User talk:Usedbook: Difference between revisions

Welcome to Wikipedia! I think you'll find it a fun project to work on. As you can see, our Buddhism articles need quite a bit of work, so a Theravada monk-in-training is most welcome (several monks in to South Korea tried to recruit me, but I thought my Anglicanism would get in the way. :). If you need any help, check out Wikipedia:Help and the FAQs. If you need to ask a question, drop by the Wikipedia:Village pump. Cheers! -- Stephen Gilbert 01:28 Mar 17, 2003 (UTC)

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

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You wrote "HealthCanada reports: 160 Canadian cases of SARS as of Apr02"

To be precise, HealthCanada is reporting 62 probable and 98 suspect cases of SARS. The WHO table only includes probable cases (except for the US as noted), and that explains why 160 isn't the number reported. -º¡º

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Thanks for your work on Bodhi. It's good to see the improvement :)

Could you explain one of the phrases you use? What does 'when all karma has been burnt.' mean? I have very little knowledge of Buddhism so the phrase is unclear to me.

Regards -- sannse 18:59 Apr 10, 2003 (UTC)

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Use the Move this page feature to change an article title. Cutting and pasting the content leaves the edit history behind, which is bad. Mkweise 01:18 22 May 2003 (UTC)

Hi, Usedbook. See User talk:Mkweise and Wilkipedia:Village Pump for the details, but I've moved Theravada around, and plan to do the others in a few hours, so long as there are no objections to it. Hope that helps. Tannin 03:37 22 May 2003 (UTC)

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Hi! Sorry for the delay, I've been out of town and away from the computer. The move in Pali canon sounds like a good idea to me; I'm really not very knowledgable on the subject, and was basing my earlier redirects solely on information I found in the articles as they stood when I first read them. Hephaestos 12:55 28 May 2003 (UTC)

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Left a comment for you on Talk:Moment_of_silence Kat 18:01 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Greetings, and sorry for the late reply‹I had been spending way too much time on Wikipedia and had to go cold turkey for a while. The nicest images I've seen are at [1], but unfortunately those are subject to copyright. I ended up just using google image searches to find images that can resonably be assumed to be unencumbered by copyrights. Mkweise

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Thanks for helping clean up some of the stuff in Islam, much of which was nonsense. It would be very helpful if you could also help clean up the use of terms like "Islamist":

This neutral article on what an Islamist really is promoting, is continually censored by zealots who are trying to define Islam itself as an inherently intolerant movement. It would very much help if someone who understands Islam better than them was able to get them off their campaign to destroy this neutral perspective. For instance:

The shameful and racist assertions at Islamism that claim that all Islamists are followers of Mawdudi, and worse, that Wahabists all belong in a group with Al Qaida, etc., are solely a product of poor governance here that permits User:RK, among other things, to point Liberal Islam, Political Islam, etc., at an utterly biased article about extremists, delete material on Islamic parties that work in democracies, etc.

I hope you can work with democratic and moderate Muslims here, and help exclude the zealots with an overt political agenda from any article on the subject of the politics is Islam whatsoever - he has proven himself dedicated to the cause of censoring literally any conception of Islam as a democratic or liberal movement, which it is, certainly at the mosque level, in many places.

Coming from Toronto, of course, you'd know that. Modern Islamic philosophy also needs expansion and should probably take some of the material now in Islamism (which should probably go away completely) and Islamofascism (which is actually more neutral).

List of Islamic terms in Arabic also always needs work.