Talk:Oomoto

Masamichi Tanaka

My name is Masamichi Tanaka. I have been working at the International Department of the Oomoto Foundation since 1976. A month ago, I put an article here from Oomoto's official site "Bankyo Dokon." But it was delited, and I understood its reason.

I was one of the editorial staff, the Research Editor, of the booklet and the official site of Oomoto. I asked the Editor-in-Chief, Alex Kerr, for his consent to quote in Wikipedia the writings from "Bankyo Dokon," and he willingly agreed. Therefore, I would like to put an article here again.

I just noticed the above message now.

I am the one who pointed out that the posted article seemed to be made of certain web materials. (Though the decision of deletion was made by others).

I think it is possible for some administrators to restore the deleted artile, if that version is officially under GNU_FDL.

As I remember, there was also a concern that the article was not written in a neutral manner this encyclopedia requires. (see Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view) It would be a lot better and less controversial if the article is modified to follow this policy.

Anyway, a good article is always welcomed here, I believe. If you need further help, maybe you can write at Wikipedia:Village_pump.
Tomos 06:03 21 May 2003 (UTC)

Cleanup needed

The quality of this article is quite poor and probably written from the perspective of someone who has never encountered an Oomoto believer. So, I added cleanup tags. Shii (tock) 08:48, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, indeed. I just did some cleanup. The main problem now is lack of ref tags.

Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 16:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Conflict?

So if "Oomoto does not encourage people from outside Japan to join the religion", then why do they learn Esperanto and form missions around the world? Something doesn't match up here. Kortoso (talk) 22:02, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

This is due to the radical shift between prewar and postwar Oomoto. Hopefully I will be able to clean up this article when I get some free time. Shii (tock) 15:01, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

A few changes

Greetings! I made a few changes to the article. I try to explain them in brief below, just in case if I've left some editors wondering about those:

• Changed [[Ayabe, Kyoto|Ayabe]] in [[Kyoto Prefecture]] to [[Ayabe, Kyoto|Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture]], we should link to the more specific one, that is "Ayabe". (WP:LINKSTYLE; WP:SEAOFBLUE)
• Changed {{nihongo|[[Naval War College (Japan)|Japan’s Naval War College]]|海軍大学校|Kaigun Daigakkō}} to {{nihongo|[[Naval War College (Japan)|Naval War College]]|海軍大学校|Kaigun Daigakkō}} as the name seems to be just "Naval War College"
• Removed the orphan paragraph For several years an Oomoto office and temple has been open in [[Brasilia]], the capital of [[Brazil]]. The local Esperanto speakers have assisted considerably.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} that is completely unsourced, and is extremely ambiguous. For example, "Esperanto speakers have assisted considerably"?

It seems I removed linking to "Japanese New Year" a couple of times without a valid reason. I first changed "lunar New Year" to "Japanese New Year" in August 2014, but apparently forgot to wikilink the new term. I guess I was a bit like a broken record when removing the new wikiling for a couple of times, sorry for the inconvenience! :-E Cheers! Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 11:02, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

very week description of doktrine...

In a substantial article about a religious belief the section about doctrine must come first, not "history". And there shouldn't be all sorts of not essential details. Why have a longish quotation about the "kami" who created esperanto while not even the name "Great Source, or Great Origin" is explained... So, thanks for the effort, but please explain the essentials of the belief, its distinguishing features and what fascinated people about it! --HilmarHansWerner (talk) 07:49, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

How many are they?

It would be nice to have either at least some rought estimate of the present number of adherents of this religion (should they be counted in tens, thousands, or millions?), if it is available from some neutral source; or, if this is impossible, explain briefly why it is impossible. JoergenB (talk) 20:07, 15 November 2023 (UTC)