User talk:Litalex

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Again, welcome! Chris Roy 05:03, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Local Embassy
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Current events
Hi hello little Alex, would you be interested to contribute to Current events in Hong Kong and Macao? best, &mdash; Instantnood 11:41, Jan 27 2005 (UTC)
 * I would if I read/watch the news enough to know current affairs, sigh. --little Alex 17:48, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

Marilyn Manson
The cover of "like a virgin" is most likely not MM. there is no record of it actually being released or recorded by him (to my knowladge). it remains to be proven either way though.
 * aw, man. thanks for the info. though now I got to figure out who did it...

User Categorization
You were listed on the Wikipedians/Hong Kong page as living in or being associated with Hong Kong. As part of the User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Hong Kong Wikipedians for instructions. Rmky87 18:40, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

translation
How are you, Alex,

Just wondering if you might help with an English to Chinese article translation... Best, Robert Res q68 03:45, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * sure. gimme the link?--little Alex 01:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Establishment of The Wikimedia Hong Kong
encyclopedist 19:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

First Anniversary Celebrations of Wikimedia Hong Kong
Invitied by Sith lord darth vader (talk), 15:01, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

E.F. Calthrop
Hi,

I noticed a recent edit on The Art of War article regarding British officer, E.F. Calthrop. As something of an afficionado on the topic, I have been unable to find much information at all on E.F. Calthrop, despite my best efforts. I have worked on articles for other Victorian-era sinologists, namely Frederic H. Balfour, Herbert Giles, and Lionel Giles.

Were you planning on creating a biography stub for E.F. Calthrop? If so, would you mind sharing the name of your reference material with me? I am working on the introduction for a new volume of Sun Tzu's work in print, and I would love to spend some time reading about E.F. Calthrop.

If this was not your intent, we should probably removed the wikilink for E.F. Calthrop, because I suspect there is not enough information available. Thanks for your time.

Shawn

Celebrations for 2nd Anniversary of Wikimedia Hong Kong


Dear:  ：

Wikimedia Hong Kong has been founded two year ago. Today, we would like to invite you to a great event for our second anniversary celebrations, that is co-host by us - Digital Content Jam 1.0, which is belongs to The 3C Digital Creativity Dialogue Series -- Creativity, Content, Community.



This is the information of the event：


 * Date: 31, July, 2009 (Friday) 
 * Time: From 7:00pm to 9:30pm 
 * Venue: eTech Centre Meeting Room M2 &3, 4/F Opulent Building, 402-406 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai（Google map） 
 * Language: Cantonese 
 * Free snacks and drinks will be served!

Please register via the link below to tell us if you would like to join the event. Registration Form

Regards, Hong Kong Wikimedian Tango Chan 14:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

revert
If you can provide a source, I will happily revert myself Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:54, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry if this sounds rude, but are you seriously asking me to cite a source on something that any Chinese child could have told you? I mean, some things are just in Chinese cultural lore. Um, there are the many jiang shi films in the 80s and there's 僵屍與吸血鬼. But unless you read Chinese, I don't see what good that link would do. --little Alex (talk) 18:30, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia can be frustrating, there is material I have been unable to source but know is true and have been thus unable to place in a Featured Article. Seriously, if the book spells out they are more like zombies than vampires or something along those lines please revert me and use the book as a ref. Use the 'cite book' format above (rightmost little box above the editing screen. You don't sound rude, and I am sure it is alot more obvious to you. I am happy when we can cite non-english sources to revert anglophone bias. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:09, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Little Dorrit
In your note to me, you claim I'm changing the plot so that it ends up being incorrect.

The sentence, as I originally wrote it, read "Following his father's death, Arthur Clennam returns from China, bearing a pocket watch the dying man urged his son to deliver to Mrs. Clennam."

Your most recent version states, "Arthur Clennam returns from China with his father's pocket watch and delivers it to Mrs. Clennam, as Mr. Clennam's dying wish was for the watch to go to Arthur's mother."

