User talk:Raiseyourvibration

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Hello, Raiseyourvibration, and welcome to Wikipedia!

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Subud

Hello. I've reverted your additions to Subud. Wikipedia has a policy against including original research. Information must be presented neutrally and with reliable sources. The edit is still in the article's history (here) if you would like to review it. Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 09:39, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Frayfell, Critiques of Subud don't exist, so, unfortunately, and ostensibly, no critiques of Subud are allowed on Wikipedia. That's a major snafu. There are no published criticisms of Subud. Authors who are members of Subud would never publish such material as (for the most part) they don't have the objectivity to stand back and criticize. Authors who are not members of Subud don't write about Subud because of lack of interest--lack of public interest and their own lack of personal interest. Again, it's a snafu. The question is, and yes I'll admit it's a bit of a loaded question: what about Wikipedia readers who are interested in the truth? Is it against Wikipedia policies to point from within the Wikipedia article to an outside source that criticizes Subud? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raiseyourvibration (talk • contribs) 19:30, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's a snafu, but the problem lies deep within the core of what Wikipedia is and is not. Everything must be verifiable, and if no sources can be found, or they don't yet exist, the content doesn't belong in Wikipedia. As I'm sure you can guess, you're not the first person to run into this issue, and Wikipedia's handling of the word "truth" is complicated. For a small sample of examples, see Wikipedia:Truth, Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth, Wikipedia:Truth, not verifiability, Wikipedia:The Truth, and so on. If there is an outside source which is reliable (has a reputation for accuracy and fact-checking, which almost always means editorial oversight) than it can be considered. Such sources do not have to be online, and do not have to be in English. Good luck. Grayfell (talk) 20:02, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I do understand. Thanks. As a philosopher, I'll be trying to get something published myself by a reputable source. Also, my account name (raiseyourvibration) doesn't seem to exist. How do I fix this? Aloha, Raiseyourvibration (talk) 20:36, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, if you get something published, please be aware of the conflict of interest guidelines, specifically WP:SELFCITE.

You should be able to just create a user page by editing User:Raiseyourvibration (following Wikipedia:User pages guidelines). There was some old activity by this username which is causing a big red banner to appear, but it doesn't appear related to anything recent. The userpage was deleted as spam in September 2015, which is a couple of months before this account was created, and the previous account Raiseyourvibration was renamed shortly after. Grayfell (talk) 22:32, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Again, you really need to include reliable sources. Your edits raised more questions than they answered. How are people who experience undiagnosed symptoms excluded from latihan practice? If they are not diagnosed, then who decides they may not participate, and isn't the a form of diagnosis? You should also avoid editorializing language, such as "Of course..." per WP:EDITORIALIZING. Finally, the content you added was not minor, and tagging it as a minor edit is not appropriate, per Help:Minor edit. Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 21:23, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]