User talk:Fatalstrategy

Hello. Regarding this edit. Wikipedia has a policy of no original research, meaning that it does not accept contributions that appear to be reliant on teh contributor's own thoughts or definitions. It is better to attribute claims to reliable sources. Please note: I am not disputing your claim, I am merely saying that by Wikipedia's standards, we need it to be attributed to a source. The JPS talk to me  09:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * By the way, welcome. I hope that you can help improve theoretical articles to our standards. I just want to be absolutely clear. In the past, armed with an enhanced perception of their own expertise in their subjects because of recent praise of their dissertation, we often get postgrads here who write as if they were the authorities on the topic. They'd happily write some articulate definitions, and histories of subjects/fields/disciplines. I'm sure that you will know that some eager student's argument is likely to be disputed by another eager student, also glowing in their sense of genius. This is why I am encouraging you to write to Wikipedia's standards. That is, everything, absolutely everything, must be cited to a reliable source. Furthermore, the chosen sources should give a fair and balanced view: they should not just be a particular paradigm that happens to support the writer's view. This is an encyclopedia, not an essay. The JPS talk to me  10:14, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Dear JTS

'Media Studies' is a contentious term and as the article itself describes many universities have changed the names of their departments to and from 'Communications' etc.

It takes time for a 'discipline' to emerge and is usually allied to a development in ethical and professional standards which are present in say, journalism, the practice of historians and social psychology, all of which incidentally are 'tools' used to explore media without media studies itself exercising a 'discipline' over itself.

Sorry about the form this communication has taken: I am new to this and I haven't figured out how to use my talk.

btw good guess on the postgrad thingy. Fatalstrategy (talk) 10:52, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello. You are missing the point of this exchange. I am not disputing your claim. I am disputing the point that you are asserting all of these without referencing reliable sources. This is against policy. The JPS talk to me  11:01, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

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