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Entebbe
lol. Thanks for being nice! :) Deryck C. 14:27, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
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December 2013
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A cookie for you!
WHAA a trout for me. I was reviewing really old "new" articles. I guess I'm a bit late to the party. I thought you had just created the article from scratch like that. The article does look nice though. ;) Cheers, Michaelzeng7 (talk) 03:41, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I felt that I finally had enough experience with Wikipedia to start an article about my high school. Happy to see someone thinks my first attempt is halfway decent.Vycl1994 (talk) 05:32, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Alycia Debnam-Carey


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Notable deaths vs dead notable people.
Regarding your Alice Gross edit, this discussed things like that. No clear consensus either way, but points to ponder, if you'd like. InedibleHulk (talk) 23:46, October 2, 2014 (UTC)
 * Duly noted. Thanks for the heads up. Vycl1994 (talk) 05:49, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

October 2014
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Akram Khodabandeh a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page to Akram Khodabandeh. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Cut-and-paste-move repair holding pen. Otherwise, thanks for all your recent work to give those articles references!  Steel1943  (talk) 23:14, 20 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, you've gone fishing for trout(s) in the river! Nice catch. I happened across Fooladfc2013's mass creation of articles and was attempting to help with it. I simply forgot to move Akram Khodabandeh properly, though I did not bungle Fatemeh Rouhani (taekwondo). At least, I don't think I did.... Thanks for the note. Best, Vycl1994 (talk) 00:46, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Fill in the reference bare links
Hi Vycl1994,

I'm Chongkian who normally writes articles related to Taiwan. I can see from your last edit to the article Yang Sui-sheng, may I know which app/link you use to fill in those bare references? Last time I use the Reflinks, but it seems like it is now no longer working, so I'm not sure on which app/link is the good one to fill in those links? Thanks. Chongkian (talk) 03:41, 3 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I use RefToolbar, which I think leaves a clearer reference with more information. To enable it, go to the Gadgets tab on your Preferences and check the box marked RefToolbar. Another choice is ProveIt, which is also accessed from Preferences→Gadgets. You might also want to submit a bug report on Reflinks, by using Bugzilla. Hope this helps. Vycl1994 (talk) 06:54, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Diem Brown
I did not changed anything I was implying that people keep changing her birth date.

November 2014
Hi Vycl1994,

I'm the son in law of Philip Hodge and I noticed you characterized him as a 'materials scientists'. He never mentioned materials science to his family, he was a proffessor in Mechanics and I wonder why you chose material science? thanks!

Bill Kelly (talk) 18:31, 23 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Racklever is the editor who placed Philip G. Hodge into the Category: American material scientists. Based off of this edit, and the first sentence stating that he "specialized in elasticity and plasticity of materials," I revised the section to comply with WP:First sentence and WP:CREDENTIALS. Vycl1994 (talk) 23:33, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

CEC website for ROC local election 2014 results
Hi Vycl1994, regarding the dead link at Jason Hu article (as what i've read on your edit comment on 10 dec 2014), i think the CEC has reorganized its website (probably to make the election result being archived), thus the link has changed. but (let's say) for this taichung mayoral election result, i've found it at this link: http://vote2014.nat.gov.tw/en/TC/n400000000000000.html Chongkian (talk) 16:43, 14 December 2014 (UTC)


 * You can re-add the CEC sources if desired, but since I found so many dead ones then, including on other politicians of the 2014 election, I just thought the entire website was malfunctioning and replaced CEC links with the Taipei Times or Central News Agency. Vycl1994 (talk) 16:49, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! :D
Thanks for fixing the edits I made to Yao Beina's article. I couldn't figure out how to make the links work better. Hope everything else was correct as well. Again, thank you! :D

Hajiru (talk) 14:05, 18 January 2015 (UTC) Hajiru


 * You are most welcome. What I did was called piping. If you click on the link, you will find more information on the topic. I also cleaned up the pinyin formatting that was on the page to fit into the zh template, which has a "p=" parameter designed for pinyin. I did not make use of it for the other Chinese text on the page because the template always links Chinese and pinyin. Linking to the same topics many times in a section is generally considered excessive. Vycl1994 (talk) 16:59, 18 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Cool. :D I will remember to do that for next time. Thanks again! ^__^


