User talk:Chochopk/Archive 7

Template:makelist - series
Hey. If your userpage is correct, you are highly experienced with templates. Tell me what you think of Template:makelist and some of its sister templates, mentioned on its page. I'd appreciate a second take on this. Thanks for your time. -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 03:14, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


 * IHMO, the ideal template would take an integer as the number of items in each column. Such template would replace makelist50 and makelist100. But the code would be long and ugly. The alternative way of control - by the number of columns - like Template:Makelist is now, does not work in IE.


 * Before we proceed further, may I ask what are the use cases for this? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 05:32, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sure. Except for that I dont exactly know what you mean by the 'use cases'. If you could define that in terms I can better comprehend, then I should be able to tell you. -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 08:13, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * And I know why this doesnt function in IE. Check the  at the top of the temp. It is programmed for moz. If you know of a way to alter this without changing much, that would be excellent, and id be very grateful. Thanks again, --  Anonymous Dissident  Talk 08:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry, it's the programmer in me talking. I guess what I'm trying to ask is on what articles do you intend to use this template? I don't know of a way to specify the number of columns that works in IE. Perhaps it's just technically infeasible. Sorry, can't help much there. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:41, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I'd imagine that it would prove quite useful in almost any instance where a list is needed, specifically in the format designed. I was thinking of incorporating  into the temp with #switch: parserfunction, and perhaps make the temp more diverse to allow for a great many possible formats to accommodate any situation involving lists. And its ok about IE. I guess I'll have to live with that. --  Anonymous Dissident  Talk 09:44, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I've struck a big bump. The temp doesnt work. Watch this in the source:

• see? this wont work

• It wont come up in list

• Is it too long?

• I'd appreciate if you could help Take a look at the source. Its not appearing. Please, your expertise would be great. -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 13:07, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I've discovered that list items with 4 characters or less appear, but anymore just create a big space. I cant figure it. -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 15:18, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I believe an item does not render when there is no article/redirect that matches the item. For example,

renders • China

• India

• Chinaa

• Indiaa  #ifexist  means whether or not an article exists. If you want to determine whether or not a variable to the template exists, use something like  #if . I did not change the template myself because I thought  #ifexist  could be what you really intend? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:45, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * meta:Help:ParserFunctions may not be as interesting as Harry Potter, but it is a great reference when running into trouble. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:47, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow. That was a very deductive thing you did. Well done. if you, as experienced as you are, could make the necessary changes to the template, I would be extremely appreciative. And I will take a look at the parser functions page. Harry Potter is interesting, but I guess I'll have to leave that til later (just joking ;). -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 09:50, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I have made the change so that it can display non-existing pages. I also took the liberty of taking off  from the template. This is done so that people can choose to display Adam Smith if desired. However, this change is not backward-compatible. Each item now must be added with   . --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 04:03, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I wonder if it is possible, to make things easier, if we could make it an optional parameter to have all list items linked? -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 06:28, 20 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Again, pardon my late reply. What if I make the template to behave like what it did before (shows only when an article/redirect exists) by default, and have an optional parameter to override so that it behaves using the new code? How's this sound? The only catch is that the template code will be almost twice as long. I'm hesitant to make two separate templates because I hope to reuse the style control at the top. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 20:35, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * No worries about your late reply. Its fine. If you could make it link as default, it would be good, and to have a parameter whereby you can cancel linking would be great. Thanks, -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 08:17, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I saw what you did just a few minutes ago. Excellent! Genius! Its really good. Thanks a great deal for your hard work. Cheers! -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 03:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * You're welcome! =) Enjoy! --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 03:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully otehrs will be able to also enjoy what we've done. It will sure make making large lists easier! -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 03:57, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Recent awkward edits
User:SteveRwanda has made a mess of East African shilling and Turkish lira. I've asked him to stop but I'm at a loss as to how to fix the messes. He's moved East African shilling and Turkish lira to East African shilling (old) and Turkish lira (old) and then overwriten the resulting redirects to create disambigs, thereby making direct reversion impossible. I've explained this to him but I don't know how to set things right. Can you help when you have time? Dove1950 15:04, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi... Dove and I are discussing this across talk pages. To me the changes were logical as with both East African shilling and Turkish lira neither the new nor the old currency can be viewed as a primary meaning yet, so a disambig page is ideal per WP:DAB. Cheers &mdash; SteveRwanda 17:10, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with Dove's POV on this. — Nightstallion 15:50, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Yuan Shang article
Regarding the diacritic marks concerning you in the above article, I went back through the article creator's contributions list to look for similar cases. These aren't really Three Kingdoms-related in nature so I thought I'd add them here for you as opposed to the WP3K group: Saitō Dōsan, Hōjō Ujikuni, Hōjō Ujinori, Hōjō Tsunashige, Ōtomo Sōrin, Daidōji clan, Ōishi Sadahisa, Mōri Toyomoto, Ichijō Tadamasa, Takano Jōō, Hōjō Tokiyori, Hōjō Sadatoki. I'm not sure how many of these need to be changed, but at least they're found if you decide to do so. I'm also going to talk to the editor about using these in further articles. Cheers. Gamer Junkie 06:34, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * ... and now I've just been informed by dk that Japanese articles can use these, so ignore everything I just wrote. Gamer Junkie 06:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

