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Welcome to Wikipedia, Dcattell! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! 19:17, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you very much Dcattell for welcoming me in turn and for those helpful links. I certainly hope to avoid condemnation and look forward to the work ahead. Philipmerrill (talk) 04:37, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Reverting vandalism
Hi, thanks for removing vandalism from Halley. In this case, the vandal had deleted material, and you may not have noticed that it needed to be put back. Please have a look at WP:REVERT as it teaches you various ways to revert to undo damage since previous versions. Feel free to leave me a note if you'd like to ask anything. Happy editing! - Fayenatic (talk) 19:13, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Acknowledgments
Thank you Marek69 and Fayenatic.

Books of divine wisdom in Chinese language
Not sure where it should go.Should be merged into something relevant. --Adi4094 (talk) 09:37, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Yu the Great
I presume you missed this which with all respect is better than your present article, which is a fork of the Yu the Great one at the moment. Except of course for the great discrepancy between the two articles in dating and who was Emperor, which bothers me as you link to our Yao article which says (traditionally c. 2356-2255).. Where do you get your dates from? Dougweller (talk) 03:05, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Dougweller. Thank you for your interest. I hardly missed the section on the flood in the "Yu the Great" article (I link to this article in the "See also" section). I did do a fairly thorough search for China, floods, etc. in Wikipedia, or actually several over a period of several years. The reasons why I think this article deserves to and will be able to stand on its on are that there are both traditional mythological versions (which don't really fit into a coherent chronology), as well as a more traditional historical approach, although there are differences in opinion among historians in this area, particularly since we are dealing the more ancient parts of Chinese history. I also don't think that an article on Yu is the best place for an overall coverage of the Great Flood, after all it is dated to the reign of Yao, and Yu was a relative late-comer when he began his flood control activities; and, also the whole flood story includes the involvement of agricultural development by Qi/Houji, the Abandoned One, who is ancestral to the House of Zhou, the activities of Yi the hunter, and so on. Handling all of the various aspects of the flood in any one of these articles seems less workable than using a separate article which can serve as a nexus for this. The dating is in fact, one of the most fascinating parts of the historical aspects of the flood. K. C. Wu in his history, The Chinese Heritage, goes into this at length, based both on a thorough review of all relevant original documents, various modern commentaries on them, and archeoastronomy. My idea is to make a separate section on dating, mostly following Wu. I could develop this article in userspace, but I think the stub is good enough not to be an embarrassment to Wikipedia, and this allows for others (people and bots) to participate. 3rd Century was an error, I meant Millennium, which is in accord with the dates above. Thanks. (Note: I adapted some of this comment and put it on the article's discussion page, in case anyone looks there, rather than here for more information/discussion on the article.)


 * Oh yeah, just for the record, and with all respect, the comparison between the "Great Flood (of China)" article with the "Yu the Great" article is hardly fair: "Yu the Great" has been under development for close to seven years, since 4 April 2004: my proposed Great Flood of China article was only begun 1 April 2011, less than twenty-four hours before this comparison. Dcattell (talk) 22:56, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi Dcattell
Hi Dcattell. I posted a message for you on the talk page of the user page where you commented earlier today. I decided to accept your idea and I did some quick but relatively good work on the page. I also see that you've been editing Shennong recently. I've been editing Yellow Emperor, so we seem to have more than one common interest! Just out of curiosity, how did you find my mother-ship wiki? (You can reply here.) Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 08:58, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I have the "Yellow Emperor" article on my watch list, although I rarely contribute to it. I'm sometimes interested in who is doing a bunch of edits (the article seems so volatile!). Clicking on your user name took me to your user page. About the first thing that I see is Ming-Ching transition in the page contents, clicking on that took me to that section, then clicking on the link to Ming-Qing transition (1619-1683) took me to that subpage -- so, just basic, do you call it, link-surfing?! Anyway the article is looking good.... Dcattell (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for forgetting to fill in the section name when I posted my first message. I just added a simple one. And thank you again for prodding me into action about the Ming-Qing transition. Yellow Emperor is also developing fast, but there hasn't been a single revert or disagreement so far (despite potential controversies), so it's been fun to edit! I will add more to it today. Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 00:27, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Huaqing Pool


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 * As noted on the articles Talk page: Oops, the Huaching Pool is supposed to be a redirect page to the main article Huaqing Pool, because Huaqing is correct Pinyin, and therefor preferred to the older form Huaching, on Wikipedia. The candidacy for speedy deletion should therefor be removed. I inadvertently created the article as "Huaching Pool", and within seconds of realizing it moved it to "Huaqing Pool". There is no article duplication, nor has there been any that lasted for more than a few seconds. Sorry for those few seconds, I usually am not so clumsy! Dcattell (talk) 01:47, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

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