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Restore section on Fall in Lynn?[edit]

As part of @LogicalGuessing's purge of sections which only cited Gill or primary church sources, the whole section mentioning the Fall in Lynn was removed. While it may not have been that well written, it's such an important part of the bio it needs to be mentioned somehow. Alexschmidt711 (talk) 17:26, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it important? Slatersteven (talk) 17:33, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Because the Fall in Lynn (where Eddy claimed she miraculously healed herself from a fall down her stairs) is a pretty huge part of Christian Scientist theology. Loki (talk) 22:07, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

here is the edit if any editors wanna see what was removed. Reading the section, it may be significant, but the old section was really really badly sourced. Lots of uncited claims, too many primary and non-independent sources, and of the two scholarly cites in the section one was missing it's page number making it difficult to verify. The old section claimed in wikivoice without citations newspaper accounts existed. In my opinion, it had to go and I wouldn't want to restore anything from the old section, but I wouldn't object to someone rewriting a new section with reliable sources. TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 18:07, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your opinion! I agree it was pretty bad the first time. Alexschmidt711 (talk) 23:52, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Completely agreed with this. We should definitely include it in the article, but only using reliable and independent sources. Loki (talk) 22:07, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]