Talk:Affirmation
Latest comment: 16 years ago by Vernon39 in topic Last item needs improvement
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Last item needs improvement
editThe last bullet item currently (4/23/08) on the page reads:
- "Affirmation" also has various meanings within the domains of personal development, popular psychology, alternative health and supplicatory prayer.
This text is not helpful to the disambiguation page for several reasons:
- provides no links to any relevant articles.
- groups too many separate topics into a single line.
- uses vague term "various meanings" providing no help for the reader.
- uses possibly derisive term "popular psychology" (pop psychology) instead of simply "psychology".
- uses possibly derisive term "alternative health" instead of simply "health".
- uses erroneous term "supplicatory prayer" instead of simply "prayer".
- supplication (begging/humbling) is contradictory to any concept of affirmation (claiming/asserting).
These disambiguations do need to be included, but this bullet item as currently written needs to be expanded into several valid and NPOV disambiguation links. -- Low Sea (talk) 08:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- Perhaps you should look at the article Affirmation before someone turned it into a redirect. It was a clutter of unsourced ideas. If there were reliably-sourced WP articles for these ideas, then proper disambiguation would be possible. Perhaps you could start with a good article on Affirmation in Prayer? Vernon White . . . Talk 22:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- I've been slowly (as time permits) working on an article for "Affirmative Prayer". Long way to go. The hard part is finding non-primary sources for the subject matter. Most secondary sources only contain discussions on prayer-in-general with not enough detail on the difference of this particular form of prayer.
In the meantime I have removed the problematic terminology (bullets 4,5,6 above). -- Low Sea (talk) 16:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- I've been slowly (as time permits) working on an article for "Affirmative Prayer". Long way to go. The hard part is finding non-primary sources for the subject matter. Most secondary sources only contain discussions on prayer-in-general with not enough detail on the difference of this particular form of prayer.
- Thanks for your help. Vernon White . . . Talk 19:58, 30 April 2008 (UTC)