User talk:Comur

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Bowen technique
Please do not remove properly sourced text and replace it with text which has no references. -- Neil N  talk to me  15:12, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Dear Neil, Ah, so you want me to quote papers, books and websites. Is it cool to quote them when you know they are incorrect? Neil, nobody had done any research to speak of before. Do you want me to name all the people I interviewed, institutions I attended or had attended by researchers, organisations I contacted and sought information from, newspapers, magazines and books I researched to get the real story? The Bowen teaching industry has been dominated by market driven drivel which, by the way, I document in my book. The book's been out since 2010 and no one, other than one school's teacher who demanded I leave her 'gurus' alone, has complained. The letter promptly went in to my European print run as it fitted nicely with the chapter where I discussed the 'guru effect'.

Or would you prefer I just quote my book all the way through?
 * Wikipedia is not the place to promote or quote from your self-published book. Sorry. -- Neil N  talk to me  21:29, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

I’m a little confused. I thought Wikipedia was about trying to provide information that was correct. The fact that the correct information is in my book and that it was me who wrote the piece means it’s ineligible? I haven’t done this to promote my book, it’s to provide correct information. If you would prefer I didn’t mention the book that’s okay. But then you don’t get the references you require. I don’t think the person who wrote the existing article set out to provide incorrect information. Well, maybe they can use the information I’ve provided and make it correct. This comes down to the question as to whether it is better to provide nonsense information or none at all. I prefer the 'none at all'. Why would you want to deliberately misinform people? --[ Signed Comur — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.243.127.166 (talk) 11:20, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

March 2014
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