User talk:Jerrch/Archive 6

Speedy deletion of Tang Bi-a
A tag has been placed on Tang Bi-a requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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 * CSD has been removed and article kept per guideline. nat.utoronto 20:12, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks Nat, I was going to add some more information on her later.-- Jerrch 21:24, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Sanyi, Miaoli
I understood that the style of carving was called 台灣木雕王國. You indicated that the township was called that. Then wouldn't the translation then be "woodcarving kingdom of Taiwan", and not referring to the historic period (Kingdom of Taiwan) at all? Also, I am not sure about the word mudiao at all. It was originally used by a Taiwanese/Mandarin speaker whose English was not very good, who said that they had used a phonetic transcription for mudiao because they couldn't translate it. I don't speak either Taiwanese or Mandarin, but based on the characters, it looked like it just means wood carving. --Bejnar (talk) 16:01, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks and Happy New Year
Firstly, let me wish you a very happy New Year and thank you for all your help in the Milhist Tag & Assess 2007 drive.

Secondly, although the Tag & Assess 2007 drive is now officially closed, you are very welcome to continue tagging and assessing until 31 January 2008. Any extra articles you tag and assess during this time will be credited fully to your tagging tally for further award purposes.

Thirdly, if you can find the time, it would be great to have your feedback/comments and participation in the recently-set-up Tag & Assess workshop The idea is to see what lessons we can learn from the 2007 drive to make the 2008 one more efficient and enjoyable.

Thanks again for your help, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 10:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

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Taiwan
Thanks for the corrections. Always happy to help out Taiwan related articles. I added much of the content to the main Taipei page a while back and started all the rivers of taiwan. Now we need info, references and images! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦     Talk? 22:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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Suggest you keep an eye on this and related articles
Hi, Jerrch. I put an article you edited previously (Japan-Taiwan relations) back to its correct name - someone had put ROC in instead. As I explained on the talk page, as Japan has no relations with the ROC it is best to use the word "Taiwan". You may want to look through other pages to see if similar changes were made where not appropriate. John Smith&#39;s (talk) 23:16, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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Request to join taiwan taskforce
in response to this "Would you like to join the project?--Jerry 21:35, 17 September 2007 (UTC)", I would like to reply that with a yes. I would like to join the project to make taiwan known to the world.

Frank Hsieh
You seem to be a person with a strong interest in Taiwan, so I'm guessing you know something about Frank Hsieh. His article has been the subject of quite a bit of POV pushing (as can be expected during an election year). If you don't mind could you help keep an eye on it? I don't read Chinese well enough to check references that are in Chinese, and I don't know enough about the guy to recognize all the dubious assertions. Readin (talk) 15:27, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay.-- Jerrch 23:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator elections
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Re: Image:Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan flag.svg
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Frank Hsieh
Do you speak Taiwanese? I think his family name should be Siā, as in dōsiā. Is that correct or is there more than one way to pronounce that family name? Thanks. Alexwoods (talk) 17:51, 21 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I speak a little, and I pronounce it Sia too. But I don't know if there's more than one way.-- Jerrch 18:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Formosa
Do you believe that he's actually TM/NTList? nat.utoronto 21:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I think so, but Nationalist was too old to check against. It doesn't matter, Beautiful Formosa is not creating much of a problem...yet.-- Jerrch 21:56, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not convince yet...He's only denied that Taiwan is a country, and not the usual points points such as the PRC is illegitimate and the ROC IS China/the sole legitimate government of China. nat.utoronto 22:33, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Wait, did you see the link I left on your talkpage? I think it's definitely him! "Taiwan is a part of China. China being the Republic of China."-- Jerrch 22:39, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Now I'm convinced... nat.utoronto 22:47, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Off topic...
Hey I just realized some thing...someone could interpret why Ma Ying-jeou's name is Ma Ying-jeou: He was born in a Kowloon hospital in Hong Kong right? Well the Ying is the same as the Chinese word for english and he was born on British soil. and Jeou is nine and Kowloon translates from Cantonese as "nine dragons". So essentially, one could theorize that Ma's name is basically referring to where he was born. Interesting, eh? nat.utoronto 04:50, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes that is why his father named him like that. It was on the news. You are a bit slow.Beautiful Formosa (talk) 06:10, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't check Taiwan news that often and I didn't get it from there. nat.utoronto 17:08, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Martyr's Shrine
Please do not vandalize Martyr's Shrine and war monger by asking me to be blocked. You obviously did not make a constructive edit to Martyr's Shrine and instead you called it to be deleted. What is that? Please respect others. Beautiful Formosa (talk) 18:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Project Directory
The new draft of the directory has been getting prepared for some time now by me in userspace. So far as I can tell, you are referring only to one page, the Asia page. The Africa and Europe pages have already been done, although you haven't seemed to have minded that. It should be noted that the new draft of the directory is being made in accord with repeated requests on the WikiProject Council talk page to make the structure of the directory more consistent with the categorization used elsewhere. The reason some of the sections is short is because I am finally trying to get the draft version out there, given that several other projects have been created since the directory was first established without being added to it. Other projects, such as national projects, will often have accompanying military history, history, governmental, or ethnic projects. Personally, though, I'm less sure about some of them, so haven't been quite as inclusive there, although I've kept separate headings in the event that they are added. This is particularly true with the recently created projects. Also, particularly regarding the geographic directories, I tried to make sure that every location basically either independently recognized as an independent state/autonomous region or considered such by the editors who work on that content is listed separately, with redirect links installed where appropriate.

Regarding your question, personally, I could reasonably ask the same of you. Your reversion completely removed several active projects from the directory, which I think probably is, if anything, worse. The reason some of the links are red is because there are going to be changes in the names of subpages, and actually creation of a few new ones, and the links are to the pages as they will exist when everything is finished, hopefully in no more than a week or two. Right now, I am going through page by page to ensure that the projects are only fully listed in their most important single appearance. Right now, I'm working on the Americas page, and that should leave only one Geography page remaining. The rest should probably be rather quicker. You are of course free to make any changes you want in terms of adding additional projects to various sections, but there has been basic discussion regarding how to list most of the geographic projects already elsewhere, and I think it might be a bad idea to change the listing that, for the most part, the projects themselves requested. John Carter (talk) 19:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * They could benefit from more organization. Part of the problem I'm facing is what to do with the various "media of area X" projects, as well as the new Military history and television task forces that have been created. Many of these deal with subjects which have an international basis, and it's going to be difficult to determine where all to place them. As soon as I'm finished transferring all the pages from my draft directory, though, I'm going to post several notices about the new revisions and ask everyone to have a go at it. But, as several already apply to several different extant areas, I'm hoping to have the entire directory transferred before too many changes are made. John Carter (talk) 20:42, 1 April 2008 (UTC)