Giant jones

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August 2009

With regards to your edits at Jeffrey J. Kripal — please don't remove information, or add comments about an article into the article itself. You can use the talk page to discuss improvements to the article. Regards, Shreevatsa (talk) 00:28, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

With all due respect, Shreevatsa, you tried to delete the Esalen information, saying that it did not pertain to Dr. Kripal and was probably a copyright violation. Esalen was Dr. Kripal's subject for 6 years, so how can you argue that it does not pertain to him? Dr. Kripal has been the victim of a smear campaign on Wikipedia by conservative Hindus for far too long. The existing Wikipedia article on him is completely unbalanced. Dr. Kripal nor I object to dissenting viewpoints, but all expression of his viewpoint has been deleted over time because no one has been paying attention on Dr. Kripal's behalf. Giant jones (talk) 02:51, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I removed the part of the paragraph that seems to simply describe Esalen itself, instead of describing what Kripal did (but you've reinserted it). BTW, if you can find sources that say that such-and-such was his work for 6 years, etc., they would be useful in improving the article. Shreevatsa (talk) 02:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC)