User talk:Mabuska

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Mabuska, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Ulster Regiment

I know it was badly formatted and was about to do the quotes thing properly after i found out how to do it correctly when i noticed that you reverted the section off.

However i ask what is so POV in adding documented praise from non-Ulster people who eye-witness accounted the Ulster division's actions? Its not my personal POV. Mabuska 15:28, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Seemed to be a bit WP:PEACOCK to me. Perhaps more context would have helped. I wouldn't have deleted it on that alone, but the poor construction of the edit gave me reasons to delete it. Jooler 15:30, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Looking at the WP:PEACOCK article, i have to say i don't think it quite fits into peacockedness. I wasn't using my own personal POV to say they were gallant and brave, but rather an eye-witness account which is sourced. The "incorrect" examples in the peacock article are the editor's POV and unsourced. Mabuska 15:35, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
If i formatted the quotations properly would it be okay to have back up? Mabuska 15:37, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I (capital I) won't delete it, but I am just a user/edit like you. Jooler 15:40, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I'll try to improve the sections appearance beforehand and get a few other quotations from other sources so it doesn't seem based on a sole person's viewpoint. Mabuska 15:44, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Quite right, my "tidy" before did more harm than good. I've redid it. Like, Jooler says there's a hint of "peakcockedness" about it, but slimming it down by cutting out the curly quotes for the short sentences, and attributing the quites in the text rather than after the quote, in my view, cuts down any danger that it would be seen in that light. --sony-youthpléigh 11:15, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles/Proposed decision

I have added you as a participant at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles/Proposed decision. Fred Bauder 21:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tobermore additions

No problem, it looks like the article is pretty complete now. I see you've done a lot of work to the article and wrote a quite a lot about the village - if only everyone else from NI could add as much information about their local villages! Yeah, the site I was using for photographs is fairly good for freely-licensed images (Geograph) and I managed to get some half-decent pictures for Armagh and Cookstown, but unfortunately there weren't many good pics for Tobermore, it was either this or this! If you prefer the second one we could use it - unless you have some photos of Tobermore that maybe show it in a good light ;-). EJF (talk) 16:47, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Karate origins in India?

Hi, I read your note on the karate discussion page. From my understanding, the philosophies of karate may have stemmed from India, but karate is a description of how those philosophies are physically manifested and used to perfect ones character.

Bodhidharma ventured to China in the 500's A.D. where he found the Shaolin monks needing more discipline. They had already been training in Kung fu, but their attitude was lacking. Bodhidharma taught them how to incorporate his teachings (including discipline) into their kung fu, and over many generations, they mastered it.

This mastery of kung fu trickled down to other arts like Chuan_fa and eventually to Okinawan martial arts. Chatan Yara down to Sokon Matsumura trained in the chinese arts and developed a way to employ empty-handed combat from the teachings of kung fu.

So the philosophies come from India, way back. But karate's embodiment is attributed to Okinawa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drmadskills (talk • contribs) 20:36, 20 February 2008 (UTC)