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The content and point of view from the Mike Breen page, as written as of 6/22/15, seems to be a little bit too glowing and positive. This is a concern at least insofar as his theories and theses are FAR from uncontroversial. The writer(s)of this page should include objective contraponent points of view to properly balance the article.

Gregkar (talk) 18:57, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Updates made June 2018. Are these sufficient to remove the reservation above?

--Rn575 (talk) 23:25, 11 June 2018 (UTC)Rn575[reply]

Further updates have been made to reflect the criticism. I think this should be sufficient to consider removal. Would anyone like to take another pass at it?

--Screenmutt (talk) 14:45, 19 February 2020 (UTC)Screenmutt[reply]

I've removed the criticism section. The sources weren't acceptable and the conclusions were rife with original research. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 14:49, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure an entire removal was warranted. First, there were several other changes that were removed. Second, the blogs linked to are material published by Mike Breen and 3DM directly. Other sections of this article rely on those same blogs. --Screenmutt (talk) 15:01, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I haven't looked at the other sections--criticism sections are especially sensitive with respect to WP:BLP guidelines, and what you added was seriously flawed. The opening sentence claiming heavy criticism wasn't supported by the source, and what followed drew heavily on WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH, and sources that are not WP:RELIABLE. Even the ending, "Mike Breen also self-published a series of daily-devotionals with above-market prices," is unacceptable in every way. The entire section comes close to a BLP violation as defamatory. By all means, clean up poorly sourced promotional content. But do it right. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:20, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I suppose that's fair. I was attempting to summarize the sources which were linked to. As I'm looking through those requirements, it appears that self-published material is not allowed for on WP:BLP. This article is primarily based on material that was self-published or published by his organization. Should these references and content be removed them? --Screenmutt (talk) 15:58, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Refs

There's two refs that link to Breen2010, which doesn't work because it should be Breen2010a or b or c; I don't know which. TimBentley (talk) 01:54, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it, i's Breen2010a TommyCarpenter (talk) 06:17, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I have removed the section as there is no independent indication of the notability of the publications by the subject. If there is coverage from independent reliable sources that mentions any of them, those could be cited and preferably in paragraph form. --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 16:50, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Independent Sources

I've done a pretty exhaustive search and cannot find any independent sources to verify the content on this page. Those sources available are simply repetitions of biographical information in his books. For instance, there is no record of Mike Breen serving as a senior leader of the European Church Planting Network. The website which is referenced for this does not list him. I believe we should consider marking this page for deletion. Screenmutt (talk)

Screenmutt, two editors, including myself, have begun a process of tagging the article and removing some of the unsourced content. I've also opened a report at the WP:BLP noticeboard. Lastly, I have questions re: the 'criticism' section you added, as addressed above. It might be best if you discontinued involvement in this article. Thank you, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 17:21, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm sorry, I was legitimately trying to be helpful. I've tried to make valuable updates and would have edited it as appropriate. I didn't know about the existence of that board or your post. Screenmutt (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:30, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]