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very strong underlying sense that the school was not being completely forthright with the students, and that there was an underlying, ulterior agenda, that they did not want to make readily apparent to us. The 2-hour or so evening classes included a 30-minute meal break, which I always found rather odd. (After a long day of work, wouldn't most people just rather get the 2-hour class over with so they can head back home? Why add a 30-minute break to it?) During the 30-minute break, the students were expected to go down to a cafeteria of sorts, where a buffet-style meal was available for a nominal fee. It seemed that every time we went to the cafeteria, there seemed to be non-students (or "members" of the school it seemed, wearing either suits and ties or long flowy dresses) already randomly seated at various tables, as if they were "awaiting" us. They would always start very innocent-seeming, casual conversation with the students, but would never come out and identify themselves as being affiliated with the school. (I think they hoped we'd just assume they were students just like ourselves.) I believe that they were trying to "feel out" the different students, to see who might be most receptive to perhaps further "training" by the school.
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England. The school espouses traditional gender roles and this is immediately apparent by the dress code within the school. The men all wear suits and the women wear long flowing skirts. Former members have claimed that the 'School' practices subtle brainwashing techniques to ensure absolute obedience. Its disciples put in many hours of unpaid work each week looking after the movement's large property and holdings, and taking part in group activities. They are encouraged to isolate themselves from influences outside the movement, they are discouraged from discussing the School's activities with non-members, and if they leave the movement they become pariahs to those that remain. The demands placed on members are so strong, it is claimed, that marriages fail, families split up, and some students develop serious mental problems.
368:), or non-notable independent businesses that all service a notable specific business type. These don't generally get articles or mention at all in the main article, of course. SPP is more notable than that, but I'm unconvinced that it's enough to stand on its own. To put things another way, there are two notable things about SPP: its curriculum / beliefs, and its advertising in NYC. The former is barely covered in this article at all (but the "A to Z of new religious movements" reference suggests that most of the SES article should be relevant) and the latter can easily be included in the merged section in the SES article.
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Practical Philosophy can't be covered adequately in the School of Economic Science parent article. I think any content sourced to the NYT piece can surely be put into the SES article instead; a stand-alone SPP article would have perhaps 3 paragraphs, so no reason not to merge. SnowFire (talk) 17:12, 27 March 2010 (UTC)"
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Schools with similar objects". This is very different to how the UK branches are described in that same report, the branches being obviously part of a coherent UK organisation. There is another significant published reference (I have just added to SoPP page), the book "In Search of Truth"
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reporting. There are all sorts of human interest stories in newspaper articles everywhere that do not get
Knowledge articles. The best source we have is still "The A to Z of New Religious Movements" which is at least a reference work and RS, even if it's super-brief on the SPP, and according to it it's an autonomous branch of the SES.
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To be procedural for a moment, you raised these sources before, and afterward there were 2 Delete votes, 1 Merge vote, 1 Weak Keep vote that seemed to indicate confusion on how much of a "school" the SPP really is, and 1 Keep vote. The original AfD nominator as well as me stuck by our merge / delete
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I'm still not happy with this article being a separate article from the School of
Economic Science. Again, I respect that these new references were gathered in good faith, but the fact remains that the vast majority of them are *trivial*. They happen to mention the School of Practical Philosophy in
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5th Year - Specific courses for women emphasizing their subservience to men. They are told how long they should breast feed their offspring for and how frequently they can enjoy sexual relations. If they follow these instructions they are told that for their re-incarnation they will be men. According
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Not much to say other than I still agree with my earlier statements that this article should be merged to the SES article, and
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According to the official spokesperson for the New York chapter, Dr. Monica
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Now, the one source that is relevant is the New York Times piece (which only came out 2 months ago which is why I missed it in 2008!). However, this was not a piece of reporting - this was the "City Critic" doing more a slice-of-life piece on something she personally did, the newspaper equivalent of
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You had only one response in the discussion you opened, SnowFire. Wikirpg said s/he would only agree to merging if you proved that the two organizations were financially and legally linked, which you did not. Because they are not linked as such, they should most definitely not be in the same article
