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I know we don't always agree on certain points, but I have to say I was genuinely impressed by your salvage work done to Shri Vidya. From a complete rambling essay to a concise and coherent (& sourced) article, overnight! Nice job :-) Gouranga(UK) 11:09, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Buddhipriya wrote: Adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Nāga, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. You have been told several times that you sometimes engage in WP:OR. You often add content to articles without citing any sources, which is inconsistent with WP:V. I am concerned that when I have asked for sourcing on articles, you sometime simply revert my requests for sourcing rather than complying with WP:V. I am sure that you are doing these things because you think they are the right thing to do. However I am having difficulty understanding your postition. Would you be willing to enter into mediation to attempt to resolve this ongoing conflict over source quality and general referencing needs? According to the graduated response mechanisms for conflict resolution, another step preliminary to mediation would be to involve third parties: [1]. I feel that involving third parties in this matter would be helpful to try to promote dialog on the issues. Are there any thoughts you have on that? Buddhipriya 08:07, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
It is a work in progress BP. Please have the courtesy to extend a few hours
grace.
Respectfully
B9 hummingbird hovering (
talk •
contribs) 05:17, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, an article I had some help to create ( Swami Shankarananda Saraswati) has been tagged as being within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saivism and Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism. Could you please spare a few moments to review and provide your views on how this might best be achieved within the context of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saivism. I have also created some content on Wikisource that is a translation by Swami Shankarananda of the Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta, that currently appears as a link in the Kashmir Shaivism article. So what I am looking for is a comment on the most appropriate context for including a reference in Kashmir Shaivism to the Swami Shankarananda Saraswati bio. Thanks Yogidude 12:40, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
You are making me feel like I no longer want to be a part of this community. Is it your intention to drive me away? I am really passionate and excited about Wikipedia. Mapping human knowledge in its entirety and seeing how the knowledges, technologies and insights inform each other and transform our community, ourselves and our world. I love contributing to knowledge that is accessable to all with online access. Knowledge that is freely available is a great egalitarian equaliser. Are you going to work with me or against me? Are we part of a team or not? How do I put a second author in the Harvard citation template? B9 hummingbird hovering ( talk • contribs) 13:40, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Buddhipriya: Regarding your comment on my talk page...Thank you very much for taking this initiative and opening discussion within the community. I appreciate your transparency. I am a man of theory as well as practice. I have been a man of action on Wikipedia, but due to this...is it
Flamin'(
?), I appreciate that I need to procure a deeper awareness of specific meta-Wikipedia policies and processes to increase the quality of my contribution to this project as well as my interaction with the community. In closure, I do appreciate that both you and IPSOS are senior members of the community.
Sincerely
B9 hummingbird hovering (
talk •
contribs) 04:06, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm. Well, I've heard of Cosmic consciousness but it always seemed too New Agey for me to look into much. My suggestion would be to move the Western stuff into Cosmic consciousness and just make sure that each view is mentioned briefly in the other article. IPSOS ( talk) 22:30, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment! I missed to say that one.
Here's the Taj Mahal for you! Taj Mahal somehow promote WikiLove even though it's a tomb and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others! Happy editing!-- H irohisat Talk 00:21, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
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I was not surprised to see your message "Please try to avoid editing active discussions on talk pages as you did... The current material should not be refactored daily". You are busy in real life as your talk page informs, and therefore you undid my good work without even examining it. I had archived all matter which had nothing to do with present article. I still think that "REMOVE 'Blatant advertising?" in the talk page of Svadhyaya ought to be archived.
Thanks for your advice :"I see that you are getting into the spirit of sourcing." One generation ago, I guided and helped doctoral researches in Sociology, Political Science, History, etc of persons who are now heads of departments, although my own subject was Science, later History and subsequently English literature in which I topped the university. My user page mentions that last month I was busy in an international (scientific) conference on monsoons in which my paper had been okayed, and due to this preoccupation I could not devote much time on my contributions to Wiki last month, but I had hoped that other editors will ask me for sources or insert 'citation needed' tags, instead of wholesale deletions which they did. Had I not possessed a "spirit of sourcing", my paper 'A New Approach to Rain Forecasting' would have been rejected at the greatest ever conference on monsoons.
