User talk:Dasani/Archive 4

Leah Dizon (Personal Life)
No! It was just Leah who gave birth, not the couple, though she is still married. This has been confirmed. If you again say that it was the couple who gave birth, you will be blocked from editing. User:Teddy.Coughlin (talk) 09:26, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Leah Dizon (Introduction)
Why is Dizon's ethnicity not important? A reliable encyclopedia should state a public figure's legal name, stage name, dob, place of birth and brief family background (which includes ethnicity). It's even more important to clarify and to inform, since Dizon's ethnicity has been disputed in the discussion page. I've provided links to her official website; I don't see why that part (about her ethnicity and parents) should be removed. Kerry65 (talk) 09:20, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Alright, thanks.Kerry65 (talk) 17:44, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle...Shazam!
Yay, Ayu is now an FA...due not in small to your support and minor edits here and there (I never realized how important using the right dash is or how little typographical mistakes are not so little after all), so...

Andrea Yates' Brother
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/16/lkl.01.html Has the verification that Andrea has a brother named Andrew.71.251.177.120 (talk) 10:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Loves Art
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Bio format
Haha, no I don't mind...but I think my format is rather dull and unimaginative. But whatever floats your boat! Ink Runner (talk) 07:10, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Moon-sunrise deserves a lot of the credit for Koda (I just did a copyedit), so go give him major props for his work. ...Haha, if Koda becomes an FA, and then BoA (BoA has gotten considerably better since...what was it? August?) then the FA music section will have like six Asians (five non-Anglophones) so they'll be the biggest minority there...so yeah. Haha. :P Ink Runner (talk) 07:27, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Kumi Koda
To answer the question you left on Ink Runner's talk page, it was me who fixed it up to a near GA. ( Moon ) and  ( Sunrise ) 07:25, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't know if you're watching the GA talk page but I replied to your inquires. ( Moon ) and  ( Sunrise ) 02:12, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Koda Kumi part 2
Hey there, just wanted your opinion on Koda Kumi's Good Article nomination. I think it's GA-class now at least, but you raised a good point about the length of the lead, so could you voice any concerns/comments @ the review page? Thanks! Ink Runner (talk) 22:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Location in California...shhh...
I used to live in Los Angeles (or more specifically, Carson), but I moved to the capital region 'bout 9 years ago. The funniest thing is (except for the fact that I hear so much Cantonese here that now I think of all white people around here as "gwailo" :P) is that Arnold Schwarzenicantspellhisname has been governor for five years or so, and the first time I saw him was in December of '08 (for some Hannukah thingy). But like it's been said, the people who live nearest to a tourist attraction are most often the people who have never visited it. Or something. Ink Runner (talk) 05:13, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Mandarin/Shanghainese vs. Cantonese
I know, I swear everything in Cantonese sounds like arguing...but I guess since it's the Chinese dialect I'm most familiar with, I prefer it over Mandarin. I mean, yeah, Mandarin sounds "nicer", but I feel more at home hearing Cantonese. Like when I went to China, after a week or so on the mainland, hearing Cantonese in the Hong Kong airport felt so...home-y. Haha.
 * P.S.: I probably won't be writing anything on Written Cantonese for some time; I'm actually going to research the subject before writing, get sources from Google Books or the library or whatnot...something that if I had done with Ayu, it probably wouldn't have taken a year to get to FA. XD Ink Runner (talk) 05:58, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Haha, I actually doubt my parents will be of much help (when it comes to the grammar/linguistics section, at least). You see, my dad is Cantonese (ethnically), but he speaks Taishanese (which is very, very similar to Cantonese though) and can't read Chinese (he moved to America when he was only 10 months, so English is for all intents and purposes his first language), and my mom is Filipina/Chinese (she speaks Tagalog, but like my dad, her English is much more fluent.) So except for my paternal grandmother and paternal uncles, my brothers and I are the only ones in our family on either side that can read Chinese. It's a very strange familial situation, linguistically at least. Also, I can read novels in Chinese, but for some reason, newspapers give me headaches. I have a lot of trouble understanding modern terms (when translating those Chinese sources in Ayu's article, I had to consult a dictionary every other sentence.) :P
 * Thanks for archiving the talk page, though. Now all we need to do is sit back and wait for the IP addresses to start discussions about how Ayu's supposed plastic surgery should be included. XD Ink Runner (talk) 07:38, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Ayu's plastic surgery
Yeah, I really wish a reliable source at least mentioning the possibility of her having had plastic surgery could be found. There are a lot of things about Ayu that can't be included simply because they don't have a source, like the Kubrickian nature of some of her music videos. :( Ink Runner (talk) 00:32, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi and Welcome
Hi, and welcome to Wiki. I'am  Jon Ascton    (talk)  01:50, 15 February 2009 (UTC), nice to see you...