I'm perplexed. How, exactly, does this differ in meaning from the version I originally wrote??? LiteraryMaven (talk • contrib) 12:37, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


 * But Mr. Clennam didn't urge Arthur to deliver the watch to Mrs. Clennam; he told Arthur to give it to Arthur's mother, who isn't Mrs. Clennam. My sentence actually describes what happened without ever stating outright that Mrs. Clennam is Arthur's mother. I know this makes the sentence more complicated, but since Arthur's true maternity is a plot twist later on, I just thought we should be extra careful in how we word it.--little Alex (talk) 14:36, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Lee Harding (character)
I have nominated Lee Harding (character), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Lee Harding (character). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. tedder (talk) 17:30, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I wasn't the person who really created that page, 96.31.65.82 was. He/she just completely replaced the old information (i.e., about the singer) with information about the character. I was going to just revert the whole thing, but since the new information looks complete enough for a wikipedia page, I created a new page for it so that the person's efforts won't be wasted.--little Alex (talk) 05:31, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Twinkle posted this note to you automagically. Based on your edit history, I didn't figure you had. tedder (talk) 05:42, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Jiang Shi
You may help translate from the sources. Mendel 56 (talk) 05:31, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Didn't know I needed your permission... I can, but I was actually only interested in vampires, not jiang shi. I corrected bits and pieces on the jiang shi page because it was connected to the vampire page. But I'll take a look at the jiang shi page when I have the time.--little Alex (talk) 08:30, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry for poor English. Translate is not easy. If we don't translate them these links may dead and the information would loss.Mendel 56 (talk) 03:15, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Dance on My Grave


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September 2010
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Hong Kong meetup 58
SusanLai (talk) 05:35, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Translation request: List of A Weaver on the Horizon characters
Hi, can you translate List of A Weaver on the Horizon characters for the main article A Weaver on the Horizon? I would appareciate it if you did. Please reply if you will. Thank you.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 23:39, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Hong Kong meetup 83
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Hong Kong meetup 83
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Hong Kong meetup 84
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Article upgrade assistance request (Pre-translation stage)
Seasons Greetings,

This is in reference to a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.

Through article Ceremonial pole we intend to take encyclopedic note of cultural aspects and festive celebrations around Ceremonial pole as an umbrella article and want to have historical, mythological, anthropological aspects, reverence or worships wherever concerned as a small part.

While Ceremonial poles have a long past and strong presence but usually less discussed subject. Even before we seek translation of this article in global languages, we need to have more encyclopedic information/input about Ceremonial poles from all global cultures and languages. And we seek your assistance in the same.

Since other contributors to the article are insisting for reliable sources and Standard native english; If your contributions get deleted (for some reason like linguistics or may be your information is reliable but unfortunately dosent match expectations of other editors) , please do list the same on Talk:Ceremonial pole page so that other wikipedians may help improve by interlanguage collaborations, and/or some other language wikipedias may be interested in giving more importance to reliablity of information over other factors on their respective wikipedia.

This particular request is being made to you since your user name is listed in Translators available list.

Thanking you with warm regards Mahitgar (talk) 05:25, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Portillo
Hi Litalex! You have twice edited the article Michael Portillo to inappropriately highlight his early sexuality in the context of his marriage. Portillo's sexual history is dealt with where it is relevant in the article, in accordance with the standards of WP:BLP. To seek to reiterate this elsewhere in the article is WP:UNDUE and distorts the article's neutrality. Furthermore, to accuse any editor (myself or another) of 'straightwashing' because s/he seeks to maintain WP standards transgresses WP:AGF. If you have problems with any edits in this (or any other) article, please raise them on the talk page. Best, --Smerus (talk) 15:08, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your response. The sense of WP:BLP is that aspects should be mentioned in a context where they are relevant to the 'encyclopaedic' issues they relate to. Thus to mention a politician's sexuality in the context of his or her marriage, where there is no evidence that that sexuality had any impact or relevance to the marriage, would be WP:UNDUE (see here - "biographies should be pared back to a version that is completely sourced, neutral, and on-topic" (my emphasis); to mention it in the context of their political career, where there is evidence that it did have some impact, is y the same token appropriate. In the case we are discussing, the issue is mentioned and referenced in the section dealing with that part of his political career which it affected. Best, --Smerus (talk) 10:10, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid you haven't taken my point. There is no evidence that the subject's past sex life has affected his marriage in any way, or that he has been involved in any extramarital sexual activities, either heterosexual or homosexual. That is why the topic should not be raised in the article in the context of his marriage. To suggest or hint otherwise is not only against WP standards, but is in fact potentially libellous. It is for such reasons that WP editors must be exceptionally scrupulous. I don't intend to extend this discussion further unless there is any further manifestation of it in the article. Best, --Smerus (talk) 14:24, 4 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I believe your subsequent edit to be unacceptable and I am referring this matter to an administrator.--Smerus (talk) 15:39, 4 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I have now referred the issue to the BLP noticeboard here.--Smerus (talk) 16:08, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Translation help
Since you were kind/foolish enough to have your name on this list, here's a note that I could use some help with the mess of Mazu temples in Shanghai. There were three; the first two were destroyed; the third got moved to Songjiang and rebuilt; and then as of 2014 Zhabei was considering rebuilding their old one. So:


