I am wondering of this site could be considered an
internet phenomena or not. I know it is rather popular and extremely humorous. It features a guy who holds a weekly contest offering $100 via
PayPal to the individual who leaves him he best
Drunk dialing message on his voicemail.
I did not add this site to this article yet for fear that people would think I am self-promoting. I have no affiliation with the site and can’t find any direct marketing used to purchase products. I just think it is very funny and well known around my area.
I look forward to some objective input before I add, or do not add this site to the list. Take a look for yourself, you be the judge…
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WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume I, Issue 3 - December 2006
Project News
Name change of cities in Karnataka: A
straw poll was conducted on the proposal to change the name of cities in Karnataka, per the
Nov 1,
2006 decision by the Karnataka government to rename them from the current anglicised forms. The result of the poll was to change the names. As controversial as the decision may be in the real world, the article
Bangalore in Wikipedia still reflects the old name. You may be interested in knowing
why. Dig the archives.
New Project Noticeboard (Shortcut:
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Hey DaGizza. I'm in the process of answering the questions on my page as you may now see, and hope to wrap things up this morning over the next few hours as time permits. I just wanted to let you know that I have every intention of answering them as soon as possible. Thanks,
Can't sleep, clown will eat me09:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)reply
This guy is your personal B-day red panda! Congrats for being one year older and staying with
Wikipedia this long. Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Happy B-day! —¡Randfan! {{subst:CURRENTTIME}}, {{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} (UTC); so how does it feel? :)
Happy b-day! Hope it's a good one! Cheers!
:) —Randfan!! {{subst:CURRENTTIME}}, {{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} (UTC)
Amazing
I did not know that Buddhism's history in it's original land now redirects to it's decline!
One more thing, the decline article is so poorly sourced that most of it will have to go, all that will be left will roughly equal a section. We can have Buddha's birth, Ashoka, Ashoka's messengers and other Sharamanas taking Buddhism to China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Siam etc. the decline, revival and the works in the new section. Condensing the decline part will not be a problem.
I think we should rename and shift content. I will need a couple of days to come up with a history of Buddhism in India article since I'm busy till tommorow. I will experiment in
my sandbox, please feel free to use it.
The birth of Siddhartha gautama, his travels, the Sangha, emperor Ashoka, Bodhidharma, Bodhiruci, Buddhabhadra (Batuo), Yogacara in Gandhara, Thousands of Indian monks in China for translation of Buddhist works, Shramanas taking Buddhism's message to foreign lands, Indian influence on East Asain culture (Sun Wukong and Guan Yin, which were influenced by Hanumana and Avalokiteshvara respectively and Pagodas influenced by Buddhist Stupas), the non-conversion principles of Hinduism in hindu kingdoms abroad which lead to ready acceptance of Buddhism by the natives who took to Indian culture but could not convert to it's religion, the invasions, decline, Ambedekar's version and the works need to be put in chronologically and with proper sources.
The articles in their present form are very oddly written and very poorly sourced. This is in addition to them claiming to address a topic and addressing only one aspect of it while not even mentioning the others. The articles also are based on hearsay. This seems very odd, some of the editors involved in this are experienced Wikipedians who could at least contribute to links, language and grammer.
I'll get to unifying the articles and seeing to it that they remain unified in a few hours. Surprisingly enough, both History and this article were created by Nat Krause. I'm surprised, I have
talked to him before and I could only see genuine compassion in what he did.
Thank you DaGizza for your opinion...Yes I have always known that earning Featured articles is much, much better than having 50,000 edits. I was up late last night working on it and kind of hurried at the end. Cheers and once again I hope you hade a great b-day in the down under! —
Seadog13:19, 7 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Footy Club
Hi, I am trying to introduce a club for rugby league supporters that will be more than just a wikiproject and help to encourage rugby league participation and article improvement. I have written down some of my thoughts about what wikileaguies should attempt to do and would be interested if you, like other rugby league supporters, would be willing to be involved on some level.
[2], leave signage and thoughts on the talk page if you are interested. Cheers. --
Rugby 66608:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Kindly take a look. I created the article in a hurry and much more needs to be added in , mythological and architectural influences in particular, which I will add in a bit. If you could possibly check the article and make corrections (in language in particular, my tone is not enclyclopedic) I'd appreciate it a great deal.
I'll work on a complete rewrite of the "Decline" article (found a lot of sources) ASAP. Given the amount of information available on the decline article, I'm having second thoughts about unifying it.