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A cup of tea for you!

Enjoy your cup of tea and relax! I did not intend any provocation, I am just a fan of sourced content. JimRenge (talk) 19:39, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

one can go over that top with that --Catflap08 (talk) 19:44, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

A peer-reviewed academic source, written by an author who spent his life on the topic, can not be topped :-).

I doubt that the NMRK website is a reliable source; it appears to be a one-man project (I also did some research on the internet about the owner) . I remember the problems with the owner of this website because he insisted to add his links to Nichiren related articles, which were considered to be WP:SPAM and deleted by several editors. Perhaps you want to remove this yourself. Anyway, one reliable (!) reference would have been sufficient. JimRenge (talk) 20:54, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Do as you please--Catflap08 (talk) 21:13, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Myōdōkai Kyōdan

Hello Catflap08,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Myōdōkai Kyōdan for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. JacobiJonesJr (talk) 01:26, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Kenji Miyazawa

Please take it back to the talk page before complaining about me on AN. I'll forgive you for not noticing that WP:AN is actually semi-protected and I am unable to respond to you there, but your accusation is false. The material is not actually referenced, since the sources cited don't actually back up the claim. I have already explained this to you several times on the talk page, but you have ignored me. 126.0.96.220 (talk) 14:46, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

EEER you FORVIVE me???--Catflap08 (talk) 14:51, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Yeah. You posted about me on a noticeboard where I was unable to respond. You erred. Youa culpa and all that. Now let's forget about that AN mishap and discuss article content on the article talk page. 126.0.96.220 (talk) 15:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

3RRNB notification

Noisemonkey has filed a report on you at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. It was malformed, still missing information, and I've pointed out that the report appears to have been filed in bad faith. You probably don't even need to bother with it, but I'm notifying you per common courtesy. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Proposed topic-ban on Kenji Miyazawa

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 126.0.96.220 (talk) 14:07, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

• As per the ANI discussion, and our policy on WP:BURDEN, you need to stop adding the "nationalist" tag until you've gone through DRN or similar process. Basically, if something is undersourced and contentious, you always leave it out until it is demonstrated that a consensus supports inclusion, regardless of which article it is. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 14:46, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Please participate in the Conversation on Germany

Hi, Thank you for your participation in the image review on discussion on the Germany talk page. The Image has now been reverted for the third time and ruins of Berlin photo is back. I would really appreciate your participation in this discussion and hopefully reaching a consensus. Thanks again.Monopoly31121993 (talk) 18:59, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Holocaustverleugnung?

Wie kommst du bitte zu diesem ungeheuerlichen Vorwurf gegen mich? Dass ich ein Leichenbild im Artikel über Deutschland als respektlos gegenüber den Opfern und der Volksgruppe empfinde, hast du mir gefälligst freistehen zu lassen. Ich empfinde nicht nur diese Eingebung und deine Anschuldigungen als respektlos, sondern bereits als an der Grenze zum Rufmord schwelend. Wenn ich so etwas noch einmal lesen muss, leite ich rechtliche Schritte zu deiner IP ein. Schönen Tag, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 10:23, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

As far as I know we are in the English speaking Misplaced Pages is there any specific reason why you post legal threats against me in German? I may have to ask Misplaced Pages for some legal advice on this one.--Catflap08 (talk) 16:08, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

If you stop it we can rest the case, if not, well. So you aren't actually German, are you? -- Horst-schlaemma (talk) 17:53, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

I shall remind you that posting legal threats goes against Misplaced Pages guidelines and can result in blocking a user. My nationality is as a matter of fact no business of yours.--Catflap08 (talk) 19:57, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:ANI#German legal threat?. John Carter (talk) 20:54, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Horst has been unblocked. I think you may have been considering requesting some form of sanctions if that were to happen. Now might be the time to ask for them. And, if you want something quiet to do, I can email you some reference book articles on Soka Gakkai I found now that Safwan seems to be gone John Carter (talk) 17:01, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know and I have already responded. This is in some ways irritating.--Catflap08 (talk) 18:01, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Archiving already?