 * Just saw your userpage. I am quite impressed ! We have lots in common  I think.   Jon Ascton    (talk)

J-pop and BoA and Written Cantonese...oh my!
Sure, I'd be glad to help with the J-pop article. It seems that Written Cantonese will have to wait, since the best written source on the history of written Cantonese is...sixty-five bucks. It looks like I'll have to work on something more general in the mean time, like Cantonese in general or Cantonese grammar. Bleh, academia and their overpriced goods. As for BoA, it seems to be all right stylistically, but I'm hoping to squeeze just a little more content out of it. Well, see you at J-pop. Ink Runner (talk) 19:34, 16 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sure! What exactly do you want me to focus on? I mean if you mean wiki-fying it, another, more experienced editor might be of greater help, but like fixing the Japanese on the page, I could do that!  moo cows rule talk to moo 04:34, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry to hijack this post but I figured it would be better to leave a response under here since it is about the same topic... Anyway, I'd be glad to help. I guess I could try to re-write and Ink Runner could copy edit.... Moon   and   Sunrise  04:40, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:Articles needing translation from Vietnamese Wikipedia
We need your help to translate from Vietnamese!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:24, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Don't need anything more than basic. Most of the articles have no content whatsoever. If you could extract the basics even using google translate this is better than nothing. We just desperately need to do something to develop these articles and add some things, list the communes of each district etc known as "xa". Dr. Blofeld      White cat 19:43, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Re J-Pop
You're not being rude or anything like that. I have the page on my watchlist and I plan on making edits. I've just been busy with other projects like, TVXQ and creating solo pages for the members. Reverting stupidness, cleaning up Voice of Earth and so on and so forth. I will make edits to the page in the immediate future, maybe right after I take TVXQ to the GA process. PS. I'm a guy. ~Moon~ 月 と  日の出  ~Sunrise~ 19:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I haven't been editing as much lately D:
 * I've been really busy with school and what not, so yeah.
 * It wasn't rude :D and I'm a guy.  moo cows rule talk to moo 00:07, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Hoa
I'm not sure I understand this edit --- if they're the sixth-largest group, then how can they be the largest minority group? The second-largest group would be the largest minority group. Did you mean they're the largest non-indigenous group (which we might be better off not mentioning brings us into the thorny territory of who qualifies as "indigenous"?) Cheers, cab (talk) 01:26, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Birthdates
I wanted to make sure you saw this and to point you to BLP. I think the reason for keeping birth dates out of articles is privacy, since birth dates are sometimes used to confirm identity. Or it may just be an original research concern. Either way, it's policy.--chaser (talk) 02:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I was a bit confused about that myself, but I saw that a user had also provided the birthdate of Bristol Palin, so I believed it was acceptable. Other well-known figures (such as Britney Spears and Barack Obama) have their birthdates revealed to the world in the respective articles. In any case, we do not invent the rules. Well, thanks for the heads-up. ★ Dasani ★ 03:10, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I think that there are better (i.e.: secondary) sources for Spears and Obama, but no source is linked in the Spears article, so who knows. Anyway, that was the issue in the Bristol Palin article, but an editor found a secondary source. See User_talk:TharsHammar for our discussion. Cheers.--chaser (talk) 04:28, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Huh?
What "inaccurate chart"? I did say I looked up the information, unlike everyone else, to get accurate information. You on the other hand want to treat people like their dumb by adding unecessary ages for the kids. R7604 (talk) 00:59, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:KailaYu.jpg
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copy-edit request
Would you be interested in copy-editing Chinese classifier? I saw you where fluent in both English and Chinese, ideal for the article. We are trying to make it FA soon. GeometryGirl (talk) 17:44, 10 August 2009 (UTC)