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[edit] SOHP
I included a link to the newsletters published to the web by the Society for Occupational Health Psychology because the newsletters provide information about a new organization that is concerned with a facet of health psychology that has emerged relatively recently. The newsletter articles are largely nontechnical and accessible to the general readers. ~ISS —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iss246 (talk • contribs) 00:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC) Note: I moved this comment from my talk page to foster a more thorough discussion. - Eldereft ~(s)talk~ 15:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- The organization is legitimate, but linking to resources known to change often is deprecated - we do not know what will be there four years from now. The obvious solution is simply to link to somewhere else on the SOHP site, but (as is understandable for a young organization in an emerging speciality) they do not seem to have much that is useful for a general audience. People in the field will likely have heard of SOHP at various APA conferences, so there is no particular need for us to provide networking services. Conveniently, the EA-OHP focuses on much the same topics as SOHP (except geographically), and their website is much more readable. Does this satisfy? - Eldereft ~(s)talk~ 15:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
I have some expertise the field, and I would like to include the SOHP reference. Iss246 (talk) 02:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC) ISS
- Wikipedia is not an annotated list of links to all sites related to the article's subject. Please read the external links policy, and address points 16, 1, and possible 4 of the linked section. - Eldereft ~(s)talk~ 05:19, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
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- re 3O: I can't speak to the content appropriateness of using this source (I can try to read the article more carefully later), but I think it would be safe to link to SOHP's newsletters - this does not strike me as a set of links that will change frequently. it seems clear from context that (a) the e-versions are copies of printed media (meaning the content of the PDFs is unlikely to change at all) and (b) that the society is trying to establish an archive structure so that the links (if they change) will change slowly and with carefully maintained connections. I think the 'linking to resources known to change often' rule is better applied to volatile content (like JStor articles, Google Searches, or blogs) than to organizations that are trying to establish a consistent presence. --Ludwigs2 (talk) 01:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Adjustments
I have been trying to improve the wording and document assertions made by previous writers. I have gone to the research literature to footnote various assertions made. There was one assertion about mistrust of physicians and not getting check-ups I could not verify in the research literature on health psychology although the claim is intuitively appealing. I deleted it but hope that someone will find research to verify it. In general, I have tried to footnote claims. Each day, little by little, I've been working my way through the article in order to build on what came before.Iss246 (talk) 15:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)ISS246
Thank you. Health psychology is such an important topic, I would like to do a good job.Iss246 (talk) 03:50, 5 June 2008 (UTC)ISS
