User talk:StanStepanic

Paavo Airola
I reverted your edits on Paavo Airola. You mentioned in the paragraph that "No such man of this name has ever existed in work with mental health research", which is incorrect, as Dr. Yuri Nikolayev worked at Moscow Psychiatric Institute and did indeed become a famed researcher on schizophrenia. So Airola was absolutely correct in his statement. The name "Nikolajev", instead, is just the Finnish interpretation of the original Cyrillic alphabet name, which explains the lack of information on such person. Thank you for your contributions, but please be more careful when adding controversial information on Wikipedia. Prolog 14:21, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, okay, thanks for that. I actually searched using several transliterations of that name since I knew that the "j" was not very common, but even searching Russian sites for that name yielded nothing. Do you have any links to information or any books titles by him? I'd like to check it out. Why didn't Airola cite a source for this? In addition, I don't think the edit should be completely deleted, because there are numerous examples of him giving information with no citation or proof. He uses cites for many different things, but in a ton of cases there is no cite and the information is usually not very reliable. I've worked with hypoglycemics for awhile now and many people I've met with the condition have had bad experiences with his suggestions. There is certainly a good amount of useful information, but it should be known that not all of it should be taken at face value. Let me know what you think. StanStepanic 14:38, 24 July 2006

I agree that it could be mentioned in the article, but Wikipedia has a "No original research" policy, so you shouldn't include it unless it has already been mentioned on some reliable source (reputable magazine, book, web media...). The unofficial statements, even coming from experts, are simply not enough. Wikipedia:Verifiability is related to this too, I believe. The reason I removed the entire edit was my own lack of knowledge on the subject. Since I didn't know if the rest of the information was verified, I didn't just want to go and edit your paragraph. Anyway, thanks for your reply. Prolog 20:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. I'll find a source before I post that again. Could you possibly post here one of the works, articles or such by that researcher? I would like to read it, I used to work in mental health and was always interested in schizophrenia. It doesn't matter if it's in cyrillic. Let me know, thanks! StanStepanic 24 July 2006 16:26

That sounds good. And sorry, I have never studied the actual works of Nikolayev myself, and don't really know where to find any of his published articles. Cyrillic is gibberish to me, so I wouldn't know about those. Like I said, I'm no expert. Prolog 02:20, 25 July 2006 (UTC)