 * The Shanghai Archives has an article on the history of the Zhabei/Songjiang temple whose citation I've already formatted for you but whose facts need to be translated and added to the Songjiang Tianfei Palace article and tagged with.
 * The article is wrong on the date of the move to Songjiang but might be right that it was built in 1883 rather than originally demolished then as claimed here. It'd be nice if you had time to see if there was another official source. The temple's own official site doesn't mention it.
 * The archive article and this article and (obliquely) this "About Us" page suggest that Zhabei District is rebuilding or has already rebuilt a fourth Mazu temple near the site of their former one. It would be nice if you had time to poke around and see if you can find anything official on the subject that I could use to create an article on it.
 * Ditto any information about the other two original Mazu temples in Shanghai.

If you have time and interest for any, some, or all of that, great and please leave a note here saying so. I'm asking all the listed Chinese translators for help, so we wouldn't want anyone needlessly duplicating work. — Llywelyn II   02:42, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Can you help verify translations of articles from Chinese
Hello Litalex,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from Chinese to English Wikipedia?



This would involve evaluating a translated article on the English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original Chinese article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including Chinese, using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from Chinese. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great.

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the Chinese article, and mark it "Pass" or "Fail" (templates Pass and Fail may be useful). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then marking it "Pass", that's even better, but it isn't required.)

If you can help, please let me know. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 22:00, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Wiccan rede
Hi could you help me trabslate the Wiccan rede article into Chinese? I would really appreciate it. so far we have this: 翻譯: 您應該相信威卡的教規﹐用誠實和真誠的愛來信 但凡事都得饒處且饒人﹐你附出多少便應得多少 由北開始畫三個圓的圈﹐把所有妖魔鬼怪全除去 如果你想咒語變成現實﹐用順序或特殊音節念出 以柔制剛切勿意氣用事﹐靜心聆聽切勿大發謀論 美麗的月亮漸漸地變圓﹐大家開開心心跳舞歌唱 每逢新月之夜都是初一﹐大家歡歡氣氣一同慶祝 每逢月圓之夜都是十五﹐大家誠心誠意來許個願 每當北風呼呼地吹來時﹐門窗要鎖好帆布要落下 每逢南風呼呼地吹來時﹐心愛的人熱情地親親你 每當西風呼呼地吹來時﹐靈魂們趁機會起來活動 每逢東風呼呼地吹來時﹐豐富的大餐迎接新開始 九種不同的樹木放入鼎﹐猛猛地燃燒慢慢地燃燒 接骨樹是代表神聖女神﹐如燒接骨樹會被追咒的 當節日輪盤開始轉動時﹐沃爾帕吉斯夜燒篝火炬 當節日輪盤轉到冬至時﹐燃點起火炬迎潘皇再生 照顧好大自然花草樹木﹐神聖女神送幸福給人們 石頭水中拋前程就可知﹐用漣漪多少遠近看前程 如果要實現願望或理想﹐絕不可貪心或不責手段 不應該浪費寶貴的時間﹐結識一些不成實的朋友 見面和離別也同樣快樂﹐面頰紅紅的心情要愉快 記緊因果關係輪回三次﹐三次幸運或是三次災難 如不幸遇到災難降臨時﹐把藍色的星星戴在頭上 人人都要做到坦誠相見﹐除非他人全心欺編真成 威卡的教規八字真言是﹐「為所欲為傷人不為」 翻譯 更重要的是巫师或巫师的13个目标 认识你自己 了解我们的艺术 学习和成长 用智慧应用知识 达到平衡 保持你的话顺序 保持你的想法 庆祝生活 调整到地球的周期 保持身体健康 锻炼你的身体 沉思 尊重女神和上帝 is it translated right?108.75.79.57 (talk) 15:01, 9 November 2017 (UTC)