 * Hajiru (talk) 00:55, 22 January 2015 (UTC) Hajiru

Removing authority control?
Hi. Why have you removed the authority control template from André Trocmé and Magda Trocmé? I see no related discussion at Template talk:Authority control. As far as I know authority control and persondata should be together and on the redirects for redirects to shared biographies. --Mirokado (talk) 06:36, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * What you suggest is what I have done, but I have hidden the templates from view as a further compromise, using the wiki markup for commenting things out. Maybe a better summary of my edits should be "added hidden authority control". There is not way to add them to singular corresponding Wikidata pages, as far as I am aware. See here and here for the relevant edits. I added templates both times with the "comment out" wiki markup. Vycl1994 (talk) 14:02, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your prompt response. I've now had a little more time to refresh my memory and to look around. Looking at Authority control, it is correct to add authority control to the redirects in cases like this and there is no need to comment it out. We should add to the article most directly corresponding to the wikidata entry (creating a suitable redirect if necessary). The corresponding wikidata entries are Q523109 and Q15056045, which use the accented names, for which we also have redirects which already have redirect to joint biography, persondata and relevant categories, but not authority control. Authority control goes immediately before Persondata, which itself must be before DEFAULTSORT. It will be easier if I run round in little circles building on your recent edits and post again here when I think I have finished, you will of course be welcome to edit further if you think it is necessary. --Mirokado (talk) 15:04, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Finished the wikipedia article updates now:, , , , . --Mirokado (talk) 15:36, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Authority Control Assistance
Hi there Vycl1994, could you assist me with adding an authority control template to an article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sutralife (talk • contribs) 18:17, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

William G. Young
Hello; I just undid your modifications to the page you edited. I don't understand why you reverted my changes. Judge Young is ALIVE (WP:BLP) and having the article accurately reflect that he is still a sitting judge (not in the past tense) is proper.--Brad Patrick (talk) 16:01, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The page history of William G. Young shows that you were the only user so far to edit the page in May 2015. My last edit to the page was in January of the same year, to add an authority control template. You first switched the tense on 15 May, (here) reverted yourself on 21 May, (here) and corrected the error around five minutes later, blaming me for it, possibily because you were reading the edit summary (Reverted to last revision by Vycl1994). However, this appears to be a one man show, and I cannot claim responsibility. Vycl1994 (talk) 18:34, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Thomas P. McKenna


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LoC DoB's
Hi Vycl1994,

Can you give me a tutorial on how to find author's birthdates from the LoC as you did for David Knechtges? Thanks.  White Whirlwind  咨   05:02, 12 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Let's take Knechtges as an example. After clicking on the LCCN link in the authority control template, it should take you to this page. The second line under the "Sources" heading reads "found: Wen xuan, or, Selections ... c1982- : CIP data sheet (David R. Knechtges, b. 10/23/42)." As the Library of Congress is an American institution, most dates are in MM/DD/YY format.


 * Fred Craddock's DOB, seen here, is simply marked "(b. 4/30/28)" at the third item under that same "Sources" heading. George Low Jr., Andrew Oung, Elizabeth A. Fenn, and Inga Saffron's full DOB are also listed at their respective LCCN pages, but sometimes LCCN only gives the birth year, (see Mary McNamara, Peter Theo Curtis) so just include that, unless you can find a reliable source for the full version. If LCCN lists IMDB birthdates, as they did at Paul Ryan (actor), the DOB may be entirely wrong, which is why I left a reference and comment in the infobox of that article. As can be seen at George Low and William Linn Westermann, LCCN occasionally searches Wikipedia for information on people also.


