Talk:Chumash traditional medicine

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In the article for Chumash People on wikipedia, every piece of information has a reliable source cited for that information, indicating high value of the article. Ddcummin (talk) 22:37, 26 January 2018 (UTC)Dan[reply]

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These sections on the Chumash seem to have a good organization overall. However, you should not capitalize the words of titles or subtitles on Wikipedia after the first word (i.e., "Women's health", not "Women's Health"). It might make more sense to organize many of these subsections under "Herbalism," rather than making them all separate sections. For example, "Herbalism" could be an umbrella for the section on "Women's health" as well as "Spiritualism" and "Controversial practices."

The main problems with this article are the lack of neutrality and the glaring lack of citations. Citations are missing for most statements, and when they are used, they are only used at the end of long paragraphs with many statements that need citations. Moreover, the citations perfunctorily used are broken and seem to be placeholders.

There is also a significant issue with neutrality. Using adjectives like "perversely," phrases like "some historians say" without being specific, and using statements like "y is more likely than x" greatly compromises the neutrality of your article. Ehimawan (talk) 18:27, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Response: Thanks for the feedback. The first section needed citations put in, which are up now, and the latter section's citations use information from one source for the paragraph when at the end of the paragraph. We will look through the article for biased wording s well.

Best, --Daniel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddcummin (talk • contribs) 04:48, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ddcummin: See WP:CITE and WP:NPOV for more information. It's not necessary to cite every sentence (in theory it's not necessary to provide any inline cites, and I've not tagged), but it's helpful to do per-sentence citing, as it means that things are slightly less likely to be clobbered if another editor does a good faith edit with a different citation. It's also useful if you ever need to use more than one source for a sentence. (PS: You sign by appending ~~~~ to your talkpage post) ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 07:09, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed move[edit]

In analogy to other traditional medicine articles, I propose that this article be renamed to Chumash traditional medicine. Are there any objections to this move proposal? Boghog (talk) 04:53, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. Already moved in this edit. Boghog (talk) 19:47, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]