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Hello, my name is PMshop. I have started a new article about Shuhei Fujioka, the master sculptor for Precious Moments figurines. I've noticed that you are a major contributor on articles related to Precious Moments. Please help us by contributing to the new article. --PMshop 21:39, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply on my Talk page. I've uploaded a photo under "Image:Shuhei fujioka 1995.jpg". I've given fair-use rights to Wikipedia articles. If there is a problem with the copyright, then I'm prepared to go GFDL. --PMshop 03:30, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd still cite the court documents; especially if they are available on-line. Or, if you have a news article about them declaring bankruptcy you could cite that too. Here's a page of templates that are supposed to make citing sources easier, but not everyone uses them. Some people find them confusing. The main thing is to cite something "reliable" other than yourself so that people know someone hasn't just made it up and stuck it in the article because they don't like precious moments or whatever. I think that if you state where the bankruptcy documents were filed that should be enough for people to find it themselves should they so desire. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 21:18, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and did a google news search and found a news article about it and cited it; but if you want to find court documents I'm sure they'd be helpful. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 21:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just declined that speedy per your comment on the talk page. If it needs to be kept as evidence, that's fine, but could you move it into your userspace? I don't want to keep absolute BS in mainspace. Thanks. -- Steel 20:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just found another one here. Could you do the same with that? Thanks a bunch. -- Steel 20:08, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kewl. -- Steel 20:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(from my talk p.):

DGG, thank you for your edit. Although the article on Satya_Vrat_Shastri is quite informative, the main contributor, User:Rsbj66, is known to be spreading articles related to Hindu/Indian studies to promote his own website(s) and ultimately his music. The said user cites himself as a resource and that is {{originalresearch}}. You have not cited any other sources either, so the artile should remain tagged as original research. As for the speedy deletion, the article is still salvageable if it does not refer to Rsbj66 (A.k.a. Richard Shaw Brown) - the referral makes it a self promoting spam article. So, until that is done, I must retag the article. -- Emana 19:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An editorial dispute of this sort does not belong on any deletion process. In particular, Speedy is only for uncontroversial deletions, not for disputes over content. Discussions over content belong on the talk page of the article. The only information included relating to Brown is the authorship of a book. I have tagged that section with NPOV. which should satisfy your concern. His own website, about which you complain, is not mentioned. If the book exists, and is about him, the link seems appropriate to me. If you think otherwise, your proper course to remove the part about the book, and then the question can be discussed on the talk page of the article. DGG 23:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My preliminary thoughts on the concerns you raise.

OR. Assembling materials from available sources is not OR. What would be OR was if I went to India to examine the relevant university archives. Similarly if I did the same at the american school were he was a visiting professor. All WP articles are assembled from sources.

RS The link I gave at UDelhi is not to their main page, just to avoid possible objections, I linked to the page for the dept., includes the paragraph:

The Department is rich in both creative and critical talent. Among the notable works done by the teachers of the Department may be mentioned the collection of poems, the Urvisanah and prose writings the Anatamargah by Dr. Krishan Lal. Among the critical works more prominent are those by Sh.Shiv Narayan Shastri and Dr.Ram Murti Sharma , Prof. Devendra Mishra, Prof. Dipti Tripathi, Prof.M.M. Agrawal, Prof.Usha Choudhuri and Prof. Avanindra Kumar. Prof. Pushpendra Kumar, Former Head of the Department of Sanskrit and Prof.M.I. Khan, Professor of the Department in South Delhi Campus have been awarded with the Prestigious National award namely the Certificate of Honor by the President of India in the year 2000 and 2001 respectively. This award was earlier given to Prof.R.V. Joshi and Prof.Satyavrat Shastri also. Thus, the department has a long list of illustrious scholars who have contributed significantly in their fields of specialization.

This avoids the main hazard, that he might not exist or have a connection with the university. As for the details of his awards and publications, his own site is considered a RS, go check BLP. It would not be a RS source for anything in controversy. What's in controversy here--I edited it to be as dry and straight forward a bio as possible. I rewrite a lot of academic bios, many of them don't know how to select, and say either too much or too little. I thought some of it was out of proportion and i removed all of the awards that just said Honour., etc. and kept those that said anything like all-India, etc. without a specific name. For most of the Sanskrit awards I couldn't tell from the names, so I listed the most recent on the grounds they'd be the most important, and asked for local experts to review this. I removed all opinion, and added the sentence "internationally known" for it is objective: he received awards, honorary degrees, and visiting faculty appointments in a number of different countries. I sorted out his publications. This is more or less what i usually do with academic bios. I have only 3 times encountered an apparently false entry on a CV, one was a parapsychologist, and two were politicians.

