User talk:Helikophis

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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Naked Mole Rat

I know that trivia sections are discouraged but I do believe that "In popular culture" sections are allowed, are they not?SyBerWoLff 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)

[edit] 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)