Talk:Hsing Yun

message: Does anyone have a citation for Hsing Yun's claim to be the 48th Patriarch of Linji (i.e., Chinese Rinzai)?  This would imply that the Linji lineage has had a unified leadership, but I've never heard this anywhere else.  I'll take the claim down in a few days, unless there is a cite. - Nat Krause 10:45, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: *1989- Awarded the Golden Bell Award for his aired Dharma lecture on TTV, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Being nominated for the Peace Prize is an honor, but it is not official or even prestigious. Any national legislator or about a third of the university professors in the world can make a nomination, and there have been as many as 140 some years. Nominators are requested to keep their nominations secret, so it's only those wishing publicity who make announcements, and more often it is impossible to verify. I see no reason to keep it. No offense to the subject, this is a general Nobel Peace Prize "nominees" issue. -Will Beback · † · 07:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nobel Peace Prize nomination 

message: This page reads like a hagiography and upon investigation, many of the cites are actually just to FGS materials or don't actually support what they are cited to say. It's very problematic. Ogress smash! 03:19, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: You can say that again! – see below. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:53, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder if the POV tag can now be removed? -- Diannaa (talk) 14:30, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality

message: Prior content in this  duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.urbandharma.org/udnl/nl122402.html (dated 24 December 2002, copy-pasted here in 2004!) and https://web.archive.org/web/20141003191454/http://nantien.org.au/en/about-us/venerable-master-hsing-yun. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, providing it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:53, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: I believe the first completely clean version since 2004 to be , after clean-up by , and have based my copyvio-revdel request on that belief. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:53, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: I edited this article a couple of days ago, mostly deleting stuff that doesn't belong. I have just gone back to check the version before my edit for copyright violations with a copyvio tool, and found 98% suspicion of copyvio. I have also checked the page as it was before my edit of a minute ago and find 79%, with most of the text from between the start of Biography and References exactly the same as http://www.nantien.org.au/en/about-us/venerable-master-hsing-yun, with no indication that that page is from Wikipedia (the word "Wikipedia" is not mentioned at all on the site). Accordingly I have deleted the copied text. Pol098 (talk) 21:30, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, ! Certainly that was another copy-paste from the Nan Tien website, which is clearly marked "©Copyright 2013 Fo Guang Shan Nan Tien Temple, Australia" (please see below). Rightly or wrongly, I've restored what I believe to be a clean (and slightly fuller) version of the page from right after the previous copyvio was removed; but please feel free to edit that as you see fit. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:42, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation again 

message: Prior content in this  duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.nantien.org.au/en/about-us/venerable-master-hsing-yun. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, providing it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:42, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: I have made significant changes to the article, someone let me know if the neutrality tag still needs to be there. However, I think the sources tag can be removed since I have added in some sources. Wikiman5676 (talk) 00:00, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the tags, as the article is now significantly different from when it was first tagged. if you feel the article still needs improvements feel free to add the tags back. but please provide an explanation so editors can improve it. Wikiman5676 (talk) 16:20, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  tags