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Your signature, and Queer people of color

Hey Morgan, a couple things. I noticed you went back to the AfD nom for Queer people of color and changed some of the capitalization. If you go to your preferences, you can change the capitalization there so it always comes out as you want it (or you can get really crazy and change the color, font, put in links, etc.). Thought you'd like to know.

I also wanted to say something about your comment that deletion of Queer people of color would amount to bigotry. As the editor who nominated this article for deletion, I won't take your comment personally, but do hope you understand how i could easily take those comments to mean that I'm a bigot. Oftentimes discussions on Wikipedia can get heated and so it's important to keep a cool head; I hope that in the future you choose to use less inflammatory language.

Anyway, while we don't see eye to eye on the deletion of this article, I do hope that, regardless of the outcome of this AfD, we can collaborate in the future. Please let me know if I can help you with anything, be it technical, content-oriented, or admin-duty-related. Truly, JDoorjam Talk 02:04, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Its important for the sustenance of level-headed discussion not to dissect words as character assassination but to underscore what the proposed act of deletion really stands for in the given context. There are users that add peoples' names hardly categorized as a notable or historical figure (for example, a singer of a garage band whose career fell short after a couple of years), slang words/phrases (*there is abundant intellectualizing over the word "yo"- which also gets tossed into the controversy as arbitrarily taking up space), that are left unbothered. If an organization was called Queer People of Color how would that affect its nomination for being characterized as an "appropriate" encyclopedic definition? The reiterated "its just a term" response shows indication that those who are people of color exist and acknowledge it as self-identification and a strategic means to anti-colonialism and community building, queer people of color do not or have not done anything to make a mark for themselves to be recognized as an oppressed group of people. This arrival itself is censorship and oppression of voice. Anarkafrica 16:24, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Cleaning up my talk page, I came across this discussion and remembered that I started editing Wikipedia after a friend expressed anger and frustration over the marginalization of the QPOC article. A decade later, where are we at with this? Morganfitzp (talk) 15:16, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Card game user templates

Well, they are not deleted yet, but that is the plan. However, if you have game specific images, I am very interested. I can add them to the master template. Also, I can give you a little gift to help with making your user page a bit more interesting where the card game user templates are concerned. Interested?
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 07:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

PS. I don't consider my user page fancy, I have seen a lot of user pages here, and mine is a bit plain by comparison. If you want to have the user infobox I have on the right hand side of my user page, let me know. I can help you get it. If there is anything else on my user page that you like, tell me and I will help you get it done on yours. I don't mind letting people copy me. :) - LA @ 07:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Minor edits

I noticed you created the page 41 shots and marked the edit as minor. You may want to go back and re-read when to mark an edit as minor, since page creation is definitely not listed. Natalie 15:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! That was an oversight on my part. I'll be more careful next time. - Morganfitzp 20:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey, everybody screws up sometimes. Natalie 20:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Copyright licensing of Image:Cantastoria korea.jpg

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I added something. Please let me know if I did it right. Morganfitzp 05:26, 10 May 2007 (UTC)


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interested in the Portuguese-speaking world

Hi. I'm Beth, known on Wikipedia as Learnportuguese. I am very interested in the Portuguese language and the Portuguese-speaking world. The whole concept of saudade is fascinating. If you want, chek out my user page and talk page and put a watch on both. I have very interesting discussions there. You are very welcome to contribute. :-) learnportuguese (talk) 16:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

tip, but please do not reply

Posting major contributions and marking them as minor edits is not a good practice. I thought I'd let you know. It makes it harder to find your messages. :-) learnportuguese (talk) 01:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey there

You are invited to participate in WikiProject Philadelphia, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about Philadelphia. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated!

You can also add yourself to the list of people to be invited to our next meet-up!

