User talk:Imaginie

Aug 23

I am unsure what you last edit summery was talking about, but we do not allow racism. Slatersteven (talk) 16:05, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. I am just a person that despises use of public property for protests for an extended period of time. A month is enough to get the message heard. Imaginie (talk) 16:13, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What? Slatersteven (talk) 16:26, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Forget it, why am I here debating with a foreign national ignorant about the riots. Imaginie (talk) 16:43, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You are not debating, your reply told me nothing, what does it mean? You do actually have to explain what you want to do and why. At the article talk page (see WP:ONUS and wp:consensus). Slatersteven (talk) 16:48, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And please read wp:editwar. Slatersteven (talk) 16:26, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 20:15, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy editing! Cheers, Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 06:13, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sar tan se juda

Dear Imaginie, Yes welcome to Wikipedia. I read your mission statement on your recently published user page. (See here)Not knowing what the expression in boldface, “sar tan se juda,” meant, I checked on Google Translate and out popped “severed head.”

Are you suggesting that you fear that questioning Islam can result in the beheading of the questioner? Please confirm and please do so in a less formal linguistic register—lowered, perhaps to my more commonplace English, not unlike, say, the rough and ready style you employed in your reply to Slatersteven above. I am not able to do much more editing on a phone but will look forward to your reply upon my return home and to a desktop on August 16th. Best regards, Fowler&fowler «Talk» 12:06, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, ever heard of blasphemy. Imaginie (talk) 12:22, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please confirm in simple language without passing the buck to links.

What is it you might fear sitting in the Gar in the Mecca hill where the first words of the Qu’ran were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, that you will not sitting in the forthcoming temple in Ajudhya, where the Lord Rama was born in the Treta yuga, long before anatomically modern humans had separated from their primate cousins in Africa. What is a sentence of blasphemy that you will be able to utter in that temple but not in the cave where your only audience might be the cave’s cats, as they were during our family’s visit? Fowler&fowler «Talk» 12:43, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I do not abuse freedom of speech to torment individuals who hold religious beliefs, engaging in verbal assaults. I hold their dignity in the highest regard. If they are not receptive to criticism, they are free to leave, and I would not be hounding them for who they are. I condemn radicals across all faiths; even radical Hindus, offended as demonstrated by the Kali poster controversy, are swift to react. However, it's important to note that unlike Jihadis who have prominently occupied my user page as a prime example of religious extremism, radicals from other faiths rarely, if ever, resort to murder in response.

I would like to share a quote from the beloved of the Devas, Salman Rushdie: we cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought. Imaginie (talk) 15:23, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't born to disrupt places of worship, where people seek peace, quiet, and inner solace. These are not the appropriate forums for raising criticisms which are havens of tranquility and respite for the religious. If you have the mental caliber, you might be able to address the question yourself by comparing the responses to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and the film poster featuring Goddess Kali. Imaginie (talk) 17:07, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Editorkamran (talk) 18:44, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

August 2023

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Request reason:

Courcelles, your block is quite unfair. There is no evidence of abuse, and I had not received any prior warning about WP:SOAPBOX. It was premature of you to reveal my accounts, especially given my solid experimental setup aimed at gathering evidence of POV-pushers on Wikipedia for an upcoming blog I intend to write. Allow me to share some of my findings thus far: Did you know that after I removed a false reference on the Hindu-Arabic numerical system article, another editor promptly reverted it and added yet another false reference to strengthen the claim (so, two false references). Did you know that on the 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes article, an editor removed the mention of "India losing control of 2000 square kilometers," which was only added back recently due to my intervention. Another instance involves the Jali article, where Hindu Jali examples were removed by yet another POV-pusher. On a more positive note, I was pleased with the editors on the Arunachal Pradesh article, as they had accepted NPOV through my mention of Chinese claims on the region. Regrettably, I must express my dissatisfaction with your decision to revert my removal of content from the history of scientific method article. Upon reading this [1] book, it was clear that the content I removed was nothing but an instance of ownership-POV-pushing. To date, my encounters with POV-pushers caught red-handed have not been pleasant. The existing measures to counteract such behavior on Wikipedia appear inadequate and hence, Wikipedia is a net-negative on my reviews currently. Imaginie (talk) 04:36, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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What you are describing is clearly abusive. Yamla (talk) 12:41, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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