User talk:Aichelemc/Choose an Article

Choose a topic feedback
This is a great range of topics to be looking at for this project! Some of these are fairly well developed already, so I appreciate your clear discussion of what you might add or improve in them. I'll add a couple of notes about each article you're considering below:

Horticultural therapy: Making this article more neutral, less promotional, and more up to date seems like an excellent approach. Personal knowledge of editors doesn't quite work as sources for improving these articles on its own, but can definitely help you get to resources and search terms that will help you find the sources that will provide and support that information.

Semi-vegetarianism: It isn't possible to change an existing article title in Wikipedia, so this one would need to stay focused on semi-vegetarianism/flexitarianism. If you do choose to work with this one, I would be very careful about "healthier" or related language that usually is an indicator of bias. If you can find research that shows specific measures of health, you can definitely use those resources and that information--I would just be very careful about broader health claims.

Zero-waste fashion: It looks like you found some good sources for this one, and I agree that it looks like an excellent candidate...it has a structure (although you may end up choosing to modify that structure) but a lot of opportunity to add content.

Language exchange: This one is a little more robust than some of the others already, so if you choose it you may find that you are either making smaller changes within the existing sections or focusing on adding a new section (depending on what research you find). One note I would add is that the "how to" piece you mention is a bit outside the purpose of an encyclopedia entry, so may not be the best element to focus on.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: this one is a bit trickier because it's a medical/psychology approach/set of techniques, which wikipedia generally steers undergrad students away from. I would also be careful about refocusing even part of the article on Buddhism, which shares the mindfulness component but to my knowledge isn't directly related to MBCT (unless you're finding sources drawing a firmer connection?). If you do choose this article, there is an additional training for anyone working on articles for medicine or psychology I can send you the link for.

My biggest overall note is that the one of these you are finding the best range of good-quality sources for and can see the clearest route to improving within the purpose of an encyclopedia article is probably your best option. Let me know if you need any ideas about where to look for sources, search terms, etc. Nicoleccc (talk) 22:16, 22 October 2019 (UTC)