Talk:Gopi Krishna (yogi)

message: From what I recall, Gopi Krishna wrote extensively about a time around 1937 when his kundalini went up the wrong channel and he experienced a lot of problems. Although it seems he later corrected the matter (or it righted itself naturally), I find it odd that there's no mention of this in the article, especially if people could be inspired by it to experiment with their kundalini without appropriate guidance or training.
Meltingpot (talk) 05:58, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Positives only?

message: Buddhipriya (vide infra) seems to labor under the delusion that notability means "have I heard of him?" and that any publisher he's not familiar with is a vanity press.    Typical Wikipedia haberdashery.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.65.9 (talk) 09:28, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: I am not clear on why this person is notable.  Is he mentioned in any books written by academic authors?  All of the sourcing appears to be from self-published vanity press publishers.  Are there any books published under the imprint of an academic publishing house? Buddhipriya 04:10, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for making an effort to find sources that would establish that he is notable.  I think there may be some difference in our approach to what would be considered a WP:RS in this matter.  Your compilation above, while interesting, is really more along the lines of WP:OR rather than citation of what someone who would be acknowledged as a reliable source has said.  I have been assisted in locating what I would accept as a WP:RS in the book Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal by June McDaniel (Oxford University Press, 2006, ) where on p. 280 she mentions a bit about him, saying "Western interest at the popular level in kundalini yoga was probably most influenced by the writings of Gopi Krishna, in which kundalini was redefined as chaotic and spontaneous religious experience." it then goes on to directly quote his account of kundalini awakening.  This book is a strong source because it is published by a respected academic publishing house (Oxford University Press) and the author would qualify as an academic expert on at least one Tantric cult.  A reference like this can be safely quoted, in my opinion. Buddhipriya 04:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am most grateful for your reference! It really is damn hard finding good references, but that is what keeps up the standard I guess. I will continue my search. Do you have a good way of quick searching these kind of references, or are you just that dedicated :)? Teardrop onthefire 13:20, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I got that reference by asking for strong references related to Gopi Krishna on another article and another editor found it.  If you want to make a point in an article but do not have a strong reference for it, one approach is to post the issue on a talk page first and specifically ask for help in locating strong references.  People can then check the books they have on hand (often by just looking in the indexes) and if they find something they may post it to the talk page.  This method of finding strong references also has the advantage of alerting other editors to what point you are interested in, so if they object or have a different perspective, they can say so on the talk page.  Then only the resulting agreement, properly sourced, can be inserted into the article and there is no edit war as the issues have been ironed out in talk.  In this case, the reference given actually does not support the statement as written in the article, but it makes a general point about notability.  I will adjust the article to make use of a strong inline reference format that follows WP:CITE. Buddhipriya 18:54, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article appears to be an advertisement 

message: The article does not use the standard reference setup specified by Wikipedia:Guide to layout and WP:CITE.  In the standard setup, books that are cited in Notes go into the section called References, which becomes a list of works cited in Notes.  This allows the reader to quickly see what sources are actually relied on for footnotes.  Once a book is in the Reference list, it may be cited in a note using a short form of the type: "Doe, p. 23" with the details on the book by Doe appearing in the list of works cited.  I am going to change the article setup to conform to this arrangement, as I do not think this change is likely to be controversial, is supported by the policies mentioned, and does not affect semantic content. Buddhipriya 19:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of standard layout and reference formats 

message: there is a fact tag on the top of the page, but no fact tags for specific citations. Please place specific fact tags for the statements in need of resource, or provide a source yourself!
If no suggestions are presented, I will remove the tag as of 17/07/2007 Teardrop onthefire 15:04, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please review Wikipedia:Verifiability which says that "Articles should only contain material that has been published by reliable sources. Editors adding or restoring material that has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, or quotations, must provide a reliable published source, or the material may be removed."  Placing a fact tag on something is a polite call for references.  Since nothing has been produced, the next step is to remove the challenged material, not the fact tags.  If citations can be found in the future, the material can be put back in as sourced content. Buddhipriya 02:32, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  sources 

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