User talk:Sardaka

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Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —Moondyne 11:42, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Are you the Moondyne who left me a note telling me to stop adding "inappropriate" links to Wiki? The moderator, Dirk Beetstra, said it's okay to add links to the text, especially when they are relevant to the subject. The links I have added were not spam, were not aimed at increasing search engine ratings, are not commercial and are completely relevant to the subject of the article. What's wrong with them? I'm not trying to have a fight with you, but I need to know about all this. Beetstra said it's ok to put links in the text, so what's the problem? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Neilrobertpaton (talk • contribs) 08:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC).

By "moderator", I'm guessing that you mean User:Beetstra. If so I can't see where you asked and he "said its okay" to add such links. Regardless, in my view they are inappropriate links and are not OK. For example: http://gymshots.tripod.com/gymnast1.htm. The links are commercial (ie. contain Google ads) and are not allowed per our policy on external links as Wikipedia is not a link directory. If you are keen to contribute to the encyclopaedia, and you actually own the photos, you could of course upload some of them to Wikipedia with appropriate licensing tags (see WP:TAGS). Then you can insert the images directly into the articles. In the meantime, please do not add any more links like these to Wikipedia. —Moondyne 10:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello agian. I did not say that this was the way to add the links, I asked you to consider adding content, and when the site you are adding contains information that is added, you could use it as a reference. Adding a phrase 'pictures of her can be found here' is, IMHO, not adding content, but a short and quick way to spam a link. Please read through the pages linked in the welcome-message, they provide some information regarding these subjects. Please take some attention to read WP:EL, WP:RS and WP:A, they tell a bit more about which sites provide suitable information (pictures sites hardly ever do).

I notice these pages contain a lot of pictures, you could consider uploading some pictures. Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 11:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

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Abusive language

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Discussions

Glad you found the Village Pump. If you have any concerns or ideas about the individual policies themselves, such as WP:ATT, WP:NOR or the like, you can comment on the talk pages for those policies. Glad you're interested in participating in policy and general wiki discussions. Be well! Vassyana 13:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikpedia is not a democracy, nor is it an anarchy. We have lots of policies but we are not a bureaucracy. While these policies may seem contradictory and overwhelming at first glance, the eight listed in the right hand side box of the list are the glue that makes the whole thing work. Before getting too involved in discussions, I strongly suggest having a read of those. And then, when you contribute to a discussion you can better appreciate other peoples points of view. —Moondyne 14:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Pap-court.JPG listed for deletion

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All the other images you downloaded for Papin sisters...

... have also been speedily deleted, for the above reason. – riana_dzasta 12:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Aussies?

Sorry for the delay in replying. Yes, I'm Perth based. —Moondyne 04:31, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Papins1.jpeg

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Transcendental Meditation

From article's talk page:

mantra paragraph

To the person who inserted the section that included the mantras: if the article makes a claim that the mantras are unique, it would be appropriate for you to add a sentence disputing the claim and then cite the book you noted. Your insertion of a long paragraph with a separate header in the midst of the research section wasn't appropriate. TimidGuy 12:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

The section discussing the mantra is the appropriate location for a reference to disputes. Note also: large quotes from the book are WP:COPYVIO, unless properly referenced. It doesn't matter what language the words are written in. I would like to see the references: if this is correct, it is certainly notable. Michaelbusch 19:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your observations about my contribution to the TM page, but the list I provided was not a passage quoted from the book; it is a list which was in itself used at second hand by Steve Richards in his book. Nobody has copyright of that list. I am a published author and I'm quite aware of copyright law. The list is not, I can assure you, a quote from that book. As for the language, that was just my way of underlining that the mantras are not copyright by anyone. As for references, I provided enough, although I intend to add more detail about the book tomorrow.

What's your status at Wiki; are you an official or another contributor like me? Neilrobertpaton 07:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC) Wikipedia copyright policy is harder than that (see also Wikipedia:No original research and WP:CITE). Steve Richards has copyright on the text of his book. His original source has copyright on the list. Find them, cite them, and you will satisfy Wikipedia policy. And I was not the one who deleted your additions, as you can check from the article history (although, formatted as they were, they did not fit in the article). An observation: there are some very feverent supporters of TM editing the article. Unless you follow Wikipedia policy to the letter, they will remove whatever you add. Michaelbusch 17:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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Copyright notice on your pictures

I noticed that the pictures you put on the SY article have a copyright notice in their caption. Did you mean to write that? Wikipedia doesn't accept copyrighted material, for the appropriate guidelines please read WP:COPYVIO. Thanks.TheRingess (talk) 13:19, 24 March 2007 (UTC)