User talk:Dr. Samuel Goldstein

Welcome!

Hi, Dr. Samuel Goldstein. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:46, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that your removal of criticism from The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has been reverted already. Usually, when someone does something like that, we assume that he's associated with the organization and naturally has a little difficulty seeing the organization the same way that outsiders do. (This might seem like an excessively cynical attitude, but it's often the case.) If that seems accurate, then you might want to read WP:MEDCOI and WP:PSCOI for background, but the important thing to know is that the English Wikipedia has a notion called WP:Neutrality that is defined as accurately reflecting the independent and WP:reliable sources. What this means in practice is that if 90% of the independent, high-quality reliable sources are critical of IAHP, then the article's supposed to be about 90% critical, too—even if you personally have good reason to think that the majority of sources are misguided. This is not always a comfortable place for an organization that isn't enjoying mainstream acceptance, but that's what our rules are.

By the way, if you're interested in neurology, then you might want to poke around at some of the articles on neuroanatomy. I've heard that they could use a lot of work, and a subject like that ought to give you some experience with non-controversial editing. (Or are there controversies even there? I hope I've not made a bad suggestion.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:59, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

January 2014

Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you made a change to an article, The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 11:34, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did with this edit to The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Jim1138 (talk) 11:42, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

Hello, Dr. Samuel Goldstein. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
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Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 11:44, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Glenn doman

Hi, I'm SmileBlueJay97. Dr. Samuel Goldstein, thanks for creating Glenn doman!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Last name should be capitalized

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. SmileBlueJay97 talk 11:46, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

Edit request for your criticism section

I placed an Edit request on Talk:The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential/Archive 3#Edit request Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 12:32, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a professional connection to The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential even though you are not part of the organization, it might be considered a wp:conflict of interest. As far as the 80% is concerned: if 95% of people thought the world was flat, but the scientific consensus was that the world is spherical, scientific consensus would dictate a Wikipedia article stating it was round. The 95% information would be noted, but the article would not state the world was flat and a few individuals thought it was round. The "neutral point of view" would be the world was round.
As a physician, I would hope that you would use medicine based on scientific evidence rather than on what you read in the Tabloids? Jim1138 (talk) 12:46, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:MEDRS might be useful reading for you. It's really the views of academics, not parents or bloggers, that matters. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:15, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Harrassment warning

User:Dr. Samuel Goldstein your edits to Talk:The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential can be considered violations of the Wikipedia policy on Harrassment Wikipedia:Harassment in particular the section Posting of personal information WP:PRIVACY. - - MrBill3 (talk) 03:46, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Dr. Samuel Goldstein", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because of your use of what appears to be a real name that might apply to several identifiable people. Please review the section of the username policy, WP:REALNAME. If you do not wish to identify yourself as a particular Dr. Samuel Goldstein (there are several) you may change your username. Editing Wikipedia anonymously is your right, however a username which can be misleading is inappropriate. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. - - MrBill3 (talk) 17:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

March 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. Claims of POV need to be supported with policy based rationale and reliable sources. MrBill3 (talk) 08:47, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]