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Macau

• Hi? thanks for your great contribution in the article of Macau. I am personally not sure if all references from that article are in correct MoS formats, if not , would you please help me to fix them ASAP? Due to lack of sources in many paragraphs, I will add more citations in different sections in order to make sure this article is fully referenced so that I can re-nominate this good article to FA as soon as possible. In addition, I would like you to reduce the size of the whole article from 72kb to not more than 60kb(more ideal). If you find out any extra & unnecesary information from that article, would you please remove them and put them to the related sub-articles or other articles?? in case you would like to reply me, you can write me over here or on my talk-page. Thanks a lot!!!! Coloane (talk) 23:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

• Hi? I already reduced the size of the article, Macau. Further size reduction is "a must" before putting this article into FA candidate (size below 50kb is situable) for nomination. Please refer to the talk page and check the FA comment (article milestone) and you will see that those people voted: oppose for this article because of the size simply. If you have time, I wish you could reduce more. I will combine the section of "administrative division into the section of "government and politics". Hong Kong was promoted to FA in 2005 and at that time its size was simply 45kb. Coloane (talk) 13:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

• I reduced the size of Macau's article from 72kbs to 54kbs at the moment. 4 more kbs are necessary to reduce to make sure it will not over 50kbs. But I need to have a break now. So if you can help, you can reduce more. However, references are required to add more in this article. I will come back later and fix them. Very soon, I will nominate this article one more time until I have this article reached an FA standard. Coloane (talk) 19:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks for your efforts. Now I think the size is prefect. The next step is probably to give citations in order to make sure this article is fully referenced. Then I will re-nominate this article again immediately over the FA candidate page. Coloane (talk) 23:05, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

• I think that the article needs more references. It is not enough yet (i.e. not yet fully referenced). Grammar should be strictly checked to make sure it has no more run-on sentenses, no mistakes anymore in tenses and subject-verb agreements. British/Am English should be in consistence. And also we have to make sure it has no more tedious and excessive information in that article. Coloane (talk) 13:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

• For the reference from the capital city of Macau (i.e. none), I removed the reference because it may increase the size of that article. And also I removed the table from demography to make sure it is ot over 52kbs. Let's the article pass FA first, then we may add back whatever we what. Coloane (talk) 13:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Can you nominate this article on FAC page so that I can vote? Coloane (talk) 11:53, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

You need to put it on the page of Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates also!! Coloane (talk) 13:19, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

OK! thanks!! I will vote Support an hout later!! Coloane (talk) 13:23, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Please address the problem raised by nominator(s) from the FAC page. I re-consider that I will vote Support a bit later after nominating from other people (just couple days later I will vote). I just want to show my vote being more objective. :) Coloane (talk) 23:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

::Josuechan, just ignore Miyokan's comment. And please vote "Oppose" to make sure his article Russia fail and leave the page of FAC immediately. His article is almost failed!!!! just give him a last bullet. I will come back and check it tomorrow!! Coloane (talk) 01:20, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Josuechan, I sincerely hope for your sake that you do not follow Coloane's petty direction as such a dirty tactic will be exposed and get you into trouble.--Miyokan (talk) 01:58, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

:Josuechan! don't listen to him. He rudely erased my comment everywhere, and wrote down statement of personal attacks in my talk page. And now he attacked our nomination with groundless reasons. It is very obvious who is dirty. I hope you can make a good choice. Talk to you tomorrow!!! Coloane (talk) 02:07, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

if you feel interested in maintaining the portal Macau, you can go ahead. The "News" section always need to be updated. You can simply go to Google News and type search: Macau. All news related to Macau from different sources will come out. You can choose one of the most interesting and add it on Portal:Macau. Coloane (talk) 12:51, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Just ignore the comment made by Caniago. Probably 2004 tsunami may affect him somewhat. I donated some for Indonesian when I was in New York, United States.Coloane (talk) 21:23, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes Sir!! Coloane (talk) 16:49, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Tony1

you should prepare for this user user:Tony1 coming. In most case he will surely vote oppose and try to give you very superficial reasons like incorrect tenses, vocabs, etc in which they can be fixed up in just a few minutes, no matter how much work you do/did on this article. Even you try to address all his comment, he won't change his vote. I am not very optimistic this time. At the moment it seems to me someone voted oppose and gave us a very stupid question (i.e. transportation/immigration) on Macau FAC. You had better address them. If you want to write and give some supplemental info of Macau transportation, please refer to this web site: or for transportation and for entering into Macau. Hopefully you can convince him for changing his objection. You can simply edit/write down these info briefly under the section of economy. Thanks! Coloane (talk) 21:26, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

You can leave him a message on his talk page and ask him if it is possible to change his vote. Thanks!!! Coloane (talk) 05:12, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

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So I think Negraal won't come back here and re-consider his vote, will he? your contribution to Chinese History is also remarkable and important. Thanks for your diligence and contribution. Coloane (talk) 14:16, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Nomination for Macau re-started. Hopefully you can keep going on and improving the article according to the comments. Good Luck!!! ;) Coloane (talk) 04:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Grand Secretariat

Nice work! The article is off to a fresh start.--Pericles of Athens 22:06, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Awesome! I'm so glad Ming Dynasty passed. The article took a lot of tweaking before it was truly FA worthy, but it is an outstanding article now. Thanks for your help, and in creating these new articles! Someone had to do it eventually. I will give you my help as soon as possible, in between classes, as the last semester of my senior year in college has just begun today!--Pericles of Athens 13:12, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Dead link

According to the note given by Sandygeorgia, There is a dead link on No. 47 under the section of reference. Please check and fix it. Thanks!! Coloane (talk) 03:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar award

		The Epic Barnstar
		I, Pericles of Athens, award you Josuechan with this barnstar to commemorate your outstanding commitment to improving several Chinese history articles, including Ming Dynasty, Grand Secretariat, the Censorate, and the Three Departments and Six Ministries. Great job!--Pericles of Athens 17:03, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

hope you can do well

Just wanna let you know I am going to retire from Wiki on 1st Feb 2008 as I will be promoted to become a senior consultant in neurosurgery here and I don't think I will be able to have time to contribute and follow up Macau-related articles anymore including portal. Hopefully you can help me to maintain portal Macau, as I told you before I am sure there will be no one would like to go there and update. I just did some cosmetic work on the page of Wikiproject Macau. Go there and take a look. Green frame symbolises the flag colour of Macau and brown colour in background signifies Zuejiang river. Please also update the Wikiproject Macau from time to time. Good Luck! Coloane (talk) 23:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello, since Coloane left Misplaced Pages, Portal:Hong Kong was no longer maintained. Further, Coloane nominated the portal at Misplaced Pages:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Hong Kong as featured portal. There are some concerns which require attention. It will be appreciated if you can fix it for him. OhanaUnited 16:55, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I may come back

I thought my new office didn't have my computer connected with internet. I may come back and contribute to Macau articles later. It is not a big deal for those joe-blogg people imposed ban or block on my account, it always happens in wiki. I just get used to it. By the way, please remove the section of healthcare & correct some mistakes and then put the article Macau back on FAC soonest. Thanks!!! Coloane (talk) 07:42, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

About Luzon Empire

I'm perplexed about how this user got away with it (again, this is Misplaced Pages for you), since the user has been adding these information to articles like Luzon and Battle of Yamen for a month or so. I'm not sure if it is vandalism, but in my opinion, it is not mainstream history. It just seems like original research to me. I've been fixing some minor edits with the article, but I'm not sure what to do about the situation. Do you have any idea?--Balthazarduju (talk) 19:50, 29 January 2008 (UTC)