Talk:Affirmation

Last item needs improvement
The last bullet item currently (4/23/08) on the page reads:
 * "Affirmation" also has various meanings within the domains of personal development, popular psychology, alternative health and supplicatory prayer.

This text is not helpful to the disambiguation page for several reasons:
 * 1) provides no links to any relevant articles.
 * 2) groups too many separate topics into a single line.
 * 3) uses vague term "various meanings" providing no help for the reader.
 * 4) uses possibly derisive term "popular psychology" (pop psychology) instead of simply "psychology".
 * 5) uses possibly derisive term "alternative health" instead of simply "health".
 * 6) uses erroneous term "supplicatory prayer" instead of simply "prayer".
 * supplication (begging/humbling) is contradictory to any concept of affirmation (claiming/asserting).

These disambiguations do need to be included, but this bullet item as currently written needs to be expanded into several valid and NPOV disambiguation links. -- Low Sea (talk) 08:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you should look at the article Affirmation before someone turned it into a redirect. It was a clutter of unsourced ideas. If there were reliably-sourced WP articles for these ideas, then proper disambiguation would be possible. Perhaps you could start with a good article on Affirmation in Prayer?  Vernon White  . . . Talk 22:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I've been slowly (as time permits) working on an article for "Affirmative Prayer". Long way to go. The hard part is finding non-primary sources for the subject matter. Most secondary sources only contain discussions on prayer-in-general with not enough detail on the difference of this particular form of prayer.  In the meantime I have removed the problematic terminology (bullets 4,5,6 above). -- Low Sea (talk) 16:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your help. Vernon White  . . . Talk 19:58, 30 April 2008 (UTC)