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Regarding the 2021 notice "This section may contain information not important or relevant to the article's subject."
The examples quoted help illustrate the concept, and so are relevant to the subject of the article. If there's no objection, I propose to delete the notice in one month's time. At that point, I suggest adding three subheads: Jung, Deschamps, Pauli. Plus moving the para starting "After describing some examples, Jung wrote..." to be above the Deschamps one, in order to bring the Jung text in this section together.
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Protalina (
talk)
10:24, 16 March 2024 (UTC)reply
So we could add this concept at the end of the (alphabetically sorted)
See also section. In the current style used there, which copies the
short description of each article listed, that would look like:
Btw, this is a bit elliptical, now that I notice it :). Note-to-self: on the
Yuanfen Talk page, propose something like "Concept in Chinese society" (as in the lead) or "...in Chinese culture".
This sentence is unnecessarily confusing and could be written much clearer - “Synchronicity experiences refer to one's subjective experience whereby coincidences between events in one's mind and the outside world may be causally unrelated, yet have another unknown connection.”
CarlStrokes (
talk)
05:32, 6 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Agreed. And it's not cited, as far as I can see.
Also, the sentence implies that first, the events concerned, or at last some of them, occur in the mind; second, that the relationship between events may or may not be causally unrelated; and that finally, that there is a connection, but that what this might be is unknown. Doesn't reflect the substance of the article, imho.
WP:OR?
Anyway, perhaps the sentence concerned is redundant if the first sentence in the lead is slightly expanded. Let's look at the definition, current as of July 2023, in the online
Oxford English Dictionary for inspiration: "The name given by the Swiss psychologist, C. G. Jung (1875–1961), to the phenomenon of events which coincide in time and appear meaningfully related but have no discoverable causal connection." So how about tweaking the first sentence (keeping the wikilinks) to read —
"Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung to describe events that coincide in time and appear meaningfully related yet lack a discoverable causal connection."
— replace the current citation with an OED one, and delete the second sentence (ie, the one in question, to be clear).