User talk:Asl1889

February 2025

Hello! I'm Skyerise. I just wanted to let you know that your recent edit(s) to the page No-mind have been reverted because they appear to have added incorrect information. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite a reliable source, discuss it on the article's talk page, or leave me a message on my talk page. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Skyerise (talk) 05:12, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Skyerise. I also messaged you at your page. The thing is the reliable source is already cited by others -- his book. The name is written there. Also I personally know this researcher. Asl1889 (talk) 07:28, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the info page of the book on Google Books: it says the Westernized name is Nishihira Tadashi and even has a brief bio. His publisher and Triangle magazine profiles are the same. Also, when you swap the first and last names, you break every citation to the reference. People come here to vandalize all the time and then lie about it. I have no sense that you are telling the truth, the facts seem otherwise. Skyerise (talk) 13:41, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to hear that people vandalize a lot of articles, and thanks for explaining the context to me. You have a point, from the point of view of Wiki and anonymity, you would have no way of verifying what I say. How about https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%B9%B3%E7%9B%B4 which indicates his name in Japanese? Also the translator's essay in The Philosophy of No-Mind, p. 212, refers to him as "Prof. Nishihira." This article in EPAT also has both name orders. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131857.2021.1906644 . Asl1889 (talk) 13:53, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway, if it's unfixable, I will leave it alone. It's just unfortunate that his name is wrong. Asl1889 (talk) 13:59, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Western publishers almost always use Western name order. It's possible that Asian-published journals might use Japanese order. Nothing you've pointed out seems definitive. Skyerise (talk) 14:17, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PS Apologies for the multiple replies. I'm reading the explanation you forwarded on COI, thank you for this. Looks like I needed to declare my COI properly. Sorry! Anyway, I'll just leave it alone for now until I figure out this COI thing. Asl1889 (talk) 14:09, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May I ask why you reverted the Watsuji page? There are only two English language books that are 100% Watsuji research, Anton Luis Sevilla in 2017 and David Johnson in 2019. I declare I am COI for Sevilla (2017) however. However, in the interest of scholarship and with due respect to neutrality, I think it makes perfect sense for the full-length research on Watsuji to be listed. Asl1889 (talk) 14:02, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article clearly listed three main works. We don't restrict works to English-language works: works in Japanese also count. Removing a listed work to reduce a list of three to a list of two is clearly diminishing the article. Removing material without adequate justification is considered vandalism. You didn't provide an WP:EDITSUMMARY to explain what you were doing. If you neglect to justify your edits in an edit summary and you remove information, you will almost certainly be reverted by any long-term editor. In addition, if the explanation for the edit is complex, you should post on the article talk page and get consensus for your change before you make it. This is a collaborative work, and anything you remove is the work of another editor, so you need to provide a clear explanation for why you are changing something. Even then, any editor may revert you if they don't agree with that explanation. Since you are new, I suggest that you start by proposing the change on the talk page, wait several days for a response, and only then make the change if there is no disagreement. Skyerise (talk) 14:28, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thank you. I really was getting it all wrong. My apologies, and thanks for taking the time to explain to me. I'm sorry though, I didn't intend to remove it. His two magnum opuses I put together but I kept the third, Climate. But anyway enough with my excuses, I'll try to do this properly. Asl1889 (talk) 14:35, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bold, revert, discuss process

When an editor reverts your bold edit, the article is supposed to remain at the previous status quo until there is a talk page consensus about implementing the change. Also, if you "personally know the researcher", you should not edit the article due to your conflict of interest. Skyerise (talk) 13:33, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest management

Hello, Asl1889. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Tetsuro Watsuji, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template), including links or details of reliable sources that support your suggestions;
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Skyerise (talk) 13:33, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this explanation! Will take it most seriously! Asl1889 (talk) 14:10, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]