User talk:David G Brault

Krishna article and avatar discussion

Hello David G Brault. There is a discussion on Krishna's status as avatar at Krishna and Vishnu avatar discussion. Any comments you have would be appreciated. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 05:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gour Govinda Swami

Hello David G Brault. I have been trying to find references for Gaura Govinda Swami. Do you happen to know of any, I know its a shot in the dark, but I am having a hard time. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 23:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response. I feel that an ISKCON swami is notable if: they have significant media coverage, or are on ISKCON's Governing Body Commission, or on the faculty of Bhaktivedanta College, or have had their works reviewed by the academic community. These are the type of standards that I feel show signs of notability. Also, the readers deserve a reliable source to go to for confirmation. The types of standards I have listed above allow for dozens of articles on ISKCON swamis, I do not think that they are placing any unusual requirments upon their notability. I am open to any thoughts you have. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 19:39, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think that Gour Govinda Swami is an example of one of many notable ISKCON religious leader. ISKCON celebrates his annual 'disapearance day' [1]. In addition, he is celebrated as a 'saint' by ISKCON [2] along with their previous acharyas and Jayananda Dasa. I am going to try to find more about him, and write an article if I find enough. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 20:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New Articles

David G Brault, after the recent Afd discussions on ISKCON leaders, I must admit to you that I was wrong concerning the articles Sacinandana Swami and Indradyumna Swami. If there are any related articles that you feel need to be created, please let me know and I will work with you. I have already began work on an ISKCON article, Gour Govinda Swami‎. Again I apologise for being wrong on the above two articles, please let me know if I can be of any help. I am not anti-ISKCON, so please let me know of any areas that I may help with or new articles that need to be made. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 06:02, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Vandalism"

Hello! In this edit, you reverted my addition of two templates to the Ramakrishna article with the edit summary "Reverting vandal. 'Weasel?'". The problems with this edit are two. One, my placement of the templates was correct (please see WP:AWW), and two, you should not call people vandals unless you are certain that what they did was in fact vandalism. Encyclopedia articles should not say that someone "was known" to have done something without specifying who claims that "it is known". These are weasel phrases which allows the writer to claim something without actually specifying what they are claiming. I affixed the template to the article rather than deleting the offending passages. — goethean ॐ 23:14, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

latin

thanks for giving me that infomation i apreciate it--Wikiscribe (talk) 17:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Dear David, thank you very much for looking at my userpage and the corrections on my userpage. I havent had the time to go through and do that. It was very nice and I appreciate it. Love and Namaskar. Govinda Ramanuja dasa USA (talk) 08:45, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ramayana

Hi David, I am not sure if you intentionally undid some of my corrections on the page. Can you please clarify the reason? Abecedare (talk) 07:12, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem; I suspected as much but wanted to make sure. The main change was the deltion of a duplicated sentence. The rest were minor stylistic changes. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 07:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ramayan (TV series)

Thank you for contributing to this article. However, I'm afraid I disagree with you. The plot summary that you put there is relevant to the TV series and the epic by Valmiki, but is closer to Valmiki. The TV series also borrows heavily from Tulsidas, including such elements as Sita having an actual swayamvara and not Rama simply asking to try to lift the bow. Also, in Tulsidas and in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, Sita's banishment is not shown (although it is shown in Sagar's next series, Luv Kush). The plot summary that you included only has details from Valmiki, not Tulsidas, and so it has a place in the Ramayana article, but not the Ramayan (TV series) article. More than that, though, I don't think we need a long plot summary in the Ramayan (TV series) article. It detracts too much from the rest of the article and is redundant with the information about the epic in the Ramayana article. What we really need in that article is more about the production and the impact of this series, since it was thanks to Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan that religious TV series became popular in India. Thanks for understanding! :) --Hnsampat (talk) 00:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps if we want to include a summary of episodes, we could have a separate article called List of Ramayan episodes. One thing to be cautious of though: the 16-DVD Ramayan set is not faithful to the original series. It's been heavily and crudely re-edited, sometimes with episodes ending in the middle of key scenes. An entire crucial subplot about Bharat disowning his mother Kaikeyi has been deleted. (Not to mention the fact that songs and sound effects have been re-dubbed or re-recorded, essentially losing everything that made the original series good.) If you want to write a List of Ramayan episodes article based on what you see in the series, I strongly urge you to watch either the 12-DVD set or the 26-VHS set. I can help you write this list of episodes article, as I have both the 26-VHS set and the 12-DVD set. --Hnsampat (talk) 00:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Queston on article images

Hello David G Brault. There is a Vaishnava editor who is trying to find out how to make images. Do you think you could offer him any advice? His question is at Shri Swaminarayan Temples. I thought you might be able to point to some tools. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 03:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also

I saw on you userpage your Youtube links, I admire you talents in Latin and appreciate your posting the videos. I have tried to learn Latin in the past but became overwhelmed. I want you to know that I have been using the ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry's webpage, located at List of Sannyasis in ISKCON April 2008 to create new articles on religios leaders in ISKCON. Again, I apologise for my past mistakes concerning particular ISKCON swamis. I hope to rectify these past mistakes. I want you to know that I am committed to creating new articles for these notable individuals. Any thoughts or guidance you have would be appreciated. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 03:58, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would you like to add another tradition to the list

Lets us know what you think. Wikidās ॐ 22:24, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TfD: Template:VaishnavaSampradayasrs

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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada call

David, you were one of the editors who contributed to the above article. Since the article has stabilised and I have added proper references as well as provided a NPOVs references, I suggest final edits by the editors who were contributing to the article. Following the general proofing and copyedit, I would suggest nominating it towards GA (Good Article). Wikidās -ॐ 14:22, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Your You Tube Videos

As you may be aware, YouTube has recently come in for criticism over it's handling of copyrighted works.

I note that you have a number of potentially interesting videos on You Tube that you link to from your user page.

Instead of supporting troubled proprietary sites, Why not support projects that value creative talent and assist in ensuring that a viewing public can enjoy and expand upon it?

Wikimedia Commons is one project that needs creative content (under licensing that lets people enjoy and expand upon it).

It would be much appreciated if you would consider migrating videos for which you are the copyright owner to 'open' formats like Ogg Theora, and moving them from 'failed' proprietary sites like YouTube to community sites like Wikimedia Commons, under an appropriate license.

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Book of Job

Thank you for "cleaning up" part of the article. Other users may still correct minor details, but I do appreciate your work.Dampinograaf (talk) 14:15, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi.I am not a regular editor.I was reading the article "astra' and found many factual inaccuracies,particularly the one where it says sudarshan chakra can be stopped by lord shiva.I tried to edit it,but some editor is reverting it,and i found in history that other editors have found this inaccurate too.I have found supporting links in google books,but don't know how to substantiate it.can you please look into it? 117.201.99.241 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:28, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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