It looks like you've got the bot to archive already which makes actually adding comments kinda hard. FWIW I can't see any rational reason why someone would post a German language comment on a user talk page in the English language wikipedia, less reason for them to ask for a response in that language, and no reason whatsoever for them to jump to the wildly unsubstantiated and almost completely unsupportable conclusion that you aren't German, but some people around here aren't particularly rational anyway. But you might want to do something about the archiving problem. John Carter (talk) 23:59, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Your comments at Talk:Germany

You wrote

"If the final goal is to victimise Germany during the period between 1933 and 1945 by displaying an image of Hitler and some rubbles then this is to my mind irritating and a cause for worry . . . revisionist views are given a platform that is unseen on the German Misplaced Pages. "

Since I am one of the editors supporting the long-term consensus, and your comments could be read as referring to my comments or actions, I would personally appreciate it if you would redact all of your relevant comments to clarify that your intent was not to associate my views – or those of other editors, for that matter – with an attempt to provide a platform for revisionist views. If you wish to remove your last comment, you have my permission to also remove my reply.

It might make for less drama if you concisely expressed your views on how many and which images to display in the survey section.--Boson (talk) 18:15, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

I am sorry but I surely will not follow your request. Constantly negating the fact the Buchenwald picture is not in accordance to articles content – i.e. victims of the regime – is an opinion that I challenged as being revisionist. So in the end we are faced with two opinions. Showing images that do give the impression to victimise Germany and to blend out what happened during the time the regime was in power is my opinion a revisionist view – you are free to challenge that. In my books the talk page’s purpose is to talk about issues concerning the article. And yes I do have VERY strong views on to either victimise Germany’s role during World War II or to put a blind eye to the atrocities that the regime committed against its own population. Sorry that the Berlin in ruins picture does not cause me to weep.--Catflap08 (talk) 18:44, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Catflap08, You are inspiration to us all. I could not support your views more strongly.Monopoly31121993 (talk) 23:01, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

The article is supposed to inform, not make you weep. --Boson (talk) 01:36, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

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I nominate Catflap08 as Editor of the Week for his remarkable dedication to trying to keep some of the articles on some of our most contentious and least-noticed topics reasonable. Catflap08 recently stated on his user talk page an intention of retiring. Given the nature of the articles he works with, including a lot relating to various groups of Nichiren Buddhism, I am more than a bit amazed that he hasn't already retired. The content of the edits, particularly talk page edits, of many others of the pages in question would be enough to drive many, possibly most, people away permanently. I have myself, to a limited degree, had contact with Catflap08 for some time, and though he can lose his temper sometimes almost as badly as I do, his greater dedication and involvement in this material probably gives him more cause than I have ever had. Having someone who knows something about this topic, is not fanatically devoted to the beliefs of one or another of the groups involved, and tries to the best of his ability to keep the content in line with policies and guidelines, despite the sometimes endless blather of partisans, is an invaluable asset to our efforts, and I think very well deserving of this recognition.

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Upps cheers--Catflap08 (talk) 19:38, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Third opinion

Hi, this is to let you know that I have asked for a 3rd opinion on the Bundestag question. This seems to be the lowest, entry-level way that these things are handled. But I think there are other problems. It appears that you have been adding exclusively negative content, which looks like a WP:POV violation. You've been loading up the article with this negative content, which is a form of WP:OR, even when each addition is sourced. It may also violate WP:DUE. And worst of all you've been constantly reverting edits by editors who are trying to bring some balance back into the article. In my view this qualifies as disruptive editing. It makes it really hard to work on this article. It feels like arm wrestling. I've tried to be cooperative and talk about these issues on the Talk page, but so far you haven't conceded a single point.
While looking into the various ways to complain about this behavior, many of them required talking about this on your Talk page. So that's what I'm doing here. Taking it all in all, it seems to me that the most appropriate action would ask for a topic ban on all topics related to SGI. But I really don't want to do that. You've been watching this article for years, and I don't think you should be banned from contributing. But this constant reverting is making it very difficult. Can I put it as a request, to please let other contribute in peace? Thanks. --Margin1522 (talk) 02:54, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the RKK corrections and updates