But now I need the help of persons like you for proper sourcing because I am too overworked. See talk page of Svadhyaya for my reference to Gita which you deleted.
See Svadhyaya : some changes are there. -Vinay Jha 11:19, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Have responded to your expanded justifications (appreciated) on Nirvikalpa Talk Page Regarding warning to shorten your talk page...only know it popped up right after I clicked Edit Page and scrolled down to the bottom to start editing. Mayagaia 18:07, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
you took the article from here to here in March, leaving it in in a greatly expanded but unfinished state. Are you going to continue working on this? Otherwise, we'll have to slap the article with various cleanup tags. dab (𒁳) 07:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
DAB who has used more abuses for others than any other editor. See Talk:Utpala where he abused me without any provocation. See Talk:Rgveda (esp. Give a balanced account of Rgvedic dating), where instead of answering any of the points raised by me about his edits, he labelled fictious charges against me. Is Wikipedia his personal property ? Differences must happen in democracies, but DAB does not tolerate dissension and starts abusing even his elders. My students are heads of departments but I can remain in Wiki only if I try to get accustomed to abuses. I merely wanted to inform you; nothing is going to happen because I can withstand greater abuses. -- Vinay Jha 22:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Buddhipriya, I recently came across this Witzel paper that I found interesting:
{{
citation}}
: |first=
has generic name (
help)I haven't actually read the complete published book, just the online article. Of course, this material/publication may be old-hat to you, but it was new and useful to me, so I thought I'd share it with you. Regards and happy editing. Abecedare 07:50, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Have responded to your invitation to say what I thought would be a contribution and how to reference it at "Talk Nirvikalpa" Mayagaia 15:58, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at my query here ? Thanks. Abecedare 22:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I felt that all the links here were either spam/advertising or were non-notable sectarian perspectives on what the sahasranama means. I removed the entire section because but another user reverted me. Could you look into the matter? Thanks Gizza Discuss © 10:45, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Comments from Western authors are fine quoting, but comments from Swami Prabhupada is not fine? BalanceRestored 09:58, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
What is the fact? The fact is the interpretation by a western author and not by an Indian author. Not even what GOD cites, not even what Indian Sages have already said, is it? BalanceRestored 10:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I'm intermittently active at WP:WQA, and was scanning the unresolved reports. I notice that yours received no response despite being posted since August 6. Is help still desired on this issue, or has it worked itself out? Sarcasticidealist 10:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Buddhipriya. I applaud you for taking a stand against the spam and advertising that is prevalent across many Hinduism pages. I will support you on the talk pages in case you do meet people who want particular websites to stay (but shouldn't according to WP:EL). Another comment - I have observed that the Shiva and Lalita Sahasranamas both have a link of each respective text in Telugu. Per my understanding of WP:EL#Non-English_language_content, non-English links should only be added if the official/original text is in another language. It makes sense to link to a website with the texts in the Sanskrit language and a highly regarded translation into English because this is English Wikipedia but I discourage links of other languages. Gizza Discuss © 02:29, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I just reverted your deletion of the fact taggged material from this page. My main reason was that since I had added the tags only an hour or so back, it would be perhaps be fair to give interested editors opportunity to add appropriate references. If this is not done in a day or so, the unsourced material should undoubtedly be removed; in the meantime any reader who comes across the article will hopefully see the tags and treat the information with caution.
I should admit that I simply don't know whether the statements in the two sections you deleted is correct/incorrect - if you know that it is incorrect and therefore not only unsourced but unsourcable please feel free to delete those sections again immediately. Hope that makes sense. Cheers
Abecedare 04:06, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Thought for the day:
“ | In general, I find the {{fact}} tagging to be overdone in Wikipedia. A better option is to nuke the unsourced material. Sometimes {{fact}} is warranted, I don't mean that it is always a bad idea. But it is overdone.
