134.95.5.107

Please stop removing sourced content from Wikiquote. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox.
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Thank you. ~ Lucifer 19:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

That was neither "vandalism" nor "trolling". Please stop misusing these words, as they account to an insult. The point is: You may illustrate some of Pythagoras' geometric or mathematical ideas by inserting relevant geometrical diagrams, but this here was *so totally so unrelated* ... Wikiquote is not the place to waste people's bandwidth by inserting totally arbitrary graphics into articles. Some people would call that spam. Please don't set out for an edit war. You may instead explain why diagrams of dots, baryon-decuplets etc. etc. "are clearly related to Pythagoras or his ideas" (your words, revert: 19:03, 7 May 2008). I'm actually easy to get along with, just please be nice and keep to the point. Thanks --134.95.5.107 11:26, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

With your previous remarks, you seem to have assumed that the person who reverted your previous deletions was the same person who originally added the images you deleted. The template used at the start of your talk page was simply one that is commonly used here on talk pages when material is deleted, and most of the images on that page were actually originally added by me, beginning in September 2006, and I do find them very relevant to Pythagoras and the ideas associated with him. I placed this message on the talk page of the article:

I have once again restored images that represent or indicate some of the ideas and relationships which have been associated with Pythagorean philosophy since ancient times, including those evoking the Monad and the Tetraktys, as well as other symbolic or mathematical ideas of the Pythagoreans. Simply reading some of the material at some of the linked images would provide some idea of why these images were chosen. Though Pythagoras of course mentioned nothing about quark theory, it is rather intriguing how modern quark theory evokes his tetraktys. Noting that that there remain quite a number of familiar but unsourced quotes here, I will probably try to source more of these within the next few days.

I might not have time to do much on the page today, but I do intend to do more necessary sourcing work on it soon, and might not have been prompted to do so, but for your recent edits. Though the project began with a much more relaxed attitude which I found appealing and thought very useful to it's growth, there has since come to be more and more strictures as to what should go where, which I myself don't always find all that beneficial, but which I to some extent can accept. I do however repeat the assertion that I find the images on the Pythagoras page all highly relevant to the page and the ideas upon it. ~ Kalki 16:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)