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Wujastyk, you might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science--ragesoss 18:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Do you realize how often your books are cited on Wikipedia?[1]

I see that your first name sometimes appears as "Dominick" and sometimes as "Dagomar".[2] I assume from your user page that the former is correct.   Will Beback  talk  01:17, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health.   Will Beback  talk  06:28, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

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Interested in contributing to the article Ayurveda

Greetings Wujastyk. I have recently been involved in discussion on Talk:Ayurveda. In my research I came across your (I am assuming since you use your full name on your user page that you are not concerned with anonymity, if that is not the case, by all means delete this post) article at Oxford Bibliographies Online. In talking with another editor it was mentioned that you are a WP editor. As you clearly have expertise on the subject and particularly in the scholarly work on the subject I was thinking you could make valuable contributions to the article. Just a thought. Best wishes and happy editing. - - MrBill3 (talk) 09:59, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Sorry it's taken me so long to see your kind suggestion. I'll gladly do what I can when I can :-) My editing at WP is rather haphazard. DomLaguna (talk) 14:59, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm one of the admins watching the Ayurveda page, though I've been largely on "vacation" lately (too busy in real life to do much). Anyway, I saw your invitation to edit above and have been watching the discussion about your edits on the talk page, and I have a suggestion. As you might have noticed, most of the people in the room are hung up arguing about whether Ayurveda is pseudoscience or not. I suggest you ignore that debate for now and try to make unrelated and incremental changes to the article. Initially it will be easier if you just add material, but with time you should be able to edit normally. I know it's a weird way to edit, but the article is in gridlock because of the other debate. Of course it's locked now, but hopefully that will change too. Anyway, thanks for your efforts, and best of luck. ~Adjwilley (talk) 03:47, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Adjwilley. It's nice to hear a calm, sensible voice about this :-) I'll take your advice. DomLaguna (talk) 18:36, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

last time I attended to this, I found that I could not edit at all, even in minor ways. The page is locked, and every single byte-change has to be listed, argued over and justified, before someone else adds it. This is too laborious and time-consuming for me. For the moment, Wikipedia is presenting seriously misleading and historically uninformed information about the history of Indian medicine. So be it. DomLaguna (talk) 18:43, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Sanskrit help

Could you give a quick look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Drishti_%28yoga%29#Noun_declension I was curious if it is correct to list the drishtis with these declensions, and if this was the locative or dative case. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iṣṭa Devata (talk • contribs) 17:00, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Looks like I could use some backup on getting a macron into malāsana on the mālāsana page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:M%C4%81l%C4%81sana#Pronounciation_and_spelling Iṣṭa Devata (talk) 05:38, 6 May 2015 (UTC) DomLaguna (talk) 18:40, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I've got too much on my plate at the moment to help with your queries. Best wishes. DomLaguna (talk) 18:40, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Charaka Samhita

Dear Dr Wujastyk, i have been following the discussions on the Indology list and i must say i am very pleased and excited to find you here. I would like you to kindly look into the following issue: the wikipedia page on the Charaka Samhita says the following about the organization of the text:

The extant text has eight sthāna (sections), totalling 120 chapters. These sections are

• Sūtra (General principles) - 30 chapters deal with Healthy living, collection of drugs and their uses, remedies, diet and duties of a physician.
• Nidāna (Pathology) - 8 chapters discuss the pathology of eight chief diseases.
• Vimāna (Specific determination) 8 chapters contain pathology, various tools of diagnostics & medical studies and conduct.
• Śārīra (Anatomy) - 8 chapters describe embryology & anatomy of a human body.
• Indriya (Sensorial prognosis) - 12 chapters elaborate on diagnosis & prognosis of disease on the basis of senses.
• Chikitsā (Theraputics) - 30 chapters deal with special therapy.
• Kalpa (Pharmaceutics and toxicology) - 12 chapters describe usage and preparation of medicine.
• Siddhi (Success in treatment) - 12 chapters describe general principles of 'Panchkarma.

