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A fact from Paula Arai appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know column on 15 March 2024 (
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Hi, I just created this bio and I wanted to put a note here about some ideas for more articles about Arai. As I researched this bio, I found plenty of sources about Arai's books, mostly in the form of reviews, certainly enough to warrant the creation of new articles about them. The Tsomo source would be a good source about Arai's first two books, Women Living Zen: Japanese Sōtō Buddhist Nuns (1999) and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals (2011). It's just a suggestion, one that I may follow up on someday, so this note is more for me than for anyone else. If anyone else would like to take these projects on, I'm happy to assist. Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 00:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
The result was: promoted by
PrimalMustelid
talk 03:15, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
** ALT1: ... that
Paula Arai experienced racial and sexual discrimination as a scholar because she embedded herself in the lives of the Japanese
Sōtō Zen women she studied? Source: Tsomo, Karma Lekshe. (2021).
"Paula Kane Robinson Arai: Navigating Cultural Intimacy and Scholarly Authority". In Challenging Bias against Women Academics in Religion; Colleen Hartung, ed., p. 194-196.
Created by Figureskatingfan ( talk). Self-nominated at 21:12, 5 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Paula Arai; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy compliance:
Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 22:54, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Hook eligibility:
QPQ: Done. |
Overall: NB: The alternative hook is not properly cited: it is a bold statement that is not nearly found in the source as it is written; one could perhaps accept it if 'because' (which just needs more context to be understood) is changed to 'when'. Still, one feels a bit unsure of the neutrality of the source.-- NikosGouliaros ( talk) 21:04, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
I note this is my first DYK review. NikosGouliaros ( talk) 21:04, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
As NikosGouliaros mentiones, the only source for the hook's claim that Arai suffered discrimination is Arai herself, whose complaints Tsomo in turn just reports as a fact, assuming them to be true. However, there is no guarantee that it is. Just because someone complains or perceives themselves to be discriminated against doesn't necessarily mean that they really are discriminated against. People are often subjective and biased in their own favour. At most, an adequate summary would be that 'Arai reports having suffered racial and sexual discrimination'. But Tsomo chooses to treat every word by Arai as 'gospel truth', and since Tsomo's book has been peer-reviewed, it counts as a reliable source for Wikipedia and there is nothing to do about it. As subjectivity, poor sourcing and ideological bias seem to have become the norm in certain academic fields (hence, I suspect, the success of Arai's research, much of which seems to consist of blatantly subjective descriptions of her own personal religious feelings and of those of her friends), so Wikipedia articles on such subjects are bound to be equally unreliable.-- 62.73.69.121 ( talk) 10:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page. |
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A fact from Paula Arai appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 15 March 2024 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
|
Hi, I just created this bio and I wanted to put a note here about some ideas for more articles about Arai. As I researched this bio, I found plenty of sources about Arai's books, mostly in the form of reviews, certainly enough to warrant the creation of new articles about them. The Tsomo source would be a good source about Arai's first two books, Women Living Zen: Japanese Sōtō Buddhist Nuns (1999) and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals (2011). It's just a suggestion, one that I may follow up on someday, so this note is more for me than for anyone else. If anyone else would like to take these projects on, I'm happy to assist. Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 00:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
The result was: promoted by
PrimalMustelid
talk 03:15, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
** ALT1: ... that
Paula Arai experienced racial and sexual discrimination as a scholar because she embedded herself in the lives of the Japanese
Sōtō Zen women she studied? Source: Tsomo, Karma Lekshe. (2021).
"Paula Kane Robinson Arai: Navigating Cultural Intimacy and Scholarly Authority". In Challenging Bias against Women Academics in Religion; Colleen Hartung, ed., p. 194-196.
Created by Figureskatingfan ( talk). Self-nominated at 21:12, 5 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Paula Arai; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy compliance:
Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 22:54, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Hook eligibility:
QPQ: Done. |
Overall: NB: The alternative hook is not properly cited: it is a bold statement that is not nearly found in the source as it is written; one could perhaps accept it if 'because' (which just needs more context to be understood) is changed to 'when'. Still, one feels a bit unsure of the neutrality of the source.-- NikosGouliaros ( talk) 21:04, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
I note this is my first DYK review. NikosGouliaros ( talk) 21:04, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
As NikosGouliaros mentiones, the only source for the hook's claim that Arai suffered discrimination is Arai herself, whose complaints Tsomo in turn just reports as a fact, assuming them to be true. However, there is no guarantee that it is. Just because someone complains or perceives themselves to be discriminated against doesn't necessarily mean that they really are discriminated against. People are often subjective and biased in their own favour. At most, an adequate summary would be that 'Arai reports having suffered racial and sexual discrimination'. But Tsomo chooses to treat every word by Arai as 'gospel truth', and since Tsomo's book has been peer-reviewed, it counts as a reliable source for Wikipedia and there is nothing to do about it. As subjectivity, poor sourcing and ideological bias seem to have become the norm in certain academic fields (hence, I suspect, the success of Arai's research, much of which seems to consist of blatantly subjective descriptions of her own personal religious feelings and of those of her friends), so Wikipedia articles on such subjects are bound to be equally unreliable.-- 62.73.69.121 ( talk) 10:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)