Talk:Changa (drug)

Hi there Doc Shaman!

I noticed that you reverted my recent edits on this page:

Given that you're new to Wikipedia but it's worth noting that the standard practice (with the exception of outright vandalism) is that you should generally engage an editor to question their choices before reverting an edit outright.

I can see that you've done a lot of work on the Changa page but very little of what you have added is accompanied by any references. To ensure quality commensurate with a resource like Wikipedia, it's important that any additions to an article have reliable external references that can corroborate them. As such, I've removed a lot of what you added both for this reason and because some of the content (particularly around price and availability) isn't necessarily encyclopaedic in tone.

I welcome your additions to this entry, however, and hope that you'll be able to re-instate these portions alongside appropriate references.

If I can help with anything at all, please do give me a shout.

ollee (talk) 01:46, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Doc Shaman Per my response to your message on my Talk page, let's work together here to iron out the issues with your additions to the Changa article.

I've maintained your section on 'Blends' but changed the title from 'Changa blends' (of course they're Changa!) to 'Composition' since that seems more informative about what Changa is actually composed of.

You've written:

"Any number of blend combinations are possible"

Which is a statement which absolutely requires citation.

Is Changa a free-form melange of different stuff? Or does it follow a strict recipe? I don't have any particular thoughts either way, but I think the onus is on you to corroborate a statement like that.

Your statement about some blends being 100 times stronger than others is attributed to Tripsitter.com which doesn't seem to offer any details on its sources. I think we need a better reference.

Some of the best sources I found to create the original article were Graeme St. John's chapter in the book "The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Reinventions and Controversies" published by Routledge and "Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives" published by Praeger.

cheers ollee (talk) 03:47, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

FYI

I just had a quick skim through the first chapter of Julian Palmer's book "Articulations" and that seems to offer a good corroboration of some of the points you've made above, so could be worth a look.

I'm sorry if this seems like pedantry, but Wikipedia is an important source with significant downstream impact: we need to get this right, verified and reputable.

ollee (talk) 03:51, 11 March 2022 (UTC)