AWB Interwiki Mis-sorting
Hi, I've changed AWB so that it will now load its InterWiki links from AutoWikiBrowser/IW

There are probably quite a few things that are out of date on it, and it would be appreciated if you have the time, if you could update the lists

Thanks,

Reedy Boy 18:23, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Historical currencies of...
Again, I commend you for consolidating nav box templates. I just have one question about templates like Historical currencies of Hungary. Is there no way to use wiki mark up for table inside navbox generic? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 05:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Regarding Historical currencies of Hungary, normally all it would take to convert the template is changing "Dynamic navigation box" to "Navbox generic" and "body" to "list1". For some reason which I haven't had time to explore, Navbox generic would not properly display the embedded wiki table markup, so I converted it to HTML.


 * Before:

...
 * Coins
 * style="border-left:1px #aaaaaa solid;"| coins
 * style="border-left:1px #aaaaaa solid;"| coins
 * After:

Coins coins
 * I don't think the HTML is any harder to read than the !- and ! templates used previously. -- Zyxw 04:15, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Don't worry. I was just curious. =) --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 07:43, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion
Since you appear to be the authority on currency info-boxes, I thougth this suggestion would be best made to you: COuld the denomination normally dispensed by ATM's be another feature? Tarcus 08:05, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


 * This sounds like a good idea. What about a small row under banknotes, the template parameter will be atm_dispense, and the label will be "ATMs dispense"? What currencies do you have in mind? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:41, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

ATM's dispense sounds like the best name for it. On the matter of currencies to use, my knowledge is fairly limited. I know in Australia, they give out $20 and $50 notes, in the UK apparently 10 and 20 pound notes. Hopefully some others will be able to fill in the gaps, I guess with the final aim of having every country which does have ATM's having the feature in there info boxes. Hopefully it can be organised. Tarcus 10:13, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

What happened? The ATM's dispenesed has been removed. Tarcus 06:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * It is WP:OR and hard to verify. And it can very a lot from place to place, like the euro. See Talk:Japanese yen. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 06:22, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the confirmation. I suppose there's nothing that can be done unless something like a bank website says "Our ATM's dispense..." Worth a try anyway. Tarcus 08:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Navbox Revolution
Hi Chochopk,

I just thought that I'd let you know that I fully implemented your proposed Navbox Revolution over the last two weeks. The templates, , , , , , , , and were all converted to , which is itself closely related to. All 5000 templates that used those now deprecated templates were individually converted to use the new form. The template will be also merged into  soon via a redirect or pass-through (they use the same code, but  has a few extra options and standard styles/colors). Thanks for your good ideas and I hope you like the new standard template. --CapitalR 14:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Airliner accident / Template:Infobox Mid-air accident
I’ve started a discussion at Template talk:Infobox Airliner accident about merging these templates. I’d like you to take a look at the discussion and see if you can help out a bit. I’m not too sure how to approach editing an infobox and I’ll probably screw-up big time if I tried it by myself. I understand if you’re busy, but there’s no rush in making the changes. – Zntrip 20:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Writing numismatic articles
The Standard Catalog of World Coins and Standard Catalog of World Paper Money actually uses capitalisation for the denominations. I believe that every numismatic article should follow the suit. The article Banknotes of the African Banking Corporation Limited (Rhodesia) uses this style. - (Numismaticman 11:03, 5 September 2007 (UTC))

