Talk:Traditional Tibetan medicine
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[edit] Need citations.
This page needs a lot of improvements in terms of references. Without references, the factual accuracy of the article cannot be determined.
The only reference, the NYT article, contained no references. It is not a suitable source. Coconut99 99 (talk) 21:06, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- I haven't finished integrating the NYT article with inline citation. I fail to see why it is not a suitable source for basic information. --Gimme danger (talk) 23:12, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- NYT is a newspaper, not an academic journal. If it is regarding a news on a treatment, ya sure you can reference it. But by itself it cannot be used as a reliable source of other types of information. Facts come from somewhere and not just out of thin air. Please go and check any academic journals / books, they all have references. Coconut99 99 (talk) 05:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- WP:RS says nothing about reliable sources requiring references. I understand that academic journals and books have references. Newspaper articles do not and they are specifically cited as reliable sources by Wikipedia policy. --Gimme danger (talk) 21:47, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- Well, newspapers are suitable citations for news items. However, that doesn't mean it is suitable for academic stuff here. You are a CS student (I assume that you're a graduate student), you should know better. Please check WP:Reliable source examples.
- Also, the article (with unknown author of unknown expertise) contains mostly quotes, making it even less suitable.
- Lastly, the article made little mentioning of material in this page. This page is WP:OR.
- Until the citations / references are fixed, the two flags are here to stay. Coconut99 99 (talk) 00:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- Fine with me. I just don't have the time to look up academic sources right now. Hopefully by August we can take those tags down. --Gimme danger (talk) 03:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- WP:RS says nothing about reliable sources requiring references. I understand that academic journals and books have references. Newspaper articles do not and they are specifically cited as reliable sources by Wikipedia policy. --Gimme danger (talk) 21:47, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- NYT is a newspaper, not an academic journal. If it is regarding a news on a treatment, ya sure you can reference it. But by itself it cannot be used as a reliable source of other types of information. Facts come from somewhere and not just out of thin air. Please go and check any academic journals / books, they all have references. Coconut99 99 (talk) 05:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
