citation given, the phrase "It is remarkable" sounds like opinion to me. Does that belong in a Wikepedia article?CorinneSD (talk) 00:34, 28 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Lead image

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I was surprised to see an aerial photo of a river, some trees and the buildings of a town with the caption "A view of the gardens of the Adyar Theosophical society" in the lede of this article. No one who is not already familiar with the gardens would guess that there are gardens there. I really think a better photo of the gardens, perhaps taken at ground level, could be found. CorinneSD (talk) 16:31, 12 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Gardens

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This article apparently started its life with the idea that the TS is not an international organisation, but an estate at Adyar. The fact that the garden is the first item of the article still reflects this misconception. The estate harbours the headquarters of the organisation. For some people the garden may be the most important part of the Society, but that is of course not what the TS is about. The article should be corrected throughout to reflect the TS itself in its different aspects.