ASIN?
Please see my question at Talk:Amazon Standard Identification Number in regard to your recent edit at Perfection of Wisdom. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 08:07, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi. Please remember to write in complete sentences. Check out the Wikipedia:Manual of Style for more tips. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 16:53, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I'm not sure about the sentence you added to the human artilce. "Many of these religions and spiritualities also view humans in a different fascion, in Buddhism, for example, humans are all sentient beings in Human realm." Different from what? - Nat Krause 15:41, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Different from the way the word "Human" is normally used. So somebody can be a human (at least in some traditions or in theory) and share absolutely no genetical relation to a homo sapien, at the same time somebody with the homo sapien body might not be in a Human realm.
- That's an interesting point. However, your addition to the human article doesn't make it very clearly, and the human realm article doesn't mention it, and I've never heard it before, either (although it sounds plausible on the face of it). What's your source on this? - Nat Krause 16:22, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Well "Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" would mention it, and also probably any other Buddhist text discussing Bardo and Samsara, if you want websites... at this point i can only find this [1], now it's not exactly what i was looking for, but you can still see that Sravaka-yana (Spiritual Discipleship) is a separate realm, now the person in that realm can still appear homo sapien biologically (although there will be some changes on the level of shakras). Βeta_Μ (Talk) (Ë-Mail)
- Interesting. It appears that ultimately, the description that website gives is from the Lotus Sutra. It brings up an interesting question, though: is a Sravaka really genetically Homo sapiens? Can a Sravaka be said to possess genes? - Nat Krause 07:44, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- OK, i have two things to say to that. One is this discussion is pushing my knowledge of the issue to its limits, therefore i will probably need to consult a person i know who has in fact received Mahayana lineage (sp?) teaching, and who is a Boddhisatva, and who will know the propper answer to this; another one is that even if genetics do not exist on that level... i would guess that would probably not be needed on that stage, Human realm is still defined by doubt rather than genetics, therefore, genes, although play significan role in the definition of the human from the perspective of science, will not from the Buddhist perspective. But i don't want this to get into an argument where i don't know all the facts, so i'll (asap) get ahold of an "expert" q;-) Βeta_Μ (Talk) (Ë-Mail)
- Well, just to clarify, my point is, is there a difference between "doubt" and "genes" or are they different ways of describing the same thing? Further, the article isn't necessarily just about a scientific view of humanity, so it's not necessarily necessary to distinguish the Buddhist view as distinct from everything else in the article. - Nat Krause 08:28, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- There is definately difference. But once again i will come back to it... probably tomorrow (if i'll get ahold of my "expert"). Βeta_Μ (Talk) (Ë-Mail)
- It ends up that my edit to the Human page was... well misleading and incorrect. However, somebody has already removed it with the simple reference to Human realm. I stand corrected. Βeta_Μ (Talk) (Ë-Mail)
Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)
Please see Wikipedia:No personal attacks. RickK 10:09, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
- Read the policy, changed the page. It would be nice if you don't {{vfd}} page right away, but actually try to contact the author and possibly resolve the conflict. I do understand that we are all Wikipedians, and i might have been a little hot to start listing people, but you must admit that it was possible for me to take a personal offence to what you have done and to just start going around blanking pages... Please look at my page and at my contributions, it is my belief that i did in fact contribute to Wikipedia enough not to be treated like that . I'll post the copy of this on your user page. Βeta_Μ (Talk) (Ë-Mail)
Signing
I thought I'd let you know that you forgot to sign your vote on the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Chinese ethnocentrism page. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:21, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks Βeta_Μ (Talk) (Ë-Mail)
Responses to Survey Answers
Really? Why the Swiss? That is odd. Would you happen to know off hand where I could find this information?
BTW - I saw on your talk page that you have anarcho-primitivism listed as a page you would like to contribute to. The article is currently lacking any real in-depth knowledge and has recently been edited a good deal by folks who admit they know little or nothing about it. There was also an attempt to merge it with primitive communism, which I aborted. Anyway, you might want to give it a look in the near future as it needs to be fleshed out. Kev 22:52, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi Beta m— There is an interesting discussion regarding paniq over on VfD. I was hoping you could review the article and perhaps contribute a vote? —RaD Man (talk) 17:02, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Animal testing
You should assume good faith, Beta. There was some kind of editing glitch. I found vandalism, reverted it, checked my edit, and saw the vandalism was still there. I therefore deleted it again, using delete instead of revert. There are a lot of weird revert and save glitches going on today. SlimVirgin 18:46, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
As far as I can make out, Beta M made an edit to the page without noticing the vandalism; SlimVirgin was in the process of reverting the vandalism, and an edit conflict produced the wierd result. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:48, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks, Mel. The same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago at Anti-Semitism, where I now have this delightful contribution attributed to my name, when in fact I was reverting it. Beta, I'm normally not the sort of editor who would add "I kill my mums rabbits for tea," but if I had, I'd have used the apostrophe. SlimVirgin 19:04, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Hah! If I were the sort of person who wrote “lol” I'd have written it now. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:10, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I did assume good faith, after all you did revert it, my first thought was that somebody was using your login name. It can happen if you were to use a public computer and forgot to logout. My intention was to sound confused not harsh, if i have failed to convey what i was trying to say, i'm sorry. Βeta_Μ (Talk) (Ë-Mail)
- No worries, Beta. SlimVirgin 06:03, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
Italy and bicontinental
Why did you add Category:Bicontinetal country to Italy article? It is a single continent country, as far as I know.--Panairjdde
Commons images not CSD eligible
Hi. I have noticed you have placed a number of speedy delete requests on images that have been copied to Commons. By policy, such images cannot be speedy deleted. Please make such image deletions requests on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion where they will be deleted in 7 days unless objections are raised. The only possible exceptions to this policy are those where you have uploaded to the English Wiki, no one has made any changes to the image description page and the image is not being used in an article. Thanks. RedWolf 03:46, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
HIV: Epidemic - Pandemic
Hi, i'm not being picky, just thought you should know this litte fact since you've mentioned it when editing Africa article. HIV is not an epidemic because it's global, and as such qualifies to be a pandemic. Βeta_Μ (Talk) (Ë-Mail)
- Thanks for the terminology check ... we should get the terms right. Would HIV/AIDS then be considered epidemic in a geographical region (such as Africa) but pandemic overall?
- Courtland 18:40, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
- I don't know everything about the issue, but from what i understand, HIV1 is pandemic, while HIV2 is epidemic (since there's been no cases outside of Africa so far. Βeta_Μ (Talk) (Ë-Mail)