News articles may not use capitalisation, but the Standard Catalog of World Coins and the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money ALWAYS DO. Here's an example of an article derived from the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, but the arrangement is classified in order of the signatories; Banknotes of Hyderabad. - (Numismaticman 07:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC))

Template:Exchange Rate
You have reason, Google's converter doesn't work with most of the currencies at en:Least valued currency unit, but the same problem have Yahoo! Finance. Ppalli 06:21, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Ciao. Yahoo provides rates for these currencies, but not graph. So I'd say it works partially. But if you must remove yahoo, I won't oppose it. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 06:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Currency of the Solomon Islands
Prior to 1976, the Solomon Islands was a British protectorate under the name 'British Solomon Islands Protectorate'. There was no such currency as the Solomon Islands Pound, but there was a currency called the British Solomon Islands Protectorate pound, as the banknotes of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate are inscribed 'Government of the British Solomon Islands'. The nationality tag for currencies must be expressed correctly. The same thing goes for the Bruneian dollar and the Singaporean dollar. - (Numismaticman 06:27, 12 September 2007 (UTC))


 * I am not disputing the status of the Solomon Island before 1976. What I'm suggesting is that there is no need to encode the government form in the currency name. British Solomon Islands Protectorate it may have been, Russian Solomon Islands Commonwealth it could have hypothetically been. Doesn't matter, it's still Solomon Islands. I don't see French Fifth Republic franc or French Second French Empire franc. And since you like to write everything like the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, I must point out that these banknotes are still listed under "Solomon Islands" in the Standard Catalog. It's on page 1008 of the 11th edition, 1368-1960. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 06:51, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect labelling in the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money

 * There is still a bit of incorrect labelling in the Pick catalogues. The British Solomon Islands banknotes is one such example. Another is the banknotes of New Guinea being incorrectly described as being from German New Guinea. Of course, the Swakopmund Bookshop's notes are wrongly listed under 'German South West Africa'.


 * The Krause catalogues are now putting the coins of Belize separate from the coins of British Honduras. I was using this logic as well. - (Numismaticman 07:02, 12 September 2007 (UTC))


 * You can't just pick and choose what style you want to copy from the Standard Catalog. By doing so, you're invalidating your own argument of capitalizing currency units. Why must we follow the Standard Catalog when it suits your style? I can also claim that the Standard Catalog is wrong about capitalizing because it's currency units are not proper nouns! This is what I've been saying all along, and you've been avoiding to respond. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 07:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Where's the evidence for this? What has writing an article of a country's numismatic article under the correct name of a country got to do with capitalising currency units? I don't see any connection at all, to be quite frank. - (Numismaticman 07:24, 12 September 2007 (UTC))


 * The connection is
 * When you want to capitalize currency unit, you say it's because of the Standard Catalog
 * When you want to name the Solomon Islands pound "British Solomon Islands Protectorate pound", you say the Standard Catalog is wrong
 * The Standard Catalog is in the middle that connects the two issues and exposes your contradiction. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 07:31, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

It seems strange that the Standard Catalog of World Coins catalogues have moved to placing country articles in alphabetical order, yet the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money catalogues have not even been sorted out. The presentation in them is almost as messy as that in the 'Unusual World Coins' catalogue. There's no contradiction on my part. Here's the article Banknotes of Demarary and Essequibo, which is quite wrongly listed under 'British Guiana' in the SCWPM. - (Numismaticman 08:09, 12 September 2007 (UTC))

Template:User iso15924
Hi. I've noticed that you do a lot of work with complex templates (e.g. Template:Random portal component) and was wondering if you could you take a look at Template:User iso15924? The template is used on userpages in the following way:, where the first parameter is a four-letter ISO 15924 code (see Template:User iso15924/name) and the second parameter is a number from 0 to 5, or the letter 'N' (see Template:User iso15924/level-text).

