User talk:JasunHorsley

November 2015
Hello, JasunHorsley. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Jason Horsley, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:


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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Thank you. Meters (talk) 19:38, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

I'd like to request removal of categories "conspiracy theorist" & "UFO conspiracy theorist" as well as the description of "conspiracy researcher."

In the first instance, according to Wikipedia itself: the term "conspiracy theory" has acquired a derogatory meaning over time and is often used to dismiss or ridicule beliefs in conspiracies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory)

Regarding being a conspiracy researcher, while this is somewhat accurate, I feel it places undue emphasis on one area of my work. I have also done extensive autism research, for example, yet no one is calling me an autism researcher. Emphasizing conspiracy seems to be based solely on a desire to sensationalize what I do, which has for its primary focus psychology, and secondarily, culture, including marginal culture such as UFOs, occultism, conspiracy, etc.

For comparison, I'd point out that other, somewhat similar (tho if anything more narrowly focused) authors such as Peter Levenda or Whitley Strieber aren't classified by their interest in conspiracy. The desire of wiki editors to place me in this category seems motivated by a desire to misrepresent what I do, rather than a desire to accurately describe it.

Thanks.


 * Wrong place. This needs to go on the talk page of ht article you want to edit, not your talk page. Meters (talk) 02:08, 20 November 2015 (UTC)