I very often see completely preposterous claims tagged with {{fact}}, usually because an editor is being excessively cautious. Be bold. :) |
” |
I donno where i should not have placed. Feel free to remove. Point me to page where it is not appropriate. I included in target places, no more inclusions. Thanks. Lara_bran 06:29, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Man, this is english wikipedia, and sanskrit terms audience dont understand, all words in yoga template are in sanskrit. As for cluttering i may change it to for horizontal layout, but till then leave it in 8 limbs. I dont understand how do you say 2 templates in an article are heavy, see articles with 5-6 templates. I will be reverting your changes until third opinion. Lara_bran 04:51, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Please dont discuss personal issues in some article's talk page. Regards. WP:PA, Lara_bran 07:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Please see Upanishad talk page and offer your comments. Upasthadharma 16:34, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I was hardly trying to silence opposition.... on the contrary, I was a little irritated that somehow it was my fault that I discovered the parallel conversations. I certainly didn't think that the section in the noticeboard was the place to discuss it, as it does sort of clutter things up. Could you perhaps explain your edit comment and reversion? (In keeping with the spirit of centralised discussion, I will watchlist your talkpage temporarily in case you wish to reply.) Hornplease 07:43, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Its a well known fact among mainstream scholars of South Asian studies that some of the events in the Mahabharata were modeled after inter-tribal conflicts between various Indo-Aryan speaking tribes. I don't see anything controversial about that except maybe that some Hindu nationalists might disapprove as they're too immature to accept the Aryan linguistic migration as a part of Indian history. 75.167.98.50 18:02, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Most of my suggestion were treated as a spam? If I can understand things better it will be great, it will be good. I thought a short note on Vegetarian, Ahimsa, Right Values should have been no problem at wiki vedas?. I've quoted Satyartha Prakash which is detailed commentary on all the wrong that is spread in India in the years keeping in mind the Vedas. I understand not every text in this book will be welcomed here as they are mostly controvertial. If you think I am seriously doing wrong, I will always welcome your comments about the same. I did quote verses from the Vedas right? that too from an important author's perspective? BalanceRestored 10:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Please see 'Brahmin' : Etymology' in Talk: Brahmin. In the introductory para of this article Brahmin , a correct and well sourced version contributed by me is unduly being replaced with a wrong and unsourced one by DAB (See history tab of 'Brahmin') . On his talk page he issued a threat of topic ban. It has happened so many times (elsewhere too) that it is difficult for me to edit. Monier-Williams is a reliable source anf his SED is online, and any editor can judge. I do not know how DAB's attitude can be changed.- Vinay Jha Talk 13:34, 23 August 200
Hi Buddhipriya, Do you know the sanskrit meaning of 'khechari', as in Khechari mudra? And the proper spelling ('khechari' vs. 'kechari')? Our mutual friend User:Lara bran has been adding their expertise to that article, but I couldn't find a reliable reference for either question. As far as I know, what Lara added is correct, but he/she doesn't have a good track record from what I'm seeing. Thanks, ॐ Priyanath talk 21:31, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
In third opinion page, comment should not be signed, 5~s should be used. please read the instructions there. Kindly remove your name from that page, leaving only date. Thanks. Lara_bran 06:37, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Also, I have replied to your points(8) by numbering. Possibly you might have overlook my numbered reply. Give a look at talkpage of kamasutra. Thanks. Lara_bran 07:07, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, since you are working on this page at the moment, can you take a look at the "Benefits of chanting VS" section. It seems to be personal, devotional, unencyclopedic commentary. Thanks Gizza Discuss © 10:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi! There's some discussion on whether using "asana", "yogasana" or "yoga asana" as the article title. If you are acquainted with the subject, you are invited to drop your opinion at Talk:Yogasana#Opinion Poll on this article's name. Davin7 09:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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I know we don't always agree on certain points, but I have to say I was genuinely impressed by your salvage work done to Shri Vidya. From a complete rambling essay to a concise and coherent (& sourced) article, overnight! Nice job :-) Gouranga(UK) 11:09, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Buddhipriya wrote: Adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Nāga, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. You have been told several times that you sometimes engage in WP:OR. You often add content to articles without citing any sources, which is inconsistent with WP:V. I am concerned that when I have asked for sourcing on articles, you sometime simply revert my requests for sourcing rather than complying with WP:V. I am sure that you are doing these things because you think they are the right thing to do. However I am having difficulty understanding your postition. Would you be willing to enter into mediation to attempt to resolve this ongoing conflict over source quality and general referencing needs? According to the graduated response mechanisms for conflict resolution, another step preliminary to mediation would be to involve third parties: [1]. I feel that involving third parties in this matter would be helpful to try to promote dialog on the issues. Are there any thoughts you have on that? Buddhipriya 08:07, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
It is a work in progress BP. Please have the courtesy to extend a few hours
grace.
