User talk:WhyPhilo

August 2022
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Thomas Huynh, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Aoidh (talk) 00:20, 11 August 2022 (UTC)


 * You quote the dhammapada but you don't practice it. WhyPhilo (talk) 02:37, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Well that's not a very nice thing to say. Funnily enough do I have a copy on my desk (the Easwaran translation, which is a solid translation but I like the particulars of some other translations better), and I did a quick skim through the pages and I couldn't find anything in there about why maintenance templates on Wikipedia should be removed, so I'm confused about what part I am not practicing. The intent of the templates is to let people know that there are potential issues, and that if they have access to sources that I may not (offline for example) that they should add them to improve the page. Such templates, and nominating potentially non-reliable articles for deletion, are not attacks on the article's subject. If you feel that this indeed is an attack (which I assure you it is not) then I offer you this advice from the very same Dhammapada: He was angry with me, he attacked me, he defeated me, he robbed me" –those who do not dwell on such thoughts will surely become free from hatred. - Aoidh (talk) 03:11, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The page has been published since 2013. Why are you targeting Thomas Huynh today? WhyPhilo (talk) 03:15, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I added the templates on the article on August 9 because of this edit which added his translation to the Art of War article. I was curious about it so I clicked on the author profile and found that it does not appear to meet Wikipedia's standards for notability, and the sources in the article all seem to be non-third-party sources. The age of the article does not matter; there is no point at which a Wikipedia article is no longer required to meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. It appears that most of the contributors to the article are accounts like yourself that make a few edits specifically related to this individual and make no other edits, so it appears that it flew under the radar for the most part. It was however proposed for deletion previously and I'm not the first person to add a notability tag, just like you're not the first new account whose first edit was to remove said tag. If you're creating new accounts periodically instead of using the same account please note that per WP:MULTIPLE you should stick to one account, and should note whether or not you have made more than one account. - Aoidh (talk) 03:35, 11 August 2022 (UTC)