User talk:Lds/Archive6

List of Chinese heads of government (pre 1912)
Hi, I happen to find User:Lds/Sandbox/List of Chinese heads of government (pre 1912) in your sandbox. This list is awesome. Can you tell me what is your source, if you don't mind?

I also want to make some corrections/advices near the bottom of the list in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms section: 1. 馮延巳 under "Southern Tang" should be Feng Yansi rather than Feng Yanyi. 2. 王溥 under "Later Zhou" should be Wang Pu rather than Wang Bo. I have created a stub for him at Wang Pu (chancellor). 3. I would recommend you change all the headings of the 5 dynasties and 10 kingdoms rulers to their personal names, like what we have on wiki now. Especially for Former Shu, Southern Tang, Southern Han and Later Shu's last rulers, where you have "Emperor Houzhu". This IMO makes no sense since "Houzhu" is neither a posthumous name nor a temple name but rather a nickname, and it's very atypical to use the expression 後主皇帝 in Chinese as well. BTW Li Yu of Southern Tang was never an emperor (皇帝), only a king (國主), although his father and grandfather were indeed emperors. Sorry for being too nosy since I know it's just your personal space, but just my 2 cents. Cheers! Timmyshin (talk) 07:53, 3 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you for visiting the page. It's based on the article 中國宰相列表 on the Chinese Wikipedia. I'm not so familiar with the history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. I just followed and translated the original headings on the Chinese Wikipedia article. Anyway, thank you for your suggestions. I'll consider implementing them. The page is not ready yet, as you can see. Maybe you can help to improve it further after I move it into the mainspace. Thanks. 05:03, 4 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Feng is actually 延己 (Yanji), I believe — at least the Zizhi Tongjian used 己. --Nlu (talk) 16:33, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks like so did the Book of Song, in fact. However, the New History of the Five Dynasties and the Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms do use 巳.  --Nlu (talk) 16:37, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Feng's article on the Chinese Wikipedia says "Yansi" is more "supported" than "Yanji", but has no sources to back up this claim.   LDS  contact me 00:46, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Please use edit summaries fully
Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Ni Daolang has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Simply adding "fix" or "add" as the edit summary is insufficient and means that other editors have to check the diffs and history to see what changes were done. For example, you could have written, "Added link to courtesy name and tidied templates around Chinese text" or something similar. Since you were doing many similar edits on other articles, you could have then copy pasted that summary to each edit summary that matched that description. Rincewind42 (talk) 15:20, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Sui Tang Yanyi
Hi. While Googling, I found that you have a User:Lds/Sandbox/Sui Tang Yanyi page under preparation, and it seems you have material well beyond stub or start level, so I am wondering if you will be posting it and resolving the red link situation on Sui Tang Yanyi any time soon? (I recently added material on Hua Mulan relating to this work.) I don't mean to be pushy about making your decision on when to upload. But I will point out that while you had User:Lds/Sandbox/Sui Tang Yanyi (2013 TV series) article brewing, someone has gone ahead and created an article under the title Heroes in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Cheers. --Kiyoweap (talk) 12:02, 27 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the update. I prefer to keep it in my sandbox for now.   LDS  contact me 10:08, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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Do You Speak Chinese?
It would be helpful if you speak Chinese, so I can explain the problem of the name of Ji Pi, the so-called Ji Ben, in detail and more effectively.——Heinrich ⅩⅦ von Bayern (talk) 00:21, 5 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, I do. Please explain. Thank you.   LDS  contact me 04:40, 5 May 2014 (UTC)


 * 《三国志集解》在《三国志·武帝纪》提及太医令吉本时说：◎赵一清曰：《后汉书·耿秉传》作“吉”（上不下十），注“或作‘平’”，则“本”字误也. ◎惠栋曰：隶法，“（上不下十）”、“平”字相似，《三辅决录》又作“本”也. ◎《三国志辨误》曰：东汉杜操字伯度，魏代避讳，易为“杜度”. 裴氏引《决录》注，本子邈、穆之字亦具载，而独逸本字，殆亦以字易名，如杜度之例，故不可并书耶. ◎李慈铭曰：（上不下十）、本二字，每易相乱，如《后汉书·循吏传》刘宠父丕，而《续汉书》作“本”是也. ◎弼按：《常林传》注引《魏略》、《邓艾传》注引《世语》均作“吉本”，或魏臣避文帝讳，改（上不下十）为本，陈《志》仍其旧文也.