--evrik (talk) 19:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Agro-

Hi. I saw your work at Agro-. You're right to see agri- as an alternative to agro-, but it seems to me that agro- is more common as a prefix than agri-. I had the idea of setting up a page on agri-, but many of the words would simply overlap. I guess the taxonomic names and proper nouns would not, but the agricultural ones would. I've had a little bit of an edit to accommodate your change. Are you happy with that? - Richard Cavell (talk) 05:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

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Looks like the article is back. Morganfitzp (talk) 22:29, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

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Roy Paci

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Will do. Morganfitzp (talk) 04:13, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

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November 2011

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Forrest yoga a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

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Thanks for the info! This is really helpful to know and makes sense. I will do this in the future. Morganfitzp (talk) 16:05, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Barbu questions.

Hi, Morganfitzp!

I've just put a couple of questions on Talk:Barbu (card game). Since you seem to be a rather major contributor to the article, I believe that you know this game (I don't), and can answer them. Best, JoergenB (talk) 21:19, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Interwiki links

Hi Morganfitzp! When you created a new article on en.wikipedia.org and there is e.g. already an article on de.wikipedia.org it is enough to add an interwiki link in your newly created article. Robots (bots) will automatically add your article to the article on de.wikipedia.org. Regards, --Polarlys (talk) 17:09, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Awesome to know! Thanks for the info (and the bots!) Morganfitzp (talk) 20:19, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Please use recent secondary sources

Rather than blogs and papers more than 10 years old. Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:32, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Did you mean to say, "Please use recent secondary sources as well as blogs and papers more than 10 years old"? Morganfitzp (talk) 19:25, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Monster Movie!

Hi,

Some time ago you added some interesting information about songs on Can's awesome Monster Movie. Can you please add references to source for that information?

Thank you! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 07:49, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

I did include a reference, cited Holger Czukay's Short History of the Can and added the Reflist tag. If any of the info I contributed to the article seems unsourced, it's due to changes made by other editors. Thanks! Morganfitzp (talk) 13:21, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

asanas don't have to be done in yoga

I've reverted your edit here because asanas are not exclusively done in yoga or in a yoga environment.Curb Chain (talk) 09:49, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Viparita Karani

Hi Morgan. I want to redirect Viparita Karani to a page where the asana is unassisted, as apparatuses are not notable since all asanas can be assisted with apparatuses. Which asana is the one where the soles of the foot are brought together with the legs making a diamond and right angles with the rest of the body?Curb Chain (talk) 08:32, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Viparita Karani can be done with out the use of props. The pose is supine with legs vertical. The most common variation without use of a wall resembles a modified shoulder stand with flexion in the thoracic (instead of cervical) spine, upper arms on the floor, elbows bent to send forearms vertical, hands supporting hips. A more advanced variation without use of a wall has the entire spine on the floor and 90° flexion at the hips with arms extended by the sides. Iyengar and many of his disciples disagree with the notion that poses have to be unassisted to be of note, hence Viparita Karani has become known as "Legs-Up-The-Wall Pose" and taught as restorative. Morganfitzp (talk) 07:13, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
So are the legs raised, but hethe back on the floor-and-supine? Iyengar is a kind of excersise yoga but we need to represent yoga generally and inclusively, meaning all the kinds of yoga, not just Iyengar. Is there a better name than "Legs-Up-The Wall Pose"? Having the back supine and legs 90degrees is a notable pose, but what is that name? Variations such as putting the soles together while maintaining the 90degress to the rest of the body is a variation, or the former a variation of this one.Curb Chain (talk) 23:05, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
The etymology section of the article reads, "The name comes from the Sanskrit words viparita meaning 'inverted' or 'reversed', and karani meaning 'doing' or 'making.'" Many sources support this. I've also seen it called "Upside-Down Seal." Morganfitzp (talk) 14:13, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

pose vs. asana

Pose really shouldn't be used as it can be ambiguous.Curb Chain (talk) 22:34, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Terms

Take care you don't revert good edits when you press the undo button. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curb Chain (talk • contribs) 17:34, March 21, 2013‎

