User talk:Wiki Raja/Archive 2

My talk page
I hope you took the text out of wikipedia into another programme and made those changes all at once using search and replace (Ctrl H or Ctrl F) rather than doing them one by one, SqueakBox 20:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Its not wikipedia as much as replacing large numbers of repeating items. Evne in Microsft Word there is a search and replace button and it would have saved considerable time highlighting isnt, pressing either Ctrl F or Ctrl H and replacing all with isn't in the lower box and pressing replace all. You would only have had to find the first mistake. Well, this si the sort of thing I do in my job, 20:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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Wiki Raja 00:05, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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Dravidian people
I agree with your comments on the talk page of the above-referenced article. The piece is appallingly POV and inaccurate. I've merely skimmed portions and deleted some of the most egregious crap that caught my attention, but it needs serious attention.

I also noted your remarks in Tamil people. Keep up the good work. More of it is needed by others willing to treat such subjects accurately and with objectivity. deeceevoice 06:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep. I know. Kinda creepy -- ain't it? :p Where are you in the world? deeceevoice 06:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah. Me, too. You're far away from home -- and I'm up late, supposedly working on a deadline for a client, but my equipment is on the fritz. :( So, I'm on Wikipedia, dealing with ignorance.  I'm often fed up with this place, because the website seemingly belongs not to those most knowledgeable about a topic, or even the most objective and rational, but to those most determined to push an often -- in my experience, anyway -- wrongheaded and racist agenda.  Well, I've about had my fill for the time being.  Think I'm gonna go catch some z's.  Peace 2 u. :)  deeceevoice 06:51, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

hey
Buddy much respect, but ur not Tamil. Ur definitely African. We dont want ur Afrocentrism in our Community. If u admire us so much, u can watch Tamil Movies, but stop making us looking Black. We are not Black. Ur POV is not wished

Keep up the good work
I have been looking around at some problems that influence articles I've been working on and came upon your name because you have had related problems. Please keep a calm head, even when dealing with individuals whose voltaic piles are running low. ;-)

I see you are interested in martial arts. I teach a course on "the dao of martial arts," and have structured it mostly around Chinese and Japanese teaching stories (the things that my students will probably never learn from their MA teachers because, being Americans, they don't know them either. I would like to involve materials from other traditions. Steve Barnes wrote a good alternate history science fiction novel that hints at some things in the Sufi tradition, and I was hopeful that I might find some teaching stories from that tradition that would be fairly directly relevant to MA. But I struck out on that one. I am now looking for things in S.E. Asia, particularly Indonesia. Your interests reminded me that there may be teaching stories in other traditions that could be relevant too.  The only one I know of is a story that I may have heard from one of my yoga teachers. You probably know it, so forgive me if I get the details wrong. It is the one about a village that is severely troubled by a large cobra. The cobra bites many people. The villagers appeal to a visiting holy man. He speaks to the cobra, telling him to behave himself. He goes off and the villagers are relieved that the cobra no longer bites people. A few years later the holy man comes back by the village and notices the cobra, but the poor beast is in terrible shape. The holy man asks him why he has so many injuries. The cobra explains that since he stopped biting people the people feel free to abuse him. The holy man tells the cobra that he was instructed not to bite people, but he was not told not to hiss.

Do you know of a source of other good teaching stories to prepare young people to be able to defend themselves with a clear mind, without ego, etc.? Thanks. P0M 01:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Re:
Hey, nice job on Dravidian people and also in yakshagana page. Keep up the good work. I'll contribute as much as I can to that page. Thanks for informing me. Gnanapiti 02:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Asian2duracell
Rather than jump from your user page to mine, I've responded at mine. Hope you don't mind. deeceevoice 13:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Approved for AWB!
Thank you for your recent application to use AutoWikiBrowser. I have approved your request and you should now be able to use the AWB application. Be sure to check every edit before you save it, and don't forget to check out the AWB Guide. You can get any help you need over on the AWB talk page. Feel free to contact me with any questions, alphachimp  00:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks
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Your spelling correction reminds me that my comments are read by a lot of people, many who I will never meet, and so I should always tuck in my shirt and not make faces on wikipedia.

Thanks. Hope our little mini-edit war, which is thankfully now over, entertained you.

Caveat: If my spelling mistake was fixed by a bot of yours, I now feel like an ass :)

Best wishes, Travb (talk) 08:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Correcting spelling in talk pages (not articles)
I feel I should point this out: while your intention is good and the result is an improvement, it is not considered acceptable to correct other user's spelling on talk pages. From Talk page guidelines: '' Don't edit others' comments: Refrain from editing others' comments without their permission (with the exception of prohibited material such as libel and personal details). It is not necessary to bring talk pages to publishing standards, so there is no need to correct typing errors, grammar, etc. It tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. '' Thanks! (But please keep up the good work on article pages!) Notinasnaid 09:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know. I will keep this in mind. Regards. Wiki Raja 09:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem. There is in the US and UK a cultural unwillingness to correct people's language, which I think this arises from. In some cultures (e.g. France) it is considered perfectly reasonable to point out another person's language errors. Notinasnaid 10:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * One more question. Would it be safe then to edit (spellcheck) Users pages or pages outside the article namespace? Wiki Raja 10:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

