User talk:Shantavira

The Wind in the Willows

Hello Shantavira,

Thank you for your copyedit of the synopsis of 'The Wind in the Willows'. I wrote it last week, and, with me not being a native speaker of English, the synopsis obviously needed a lot of work. There were, however, some changes you made that I think were not for the best, for (as far as I can tell) they made the synopsis not reflect the book accurately anymore. For instance you wrote "Rat and Mole want to do something about Toad's obsession, but Rat believes the only person who will know what to do is Badger,". But I can't find that in the book, I think in the book it is implied that Mole just wanted to meet the Badger out of curiosity/for fun, and not because they were looking to enlist his help. They just happened to get the help when they met him.

I have made a few changes to the synopsis so that it is accurate again. I wrote this message because I wanted to explain why I made the changes.

ssepp^(talk) 00:12, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Copyedits to "How to copyedit"

Excellent edits, all. In particular, I want to commend you for having the strength of will to not remark on the extreme irony of the phrase "A common problem is that articles are verbose..." Nicely concised, Prof. Strunk would be proud! :) Eaglizard 22:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Request for your help

Your background is impressive and you seem to be a very good editor. Assuming it's true (which I do), you would be very helpful in this proposal. Talk:Eastern_philosophy#Merger_proposal. Thank you. And thanks for responding to my post at WP:Ref desk. Zenwhat (talk) 06:17, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I do not think we should encourage western misconceptions. Most western philosophers acknowledge "Eastern philosophy = Eastern religion." About this comment:

However, I do think the article should be renamed Eastern philosophies. There is of course no Eastern philosophy as such, and having this title perpetuates the myth.

I agree with you actually, but most philosophers and authors don't. As it stands now, I agree that there should be a distinction made between "Eastern philosophy" and "Eastern religion," and I also agree that it makes sense to use the plural, "Eastern philosophies." But since Wikipedia's standard is WP:V and WP:RS (since both of us could be wrong), it seems to make the most sense to merge them, so that it reflects the mainstream view -- even if that is false. ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 01:32, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank u

Hi Shantavira, thank u for your response to my astrology question. do you know about Vedic astrology? western astrology? both? can u give me some MAJOR guidance? I KNOW I am meant to delve into this...and maybe if u look at my natal chart, u'll agree.. hehe.

thanx a lot again.