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Udumbara (Falun Gong)Please helping write Udumbra by Falun Gong from sources : [1] [2] Base Buddhism's book and [3] then Udumbra (by Falun Gong) is Chrysopidae eggs and photoshop. See more, or translate from in [4] Thank you very much. Nguyenquocminhminh (talk) 15:09, 14 August 2017 (UTC) References
Yes thank you very much, see the article in vi.wikipedia. There are many reference from Viet Nam's website. if you need I will provide. I can edit the actical Udumbara (Buddhism). But maybe my english is litle. Can you help. Or I can edit, but please help me review and correction grammar english? Nguyenquocminhminh (talk) 16:01, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Dear Friend, I translate from wiki Viet Nam, please help me correction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udumbara_(Buddhism)#Udumbara_.28Falun_Gong.29 Google search by Viet Nam, have above more than 2290000 (result for Udumbra (Viet Nam leanguage)). And there are above 1000 articles for Udumbara from 10 years until now, but original from Falun Gong.
Udumbara AgainDear Sir Art LaPella, Please see: I am sure that the source of Viet Nam are good. They are not self-published Vietnamese blogs. And please read in the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Udumbara_(Buddhism) Compare lacewings eggs published by Ohio State University and Udumbara published by Falun GongGoogle search: Udumbara Page of Falun Gong: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2016/11/11/159905.html Lacewings eggs publish by Ohio State University https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-72 2405:4800:12A6:BB18:AD0B:29CA:504A:4172 (talk) 04:25, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
It was discovered in 1997 in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, France, the United States ... In Vietnam strange creatures were discovered in the provinces of Da Nang, Vung Tau, Quang Nam, Phu Yen, Hai Phong, Nha Trang, Thai Nguyen, Nam Dinh, Ha Tien. These creatures are said to be Udumbara.[1] The images are cited by some Falun Gong websites as Uranus, when they are magnified 400 times. But some other evidence suggests that it uses Photoshop techniques.[2][3][4] Some experts think that the eggs of a winged insect of the genus Chrysopa in the Chrysopidae family named lacewings, are considered to be Udumbara flowers. Larvae of lacewings are called aphid lions. When laying eggs, the female secretes a glue and lifts its abdomen up to form a thin stalk. White eggs are laid on this thin stem to keep larvae from eating meat after hatching. The type of flower that is considered Udumbara is about the same size as the lacewing egg and also on a thin stem.[5] In Vietnam, this exotic species is considered by some scientists to be a fungus, that can not be ascertained because of its strange appearance. However, there is no basis to consider this strange creature as the Udumbara because it is contrary to the Buddhist scriptures.[6] Falun Gong websites promote aggressively in their media, so there are 2,980,000 results for the word Udumbus.[2][3] While the scientific evidence provided by the Falun Gong organization to assert alienness is that Uucupunism is just microscopy, there is no biological or chemical analysis available.[3] The smallest organism attributed to the Udumbara that the organization offers is theoretically different from the Buddhist text as figs,[2][7] however, Falun Gong websites have created thousands of articles. The grounds that Falun Gong inserted were based on Buddhist texts to say that tiny creatures are Udumbara flowers.[4][8] Some articles claim that the strange creature is rumored to be the Udumbara because the Falun Gong organization wants to legitimize Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong as a God of God and Buddha of Buddha.[2][8][9][10] The images that Falun Gong websites attribute to the primitive flower blooms of a single flower bouquet[11] have been exposed by some articles as insect eggs,[7] or moldy mushrooms, mold.[12] After it was exposed that the alien creatures were not Udumbara according to some articles on Buddhism, Falun Gong continued to use Photoshop to confirm the creature as the Udumbara.[2][3][8][13]
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midIt's in all the dictionaries, for instance here (see the examples). Is this a MOS thing? - Dank (push to talk) 17:20, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
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Stobi - Roman times synagogueRelating the Jewish synagogue of ancient Stobi to BCE times would be a grave mistake. Please refer to the "Survey of ancient diaspora synagogues" by Prof (emeritus) Gideon Foerster of the Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology (and a world expert on ancient synagogues), also to the page of Stobi Archaeological Site: THE SYNAGOGUE BASILICA.(C.E. means Common Era; Maybe this was the root of the very wrong B.C.E dating of the synagogue of ancient Stobi.) Drz (talk) 11:27, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
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Space shuttleThanks - it's odd, it was definitely on tomorrow's main page when I reported it - I don't know where the "eligible" section is! DuncanHill (talk) 01:55, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
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I really should have asked this before now ... are you okay with making these edits, or would you like to see some process in place that fixes this stuff before you get to it? I've taken the position for 4 years now that image stuff is basically up to other people, and that's worked so far ... but mainly because you've been so diligent, and maybe you'd like for us to fix things so you don't have so much work to do. - Dank (push to talk) 14:43, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
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thanks again[3]thanks Art, I don't know what I was thinking--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:53, 6 November 2018 (UTC) Review for English/French speaker / Urgently need your helpHello Art LaPella. Please excuse me if I am doing something improper, as I am new to Wikipedia. I am contacting you because you are a speaker of both English and French. I have created the page Draft:Pierre_Jovanovic nearly 2 months ago, and I am waiting for a review. Could you please consider having a look at it ? And again, please excuse me if my request is improper. I am learning the ropes. Best regards. Micha Jo (talk) 17:02, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer. Regards Micha Jo (talk) 00:40, 6 November 2018 (UTC) West Africa Ebola virus epidemicHi, Art this is to inform you that West African Ebola virus epidemic which you edited will be submitted for WikiJournal of Medicine...The objective of this message is to invite the contributors to collaboratively submit the article for review through Wiki.J.Med, and if possible, to help in further betterment of the article in accordance to the suggestions of the reviewers. Wikipedia articles are collaboratively authored. So, it is very important to make the authors aware of such a process that the article is currently undergoing[7] thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:32, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
