I received my copy of The Shaolin Monastery History Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts by Meir Shahar yesterday Shahar is a professor of East Asian studies at Tel Aviv University and holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard and his book is published by the University of Hawai i Press Moreover his articles on martial arts have been published in peer reviewed journals including the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and Asia Major Wikipedia Verifiability and Wikipedia No original research two of Wikipedia s three core content policies both state that the most reliable sources are peer reviewed journals and books published in university presses and go on to say that material that is self published whether on paper or online is generally not regarded as reliable If this article must include material largely attributed to self published sources online and frankly I don t think that it does don t we have an obligation to Wikipedia s readers to draw a distinction between reliable and unreliable sources