 * I hope this was helpful. Happy editing! Vycl1994 (talk) 14:46, 12 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Fantastic stuff, thanks a million!  White Whirlwind  咨   20:18, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Augusta Chiwy
The Washington Post gives her date of birth as 3 June 1921. Just in case you investigate. Yours, Quis separabit?  20:08, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The 6 June 1921 date has been reported by the New York Times while the Post gives 3 June 1921. Should we list them both with (disputed) or some such note elsewhere in the article? If I recall correctly, you and I (mostly you) did the same for Haron Amin. Vycl1994 (talk) 20:49, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * No, I really am not overwhelmingly distraught. I just wanted you to know that a reliable source had cited the 3 June date. I trust your judgment. Yours, Quis separabit?  20:53, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I did, however, take a look at the French language article on Chiwy -- which has only one source for the entire article. The source (see ) doesn't even give a date of birth. I don't speak French but I know how to look for a month and date. You can try. So it seems the English-language article has not only more sources but probably more reliable ones. Yours, Quis separabit?  14:57, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I cannot say anything further about foreign language sources, as I speak no other language as well as fluently as I do English. My rare contributions to other WPs usually consist of adding the equivalent authority control template. Both the Washington Post and New York Times pass WP:RS with flying colors, so I have, in the end, just decided to add a note on DOB discrepancy with those papers listed as sources.  Vycl1994 (talk) 01:14, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
 * @Vycl1994 -- OK, well done. Quis separabit?  01:16, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Citations/verifiability
Hello, I'm Intgr. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Trevor Sykes, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. -- intgr [talk] 11:13, 7 September 2015 (UTC)


 * This is the edit you are talking about, I presume. The edit summary of said contribution reads "dob and full name per lccn." See the authority control template near the bottom of the page for my source. The link immediately after LCCN: leads here to the American Library of Congress, which is a reliable source. The Trevor Sykes listed at LoC and WP are the same person, as both list The Money Miners as one of his works. Both the LoC and WP also mention Pierpont, his column/pseudonym. Also see the LoC DoBs section of my talk page for more information. Vycl1994 (talk) 15:41, 7 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks. If you use information from some external source in the article, then you should add a citation, especially if someone asks for it, and even moreso on articles about living persons. A link at the bottom of the article intermingled with navboxes is not a proper citation. -- intgr [talk] 07:18, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


 * authority control is designed by MediaWiki engineers to house the authority files of many different databases, usually of national libraries or some such organization. Some authority files have their own template to use, (DNB portal, LCAuth, MathGenealogy and more), but the authority control template is easiest and preferred because it reads information directly from Wikidata. This migration of data has been around longer than I have been an editor, see the now-inactive VIAFbot for an example. Take a look around over at Wikidata. I encourage you to help out on that project. Thanks, Vycl1994 (talk) 07:47, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Sure, but that does nothing to address my concerns: Verifiability is a policy of Wikipedia, it requires citations for challenged material. Authority control is not a form of citation. -- intgr [talk] 11:38, 9 September 2015 (UTC) Your message does not address my concerns: Verifiability is a core policy of Wikipedia, it requires citations for challenged material. Authority control is a nice thing to have, but authority control templates are not a form of citation &mdash; please provide proper citations when people request them. Just an simple URL between tags is sufficient. -- intgr [talk] 11:38, 9 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I can do you one better, see cite linked authority file. Formatting is important too, and the simple ref could lead to link rot. Vycl1994 (talk) 12:54, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Token of appreciation unexpected, but warmly welcomed. Many thanks. Vycl1994 (talk) 03:42, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

2015 Ma–Xi meeting
Conversation between Ma and Xi during dinner got reverted/deleted. Ma & Xi's return from Singapore got reverted/deleted. Yet words and conversations from opposition parties, media, NGO and common people got all listed in the articles (including all of the fights near Legislative Yuan and ROC Presidential Office). It looks like the article content of the reactions to the meeting is much larger than the content of the meeting chronology itself. That is just plain not objective at all (tilting towards the opposition parties). Meeting is the main focus of the article, yet (from my point of view) we don't have enough content yet for such significant meeting in the history of Chinese civilization ever. Is there any other detail we can add to the meeting detail? Instead of just reactions to the meeting from 3rd people point of view? Sigh ... Chongkian (talk) 01:11, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * The events of the relatively recent Sunflower Student Movement and the secrecy of the meeting plans may have something to do with the size of the opposition section. After all, plans were first leaked by Liberty Times and caused it to be a big deal, even if a direct announcement by the Ma administration would have achieved the same effect. What I'm trying to say is it does not surprise me that the opposition is making its voice heard. The South China Morning Post seems to have extensive coverage of the meeting, as they have organized all meeting-related stories into a thread I posted to the external link section. If you take a more detailed look than I did at that link, there may be more worthwhile information to include. Vycl1994 (talk) 06:33, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Marie Serneholt
If you want to, please take a look at the article about Marie Serneholt, which is this weeks selected TAFI article. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 16:25, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

