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Looking at your edits in List of Singapore-related topics, don't you think it is high time to establish a list of Buddhist temples in Singapore on its own? robertsky (talk) 16:12, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Robertsky. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of an article. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal Wikilinks. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Your edits to include Buddhist temples and places of worships with external links to the body across multiple articles should be stopped. Lose the external links in the body of the articles and it should be fine. I am partially reverting your previous edits to remove these external links. – robertsky (talk) 02:42, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
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Unless you have specific information about the involvement of a specific temple in a specific act of persecution of pagans, please stop placing generic tags in the "See also" section of those temples. Laurel Lodged (talk) 11:16, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Dhammapala Tan! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Chinese Singaporeans that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. – robertsky (talk) 02:37, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Please don't spam see also sections like that. The entries are supposed to be closely related. Local architecture is closely related and you've been removing it in places. The lists did need Buddhism in <country> added, but that should cover and summarize every other link you added that's relevant. If you think that article is incomplete, then also add the related category (you'll need a colon before 'category' to get it to list). Your lists appear to be attempted Proselytism, which isn't really appropriate in an encyclopedia. Skyerise (talk) 18:52, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, hope you are doing well. I do see some potential in this page, and is planning to expand two new section for scriptural translation and meditation. Deletion of this page will be a pity in my personal opinion. Dhammapala Tan (talk) 22:21, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
Please stop spamming articles with too loosely related see also links. Also please stop spamming articles with external links. The rule is that any one site may have only one link in the external links section. I will be reverting all your spamming. Skyerise (talk) 14:48, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
I am not spamming, these are all actual articles related to the topics. You can advice me about the standard and not wrongly accusing me on spamming. Dhammapala Tan (talk) 14:53, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Do you know how much time and effort that was needed to find and include those articles? It's not very polite to wrongly accusing me of spamming. Dhammapala Tan (talk) 15:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia is neither by nor for believers. We do not refer to religious figures as "Lord", neither Jesus nor Buddha should be referred to this way in an encyclopedic setting. Please stop adding Lord to references to Buddha. All such additions will be reverted. It seems you want to use Wikipedia to promote Buddhism. That is highly inappropriate. Skyerise (talk) 17:31, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, thanks for your edits to Wikipedia. I want to leave some feedback about your recent edits to Taiwanese religion and temples:
Let me know if there's any questions, and remember to use ((Reply to)). ◢ Ganbaruby! (talk) 05:58, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Please don't add unrelated links between articles, like Xinwu Tianhou Temple and Taoyuan Confucian Temple. Thanks a lot.--迴廊彼端 (talk) 14:39, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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you have changed over 30 articles about buddhism in Indonesia short descriptions by taking their character numbers to 53 or more rather the required (where possible) 40...
So why the need for detail and over the limit against the short description limit?
Is there something you know about short descriptions that could be shared perhaps? JarrahTree 10:21, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
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