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New section?

I wander if it would be appropriate to create a section called Falun Gong and bussiness with the following entry: "Vasilios Zouponidis becomes the Business Pioneer of the year. An engagement for human rights gave birth to his idea of starting a business in telecom and it has developed to a very profitable business. The Prize was handed over by the King of Sweden in the royal castle in Stockholm. In a Swedish TV interview Vasilios told the audience about his practice of Falun Gong and the brutal violation of human rights in communist ruled China. ", since this issue seems to be quite notable. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 09:31, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Events concerning a single individual are probably too narrow to be described at length, but if it can be shown to be part of a broader pattern or trend, then we can describe that.Homunculus (duihua) 17:28, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Revisions

I'll alluded to this over at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Religion/Falun Gong work group , but am going to articulate it in some more detail now. This page has been pretty badly neglected for a long time. I have been working to prepare an update and reorganization, but would like to make sure I haven't missed any important considerations as I do that. A few of the problems I've found on the page, which I hope this will address:

• It's poorly sourced in a number of areas
• The page organization lacks coherence; for instance, 'public relations' is listed under the heading of 'ethnographic fieldwork'.
• There is a good deal of highly relevant information that is nowhere to be found, including the history and development of Falun Gong's overseas diaspora, their congregational experiences (ie. group meditations and study sessions), organization of Falun Gong overseas, and so forth. A number of academic studies of high quality have examined these questions, so there's a lot to draw on.
• The list of ways in which Falun Gong has responded to suppression (currently named 'protest actions') is extremely limited. In fact, the current section is mostly about Vancouver, Canada. I intend to flesh this out, looking at protests and demonstrations, parades, vigils, sit-ins, legal initiatives, the use of arts and culture, the creation of media branches, research & advocacy groups, etc. In doing this, and in other parts of the page as well, I hope to describe trends in broader terms, rather than giving undue weight to a small handful of very isolated events (unless they are somehow especially illustrative of a trend, but even then, they should probably not have whole paragraphs devoted to them).
• Some of the information on the page is now outdated. In the case of the Vancouver consulate protest and the Les Presses Chinoises defamation case, for instance, the courts have reversed their previous decisions since the page was last edited. Similarly, there has been some recent news coverage addressing new legal initiatives, hacking and espionage by the PRC, and other issues that are worth including here.
• There is no section examining the international response to Falun Gong and the crackdown
• There is no discussion of Falun Gong outside North America, really. I hope that I can bring in more information, throughout the page, on Falun Gong in Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, etc.

Are there other issues I've failed to consider? Homunculus (duihua) 14:55, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I've made the changes described above. In preparing these changes, I cut down on the length of individual anecdotes in favor of illustrating broad trends, supplemented with succinct examples. Not perfect, but it's much more comprehensive, organized, and global in scope than before. Homunculus (duihua) 01:20, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

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