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Many of the claims made in this article are entirely lacking the sources required. As a courtesy, I am going to wait 24 hours before removing all the unsourced guff about how much the subject's artworks sold for, the praise from 'prominent officeholders' etc. Wikipedia is not a platform for promotion, and unless such claims can be backed up by the third party reliable sources that Wikipedia requires, they will be deleted.
86.128.242.23 (
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00:00, 22 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Apologies: I was just in the process of retracting the above comments (got edit conflicted), since I'd clearly got the sources mixed up somehow. It might be worth making the citations for some of the claims more explicit though.
86.128.242.23 (
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00:54, 22 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Yes. I added that book. It just says some believe that he is Dorje Chang, some don't believe he is. I don't think adding that adds to the article, really.
NPalgan2 (
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14:28, 25 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Err if we make a claim ("some think he is)" we are honour bound to include anyone who disagrees. In addition at least one other source implies his status was purchased from a Buddha mill. So yes I think it is very relevant (especially given this line from at least one other source "Charles Prebish, a Buddhism expert at Utah State University and director of the school's Religious Studies Program, has never heard of Dorje Change Buddha III, nor, he says, have any of his Buddhist studies colleagues.".
Slatersteven (
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14:31, 25 May 2018 (UTC)reply