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I believe the name of the church is the Church of Stop Shopping. Can someone involved make that change to the title. On Rev Billy's page that is the name of the church. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Insertculture ( talk • contribs) 22:11, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
The official name of the group is Reverend Billy Talen and the Stop Shopping Choir. How can I change the title of the page? Marnieglickman ( talk) 19:49, 4 September 2015 (UTC) [1]
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Rock On, Rev. Billy!!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.248.51.198 ( talk) 03:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
It seems that this "Reverend Billy" and his "church" are sort of mocking religion. In a yahoo article [1] it mentions that he is intending to compare corporations in America to the Roman Catholic church. I however feel that the manner he chooses to do so in "mocks" actual organized religion. Even if it is just the Catholic church, it is still sort of "makes fun" of religion. Perhaps this should be noted? Zchris87v 04:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
He has commited a criminal offense and was arrested. Does this constitute him being a criminal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.218.146 ( talk) 02:14, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
you're mistaken read the link.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.247.24 ( talk) 04:06, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Bill Talen may be a christian, however the reverend in the movie is not. Midways in the movie he prays to "the great unknown", when praying for a child outside the mall (about 1h:15m in to the movie) he prays to "the He/she". And in the last few minutes of the movie, in the very end, he says "You don't have to be a christian to believe". He does not speak about God as the heavenly father. He is just a parody of a preacher. I.e. both the preacher and the movie is mickey mouse, fake, it's not factual.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.164.77.121 ( talk) 00:04, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Now that Talen is a NYC mayoral candidate and getting substantial media attention in that role, shouldn't there be separate articles for him as an individual and The Church of Life After Shopping (the new name for his organization)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.231.6.65 ( talk) 15:38, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
There's no mention of an NPOV dispute on this talk page, so is the NPOV tag invalid? If it is, should it be removed? Energybeing ( talk) 10:06, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Removed NPOV tag as relevant issue has been resolved Energybeing ( talk) 09:51, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
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In this article, some of my recently-added other-article links were subsequently reverted by a more experienced WP editor, due to violations of WP:OVERLINK. Point taken, and I will try to be more judicious in the future. I am not actually familiar with the subject of this particular article, but find it interesting. I have no intention of getting into an "edit war", and instead prefer consensus with other interested editors.
I would like to reach consensus about the following: Some of the material in this article might be hard to follow for someone who is unfamiliar with certain aspects of American popular culture (e.g., a non-native reader of English, or a younger South Asian), or unfamiliar with certain locations in NYC that are named in the article (like myself, who lives in Chicago). Therefore , I propose to nonetheless activate links for a few words and phrases, such as "Elvis-like". Also, it does appear to me that, for clarity, any English-language WP article about a USA topic ought to always "ground" the text geographically in the USA in at least one location within that article. (Even though any given en:WP article might written by a USA resident, anyone in the world might read it.) Acwilson9 ( talk) 04:23, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi all, I've updated the first few sections of the article, as I figured that would be the best way to get the attention of the editors who are watching this entry. My editing of the Reverend Billy article started out with looking for a few citations, then I got into it and wrote a new draft. Please see my full sandbox article here: /info/en/?search=User:Almonroth/sandbox
I'm doing it this way for a couple reasons. First, I know Reverend Billy and worked on the Morgan Spurlock movie What Would Jesus Buy?, so I want to flag that from the start. While I've tried to take care with WP:BLP and WP:NPOV, please review my work and make sure I'm being objective.
If no one objects in a few days, I'll probably migrate the remaining portions of my sandbox article to this article. Or please interject and let me know what the right process is. I've mostly wiki-gnomed and uploaded to the Commons, so I'm not too sure how to go about a substantial re-write of an existing article. The only real article I have worked on was a new start with the The Bay Lights.
I'm hoping that the work I've done can be incorporated into the Reverend Billy article and look forward to any discussions that might follow. Thanks Almonroth 05:41, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Extinction Rebellion New York clip (03:15) published on YouTube on 20 January 2019, search "Extinction Rebellion in New York City: Rev Billy & Choir".