《三国志·文帝纪》在提及文帝名讳时说：◎潘眉曰：阚泽云“不十为丕”，字当作“（上不下十）”，今作“丕”者，非. ◎胡玉缙曰：○潘说非也. ○《说文·一部》：丕，大也. 从一，不声. ○段注：丕，隶书中直引长，故云“丕之字不十”. 汉《石经》作“（上灭下十）”，可证. 非与“丕”殊字也. ○段说甚瞭，潘氏以隶变驳篆文，颠矣. 】

因无法截图，故一些字用“（上不下十）”“（上灭下十）”替代. ——Heinrich ⅩⅦ von Bayern (talk) 05:15, 5 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I picked out three main points from what you posted above.
 * The Chinese character "Pi" (上不下十 / 丕) was erroneously recorded as "Ben" (本) in some texts.
 * "Pi" (上不下十 / 丕) was changed to "Ben" (本) in some historical records for the purpose of avoiding naming taboo. E.g. Cao Pi's personal name.
 * 丕 and (上不下十) are not the same Chinese character. There were instances where (上不下十) was mistakenly written as 丕.
 * Please correct me if my interpretation is wrong, because this might be used as the reasons for renaming the article.   LDS  contact me 05:35, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I am glad that you have understood it.——Heinrich ⅩⅦ von Bayern (talk) 05:44, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, I don't think we should rename the article to Ji Pi because we should follow the naming norms already established in the Sanguozhi. However, we can still add a section in the article to explain the naming error. What do you think?   LDS  contact me 06:32, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I think that would be OK. Thanks.——Heinrich ⅩⅦ von Bayern (talk) 06:35, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you very much!   LDS  contact me 13:44, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Kweilin incident
Hi! Do you know if there are any Chinese-speaking Wikipedians willing to start a Chinese version of Kweilin incident? Being the world's first ever airliner shootdown is a major historic event, and the same plane was shot down twice! WhisperToMe (talk) 03:58, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't, unfortunately. I agree that the topic deserves an article in the Chinese Wikipedia.   LDS  contact me 16:35, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok. If you do run into somebody, please let me know :) - If you have time to make a short stub of 50 characters that would also be appreciated! WhisperToMe (talk) 16:49, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election
Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:15, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Xiaying Xianzong
Please chime in. Timmyshin (talk) 00:33, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Would you mind helping me find a source for that statement about hiding in houses?
Instead of trying to disprove something we could ya know, do what any other member of a project in history would have done, looked for proof first. I don't remember where but I swear the Wushu mentioned something Gan Ning hiding in houses. As you know my Chinese is very very limited (like ten to twenty characters maybe less) Eric - Contact me please. I prefer conversations started on my talk page if the subject is changed


 * There's nothing mentioned about him hiding in people's houses and waiting for them to return and then kill them. I believe it's a misinterpretation of the second part of this line from the Wu Shu: 寧輕俠殺人，藏舍亡命，聞於郡中. It says: (Gan) Ning behaved recklessly and killed people. He had to go into hiding in houses to evade the authorities. He was infamous throughout the commandery.    LDS  contact me 03:34, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I have also responded on dk's talk page.   LDS  contact me 03:38, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for clarifying. Eric - Contact me please. I prefer conversations started on my talk page if the subject is changed 04:46, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Does 填城 mean Tian Cheng?
Sorry, trying to translate the map on Conquest of Wu by Jin. Eric - Contact me please. I prefer conversations started on my talk page if the subject is changed 05:35, 26 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Please ask Google Translate.   LDS  contact me 06:16, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Google translate is horrible. Eric - Contact me please. I prefer conversations started on my talk page if the subject is changed 21:39, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you
For your fixes on the images. Eric - Contact me please. I prefer conversations started on my talk page if the subject is changed 03:45, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Global account
Hi Lds! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to ping me with. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:25, 30 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi DerHexer, I encountered a problem while trying to unify my local accounts. There are other accounts also called "Lds" on seven other Wikipedias and they cannot be automatically confirmed as belonging to me. Could this be because I changed my username last year by usurping another user's account? Can you help me with this? Thank you.   LDS  contact me 12:28, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I've usurped all local accounts without any visible edit so that only the itwiki account is left. That account will be renamed during SUL finalization till April 2015 which will complete your global account. If you want to merge Special:CentralAuth/Lonelydarksky with Lds, please notify me in late January when the account merge tool will be available. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 13:14, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much!   LDS  contact me 13:17, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Do you know how to convert lunar months to Julian dates?
I think it would be beneficial if it could be done. Eric - Contact me please. I prefer conversations started on my talk page if the subject is changed 20:02, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I would have done it myself if I knew how to. But it's also not a bad idea to keep the original Chinese calendar dates because it makes the job easier if we need to refer back and check the sources.   LDS  contact me 09:34, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking about starting a page in my userspace or something where me and hopefully someone else can make a chart doing just that. If it is ever completed, we can just include in parenthesis (so called Julian date) I think _dk may know how to find some of the dates because he said he found out the 10th lunar month span in the year 252 or something like that. Eric - Contact me please. I prefer conversations started on my talk page if the subject is changed 13:45, 31 December 2014 (UTC)