User talk:NikNovi

Hi, welcome back to Wikipedia. One little thing, though: careful, when editing, not to break links to other pages. That's what happened here. We should have had a redirect in place for Śakya, but we didn't (I'm going to make one now). Cheers, Nat Krause^{(Talk!·What have I done?)} 19:05, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. However, I'm not completely in agreement, since I tend to prefer for some words of foreign origin to be written in a more anglicised form. There doesn't seem to be a very strong consensus one way or the other about this on Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic) seems to say that we should use a simplified transliteration, but I don't think there's ever been much agreement on this, and some other places seem to imply that IAST or ISO 15919 should be used instead. "Shakya" at least has the advantage of being the standard simplified spelling, as opposed to say, "Punjab" or "Phoolan Devi", which are entirely ad hoc.

The primary reason that I added the spelling "Shakyamuni" is not so much to give the pronunciation—although, if it has the effect, it's a plus—but just because that is another spelling which readers might encounter, and I don't want them to get confused about whether it's the same person or not.

Also, shouldn't it be Śākya, rather than Śakya?—Nat Krause^{(Talk!·What have I done?)} 04:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to be an editor on a new project

Since its just in the begging stages, please voice your opinion or put yourself on the list of editors here. Thanks, Wikidās ॐ 18:31, 10 May 2008 (UTC)