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ROC 2016 Legislative Election
haha .. thanks for that small correction. it has been a long night to write all of those newly elected member (not enough sleep here #_#) .. can u check if there is any other extra info or if there is any other small mistakes or corrections? .. oh ya, maybe u can also check if any of those new Legislative Yuan members have already their individual wikipedia article (maybe due to different naming writing (pinyin, wade giles or tw aborigine name) between listed from CEC website & what has been written in Wikipedia before) thanks a lot ^_^ Chongkian (talk) 01:17, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * the Lin Li-chan error is the only "real" one that I noticed. (because I'm working on her article now) As for redirects and such, I made one for Vycl1994 (talk) 01:27, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh ya, remember when we made those articles about 2014 ROC Local Election in which we took most of the date from ROC CEC (central election commission) website for the resources. But then after 2-3 months after that, all of the election data inside CEC is gone, thus making all of those links i've posted become dead link. I'm afraid this 2016 ROC legislative & presidential election data from CEC will also be gone next month. so is there any method to preserve these reference (either offline or make a mirror site (without violating copyright thingy for sure)) so that these Wikipedia election-related articles can always have its sources. I'm just wondering if u've done similar things before. Chongkian (talk) 02:23, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * This means all CEC links must be tracked down and archived before they go dead. I'd use the Wayback Machine for that. Just copy and paste a CEC link into the search bar on that page (where it says only "http://", then click the gray "browse history" button. If that page is not saved on the Wayback Machine database yet, a box will appear and say "Save this URL in the Wayback Machine. Click that once, and it should save. When it saves, the web address will change into something that starts with https://web.archive.org... (Example https://web.archive.org/web/20160117023007/http://vote2016.cec.gov.tw/en/T4/n100000000000000.html. Last step: Copy and paste that full link into the WP reference. Vycl1994 (talk) 02:42, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for adding the complete birthdate for Lyn Mikel Brown and for noting such on Dorothy M. Healy. Is LCCN something that I can get a free subscription for? It's not easy finding complete birthdates. Thanks again, Yoninah (talk) 16:14, 21 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Please see this section of my talk page for an explanation of how I access and use the Library of Congress Control Number. To summarize, the Library of Congress usually takes birth dates by quoting biographies of the person, or contacting the author directly. A previous editor had questioned the reliability of the LoC, a US governmental institution, but subsequent discussions I've had have largely restored it as a reliable source, unless it cites IMDb or Wikipedia itself, which it occasionally does (specific examples above).
 * I usually find the LCCN by way of viaf.org, the website of the Virtual International Authority File, which lists authority control data sets for many national libraries. Simply type a name into the search bar and see if the website returns any results, then copy and paste relevant data sets into Wikidata. The authority control template then calls on Wikidata to fill in the appropriate data sets whenever the template is trancluded. However, VIAF can also screw up and assign multiple data sets to one person, which often happens if the person has multiple pseudonyms. When I find those I post them to WP:VIAF/errors and let someone else handle them, because I'm not an expert on the inner workings of the MediaWiki software.
 * I hope this long-winded explanation helped. If you have any further questions about authority control, see Authority control, or ask here, and I'll try to clear things up. Vycl1994 (talk) 19:16, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * , Have I missed anything of importance? Vycl1994 (talk) 19:58, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * LGTM. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:18, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time to explain all this. I'll try to digest it! Best, Yoninah (talk) 21:07, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

