Hello, CooperBass! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Ronz (talk) 18:02, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
with matters of protocol. I do have a strong interest in making WP's Reiki article unbiased. To date it does not seem that way. Since science does not yet understand reiki, is that any reason to warn others about it? To me an encyclopedia always seemed based on unbiased facts. To include mention the reviews that state inconclusive findings seems biased against Reiki. In my opinion they should be left out altogether or balanced with current reviewed trials (most of which offer favorable findings to Reiki).
One of these days I'll write a nice introduction for editors like yourself. Until then, I recommend looking over this essay instead, though the length of it is daunting.
If you don't mind some friendly advise, I suggest staying away from the Reiki article until you've become familiar with Wikipedia and the normal editing of articles. Editing Reiki is anything but normal, other than making simple cleanup edits. Getting consensus for any changes along the lines of what you're suggesting will very likely require a very good knowledge of how to apply some of Wikipedia's most important and complicated policies and guidelines, including WP:NPOV, WP:FRINGE, and WP:MEDRS.
In contrast, when editing most articles, you can learn Wikipedia slowly and with little pressure from others. While it's good to know of sources like The Missing Manual, you'll probably do fine with just the assistance you receive from the other editors you encounter.
Hope you find this helpful. --Ronz (talk) 19:36, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank You Ronz. Your skills are very proficient, yet the content of your proposals in editing on this subject, in my opinion promotes a bias against the effectiveness of reiki. I would like to change this since I believe it to be unfair to the common good of the reader. Rather than my learning about the daunting methodology you profess wikipedia needs in order for one to effectively edit an article, I choose to find some one who may have equal skills to yours in getting the message across.
These skills would include not answering questions directly as so many of us do at times. Can you refer me to a pier who would take up the protocol gauntlet and get the bias against Reiki out of this article? CooperBass (talk) 08:12, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
