User talk:Kenneth Cooke

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True Believer Syndrome

You've added this category to many articles recently, but are these attributions attributable to WP:RS? If this category has coinage outside the realm of M. Lamar Keene esoterica, the subject warrants substantive development at wikipedia. Absent this foundation, please explain the significance or noteworthiness of this category as well as how you've ascribed articles to it. Thanks. Professor marginalia (talk) 05:49, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry to lay the damper down already. You haven't been at wikipedia long and it's perfectly understandable that you wouldn't yet be familiar with all of its byzantine policies and guidelines. Unfortunately, the "rant" you've left on the article's talk page isn't really what the article talk pages are for. The pages are for talking about the article's development, and definitely not for sharing opinions about the topic or how it relates to the culture at wikipedia. I urge you to remove it yourself before another editor does. See Not for opinions, Not a forum Talk page guidelines for a better explanation. Since you're developing thoughts that relate to the community or culture at wikipedia, see WP:ESSAYS for what you might do instead. Hope this helps. Professor marginalia (talk) 01:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

If my rant motivates people to develop this particular page, then it is about this particular page.--Kenneth Cooke (talk) 01:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I think what you're saying is that you think the "true believer syndrome" should catch on beyond the more narrow scope outlined by its originator and that you'd like to see it applied to more topics than did its originator. If so, you need to start those fires somewhere else probably because wikipedia isn't where new ideas are initiated, it's just an encyclopedia. But you're also hoping others who perhaps have sourced information of such as you envision being in actual practice already will step up and provide those sources-and that's a legit use of the article's talk page. In the meantime, only those articles whose topics can be reliably sourced to tie to "true believer syndrome" can be included in the category. Could you review all the cases where you've added the category to articles to make sure they are all mentioned by Keene? Thanks. The encyclopedia can't be a source of newly created claims. Professor marginalia (talk) 01:54, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the short video. It had just been recommended on a mail list and I came here just after having watched it. Great minds and all that... Are you, too, interested in the topic? Work on related articles is always needed. --Hordaland (talk) 02:23, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

AfD

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Special creation. Borock (talk) 07:07, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

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