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Welcome!

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Notability of Thongsuk Samdaengpan

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What is Editorial Policy on Bad External Links?

If a Wikipedia entry bases its citations on external links which have since become defunct, how should a Wikipedian improve the page in the case

  • that equivalent citation can be linked from another source
  • that no equivalent citation is available
The guidelines for what to do when a reference link goes dead are here. Regards, Gr1st (talk) 11:30, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for Magha Puja article!

Hi Thanissaro - just wanted to thank you for creating the Magha Puja article. Good job! Happy Uposatha day! Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 15:13, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Buddhism in the Netherlands

Updated DYK query On 23 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Buddhism in the Netherlands, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Victuallers (talk) 14:33, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Book?

Are you the same Thanissaro who appears as the 3rd author in the 5th edition of Robinson et al, Buddhist Religions? Peter jackson (talk) 11:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} There is a user who persistently removes a link to a news article claiming it is a copyright infringement. The user in question does not discuss changes, but just deletes things, with a comment in the edit summary. The edit in question is this one [1]. Am I missing something? Is this criticism justified? If it is not justified and the user in general continues with this behaviour, is there something that can be done about it? Thanissaro (talk) 21:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Links can't be copyright violation. However, in this case, the links that were removed were all spam anyway, so all well and good that they're gone. KTC (talk) 21:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, those weren't spam links. I made a mistake like my ad-blocker because of the word 'advert' in the URL. What were deleted there were links under the references section. That come under Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Those images are hosted on a geocities site, which mean it normally wouldn't pass the reliable criteria. However, (some of) it looks like newspaper clippings to me, with me not being able to understand what it say, and hence where it came from, I can't comment whether it constituents reliable sources. (Of course, I'm completely ignoring whether the linked to website are hosting those images legally...) KTC (talk) 03:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I presume the bit of the article where you're using those articles as references already provide that summary. Otherwise yes, citing giving the date/newspaper title etc. using {{Cite news}} would be the way to go, all assuming the newspaper pass as reliable sources. KTC (talk) 07:36, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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Thai Clock

You have UTC Clock in Thai but I deleted about 2 minutes ago from the time i posting this
Really it's spam clock made by many people in Thailand
Next time if you receive it please delete it or ignore it

Award for being swell

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
I salute you for doing the best you can :) Mrpotatohead 2 (talk) 21:08, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Keep up the good work and keep smiling Mrpotatohead 2 (talk) 21:08, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]