Duende-Poetry

"Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me," -- H.G. Wells

Why is cyberpower678 behaving in such a bizarre manner towards me?

I understand I am new to Wiki, but all my edits have been performed in good faith and suddenly tonight this Wiki user, cyberpower678, has not only begun "granting" me permission to edit, but responding in my talk section with lines like "No response so far..." and "There is one final question that I want answered and then I will leave you alone" when I did not respond in a timely manner. Suddenly the talk section on Talk:Aka Manto is looking like a personal conversation, which isn't my intention. All I want to do is work on making the Japanese folklore section better. Is there anything that can be?Duende-Poetry (talk) 01:40, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

I just needed to know if you wish to improve the article or not. I'm not hindering you or granting you anything. The article's I am seeing are in my opinion not up to Wikipedia's standards. Since you don't wish to edit it, I will tag it for deletion. That's all. It's not bizarre at all. Your redirect I saw in the beginning was puzzling me. After your justification I provided a suggestion. After more answers, I changed my suggestion. I do not wish to be bizarre. If you wish it, I will leave you alone and proceed with tagging the pages for deletion. I apologize if I seemed strange to you for it is not my intention to be strange.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 01:48, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

The article has been proposed for deletion. You may still edit the article if you wish. Again I apologize for seeming bizarre. It is not my intention to be strange or impatient.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 01:58, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

@Assisting Wikipedians. I understand the concern you may have for my recent behavior. I see myself that I may have pestered this user to much and left a wrong impression. I would appreciate discussing any further concerns on my talk page. Thanks. This user is going offline, hence the red signature.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 02:28, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

I think, Cyberpower, that you should just keep your distance. You were a little demanding in your tone and we don't usually insist users respond and respond and respond, but this is a far cry from some of the vindictive stuff I see and you have acknowledged you overstepped a bit. So everyone: stand down and go about your peaceful ways! Despite your note at the discussion to Duefde, we do not block users for things like good faith redirections (not that I think that was a bad idea here at all, by the way). I looked for a copyvio from the kids site but didn't see any actual cut and pasting, but the topic doesn't appear capable of being referenced to any reliable source. By the way Duende, I noticed you are calling Wikipedia "wiki" a lot. This is another in a long line of things we don't block users for but it is painful:-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:19, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Will do.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 10:51, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you SineBot, I realized that am going back to fix these things. Cheers! Duende-Poetry (talk) 17:18, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

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Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Yama-bito prefix:Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Talk:Yama-bito. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Talk:Yama-bito - you might like to discuss new information at [[Talk:Talk:Yama-bito|the article's talk page]].

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December 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to Aka Manto has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. —cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 23:26, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

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No response so far... —cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 01:13, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

There is one final question that I want answered and then I will leave you alone.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 01:34, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you DPLbot, I was totally unaware I had done that, but I'll work hard to make sure it doesn't happen again. Cheers! Duende-Poetry (talk) 11:58, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Hotoke

Hi, Duende-Poetry. A couple of lines about your changes to the article Hotoke.

I reverted the article to its previous form for two reasons: the first is that you are obviously a new user. You cannot tag with "Citation needed" every single unreferenced sentence, even when it says the obvious, it is supported by a link or it is self-explanatory, as the one saying "the same kanji is used for France". That France is written with 仏 surely doesn't need supporting evidence. (I did add a reference today where I thought it was truly necessary.) "Toward A Working Definition" is not an acceptable title in a Wikipedia article. Words in section titles shouldn't be capitalized.

Second, a bulleted list is a good format when it's essential to draw attention to differences. You do make a good point about "The performing of a Buddhist memorial service". I fixed that too.

If you wish I am available for discussion, either here or in my talk page, but I think that, before making major revisions, you should be sure you know all ropes. Take care. - Frank (Urashima Tarō) (talk) 23:21, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for writing. I've been operating under two concepts Wikipedia seems to promote: Be Bold and Cite Your Sources. For example, the article in question Hotoke was nothing more than a laundry list of vague claims about this certain aspect of Buddhism. So I went bold, for to me that page needed organization and it needed proof to show this just wasn't original research. That's why I put because everything on that page seems to be original research. And as for citing kanji, it won't be the first time that the English-version of a Japanese article misspelled things in translation. I can't see how reverting back what I did helps either of those two at all. Whether or not you like "Toward A Working Definition" or not, it was simply an attempt to organize, knowing I could come back later when I had better information and rework it some more. Editing takes a long time and since this is all volunteer work, it is discouraging when one finds ones work reverted, not because of vandalism or that the laundry list was a superior organization to the more traditional page layout Wikipedia promotes, but apparently because 1) I'm a "new user" and 2) words in titles shouldn't be capitalized. My purpose of being here is to help make the best articles on Japanese folklore that I can. If reverting my changes is what you consider a good use of our time, so be it, there will always be other articles to edit. Cheers. Duende-Poetry (talk) 03:33, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

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is this original with you, or did you find it somewhere? DS (talk) 17:20, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

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