User:Kt66

I am partially active on Wikipedia, again … – February/March 2014 Template:Semiretired

Manipulations by New Kadampa Tradition Editors

Since the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) "Truth Team(s)" and/or some devoted NKT 'truth-followers' have become active at Wikipedia – this started two weeks before NKT set up a world wide media campaign against the Dalai Lama via their front group the Western Shugden Society in April 2008 – some of the related Wikipedia articles have been strongly manipulated by them and a huge amount of WP:Reliable Sources have been deleted or were misrepresented.

I see no hope and use to make further contributions. Because the NKT editors are obviously not interested or able to follow the WP Guidelines and act in a massive manner as self-supporting group (which included socket puppetry), and because there were almost no editors with knowledge of academic material with respect to NKT & Shugden willing to help, I gave up to contribute.

Some of the Wikipedia articles as they were before NKT members started to manipulate them can be found here:

• 1. The New Kadampa Tradition (NKT-IKBU) / Kadampa Buddhism 2. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 3. Dorje Shugden Controversy

Wikipedia Manipulations and WP:Reliable Sources

A very brief documentation of manipulations in Wikipedia (I could provide quite a long list) you find here:

• Wikipedia: Dorje Shugden’s Enlightened Lineage or How to Make ‘History'

Academic Research about Dorje Shugden / New Kadampa Tradition I summed here:

• Academic Research regarding Shugden Controversy & New Kadampa Tradition

However, not only WP editors that are members of religious extremist groups, like the New Kadampa Tradition or the Western Shugden Society, are a problem for Wikipedia (remember, Scientology members have been banned in the past from editing the Scientology article) but also Chinese editors that manipulate Tibet related articles are a problem. For a brief intro see here:

• Tibet & Wikipedia

See also in German: “Wikipedia und Tibet - Das Ringen um Wahrheit”

Contributions

My edits started on 20th July, 2005. I retired in 2008 but made sometimes few edits or added templates and links here and there.

• New Kadampa Tradition, Dorje Shugden Controversy, Kelsang Gyatso, Dorje Shugden
• Ole Nydahl, Michael Roach, Karmapa controversy,
• Dorje Shugden, Soka Gakkai International, Fundamentalism
• Kadampa, Je Tsongkhapa, Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, Gampopa
• Atisha, Lamrim, Kadampa Buddhist Temple, Vajrayana
• Schools of Buddhism, Rime movement, Tibetan Buddhism
• Bodhicitta, Ganden Tripa, Pratimoksha, Gelug
• Vinaya, Dharmaguptaka, Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
• Buddhism, Bodhisattva vows, Dilgo Khyentse
• Tibetan Buddhism, ordination, FPMT, Buddhism in France, Amitayus
• Kadampa Buddhists, Kadampa Buddhism, Heruka Buddhist Centre
• Peterborough, Thubten Yeshe, Avalokiteśvara, Amitabha
• Five Dhyani Buddhas, Sangha, Sarvastivada; FWBO
• Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Tibetan), Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan)
• Theravada, Mahayana, Early Buddhist schools, Hīnayāna, Germany
• Buddhism in Germany
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
• Western Shugden Society

Some of the contributions are huge some are minor.