User talk:Keahapana/Archive 3

DYK: Shen (clam-monster)
Hi. I've nominated Shen (clam-monster), an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know, where you can improve it if you see fit. Also, please add inline citations to the article -- a requirement for DYK. Many thanks, PFHLai (talk) 23:14, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for nominating the shen 蜃 article, which was enjoyable research, to DYK. I may have misunderstood WP:CITE, but I thought it allows for inline citation styles other than footnotes. Isn't parenthetical referencing or the MLA Style Manual acceptable? Best wishes, Keahapana (talk) 23:37, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Ahhh, right... Sorry about that! I'm more used to seeing footnotes, or parenthetical referencing using the Harvard citation template.  I've removed the nofootnotes tag from the article. -- PFHLai (talk) 01:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello, could you clean up the article a bit? Because I believe that much of the content is not really related to the main subject, monster making mirage. I think the too detailed information on literal meaning and etymology do not quite fall under the umbrella. I wish the article would be on the DYK page. Best. --Caspian blue (talk) 01:45, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello Caspian blue. Thanks for your corrections and additions. When I started this 蜃 article, I took the mythological clam-dragon as the main subject. Although the mirage folklore is interesting, it was a later development from the secondary "dragon" meaning, or perhaps a tertiary meaning. In my opinion, linguistic and etymological information is always useful for English-language WP articles about foreign words. I'll follow your suggestion for cleanup and continue our discussion on the Talk page. Best wishes, Keahapana (talk) 19:22, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Shen (clam-monster)

 * Many thanks to you and the other editors for all their help. Keahapana (talk) 19:24, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Kui
What was the point of moving Kui to Kui (disambiguation) if you were then going to create a new Kui (Māori mythology) article? Now the bare name Kui is a redirect, rather than being either the disambiguation page or the primary article, and the history of the mythology page is attached to the disambiguation page. Wouldn't it have made more sense to leave Kui alone and just create Kui (disambiguation) as a new page? —KCinDC (talk) 03:14, 23 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Mea culpa. You're right that the old discussion should be on the Kui (Māori mythology) page. I apologize for screwing up the move and disambiguation pages, but I don't know how to fix this problem, other than cut and paste. Would you please help correct my mistake or tell me how to do it? Thanks. Keahapana (talk) 19:46, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I moved the disambiguation page back to Kui. I think that's about the best fix available without doing more work than it's worth. That way there's a main page for Kui, and the history is easier to find. —KCinDC (talk) 03:36, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for your help. I cut and pasted the original discussion and fixed the Wikilinks. Best wishes. Keahapana (talk) 00:17, 28 October 2008 (UTC)