User talk:Morels

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

Hello Morels! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing!  Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  16:07, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] How to create a page

To download a php page you must have somehow gone for some 'save this page/link/etc.' option from your browser (usually available through right click or some key shortcut). What you should do is - aftr searching for a page - to left-click on the red link (like this), which will take you to an empty page with that title, which you can fill with text (note: creating new pages is disabled for non-logged in editors). Personally I find Wikipedia:Tutorial a useful tool for starting one's adventure with editing Wikipedia - you may want to try that, too. As for my userpage, it looks fine in Mozilla series of browsers, I am suprised it doesn't work with Safari.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps you have some download manager that confuses something within red link treating them as download request? I have never heard of a similar problem before.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
A good place to ask others for input may be WP:VPT. They deal with this kind of problems.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Right Concentration on the Eightfold Path page

Hi Morley -

Sorry for not responding sooner but I'm on the road and have limited access to computers (and no access to my Pali Canon texts). The Noble Eightfold Path page could benefit from a significant clean-up and you are correct that the citation for the right concentration blockquote appears to be erroneous. FWIW, in the context of this article, "Bodhi 1998" likely refers to the Access to Insight article at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html. However, this Bodhi (1998) article actually contains a different translation of the identified text. It's possible that the "Ibid" at the Noble Eightfold Path's endnote 22 is meant to refer to the material identified at endnote 20 — that is, the reference to Bodhi (1998) at endnote 21 was inserted after endnote 22's Ibid was added, thus obviating the association between what is now endnote 22 and endnote 20 (and hence Wikipedia's recommendation that Ibids not be used WP:FN). If this is so, then the translation originally came from one of these Thanissaro articles identified in endnote 20 (with the WP blockquote most closely resembling text in the first translation):

But there's not an exact match that I see. So, it's possible that either the translation comes from yet another source or that it came from one of the above-identified sources but was subsequently modified by a well-meaning WP editor who does not understand how to edit (if at all) quoted material (which is, of course, a recurring WP problem). Regrettably I don't have access to my Bodhi edition of the Samyutta Nikaya (2000, Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications) at this time — this being the most likely original source of the material outside of those mentioned above. If you'd like me to check this out, let me know (post to my talk page again) and I'll be happy to do so once I return home. FWIW, I suspect that Bodhi (2000) is not the source of this translation as the Pali word translated in the Noble Eightfold Path article as "quite" is translated in Bodhi (1998) as "herein" — but I think Bodhi (like most translators) has changed a few of his translation choices over time so it's always possible. (In general, I suspect Bodhi, 2000's translation will resemble that found in Bodhi, 1998.)

I'm hoping that one of the aforementioned on-line resources might provide you with an alternate (and perhaps more authoritative) translation than that in the WP Noble Eightfold Path article. (Perhaps if I have sometime in the next few weeks I'll try to go by and correct at least this part of the Noble Eightfold Path article — I've tried to limit my incursions into that article give it's high churn level.) Please let me know if there's something further. I wish you peace and happiness, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 16:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Morley -
I put some follow-up information under your most recent append on Talk:Noble Eightfold Path. Hope this helps,
Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 02:49, 13 December 2007 (UTC)