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	::I just meant that there's nothing inherently suspicious about editing ] early in one's editing career. I hadn't realized or remembered that ] had been banned, but now that I look they don't appear similar.   <b>]  ]  </b> 00:22, 1 January 2010 (UTC)		::I just meant that there's nothing inherently suspicious about editing ] early in one's editing career. I hadn't realized or remembered that ] had been banned, but now that I look they don't appear similar.   <b>]  ]  </b> 00:22, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::Yes Will is correct that there is nothing inherently wrong with editing a particular topic early on in ones Wiki history but why he chose to use TG and Olive as examples is pretty strange. If an editor has a concern that a banned user has returned under a new user name that is a valid concern and should be given due consideration.--<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — ] • ] • </span> 21:13, 3 January 2010 (UTC)		:::Yes Will is correct that there is nothing inherently wrong with editing a particular topic early on in ones Wiki history but why he chose to use TG and Olive as examples is pretty strange. If an editor has a concern that a banned user has returned under a new user name that is a valid concern and should be given due consideration.--<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — ] • ] • </span> 21:13, 3 January 2010 (UTC)


			==True believers==
			That's not a term I'd have used. But Kala is not the first editor to express the same concern. In fact, there have been five separate threads at ] over the years about the involvement of members of the TM movement in editing the articles. Unfortunately, all of those complaints have been ignored. Since you've asked me about it, I'd advise you or an any editor with a significant commitment to the TMM (or to anti-TMM groups) to avoid editing those topics directly. Misplaced Pages does not exist to provide a platform for advocacy.   <b>]  ]  </b> 21:05, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

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Welcome!

Welcome to Misplaced Pages, Bigweeboy! I am Gman124 and have been editing Misplaced Pages for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Misplaced Pages! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Misplaced Pages:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!

Gman124 15:49, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Red links

Hello! Please do not needlessly remove red links as you did here. Red links should only be removed when an article cannot be created at the title the link leads to, and even then, it's better to fix them instead of removing them altogether. Please see WP:REDLINK for additional information and feel free to drop me a note if you have questions. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:24, March 18, 2009 (UTC)

As User:Ezhiki has already written please don't remove redlinks without reasons as you did on Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th Baronet - this could be regarded as vandalism. Please also don't add commas into the date format "11 December 3000" (see Misplaced Pages:Dates#Dates). ~~ Phoe _talk ~~ 22:08, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I have seen that you mainly add and remove wikilinks on articles, so you might find it interesting to read also Misplaced Pages:Linking#Overlinking_and_underlinking. If you have questions about Misplaced Pages or the editing generally, please feel free to drop me a note. Greetings ~~ Phoe _talk ~~ 17:02, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

tedder (talk) 21:31, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

tedder (talk) 16:41, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Kalpa

Reference are not needed on disambig pages. Thank you for the edits though World (talk • contributions) 02:40, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Indenting

Not sure if you noticed but when you add a comment add also : which will indent the comment. The first person on a section doesn't add anything the next person adds one : the next two : and so up until seven: or so then it all starts over again.... makes for easy reading :o). Looks like this:

first person

second

third

fourth

fifth

and so on

and on

and....

starts over (olive (talk) 23:18, 12 May 2009 (UTC))

Sockpuppets

If you are also User:Mrsjolly and/or User:68.238.26.31, you might want to stick with just one indentity. I occasionally forget to log in myself, resulting in posting as an IP address, but using multiple identities is considered bad form.Fladrif (talk) 16:27, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Today I deleted the Wiki username "Mrsjolly". My wife set this account up in June when she thought she wanted to get involved in Wiki as an editor. This never happened. When you look at her usage record, you will she made no edits on Wiki, made no comments on any Wiki discussion pages, and did not participate in any way in Wiki. The only time her account appeared on Wiki was as a error message when I did some edits on the Transcendental Meditation article as Bigweeboy while, mistakenly Mrsjolly was logged in on the computer we use at home. This was a simple mistake and the Mrsjolly account has not been used again until today when I submitted it for deletion to the Wiki Administrators. --BwB (talk) 11 August 2009

