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May I suggest: The graphic of the Wheel of Dharma has been the ship's steering wheel for some decades now.

It was started as a novel artistic depiction. However the original wheel is a cart wheel. My humble opinion is that we should strive to preserve as much as possible the earliest, and therefore the ideas closest to the time of Buddha. An encyclopedia should try to be accurate and this might symbolically uphold that idea. The use of this symbol in the original way would also signal that Buddhism unlike other faiths, strives to keep close to Buddha's words. We can and should allow, as a way of showing tolerance, opinion and those things deviant from the original teachings, but we ought to start from basics

As for the name and location, I wonder why we should have a separate Wiki for Dhamma, purportedly for Buddha Dhamma while Hinduism too uses the same term (though in the Sanskrit spelling, Dharma). Wouldn't it better to have these pages at the main Wikipedia? The peripheral wikis are normally used by software developers and technology discussions.

If you do this work at the English Wikipedia, you would have many more contributors too.

Thank you. --Athula 10:49, 10 October 2008 (UTC)