Per User categories for discussion/Archive/September 2007 (it may also be here), the template should no longer categorise users who use the "Latn" alphabet code. The template is already coded so that it will not categorise users who specify '0' as the second parameter via the following code: "" I tried (in my personal sandbox) to do something similar with the first parameter, but was unsuccesful. My modifications either had no effect, prevented categorisation for 'Latn' but activated categorisation for 0 values for the second parameter, or removed categorisation altogether. What I wanted was for the template to categorise in all cases except when parameter2 is 0 or parameter1 is 'Latn'. What is the correct way to make categorisation conditional on the absence of 'Latn'. Any assistance would be appreciated. – Black Falcon (Talk) 18:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Catagorisation of British Empire and Commonwealth numismatic articles
What is wrong with catagorising them by geographical region? It is the way that banknotes and coins are catagorised by some people in the numismatic trade. I do classify them in this way;

Australia, British Africa, British America, British Asia and Far East, British Europe, British Pacific Islands,and India. - (Numismaticman 06:03, 13 September 2007 (UTC))

Indian rupee
The Indian rupee article received heavy editing today by new/unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee  (Talk) 07:30, 16 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I have done what I think is necessary. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I don't know much about the Indian rupee specifically. But I do feel strongly about formatting and structure sometimes. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 04:34, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Template
Chochopk can you please review this template if you have time thankyou Template:New Zealand currency and coinage Enlil Ninlil 05:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm sure you put a lot of thought into it. So I'm probably sorry for saying this. In general, I believe a nav box is appropriate when a majority of links exists. Template:Japanese currency and coinage still has many red links. I'd prefer improving existing articles first, and fork off more articles if necessary, instead of creating too many stub articles too fast. If I were to work on the New Zealand currency, I'd probably create Banknotes of the New Zealand dollar, move some contents over, improve it, expand the table, extend the history backward. And when that's done, I would probably improve coins, and if that's done, I would probably create Banknotes of the New Zealand pound. Well, you get the idea. And frankly, I don't like the idea of having a denomination as an article. It is against the currency taxonomy:
 * Currency (NZ£, NZ$)
 * Coins/banknotes
 * Series
 * Denomination


 * In some places where inflation is stable, but faster than developed countries, "1 dollar" or "1 unit" of something could be the largest coin 30 years ago, and now the smallest coin. They would have different meaning, and it's weird (at least to me) to compare them. Somebody probably started denomination as an article within USD, and the idea gets copied to other currencies. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I underastand what you mean, but over the next feww months I will write articles on the NZ and HK dollar ubits. I wont touch currencies that have had inflation especially hyperinflation. Thankyou. 04:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)Enlil Ninlil 04:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Blocked user
Now that User:Numismaticman has been blocked (many thanks for dealing with him) should we go through his creations and see if they ought to be removed? I'm particularly thinking about those which are just copied straight from a catalogue (like Banknotes of the Kingdom of Fiji) which could fall foul of copyright. Dove1950 14:14, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. His writing style is just bad in so many ways. We can either raise a WP:CSD G12 for copyvio, WP:AFD for a less severe case, or rename to "Banknotes of someCurrency" if it's worth saving at all (Coins of the Fijian dollar is one example of Aidan Work's product). I have been extremely busy lately. So just do as you see fit, drop me a message, and I will participate any discussion you raise. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 06:44, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Template:Coin image box 1 double
Hi

I translated the tmpl. for the Italian wiki, and I saw that the margin Parameter is not optional: if you dont use it (at least in my Mac using Safari) some thing wrong happens.