Just to clarify in case the above comment is not clear - On 11 June 2009 at 15:59 (UTC) we created a new Wiki account for my wife with the username Mrsjolly on our home computer. Twelve minutes later, at 16:11 (UTC) I made an edit on the TM-Sidhi article discussion page while logged in as Mrsjolly, and signed the edit as Bigweeboy. My wife had forgotten to sign out from Wiki before I began to edit and I did not realize that she had not logged out. So when I say above that "she made no edits on Wiki", this is in fact true since my wife never used the account again, and the edit associated with this account was made by me (Bigweeboy) while logged in as Mrsjolly by mistake. The Mrsjolly account was deleted yesterday, 11 August, 2009. --BwB (talk) 12:09, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

The User:68.238.26.31 was created when I made some Wiki edits having forgotten to log in. I have requested this account to be deleted. --BwB (talk) 15:15, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Einstein

To make a long story short I was in the process of making changes to an article that was an FAC and one of the project directors closed it and told me to come back in a few months. Theres a lot more too it than that but basically thats it.--Kumioko (talk) 01:33, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

To Clarify:

I just re-read some of my replies to you BB and in my usual manner i think they may have come across as "rude" this was not my intention and i just thought i would say - without trying to sound condescending - imo The7thdr (talk) 18:47, 30 July 2009 (UTC)your questions are well thought out and reasoned. I have not answered your questions about whether I think Otis would have passed peer review for the simple fact that this would be my opinion. As difficult as it maybe to believe, I try to keep to what is cited by others. My personal opinion or background means nothing in WIKI- and this is how it should be :)The7thdr (talk) 18:47, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Your comment on my talk page:

One might be consider it anther personal attack from members of the TM faith - together with other members of your faith reminding me that I might somehow "be banned" I understand that faith is important to many people but still....

In answer to your question, no, but it might influence what articles I look at. However, I at least have the good manners to put forward my personal views so there are no mistake - unlike many others :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by The7thdr (talk • contribs) 15:00, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

ME research

Cutting and pasting out of context quotes from DO-J's website defending this patent nonsense is not going to go a long way to convince me.Fladrif (talk) 18:01, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

The journal's editors did think it was voodoo science, and if you read the whole thing, instead of the out-of-context quotes that DO-J cites, you'll see that they published the article despite their opinion that it was voodoo science.Fladrif (talk) 21:03, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

The editors and reviewers wondered too, and were worried about reader reaction, which is why they went to such extraordinary lengths to explain how it was that this nonsense, which they most definitely did not endorse managed to make it to print. 21:35, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Deletion without reason

I went through the deletion policies and found nothing on it where you could have found reason to propose deletion of the Grand Island Senior High page. A short article is no a reason for deletion, especially when the article is fairly new. Please read over this and please don't try to be a "wiki-hero" and hunt for things to edit in pages, especially in subjects and pages you don't know about. Tyb4 (talk) 15:37, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for you comment, Tyb4. As editors we are all learning to improve. With respect to your comment "..and please don't try to be a "wiki-hero" and hunt for things to edit in pages, especially in subjects and pages you don't know about.", you have no right to say this to me and its a wrong thing to say to another editor. I would remind you of 2 Wiki policies: WP:BOLD - be bold; and, WP:AGF - Assume good faith --BwB (talk) 17:29, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages articles needing copy edit from June 2009

When I have spare time, I am helping to edit the articles on this list. --BwB (talk) 19:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Accounts

Hi BwB, as per your comments and requests accounts cannot be technically deleted here, but you can simply not use it anymore and not worry much else. :-) -- Menti fisto 15:49, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for the info, Ment. I will not use the account. --BwB (talk) 20:26, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

David Orme-Johnson

You wrote that you were "interested to see" that I'd written an article on David Orme-Johnson. Why so? Will Beback talk 00:07, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Just wondered why you felt that DOJ warranted a Wiki page. --BwB (talk) 16:22, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

