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Originally Posted by ree-Xi
I have always found your more-than-casual interest in other organizations rather odd, but these questions cross the line. Asking questions about ritual, even challenging members on the inner workings of their organizations, when you should know better, is disrespectful. I thought your trying to change a different org's Wikipedia page was wrong, but this one...sigh.
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I agree that I have asked a number of questions looking for answers about a number of different organizations. I appreciate that some are more controversial than others. (No one objected to the "what are your officers called" thread.
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In regards to rituals, I would hope at least for the first question, that this would be a question that would be answered if asked by someone interested in the organization. The second, perhaps not, and I therefore apologize. I understood that it was a question that the *asking* might cause discomfort, that's why I put the caveat before it.
As for my personal feelings on rituals. First of all, I do continue to scan the web trying to keep things from the ritual of my Fraternity off the internet. I've also in at least one case alerted the Headquarters of a *different* National Fraternity when I found their ritual on the web. And I find what's on ********* to be *truly* *truly* sad. However,IMO, there are *general* questions about rituals which perhaps can be discussed without implying lack of respect. For example: "If your GLO uses candles in the ritual, how do you deal with school rules/firecodes which forbid the use of candles in buildings.
As for Wikipedia, the articles are *not* owned by anyone. *Referenced* changes are equally appropriate for the Wikipedia pages of your own GLO, someone else's GLO or Oslo, Norway. At the time that the change was made on Wikipedia, there was no referenced support for the change, the web page change for gammasigmasigma.org came later. Further discussion of that probably belongs back in the original thread.