User talk:Doulaelizabeth

No advertisements are allowed on Conservapedia. Please contribute educational entries and refrain from promoting a particular service. Thank you. --Aschlafly 23:18, 6 February 2007 (EST)

OK, I see your message on my talk page. Your first posting to this website seemed to be to promote another website. That's what I meant by an advertisement. We welcome educational or informative postings from you in the future. Thank you. --Aschlafly 14:40, 7 February 2007 (EST)

I hadn't seen this conversation. I actually had just blanked Doula and Professional Labor Support and entered a note about it on Articles for Deletion. The comment I wanted to make is that on Wikipedia, this would be considered to be reasonable material for a user's own page, i.e. within very broad limits users are allowed to put almost anything on their user page including some personal self-promotion or promotion of ones' favorite organizations, etc. Dpbsmith 07:00, 7 March 2007 (EST)

Doulaelizabeth, I cannot speak for Conservapedia, which is so new that its policies are still evolving, but on Wikipedia there is a longstanding problem with people trying to use it for promotional purposes. Sometimes it's blatant, as when a person literally writes an article about a band they're in, a book they've self-published, etc. Othertimes it's more of a "fan" relationship as people try to boost their friends or organizations they belong to, etc. Either way, it's not consider encyclopedic.

The article, as you've written it, is clearly promotional rather than factual in tone. Its entire content consists of fourteen bullet points, of which the first eleven are all positive benefits that seem aimed at convincing people to use a doula. When it's written by someone whose username is "Doulaelizabeth" and identifies herself as on her user page as having expertise in "labor assistance," it seems clear that there is a self-promotional element.

Although Aschlafly has little use for Wikipedia, I'd point to Wikipedia's article on doulas for an example of an article on doulas that appears to me to be neutral in tone.

Why don't you try rewriting the article to say what doulas are, and what they do, rather than why one should use one? Off the top of my head, some questions I would expect an article about doulas to answer would include:

What's the difference between a doula and a midwife?

Are doulas required to be licensed in most states?

Are the services of a doula covered by medical insurance?

Are there any issues about having doulas present in hospital delivery rooms?

Dpbsmith 08:41, 7 March 2007 (EST)