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Kalachakra mandala on Shambhala page

Hi, just wanted to let you know that the image of the Kalachakra mandala on the Shambhala page appears to be of 'commercial quality' so to speak, as it contains some serious mistakes/omissions. For example, the orientation of the mandala is incorrect; the black/blue side should be turned to the bottom (east), and a part of the very center of the mandala is missing. Love rudy 08:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Rudy, Thanks for noticing. I know the Kalachakra it is nothing special (even for naive observer it may look beautiful). I still appreciate the work of the monk. From 'artistic-labor' perspective it is a lot of hours given the environment in Sera. When I was there I felt so much, and particularly regrets, I could not leave more from me there - for the Tibetan people. Unfortunately, most of money I spend to reach Tibet, where left in Chinese hands, but not in Tibetan people. Anyway, Tibet will always be in my heart and wait for me. Look at my other pages I put together about Tibet and Buddhism, and tell me what do you think? I plan to make many more...with time... With great sadness for Tibet and Tibetan people as well as appreciation of the past! With Compassion! regards, kosi

Which other pages did you make? rudy 22:10, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Plantar fasciitis

Thanks for great additions to Plantar fasciitis. I thought though most of the description was on the plantar fascia itself rather than the condition of its inflammation. I have therefore moved the anatomy & biomechanics to the previous stub of an article plantar fascia.

The biomechanics section in particular refers to research, studies and measurements but fails to cite the sources for this. You clearly will have the sources for this information, so could you please add the reference/citation details to plantar fascia - if you need any help using footnotes (WP:Footnotes) or marking-up citations, then please do ask - I'm happy to help. David Ruben 16:01, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

David,

Thanks for doing that and for your desire to help. I was planning to add references. Was looking for a easy way to display a table.

You probably removed the Magnetic section? There is plenty of evidence for its efficacy. Don't you like the subject (holistic direction)?

Let me know,

kosi

Magnetic section previously removed by User:Bitparity (this edit). That said:

1. Much of historical background info would be better in Magnetic therapy article itself, rather than this one condition article.
2. Comercial plug for obtaining the TheraP Magna-Dots seems inappropriate/spamming
3. As for magnetic therapy in plantar fasciitis, there are two levels of details that need verifying - firstly if a non-trivial number of people try to treat the condition this way (needs WP:Reliable sources such as a national newspaper article) - if can be so verified then I have no problem with articles mentioning that an alternative medical technical is tried by some people. However secondly is whether or not the technique actually works - very careful citing from WP:Reliable sources is required for such controversial alternative-medicine claims in order to WP:Verify. David Ruben 16:43, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

As for tables - see Help:Table, in essence:

{| border="1"                            If miss border parameter no separating lines
|+ Caption                               Caption is optional
|-
! Col 1 !! Col 2 !! Col 3 !! Col 4       Columns headed if use "!" instead of just "|" 
|-
! Row A                                  Rows headed again with "!" and a new line
| 1 || 2 || 3
|-
! Row B 
| 2 || 4 || 6
|-
| Row C || 3 || 6 || 9                   Rows not headed if use just pipes "|"
|-                            In essence start a new row with "|-" line and 
| Row D || 4 || 8 || 12       then a "|" before 1st cell and "||" between each subsequent cell
|}

Gives:

The markup up gets more complex for merged rows & columns etc - so again just ask if need help. David Ruben 17:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute

Hi, I'm going to nominate this article to appear on the Main Page in the Did you know section. I just wanted to comment on the licenses of the images you uploaded. You did not create the images yourself (i.e., you are not the artist), so the {{PD-self}} tag you put on them is incorrect. However, I think most of them will fall under {{PD-old}} because the original artist has been dead for more than 100 years. Please add more details to the image description pages -- for example, "Scene 1 from Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, painted by (-), originally published in ." Also, assuming these are all public domain due to age, you may want to consider uploading them to Wikimedia Commons instead so that other-language Wikipedias can make use of them. Please let me know if you have any questions. Regards, howcheng {chat} 18:25, 16 April 2007 (UTC) >

Howard, glad you recognize the 'Eighteen Songs'. I corrected two of the PD images. The first on top, is my creation, but that is not important. The 18 images are from a CD stock collection I had to resize and make identical as dimensions. Every image from the stock has an attached text in Chinese, sometime meaningful some time not. I will have a person who is helping with translation. As soon as I have something on the artist will add it. Let me know if you have further comments, best, kosi

DYK

On April 17, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Hello Kosigrim and well done on your article. This article was kindly nominated by Howcheng. Do feel free to self-nominate in future like the majority of our entries, and happy editing. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:34, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute

Thanks for your effort to intoduce our china culture to wikipedia. But I have to say that copyrights of the images incorporated in the gallery of this article havn't expired yet.These pictures are composed in the modern art style(of the latest 20years). As to image:18songs2.jpg,I don't think you create the images yourself.Even I feel difficult to understand these chinese character of the font Small Seal Script in this picture without context.

BTW:If you can not undrstand Chinese,Do free to ask me. leave your message @ zh:user:lastman--Lastman cn 05:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Dear 'Lastman',

Thanks for paying attention to the 'Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute' and for your offer to help with Chinese language.

I have many friends here from China. The problem is that not everyone has the time to translate (it is not fast and straight forward as in many other Latin based languages). Most of Chinse people here are very busy with 'life' and do not have time to be ambassadors of culture.

To your note, I do not believe the art ever expires (perhaps, I did not use the proper label). This label was suggested by one of the administrators at wiki, I guess also Chinese. Art once created is eternal...as far as the copyright, in this case they were sold with the CD collection I purchased several years ago in China. Perhaps, you should address the issue to the manufacturer of the 100-CD collection I purchased.

My interest in this story is very personal and believe there is few messages in it beyond 'your' culture as you explicitly emphasize.

My intent was NOT to introduce the Chinese culture, that must be your role and to many of your countryman if they feel compelled.

I guess you may be right, a foreigner to the Chinese culture can miss many things to say, but where are the Chinese scholars at first place?

Hope you are one of them, and instead of 'criticising', better sit down and tarnslate something - share it with the world.

I would be looking forward to hear from you and especially will anticipate your cultural contribution with a great interest when you do so...

best, kosi

According to the law of P.R.China(mainland) and R.O.China(taiwan). Copyright of works expires 70 years after its author's death, during which You may "fairuse" it according to the regulation of english wikipedia and the consesus of your community.

Besides, thanks for your encourage. however I will still continue to concentrate on contributing in chinese wikipedia for the following reasons: firstly, My english is very not very well. secondly, It's misery for us chinese to contribute here: I have to look for encrypted proxys to get on wikipedia due to the internet censorship firewall of our goverment, But english wikipedia system has disabled most of these open proxys from edition.

Best regards

--zh:user talk:lastman —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lastman cn (talk • contribs) 05:08, 18 April 2007 (UTC).

Child surrealism

Egomaniac:Tivedshambo (talk) added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Child surrealism, according to the proposed deletion process (see also "What Misplaced Pages is not" and Misplaced Pages's deletion policy). One may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, Tivedshambo (talk) 18:32, 21 April 2007 (UTC)