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Thank you very much.__JohJak2 12:24, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Moy

Moved to Talk:Moy Lin-shin

thanks for the edit to "iPod nano"

Hi JohJak2,

Thanks for your edit to iPod nano. The page is easier to read now, and particularly, you changed it to the 'long dashes' surrounding "twice". I was trying to work out how to do this for quite some time, so thanks :D

splintax ^(talk) 12:21, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Link farms

Greetings. The martial arts business sure is a quagmire, isn't it? Claims and counter claims and egos everywhere. One has to be strictly, neutrally, self-contained to avoid trouble. Like many other modern T'ai Chi teachers, both Bruce Frantzis and Erle are highly controversial teachers in the public arena, well known for their public comments about rival schools. For example, at one point about 15 years ago, Bruce was claiming to be a master of 14 different styles of martial arts, as well as 3 styles of yoga, including his being the "true heir" and "gatekeeper" of Ch'en, Yang and Wu styles, outranking surviving members of those families in their own hierarchy... He has since backed off from some of those claims, yet I point them out to illustrate how much salt we have to use considering people's protestations of mastery. Now, as far as my opinion is concerned, these guys can fight and their students are truly devoted to them, but they have also made public statements that seem to go beyond the virtue of modesty expressed in the I Ching hexagram 15 that was a hallmark of earlier family masters. A Westerner would say that such controversy is so much free advertising, but I wouldn't want myself to have to teach students attracted by such advertising, I'm afraid. Cheers! --Fire Star 15:32, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

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Concerning your query: I haven't the faintest idea, as I only tagged the article with 2 templates; sorry about that. Happy editing. Lectonar 07:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for the misunderstanding; the page would be here. They will help you there. Just ask one of the regular customers (perhaps: TheCoffee) Lectonar 13:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Taoist Tai Chi

I have listed myself on Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_martial_art under tai chi and lok hup. But Fire Star removed my entry and the reference to Taoist Tai Chi on that list based on, quote: 'The bit about not having any martial training in Moy's Tai Chi style is what JohJak2 has included in the Taoist Tai Chi article.'

However, none of the tai chi forms or teachers I've ever been exposed to (Simplified tai chi, Yang, Hwa Yue) have stressed the martial arts side any different from what we experience at the Taoist Tai Chi Society (AND I've done push hands at wing chun training just like I do at tai chi). Therefore I find it would be either correct to delete all or none of the internal arts from the 'List_of_Wikipedians_by_martial_art' (...and he hasn't deleted my reference to lok hup training ...yet  ;) ...and I'm not encouraging that we delete !

Despite the difficulty in categorising tai chi, I advocate that we put it under martial art, and allow all practitioners to appear on the 'List_of_Wikipedians_by_martial_art' for reference.

Would you agree, or...?

Greetings: christian, copenhagen --Lok hup 11:45, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

It may have been Lao Tzu (or some other sage, doesn't matter to me) who said something like: Those who don't know talk about it, those who know do not. You will not find my name on such list. It does not add anything to my purpose in life (whatever that may be) or anyone else's (whatever that may be). I know what I know, however little. And when I am gone no-one cares anyway (but for a very few). My advise: assess the importance and act accordingly. Tomorrow is yet another day :). Be Taoist.

And: master Moy taught TTC not as a martial art, but for health only. So it would be inappropriate to assign a martial arts label to it. Don't worry (be happy). If someone is ready he/she will find it. Or not, as the case may be. Let go :). --JohJak2 12:49, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Category:Chinese martial arts

I currently consider Category:Traditional wushu to be a superfluous category. I prefer simply placing articles under Category:Chinese martial arts, an approach mentioned at Category talk:Chinese martial arts. Shawnc 11:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Well I'm leaving Category:Contemporary wushu alone since it wasn't created by me. As for the traditional wushu category, I'll leave the next step up to the others to decide, at least for now. Shawnc 12:20, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Dear contributor

Dear contributor, perhaps instructions do not mean what they say, but people are inclined to think that they do: "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it." Craig Bolon 13:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Cyclocomputer

I'm leaving a note on Talk:Cyclocomputer in response to your note on my talk page. --Christopherlin 19:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

blog links

I've reverted your change on Jean-Marie Dedecker. I saw there was a sort-like discussion on the Dutch Wikipedia about this. If linking to his homepage is POV, then certainly making an article at all about this person would be POV as well! There is nothing wrong with putting a link to (official) site of the subject under consideration. Intangible 19:22, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Waffle

Thanks for your Waffle reversion. The earlier version to which you reverted was more complete than my correction, in which I just attempted to get rid of the spam without having spent much time examining older versions. Leon Robbins 22:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Taoist Tai Chi

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Moy Lin-shin

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