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Nice copyediting

Thanks for the excellent work you've been doing copyediting various Wikipedia articles, including some plant articles. KP Botany 22:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. I'll try to keep at it! Helikophis 16:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Yoga?

Yoga is a Sanskrit word, Tao Yin is a Mandarin term for a Chinese discipline. Is Taijiquan yoga? Do we edit the yoga article to say that it is qigong? If Tao Yin were Buddhist instead of Taoist, there may be a case for calling it by a Sanskrit name, but it isn't. Also, saying "look it up on the web" in an edit summary doesn't satisfy WP:REF. I don't want this to digress into a pointless argument, so if we can't agree we may file a WP:Request for comment on the issue to get more editors involved in the discussion. --Bradeos Graphon Βραδέως Γράφων (talk) 14:35, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Yoga is also an English word! It's in the OED. I'm reasonably sure that Tao Yin satisfies the meaning of the _English_ word yoga quite thoroughly. But I'm also not interested in a pointless argument. I would certainly not have reverted your revert if you had simply removed the word you disagreed with, but you just reverted to a previous edit which was rather more inaccurate than the current one (e.g. it strongly suggests that Tao Yin is a historical practice and not a current one). I do stand by the fact that Tao Yin qualifies in every way as yoga, but if you really don't want that word there, take it out. Helikophis (talk) 15:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I've since added one ref to the Tao Yin article, and a couple of fact tags (which I am trying to dig up some info on). Here's a thought, if you can get a cite to a book or article that mentions someone calling it yoga or a form of yoga, Mantak Chia for example, we could mention it second person, so to speak. --Bradeos Graphon Βραδέως Γράφων (talk) 18:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I'll look around and see what I can do!Helikophis (talk) 20:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Naked Mole Rat

I know that trivia sections are discouraged but I do believe that "In popular culture" sections are allowed, are they not?^SyBer_WoLff 16:37, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I suppose that they are. They do seem to be quite common, and the page on triva sections specifically mentions them. This one seemed particularly irrelevant to me, and I felt it detracted from the article. But if you really want it there, go ahead and put it back in. Helikophis (talk) 16:42, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Cannibalism article

Apologies. I mistakenly reverted a recent edit you made to the Cannibalism article as vandalism. I intended to revert vandalism to another article which I had open in a different browser tab, and was too quick in clicking WP:Twinkle's Vandal selection. I've re-reverted my mistaken reversion. Sorry. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 23:02, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem! Thanks for letting me know. - Helikophis (talk) 14:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

comment on Assyrian People discussion

Hello, I read your comment on the discussion on Assyrian People and I very much agree with you. If it is not too much trouble I would want you to read on in current developments and once again place your input. I have responded to the claims in discussions of Assyrian population and Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs). I believe that I have put my point across and supported it with many reliable sources, with only response being that I am a nationalist and giving me a Turkish Source (which are recognized as not very reliable sources ... especially with their minority populations). I would really appreciate any input you have in those discussions. I will soon change some things on the page on the grounds which I said on the discussion. I am new with the whole wikipedia thing (because I am strongly against its bias ... Assyrian people page being an example) and do not know much about it. Thank-you for your time Malik Danno (talk) 02:33, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, sorry to bother you again but this issue about the Assyrian peoples page does not want to go away. I feel that it is a couple of nationalists who threaten to make such pages bias for their personal side. This is not what wikipedia is about (I hope). There is constant edits without credible sources and constant vandalism of pages. I am all for getting to a resolution but when one side does not want to co-operate like the other side does then what is the one side suppose to do? Throughout the discussions you have most likely heard of responses such as "your stupid" and other immature comments like that. This is not a proper discussion that you yourself want to take place. Many titles have been changed from "Assyrians in (Iraq, Iran, Syria etc.)" to "Assyrians and Syriacs in (etc.)" I would not mind this if there was a discussion before such a change occurred. This constant vandalism on Assyrian related pages is committed by the same people on wikipedia. This has got to stop. If it is not too much trouble can you help settle this problem and get other Wikipedia people involved in this matter. Also can you tell me how I can propose a ban of certain members of Wikipedia who abuse the system?

Thank-you - Malik Danno (talk) 19:39, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

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