However, on page 23 of the book 'Science and Society in Ancient India' by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (who is mentioned as a source in the References) one finds a significantly different arrangement/organization of this text. Chattopadhyay's book is present in its entirety online: https://books.google.com/books?id=PyGG6jgXsfEC&pg=PA149&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q=sutra-sthana&f=false

Would you please look into this matter? Thank you. Soham321 (talk) 04:14, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Dear Soham321, thank you for your kind words and enthusiasm. I would love to edit the above pages, and perhaps I'll get round to it. Just now, my plate is too full. Also, I have become disenchanted with Wikipedia editing a bit, specifically with the entry "Ayurveda", where there is a group of anti-pseudo-science people who are making it impossible to edit the entry and make proper sense of it. There is much wrong with the Ayurveda entry, especially the lack of any historical or socio-anthropological perspective. But this group of positivists just can't get past the idea of bashing ayurveda because it isn't "true" (by some inadequately-defined criterion). After wasting some time on it, and getting a lot of criticism, I decided to back away for some months or a year, and perhaps try again later. Perhaps there won't be the same problems with the Charaka entry. That could be a strategy, actually. Fix the things that can be fixed easily (entries on authors and texts) and then gradually re-approach the main "Ayurveda" entry, with references to the good entries elsewhere in WP. Anyhow, I won't get to any of this until later in the year, at the earliest.DomLaguna (talk) 16:18, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations on your new job!Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 21:40, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks! DomLaguna (talk) 04:19, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

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You know the classics, don't you? Best regards, Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 04:12, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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This is disappointing. I wrote the page myself, citing small fragments of information from outside sources. I cannot help thinking of this deletion as an attempt to suppress information about the topic (CVN Kalari) or my voice, for some unknown reason. I say the latter because at the same time my userpage info has been deleted for inappropriate reasons. I have written a new short entry for CVN Kalari entirely in my own words, with references, so that links from elsewhere have somewhere to land. In time I hope this will be filled out by others with more information about this interesting Indian martial arts centre that has been the subject of anthropological studies and continues to be very culturally influential in south India. Wujastyk 16:18, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of userpage

@Jimfbleak: I object to your deletion of Wujastyk's user page. You wrote in your edit-summary (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: self-written vanity page, see WP:COI WP:RS WP:Notability (people), not the place for an autobiography. The criterium in question does not refer to WP:USERPAGEs; and I really don't see how those policies which you've linked do apply here. Personally, I find it usefull that Wujastyk explains he's a scholar, and what his topics of interest are. That's not COI; on the contrary. I'd appreciate a further explanation for this. Best regards, Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 09:49, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

G11 covers User-pages; G stands for General i.e. applicable over any namespace. ∯WBG^converse 11:25, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for noting this, @Joshua Jonathan:. I wouldn't have known about the deletion if you hadn't mentioned it. I am puzzled by the deletion because the entry was a plain, factual piece of information about me, similar to my university home page. It was not promotional, vain or advertising. One important function it played was to disambiguate me from my wife. We both have the same initial "D" and we are both professors working in similar areas of scholarship. I thought it helpful to say that clearly, since I have been contacted here on Wikipedia by people who found it confusing. The user page is not the same as a normal biographical Wikipedia page. I understand that. I also know that it is against Wikipedia rules to write one's own biographical page, so I have never done that. I do not know how to address the problem of this deletion. Does the text still exist somewhere in the wikiverse? Are there edits that would make it less troubling to whoever deleted it? Like you, I'd like further explanation, conversation, and advice on how to do a user page better if that's what's needed. I would like to have a conversation with @Jimfbleak: if they are willing. Wujastyk 16:24, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

The page is being kept, but only accessible for authorised editors. Jimfbleak can tell you more, and what to; if he doesn't respond (give it some time), go to the WP:HELPDESK. All the best, Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 16:41, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks!Wujastyk 16:47, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

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@Funplussmart: None of this makes any sense to me. The page is gone and I see no way to either discuss it with anyone or to retrieve the writing that I originally did. I'm very discouraged about this procedure of rapid deletion without consultation or discussion. The more so since I disagree with the hasty judgement that the page contained copyright materials. I assert strongly that did not, and I challenge the deleting person to demonstrate any copyright infringement. I showed through citations to scholarly literature (Zarrilli etc) that the organization I was writing about is important and has been the subject of study by ethnographers. Wujastyk 21:01, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

