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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VIII - October 2006
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Xie Jinyuan's posthumous rank
You revert my edit on his rank of being a lieutenant general instead of a brigadier general. The reason I edited it was that I was reading the Defense of Sihang Warehouse article and it stated him as a lieutenant general and I was not able to find any conclusive information supporting either, yet the defense article was a featured article. So I took the assumption that it was correct, so I'm curious on which is correct? -Davis Lee 02:46, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Re: I tried finding the Happy Happy Man...
Last time I went to Chinatown about a month and a half ago (on a Saturday) he was at the intersection of Grant and Washington. I believe that is the same location at which User:Allentchang took the photo that is on my userpage. I don't go to Chinatown often enough to be able to trace his movements, so I'm not sure if he hangs out at other places, but he's not always there. On some weekdays, he hangs out at Berkeley, at the edge of the UC campus between Sproul Plaza and Telegraph Avenue. He was there almost everyday at the beginning of September, but I haven't seen him since. So who knows? --Jiang 06:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Probably because that guy pushed him off his podium and stepped on his sign, eh? He also sometimes hangs out at Stanford. The Daily Cal had an interesting article about him. --Xiaopo (Talk) 20:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
No, I saw him a few times after that incident (including the last time at Chinatown)...holding the same "Israel = Terrorist No. 1" sign.--Jiang 22:46, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Someone pushed him and stepped on his signs??!! *shocked* Who could be so cruel! :p -- Миборовский 00:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed the talk page today. I replied to it, and please correct me if I'm wrong. AQu01rius (User | Talk | Websites) 17:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey mib can you lock the sihang article or something? It's been vandalized and Raul apparently doesn't like to do the logical thing and protect the FA on the mainpage. BlueShirts 20:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Well it's off the mainpage now so there shouldn't be any vandalism after this. -- Миборовский 00:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm sorry it's been awhile, but I recently agreed to mediate that case. I don't know if it's a stale issue, so it would be good if a few of you let me know whether or not mediation is still needed. Since there are so many of you, I'm going to assume that all of you agree to me mediating until and unless I am told otherwise. I'm also going to assume public mediation is fine, unless someone asks for private mediation, or I come to think private mediation might be better. I would, however, appreciate it if you just said something there to let me know if you are still around. Also, assuming you are still interested in mediation, please watchlist the page if you haven't already. Thanks! Armedblowfish (talk|mail) 02:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Could you help
Tomananda is unfairly blocked. He exhausted his 3 reverts on this page but he did not violate the 3RR rule. I contacted the admin that blocked him the following is his response. What is more unfair is that Olaf Stephanos who had just as many reverts on that page was not blocked. Could you help unblock Tomananda?
3RR is not an entitlement to 3 reverts. Edit warring is prohibited. Also, the threshhold for information on Misplaced Pages is not truth, but verifiability; Misplaced Pages is not the place to reveal "the truth" except through reliable sources. Please also read Misplaced Pages:Resolving disputes. —Centrx→talk • 07:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Replied on Centrx's user talk. -- Миборовский 23:19, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Do you know how long is the block on Tomanada? Could you unblock him? thanks--Yueyuen 06:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
24 hours, if the block log doesn't lie. -- Миборовский 06:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
He was blocked at about 6pm yesterday, but as of 10:50 pm today he is still blocked. Could you unblock him? --Yueyuen 06:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
He doesn't show up in the active block list. If he still can't edit, there's nothing I can do. He'll probably have to take it to someone with more system privileges. -- Миборовский 07:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks everyone. -- 我♥中國 23:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Battle of Nanjing
As you appear to be a main contributor to the Nanking pages, I'm wondering why the Battle of Nanjing is not Nanking. Just an oversight, or is there a reason? -- Cheers Drcwright 19:42, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Okay. I didn't mean the main contributor... just one of them, or at least a regular/informed one. I've posted the question on the Battle of Nanjing. Cheers 07:42, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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Chinese inventing the crossbow
Hi Mibo
Somehow pro-Chinese editors have a tendency to insert unsourced material about the invention of the crossbow in China or create a pseudocitation from Needhams comment about South-East Asia.(Seems very hard that something possibly wasn't invented in China)
On the other hand nobody seems to care at all what exactly was invented or done in China as long as the article says done first in China. Could you help us perhaps to sort out what the Chinese evidence for the early appearance of crossbows is and much more important how did these systems work 8bornze triggers?, bone triggers? arrow poison? bamboo bows?). The multiple prod crossbow is for example one of the greatest inventions on the crossbow, but none cares about it, only first, first, first. Greatings Wandalstouring 19:29, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey man. If you have time, can you review Portal:China in candidate page to see if it meets featured portal criteria? Thanks! AQu01rius (User • Talk) 22:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. What little boxes are you referring to? Header box or section box? AQu01rius (User • Talk) 03:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for stepping in and helping out, not knowing Chinese between three editors that do makes it a little tough for me. My mother will be sad to know the horrible things said about her the next time I talk to her, but I'm glad it's all worked out. Happy editing to you! Teke 00:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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I suggest we reset the clock for another two weeks.