New ROC cabinet members
lol, so fast u update the info of the ROC vice premier which i've just created like few minutes ago. I guess we will have a lot of tasks to make in updating all of the ROC cabinet members info in the coming month until their inauguration on 20 may 2016. Chongkian (talk) 00:43, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I figured that you would beat me to the article creation, so I made a complete infobox for Lin in my sandbox, hit preview to make sure everything was right, then copy and pasted it over to the article. Vycl1994 (talk) 00:48, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Questions concerning your edits to Han Xu (diplomat)
Hello, I noticed your | recent edit to Han Xu (diplomat) and was curious why you removed the persondata. Was something incorrect about it? Thank you so much CawheeTalk 00:00, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Persondata has been deprecated since May 2015. As part of my edits to Wikidata, mostly concerning the use of authority control, I have been transferring the data formerly hosted on Persondata to Wikidata, and removing the persondata template from Wikipedia, replacing it with authority control, where applicable, instead. Vycl1994 (talk) 00:09, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! CawheeTalk 01:03, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sarah Corp


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Mississippi Valley Conference (Wisconsin) template
Hi-The Mississippi Valley Conference (Wisconsin) template needs to be fixed; each time I clicked on ot the Mississippi Valley Conference (Iowa) template comes up-many thanks-RFD (talk) 15:03, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The code for Mississippi Valley Conference (Wisconsin) was borrowed from Mississippi Valley Conference (Iowa). I thought I had fixed my error, and now, both the  and   parameters are filled with Mississippi Valley Conference (Wisconsin). I don't really know what else to do, and would appreciate suggestions. Vycl1994 (talk) 00:28, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi-Many thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. The Mississippi Valley Conference (Wisconsin) template seems to working; no problems. However, I sometimes wonder about the code system within Wikipedia; a few weeks ago, the categories involving the members of the state legislatures were not in alphabetical order. Then, this was corrected after a few days. Again, my thanks-RFD (talk) 12:43, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
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Autopatrolled
Hi Vycl1994, I just wanted to let you know that I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3A added] the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! ~ Rob 13 Talk 03:59, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:55, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I don't seek such lavish attention for my contributions to the project, and am unaccustomed to receiving it. As such, I apologize if the following statement makes for awkward reading. It truly surprises me that others know about and think highly of my work here, despite my attempts to avoid the limelight. Again, thanks, though I believe my only contribution to the Main Page was 2015 Ma–Xi meeting, nominated by Fuebaey. Vycl1994 (talk) 10:26, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for lavish praise and the correction. Sorry I must have misunderstood the ITN entry on your user page ;) - I noticed your additions and correction to OREYA (took the picture), and like to thank people who help me. The project QAI is also called the cabal of the outcasts, btw, I hope you don't mind the company ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:51, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


 * A year ago, you were recipient no. 1502 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:26, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I remember it like it was yesterday, since I haven't yet archived my talk page. Thanks again, . Vycl1994 (talk) 11:14, 1 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I also remember the feeling when I received my first, in August 2010 ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:15, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Rémy Pflimlin
Hello. Would you mind standardizing the dates in the infobox please?Zigzig20s (talk) 06:00, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Fixed! Sorry about that. Vycl1994 (talk) 06:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi Vycl1994, thanks a lot for your work on Leslie Koo and Chester Koo. I've nominated Leslie Koo for ITN and named you as a contributor. See In the news/Candidates. Feel free to cast your vote there. Cheers! -Zanhe (talk) 04:31, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirects are cheap, my friend–that is, you deserve all of the credit for L. Koo's article. I began working on C. Koo in part because you'd done most of the heavy lifting on the original redirect at recent deaths. Best, Vycl1994 (talk) 05:18, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

A beer for you!

 * AFC review is the hard job. I'm just a gnome who has grown extraordinarily attached to authority control Face-smile.svg Vycl1994 (talk) 19:23, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Mississippi Valley Conference (Wisconsin) Template
Hi, I saw your Mississippi Valley Conference (Wisconsin) template and wanted to do high school templates for my area. I sourced the coding from that template, and on the template page it looks fine. However, when i put it on to article pages (like Sheboygan South High School), it behaves differently. I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, and I don't know where to start with changing things. Please help! Willsome429 (talk) 16:46, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Templates are unlike prose article text, and naboxes, such as the one you created, should belong on their own line in the edit window. I've fixed the problem in this edit. Happy editing! Vycl1994 (talk) 16:54, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

A page you started (Miaoli County 1st district) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Miaoli County 1st district, Vycl1994!

