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Luke,I see that you are working on the Guna article. This is great, I just put a banner on there asking for help with references. I see that you have added something from Maharishi. That is OK but it appears that you have quoted directly from his book. This is not permitted on Wiki unless the person is being "quoted" and then quotation marks are used. Generally we paraphrase info from sources unless there is a specific reason to quote the author. You can check WP:CS for more details. thanks --Kbob (talk) 01:10, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

I am finished with my edits to the Guna page. I did rearrange some of your edits by Feurstein. I hope that's alright. I will let you take care of the Maharishi quote which needs to be edited as mentioned above. --Kbob (talk) 21:05, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Kbob, I rearranged the quite and will research further to insure it's all right, I am also working on some other quotes on this article. Thanks for the inputLuke Warmater101 (talk) 22:18, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Did I say "quotes"? I meant to say "references" Luke Warmater101 (talk) 22:20, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Luke, it seems your name is mispelled in your signature, is that intentional? If not check your 'preferences'. Also when you comment on a discussion page it is traditional that each new comment is indented by putting one more colon that the previous comment. If you look at the page you'll see what I mean. Welcome to Wiki--Kbob (talk) 01:20, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Editors aren't just editors

especially when they're busy pushing the POV of their employers. We've got MUM employees, SIMS employees and others with direct finanical ties to the TM Org, busily editing the TM-related articles in between (and for all I know, during) bunny hopping sessions, repeating the same TM-Org talking points over and over and over again through 21 and counting archives in the TM article alone. These are not casual practitioners of TM. And anytime anyone who doesn't owe their livlihood to the Maharishi's vast financial empire tries to edit the article, including Administrators, they're the enemy, and pointing out that the editor is hopeless conflicted, and his or her arguments baseless is uncivil and a personal attack. Look, I've got no dog in this fight - I'm neither a devotee of, nor opponent of, TM or any other competing product/religion/ideology/whatever. (My own approach to self-improvement is "If you cant' fix it with duct tape or a martini, it isn't worth fixing.") I'm just trying to achieve a balanced, encyclopedic article.Fladrif (talk) 19:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your recent changes!

Thanks for your recent edits!! - 189.217.171.135 (talk) 01:47, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

You Deserve a Cookie

Canada

I've posted a question for you at Talk:TM-Sidhi_program#Canada_study. Your response would be appreciated, when you have a chance.   Will Beback  talk  20:54, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/TM editors for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page.   Will Beback  talk  21:03, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

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• Misplaced Pages:Arbitration guide.

Thanks, –MuZemike 19:42, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transcendental Meditation movement

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transcendental Meditation movement/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transcendental Meditation movement/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Dougweller (talk) 11:22, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Welcome, and a suggestion

I hope you will be open to a small suggestion. Many of your edits are small changes to the same section. Please consider using the "Show Preview" button to verify each change and only click "Save page" when you feel that you are finished editing. This has many advantages, including reducing the "diffs" and the edit history entries stored by WP. Welcome to the TM arbitration case. David Spector 20:10, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transcendental Meditation movement/Evidence

Hello Luke Warmwater101. Your evidence on the above page stands at over 1200 words. The limit is 1000. Please refactor it within the next 24 hours or a clerk will do it for you. Regards, Ryan Postlethwaite 17:52, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transcendental Meditation movement

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following is a summary of the remedies enacted:

• All editors who are party to this case are instructed to read the principles, to review their own past conduct in the light of them, and if necessary to modify their future conduct to ensure full compliance with them.
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For and on behalf of the Arbitration Committee Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 18:32, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Discuss this

AGF

Please see Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transcendental Meditation movement#Decorum and assumptions of good faith. Will you remove your personal remarks or do you require an official warning?   Will Beback  talk  03:49, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. It never hurts to follow the Golden Rule: treat other editors the way you'd like to be treated.   Will Beback  talk  05:41, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Editor input requested

In trying to get a sense of where editors stand on the TM article split merge situation It would help to have a definitve statement from each editor. This is not as I see it, to determine a change but to determine whether we can agree on this important issue and if we can't to get outside help. Input here: (olive (talk) 19:11, 23 October 2010 (UTC))

Suggestion #5 in the TM article

There is a discussion about the interpretation of suggestion #5 in the TM article. Your input would be appreciated. Edith Sirius Lee (talk) 19:46, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

MMY talk

I'm not sure what you were intending to do, but you deleted most of the talk page. I've undone your edit - could you please redo whatever you meant to do, but without deleting everything else?   Will Beback  talk  02:52, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

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TM movement talk page

I have a PDF of the Wash Po article. If you activate your email I can send it to you.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 20:39, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Done, thanks for sending. --Luke Warmwater101 (talk) 19:49, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

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Discussion at WP:ANI#Content manipulation on 2012 Italian Navy Marines shooting incident in the Laccadive Sea

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Clarification motion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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