User talk:Lostinindia

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The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 15:29, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Birth date controversies
Thank you for your contributions regarding Budhda birth date controversies. It appears that, if they are to be included in Wikipedia, that they would be best suited to be added to the primary article at Buddhism. I have redirected the article to that one, and started a conversation to discuss the additions on the talk page Talk:Buddhism. I'd encourage you to contribute to that primary article going forward. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 18:45, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Userpages, poems, and rights
You may have noticed that I deleted your userpage. This is because you wrote a poem and put it on your userpage.

There is nothing wrong with doing that; however, you may not have realized that by putting in on Wikipedia, you effectively released it under the terms of our licenses. This is not necessarily something you want to do.

If you are okay with releasing the poem, I (or any administrator) will be glad to restore the page. DS (talk) 15:01, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

May 2010
Your addition to User:Lostinindia has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. (talk) 18:46, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Mahabharata Nov 2010
Hi. I have reverted your recent edits, some of which appear to have been made in haste and without checking for grammar, readability, whether the information is already in the article, or in accordance with Wikipedia policy and practice. In respect of the major addition, that at least some elements of the story go back to Vedic times, there was no dispute, and it was in fact stated in other words earlier in the section. We don't need to have every scholarly reference quoted when there is no dispute. Thanks. Imc (talk) 17:56, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I see you have readded it again because it is 'important'. Pity that you could not be bothered to deal with your own spurious capitals, missing capitalisation of proper names, obvious grammatical mistakes. Imc (talk) 16:54, 2 December 2010 (UTC)