Wikipedia editor Boleyn just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

"Thanks for taking the time and trouble to create this - it's appreciated. It's now been reviewed and has had some improvement tags added. If you have the time, could you look it over and see if you can help address any of the issues raised in the tags? Thanks again for your hard work."

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Paul R. Fleischman (birthday)
Hi, thank you for adding the birthday. I only knew the year, where did you look up the day? Pyrini (talk) 20:18, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I added authority control to Paul R. Fleischman in this edit and cited my source via edit summary in a subsequent edit as "d[ate] o[f] b[irth] per lccn." If you scroll down near the end of the article Paul R. Fleischman, you will find a set of numbers and letters next to something marked LCCN. Clicking on that external link leads you to an authority control file about Fleischman maintained by the United States Library of Congress. Under a heading titled "sources" at the LCCN link (here), you will find two lines of text, the second of which indicate Fleischman's birth date. For other discussions I have had about authority control, please read the other sections of my talk page, namely here and here. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me via my talk page. Happy editing! Vycl1994 (talk) 23:58, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Li Yuan-tsu
Omg, thanks a lot for that resurrection≠resuscitation correction thing. I didn't realize it at all ~ O_O Chongkian (talk) 15:05, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Glad to do what I can. After all, Wikipedia is a work in progress!. Vycl1994 (talk) 16:39, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Authority control request
Hello. Would you mind working your magic with "authority control" over at André Tosel please?Zigzig20s (talk) 15:22, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Vycl1994 (talk) 15:28, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 16:56, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi. Are you able to do the same with Didier Hassoux please? I am not sure if this works for people who are alive.Zigzig20s (talk) 23:38, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It isn't so much a dead-or-alive thing. It depends on whether or not an article is linked to Wikidata and if Wikidata has the correct links for the template. Vycl1994 (talk) 00:16, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Taiwan article wants to be deleted :'(
Hi Vycl1994,

Can you help to defend this Luerhmen History and Culture Museum because it has been tagged recently for AfD deletion? Maybe you can help to add more references & publications from Chinese sources/websites. Thanks a lot.

Chongkian (talk) 00:34, 27 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry to have missed this, but due to your citation additions, it seems the AfD was withdrawn and closed as keep. Vycl1994 (talk) 11:28, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, finally after I've added more resources. But then again, that article might be lucky. While I always try to always add any new development/news about articles I have created (e.g. from Focus Taiwan, Taiwan Today, Taiwan News Online, China Post Online, Taipei Times etc), how about other article who has very limited source? There is nothing much I can do about it. If there are so many sources about one particular article, of course I will be happy to keep expanding (e.g. Islam in Taiwan). Nevertheless, other articles I have created which has few sources, many of them also only one source (excluding blogs). e.g. Chang Yu-sheng Memorial Museum, Chengkungling History Museum, Huoyan Mountain Ecology Museum, Rueylong Museum, Wulai Tram Museum, Yu Da Wei Xian Sheng Memorial Museum (and my other hundreds of Taiwan stub articles in which you can see by yourself)? I guess it is the matter of 'when' any of this article will got AfG-tagged, and we need to find more resources. But then again, there is nothing much written about them in the Internet. I'm not sure on the Chinese websites. Even my article Tamsui Art Gallery was tagged on speedy deletion & was deleted within a day, sigh. Chongkian (talk) 00:21, 28 April 2017 (UTC)


 * WP:NOENG allows the use of non-English sources, if you are fluent in Mandarin. As a aside, this is why most of my article creations are about Taiwanese legislators; they are presumed notable via WP:NPOL. Your help there would be appreciated. For example, I am terrible at tables and templates and have been putting off trying to make Seventh Legislative Yuan look like Eighth and Ninth Legislative Yuan. Seventh Legislative Yuan is also missing the party list MLYs though that information is located at Taiwan legislative election, 2008. Vycl1994 (talk) 01:08, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi,

