User talk:TheLeopard/Archive 3

Asia/Australia Heritage sites

Hey Leopard, is there any particular wikipedia guideline that suggests we use longer headings instead of adding sub-headings? Aesthetically I feel like the long strings of text are more clunky than precise bullet points.

I suppose I can get behind that, Gyeongju would go crazy with all its subheadings. Chouji Ochiai (talk) 06:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

On a side-note, I support consolidating the list like you just did to stay consistent with UNESCO. Chouji Ochiai (talk) 03:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Also, I have no problem with adding multiple dates for extensions as long as its done consistently Chouji Ochiai (talk) 06:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Question

Hello Mr/Mrs. TheLeopard.

First, thank for your contributions in the article Nguyễn An.

Second, I have a question: why did you remove my source?. Have I got any mistake? I'm a noob here, please let me know if I did anything wrong.--Amore Mio (talk) 16:05, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

OK, I fixed it now. I'm not good in using template.--Amore Mio (talk) 16:11, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you.--Amore Mio (talk) 16:12, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Please keep disscussing in Talk:Nguyễn An.--Amore Mio (talk) 17:04, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Please keep disscussing in Talk:Nguyễn An.--Amore Mio (talk) 01:06, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Mr/Mrs. TheLeopard. Please voice your opinion if you have free time. Thank you very much.--Amore Mio (talk) 06:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

I care about your opinion, please keep discussing.--Amore Mio (talk) 16:39, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

• I have just undid this edits. Because under the reign of Zhengtong Emperor Nguyen An directed the recontruction of the wall and some towers of Beijing citadel (which was damaged by weather), it is not a repetitive sentence.--Amore Mio (talk) 17:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

!Achtung!

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer! Und ein Wikipedia! Lol.

Untermensch! Dis ist your captain speaking! You vill report immediately to de vunderful artikle Han Dynasty und you vill see dat it is now ein Featured Article! Macht schnell! Time is money for de Führer!

Lol. Those Kaifeng Jews better hide before those evil Wikipedia Nazis find them! Hope you like the article. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 19:37, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Nice work, the Han Dynasty article looks very good. Congratulation to you for raising it to featured article status!--TheLeopard (talk) 19:43, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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Confucius and the Ever-Normal Granary

Hi! I was the one who posted a link between Confucius and the Ever-normal granary. I can understand why you may have wanted to delete it, but I do think it is valid. I am curious- what changes should I make in order to reference it in the article. (More sources?) Orville Eastland (talk) 04:16, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

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blank lines

I hope you're having a fine time filling up my watchlist with completely spurious edits sans edit summary. If you really must go around deleting blank lines, at least note that WP:STUB states "It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it." Hesperian 01:23, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

I think copious amount of blank spaces, especially the kind that leaves a large chunk of blank spots in-between paragraphs are undesirable. I personally do not like extra blank spaces in between images, but I understand you point. However in this case I was trying to figure out a way to lessen the blank spots (i.e. in the external links section) in stub articles Banksia leptophylla, Banksia calophylla, Banksia oblongifolia. I thought for appearance reasons it might look better.--TheLeopard (talk) 01:37, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Non-English sources

WP:NONENG. Many have not been translated in English. And if they are bad edits, many editors to these articles related to Chinese can read Chinese and someone will revert them.HRW in 1899 (talk) 19:28, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

In my view, this represents the wrong pivot point for laissez-faire; and there is something demonstrably odd about a presumptively "new" editor making this specific argument. This is dubious a priori .... My thinking about this issue seemed to crystallize as I scanned this talk page. My attention was drawn here; and now I'm wondering: From which article(s) did this thread evolve? --15:25, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

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greeting

sir, i think you should not write false information on wikipedia, as you did on Qing Dynasty, Mongolian was not an official language spoken during that time :) Wiki8884 (talk) 16:39, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Spotlight - Marco Polo and sheep

Hiya. Thanks for helping out with spotlight. Your name isn't on the 'spam-list' on that page, so I haven't sent you the newsletter; but I just wanted to let you know a couple of things. Following over 500 edits from the spotlight project, Marco Polo has attained good article status. We've now started on the next article, Marco Polo sheep. Please join the IRC channel some time (quick link), or add your name to the Participants list at WP:SPOT. Cheers, --— Deon^talk_{I'm BACK!} 03:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

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Punctuation

Your recent edit of Archivist of the United States involved deleting a period in a caption under the image of the currect Acting-Archivist. I wonder why?

Is there something subtle that I'm missing when I create captions? What should I bear in mind when I create captions in future?

