User talk:Sally Mallam

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Close relationship to Robert E. Ornstein and ISHK
Hello, Sally Mallam. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Robert E. Ornstein, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. The same would apply to the article on ISHK.  Esowteric + Talk  09:10, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Your edits to Robert E. Ornstein
I'm sorry, I had to revert your good faith visual edits to Robert E. Ornstein as the visual copy and paste broke several citations. It replaced the content of the citations with just the numbers of the citations, eg [1][2][3], mangled another, and it was too complicated to fix these.

To make such changes, you really need to click on "Edit" at the top of the page and use the wikitext source code editor (not the visual editor) to edit the article's source text. If you'd like changes to be made, please feel free to ask. Many thanks!  Esowteric + Talk  09:10, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

I've tried to incorporate the changes you wanted into the article. Here's the content of the last edit you made. I added the ISHK web site and Human Journey web site URLs to the External links section, as external links should not be included in the body of the article. Regards, Eric:  Esowteric + Talk  09:30, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Edits to Robert E. Ornstein by 74.118.153.228
Hi, I'm not sure if recent edits to Robert E. Ornstein by 74.118.153.228 were by you while logged out.

The first edit reintroduces an external link in the Careers section to The Human Journey web site. As I mentioned earlier (see above), such links should not be included in the body of an article, but may be included in the External links section at the bottom of an article. I've already linked to The Human Journey there. Please see the guidelines at WP:External links.

The second edit —

"Ornstein's The Psychology of Consciousness (1972)[8][9] was enthusiastically received by the academic psychology community and the general public because it aided understanding of both the scientific and analytic approach to consciousness and the personal knowledge developed from a study of mysticism. In this book Ornstein worked to reconcile science and the wisdom traditions of the east, particularly with reference to the work of the contemporary exponent of Sufism, Idries Shah. Shah and Ornstein met in the 1960s. Ornstein recognized in Shah’s work a new framework for spiritual ideas, one uniquely relevant to today’s world. He remained connected to Shah and his work throughout his life."

— removed text that was cited in a reliable source, and instead replaced it with unsourced original research. Thus I reverted this change. If you can provide text that accurately reflects, and is backed-up by, one or more reliable sources, then you can use that. Please see WP:Verifiability, WP:Reliable sources, and WP:No original research. Regards,  Esowteric + Talk  09:46, 25 May 2019 (UTC)