Respectfully
B9 hummingbird hovering (
talk •
contribs) 05:17, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, an article I had some help to create ( Swami Shankarananda Saraswati) has been tagged as being within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saivism and Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism. Could you please spare a few moments to review and provide your views on how this might best be achieved within the context of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saivism. I have also created some content on Wikisource that is a translation by Swami Shankarananda of the Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta, that currently appears as a link in the Kashmir Shaivism article. So what I am looking for is a comment on the most appropriate context for including a reference in Kashmir Shaivism to the Swami Shankarananda Saraswati bio. Thanks Yogidude 12:40, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
You are making me feel like I no longer want to be a part of this community. Is it your intention to drive me away? I am really passionate and excited about Wikipedia. Mapping human knowledge in its entirety and seeing how the knowledges, technologies and insights inform each other and transform our community, ourselves and our world. I love contributing to knowledge that is accessable to all with online access. Knowledge that is freely available is a great egalitarian equaliser. Are you going to work with me or against me? Are we part of a team or not? How do I put a second author in the Harvard citation template? B9 hummingbird hovering ( talk • contribs) 13:40, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Buddhipriya: Regarding your comment on my talk page...Thank you very much for taking this initiative and opening discussion within the community. I appreciate your transparency. I am a man of theory as well as practice. I have been a man of action on Wikipedia, but due to this...is it
Flamin'(
?), I appreciate that I need to procure a deeper awareness of specific meta-Wikipedia policies and processes to increase the quality of my contribution to this project as well as my interaction with the community. In closure, I do appreciate that both you and IPSOS are senior members of the community.
Sincerely
B9 hummingbird hovering (
talk •
contribs) 04:06, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm. Well, I've heard of Cosmic consciousness but it always seemed too New Agey for me to look into much. My suggestion would be to move the Western stuff into Cosmic consciousness and just make sure that each view is mentioned briefly in the other article. IPSOS ( talk) 22:30, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment! I missed to say that one.
Here's the Taj Mahal for you! Taj Mahal somehow promote WikiLove even though it's a tomb and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others! Happy editing!-- H irohisat Talk 00:21, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Have a request on Nirvikalpa Talk Page for you to provide specific justification for rejecting content and references. Hope to see you there- PS Saw warning to shorten your talk page. Cheers Mayagaia 01:49, 8 August 2007 (UTC) Made request on
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I was not surprised to see your message "Please try to avoid editing active discussions on talk pages as you did... The current material should not be refactored daily". You are busy in real life as your talk page informs, and therefore you undid my good work without even examining it. I had archived all matter which had nothing to do with present article. I still think that "REMOVE 'Blatant advertising?" in the talk page of Svadhyaya ought to be archived.