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Practical Philosophy is a Section 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. Its tax ID number is 13-3107679. Legally, it is a separate organization from SES. The NYT article from January 2010 is a sufficient source to qualify
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Criticisms category above is pretty accurate as compared to my own personal experience with the school. I attended their introductory course and while I did learn much, and enjoyed my time there, at the same time, I had this
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Agreed that the same information could be shown after a merge. The problem seen here is that the SES page would no longer be about SES. The (merged) page would have to be restructured to address a new topic on the lines of "The SES movement and similar organisations". The previous merge attempted
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That said, I doubt it's relevant. Legally distinct is not very interesting from an encyclopedic perspective - plenty of related entities end up legally distinct for all sorts of reasons. For example, there are many legally independent churches that are related to a certain creed of Christianity
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And, as already noted above on the organization's distincness, I can't find any reference to the "UK Charity Commission" in the article, and I asked for clarification on this. So I don't see this source that proves your point. I further noted that even if it does show that the SPP is a legally
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I still find the rational for merging these articles unclear as the organisations are financially and legally distinct (ref UK Charity Commission). I would agree with merging if it could be shown that they were merely branches of the same organisation, which the mention of the First Presbyterian
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guns after seeing these sources. If you want time to improve the article, that's fine, but the original contention for removing the redirect was that good new sources were added. Which they really haven't been. As it stands, this article has the same strength of sourcing as the original AfD.
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I hope the following helps. An external link to the relevant UK Charity Commission entry had been posted on the SES page (not being relevant to SoPP). This clearly states that SES operates in England and Scotland. Digging deeper into their annual report for 2010, links with associated schools
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In other words, The New York Times article attests to the SPP being known for its subway advertising. Which is relevant! But it says very little about the organization's beliefs / practices, and it's the newspaper equivalent of a blog post - one person's personal experience, not a piece of
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I totally support the above proposal now that this new evidence has been made available. The result of merging the SofPP and SoES pages is a muddle. Separation is the easiest way of tidying it up. The organisations may share common aims, but appear to be legally and effectively
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together, when they have no relation. A consensus of only yourself is not a consensus. Please have other editors weigh in before you redirect this again. And I disagree with you about the references. I feel like they are more than enough coverage for a distinct article.
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That said: all the issues raised in the AfD stand. The article isn't that different at all from when it was AfD'd: I addressed the external links proffered as references then. There is still only one good independent source on the School's beliefs/curriculum:
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The Alan Gregory ref, while from an apparently serious work, also sounds like a trivial mention in passing. It was listed on a random example list. It doesn't sound like much in-depth work was done by Gregory on the school itself if the listed quote is all it
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solving the issue of having a page SSoP with little to say for itself; however it significantly upset the balance of the SES page. SSoP seems to be better now; new sources have been added, the original contention; I just do not see the merit of a re-merge.
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passing. By this standard, we can easily have articles on the First Presbyterian Church of Bakersfield, which got a newspaper article written about a break-in nearby in 1993 and had a travelogue writer mention passing by in 2002. Going through the refs:
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Anyone else think this article's tone is a little "off" - it seems more like an ad for the school itself: "The course is designed for thoughtful men and women who seek an understanding of the nature of humanity and of the world in which we live."
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distinct entity, this is not really amazingly relevant anyway, and if that is all it does, then it adds nothing new - the original AfD was not predicated on a misunderstanding that the SPP and SES were legally the same thing.
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A whole bunch are to the website's organization itself (including the New York State certification, which means absolutely nothing). Fine for establishing their self-identified beliefs, not fine for establishing independent
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I would have been happy to see the following material here on the discussion page, but it doesn't seem appropriate as a part of the article itself. It also appears to have been someone's first contribution to wikipedia.
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The blaze article is irrelevant and spends no time at all talking about the SPP. So the School owns a mansion in upstate NY. Do they still do so? Is it used for anything?
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