I saw some subsequent edits and improvements to the ones I made on the Rissho Kosei Kai article, and just wanted to say 'thanks'. I was working off of limited information (resources are pretty scarce in English), but your corrections helped clarify some points. Thanks for adding additional citations :) --Ph0kin (talk) 04:54, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Precious

reasonable moves
Thank you, German/English user who started with "just keeping a eye on things :-)", for watching over topics such as Germany, Nichiren Buddhism and Soka Gakkai, for using terms of today and the reasonable moves from evangelikal to evangelisch, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:19, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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WP:RX

It might well be possible to make a request at the above page to get a copy of the article from one of the editors who might have it included in one of the subscription databanks involved. John Carter (talk) 18:20, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

@ John CarterI have meanwhile searched the data bank on how to obtain copyrights, this would be done on behalf of that toride link. At this point I am quite willing to go to great lengths to make this article accessible to a Misplaced Pages reader. Me citing parts of the article is just an alternative which I have no hesitations to do. In the end I am not doing anything wrong by citing.--Catflap08 (talk) 18:31, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Check your e-mail. I think NQ said they sent you, me, and Hoary all a link to a pdf version of the original article. John Carter (talk) 19:49, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

@ John Carter I have checked my e-mail and thank you ever so much, but I already have a copy, but to have it on my disposal only is of little use. What irritates me most is that I have to speak in defence of something that was made public in printing at any news stand 30 years ago --Catflap08 (talk) 20:29, 9 January 2015 (UTC)--Catflap08 (talk) 20:23, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Violations of the MOS

Please do not restore euphemisms in prose. Misplaced Pages is written in a formal tone, and euphemisms are not allowed. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:03, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

NinjaRobotPirate Concerning what? Sorry the term former suggest in some ways still alive. How much former can one be than "late" or dead?--Catflap08 (talk) 21:07, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

What the hell? Now you're edit warring? I already linked to the guideline that describes that this is not to be done! NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:17, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

No I am not edit warring. The term “late” is an adjective. It informs the reader of the fact that Hugo Chavez is no longer alive, kicked the bucket, passed away, no longer alive. “Former” might suggest he went of doing something else … he did not he his dead, died in office – hence the term “late”.--Catflap08 (talk) 21:22, 28 January 2015 (UTC) I mean good grief, the term ‘late’ is not a euphemism. It describes that the person we are on about is dead. He is dead hence he can no longer run for any office - he is not running full stop. And you are calling this any edit war – that is a bit daft must say.--Catflap08 (talk) 21:35, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015

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Are you serious? The guy is dead that is a bit more than former so by the laws of biology he can not be in office.--Catflap08 (talk) 21:24, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I am serious. wikt:late. Read it now. Please. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:37, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Maybe in the former colonies one bears more weight to an office than a person, but to my mind Hugo has crossed the Jordan.--Catflap08 (talk) 22:48, 28 January 2015 (UTC) It’s the late Hugo Chavez not the former Hugo Chavez.--Catflap08 (talk) 22:57, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Ikeda

If I had any opinions on Daisaku Ikeda, I'd hope that they wouldn't be apparent either in my edits to the article or in my comments on its talk page. You're welcome to your opinions, but you would be wise not only to keep them to yourself but to make sure that your editing pattern doesn't reflect them. It's quite likely that various editors will (1) know something of your editing history; (2) view your combination of

• insistence on the retention in the article of the kind of material that Ikeda's admirers wouldn't want despite presenting little or no evidence that Ikeda was involved, and
• reversion of the addition of the kind of reliably sourced material they would want on the grounds that it violates a guideline that it actually doesn't violate at all;

and (3) think "Just what I expect."

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• Apply the same interpretation of Misplaced Pages's standards for reliability to any material that anybody wants to keep in, or add to, the article;
• Reread any guideline or policy before you cite it;
• If you can produce enough evidence for an allegation of sock puppetry, you are free (though not compelled) to go ahead and have it looked into. Otherwise (whether you lack the evidence or have evidence but can't be bothered to do anything with it), stay quiet.

Anyone can make a mistake. I myself made a mistake in that article, in this edit. Two new contributors pointed out that I was wrong. I conceded that I was wrong and reversed my edit. This was not heroic of me; it was simply part of level-headed editing. So to show that you are indeed editing with a level head, an optional bonus for you:

• Admit to mistakes quickly, and apologize for them.

