User talk:Joel A. Wendt

AfD Nomination: Anthroposophy: a radical alternative view

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Philosophy of Freedom

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Hello, Joel. Welcome to Wikipedia. It takes a while to get used to the criteria for editing here; I would strongly recommend you browse around in the basic material such as WP:OR and WP:V to get up to speed. It's not a blog, for example, where you'd share your personal opinions, but rather an encyclopedia meant to represent the diversity of scholarly views. The emphasis is thus on published sources, preferably in academic journals.

In addition, for anthroposophic material we have been through an extensive review process that has established the principle of only using third-party publishers, i.e. those from outside the anthroposophic movement, for any points of view that might be at all controversial. Matters of fact can of course be drawn from anthroposophical sources and cited there.

I hope this is helpful. hgilbert (talk) 11:28, 3 September 2010 (UTC)