User talk:Octopet

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Octopet! I am Ser Amantio di Nicolao and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions check out Questions, or feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or type helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. Again, welcome! Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:35, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
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helpme Thanks again for the cookies, and links to info for new wikipedians. I've read up on "user talk pages", but I'm not sure how to reply to comments on my talk page... so consider this a test. Let me know if I did this correctly! Also, I tried to indent the first line of my reply using tab key, but that didn't work.Octopet (talk) 16:48, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

helpme Please give me feedback on my edits of the article on Akbarpura. This article seems to have a lot of unverified content. How can I help improve it?Octopet (talk) 22:48, 2 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello, and yep, a lot of unverified content that need references in that article. Particularly direct quotes. There is also a POV problem that requires extensive rewording/deleting of inappropriate bias. However, we're not exactly experts of the subject, my best advice is to get help from Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan as they know more about the conventions they follow when writing geographic articles.-- Obsidi ♠ n Soul  23:18, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Octopet. Welcome! Cool name :o) And nice edits to the Yoga as Ex and Alt Med article, where I also drop in from time to time. In case its of interest, here's a link to a Google Book that refers to demographic trends in Akbarpura:
 * http://books.google.ca/books?id=LZ01Y3bAZCwC&pg=PA555&dq=Akbarpura&hl=en&ei=54NiTfK1GYKC8gaXsbiNDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBTgU#v=onepage&q=Akbarpura&f=false


 * Early morning person (talk) 15:32, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

→thank you!Octopet (talk) 19:42, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Octopet! Great job with the N T Rama Rao filmography article! I looked over the article and am glad with the changes you made. I took the liberty to remove the "GOCEinuse" and "copy edit" tags. I also removed "unreferenced" and replaced it with "refimprove" since it now has at least one reference. Of course, the article still could use some work (mostly, I think it just needs to be expanded with some biographic material), but the article is now in better condition that it was before. Good job! -- Tea with toast  (talk)  02:17, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

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Don't use helpme so extremely. I removed the tag since there was no indication or discussion. Next time make the same as me, leave a talkback on his page and then everything is right. Oh and this time I have really to search where the problem was since you placed the helpme and not Yoga Mat --> explain why you want help! mabdul 16:30, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Mabdul, I'm not sure why you are responding to a question I left on Yoga Mat's talk page about a tag he placed on an article. I was following the instructions on his talk page to use the help me template. Can you explain what you meant?: 'I have really to search where the problem was since you placed the helpme and not Yoga Mat'. I don't understand this sentence. Thanks for clarifying. Octopet (talk) 21:44, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

And thanks for offering your help. I'm still learning how wiki works.Octopet (talk) 22:33, 27 April 2011 (UTC)


 * With this edit you placed a helpme tag. Although it is not prohibited to place such tags on talk pages of other user (talk) pages, I really don't like to see this. A helpme tag have to include any question. With what do you need(ed) help? You ask for "nothing". So I investigated some time to look your (and Yoga mats) contributions and tried to "solve" the problem. As I said: I removed the tag since he didn't discuss the problem. mabdul 11:30, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

RE: Yoga as exercise or alternative medicine

There are a number of vague expressions that use a passive voice to avoid having to specify any authoritativeness of the statement and conceal the full picture - there are too many generalizations. The first line is a good case in point - the word "yoga" has about fifty different meanings !!

Again, (not spending any more time looking any further down the topic) we have "Yoga teachers assert that yoga stimulates the flow of healing "life energy", or prana" - well some might - but again this is not a universal idea.

Therefore, I have reinstated the weasel words tag on this topic for the time being --Yoga Mat (talk) 11:42, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

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Currency
Octopet, thanks for your many contributions. I notice that you're changing "$" to "USD". However I don't think that's the standard for designating dollar amounts. See Manual of Style (dates and numbers). That guideline seems to prefer the dollar sign, except in areas where it would be ambiguous, in which case "US$" is the preferred usage. To be honest, I'm not sure every reader would know that "USD" means "United States Dollars". Does that make sense?  Will Beback   talk    19:40, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll take a look at the guideline and adjust accordingly Octopet (talk) 00:01, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

On Yoga and Ayurveda
Hi Octopet. I'm flattered that you would trust my judgment like this. I often intervene on the TCM talk page because I've done fairly extensive research on the history of Chinese medicine and I know a few things about its present. I wouldn't have the same confidence discussing Yoga as exercise or alternative medicine and Maharishi Ayurveda, though I could recommend a few good sources on the history of Indian medicine. In general, I've found that the best way to re-establish neutrality in an article is to remove bias rather than trying to cancel it with a strong counter-bias. Quackery presented as science should be deleted, whereas controversial statements should be reworded to reflect what reliable sources say about a given topic, but there should be no attack on the topic at hand. This being said, I did take a quick look at the two pages you linked to. The discussion in Maharishi Ayurveda seems to have gone cold for more than a month, so I'm not sure how I should contribute to it. Maybe you could let me know which other sections of these articles you find problematic so that I can focus on them rather than trying to find the problems myself? Then I'll see what I can do. Thanks again for inviting me! Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 10:29, 21 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for looking at the articles. Regarding the ayurveda article, I am wondering if the use of an infobox is the best approach, especially since some (one?) editor wants to call it pseudoscience which seems to be a non-NPOV approach to the debate. I appreciate your comment about removing bias rather than adding counter-bias. (replying here and in your talk page) Octopet (talk) 20:25, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi again. I now see that the pseudoscience infobox is still in Maharishi Ayurveda, so there is still a controversy going on. I'll try to take a closer look at the issues in a few days when I come back from a few days out. And since I'm watching your page, so you can reply here from now on. Bye! Madalibi (talk) 07:05, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Octopet, I saw your post on the Transcendental Meditation talk page saying that you wanted to know what you can do to improve the article. I am planning to analyze and revise the lead to bring it into compliance with WP:LEAD (ie summarize the entire article in a balanced way). I welcome your help with that. Also, recently the article called Transcendental Meditation technique has been revised and expanded and there have been comments by two editors that the tone of the article may be too promotional. If you could read it and make changes to make it more neutral, that would be great. You may want to look at the talk page to see the specific comments and ongoing discussions. One thing to remember though is the caution given at the TM Arbitration: "Peremptory reversion or removal of material referenced to reliable sources and added in good faith by others, is considered disruptive when done to excess. This is particularly true of controversial topics where it may be perceived as confrontational." So you may want to discuss on the talk page before removing sourced material from the article but that is just my suggestion. It's really up to you. -- — Keithbob • Talk  • 13:28, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

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