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If you're working on a section, I suggest that you use the {{underconstruction}} template rather than the comment that people may not see. --Nlu (talk) 19:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, regarding the Beijing subway map --- I don't have plans to convert the map into Traditional Chinese yet as Traditional Chinese is not official in Mainland China. -- ran (talk) 17:55, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Renaming Pescadores to Penghu

Please give others a chance to respond to your suggestion that we move Pescadores to Penghu. Small changes to a single page often don't need consensus first. But changing the name of a page, and going through many pages to change all the links to that page, is a very significant edit. You really should give people a chance to respond. Otherwise you may find that all the hard work you put into your changes will quickly be reverted. Readin (talk) 23:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Please stop continuing your campaign to replace every occurrence of Pescadores to Penghu. You have not given people time to comment at Talk:Pescadores. As it is, by continuing to do this you are showing disrespect. There are over 300 usages of Pescadores here, compared to about 30 usages of Penghu. Clearly one usage has been standard here. Without getting a consensus to change, all your changes will be reverted. You may be right, but you are doing it wrong. Shenme (talk) 23:19, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

I entirely agree with Shenme. I am appalled at what you have done to the article Pescadores Campaign. My three main concerns are (a) the politically-motivated use of Penghu when the islands are normally known in English as the Pescadores; (b) the politically-motivated replacement of Wade Giles by pinyin; and (c) your bizarre habit of not using capital letters for French, Chinese, etc. I can vaguely understand your motivation for (a) and (b), though I deplore it, but the motivation for (c) simply escapes me. You have also ruined the style of a hitherto well-written article. Most importantly, to have made these changes without first discussing them with me, as the main author of the article, was extremely impolite. I would like you to voluntarily withdraw these changes. Otherwise, I will ask for them to be reverted.

Djwilms (talk) 09:17, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Gumuhua, it is one thing to change the name used on the main page (we're discussing that). It is another to change the name in historical contexts. I don't have time to look into this for you right now, but please review WP:NAME and other relevant policies that may apply to using names in historical context. The Pescadores may be called Penghu right now, but they weren't called that during the Pescadores Campaign. Readin (talk)

Dear Gumuhua,

I have reported you for vandalism to the article Pescadores Campaign. May I suggest you now leave the article alone until this matter is sorted out. Sticking absurd tags on it doesn't really help your case.

Djwilms (talk) 01:18, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Re:some help..

Template:Underconstruction is probably your best bet. Please use it limitedly though, i.e. maybe for a day or so. --User:Woohookitty 12:15, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Pescadores was finally moved to penghu... DJ: "the islands are normally known in English as the Pescadores" hahahaha...

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Misplaced Pages pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 17:30, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

The tilde looks like a tiny wave. Or like a wavy minus sign. On my keyboard, and a lot of other keyboards sold in the U.S., it is on the upper left key on the same key that contains the accent mark (`). On these keyboards you need to use the shift key to type the tilde. If you know ASCII it is decimal value 126 (hex 7E). I'm not sure what else I can tell you to help you find it. Readin (talk) 02:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Style Manual

Please take a look at Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (use of Chinese language). It may answer some of your questions about articles related to the Chinese language family. Readin (talk) 00:38, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Chinese Romanisation

Okay, you win on that one. Sorry, I didn't hear about the ruling. Nice to know now thought that they're using the Hanyu romanisation. But still, that doesn't mean that we're going to have to change all the Proper nouns of the places. Some places still retain their Wales-giles and now, Tongyong names as their OFFICIAL Romanised name (e.g. Taipei, Kinmen), thus we will have to keep those names UNTIL they are officially changed to Hanyu romanisation.

I have nothing against Hanyu romanisation, I prefer it more than tongyong and Wales-Giles. Liu Tao (talk) 22:19, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. Yes Hanyu Pinyin is now the official standard in Taiwan, so I changed the infobox in the "Republic of China" article.--pyl (talk) 02:06, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Hanyu Pinyin

"To carry out its policy of adopting Hanyu Pinyin (漢語拼音) as the official Romanization system for Chinese, the central government will not grant financial assistance or aid to local government events in which Tongyong Pinyin (通用拼音) is used, a government minister said yesterday." No aid for Tongyong, official says

Well, at least their not slapping children's fingers with rulers for using their native language in school like they did when the forced everyone to learn Chinese. Ma was able to use Hanyu Pinyin without penalty as mayor of Taipei while Tongyong was the national standard, but now he has no tolerance for anyone who disagrees with his own policies. Is Taiwan moving backward? Readin (talk) 00:41, 3 January 2009 (UTC)