Talk:Sant Baljit Singh
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This article has a rather strange history. I wrote the original article out of a desire to communicate facts about a new spiritual teacher I met in the summer of 2005. I thought the article was fact-based and did a pretty good job explaining who Sant Baljit Singh is based on the available info and I indicated some questions surrounding what he is doing such as changes to the organization (Know Thyself As Soul Foundation) he inherited. Soon after, I received a communication from the group in India expressing that large portions of the article were inappropriate in the sense of "revealing too much internal information" and/or violating their copyright. I did not see anything inappropriate, but submitted the article for removal using the AfD tag out of respect. I figured the wikipedia community could be the better judge. If something was wrong, they could remove it.
Most of the comments in the AfD were for keeping the article. At that point a Wikipedia admin took the AfD tag off the article. Shortly thereafter User:Kevin Kells, a representative of Sant Baljit Singh's organization, deleted most of the article without explanation. In the AfD, he stated the desire to edit the page, but did not do that, he just chainsawed the original article down to nothing. He also apparently deleted all of the documentation sited as the documentation is gone (as of Feb 2006) from editionnaam.net site (which was hosting the documentary details).
The upshot is that by removing the documentation he was able to short-circuit the article. I could revert it easily enough but because the underlying documentation was removed, the footnotes have been rendered invalid. If you are looking for information on Sant Baljit Singh it is still possible to go back in the history to my original article, as it was fact-based and the references did exist at one time and are real enough. The original materials may be available from KTSI on request. But they are no longer online, so that is unfortunate. Sevadar 13:24, 19 February 2006 (UTC)Sevadar.
