Talk:Rhonda Byrne

message: Removed: Byrne was inspired to write The Power after answering several thousand letters from readers of The Secret. We don't know what her inspiration was, that is only what her website claims and cannot be used as a primary source. I added the website as an external link Bzzzzzzzzster 15:27, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspiration behind 'The Power' 

message: This page seems highly biased toward promoting Ms. Byrne's works.  While she has had legitimate success, this article fails to discuss her works' critical reception or her public image.  Furthermore, all of Ms. Byrne's achievements are presented in a highly congratulatory tone. — further, Francophonie&Androphilie sayeth naught (Je vous invite à me parler) 10:13, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: @Francophonie&Androphilie @Tamzin would you take another look? It has been 9 years Venkat TL (talk) 13:42, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, that's definitely the most delayed ping I've gotten... My account was 3 days old when I posted the above! I did remove some non-neutral stuff from this article back in 2012. I've now removed some more, added a  to the IMDb-sourced film credits, and changed an unreliable NNDb source for a reliable-enough Guardian one. What do you think?  -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 14:28, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Tamzin why make another thread when you can recycle.  Your edits Looks good. BSN Tags are ok. @Bovineboy2008 You had added the NPOV tag recently can we have your opinion too? I believe the article as it stands today can shed the NPOV tag. Venkat TL (talk) 14:37, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There's been no response in 5 months and the tagger has not stated their complaint with the article, so I'm being bold and removing the tag under WP:WTRMT EnPassant♟♙ (talk) 20:24, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: The article currently states that she was born in 1951, and is in the corresponding category of 1951 births.  However, the reference is to her NNDB biography, which gives her birth year as 1945.  So I am changing the article to match.--Gronk Oz (talk) 13:08, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth 

message: I have cut out the criticism section, and will work on it in due time. I find this part way too one sided when there is many people who claim her self help book delivered. I want to keep a record of it until I can implement this bit when balanced.
In a critical review, The New York Times stated: "The Power and The Secret are larded with references to magnets, energy and quantum mechanics. This last is a dead giveaway: whenever you hear someone appeal to impenetrable physics to explain the workings of the mind, run away – we already have disciplines called 'psychology' and 'neuroscience' to deal with those questions. Byrne's onslaught of pseudoscientific jargon serves mostly to establish an 'illusion of knowledge,' as social scientists call our tendency to believe we understand something much better than we really do."CHRISTOPHER F. CHABRIS and DANIEL J. SIMONS, Fight 'The Power', The New York Times 24 September 2010.Filmman3000 (talk) 05:18, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism