Editing Talk:Co-counselling (section)

== Feb 2006 ==

Mark Thomas, UK:
The problem with the new external links and book references being added is quality not their referral to co-counselling; however, it is also important that the controversy surrounding the claims of CCI people about the origins of RC and CCI get explored and they are not doing here. Also there are typos in the new links and one points to the BBC page that contains many factual errors, for example, it states that Jackins created co-counselling in the 30's, which is nonsense, it was the 50s. Isn't their some sort of onus on Wikipedia editors to maintain quality? Another problem here is the repeated attempts by some to locate co-counselling within Psychotherapy, whereas actually if it is practised and taught correctly, it is pretty much anti-psychotherapy, as the latter attempts to explain things psychologically whereas the former is merely interested in empirical ways of assisting each other to discharge and is unconcerned with analysis.  <small>&mdash;''The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by'' [[User:81.159.40.76|81.159.40.76]] ([[User talk:81.159.40.76|talk]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/81.159.40.76|contribs]]) 17:54, 4 February 2006 UTC.</small><!--Inserted with Template:Unsigned-->

:What part of '''append posts with four tildes: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>''' don't you understand? [[User:Hu|Hu]] 11:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I removed the links added to the foot of the page for good reasons. (1) The link to the humanist psychology page by John Rowan, contained the phrase "while the RC communities remain very isolated and disconnected" and was added to this page for that reason. It's actually quite hard to see how that is true when RC is at least 10 times the size of CCI and attends UN NGO conferences and the like whereas CCI is in fact - well - nowhere. (John Heron has even quit co-counseling!) (2) The link to the BBC site was added because of it's knocking copy (written by someone quoted on Hugs4u - contains many factual innacuracies, for example, that Jackins created RC in the 30s. Surely quality of the content being linked to matters on wikipedia? Not sure how to use the tilda signing thing but here goes a try anyway. [[User:81.159.40.76|81.159.40.76]] 23:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

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I have revised the page with the aims of making it informative, accurate and NPOV.  My aim is for the page to give enough infomation for a reader who knows nothing about co-counselling to have a clear description including the key points of difference between the organisation.  In general, I think that any more detailed information can be given in the organisations' own wiki pages.[[User:John Talbut|John Talbut]] 15:22, 26 February 2006 (UTC)