User pages are considered to be very much the user's property, mistakes and all. People can be very annoyed at even the most trivial change (though Wikipedia policies do allow or require certain changes). User talk pages are similar to article talk pages; there is some debate about whether users can remove things. I'd recommend sticking to the article namespace, where nobody can object to things being made better! Notinasnaid 10:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok. Thanks. Wiki Raja 10:23, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I was going to say the same thing. Katr67 15:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Someone Deleted my information Unfairly
I was wondering if you could help me. I was working on the article for the James Charles Kopp federal court proceedings and someone who isnt registered and just left an ISP address deleted my update and believe it or not ADDED grammatical errors I had fixed (ie: originally "pictures of aborted" changed into "pictured of aborted". It was all in my own words and I sourced everything correctly. You can see what I mean when you go to the history page and click on the submission I made at 2:35am EST and he made at 2:53am EST and compare versions. I was wondering how do I report this person? I added back in my information but I hope I don't get banned because I have added more than 3 updates today.


 * Were these IP Addresses 128.227.1.39 and 24.237.52.201? Wiki Raja 11:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

It was the 128.227.1.39 I have left that person a statement on their user talk page stating that I feel its vandalism to delete accurate info and to CAUSE intentional grammatical errors.


 * :::Yes, I would suggest the same. If the third option doesn't work and this continues then I would suggest reporting this to Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents as a last resort. Wiki Raja 11:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Joseph Clarke
Hi, I just want to let you know that you were correcting a Vandals typo's on Joseph Clarke. I have reverted it all together. --Cloveious 13:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing that out. I will keep a more sharper eye out next time. Regards. Wiki Raja 14:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for fixing my typo on Michael Sinclair (soldier) (hey - these little things deserve to be thanked!) -- Qarnos 10:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

VandalSniper
You've been approved to use VandalSniper. Please let me know if you have any problems getting it working. --Chris (talk) 19:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Bad Religion
No big deal, but you fixed a typo in quoted text. I cannot access the source of the quotation at the moment, but given the other bad grammar, it seems probable that the original text contained the typo. Thus, I've reinstated the typo and added [sic] to it. -SpuriousQ 00:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I will keep an eye out for quotes in my future editing. Would you suggest that instead of correcting the typo in the quotes I just add [sic] by the word? Regards.
 * Wiki Raja 00:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yep, that's what I tend to do, after verifying the typo is in the original. If there are many errors you can also just put the [sic] at the end, or write some note to that effect (see for example ) -SpuriousQ 00:44, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Wiki Raja 00:45, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Trammel points
Hello Raja, Thanks for the typo correction. I am curious why you are signed in the front of the article. Does this mean that it has been Wikified? It has been edited several times. --Johnalden 03:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi John,


 * That is odd how my name got put on top of that page. Anyways, I did go back and removed it. Regards.
 * Wiki Raja 04:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Thanks for removing your name, it sounds random how it happened. I like your cquote. --Johnalden 13:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Goatopia
Welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as Goatopia) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. &rArr;   SWAT Jester    On Belay!  07:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi,


 * Thanks for pointing this out to me, as I am kind of new to editing numerous articles. I will definitely keep in mind the nonsense articles in the future and avoid editing. Regards.
 * Wiki Raja 07:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Just don't want you wasting your time making minor grammar checks on an article that's going to be speedied anyway. You appear to do good editing, may as well spend your time more effectively on other articles. &rArr;   SWAT Jester    On Belay!  07:42, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

MedCab Case: Dravidian people article dispute
I have closed the Dravidian people article dispute MedCab Case which you had submitted. I am not disagreeing with your concerns, but it seems that you are having a user conduct dispute and these kinds of issues are not handled by MedCab. You may want to seek the representation of an AMA advocate. Alan.ca 21:36, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

reply
The Dravida page notes it as Prakrit coming from a Tamil word with a similar meaning to what I gave. That South India is an entity different than North India is obvious. That these are the product of two different races is completely debatable. While the word Aryan has been hijacked by certain people, its not like certain people do "Dravidian" much justice either. Its impossible to deny that the South Indian ethnic groups are different than North Indian ones, but they arent separate. Religion is debatable as well, though there are more Saivites percentagewise in Tamil Nadu, there are huge centers of Saivism in Gujarat, Kashmir, and Bali as well. Also South Indian belief systems mirror mainstream Hinduism as our land was the birthplace of Valmiki, Adi Shankara and other figures. Baka man  18:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * In regards to your above reply, I will let you first know that I am not here to advocate for any political group whether they be DMK, AIADMK, BJP, RSS, or what not. I am also not hear to advocate nationalism of any kind. What I am interested in is contributing information in regards to the Dravidian civilizations overall in encyclopediatic format covering all aspects from within India and outside of India. I do agree with you that Hindu thought and ideas are credited to the Indo-Aryans. Regards. Wiki Raja 19:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hinduism articles dont have much on South India other than our kovils. The Shiva article is a mess as well. Baka man  21:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Have you tried working on the Shiva article? Wiki Raja 21:53, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I am not religious and am not well versed in legends and religious stories. In regards to "encyclopedic format covering all aspects" I was hoping that this may prove to be a good page for you to make better. Right now many of the Hinduism editors support Aryan818, but it has also been brought to our attention that the Shiva page is a mess. You're killing two birds with one stone there. Baka man  01:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * What are you proposing? Wiki Raja 04:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)