Thanks for your advice :"I see that you are getting into the spirit of sourcing." One generation ago, I guided and helped doctoral researches in Sociology, Political Science, History, etc of persons who are now heads of departments, although my own subject was Science, later History and subsequently English literature in which I topped the university. My user page mentions that last month I was busy in an international (scientific) conference on monsoons in which my paper had been okayed, and due to this preoccupation I could not devote much time on my contributions to Wiki last month, but I had hoped that other editors will ask me for sources or insert 'citation needed' tags, instead of wholesale deletions which they did. Had I not possessed a "spirit of sourcing", my paper 'A New Approach to Rain Forecasting' would have been rejected at the greatest ever conference on monsoons.
But now I need the help of persons like you for proper sourcing because I am too overworked. See talk page of Svadhyaya for my reference to Gita which you deleted.
See Svadhyaya : some changes are there. -Vinay Jha 11:19, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Have responded to your expanded justifications (appreciated) on Nirvikalpa Talk Page Regarding warning to shorten your talk page...only know it popped up right after I clicked Edit Page and scrolled down to the bottom to start editing. Mayagaia 18:07, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
you took the article from here to here in March, leaving it in in a greatly expanded but unfinished state. Are you going to continue working on this? Otherwise, we'll have to slap the article with various cleanup tags. dab (𒁳) 07:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
DAB who has used more abuses for others than any other editor. See Talk:Utpala where he abused me without any provocation. See Talk:Rgveda (esp. Give a balanced account of Rgvedic dating), where instead of answering any of the points raised by me about his edits, he labelled fictious charges against me. Is Wikipedia his personal property ? Differences must happen in democracies, but DAB does not tolerate dissension and starts abusing even his elders. My students are heads of departments but I can remain in Wiki only if I try to get accustomed to abuses. I merely wanted to inform you; nothing is going to happen because I can withstand greater abuses. -- Vinay Jha 22:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Buddhipriya, I recently came across this Witzel paper that I found interesting:
{{
citation}}
: |first=
has generic name (
help)I haven't actually read the complete published book, just the online article. Of course, this material/publication may be old-hat to you, but it was new and useful to me, so I thought I'd share it with you. Regards and happy editing. Abecedare 07:50, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Have responded to your invitation to say what I thought would be a contribution and how to reference it at "Talk Nirvikalpa" Mayagaia 15:58, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at my query here ? Thanks. Abecedare 22:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I felt that all the links here were either spam/advertising or were non-notable sectarian perspectives on what the sahasranama means. I removed the entire section because but another user reverted me. Could you look into the matter? Thanks Gizza Discuss © 10:45, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Comments from Western authors are fine quoting, but comments from Swami Prabhupada is not fine? BalanceRestored 09:58, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
What is the fact? The fact is the interpretation by a western author and not by an Indian author. Not even what GOD cites, not even what Indian Sages have already said, is it? BalanceRestored 10:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I'm intermittently active at WP:WQA, and was scanning the unresolved reports. I notice that yours received no response despite being posted since August 6. Is help still desired on this issue, or has it worked itself out? Sarcasticidealist 10:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Buddhipriya. I applaud you for taking a stand against the spam and advertising that is prevalent across many Hinduism pages. I will support you on the talk pages in case you do meet people who want particular websites to stay (but shouldn't according to WP:EL). Another comment - I have observed that the Shiva and Lalita Sahasranamas both have a link of each respective text in Telugu. Per my understanding of WP:EL#Non-English_language_content, non-English links should only be added if the official/original text is in another language. It makes sense to link to a website with the texts in the Sanskrit language and a highly regarded translation into English because this is English Wikipedia but I discourage links of other languages. Gizza Discuss © 02:29, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I just reverted your deletion of the fact taggged material from this page. My main reason was that since I had added the tags only an hour or so back, it would be perhaps be fair to give interested editors opportunity to add appropriate references. If this is not done in a day or so, the unsourced material should undoubtedly be removed; in the meantime any reader who comes across the article will hopefully see the tags and treat the information with caution.
I should admit that I simply don't know whether the statements in the two sections you deleted is correct/incorrect - if you know that it is incorrect and therefore not only unsourced but unsourcable please feel free to delete those sections again immediately. Hope that makes sense. Cheers
Abecedare 04:06, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Thought for the day:
“ | In general, I find the {{fact}} tagging to be overdone in Wikipedia. A better option is to nuke the unsourced material. Sometimes {{fact}} is warranted, I don't mean that it is always a bad idea. But it is overdone.