Take care that you sign your posts! Morganfitzp (talk) 21:34, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Oops. Why do you insist on using the ambiguous term "pose"? And if an asana has multiple names, it is pointless to say "it is alternately called" or "it is alternatively called".Curb Chain (talk) 22:19, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Asana is a Sanskrit word. Many words in Sanskrit splay out into a multitude of meanings when translated into English. The same is true of English words (e.g. the verb "to get"). Though "asana" literally means "seat", in English it appears as "pose" or "posture," and in 21st century English, "pose" is what most yoga practitioners use when translating "asana". Type "Trikonasana" into English language Google and you'll see that 7 out of the top 10 listings call it "Triangle Pose" in the article title; "Triangle Asana" is not a complete translation; "Triangle Posture" or "Triangle Position" come off as so formal to the point of being archaic; "Triangle Seat" makes no sense for a standing pose like Trikonasana as "seat" implies that one is sitting, whereas "pose" can be any form. One could say, "Configure the body into a triangle, channeling the prana and focusing the mind so that the spirit takes the figurative seat of the triangle." While this is very poetic, few English-speaking yoga teachers would say that. More often you'll hear, "Come into Triangle Pose" or simply, "Step into Triangle." Morganfitzp (talk) 03:55, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
I understand your point of view, but "pose", "position", and "posture" are equally ambiguous, and equally multisemantic. Per coining, "asana" has been established as refering to "yoga poses".Curb Chain (talk) 21:49, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Well then, you may translate "asana" as "yoga pose" for the many laypeople who look at Wikipedia every day. Morganfitzp (talk) 04:53, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
PS: I noticed your edit of Bakasana that erroneously removed the word "Kakasana" from the photo caption and ignored a rather obvious violation of Wikipedia's how-to policy. Can you find that how-to? Morganfitzp (talk) 04:53, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
  1. I have translated "posture" and "pose" to "asana'"
  2. Removal of " / Kakasana" was not an error, nor did it violate WP:NOTHOWTO because:
  1. It is technically Crane that is being performed in the picture, as neither leg was suspended; both legs are supported by the arms.
  2. I changed the word, the term, of the subject matter; I did not describe how to do it. Inserting trivia such as "1st, 2nd, 3rd position" to help readers to do them, when such data is neither academic or statistically relevant is off topic, and as such, you did violate WP:NOTHOWTO. I see you said I make a good point, so why do you insist to argue?Curb Chain (talk) 00:39, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Streisand Withdrawal?

Hi, just wondering why you did this and what we could do now? --Trofobi (talk) 15:57, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Trofobi. What you've come across has a long story behind it. It's a personal story, relating to an individual who has struggled with relationships, homelessness, addiction, parenthood, anger, shame, regret, and wanting to keep things off the internet. As an editor of Wikipedia, I followed protocol by contributing to an article that I knew a lot about and providing references. As a human being in the offline world, I was subjected to a lot of rage by someone who did not want their past put on display for the online world to see. Other editors and I followed protocol and tried to have said article removed. It did not work, and the angry phone calls, text messages and letters continued to berate me and others.
I believe in Wikipedia and abide by its standards. Some standards, however, are higher: the standard of human dignity and one's right to privacy. As an eager young Wikipedian, I denied someone that right by putting information about them on the web and have since done everything in my power to undo this. But my power is limited and the best that I could do was show the upset party that by demanding that attention not be paid to something, more attention is drawn to it (a.k.a. "The Streisand Effect.")
Your question is a good one: What could we do now? Getting the article deleted altogether on the grounds of non-notability would be an honorable solution. Morganfitzp (talk) 21:35, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Step 13

Can you give a check to Talk:Surya_Namaskara#Step_13? here's the sectionCurb Chain (talk) 22:17, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Morgan, I think there is a clear mix up between the asanas and the mantras. Can you clear that up? What is the association between chakras and asanas if the mantras are supposed to be pronounced at Pranamasana?Curb Chain (talk) 03:26, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
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