Talk:The Zeitgeist Movement/members

If you are a member of the Zeitgeist movement, and were called here by the group's Facebook page, another member, or some other site, you need to understand that Wikipedia operates off of a number of guidelines, policies, and other ideas. Operating within these policies and guidelines is to your benefit and the Zeitgeist movement's as well. Some of the more relevant policies and guidelines includ:

• Verifiability - This means citing mainstream academic or journalistic sources, and avoiding original research. This means sticking to independent sources, so do not bother citing a TZM website.
• Neutrality - This does not mean giving artificial balance between views, but weight according to what is found in independent sources.
• Editing in good-faith - The regular editors are here to improve the site (otherwise they wouldn't be regular), and should be treated accordingly, even if their actions usually do not promote TZM. Treating them as being "out to get" the Zeitgeist movement, or "censor" or "oppress" it, or other accusations of bias without strong evidence only makes TZM look like a few whiney, paranoid zealots. You don't want that, do you?

This also means honesty from you. If you have edited here under a previous account, log into it and do not pretend to be another person unless you want to make TZM look like a bunch of dishonest fanatics. If you were called here from another site, be prepared to learn how this site works, or you'll just make TZM look like a bunch of incompetent zealots who have to rely on artificial bandwagon appeals than any actual merit. You don't want either of those things to happen, do you?

• Wikipedia is not a general discussion forum. If your posts are not about improving the site, leave. Off-topic posts are only going to make TZM look like a bunch of
• Wikipedia is not a means of promoting anything. If you're here to go on about the merits of TZM, you're not going to be welcome here. Attempting to evangelize here is only going to make TZM look like a kooky cult. You don't want that, do you?

Working with the above ideas will make the Zeitgeist movement seem more respectable. Working against them, or trying to "reinterpret" them against regular editors will only make the Zeitgeist movement look like an ethically and intellectually dishonest cult. Those are the terms and conditions, and they're rather good ones (after all, we can and did block the Church of Scientology).

Ian.thomson (talk) 15:10, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]