With best wishes. RobbieIanMorrison ( talk) 17:32, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
I included a very short (single sentence) paragraph about Reverend Billy's 2009 Mayoral Campaign under "Direct Actions." I clearly did not quite get the referencing format right, but am not sure how to do so. I also wanted to included an additional reference to a NYT article on the same topic ( https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/nyregion/02billy.html) but as I already botched creating the first reference, I decided to quit while I was ahead. I would appreciate if the editors could adjust the reference so it is correctly formatted and/or offer me guidance -- beyond the help page -- on how to do so. Thank you. Berniethecat ( talk) 20:00, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
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I believe the name of the church is the Church of Stop Shopping. Can someone involved make that change to the title. On Rev Billy's page that is the name of the church. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Insertculture ( talk • contribs) 22:11, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
The official name of the group is Reverend Billy Talen and the Stop Shopping Choir. How can I change the title of the page? Marnieglickman ( talk) 19:49, 4 September 2015 (UTC) [1]
References
Rock On, Rev. Billy!!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.248.51.198 ( talk) 03:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
It seems that this "Reverend Billy" and his "church" are sort of mocking religion. In a yahoo article [1] it mentions that he is intending to compare corporations in America to the Roman Catholic church. I however feel that the manner he chooses to do so in "mocks" actual organized religion. Even if it is just the Catholic church, it is still sort of "makes fun" of religion. Perhaps this should be noted? Zchris87v 04:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
He has commited a criminal offense and was arrested. Does this constitute him being a criminal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.218.146 ( talk) 02:14, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
you're mistaken read the link.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.247.24 ( talk) 04:06, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Bill Talen may be a christian, however the reverend in the movie is not. Midways in the movie he prays to "the great unknown", when praying for a child outside the mall (about 1h:15m in to the movie) he prays to "the He/she". And in the last few minutes of the movie, in the very end, he says "You don't have to be a christian to believe". He does not speak about God as the heavenly father. He is just a parody of a preacher. I.e. both the preacher and the movie is mickey mouse, fake, it's not factual.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.164.77.121 ( talk) 00:04, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Now that Talen is a NYC mayoral candidate and getting substantial media attention in that role, shouldn't there be separate articles for him as an individual and The Church of Life After Shopping (the new name for his organization)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.231.6.65 ( talk) 15:38, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
There's no mention of an NPOV dispute on this talk page, so is the NPOV tag invalid? If it is, should it be removed? Energybeing ( talk) 10:06, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Removed NPOV tag as relevant issue has been resolved Energybeing ( talk) 09:51, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
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In this article, some of my recently-added other-article links were subsequently reverted by a more experienced WP editor, due to violations of WP:OVERLINK. Point taken, and I will try to be more judicious in the future. I am not actually familiar with the subject of this particular article, but find it interesting. I have no intention of getting into an "edit war", and instead prefer consensus with other interested editors.
I would like to reach consensus about the following: Some of the material in this article might be hard to follow for someone who is unfamiliar with certain aspects of American popular culture (e.g., a non-native reader of English, or a younger South Asian), or unfamiliar with certain locations in NYC that are named in the article (like myself, who lives in Chicago). Therefore , I propose to nonetheless activate links for a few words and phrases, such as "Elvis-like". Also, it does appear to me that, for clarity, any English-language WP article about a USA topic ought to always "ground" the text geographically in the USA in at least one location within that article. (Even though any given en:WP article might written by a USA resident, anyone in the world might read it.) Acwilson9 ( talk) 04:23, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi all, I've updated the first few sections of the article, as I figured that would be the best way to get the attention of the editors who are watching this entry. My editing of the Reverend Billy article started out with looking for a few citations, then I got into it and wrote a new draft. Please see my full sandbox article here: /info/en/?search=User:Almonroth/sandbox
I'm doing it this way for a couple reasons. First, I know Reverend Billy and worked on the Morgan Spurlock movie What Would Jesus Buy?, so I want to flag that from the start. While I've tried to take care with WP:BLP and WP:NPOV, please review my work and make sure I'm being objective.
If no one objects in a few days, I'll probably migrate the remaining portions of my sandbox article to this article. Or please interject and let me know what the right process is. I've mostly wiki-gnomed and uploaded to the Commons, so I'm not too sure how to go about a substantial re-write of an existing article. The only real article I have worked on was a new start with the The Bay Lights.
I'm hoping that the work I've done can be incorporated into the Reverend Billy article and look forward to any discussions that might follow. Thanks Almonroth 05:41, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Extinction Rebellion New York clip (03:15) published on YouTube on 20 January 2019, search "Extinction Rebellion in New York City: Rev Billy & Choir".
With best wishes. RobbieIanMorrison ( talk) 17:32, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
I included a very short (single sentence) paragraph about Reverend Billy's 2009 Mayoral Campaign under "Direct Actions." I clearly did not quite get the referencing format right, but am not sure how to do so. I also wanted to included an additional reference to a NYT article on the same topic ( https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/nyregion/02billy.html) but as I already botched creating the first reference, I decided to quit while I was ahead. I would appreciate if the editors could adjust the reference so it is correctly formatted and/or offer me guidance -- beyond the help page -- on how to do so. Thank you. Berniethecat ( talk) 20:00, 5 June 2024 (UTC)