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Motivation for article about Vanda

Hello, Thank you for all the wonderful work you’re doing on Wikipedia especially the Yoga stuff which is my field.

I was just reading your page about Vanda Scaravelli and wondered if you might tell me who/what inspired you to write it since I am a “Scaravelli” teacher with close links to Diane.

In truth though, I am concerned that the article/info is biased. Vanda had other long-term and intimate students. Namely Elizabeth Pauncz, Sandra Sabatini, Risa Kaparo amongst others.

This claim that Diane was so instrumental in developing Vanda’s teaching is misleading.

Might you be interested in contacting Vanda’s family to add to this page? Paola Scaravelli-Cohen is her daughter, and was responsible for the revising of Vanda’s book.

Anyway, again thank you for all your work.

Best wishes Dot D4dotty37 (talk) 08:13, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks. I didn't create the article, which has been edited by numerous people over the years. I simply came across her as a 'missing' figure in the yoga literature. I haven't intentionally omitted those students; I've simply never heard of them until this moment; I might add that an article about Scaravelli should not devote much space to students, who might deserve their own articles. We can't use personal experience or knowledge on Wikipedia, but you are welcome to add to the article, citing Vanda's book (which we'd call a primary source, useful but obviously not an independent scholarly source) and other reliably published sources. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:06, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]