--Jiang 14:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, go ahead. You pull the trigger. --Jiang 12:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Okay I reset it to 1 mo with the warning that any further sockpuppetry will result in a perm block. And User:QueenIsabella.--Jiang 08:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Permblocked. My user page has since come under attack by a bunch of queens.--Jiang 06:25, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Now I'm having trouble deciding whether to protect my userpage or keep Highshines busy posting penis pictures. It's getting amusing.--Jiang 05:15, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
You can post the picture to his page, and then freeze it.--Niohe 05:16, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
That sounds awesomely evil.... but nah. Oh to all those helpful vandal-patrollers who've helped revert highshine's edits on my page: please don't semi-protect it... I REALLY want to see what he can come up with. Teehee. -- 我♥中國 05:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
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'free edits'
Hi Mibo,
I have been thinking about possibilities of helping users in countries where only proxies are possible to contribute to wikipedia: Misplaced Pages talk:No open proxies
My idea is to create a possibility (like a talk page), perhaps not as part of wikipedia, where you can edit using a proxy (with edit restrictions to make it difficult for vandals, for example need login and it takes some time until you are switched free to edit) and this information can be used to improve wikipedia (information needs verifiable sources, etc.). It would be a good thing if we could link specific information directly to the talk pages of respective articles and vice versa, possibly via a wikiproject against censorship or the like (It would only be a bibliography help, nothing today's projects don't do). I thought about you, because I lack the resources for realizing the plan and you might have better connections or ideas. Wandalstouring 11:51, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
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In recognition of the six monthes spent as an Assistant Coordinator of the Military History Wikiproject, I herby award you these stars. Thank you for contributing your time and effort to the project. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
hello, haven't seen you editing for a while, busy in real life eh? Blueshirts 18:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Chinese -> English
Hi. I was wondering if you could translate two Chinese sentenses. One you can find at IMPawards, it's the tag line from Hostel (film). The other one is a title for a Icelandic/Hong Kong movie called Maður eins og ég. Actualy I know it's "Man like me, woman like you" in chinese, but could you write the title first in Chinese caracters and then again the pronouncation. I tried myself here but I'm sure it has some mistakes. Yea, with the tag line the same three things, translation, english pronouncation and Chinese caracters. Hope you can help. Thanks --Steinninn 03:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
That is the funnyest thing I have heard in a long time. I love Eli Roth, so personaly I woun't submite the translation :) But about the movie title. Since imdb dose not support japanese caracters I wanted to submite it with english alphabet. It has already been done with a number of titles, like Ying xiong for Hero. Are there any rules how to change the caracters into alphabet? Would Wo jer yang de nan ren, ni jer yang de nü ren be correct? Maybe it's complicated? Again, I think the hostel poster is so funny, and thanks for the quick reply. --Steinninn 06:06, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Alright, that's awsome. But if you look at the movie title and what you wrote, you can see that everything looks exactly the same, exept the "zhe". The upper one is missing one short line on the top left corner. Maybe not a big deal. But the lower one is completely different. The original one was 那 and looks very similar. Wich one is the correct one? And do I nead to find a nother one with two small lines for the upper zhe? Again, thanks for the help. --Steinninn 15:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, alright, I kind of thought so. One more question, and I think it's going to be the last one. Are these bouth Mandarin, or or maybe Cantonese. Maybe one of them is Cantonese and the other is Mandarin. Again, I'm not familiar with Chinese, so I'm not even sure if you can see the differences simply with the caracteres? --Steinninn 01:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
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Need sources for "Anti-Japanese sentement" - Popular culture in China. help?
You are cool. Because of that, can you help out?
The dot points in the "china - popular culture" section need sources. I AM guessing that you have satellite TV or something and you can watch Chinese TV.
Benlisquare 10:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
EDIT - Yes, I do know that they are true because I lived in China, and I saw them myself, I am just unable to prove them. Any official websites, etc? Benlisquare 10:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
My RfA
Hi Miborovsky. You voted oppose in my RfA back in August 2006 for 0FA, and I'm proud to announce that sure enough, like you said, Polar coordinate system made a good FAC and is now a Featured Article :-) —METS501 (talk) 03:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. There's a dispute currently happening on this page. A user added in rank information about two supposed older ranks, the PLA's Marshall and Grand Marshal equivalents. An admin is convinced that the person adding is a sockpuppet and had him banned and reverted. From seeing the edits, and from seeing a source the admin provided, the edits seem legitimate, but I'm not very familiar with the PLA, myself. Since you're in the History wikiproject, you might know a bit more about it and be in a position to comment and hopefully help settle the dispute. --Yuje 11:58, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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