 * You should've emailed me. And you need to link the original text you're translating from. The first line is wrong: Bide here means to follow, not believe. The line about rhymes isn't special syllables, but 押韻. The line about honoring the old ones is missing. The lines about werewolves are missing. The line about winds from the west is wrong. Apart from the elder, the rest of what the different kinds of wood is missing. The lines about Samhain, etc are missing.The stuff after 為所欲為傷人不為 are not part of the Wiccan Rede.--little Alex (talk) 15:30, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Here you go: Bide within the Law you must, in perfect Love and perfect Trust. Live you must and let to live, fairly take and fairly give.

For tread the Circle thrice about to keep unwelcome spirits out. To bind the spell well every time, let the spell be said in rhyme. Light of eye and soft of touch, speak you little, listen much. Honor the Old Ones in deed and name, let love and light be our guides again. Deosil go by the waxing moon, chanting out the joyful tune. Widdershins go when the moon doth wane, and the werewolf howls by the dread wolfsbane. When the Lady's moon is new, kiss the hand to Her times two. When the moon rides at Her peak then your heart's desire seek. Heed the North winds mighty gale, lock the door and trim the sail. When the Wind blows from the East, expect the new and set the feast. When the wind comes from the South, love will kiss you on the mouth. When the wind whispers from the West, all hearts will find peace and rest. Nine woods in the Cauldron go, burn them fast and burn them slow. Birch in the fire goes to represent what the Lady knows. Oak in the forest towers with might, in the fire it brings the God's insight. Rowan is a tree of power causing life and magick to flower. Willows at the waterside stand ready to help us to the Summerland. Hawthorn is burned to purify and to draw faerie to your eye. Hazel-the tree of wisdom and learning adds its strength to the bright fire burning. White are the flowers of Apple tree that brings us fruits of fertility. Grapes grow upon the vine giving us both joy and wine. Fir does mark the evergreen to represent immortality seen. Elder is the Lady's tree burn it not or cursed you'll be. Four times the Major Sabbats mark in the light and in the dark. As the old year starts to wane the new begins, it's now Samhain. When the time for Imbolc shows watch for flowers through the snows. When the wheel begins to turn soon the Beltane fires will burn. As the wheel turns to Lamas night power is brought to magick rite. Four times the Minor Sabbats fall use the Sun to mark them all. When the wheel has turned to Yule light the log the Horned One rules. In the spring, when night equals day time for Ostara to come our way. When the Sun has reached it's height time for Oak and Holly to fight. Harvesting comes to one and all when the Autumn Equinox does fall. Heed the flower, bush, and tree by the Lady blessed you'll be. Where the rippling waters go cast a stone, the truth you'll know. When you have and hold a need, harken not to others greed. With a fool no season spend or be counted as his friend. Merry Meet and Merry Part bright the cheeks and warm the heart. Mind the Three-fold Laws you should three times bad and three times good. When misfortune is enow wear the star upon your brow. Be true in love this you must do unless your love is false to you.108.75.79.57 (talk) 22:25, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I can tell you what's wrong with the translation you got, which I already did, but I don't know how to translate from English to Chinese. So I've already done all I can. Sorry. And please don't dump so much stuff onto my talk page next time?--little Alex (talk) 03:50, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Chinese Wikipedia Improvements
Hello Litalex, I'm working on publishing Bottega Veneta from English into Chinese and was wondering if you have time to help me out. I found your username on Wikiproject Translators and saw that you're fluent in English and Chinese. I have a paid COI regarding Bottega Veneta, but my main concern here is ensuring that the information available in English is available and up to date in Chinese. I have a translated version of the article on. Would you mind reviewing it for accuracy as well as its compliance with Wikipedia guidelines? Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanks!-- Chefmikesf (talk) 18:19, 23 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Due to my COI, lack of knowledge of the language, and my commitment to follow the Wikipedia guidelines I am not able to move forward. I would be happy to incorporate these points but reached out to ask for your expertise. Would you be interested in continuing this collaboration to bring the English content to the Chinese Wikipedia? Chefmikesf (talk) 17:02, 12 April 2018 (UTC)


 * I totally understand your time is valuable and appreciate the help very much. Here is the Sandbox Chefmikesf (talk) 16:36, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

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