This is enough to establish the article. Details can be discussed on its talk page. DGG 23:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

my apologies for being on the wrong page by error--thanks for spotting it. Let's continue tomorrow since there isnt so much of a rush now. DGG 01:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote "Theriac, you've deleted the non-English external links in the article Shuhei Fujioka (Iga pottery). Those two links were also listed as the sole source for the articles. Would you mind keeping them up until English sources or translations can be found? This might raise the issue of notability of the subject, but this article is necessary to differentiate this person from a more notable person with the same name working in a similar industry. It's kind of an elaborate disambig page."

Hi Emana. Thanks for the message. Yes I did delete the links along with a few others, mainly to commercial sites and blogs. :The reason I deleted the Shuhei Fujioka (Iga pottery) links was to follow the Wikipedia policy of ""English language links are strongly preferred in the English-language Wikipedia. It may be appropriate to have a link to a foreign-language site, such as when an official site is unavailable in English, when the link is to the subject's text in its original language or they contain visual aids such as maps, diagrams, or tables, per the guideline on foreign-language sites. When linking to a site in a foreign language under the exceptions above, label the link with a language icon, available for most languages, using two-letter language codes: for example, (in Spanish), (in French), etc."

I have no overly strong feelings about either link. Certainly there may be value to "Shuhei Fujioka Exhibition" as it does contain many images. But the link to "Kuroda Toen Gallery"? This is entirely in Japanese. It is reasonale to assume that readers of this version of Wikipedia are English speakers, and somewhere from many to nearly all will not be able to find any value to this page. How about replacment with link to a site that may actually help readers. ThanxTheriac 08:12, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Wasn't Planetary Gemologist speedy deleted together with Planetary gemology? Please check its deletion log. Greetings, Goochelaar 18:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note. Actually I hadn't noticed the list of redlinks at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics; I was working on completing List of central banks. My goal in creating the articles was to have a place to redirect various different names of the banks to one place. The form of the rather lackluster stubs I created I copied from existing central bank stubs. I have no immediate plans to expand the articles, nor am I particularily attached to them. Cheers—Ketil Trout 23:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glad I'm not the only one trying to clear this backlog. We should start a club. Are you getting resistance, like I have been? Also, thank you for your support at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rhode_Island_Route_11. --Selket ^Talk 20:37, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted people to open their eyes to the possibility that an article on a subject they liked could just be lame. As it was, it deserved to be nominated for AfD. The AfD discussions reignited the fire to merge and cleanup the article. The AfD was a good thing. -- Emana 22:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the support. I was half serious when I said we should start a club. Would you be interested in joining a WikiProject: Merge Backlog? It would probably be just the two of us for the near future, but some sort of presence might encourage others to help. --Selket ^Talk 23:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am of the opinion that unless something must be enforced, it is better not to increase the numbers of pages on Wikipedia. For me, the backlog list is enough of a motivation. -- Emana 23:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Emana, wishing this meets you well. Thanks to your guidance my own article is looking much better, and with 41 references. I was wondering Mukunda Goswami has no references at all. How can you have an unverified article? Best regards--Rsbj66 20:11, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Emana, hope you're well. I got your advice about the Mukunda Goswami page ...so I searched the web for references and added information, and now it looks pretty Wiki. I also added his published books.

BTW: Navaratna article which was contributed by some one else, but I have contributed more. Please note that 600 million Hindus (not to mention Jain, Sikh, Buddhist) believe in the Navaratna, and it's philosophy which termed in English is "Planetary Gemology" or astrological gemology. This is NOT "Complete BS" as suggested by your associate. I mean, we can say we think any belief system is "BS" but if one billion people believe it, then it belongs in Wikipedia.

The main contribution I made to Navaratna page was to add a long list of published books on Planetary Gemology, all under differing titles, but all about Planetary Gemology. I can create a Wiki class page on Planetary Gemology giving loads of published references 3rd party, and nothing linking me. But as long as you have placed some kind of ban on "Planetary Gemology" it is not worth the effort.

If you are really against the philosophy of Planetary Gemology, then could you at least allow me to create a page for Planetary Gemology that is a REDIRECT to Navaratna - because they are the same thing.

Please advise...

I tried to respond to your message but somehow got lost, so I'm writing this here. Hope that's OK...

Best wishes!!!

Y/s, Richard

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Hi Emana, Thanks for the reply. I guess that makes me you best friend on Wiki, where no one really knows anyone. Right now there is no page on Planetary Gemology nor Planetary Gemologist, and it is not really needed to have them, just a REDIRECT from them to Navaratna is all that is needed. But I seem to remember some kind of ban was placed on planetary gemology, so that's why I was asking how to make the pages with redirect. If it's OK, then I'll do them.

Stay cool!!!

