User talk:Rjames22

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Hello, Rjames22, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Hi, I wanted to let you know that I reverted your edits to Shoshin. The reason was that the content was written with a specific point of view, by which I mean that it was written from the viewpoint of a specific person that's giving advice and information to another person. This causes a bit of a kerfuffle with Wikipedia, which isn't supposed to read like it's coming from a single person or espousing any given point of view.

The sourcing was also problematic, as it's from self-published sources. The Huffington Post link is to one of the blogs hosted on the site, which HuffPo doesn't actually moderate beyond ensuring that it doesn't violate basic guidelines like violence, harassment, and so on - the typical things you would find on most message boards. They don't actually verify the content so to speak. Neither DailyZen nor Aly Juma's website seem to undergo any sort of editorial oversight that we can verify to satisfy Wikipedia's guidelines, nor is there any indication that the sites are routinely seen and cited as reliable sources. Wikipedia is fairly picky about sourcing, to say the least. Academic sourcing tends to be the best for this sort of thing.

This doesn't mean that the information is actually wrong, just that Wikipedia tends to be particular about style and sourcing. I hope this doesn't discourage you - I do think that what you added is right, it's just that it needs to be written and sourced in a specific way. On a side note, have you ever read Tao: The Watercourse Way or anything written by Alan Watts? Here's a site that links to some YT videos about him. (Can't be used as a RS anywhere, but it's just something interesting to share.) Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:42, 29 May 2018 (UTC)