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The Urantia Foundation article has never been substantial since its initiation in 2008, and it has been identified as lacking notability since 2014. Its only substantive content is on the copyright status of The Urantia Book, which is already covered in this article. I suggest merging. Discussion? Brad606 (talk) 18:30, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
The Symbols section is short and doesn't seem to need to standalone. The detailed explanation of the concentric circles emblem contains a lot of technical detail from the book itself. What seems germane here, however, is the copyright status of the symbol.
I propose simplifying the text and merging it into the copyright status section, summarizing the Foundation's 2017 copyright policy
An important symbol described in The Urantia Book is three azure blue concentric circles on a white background, said to be "emblematic of the infinity, eternity, and universality of the Paradise Trinity." Urantia Foundation, the original publisher of The Urantia Book, holds a United States trademark on this design. They permit certain fair use of the symbol for non-profit, personal, and artistic purposes as long as no connection is implied to the Urantia Foundation. Commercial use of the symbol, except for small amounts of collectibles and jewelry items, remains an exclusive right reserved by Urantia Foundation.
Discussion? Brad606 (talk) 20:07, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
In es:Libro de Urantia and Caballo de Troya there is some information about the relation between Urantia and J. J. Benítez's Caballo de Troya. However, it is not clear at the first look whether it is plagiarism or inspiration. --Error (talk) 17:58, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
The majority of the references use SFN format. However, there are many book and journal refs that are inline. I cannot tell if this is intentional. I feel that these inline refs should be changed to SFNs. Wikipedia style is not to mix. I do not propose that every ref be changed to SFN, web and news articles often make poor SFN refs (no author, date or page). Changing would improve the appearance of the References section. User-duck (talk) 16:59, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Most other languages of this article seem very different from the English one. The French one even has NPOV disputes. Is there any formal or accepted process for helping improve this situation, using the English article as a base? (it's gotten so much work over the years) Is this even seen as a problem? btw i've a COI, so i'm only writing on talk pages Brad606 (talk) 18:21, 26 June 2023 (UTC)