User talk:Keahapana/Archive 10

Seasons greetings
No! Thank you, Keahapana, for your edits on "Monkeys in Chinese Culture"! I'm reading Jeannie Thomas Parker's Mythic Chinese Unicorn. Thank you for the suggestion! So far, I have particularly noted her Robert Graves reference (indeed, one of the main reasons for my interest in Chinese mythology). My reading has been somewhat slowed by my confusion about mammalian taxonomy, to which end I've started sorting my notes out at "List of Chinese terrestrial ungulates". Cheers! Dcattell (talk) 02:26, 11 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello again, Dcattell. Yes, a friend in Japan sent me a PDF of the new translation for the Bencao gangmu 51, which I've been adding into WP. Your list of ungulates looks great! Keep up the good work. Best wishes for the bovid Year of the Goat/Sheep/Ram. Keahapana (talk) 03:06, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

You've been busy!
Hi, just got your message, haven't yet looked at new articles. But, looking forward to it! Haven't done much on Wikipedia for last week (reading Li Bo, but not finding anything much in his poems directly inspiring toward encyclopedia articles). Just logged in since Wikimedia Foundation provided me a JSTOR account, which might ease research somewhat for me. Really, I'm still digesting the Cold food powder article and stepping through the Yubu article (for example, wondering about the Daoist dance steps in relation to the architectural layout of old Chang'an, which is also claimed to be based on the Big Dipper pattern?). Anyway, will be reading! Dcattell (talk) 22:29, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, there's no rush (Wikipedia time). Yes, JSTOR is wonderful. That's interesting about Chang'an. I'm currently working on another weirdly fun topic Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body. Best wishes, Keahapana (talk) 03:08, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Baka (word) for deletion
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DRN
They discussion has moved to the 'Dispute resolution noticeboard'. I think he just criticized the source because he thought I was the one citing it directly, he's not really following the discussion very well. I have also never heard of Sino-Platonic being biased and I've seen some pretty respected scholars write there as well. If you want to continue to follow the discussion, most of it will probably be going on here. Thanks!

Easy772 (talk) 17:23, 22 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Easy772, and thanks for the link to this very contentious discussion. Good luck, Keahapana (talk) 23:55, 24 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Haven't seen you for a while– are you all right? Evangeline (talk) 02:17, 31 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, thanks, I'm OK, and have been working on a new article about ganying. How was the Shang dispute settled? Keahapana (talk) 23:52, 31 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Oops, haven't been following it! Looking forward to ganying. Evangeline (talk) 04:55, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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History of Taoism
Based off the attached review, I intend to heavily revise your comments re: Le Guin's Daodejing in the History of Taoism article, given that Dr. Herman, the source you claim holds Le Guin's rendition in derision, wrote a largely favorable review of her work calling it surprisingly scholastically responsible. Please let me know if you have any objections to such revision.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63106378/HermanreLeGuin.pdf

--JesseBHolmes (talk) 02:49, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

So here are my eventual changes:

1. Removed a dead link on Komjathy's website.

2. Quoted Dr. Herman's actual review of Le Guin's Daodejing; by the way, are you aware that Le Guin was a contributor to the volume in which you claim Herman bashes her?

3. Removed the Komjathy quote suggesting that Western 'Taoists' should pronounce it with a hard 't' to reflect their cultural illiteracy; such a jab adds nothing to the article.

4. Attributed sweeping claims about "popular western Taoists" as cultural appropriators to Komjathy, instead of stating them as truth and linking to his website as support.

--JesseBHolmes (talk) 04:10, 5 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for informing me of your intended changes, you're much more considerate than the average WP editor. I'll respond on the Talk:History of Taoism page and we can make appropriate changes. After wondering if I was being too critical of Le Guin's "rendition", I started rereading it and realized how many of the mistranslation groaners are laugh-out-loud funny, even more than the The Tao of Weed. Thanks again, Keahapana (talk) 02:55, 7 December 2015 (UTC)