I very often see completely preposterous claims tagged with {{fact}}, usually because an editor is being excessively cautious. Be bold. :) |
” |
I donno where i should not have placed. Feel free to remove. Point me to page where it is not appropriate. I included in target places, no more inclusions. Thanks. Lara_bran 06:29, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Man, this is english wikipedia, and sanskrit terms audience dont understand, all words in yoga template are in sanskrit. As for cluttering i may change it to for horizontal layout, but till then leave it in 8 limbs. I dont understand how do you say 2 templates in an article are heavy, see articles with 5-6 templates. I will be reverting your changes until third opinion. Lara_bran 04:51, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Please dont discuss personal issues in some article's talk page. Regards. WP:PA, Lara_bran 07:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Please see Upanishad talk page and offer your comments. Upasthadharma 16:34, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I was hardly trying to silence opposition.... on the contrary, I was a little irritated that somehow it was my fault that I discovered the parallel conversations. I certainly didn't think that the section in the noticeboard was the place to discuss it, as it does sort of clutter things up. Could you perhaps explain your edit comment and reversion? (In keeping with the spirit of centralised discussion, I will watchlist your talkpage temporarily in case you wish to reply.) Hornplease 07:43, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Its a well known fact among mainstream scholars of South Asian studies that some of the events in the Mahabharata were modeled after inter-tribal conflicts between various Indo-Aryan speaking tribes. I don't see anything controversial about that except maybe that some Hindu nationalists might disapprove as they're too immature to accept the Aryan linguistic migration as a part of Indian history. 75.167.98.50 18:02, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Most of my suggestion were treated as a spam? If I can understand things better it will be great, it will be good. I thought a short note on Vegetarian, Ahimsa, Right Values should have been no problem at wiki vedas?. I've quoted Satyartha Prakash which is detailed commentary on all the wrong that is spread in India in the years keeping in mind the Vedas. I understand not every text in this book will be welcomed here as they are mostly controvertial. If you think I am seriously doing wrong, I will always welcome your comments about the same. I did quote verses from the Vedas right? that too from an important author's perspective? BalanceRestored 10:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Please see 'Brahmin' : Etymology' in Talk: Brahmin. In the introductory para of this article Brahmin , a correct and well sourced version contributed by me is unduly being replaced with a wrong and unsourced one by DAB (See history tab of 'Brahmin') . On his talk page he issued a threat of topic ban. It has happened so many times (elsewhere too) that it is difficult for me to edit. Monier-Williams is a reliable source anf his SED is online, and any editor can judge. I do not know how DAB's attitude can be changed.- Vinay Jha Talk 13:34, 23 August 200
Hi Buddhipriya, Do you know the sanskrit meaning of 'khechari', as in Khechari mudra? And the proper spelling ('khechari' vs. 'kechari')? Our mutual friend User:Lara bran has been adding their expertise to that article, but I couldn't find a reliable reference for either question. As far as I know, what Lara added is correct, but he/she doesn't have a good track record from what I'm seeing. Thanks, ॐ Priyanath talk 21:31, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
In third opinion page, comment should not be signed, 5~s should be used. please read the instructions there. Kindly remove your name from that page, leaving only date. Thanks. Lara_bran 06:37, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Also, I have replied to your points(8) by numbering. Possibly you might have overlook my numbered reply. Give a look at talkpage of kamasutra. Thanks. Lara_bran 07:07, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, since you are working on this page at the moment, can you take a look at the "Benefits of chanting VS" section. It seems to be personal, devotional, unencyclopedic commentary. Thanks Gizza Discuss © 10:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi! There's some discussion on whether using "asana", "yogasana" or "yoga asana" as the article title. If you are acquainted with the subject, you are invited to drop your opinion at Talk:Yogasana#Opinion Poll on this article's name. Davin7 09:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)