Best wishes, Richard

Sorry I just saw this... so late. And...sure! The images taken by me and uploaded here are all under GFDL or CC. Be my guest. :) --KasugaHuang 15:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The image I photographed myself. It was from Hong Kong supermarket. The brand I think is Watson's (the same company with drugstore linked here), a company who made known for its distilled water in HK...--WikiCantona 23:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Emana, this message is regarding the article International Masalin Ceramics. I've noticed that this article is unreferenced. Please properly disclose your sources or concur to an AfD proposal. Please see the article's Talk page for further discussions. -- PMshop 20:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Emana, When I originally created the Speed square article, it was meant to be a generic name for triangular squares. That was an interesting history on the Speed square. I assume albert was the one who created the first speed square. I liked what you did on the anatomy of the square. All your edits enhanced the article and clarified some details. The link is questionable because it is informative but also links to a commercial site. I could not find the editor of the link. --Johnalden^talk 17:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you tag the Embracery article for cleanup?Cutler 20:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've added an explanatory paragraph, and the article's been updated slightly. Have a read, see if it changes your mind - no worries if it doesn't :) Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 16:20, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good call on making comments temporary. Thanks. --AndrewHowse 17:11, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, I enjoyed proofreading it. I've never had hōtō before, but reading the article kept making my stomach growl! Azuki bean hōtō sounds delicious. Thinkbeforeyouclick (talk) 05:14, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I understand your concern about not making the wording sound too harsh. I personally would not choose to sacrifice grammar/sentence smoothness for the sake of making the spot in question sound less harsh (a poor English welcome message written in not-so-good Japanese isn't very convincing), but it should definitely be changed if there is a way to make it sound less harsh and not grammatically awkward either. If anything, I think the "もしよろしければ、日本語版ウィキペディアへ投稿したいただければ幸いです" part sounds a little mean (the previous version with "日本語の方が得意みたいですが、日本語のウィキペディアをご存知でしょうか。そちらで投稿したらいかがでしょうか" was even worse) because it tells the user to stick to ja wikipedia. Maybe the negativity could be countered by adding suggestions for improving their contributions (directing them to Japanese-speaking English users that may be able to help out, for example) rather than just telling them that their English isn't good enough. Thinkbeforeyouclick (talk) 00:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Recently the bot made a correction on Articles of Organization. It changed "a LLC" to "an LLC". Although "An El El See" sounds better when spoken, I believe it is still "A LLC" since "L" is not a vowel. -- Emana (Talk) 20:39, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Emana, thanks for your comment. If you look at the A and an article though, you can see that current English usage is to use "an" when the following noun begins with a vowel sound. Cheers, CmdrObot (talk) 21:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Emana, I created the article Accel Animation Studios and you have marked it as not meeting the general notability guideline of wikipedia.

Accel Animation Studios is the first Indian company to own a motion capture setup that uses the motion analysis technique.

I was wondering if this is makes the company notable and therefore, fit to be in wikipedia. and if yes, can I remove the notability template from the page? Sahasranaman ^T/_C 17:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Thanks a lot for your comment. :) Sahasranaman ^T/_C 20:55, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

HEY, where are you getting your info from? You seem to be getting confidential information that is quite sensitive. I won't challenge you on the validity of your sources, but neither will I confirm them. What I AM wondering is how you could infer so much from the sources you've referenced. Your knowledge is in the "20/20 Hindsight" category, where the reader could be suggested into believing what you say is what is written in the sources. I am warning you. Do not pursue this path you are following. It will hurt more people than you think. -- PMshop (talk) 21:14, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the warning. This is Wikipedia. Mistakes will correct themselves. Other contributors can verify the validity of my sources and the information contained therein. If they turn out to be bogus, the article can be fixed. But your reaction of laissez-fair and plausible-deniability suggests that I am not totally wrong. Oh, and thank you for that separate message verifying that my last source was bogus. I do want to avoid libel.-- Emana (Talk) 21:35, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are walking a very fine line where you could damage some people - really bad. I know that I've been a good person and I broke no laws, but I cannot speak for everyone involved. If in fact, it was their intention to do so since day one, you will be giving them a bad name by making it public. You, essentially, could kill their business with the info you have. --PMshop (talk) 07:59, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know. Maybe I'll publish a book, you know, like a memoir for Precious Moments. Do I care if I divulge other people's wrong doings? No. If its unbiased fact, I trust readers can make up their own minds. Maybe I'd follow the life of Mr. Freedman or Mr. Fujioka with regards to Precious Moments and Sam's ultimate betrayal to two people that made it financially possible to live. Otherwise he'd be dead in a gutter somewhere in the Philippines, overdosed and VD'ed. --Emana (Talk) 08:09, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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