User talk:Llerro/The Lost Lemuria

The Lost Lemuria

Please check back here for comments. I think you did a really nice job with this draft. Hoopes (talk) 00:45, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a number of edits that you can see by looking at the editing history of this subpage. Note that I added a number of relevant hyperlinks as well as more complete bibliographic references (you should always add the most complete references you can, adding links to online versions when appropriate--something I didn't do). I have also tightened up the language quite a bit, seeking to reduce redundancy. Hoopes (talk) 18:02, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The main problems with this material as a Wikipedia article are: 1) that it may violate the rules about Wikipedia:Fringe theories by giving undue weight to non-mainstream ideas, and especially 2) that it currently violates the rule about WP:NOR because almost all of the content represents your own observations rather than those from other published sources. The appropriate way to address Wikipedia:Fringe theories would be to add additional language making it clear that what is being presented are historically significant as religious beliefs of members of the Theosophical Society that are noteworthy within a historical and cultural context. However, this cannot be done in a way that represents original research. It must come from reliable sources. The appropriate way to address WP:NOR would be to find and identify published, critical works that evaluate The Lost Lemuria and identify it as noteworthy and to provide content, citations, and references to those. Hoopes (talk) 18:02, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]