bye

--Carlo Morino aka zi' Carlo 17:30, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:50Som2002.jpg
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Taiwanese currencies
I know this was discussed a couple of years ago but, unfortunately, the discussion isn't on either of the current articles. In a nut shell, the names we're using have no connection to the actual currencies. Both were called the yuan. On New Taiwan dollar, the Chinese name is given as 新臺幣, 新台幣 or 臺幣. None of these characters appears on the coins and banknotes, where it's clearly called 圓. I'm sure you're aware of this but it really needs fixing. The best solution would be a single article called Taiwanese yuan, with the name New Taiwan dollar prominant so as to ensure recognition. It'll probably ruffle feathers so I thought I'd sound you out before starting work. Dove1950 (talk) 13:35, 8 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Your observation is correct. Before I give a linguistic distinction on the subject of currencies, let me give the dictionary definitions first
 * 新 new
 * 臺 "Tai", short for Taiwan
 * 幣 currency
 * 圓 yuan, a unit of currency
 * But for Chinese speakers, there is a distinction between a currency unit and a currency (system). The following hypothetical dialog is translated to English almost word by word (at least the currency related words)
 * A: It will cost you 20 yuan
 * B: What kind of currency? (幣 "bi")
 * A: Taiwanese currency (臺幣 "Tai bi"), uh, I mean Hong Kong currency (港幣 "Gang bi" (Gang = Kong = 港))
 * B may or may not say "What kind of yuan". But it's far more common to say "currency". A would almost always answer with "Taiwanese currency", and not "Taiwanese yuan".
 * In English, the unit is also the synonym for the currency system, which is not the case in Chinese
 * Back to your question, plus a few follow up that I make up
 * Article name for the Taiwanese currency on the English Wikipedia.
 * If I ran the government, and if I were Jimbo, I would rename everything yuan. See also Chinese yuan. But expect resistance because "New Taiwan dollar" is the "common name".
 * Merge "Old" and "New"?
 * Expect technical difficulty with interwiki because both "New Taiwan dollar" and "Old Taiwan dollar" are both old enough to have many iw articles. And I am sad to see the infobox for OTD to go away. I spent quite some time one it. =)
 * The local name in the infobox.
 * Gee... this is a tough one. The article is clearly talking about the currency, not a unit of that currency. Either 臺幣 or 臺圓 is going to introduce confusion to readers unaware of the linguistic detail described above. A foot note perhaps? Anyway, any solution must apply to the 4 Chinese speaking currencies (or 4+1, 1 being SGD?) --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 17:17, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Chinese renminbi
As I'm sure you're aware, the Chinese renminbi / renminbi debate rumbles on. It could really benefit from your insight. Some of the comments beggar belief and I could frankly do with some assistance if you can spare the time. Once we've got that article sorted, we can return to the Taiwanese question. Dove1950 (talk) 20:37, 22 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, I am aware. Both sides presented their cases. And I decided not to pitch in, knowing that under the current situation, the article in question will remain "Renminbi". There are exceptions to the standing naming convention (with reasons, of course). Pound sterling is one. Euro is not called Eurozone euro. But I don't want to speak against you or Nightstallion outright. I hope you understand. Right now, if I have any time, I will concentrate on Cypriot pound and Maltese lira. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:46, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Postal Orders of Alderney
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Pre-Meiji coinage in Japan
I'm contacting you because of your record of contributionsin the edit history of Japanese yen.

An exchange of views at Talk:Japanese yen/Archives/2012 is developing. Attention is focused on two sentences only:
 * En literally means "round object" in Japanese, as yuan does in Chinese, referring to the ancient Chinese coins that were circular in shape and widely used in Japan up to the Tokugawa Period. In 1695, the character 元 (ghen), signifying "round or rounded") was placed on the obverse of copper coins.
 * The reference source for this fact is:
 * Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō (1652)], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.--Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006.  Click this link for digitized copy of page 415 from rare book in the collection of the University of Michigan

As I understand it, other editors are incredulous, suggesting that this data is likely to be spurious because confirmation is not readily found in conventional numismatic reference books which concern themselves with coins in general circulation during the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.
 * ''See corollary thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan
 * ''See corollary thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numismatics

I just wondered whether you might have a helpful contributions to make. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 15:10, 31 December 2007 (UTC)