User talk:Badvibes101

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Bottle rockets

Please stop adding a link to this band in the haiku article. They have nothing whatever to do with haiku. I have left the link you insist on inserting to the non-notable Bottle Rockets haiku magazine -- for now. I'm sure it will be removed from this already link-cluttered article at some point due to its aforementioned lack of notability. Exploding Boy (talk) 04:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Well then, that just demonstrates the importance of checking before you add links. Please visit the Bottle Rockets article if you still have any questions about why your repeated addition of that particular link to the haiku article was removed. Also, any so-called "journal" that uses free webhosting can hardly be called "prominent." Exploding Boy (talk) 15:33, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Bottle Rockets happen to be one of the leading international paper-based haiku magazines. What you see when you click that link is an online version of it. It is important to keep this link in the Links section, and it should not to be removed. --Badvibes101 (talk) 15:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Haiku

In the haiku article, you've reverted my edit of 12 May, and in so doing have recreated a number of errors in the article. Having no wish to get involved in a petty edit war, I'd prefer to try to understand where you're coming from. Look at some examples of what you've reverted to:

  • "the haikai (or verses) in haikai no renga"; haikai does not mean 'verses' - you do know that, right?
  • "Haiku, when known as hokku, were the opening verses of a linked verse form"; Hokku is the (first) opening verse only - the following two (opening) verses have special names (waki and daisan), but there is only one hokku in each poem
  • "A kireji (i.e. a cutting word or pause)..."; a kireji is a word functioning as a pause, i.e. it brings about a following pause. Obviously a word cannot itself be a pause.
  • "...usually appears at the end of either the first or second line."; A kireji only appears in Japanese haiku; Japanese haiku are written in a single line or column. Furthermore, one of the most important and frequently-occurring kireji is 'kana' which appears only at the end of the verse

Do you disagree with the above? Or what is your motivation in reverting my factual corrections?
--Yumegusa (talk) 10:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Your edits, due to the fact that you confused the singular and plural forms of certain nouns, didn't clarify things, I am afraid. I've read and edited the article again, corrected some mistakes made by previous editors that you pointed out to me. See the new version. --Badvibes101 (talk) 13:20, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Nicely done. The bit about 'haikai' meaning 'verses' remains, and I'll edit it out now
--Yumegusa (talk) 20:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Novy Mir

Hi,

Can you please see my comment at Talk:Novy Mir?

I'll appreciate it, if you would clarify that. Thanks in advance. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:54, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Haiku (see also)

Hi again. Thanks for tidying up after me. However, in your recent edit from

  • Haikai no renga – mushin (popular) renga, from whose opening verse haiku was derived

to

you have dropped the info that haiku derived from the opening verse of Haikai no renga; your substitution of the words "that has a hokku as the opening verse" is confusing at best, since all renga (not just HNR) open with a hokku. The salient point, here in the Haiku article, is that haiku derived from HNR's hokku, rather than that of ushin renga. Additionally, your revision could be misread to mean that HNR is same as ushin renga except it has a hokku at the start(!)

Is there some special reason you prefer to avoid the ushin/mushin terminology? It seems the most economic way of making an important distinction, and is used throughout the literature.
--Yumegusa (talk) 15:53, 19 May 2008 (UTC)