Talk:Discordianism

Article Checklist for "Discordianism"

Workgroup category or categories	Religion Workgroup [Editors asked to check categories]
Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article?	No
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	Michael MacNeil 17:08, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

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My First Article

Well, it took me all afternoon, but it's complete. I hold no illusions about its quality, I know I'm surely leaving some things out, or have written some sections poorly, or made spelling mistakes. So, if anyone sees a problem with this page, please don't hesitate to come give me a shout on my talk page or similar, and let me know. If you see something wrong but don't feel up to changing it yourself, let me know, and I promise I'll do my best to. I hope it's up to standard. It's completely original, though I looked up a few sources I remembered were mentioned in the Wikipedia article (rather than dig through my own book collection for, say, Drawing Down the Moon to look up the relevant parts). I'm marking it CZ live, and putting it in the Philosophy and Religion workgroup categories. If this is inappropriate,please let me know and I will undo it. Michael MacNeil 15:24, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

Added the checklist

Please do this on new articles from now on. Nice job for a first draft though :0) --Eric M Gearhart 16:07, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

Ah, see? I'm still learning. Thank you for reminding me about the checklist. As to its status, would you care to make any suggestions on how I could make it more devloped? Additionally, I changed the template to a "no" for underlinked. If you have occasion to check the Religion page, you'll see I added it under "borderline cases", and thus it links to the over-category, and have also removed it from the Philosophy Workgroup. Upon consideration, I've read the Philosophy page and realized it doesn't really "fit". That is to say, I was erroneous in thinking it fit into hard philosophy. It just sort of overlaps. Michael MacNeil 17:07, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

Upon reading the criteria in CZ:The Article Checklist, I've determined that since this is a new article I wrote myself, marked CZ live, in the appropriate workgroup category (Religion, though this still needs to be checked), and the article title is bold, it qualifies as "cleaned up". If this is incorrect, someone please let me know. Michael MacNeil 17:20, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

Michael, you do work fast! This is not a subject that I am familiar, but it looks reasonable. Is any of it from wikipedia? --Matt Innis (Talk) 17:37, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

Nosir. As mentioned above, I looked up one thing (the page reference for "Drawing Down the Moon", which is in my personal book collection but I did not wish to dig off of my walls). The rest was written by scratch over two hours of working (my Easter dinner fell in the middle). I have the Principia in all its editions in front of me. I never go much of anywhere without it, and consider myself, laughingly, an "expert". I AM a practicing Discordian, but writing about the intriguing thing that is the worship of Eris from a neutral point of view -still- makes it look good. Which is the thing about some articles, they look it. That said, have any suggestions on how to improve it? I'm writing a piece on the Five Fingered Hand of Eris, the differences in editions, and a bit on Zarathud, Malaclypse the Elder ,Van Van Mojo, St. Gulik the Stoned, and Blessed Saint Hung Mung respectively (about a paragraph each). But it looks so -long-... does anyone think I should section it or provide a better guide to organization, or does it look fine? Opinions all? Michael MacNeil 17:42, 8 April 2007 (CDT)