Because I suspect that if you keep on as you've been going, you're headed for a topic ban. -- Hoary (talk) 09:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

@ Hoary Well since I keep my activities mostly to the talk page when it comes to certain articles. The incident you refer to – okay point taken. I would like you to pay attention to WP:HOUND: “This includes any real world threats, such as threats of harm, but also threats to disrupt a person's work on Misplaced Pages.”--Catflap08 (talk) 10:04, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

If you believe that you are being hounded, I urge you to report this at WP:ANI. -- Hoary (talk) 10:09, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

@ Hoary At this point I do not feel hounded yet. Just saying. At the moment I believe editors are actually relatively successful to get articles on Soka Gakkai and Daisaku Ikeda as objective as possible and indicate which facts are missing. --Catflap08 (talk) 10:17, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

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Talkback

Regarding your query on Murata, Kiyoaki (1969). Japan's new Buddhism: an objective account of Soka Gakkai (. ed.). New York: Weatherhill - NQ (talk) 14:31, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Sources

At SG Talk: I am finding it increasingly irritating to get hammered for introducing sources and verifying them in terms of content and existence.

I've recently started looking at requests at WP:RSN, and this seems to be true. When sources are challenged, it's almost always because somebody doesn't like the statements supported by the sources. – Margin1522 (talk) 12:21, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

@ Margin1522 Please note: ] and ]--Catflap08 (talk) 12:32, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Aha. About the DRN I think you better notify Hoary so he can reply. My impression from looking at it earlier is that he wasn't objecting to the material as such (now seems well sourced to me) as that it belongs on the Toda page instead of the Ikeda one. Anyway I'll put that on my watchlist to see how it goes. – Margin1522 (talk) 12:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

@ Margin1522 Well since he threatened me with a topic ban (see section on Ikeda on my talk page) I decided to insert the quote. The way the original dispute started it was about the Murata quote. How should I know if Ikeda may have been hitting too. I can only verify the quote in the Montgomery book which I cited in full length on the DI talk page a while back – it too also jut mentions Toda as the hitting part. That Murata made such a statement was disputed – so I filled the investigation for the correct Murata quote. So many editors (mainly Brandenburg and Shii) reworked both articles how should I know to which state the article was reedited. As I said totady on the Ikeda page Ikeda was involved in the incident if he was hitting or waving pom-poms or doing summersaults is not my interest. I verified the Murata quote and found out who was hitting who. Had I not asked for help finding the clippings that issue would be brought up again and again. For months now I hardly edit those two articles I just get a bit irritated when critical nonpartisan views are repeatedly being deleted or questioned. --Catflap08 (talk) 16:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

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I've reverted your edit to ANIArchive873, because discussions should only be carried out on the main page. If you think it's important to add that comment, you can move the entire section out of the archives and add it back to the main page. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 02:14, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

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Please help me with...Hi there, I just added a rather lengthy footnote on Soka Gakkai. Due to the controversial nature of the article I thought this might be helpful. Nevertheless I find the sections on References, Notes, Quotes, and Literature etc. to be a bit all over the place. Could somebody check if all follows guidelines and protocol? Feel free to correct the latest edit if needed.

Catflap08 (talk) 20:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

I take it that rather lengthy footnote is a quote from the book cited as a source, since it's listed among "Quotes"? That quote is long enough to be problematic on copyright grounds, and I'll remove it for that reason. Instead, you can simply add a footnote referring to the relevant pages of that book so our readers can look up that text for themselves, or provide a short summary in your own words and cite the source.

