User talk:Mamin27

Tibet
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Rather than reverting, discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you. Khoikhoi 00:54, 19 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I have started a discussion. Please read the Talk pages for Tibet. Also, I only undoed your edit ONCE, not "repeatedly" as you state. Mamin27 00:56, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

China as an emerging superpower
I think we started off on the wrong foot, because I get this negative vibe towards me from your comments. So I have replied to your comments on the talk page, I have seen Hero, I do know Zhang Yimou but know that others do not know Zhang Yimou. Whatever you might say, Chinese language films aren't all that popular in Western society, English films featuring Chinese actors like Jackie Chan are very popular and Jackie Chan definitely does a good job in carrying Chinese culture. But not Zhang Yimou. Please AGF.  Noble eagle  [TALK] [C] 06:10, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I apologize for the biting tone of my comments. But disagree with the notion that you have to be popular among the general public to be known and respected. Zhang Yimou is certainly well-known and respected amongst international film critics.  Jackie Chan is popular and well-known, but Zhang Yimou is still well-known internationally in his field.  Regarding my tone, I feel a lot of the China-related articles here are regretably being "sieged" by a few Indian (or pro-India) editors. I have the utmost respect for India and India's current economic achievements (as most Chinese in China do too on account of our parallel modern histories), but I sense there is some kind of competition between the editors of the two countries in Wikipedia here, and so naturally suspect political agenda motivating certain (very blatantly POV) edits on the China articles.  Thank you for your message, as it has made me realize that perhaps this is not the case.  I agree that the China as an emerging superpower (as well as the India, EU articles in the series) article has a lot of problems, and I would like constructive suggestions to make the article more relevant and informative.  But I don't think patronizing and generalized lectures on "freedom", "democracy" and "a good life" is necessary in the Talkpages for the China articles.  Who doesn't love freedom? The Chinese editors on Wikipedia come from diverse backgrounds with diverse political views, we aren't all card-carrying Commies.  But most would agree with me that there are different freedoms and some freedoms are best enjoyed at a later time, just as a teenager should not have the freedom to drink alcohol.  So let's be more practical, try to make our Wikipedia articles better, and save philosophical/moral viewpoints and arguments for the dinner table. Cheers. --Mamin27 07:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank-you for your comments. Hopefully we can generate some educated discussion here. Btw, please consider joining WP:PIIR and placing it on your watchlist so that you keep up to date with announcements. Now...Zhang Yimou may be respected and lack of popularity does not translate to lack of respect, but remember this is the China as an emerging superpower article, if he is not popular amongst the general foreign public, he is not influencing non-Chinese to explore Chinese culture, his movies may be and the film industry ought to be mentioned, but he is not.  Noble eagle  [TALK] [C] 04:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Image use policy
Would you please read the link I posted in the edit summary Image use policy which very clearly states:
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Regards, cab 04:18, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I apologise for being uncivil earlier; I suspect the confusion is arising because of the contrast between Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 and Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. They are not the same. Only the latter are able to be used freely on Wikipedia and are eligible to be tagged cc-by-sa-2.0; the former, like any other kind of non-commercial licences, can only be used under fair use (e.g. in an article depicting the subject of the photograph, where no free alternative is available). I will appreciate it if you revert your change and tag your images for deletion as ineligible for use on Wikipedia. cab 04:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

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