Your edits of the articles about the individual Archivists cause me to wonder about the red links I created. Your edits caused mine to be little more than time-wasters; and I have to assume that I'm missing the point? --Tenmei (talk) 15:02, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

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Chinese sources

Regarding your comments about Chinese sources in edit summaries such as this: some books and research articles published in China, especially older ones ('60s and earlier, I'd say), lack ISBNs. This doesn't necessarily mean they're bad sources; plus, in obscure topics such as this, there is often little to no research published in English but a very large literature in Chinese. So, all in all, I don't think sources should be excluded just because they lack an ISBN. I agree that the article needs to be trimmed (WP articles shouldn't read like dissertations or like academic journal articles), but just wanted to clarify the sourcing thing. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 02:44, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

That article definitely needs to be trimmed, and much of it is quite badly written and some information are repeatedly stated over and over and duplicated. Many of the books cited are only Chinese sources, and without any ISBN and information, they are impossible to verify. Judging by the inconsistent tone and writing of the article, we don't know if these sources are accurately attributed and if the statements reflects these references.--TheLeopard (talk) 02:49, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Television program

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Zhang Zeduan

Hi, where did you find the information about about Zhangs bio? (1085-1145?) The only historical record I could find was the colophon on the Qingming scroll. Cheers -- M0rph (talk) 14:17, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, wasn't you who added that, my fault. -- M0rph (talk) 13:16, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Comparison between Roman and Han Empires

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Comparison between Roman and Han Empires. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 02:11, 17 December 2009 (UTC) (Using {{Please see}})

The article has also been nominated for AFD, [1].Teeninvestor (talk) 22:34, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

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Dongyi

I realise you're trying to ensure it's a good article, but I can't help but notice a lot of reverts by you against various submissions of other users. Remember that this is a collaborative project, and thus to not take ownership of an article, and to actively discuss with users rather than undo. Thanks, NJA (t/c) 08:10, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Note that I've commented again on the initial edit war report against you. It's here. NJA (t/c) 08:34, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Beijing

Could you please explain why you reverted my edits? Those images belong in the history section, but an infobox image should give a wider view of the city. Maybe a montage would be best.--RM (Be my friend) 16:52, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Reply

Hi Leopard, I think the reply you left on my talk page was probably intended for user RM's above message. Regards :-) Marek.69 ^talk 02:44, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Mongolia and Tibet

Hi,

IMHO this should be used for all successor states, whatever the circumstances. Take for example the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which has a lot of successor states. The succession was actually unrecognized by the Yugoslav authorities, and resulted in a civil war as we all know. Likewise, the First French Empire has several successor states, and so does Nazi Germany. I think this use of the infobox helps the reader have an immediate and complete view of the historical context. If independent Tibet (unrecognized, but this had no effect on the situation) and Mongolia (recognized by at least Russia) were among successor states to the Empire of China, they should just be added. Likewise if Mongolia and Tibet's independence were direct consequences of the Xinhai revolution, that should be mentioned, whatever one thinks of the validity of said independences. Regards, Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 15:37, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Claiming Mongolia and Tibet as successor states of the Qing Dynasty without reliable academic sources are really original research and/or POV, at least very controversial. Please don't add such info until a consensus is reached. In addition, Mongolia was never officially recognized by Russia as independence from ROC in the 1910s. In fact, in 1915 treaty of Kyakhta Mongolia recognizes China's sovereignty, and in exchange Russia and China recognize Outer Mongolia's autonomy (not independence). --173.206.43.154 (talk) 03:55, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Above users, please don't use my user page for discussion over dispute about these issues; use the Qing Dynasty article's talk page.--TheLeopard (talk) 05:31, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

The original listing of administrative divisions in Qing Dynasty article was not very good. Some administrative divisions (e.g. Tannu Uriankhai) were actually part of Outer Mongolia, not separate ones, so they should be listed within Outer Mongolia instead; a few other Mongolian khoshuu can also be group together. Further, Tibet and Manchuria were missing from the list. As always, I'm helping improve the quality of the article (BTW, User 173.206.*.* in article's talk page (and above) is me). Please don't revert my edit, thanks. --173.206.46.206 (talk) 18:21, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

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Yue peoples

Gouwu (勾吳) was the full name of the Wu state: 勾吳。太伯之奔荊蠻，義而從者千餘家，號曰勾吳。《史記注》曰：“勾吳，太吳也。”《史記正義》引宋忠《世本注》：“勾吳，太伯始所居地名也。”許慎注《淮南子》雲：“勾吳，吳人語不正，言吳而加以勾。”顏師古曰：“勾，夷俗之發聲也。亦猶越謂之於越也。”《史記正義》又雲：“去梅裏東南六十裏，十九世壽夢居之，始號勾吳。”與《史記》太伯時已號勾吳不同。疑《正義》誤。太伯舊城，《史記正義》雲：“太伯居梅裏，屬今常州無錫。去此東南六十裏，十九世孫壽夢居之。二十一代孫光，使子齊築闔閭城都之，今蘇州是也。”《世本》又雲：“諸樊徙吳安，即今蘇州。”二說不同。大抵泰伯之後，吳自梅裏凡三徙，而定軍騰今之郡城，中間遷徙不出數十裏之內也。梅裏屬吳縣，《史記正義》，唐張守節所撰，是時或屬無錫爾。Gaia1CB3 (talk) 08:15, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiSource or any free, open to edit Wikimedia references are not acceptable references for Wikipedia.--TheLeopard (talk) 12:58, 29 March 2010 (UTC)