His name kept coming up. Will Beback talk 15:57, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

A More Perfect Onion (talk) 17:37, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Corrections

In your most recent post on TM talk page I think there are two mistakes you may want to correct. 1) the second quote from Beacon that you removed was in the Principles section, not the Origin section. 2. The Beacon was discussed on the WP:RSN page not the WP:COIN page.-- — Kbob • Talk • 19:36, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Kbobb. I have noted this on the TM Talk Page. --BwB (talk) 15:19, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Talk Back

Hello, Bigweeboy. You have new messages at Bigweeboy's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

BWB, Here's a handy tag. You can just place it on another editor's user talk page and it lets them know that you have responded to something that they have written on your User page. It automatically updates the Hello........... to the users name whose page you paste it on. You can paste it on my user talk page if you want to see how it works. This keeps the conversation all in one place instead of going back and forth. Its not required that you use it but I find it handy, so thought I'd share it with you. -- — Kbob • Talk • 18:11, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Kbob. --BwB (talk) 19:15, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I got the tag on my page. It works!!-- — Kbob • Talk • 19:17, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Category:Transcendental Meditation Researcher

I renamed the category you created from "Category:Transcendental Meditation Researcher" to "Category:Transcendental Meditation researchers". "Researcher" isn't a proper noun, so it isn't capitalized, and category names are always plural. However if there is only one entry it probably doesn't belong. Are there other articles we can add? Will Beback talk 18:39, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Small changes

B., I often see you making small improvemtns to article, such as adding or moving punctuation. That's great, thanks for doing it. However you may not be aware that everytime we save a change to a page, the Wiki software stores an entire new copy of the page. So for the overall project's benefit, it's best to avoid saving every little edit individually. More space can always be purchased and if there's a good reason for saving the individual edits then they won't break the server. But they do have a cost, and I though you might not have been aware of it. Will Beback talk 21:37, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Will. I was not aware of it. I will change my editing habits accordingly. --BwB (talk) 14:02, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

You've been changing date formats in articles from Month-Day-Year to Day-Month-Year. While either is an acceptable format, you're not supposed to be changing date formats except for (i) maintaining internal consistency in the article or (ii) a reason to change it based on "strong national ties to the topic'. See WP:MOSNUM#Full_date_formatting Your change , or example, is (i) inconsistent with the other date formats in the article and (ii) contrary to common usage in the US, where Chopra's entire professional career has been conducted.Fladrif (talk) 15:59, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

In the Chopra instance, I though it read better with the revised format. Sorry if it is the wrong thing to do. Please revert as you like. --BwB (talk) 16:05, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the clean up on the School Programs section. I shouldn't have left those errors behind. I appreciate your eye for detail!-- — Kbob • Talk • 20:31, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the "Thanks", Kbobb. --BwB (talk) 21:04, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Service Awards

This editor is a Journeyman Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

Woo Hoo! I hereby bestow this award on BigWeeBoy! Actually this is one of several service awards that you may be eligble for and may (or may not) want to post on your user page. They come in different types and styles and you can check them out here. Cheers! -- — Kbob • Talk • 16:09, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

FYI

The Provisional Irish Republican Army article along with numerous other article relating to The Troubles are currently subject to Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/The_Troubles#Final_remedies_for_AE_case, as laid out during a previous WP:AE case that closed October 05, 2008. If you are a new editor, or an editor unfamiliar with the situation, please follow the guidelines laid out in the above link. If you are unsure if your edit is appropriate, discuss it on this talk page first.

