User talk:Owlmonkey

Mandala Editing

It seems to me like the mandala means more to you than the article itself. I don't agree on having a protective position towards an article since this is a collaborative encyclopedia and what might seem trivial to you might not be for someone else and if it attracts all sort of trivial additional aspects of the mandala then so be it. The same could be thought of millions of articles with the "In popular culture" section and therefore based on your position they should be removed too. People usually have the wikipedia as a source of reference and many "in popular culture" sections are helpful to others (e.g. someone looking for materials on the related topic). Camilo Sanchez (talk) 03:39, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for Sakya Edits

Thank you for your editing. The matter you've deleted needs to be reworked, especially as few people know about it despite the sources being there under the form of very reliable sources such as Berzin, not least of which. How is signature ? Double dilde ? Geir SMith —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.141.184.146 (talk) 19:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

CNNFOX

Thank you for your comments and suggestions Re: Robert Blake on various article pages and starting a new dedicated page on the BLB murder. Time will tell what will be done. One comment, the references to Cooley in the Blake paragraph are to his actions, not his office. Thank you again. --Cnnfox (talk) 05:24, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

"Monkey cap"

Yaaaaaay! Thanks for the citation on balaclava. SchuminWeb (Talk) 19:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Please restore the cite deletion on the Free Will article

The cite you deleted on the free will article is essential to the point, since I am in fact the one who made this argument in a well regarded professional journal. You can't just make that statement without a cite, and I AM the cite for the point. Of course I or anyone can get a friend to post their own work, but surely the criteria is not who does the posting but does the posting enhance and contribute to the topic. It's not as if you see me citing myself all over wikipedia, but it DOES fit here. If you have a reason to believe it doesn't make a worthwhile contribution, please make your argument. Otherwise, I can't see how the Wikipedean community is being served by an automatic deletion such as this. There is no absolute Wikipedean rule about authorities in a field not contributing their knowledge. Please, in your spam watch, consider the dictum: Primum non nocere (First, do no harm).Jbricklin (talk) 22:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

OK, I reversed my removal of the Free Will citation. It does look relevant and without undo point of view but I'm still concerned. And whenever an author - even a domain expert - posts their own citations it should raise a flag around conflict of interest for the encyclopedia. So while the policy allows citing yourself in some cases (Wikipedia:No_original_research#Citing_oneself) I'd just ask that you please take time to review the following related policies when you have a chance: Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest and Wikipedia:NPOV and Wikipedia:No_original_research. I do appreciate your efforts and accomplishments, personally. If you can though, please try to cite neutral, third-party references whenever possible to avoid point of view pushing. Thanks again. - Owlmonkey (talk) 02:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Chögyam Trungpa Picture

I'm not completey certain if it is him, but see this image also. Are they the same person do you think? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 17:30, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Man we need you at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tibet -this includes the WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism sub project. I;d very much like you to be a part and invite you to join ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 17:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Awww, thank you. Response on your talk page. - Owlmonkey (talk) 17:54, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you could make a judgment from here ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 17:36, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah ha! found the person who took the picture and it definitely is him. Thank you for checking further! More on your talk page. - Owlmonkey (talk) 17:54, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Thats what I thought. Later pictures though he is wearing glasses. Don't worry if you don;t have too much time, if you put your name down on the project page we know which editors are at least interested or edit tibetan related articles from time to time -perhaps you could also state your more efined interests such as Shambhala etc. Regards ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 17:56, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Mmm. The only thing there is a problem with the statement "not intended for commercial use". This is kind of directly saying this image shouldn't be used on wikipedia and is a passport for image tagges to delete. We can claim image use on deceased people if a free image is not obtainable most of the time but I don't like that statement. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 18:00, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

We also have an image of Dhardo Rimpoche now ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 18:02, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes I saw that image earlier and liked it and even thought about swapping it before you prompted me. I'll switch them if this OK at that commercial thing would be problematic in the future. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 18:20, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Done it already!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 18:34, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche now has an image. Also feel free to expand the Dzogchen Rinpoche which I started below:

♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 19:01, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I've just created a Tibetan Buddhism template. Could you help develop it? It is to replace the too generalized Buddhism template on Tibetan articles ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 20:08, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Yep I think the main Buddhsim template is too generic for all of the Tibetan buddhist articles. It is a very a large subject in its own right but its on the right track -this should replace the main Buddhism template I think for Tibet. Perhaps you could add all of the key belief systems etc when you have finished seeing all of those monkeys!! LOL! I;ll let John Hill know perhaps he could add something ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 20:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Pema Chodron

I wanted to ask you something. That photo I inserted into Pema Chodron's article, I am not 100% sure it is actually her. I found the photo on Flickr under a free license and thought it looked a lot like her—so i assumed such. But something just doesn't seem quite right about it. I wanted to get your opinion, as she is not mentioned in the description on that photo's page at Flickr. Thanks. (Mind meal (talk) 09:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC))

left you a note on your talk page. also, you could email the author of the photo on flickr to see if they know... - Owlmonkey (talk) 21:27, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Good job! I uploaded the photo to Wikicommons already, and its in the article. No more worries about if it is or is not her. Thanks. (Mind meal (talk) 06:58, 30 January 2008 (UTC))

Buddhism history in Battle of Baghdad article

Hi. I see you are undoing some specific edits by Geir Smith. Could you please remove them also into a separate article? While some of them are relevant as an aftermath of the battle, further theological text that is far bigger than the history of the battle is obviously not, it should probably be linked to from See also. I wanted to do it but my wikilanguage-foo is weak :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.88.120.90 (talk) 22:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean Battle of Baghdad (1258)? I haven't been following that article or making any edits to it at all. I did revert a change he made a month ago to Buddhism in Russia but he then paired it back and his revised changes stand last I looked. The complete details though that he was adding I think remained intact on one of the Sakya related pages which made sense. They were mostly notable to those. I haven't reviewed any of his changes since then and I only edit while signed in under this account so you'll see what edits I'm making on my contributions list. I've been mostly shepherding a merge of the Self-realisation article lately. Would you like me to review anything in particular? I'd be happy to. I just wish Mr.Smith would use the "Preview" button more often so the edit histories were not so long. It's more tedious to do the diffs and see what changed with multiple revisions. But that's just a pet peeve and not related to the content at all. - Owlmonkey (talk) 02:53, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Holy cow that's a lot of content added to that article, I just skimmed the changes. I'm not sure where to start reviewing things honestly. - Owlmonkey (talk) 02:58, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Followup: Looks like Mr. Smith ended up in a dispute over those edits and others and was banned indefinitely. [1] - Owlmonkey (talk) 17:43, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Buddhism in Mongolia

Dear members of WikiProject Buddhism!

As I can see that Buddhism in Mongolia has got many problems (sources,spelling mistakes, grammar, etc). Please help me to fix it together.

Thank you so much! Best wishes to you!

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 03:14, 4 March 2008 (UTC)