Can help on this also Beigang Cultural Center? Got AfD :( Chongkian (talk) 00:54, 8 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry (again), . I was busy with Wikidata and a few article creations. As far as I can see Beigang Cultural Center is still a blue link and has never been listed at AFD. Vycl1994 (talk) 01:17, 13 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Oh sorry, wrong article. What I meant was Museum of Beigang Story. Looks like it has now been deleted :( Chongkian (talk) 14:16, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Accepted drafts
Hi Vycl1994! I'd like to thank you for doing further work on the drafts I'm accepting. I'm trying to get through the backlog at AfC and it's already very time-consuming to do the review process properly. I appreciate you categorizing and cleaning things up more thoroughly. Best wishes! Waggie (talk) 18:27, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I know I don't have the patience or technical skills with regards to scripts and such to participate at AFC, and respect those editors who do. Vycl1994 (talk) 04:59, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Cheers, and I don't have the patience to learn all the categories, so thank you! Best wishes! Waggie (talk) 05:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

I would like to thank you also. The biggest thing for me is categories because there are so many of them. I do know the categories for the main articles I work on, but not always for articles that I accept for creation. SL93 (talk) 17:38, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Help! (save articles from deletion)
Any other useful information to be added to these AFD-tagged articles? :(
 * Belgian Office, Taipei
 * India-Taipei Association
 * Luxembourg Trade and Investment Office, Taipei
 * Nigeria Trade Office in Taiwan, R.O.C.

Chongkian (talk) 08:23, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Your edit on Taylan Susam
Hi Vycl1994! Thank you for your helpful edit on my page Taylan Susam. I am not sure about the the links to Discogs and AllMusic; the listings there seem to be incomplete (as evidenced immediately by their mutual inconsistency). Would it perhaps be better to leave these out? Cheers, wandel w talk 13:42, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I removed Instagram and other links as a result of the guidance given at WP:ELMINOFFICIAL, but chose to replace them with the Discogs and Allmusic links because they seem to be often used for musicians. In a similar fashion, IMDb is used for many actors. The drawback of those links is that they are often incomplete for lesser known performers (to the English-speaking world). For East Asian entertainers, links to the Hong Kong Movie DataBase along with IMDb, are, I believe, considered standard, despite many instances of inconsistency and incompleteness (Chris Hung, Susanna Au-yeung, Yu Tian). If you wish, those links may be removed from Taylan Susam. However, I have already placed Susam's social media, official website, Discogs identifier, and Allmusic link at this Wikidata item, which I see you've edited before. Welcome to Wikipedia, and Wikidata! Vycl1994 (talk) 14:23, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Museum infobox vs. building infobox
On the 'museum infobox', why cant we key in the word museum in it in any of the parameter list (outside the title name)? When the infobox has been displayed, the word museum is not displayed on any of the infobox description, like the recently made Yilan Museum of Art. If we use 'building infobox', we can always write the type of the building, thus the word 'museum' will always be displayed, such as the one I made for Ama Museum which I used building infobox, instead of museum infobox. Because sometimes a museum may not necessarily has 'museum' word in its official name. Thus it is always good that we can specify if it is a museum, gallery, art gallery, etc Chongkian (talk) 07:30, 15 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Changes to infoboxes are on the list of things that need consensus. I would suggest discussing it at Template talk:Infobox museum. Adding parameters to templates is not something I have ever attempted and I cannot tell you how to do so. Vycl1994 (talk) 09:03, 15 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Oh, found it. There is this "type" parameter in the Museum infobox where I can type the word "museum", "art museum" etc in it :D Chongkian (talk) 00:23, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Help
Hi,

