User talk:Dawud

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Hi Dawud. I want to thank you for your work on the A.R.E. article. I am a longtime member of A.R.E. and it is good to see that someone has done such a good job of representing the A.R.E. on Wikipedia. I would like to hear back from you and find out your other interests, since I note the breadth of your interests from the various articles you have written and editted.

Please reply back to me via email at fdewey@mindspring.com .

Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.

Fred Dewey Rochester, Ny (not my account)


Welcome!

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This is Paul. I've noticed you editing the Baha'i Faith page - and also noticed that although you've now got an account, no-one has said hello to you yet. So, let me be the first to say Hi. I guess you're not entirely a new user, since from comments you made on the Baha'i article talk page you've made quite a few anon edits to various pages concerning mysticism - but I think it's useful to have one of the welcome templates where you can easily find it - it's got a few helpful links there.

Have fun at Wikipedia! PaulHammond 11:47, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Symbols

Heh Paul beat me to first comment - oh well. First off, whats this about five-pointed stars? And also are you sure that the caligraphy is Persian? I'll write a tidbit about Baha'i caligraphy in a mo, but I suspect its Arabic. -- Tomhab 01:25, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Criticisms

OK re-read the article and agree that much of it can't go on the main page. How about making a Bahá'í social principles page or something. Much of what has been written can be copied almost verbatim to there. Other aspects can go elsewhere. It also means we can shred a fair bit off the main page (which is getting reasonably long).

I hope you understand the reasoning for all this. You obviously know your stuff about the Baha'i faith, but an article with criticisms in the title really isn't appropriate and a little NPOV.

Let me know what you think on my talk page and we can get cracking. -- Tomhab 01:45, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well... I'm not entirely sure, but I think voting's pretty much done? maybe give it a few more days. -- Tomhab 10:45, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi, check out the Baha'i apologetics page. Since you started the original criticism page I want to see what you think. And since you seem interested in the subject I think you can do some valuable editing. But please provide references wherever possible! The criticism page barely had any and I ended up just cropping most of it. Cunado19 29 June 2005 14:00 (UTC)

[edit] New page

Got any to add? You know you have no life when

Regards Cunado19 16:04, 22 July 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Cayce

I'm glad to meet another Cayce fan, keep up the good work!--Jondel 00:18, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jesus

Look, no offense, but that thing you just wrote in Jesus is full of weasel words and was definitely not neutral. Also, it's best not to make the article an essay pushing you POV. As you may or may not be aware, you have stated a position taken by some people. This is most definitely disputed, yet I don't really see the alternate POV being put forward. There is also an article that deals with this, Historicity of Jesus. - Ta bu shi da yu 11:21, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Please use edit summaries when making edits so that it is easier for others interested in the articles you are editing to follow what you're doing. This is especially important at articles such as Taoism where you are making large numbers of edits one after another. Another thing that could help keep down the numbers of unsummarised edits would be to use the "Show preview" button to check your work before saving the new page. Thanks, --Fire Star 16:11, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Taoism

You deleted a whole section of the Taoism article with no comment as to why you thought it was invalid, what for? if you are going to delete whole sections of content because you don't think its relevant you should at least take ten seconds to explain why with a description.

[edit] WP:COI/N

Two reports, with the headings "CIIS" and "Baha'i (100+ boards)," were posted on WP:COI/N at 02:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC) by 218.167.163.63 (talk · contribs) but signed with your username. This note is just to check that it was actually you. — Athænara ✉ 02:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

At 02:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC) you wrote: "Yes, it's me. Dawud"
OK, thanks for letting me know. — Æ. ✉ 05:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Godic religion

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[edit] COIN

I moved your report to the project page WP:COIN rather than the talkpage, so that it will be more visible to other editors. I hope you get some help! --Slp1 (talk) 01:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No trolling please

I noticed the trollish section that you added to Dating, which was reverted (by someone other than me). Satanic messages? Goodness me. While online dating is arguably a risky business, there is no need to blast the point home with a thermonuclear sledgehammer.—greenrd (talk) 15:45, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Abhisamayalankara, Chapter Two

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[edit] Please use the Move tab, instead of cut&paste to move or 'rename' articles

Hello, Dawud. It appears that you copied and pasted Ron Rubin to Ron Rubin (voice actor). Please do not move articles by copying and pasting them because it splits the article's history, which is needed for attribution and is helpful in many other ways. If there is an article that you cannot move yourself using the move link at the top of the page, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Also, if there are any other articles that you copied and pasted, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you, Shawis (talk) 09:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Abhisamayalankara, Chapter One

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[edit] Bohammed

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[edit] AfD nomination of Bohammed

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[edit] Abhisamayalankara

Hi Dawud,

Thanks for the entry on the AA. (It answered my question about who wrote zla-'od.)