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Jimfbleak, Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#What_may_I_have_in_my_user_pages? I see no conflict with my user page that you deleted. Here are my four tildes: Wujastyk 23:11, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

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Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:02, 23 April 2019 (UTC) [[==Reply== First the signature. What I am seeing where you have signed on my page looks like a bit like a signature, but doesn't link to your user page and doesn't even show your talk page, let alone link through to it. Same on this page where I've checked, and your attempted pings haven't worked because the wiki sees them as unsigned. I've never seen this before on a four-tildes signature, and I'm consistently seeing it on yours, so I doubt it's the software. Have you tried clicking on your signature to see if it links?

I see that the four tildes aren't creating a hotlink. I really don't know why this isn't working, or how to fix it. Following this sentence, I am inserting my signature by selecting "Insert/your signature" from the editor menu; it looks exactly like four tildes to me; I see from the "preview" that it's still not giving a clickable link: Wujastyk 19:32, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

I'll shortly recreate the CVN Kalari as Draft:CVN Kalari since it's clearly not ready as a finished article. The autobiography isn't compliant with our user page guidelines, so I'll create as User:Wujastyk/sandbox for now Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:41, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Jim. I'll go to work on this in the next few days. Four tildes :-) Wujastyk 19:51, 25 April 2019 (UTC) and User:Wujastyk and User talk:Wujastyk

Thanks! I see the problem: it is written in the third person. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 07:00, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you everybody (User:Jimfbleak, User:Joshua Jonathan). I have rewritten my User:Wujastyk page. Could you have a look at tell me if it is now acceptable, and if not, what I should change?

User:Wujastyk Wujastyk 20:01, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

You studied with Gombrich! I envy you. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 04:06, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Joshua Jonathan Yes, as the years have passed, I realize how formative it was, and how good. And apart from all the learnedness, Richard has a wonderful sense of humour! Wujastyk 01:34, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

I think the main problem with your talk page still is that it has references, and therefore looks as if it's intended to be an article about you, which is inappropriate use of a user page. If you are just telling us about yourself, you don't need to verify what you have written, you can claim what you like on your own page. I therefore suggest that you remove the references. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:33, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

@User:Jimfbleak I've got rid of the footnotes and pruned a bit. I hope it's now more typical of what others do.User:wujastyk Wujastyk 01:34, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

I can live with that, thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:56, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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Guessing you're Dominik Wujastyk?

If so, nice to run across you on Wikipedia. I'm familiar with your name from the Indology listserv. Hölderlin2019 (talk) 00:56, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello Friedrich :-) Yes, the same one (as opposed to all those other Dominik Wujastyks :-) I edit here quite often. Mostly small incremental things, since bigger changes often get reverted. I admire Wikipedia very much; probably the most important experiment in public knowledge ever undertaken. Wujastyk 16:10, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

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Ayurveda origins

This is about an edit you had made in 2015 to Ayurveda. I wasn't able to find the claim in either of the sources you had added and it appeared to me that it was either Original Research or Synthesis. I've removed it. If you can provide the specific quotes from the sources that you had relied upon (or at least more specific page numbers), please revert me. Hemantha (talk) 07:12, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

To clarify a bit, I was referring to the "first millennium BC" part. The other part on Sankhya, Vaisheshika ideas is clearly referenced. I shouldn't have removed that part, sorry. I've restored it now. Hemantha (talk) 08:29, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Please revert your changes to my original contributions. What I have written was very carefully considered and is all based on sound, university-level, recent published scholarship on the history of medicine. If you disagree, or feel that I should add more or different referencing (you mention page numbers), I would be pleased to discuss the issues and edit the public page accordingly. The fact that you weren't able to find references is a good reason to contact me for discussion, but not to make wholesale revisions. Please revert, and we can discuss issues from now on before making edits to the public pages. If you are indeed happy for me to revert your changes, I'll go ahead. Wujastyk 18:04, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

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