User talk:Matthew hk/Archive 31

Question re Hong Kong and Wikipedia
Hello

My name is Omer Benjakob and I am a journalist covering Wikipedia

I wanted to know if you would maybe be willing to talk to me about Wikipedia and Hong Kong for a story I am working on

We can talk privately or via email or WeChat if you prefer - my email is omer.benjakob@haaretz.co.il

Best Omer Benjakob (talk) 12:54, 27 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Hong Kong people seldom use WeChat due to security concern. For max privacy may be Telegram is better. Matthew hk (talk) 12:56, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Suning Holdings logo.png
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I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:25, 7 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Probably it was auto-"reviewed" by TW when i tagging the article. Matthew hk (talk) 10:51, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Sock
I think the sock on Wang Ziwen's page is back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.96.55.49 (talk) 02:25, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Errors on Unipol Banca page
Hi Matthew, you wrote to me about my edit work on Unipol Banca page. It's the first time I left a contribution so I'm sorry if I made a mistake. I work in Unipol Banca and I noticed that the Unipol Banca page contains errors so I tryed to correct them. You can find correct informations on www.unipolbanca.it so if I can't modify that page because I work in Unipol Banca, you can do it using the informations on the official website of the bank. For example Santella is not a key person on Unipol Banca, It's Stefano Rossetti, general manager. Please let me know if I can do something on my own.

Thank you, Regards

Cristina Pasin

Cristinapasin (talk) 14:28, 12 August 2019 (UTC)


 * You can submit changes in "X to Y" format in Talk:Unipol Banca, with citation / source of information . Matthew hk (talk) 19:14, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Translating HK demonstrations

 * Hello Matthew HK, I just read your response in the talk page about the numbers of demonstrators being unreliable in Tamar park. I would like to see the source in the economist about the numbers being unreliable, because I would like to include it in my Ducth translation of the counter demonstrations. If you have time, can you help me find it?
 * Thanks in advance,
 * --2019OutlaweD (talk) 10:01, 20 August 2019 (UTC)


 * It just one sentence from 22 June The Economist It was probably the largest [sic] political protest ever staged in Hong Kong.……The estimate may not be reliable. for the ani-bill protest, for context it should mean 18 June protest/rally not 9 June one. I had to dig out Eng source for the police estimate for June protests, but RTHK, the government funded TV and radio station, had surprisingly more NPOV than South China Morning Post, which was purchased by Alibaba Group recently.


 * For police estimate, a pro-police/government demonstration held in Tamar Park, the organizer claimed 476,000 people, but the Park is way smaller than the football fields of the Victoria Park alone. Police say the figure for Tamar Park was 108,000 . For 18 August the anti-bill demonstration, the organizer claimed 1.7 million, including people in Victoria Park and stuck in the area around Causeway Bay MTR station and Tin Hau MTR station. However, the police say the estimated figure was 128,000 . It may be borderline original research to criticize the figure of the police was not reliable , but by common sense the aerial photo of the protests and anti-demonstration spoke for themselves.


 * Nevertheless the claims from the organizer, despite not that reliable and non-independent, it was widely quoted by reliable source.


 * Lastly, Hong Kong used to have HKU POP to estimate some of the protests. However, Robert Chung the professor had retired from the uni and founded Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (https://www.pori.hk), but may be due to resource, they only estimated the figure of 1 July 2019 protest (see link, not sure why they built a bilingual website but not this page), which traditionally "1 July" march had many other demands and participation from other groups of community. Matthew hk (talk) 10:27, 20 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks Matthew HK, I am not sure how to implement this into the translation, but I will think about how to use it.
 * --2019OutlaweD (talk) 10:34, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I ended up placing it as a general notification about the numbers as estimated by pro-Beijing groups and police, citing the economist and using the examples of comparing the number of people in different locations relevant to the size of the locations and calculating the needed number of people per square meter to validate the numbers.
 * I placed the notification at the beginning of the lists of demonstrations (both pro-democray and pro-Beijing).
 * Thanks again for your help. --2019OutlaweD (talk) 11:42, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