On an unrelated note, you used the {{sfn}} template for the reference. That's indeed a good way to deal with it, but it only works properly in conjunction with a corresponding entry in the "References" section that gives the bibliographical details - without it, the link pointed nowhere, and readers were left to wonder what work "Montgomery 1991" might be. Huon (talk) 20:40, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

@ Huon Okay thanks for the quick help. I will rephrase some sections of the paragraph as some author got the numbers wrong and add a shorter footnote. Is there any guideline in terms of number of words the footnote should not exceed?--Catflap08 (talk) 10:34, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

There is no fixed number, but the only reason to quote a source, instead of summarizing it in our own words, is that it's of crucial importance to give that source's specific wording - say, because we give an author's personal opinion and don't want to put our words into that author's mouth. I don't see any such issues here; do you? Huon (talk) 19:52, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

@ Huon Nope summed up everything written and stated in the main text and added a shortened version of the citation. I do this because of the core of the citation was once questioned i.e. that it ever was published in such a way. Just being on the safe side here.--Catflap08 (talk) 20:07, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

I warned you

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:04, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

@ Hijiri 88 Well you warn me and I take action via RfC first because I find the current discussion a bit irrational.--Catflap08 (talk) 13:45, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

It's not really related so I'll post it here, but...

...could you please stop talking about how "no one argues that Kenji wasn't a member"? It's entirely irrelevant to the topic at hand: you say him being a member of the group makes him a nationalist by default, and have written the article on the group to reflect this view; I say that since no reliable sources refer to him as a nationalist, clearly the fact that he was a member of the group is irrelevant.

It's also unfair for you to say "he was a member of the Kokuchukai, not a devout follower of Nichiren Buddhism". Keene (whose Dawn to the West (poetry) pp283-291 is probably the most widely-accessible English-language biography of the man) devoted eight pages to him and of the Kokuchukai he wrote simply:

His parents were devout believers in Jōdo Buddhism, but after a reading of the Lotus Sutrain 1915, which made him tremble with joy, he became converted to Nichiren Buddhism. It has been said that he lived his entire life in accordance with the spirit of this sutra, which he kept by him always. His writings, mainly poetry and children's stories, contain an unusual number of words of Buddhist significance, and even though specifically Buddhist teachings do not often surface in his works, they were never far from his mind. Miyazawa's deathbed request, made to his father, was that he print an edition of one thousand copies of the Lotus Sutra in Japanese translation and distribute them to friends with a note saying: "The purpose of the work of my entire lifetime was to deliver this sacred book into your hands, and to enable you to enter the Highest Path by bringing you into contact with the Buddha's teachings." Such piety, contrasted with the indifference to Buddhism on the part of most modern Japanese poets, helps to explain the life Miyazawa led.

Miyazawa himself edited a volume of extracts from the writings of Nichiren, and in the following year he joined a Nichiren Buddhist society. That winter he went through the streets of the city shouting the invocation of Nichiren Buddhists: Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō ("Hail the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law").

While at home in January 1921 he made several unsuccessful attempts to convert his family to Nichiren Buddhism. He was much discouraged, but one day a miracle occurred: some volumes of the writings of Nichiren fell off a shelf and struck him. Taking this as a divine revelation, he instantly determined he would go to Tokyo and take a more active part in proselytiztion. Forty minutes after making this decision, Miyazawa was on the train, carrying with him only the Lotus Sutra, an umbrella, and travel money.

As soon as Miyazawa arrived in Tokyo he went to the Kokuchūkai (Pillar of the Nation Society), where he offered his services in whatever way might be helpful in spreading Nichiren's teachings. At first his offer was politely rejected, but eventually he engaged in street propagation of the faith. During his stay in Tokyo he also wrote an enormous number of pages of children's stories -- supposedly three thousand pages a month -- and sold one story at the end of the year for five yen, the only money he received during his lifetime for his writings. In September 1921 he returned home because of his sister Toshi's renewed illness, and became a teacher at the Agricultural School in the town of Hanamaki in Iwate Prefecture.

That's it. That's all. He was a follower -- a devout follower -- of Nichiren Buddhism for some years before travelling to Tokyo. He visited the Kokuchukai upon arrival in Tokyo and asked if they would let him work for them as a missionary. They initially turned him down, but eventually he made it work, and preached in the streets for them for eight months before returning to Hanamaki and continuing his devotion to the Lotus Sutra. The fourth paragraph in the above quote is literally the only place in the eight pages Keene devoted to Kenji that mentions the group (hence his providing a translation of its name). He remained a devout Nichiren Buddhist until his death, when his dying wish was for his father to distribute Lotus Sutras to a thousand people to spread the faith, but there is no reference to this being "the faith of the Kokuchukai".

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 17:31, 28 February 2015 (UTC)