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Historic locations, how to describe, policy?
Hi, thanks for stopping by: I've made several edits recently on historical event / people pages. Particularly with reference to Wales - people often say things like (paraphrasing)"Gruffudd_ap_Cynan landed in St.Davids in the South of Wales". Well at that times Wales didn't exist. So instead I've written it as just being "to the South" of Gwynedd and that it's in modern day Pembrokeshire, South Wales. I feel I should really qualify that though, they might rewrite the counties next year and the entry would then be wrong - there must be a general policy on this? So what is the right way to edit these things??
 * Maybe WP:PLACES will help. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 01:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hmm, PLACES doesn't really help much. Nor does the talk - it seems to say use the current county names and that historic names can be mentinoed bracketed. That's fine, but we're going back to times where there wasn't really any central administration. Anyone else want to chip in?
 * That would seem to work to me - something like "Whats-his-face landed south of modern-day Footown, Barcounty, known then as Foobar" - if Foobar didn't exist even back then, just leave that bit out. If things change, we can update them, that's one of the good things about not having Wikipedia on paper. Hope this helps. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 22:09, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

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Boxer rebellion translation
Hi there, the banner reads: "欽令 義和團糧臺", which translates literally as: "By Imperial Order -- The Righteous and Harmonious Society -- Office in charge of Grains."

I retained the "Boxer" and the "Commisariat" from the previous version, which translated the banner as "Boxer Commissariat". My translation was "By Imperial Order - Boxer Supply Commissariat".

My translation was a compromise between the older version, which was inaccurate though it conveyed the idea, with the literal and accurate translation. I retained "Boxer" because that's the common name for the group in English (and not "The Righteous and Harmonious Society"). The "Commissariat" is I guess as good as any as a translation for a rank with no exact or even determinable equivalent in English.

Please feel free to edit the translation as you see fit. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 03:20, 11 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Please feel free to. Thanks, --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 14:17, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Arilang1234 asking for help
Thanks for your message pbhj. (1)I am new on Wiki and I only have minimum knowledge of wiki (2)I am not a christian,and never heard of BMS or Taiyuan massacre until I did my research on internet. (3)please feel free to point out my short comings because I really like to become a good wiki man.Arilang1234 (talk) 20:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi,its me again. If you have time,please go to Boxer have a look.I have done some changes,see you like it or not. I am not sure if I have put too much things onto the Boxer page or not.I am not a christian.My argument on Boxer is simply that the Manchu rulers were a bunch of savage slaves owner.They were different from the Kings or Queens of Europe.They were not even worth the name of king or queen.Nobody need to feel shameful about this war which happened 100 years ago,when the heroic soldiers and marines marched towards Peking to rescue innocent people. I am looking forward for your help.Arilang1234 (talk) 00:19, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi,me again.Please go to my user page and have a look when you got time,and let me know how you feel.Arilang1234 (talk) 23:14, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

November 2008
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. SkyWalker (talk) 18:49, 17 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Skywalker you mentioned that I vandalised a page (Sins of a Solar Empire) by asking for a fact and adding this to the talk page: "So is there a geniune [sic!] source for this with supporting evidence? I'll mark it up as a questionable fact. It sounds to me like the distributor, Stardock, maybe paid the production company, Ironclad Games, 1 million USD for the exclusive rights for the game? This isn't really the same thing as saying it cost 1 million USD to make. Anyone got info to add? Pbhj (talk) 18:14, 17 November 2008 (UTC)" - I don't understand, it's a reasonable question isn't it? I couldn't find a trustworthy source to corroborate the production costs. Pbhj (talk) 16:14, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Welsh language
I'd entirely forgotten that discussion, 11 months old, until you returned my attention to it. The original poster had asked for help in learning Welsh. You responded with a criticism of the institutional status of the language, and referred to it as an anachronism. This was both counterproductive and fairly predictably annoying to other contributors.

However, I happen to know the answer to the question you now ask. Welsh is the most heavily subsidised minority language in the world. The condition of Gaelic in Scotland is nowhere near comparable - only the Western Isles council makes special use of it. Similarly Lallans in Scotland, Ullans and Irish in Northern Ireland, Irish in Eire, Breton in Brittany - France not being very supportive of minority languages generally - Sami in Norrbotten, and so on and so forth. All of these languages are used and have some official backing, but nothing even comparable to the Welsh Language Act.

You may wish to look at the modern use of Maori terms in New Zealand, though. I don't know the details, but that is at least a national government introducing a lot of indigenous-minority-language stuff nationwide. AlexTiefling (talk) 13:06, 24 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I usually compare/contrast the use to that of Breton within France. Thanks for the information. The Maori point is interesting as you appear to say the government is introducing borrowed words unnaturally? I can see this being an easy way of accurately describing native terms. Borrowed words are quite different to the Welsh situation however.
 * The original enquiry was from a Welsh Language teacher wanting to write an article "Welsh for Adult [Adult Learners]". I think it's an important part of later life learning of Welsh to note how strongly promoted it is to the point of "want to be proper Welsh, don't talk English [Language] then". The financial and educational cost is also obscured and would be illuminating information for such an article.
 * Thanks for your input.
 * On an separate point, should I have threaded the conversation here or responded on your talk page? Pbhj (talk) 11:07, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Fair point - you were hardly wrong in your original comment - I just felt that the phrasing was not calculated to get good responses. I've no idea what the etiquette of threading these things is. Here suits me fine. I don't understand the NZ situation well enough to know all the ramifications - you might want to ask a New Zealander for all the details. AlexTiefling (talk) 12:59, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Hot chocolate reference
I'm going to revert your removal of the reference. While the site is promotional in nature, the information sourced is not provided in a promotional way, and the source is being used to verify information, not to promote. Also, I don't see a regurgitation of wiki material. Many sources back up the information provided in the page. Please feel free to contact me if you disagree,  Malinaccier ( talk ) 01:52, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It's clearly derivative and appears at least in part to be a modification of some other wiki sources - the page is clearly part of a site that is simply a collection aimed at carrying advertising, a cursory inspection will verify that. It's barely informative, not a verifiable source and is no more notable than many others of its kind. IMO it's a rubbish link, but, whatever Pbhj (talk) 23:48, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

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 * I spotted this while stub-sorting and reckoned it looked notable, found a few sources, expanded and deprodded it. If you're local to it, perhaps you could add a photo while expanding it further? Pam  D  17:45, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment
Hey Pbhj; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:26, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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Requesting some article expansion help
Greetings,

You seem to have previously contributed to the article Christianity and Islam.

Requesting your visit to Draft:Intellectual discourse over re-mosqueing of Hagia Sophia and article expansion help if you find you interest in the topic.

Thanks and warm regards

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