(no title)
Hey Matthew. I don't know if I am doing this right, but I think I confused the old club with the new club. I apologize for the mistake. Uxinator ( Uxinator (talk) 21:03, 1 September 2019 (UTC) )

Lok Ma Chau
Hi Matthew hk,

I looked at the article earlier on Lok Ma Chau. I added some comments re concerns to the talk page and thought I'd ask one or two people if they may be able to help improve that page. You seem to have an unbelievable amount of experience on wikipedia. Is it possible you can help please? Any assistance is appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.102.148.34 (talk) 15:17, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

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September 2019
Regarding this diff – I am not an admin. Citobun (talk) 01:41, 16 September 2019 (UTC)


 * That's weird . I remember i checked using some time ago. Either someone had overseer rights to hide the log or i remember wrong, For Shenzhen_Bay_Control_Point, then it is even more disruptive editing by not participating in talk page discussion (or use other tools to try to ask people to participate) and then boldly reverting consensus. Matthew hk (talk) 10:53, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

U.S. Sassuolo Calcio Femminile
Hi. This is the source.--Dipralb (talk) 13:21, 13 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Then you should add it to the article first. Instead of bold move without stating citation. Matthew hk (talk) 10:54, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

This nonsense with STSC
I don't think I've ever seen a worse example of trying to vote an opponent off the island than the issue at AN/I regarding STSC. I mean does STSC have a personal POV? I mean clearly they do. But we have editors with usernames like "Hkfreedomfighter" running around editing articles about the CPC and nobody even blinks at that POV. Nor should they as long as their editing remains consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for collaborative work. And this is what's irking me here. The difs provided in the STSC case are a grab bag of normal disputed content edits, one borderline edit, and then a bunch of actually good edits. For instance, removing WP:SYNTH is good. Responding to a question about a BLP by saying, "I've heard that but there's no RS so we should leave it out for now," is good. And I think that's what's got my gander up about this. Anyway, I mostly wanted to post a message off AN/I to another editor I respect in this space, as much as anything else to see if I'm missing something here. It really does seem galling. Simonm223 (talk) 14:47, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

"2018-19 england korfball league" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Milswoj
is blocked on the Polish Wikipedia and is apparently suspected to be related to a group of vandals known as "Chicago boys". JFYI. Nardog (talk) 16:13, 30 September 2019 (UTC)


 * And seem edited quite a lot in pl wiki, and blocked for linkage to "Chicago boys" as well. Matthew hk (talk) 16:18, 30 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Correct myself. Milswoj was also blocked but not in log explicitly say "Chicago boys" (pl:Wikipedia:Pacynka = sock instead). Matthew hk (talk) 16:20, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Reverted Tai Po disambiguation link to Typo
You recently reverted my edit on Tai Po (disambiguation). I think it sounds similar, in English at least, my Cantonese isn't good but I know it sounds like DAI PO in Cantonese. With that said, the way most English speakers pronounce it as far as I know IS "Tie-Pow" which sounds just like Typo. Please consider adding it back. Thank you.

Hkbusfan (talk) 00:12, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia categories named after conglomerate companies of China
These companies dont need to be in this category as well as in Category:Conglomerate companies of China They overlap. Rathfelder (talk) 20:15, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football
The sections are about the same topic - the names involved with Steaua București. It makes no sense having two parallel discussions next to one another. Please leave the sections merged. GiantSnowman 13:42, 5 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Talk page guidelines. One is WP:RM related, one is WP:Split, WP:Merge related, despite it is about the same twinned club, but nature is different. For RM, it should snowball close due to WP:Commonname and Naming conventions (sports teams). The latter is a complex matter that not about RM. Matthew hk (talk) 13:49, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * And if the name of article(s) change, are you saying the disambiguation page won't be involved? Nonsense. GiantSnowman 13:51, 5 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Using analogy, it is the matter of deciding which John Smith. Even if one John Smith had renamed himself, thing related to that John Smith should still attribute to him, not sudden to other John Smith. Matthew hk (talk) 13:54, 5 November 2019 (UTC)


 * And it is more complex that we have Atari, Atari, Inc. or Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. or Republic of China and Republic of China (1912–1949). Matthew hk (talk) 13:56, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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