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In case anyone is wondering why I changed the Pike links, they originally refered to the Star Trek Character Christopher Pike instead of the Author. Empty Book 02:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
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Dangerous-Boy
18:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I think this article needs to be merged with Yasha. -- Kjoon lee 06:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
I've restored the template. The reason the category "Hindu mythology" was removed was not because it does not apply to the article, but rather because it is already in that category by virtue of being in a subcategory of it. So of course the template does apply, as Yaksha is an element of Hindu mythology. See WP:CAT about why we do not put an article in both a category and a subcategory. The short reason is that the higher level categories would become too crowded to be useful... Of course, there are some exceptions, but I don't think this is one of them. IPSOS ( talk) 13:08, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
IPSOS, I appreciate your attempts to source this article but listing Encyclopedia Britannica with no edition date or ISBN is not acceptable sourcing per WP:V. Plus hostile edit summaries are usually ineffective in eliciting compliance from other editors who are truly working toward the betterment of Wikipedia. This article, IMHO, puts undue emphasis on the Hindu aspects of a term that originated in folk mythology and utilizes only a dictionary on Hindu terms and and a link to a brief excerpt to an encyclopedia article that mentions very little of the information in the article. Let us both hope the article's accuracy through the use of relevant source material. Sincerely, Mattisse 17:23, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Please refrain from rude edit summaries. I have used the talk page and I wish you would do the same. I am concerned about the bias in this article and wish a discussion rather than your abitrary article changes and rude edit summaries.Sincerely, Mattisse 18:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I have removed " Burmese: ႀေ-ဴက ba-lu" from the lead paragraph as it makes no sense. The Burmese script given doesn't correspond even remotely to "ba-lu". The first two characters together make a sound similar to "say", the third one (after the hyphen) is a vowel letter of Mon (not Burmese at all), and the last letter is "k(a)". I've tried to find the correct Burmese name for yakshas, but I can't find anything in my print dictionaries, and on the web all I find is mirrors of this page. Angr ( talk) 22:05, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Never mind, I found it. The term is ဘီလူး [bìlú]. Angr ( talk) 22:25, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Does anyone else feel it might be worthy of note, that Brahman appears to the gods in the form of a Yaksh in the Kena Upanishad? I feel this is somehow notable. AaronCarson ( talk) 09:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 |
In case anyone is wondering why I changed the Pike links, they originally refered to the Star Trek Character Christopher Pike instead of the Author. Empty Book 02:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
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Dangerous-Boy
18:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I think this article needs to be merged with Yasha. -- Kjoon lee 06:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
I've restored the template. The reason the category "Hindu mythology" was removed was not because it does not apply to the article, but rather because it is already in that category by virtue of being in a subcategory of it. So of course the template does apply, as Yaksha is an element of Hindu mythology. See WP:CAT about why we do not put an article in both a category and a subcategory. The short reason is that the higher level categories would become too crowded to be useful... Of course, there are some exceptions, but I don't think this is one of them. IPSOS ( talk) 13:08, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
IPSOS, I appreciate your attempts to source this article but listing Encyclopedia Britannica with no edition date or ISBN is not acceptable sourcing per WP:V. Plus hostile edit summaries are usually ineffective in eliciting compliance from other editors who are truly working toward the betterment of Wikipedia. This article, IMHO, puts undue emphasis on the Hindu aspects of a term that originated in folk mythology and utilizes only a dictionary on Hindu terms and and a link to a brief excerpt to an encyclopedia article that mentions very little of the information in the article. Let us both hope the article's accuracy through the use of relevant source material. Sincerely, Mattisse 17:23, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Please refrain from rude edit summaries. I have used the talk page and I wish you would do the same. I am concerned about the bias in this article and wish a discussion rather than your abitrary article changes and rude edit summaries.Sincerely, Mattisse 18:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I have removed " Burmese: ႀေ-ဴက ba-lu" from the lead paragraph as it makes no sense. The Burmese script given doesn't correspond even remotely to "ba-lu". The first two characters together make a sound similar to "say", the third one (after the hyphen) is a vowel letter of Mon (not Burmese at all), and the last letter is "k(a)". I've tried to find the correct Burmese name for yakshas, but I can't find anything in my print dictionaries, and on the web all I find is mirrors of this page. Angr ( talk) 22:05, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Never mind, I found it. The term is ဘီလူး [bìlú]. Angr ( talk) 22:25, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Does anyone else feel it might be worthy of note, that Brahman appears to the gods in the form of a Yaksh in the Kena Upanishad? I feel this is somehow notable. AaronCarson ( talk) 09:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)