User talk:Adamkwatts

December 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add content (particularly if you change facts and figures), as you have to the article The Way to Happiness, please cite a reliable source for the content you're adding or changing. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Cirt (talk) 19:24, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of previously published material to our articles as you apparently did to The Way to Happiness. Please cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. Info added was NOT backed up by claimed cited source. Cirt (talk) 19:47, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Please read WP:ARBSCI and the remedies therein. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 19:48, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The reference clearly indicated that the samples were created and sent to recipients encourage recipients to purchase personalized booklets, and that they were NOT distributed to anyone other than the recipient; a marketing sample. Current wording implies otherwise.

Also, such samples are commonly sent to businesses with the business name or logo on them. This is not referred to as "unauthorized distribution." Titling the section "unauthorized distribution" is not supported by the content and lends a negative biase to what should be an objective article. The fact that some confused the marketing sample with distribution does not change the actuality.

This article does have some citations, and it has even more that does NOT have citation. If you don't like my edits, how about you just delete everything in the article that is without citation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamkwatts (talk • contribs)

What in the article is without citation? Cirt (talk) 05:45, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, I meant "valid" citations. Quoting an unsubstantiated opinion is not providing a valid citation. The quote "Hiding behind a front organization is a common tactic ... The idea is to create a positive image by obscuring the connection with Scientology ... Later, people who undergo free workshops are convinced that they must correct flaws in their personality by taking Scientology courses. Those who are hooked end up giving all their possessions to the Church of Scientology" is not only unsubstantiated, it is empirically false. This man had no such knowledge and is not qualified to speak as an expert on the subject. Such inclusions only serve to provide negative bias for the article. This is not the news media, where we slant articles however we wish and look for opportunities to publish alarming or damaging statements regardless of their accuracy.

Sources are also misquoted. There is no "way to happiness rundown." There is a "happiness rundown."

Do I need to cite a dictionary to call a marketing sample a marketing sample?

Are you aware that such marketing samples went out to thousands of organizations and agencies and only a very few were confused as to the intent? They were clearly identified as free samples and order forms were included with all shipments. The article as it stands paints a completely false and negatively biased picture. I attempted, without removing information, to at least remove or point out biase.

As a professional writer, I utilize Wikipedia quite often to gather information. As a university student, I also utilize Wikipedia for research. However, after reviewing this article on a subject which I know quite well, I am concerned about the accuracy of other Wikipedia articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamkwatts (talk • contribs)

Can you present any independent reliable secondary sources to back up your above claims? Cirt (talk) 18:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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