User talk:Buddhist143

Welcome[edit]

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Please cite![edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Angelina Jolie, but we regretfully cannot accept original research. Please find and add a reliable citation to your recent edit so we can verify your work. Uncited information may be removed at any time. Thanks for your efforts, and happy editing! --Yamla 15:13, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

With regards to the Angelina Jolie page, the only sources I can find referencing her and Buddhism are dubious tabloid rumors regarding her wedding to Brad Pitt, and equally dubious tabloid stories suggesting she wants her adopted son Maddox to be raised Buddhist, but only her son, not her adopted daughter or the child she's expecting. If you can cite a reputable interview source or other article then you're welcome to reinstate the statement - but make sure to include a citation if you do. Thanks! 23skidoo 22:44, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Hindus[edit]

Can you provide a source which says that Schevchekno is a convert to Hinduism Tintin (talk) 05:46, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you also please try to find any news items online, just to make sure that it is not a rumour. There should be something available on it in the net but I haven't succeeded yet. Tintin (talk) 07:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hinduism[edit]

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License tagging for Image:TA1.jpg[edit]

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Vandalism warning[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. Dooms Day34 9 02:20, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You changed an article to say that someone who is a Catholic to say he was a Hindu. If that is indeed true, I apologize. Next time, leave an edit summary. Dooms Day34 9 02:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You would want to include that in the edit summary. See, RC patrolling is fast. You see something that looks like vandalism, rv and warn. Leaving edit summaries helps a lot, cause without it, it can look like vandalism when it isn't. Fix it, if I really was wrong. Dooms Day34 9 02:32, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And I actually believe you are wrong, so just leave it. Don't dig yourself in any deeper. Dooms Day34 9 02:33, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last warning. Cite your additions, please, as per WP:V, WP:CITE, and WP:RS, or we will have to block you. --Yamla 02:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:Anatasesha..jpg[edit]

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Vijay R. Singh[edit]

Hi there! What is your source, that Vijay R. Singh was a freemason? His name is not on the list of any of Fiji's Masonic lodges, so if you have a source, provide it. Otherwise, leave it out of the article. David Cannon 23:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for revealing that you are related to Sir Vijay. One of the rules that Wikipedia follows is that Original Research is not allowed. In practical terms, this includes information that you may have discovered through your own research or family knowledge, etc. We require information to be verified, especially if the information is a little controversial. That means you must cite a reputable external source, not just something like "He told me himself". That won't do. Can you provide documentation from the lodge he was affiliated with? That would be valuable to Wikipedia. Ditto for Mahendra Chaudhry, whom you also listed as a freemason some time back. If you can provide the verification, then by all means include the information!

BTW, I have a curiosity. Sir Vijay was a Hindu, I believe. Your user name suggests you're a Buddhist. Did you convert, or did he? Or is your family mixed? David Cannon 00:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:TA32.jpg)[edit]

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