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Sikhism's Views on Pornography[edit]

I checked the articles you referenced and the book. The first link mentioned nothing at all about prostitution, pornography or anything else mentioned in this section. Further, the two google books mentioned do not exist. Upon further investigation it appears the entire purpose of this section was to serve as the basis for claiming Sunny Leone could not be Sikh. this whole section should either be appropriately sourced or deleted outright. Jgeddis (talk) 12:34, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was no consensus to merge. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:05, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This was proposed in 2008, and even the flagging editor didn't discuss it, so I dropped the flag.- sinneed (talk) 14:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just giving everybody plenty of time to think of one single reason. Otherwise how about German desire French desire English desire..... the words kama and kam are the same. The other page deals with the subject from the POV of Hinduism, Buddhism and Theosophy - why not Sikhism? It is already enough that there is a page for a word that simply means desire, sex or lust. Why not have a special page for bicycle in every language of the world? Redheylin (talk) 03:15, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Taking that to extreme: we could make one truly gigantic article and redirect everything into different sections.

But why? "Kam" and "Kama" are not the same. Certainly they are related. Maybe an also. I won't oppose this strongly but I see no plus and some minus.- sinneed (talk) 04:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"the case for is obvious" - Ahem. No. Maybe you could spell it out?- sinneed (talk) 04:37, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comparing to your German/French/English, I see this more like Hell in Christian beliefs, Hell in popular culture, Problem of Hell,Hell (Chinese mythology),Tartarus.
That being said, I do see an argument for: it makes it easy for a searcher to see several different views of similar articles, instead of having to actually click a see-also link.- sinneed (talk) 04:43, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The last is what I am thinking. In fact, there is already an outline of the Hindu view in this article - it has been felt necessary to contrast the two. So why not go the whole hog? The two are the same word - at the most one is Sanskrit and the other Punjabi. And then let us go and sort out Hell! Redheylin (talk) 20:19, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OT *AAAAAAAHAHAHA man if we can sort out hell we will be famous! *cough cough* ok back to the subject. :) *ahem* :)/OT
Yes, I think the argument does have merit, but my concern remains. On the other hand (3rd hand?), no one had commented against for a good chunk of a year, so how serious could concerns be?

- sinneed (talk) 20:32, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What if we sort out wikihell and then we get to the other side and this angel says, right what are you; a christian, a sikh? We got different hells for everybody. Oh you are the guys who said it was all the same hell are you? Well, we made a special one JUST FOR YOU! And we spend the rest of eternity trying to edit a typo and everytime we do the browser crashes. Redheylin (talk) 01:13, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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"Kaam" Meaning as Widely Used in Hindi[edit]

Hi There, I think it fair to assume that people reading this page will be aware of basic hindi or punjabi dialects and realize that "kaam" literally actually means "work". What is being referred here is "kama" which is one of the Sikhism thieves.

Given the employment situation in the country, a lot of our politicians, including the PM, are using "kaam" very frequently in their speeches and lots of non-Indians are searching for this word only to come across the current wikipedia page which talks about "kaam" as a sikhism sin.

A request: can we please change the title to "kama" (which is also the sanskrit meaning) or change the content to reflect "kaam" meaning "any kind of work". Below are citations to support this. If we do the former (only change the title), we can create a new page for "kaam" if that's easier.

"Kaam" simply means "work" in Hindi, India's national language and below are the citations to support this. ^[1], ^[2], ^[3], ^[4], ^[5].

I am new to Wiki editing - would really appreciate any help anyone can provide.

Best, Nparwani (talk) 12:55, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright problem[edit]

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Resolved with a rewrite. MER-C 11:01, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.google.co.in/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enIN805IN805&biw=1500&bih=859&ei=_o6jW4acNsq7rQH524L4CQ&q=kaam+meaning+in+english&oq=kaam+meaning+in+english&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i71k1l8.0.0.0.2336291.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.FGnuO1uuR7E

[2] ttps://en.bab.la/dictionary/hindi-english/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE

[3] ttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE

[4] ttp://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:6242.mcgregor

[5] ttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE

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