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1 More cleanup - starting with refs - and a call for secondary+ sources  
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2 "Bishop Fjellbu of Oslo"  
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3 Cleanup over past 4 years  
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4 History?  
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5 A Critic  
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6 Clarify sharing  
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7 Oxford Group Article Became its Founders Story  
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More cleanup - starting with refs - and a call for secondary+ sources[edit]

I think this article is still in need of more cleanup and additional sources, and I've made a start on cleaning up the references. As I found it the references seemed to have been added by several people without a consistent style, and many sources were duplicated (e.g. each time a new range of pages was cited in a single book). I've gone through and used one of the current Wikipedia citation templates to define a number of the major references now, and re-written them in-text to use the handy {{rp| }} ref decorator - see Missing Manual: footnote + page numbers. This allows all subsequent citations from a given reference to refer back to the first definition, and makes for a much cleaner citation list. It also reveals what I think is a weakness of the current article - that it relies on a lot of sources that are primary and/or directly related to the movement. Some are clearly part of it, some are in opposition, but it seems there are not many sources here that are really secondary or tertiary sources with some distance and perspective. Surely there must be some of these for a movement with such a long history and such social influence? For background on this comment, see WP:NOR, WP:V, and WP:POV. Thoughts from those more familiar with the group and its history? Pyrilium (talk) 04:37, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Bishop Fjellbu of Oslo"[edit]

There appears to be a mix-up of Norwegian bishops. Arne Fjellbu, who is cited here, was neither bishop of Oslo, nor imprisoned during the war. He was placed under some kind of house arrest, managed to flee, came to London, and became acting bishop of the freed areas of Northern Norway in December 1944. He became bishop of Trondheim in the fall of 1945. Roufu (talk) 22:50, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

He was indeed the bishop of Trondheim. "Bishop of Oslo" is a mistake which must he corrected if it is still there.Pensées de Pascal (talk) 17:40, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup over past 4 years[edit]

Thankyou to everyone who has cleanedup this page, I orginally began putting additional info up 6-4 yrs ago and I'm so happy to see it blossom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.226.109 (talk) 10:54, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

History?[edit]

This is an interesting article about an interesting movement, but why does it stop at 1939? What happened later? Dadge (talk) 20:20, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I heard an interesting--though unverified--bit of trivia. A group of them apparently went to Oxford together, and their luggage was marked with stickers marked "Oxford." People on the train or ship or whatever it was called them "the Oxford group" and they adopted that as their name. September 2017.

A Critic[edit]

A.P. Herbert worked against it. What did he say? 12.201.7.201 (talk) 04:19, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Clarify sharing[edit]

I don't know this subject, but I suspect the 'sharing' section needs clarification. The use of word is clear to me as a participant in 12-step groups (I'm guessing), but many readers will not have this understanding. The most common use of the word refers to sharing material things such as food. Please add a sentence or two if you are familiar with this topic. ike9898 (talk) 15:51, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oxford Group Article Became its Founder’s Story[edit]

Would be good to have the Oxford Group article distinct from its founder’s story. Perhaps there already is a separate article on the founder, so content can be relocated there and reduced on this page.

NorieNC (talk) 00:31, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Buchman’s article has content which legitimately belongs in the Oxford Group article. NorieNC (talk) 00:38, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]


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