External linkHi there! I've a question regarding external link stuff. What was written in Wikipedia: External link,we must avoid from putting Facebook in the external link. Does it mean it's "forbidden" or "better not" to be in any particular article? Need your response ASAP. CyberTroopers (talk) 08:36, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
DYK rules pagesHi Art. Many years ago, you created a number of pages in Category:Wikipedia Did you know rules. At the moment, they seem not to document anything that isn't already found at the main rules pages. I'm wondering if you could help me understand the context in which they were created: I'm going to make an attempt to streamline the number of guideline pages around DYK. Vanamonde (talk) 18:39, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
How do you find edit history by using the edits themselves?You talked about 96.244.154.58 adding that bracket in Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend. How did you find it instantly? —Wei4Green | 唯绿远大 (talk) 04:44, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
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ThanksSometimes I miss stupid errors due to my dyslexia. I appreciate your help. WCMemail 00:10, 13 January 2019 (UTC) Devilish DictaArt, I've bookmarked your Devil's Dictionary of Wikipedia Policy. Xcllnt contribution. Sca (talk) 19:35, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
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ebolaArt if you have a chance please answer here thanks Talk:2018–19 Kivu Ebola outbreak#Requested move 15 June 2019--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:44, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
revertIm sorry Art, didn't mean to[8] I wanted to reverse the table edit, by prior editor--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:53, 23 June 2019 (UTC) Fifteen years of editing
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"but you knew that"Who is "you"? Do you want me to bring up the problem of spaces before templates and scheduling before the blurb gets done with the scheduling coords? Are those problems? - Dank (push to talk) 15:42, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
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Ok, cheers for the advice. All the best. Boynamedsue (talk) 14:50, 14 September 2020 (UTC) RE: OTDHi, please do you think there's any chance I can get Nigeria to OTD tomorrow. That would be her 60th independence anniversary, and the article was last featured 2016. The article also appears to be stable. I've had a read of Selected Anniversary guideline, and I'm made to be aware that only admins can change tomorrows article. Thank you. s11c. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 102.89.1.138 (talk) 16:08, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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Battle of YongyuGood evening, Art. My name is Charles Shaulis, I am 70 years old, and live in Topsham, Maine. For the past two months, I have been editing the Wikipedia article "Battle of Yongyu." I found the original article, "Battle of Yongju," during my research of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team's airborne operation at Sukchon-Sunchon, North Korea during the Korean War. My father was a C-119 Flying Boxcar pilot assigned to the 314th Troop Carrier Group that carried the paratroopers from Kimpo Airfield to the Sukchon-Sunchon drop zones. A while back, my brother's children asked me to document their grandfather's US Air Force career. Dad was a veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. I have used Wikipedia often in my research of his Korean War service, but never made a major edit of a Wikipedia article until now. Just when I thought I had the errors corrected in the original article and suitable information of historical significance added, User Ivan the Boneful (I don't understand the use of pseudonyms) on 17 October added three banners to the article: Lead too long, Overly detailed, and Tone, without offering any suggestions for improving/correcting same. My first thought was WTH. So, I looked up Wikipedia's descriptions for why these banners would be added to an article. First, in my opinion, the word "may" changes the objective to the subjective; i.e., the old "open to interpretation" opinion. Anyway, I "cleaned up" the lead section to conform with Wikipedia's suggestions and removed the Lead too long banner. So far, so good. Rather than asking Ivan to justify his reasons for the remaining two banners, I thought I'd ask you, as a disinterested third party, to review the "Battle of Yongyu" article, keeping the Overly detailed and Tone banners in mind and offer me your suggestions for improving the article. Regarding the Overly detailed banner statement that "This article may contain an excessive' amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience'," what is excessive? Rather than discuss this in the open forum of talk pages, I might suggest that you contact me via email. Finally, thanks for catching the "p" vs "pp" typo. Best regards, Charles Shaulis (talk) 05:10, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
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Congratulations!Congratulations on winning the pool, Art! BTW: I totally agree with your statement on your user page; WP:404 is going to be the death of this encyclopedia if we don't come up with alternatives. Cheers, Mill 1 (talk) 11:20, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Art if you have a chance/time take a look at this article for the usual, the pandemic isnt dying down to take to GA but I might run[9] it by WikiJournal of Med(like the Ebola article) and see what they say, thank you... (I know the article is rather large, so if you dont have the time I'd understand) --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:56, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
minnesotathe ref indicated that the Brazil variant is in Minnesota[10] as do other sources[11]...? (why is it 'wrong according to the reference')--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:45, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
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Construction, ReconstructionThe other day I went through and rebuilt the DYK HoF. One of the things that stuck out in my mind was the Yoninah tribute we put together, so I added a new page to the HOF. One thing, I can only remember the Frank Sinatra set done a few years ago. Have there been others? If so, I'd love to know. --evrik (talk) 15:35, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
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