BigDunc 21:35, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

BigDunc 22:24, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

another reply on my page. BigDunc 21:12, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

TM in schools

Hi BWB, I have put the sentence that you deleted on TM/schools/legal back into the article. Although it mentions the TMM it is still appropriate for the TM technique article and adds balance to the previous sentence. Also that text is cited to an article in Newsweek which is entirely about TM in the schools and TMM is mentioned as the entity that implements TM into the schools. The TMM is also referenced in other parts of the TM article as well so I feel its appropriate. But if you disagree we can discuss more here or on the TM talk page, as you wish. Thanks for your help. -- — Kbob • Talk • 18:15, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Una Healy

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Just Wondering

Hi, just wondering........ is that your unsigned comment on the Vedic City talk page? Also you wrote TTM. Did you mean TMM or Trans Med Movement? If its not your comment and thread, please disregard this message.Thanks, -- — Kbob • Talk • 18:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

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Sinn Féin

I think we've been at cross-purposes all along. You thought that the debate on the lead was ongoing, and couldn't understand why we didn't just get on with it, while I thought it was dealt with, and couldn't understand why you were still pursuing it. Hopefully it's settled for the moment at least. Thanks for your continuing interest. Scolaire (talk) 17:26, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

While I'm here, can I just remind you about indenting? I know it sounds like a trivial thing but people can get quite annoyed when you don't. Scolaire (talk) 17:31, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

BwB, something strange has happened with this edit of yours, which appears not to be visible on the talk page. Mooretwin (talk) 11:08, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

I can see it fine. Maybe you need to need to clear your cache (I don't know what that means but I see that advice being given all the time).

But, BwB, you need to make up your mind. You say my wording is "great", you say Mooretwin's wording is "great", but the one is in opposition to the other! Either one of them is great and the other is poor, or they're both just okay. If you can't tell the difference maybe you just need to stop posting to that particular section. Scolaire (talk) 15:51, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Very strange, how come I can see all the other posts? How do I clear the cache - do you know? Mooretwin (talk) 23:43, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Not sure what this is all about. --BwB (talk) 20:48, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

BwB, don't be bullied by Scolaire on this article. Keep asking questions. Ask why no-one can provide sources to contradict the 1970 formation and ask why editors are wilfully ignoring the sources that clearly state that the party was formed in 1970? Mooretwin (talk) 21:18, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

New users

Anything's possible. By comparison, I see that user:Littleolive oil's first contribution was to Maharishi Sthapatya Veda and her fourth was to Talk:Transcendental Meditation, while user:TimidGuy's eighth edit was to that talk page. I'm not aware of any user who has been banned as a result of editing the topic, so it's not a problem if it's a returning user with a new name. He does not appear to be similar to any active editors, so I don't see a sock puppet issue either. Let's just assume good faith and see how that works. Will Beback talk 21:42, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Sadly, Will takes a legitimate request concerning a possible sock and reframes it to imply some concern about other editors. When I first came on Misplaced Pages I was so obviously not a sock or a knowledgeable editor and I clearly stated very early on my interests and where I was from. Its editors who attack on and off Misplaced Pages who have led me to remove all of that information in efforts to protect myself and who I am. If you have some concerns address me about them. 7th Dr was banned for using multiple socks on these articles, for returning to the article as a sock even as he was being banned. Thanks BWB. You had a legitimate concern. (olive (talk) 22:40, 31 December 2009 (UTC))

I just meant that there's nothing inherently suspicious about editing Talk:Transcendental Meditation early in one's editing career. I hadn't realized or remembered that User:The7thdr had been banned, but now that I look they don't appear similar. Will Beback talk 00:22, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes Will is correct that there is nothing inherently wrong with editing a particular topic early on in ones Wiki history but why he chose to use TG and Olive as examples is pretty strange. If an editor has a concern that a banned user has returned under a new user name that is a valid concern and should be given due consideration.-- — Kbob • Talk • 21:13, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

True believers

That's not a term I'd have used. But Kala is not the first editor to express the same concern. In fact, there have been five separate threads at WP:COIN over the years about the involvement of members of the TM movement in editing the articles. Unfortunately, all of those complaints have been ignored. Since you've asked me about it, I'd advise you or an any editor with a significant commitment to the TMM (or to anti-TMM groups) to avoid editing those topics directly. Misplaced Pages does not exist to provide a platform for advocacy. Will Beback talk 21:05, 15 January 2010 (UTC)