I moved the Portal:Malacca to Portal:Melaka due to the fact that the name Malacca state has been officially changed to Melaka by the local government (http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malacca-now-known-as-melaka-says-state-government). But after I've moved the page, things look messy in Portal:Melaka. How to clean up this? :( Chongkian (talk) 07:19, 3 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I will note that this is my first time working with portals. As such, this is slightly out of my comfort zone,, but after comparing the structure of the Malacca/Melaka portal to other portals, I see see there are serveral transcluded subpages on each portal. Portal:Melaka looks messy because none of the transluded subpages of Portal:Malacca have been moved to Portal:Melaka/subpage title. Because there are multiple moves that need to happen, I would suggest moving Portal:Melaka back to Portal:Malacca for the time being and gaining consensus for all Portal:Malacca/Melaka related moves before implementing them. I have noticed that Malacca is still located at the old spelling, and that page is jointly maintained by WikiProject Southeast Asia and WikiProject Malaysia. I would suggest letting participants of both WikiProjects know about the broken portal. Consensus about the portal's subpage moves can be sought there once the portal's main page appearance has been fixed. Vycl1994 (talk) 11:42, 3 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I was about to revert it first to the last edit, but apparently it was possible (they give some notice abc bla bla bla), huhu .. Chongkian (talk) 00:23, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
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VIAF/errors
Hey! You seem to be the main contributor to VIAF/errors at the moment. I was wondering if you've been involved in contacting OCLC and getting errors corrected in the past, or if there's someone who usually does this or if you'd be interested in working together to review batches and send them off? I just ran through and pruned all the resolved issues from the Sent to OCLC section, but it seems the last batch wasn't actioned fully. TheDragonFire (talk) 12:05, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

I've never contacted OCLC about WP:VIAF/errors, and am not sure who is reaching out to them at the moment. I'd be open to working with you to resolve datasets listed on that page, though. Thanks for the help. Vycl1994 (talk) 19:43, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hsin Wen-bing
I noticed that you have done some work on the Hsin Wen-bing article, so thought that I'd ask you - I have googled to see if I can find any references to confirm Hsin as mayor, legislator, or university president but found nothing. Do you know of any sources, outside of Wikipedia, that speaks to any of this? Leschnei (talk) 17:49, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * My edits to that particular article were simply efforts to clean it up. I am not sure English language sources exist for Hsin (per this deletion discussion), though sources are not required to be in English. The article's zh.wiki equivalent is better sourced, and accessing references listed there may set you on the right track, especially if you are fluent in Mandarin. Vycl1994 (talk) 00:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I was trying to clean it up too. I don't know any Mandarin and I don't like trying to get accurate information from a google translation, so I guess that I'll move on. I appreciate your help. Leschnei (talk) 01:24, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for the edits
Obviously, I'm still learning the rules for draft articles. I was not aware of the honorific rule or the categories in draft articles rule. Thanks for fixing those. What is the link you attached? (https://viaf.org/viaf/161416497) Txantimedia (talk) 22:28, 30 November 2017 (UTC)


 * The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is a form of authority control. Such datasets are used in library science for catalouging purposes. VIAF's website collects authority control identifiers from several national libraries and other databases and links them together. On English Wikipedia, those idenfifiers are meant to to displayed in authority control, which calls information from Wikidata. However, because drafts cannot be linked to Wikidata I have not placed the authority control template on Draft:Robert F. Turner. The information that will appear in the authority control for Turner's article, if it is approved by Articles for Creation reviewers, will be drawn from this link, which I included in my edit summary for ease of reference and access, and you posted in parentheses above. For more information on Wikipedia's use of authority control, see Help:Authority control, Authority control, or here and here on my talk page. Vycl1994 (talk) 23:01, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the clarification. I will read those links. Txantimedia (talk) 23:18, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Suksin Lee edit
Hi! Thank you for your edits. Was wondering where you got the birth year for Suksin Lee?

173.79.142.178 (talk) 17:29, 17 December 2017 (UTC)


 * These are my only edits to Suskin Lee. I added his birth date and a place of birth to the infobox, according to the article's lede and "early life and education" section, respectively. Before I edited the article, Lee's place of birth and birth date were in the article itself, with citations. Vycl1994 (talk) 18:34, 17 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Oh,ok. The reason I originally left a q mark was that another source lists a different year...that source is a bit more authoritative (in my opinion)...not sure what to do here...any suggestions?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Encyclopediaeditor456 (talk • contribs) 19:01, 17 December 2017 (UTC)


 * See May Owen and that article's talk page, where another editor and I agreed to cite both sources and make note of a birth date discrepancy. Vycl1994 (talk) 19:12, 17 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for your suggestion! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Encyclopediaeditor456 (talk • contribs) 02:38, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Help! (save articles from deletion)

 * Taiwan Film Institute

Chongkian (talk) 01:15, 29 December 2017 (UTC)