Talk:Ordinary Mind School

Hangon
hmmm, I am new to this but i would like to defend the notability issue regarding an article I wrote on the Ordinary Mind school. I did not even create the wikipedia title "Ordinary Mind School", it was already highlighted in a write up about Charlotte Joko Beck. But, when I clicked on the existing link I found there was nothing there, so I wrote something.

I believe this information is quite "notable" since there are already articles about the founder of this school, but no explanations about what the school is about, even though there is a link with this title. Any serious Zen student in the US would certify the importance of this school in the present and future course of Zen practice in the United States.

What I wrote is not an opinion as I have studied within this school for 23 years and am very familiar with it's culture. I think one could verify my article by talking with other students of the school. --Mikepapas 04:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Mike. Your good intentions are apparent. Let me tell you a bit about what is meant by "notable" as we use it for purposes of this encyclopedia. It does not refer to importance or fame or worth or whether we like the subject or not. It refers to whether the world at large has deemed a subject notable by making it the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works from sources that are reliable and independent of the subject itself. For more on notability, see Notability. So my suggestion is that you attempt to find reliable sources which deal with this subject and cite them in the article. That is the best route to avoid deletion.--Fuhghettaboutit 06:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I redirected it to Ordinary Mind Zen School; unfortunately that also needs the same type of sourcing. --NE2 06:55, 22 January 2007 (UTC)