However, I would like to draw a few factual errors to your attention.

Asaṅga lived in the 4th century, not the 8th.

Vasubandhu was converted to Yogācāra by Asaṅga, not the other way around.

Asaṅga's commentary is not included in the list of 21 Indian commentaries because no copy exists, not because it comments from the Yogācāra perpective. (In fact, it may never have existed at all, since no other text quotes from it, and the only evidence that it may have existed comes from a cryptic comment by Haribhadra in the verses of praise at the beginning of his "Great Commentary".)

Gelupa writers that I have studied say that the AA is written from point of view of the Yogācāra-svātantrika school. Could you please specify your source for saying that Gelugpas view it as having been written from the Prāsaṅgika perspective.

Haribhadra etc. wrote commentaries on the Ratnaguṇasaṃcayagāthā, not the Dharmasamgitasūtra.

There are a few Tibetan spelling mistakes and inconsistent use of Sanskrit diacritics, but I don't want to nit-pick. On the contrary, congratulations on your effort. And good luck with your AA studies.

ParvatamUDham (talk) 09:37, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi back, and thanks for writing, and your good wishes. (Do I know you? What do you mean about "Zla'od"?)
I'll try to get to these corrections soon-ish. (I'm particularly embarrassed about the "8th century" blooper.) Please feel free to edit them yourself too--that's kind of what WP is all about. If there are diacritical typos, I'm sure that I will never catch them myself. I know no Sanskrit, and only very bad Tibetan, and in fact only learned what the AA was a few months ago. So do please nitpick.
I assumed that being enlightened and all, Maitreya would have taught it as Prasangika, and that the claim was that Asanga (not so enlightened) misunderstood it as Svatantrika. I'm sure you're right, though--this is just the sort of thing I would be likely to get wrong. Dawud (talk) 03:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Svatantrika

Hi Dawud, thank you for expanding the svatantrika article. It prompted me to also add some detail, which I've been meaning to do for some time but you inspired me finally. I'm worried though that the shentong and yogacara articles have much more detail with respect to svatantrika views and I'm not sure how to refer properly to sections within those articles and avoid duplicating too much information. It's also tricky explaining all the distinctions perhaps between the three articles, and how shantarakshita's synthesis fits in. I'm not sure we really need to create a yogacara-svatantrika-madhyamaka article particularly. But if you have any thoughts on how to properly organize all of that content across all those articles I'd appreciate your thoughts. - Owlmonkey (talk) 17:50, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Senzar

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[edit] Pamuk's 'Snow'

You may be interested in my belated comments. --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 20:52, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image reply from FPMT article & Misc.

Hi, I have recently replied to your request to add images to the article FPMT. Images will be uploaded as soon as possible. Also, I would like to request the speedy deletion of this Wikipedia article. I believe that the information provided in Wikipedia can create serious problems, including the danger of loosing lives and law infringement problems. Firstly, Wikipedia articles are commonly located in the first or second display result in the Google search engine. Had someone really have thought of doing an action like that, the result will/may be horrific. Secondly, in many countries, assisting a person's death is most commonly regarded as illegal. If Wikipedia hosts this article, it means that "it supports it." Wikipedia has continually stated that the law should be followed "in a reasonable manner," especially when dealing with "copy-paste" issues and image copyright situations. Third. For what reasons would Wikipedia.org propose that the article should be included in en.wikipedia.org? Whether or not if it is considered appropiate, doesn't this article belong in a "WikiHow" or other sister projects? Please take action as soon as possible. The mission that Wikipedia is to distribute information in a meaningful way. In addition, if Wikipedia.org disagrees on removing the article, that would violate and contradict one of Wikipedia's/Flordia's (database location) policies. I request that this article be removed immediately before any other further harm can be done to the international community. Thank you. Prowikipedians (talk) 12:42, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] reply

Hi. Thank you for your reply, Dawud. Apparently, I've been trying to get that article off Wikipedia, which I believe it serves no purpose what-so-ever. I understand that some people want it their for plain entertainment without considering the consequences and I do understand that it is necessary to go through all those steps...:(. Would it be possible for you to "grab" some people that you know personally and/or some Wikipedians that have a stance for a voting? Thanks. Prowikipedians (talk) 15:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Isn't it ironic that Wikipedia has an article for suicide methods and not homicide methods?

[edit] FPMT and misc.

Hi. I left the following reply to your response in the FPMT article talk page.

I agree with you. It has enough sources, particularly from the original FPMT website provides PLENTY of information. Plus, I don't know what else to add here. I think some Wikipedians out here may seem to lack some understanding of the structure of FPMT. Spiritually powerful. Prowikipedians (talk) 14:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Just at a curiosity, are you a FPMT member/follower? Prowikipedians (talk) 14:51, 28 May 2008 (UTC)