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The link for the page? Well, it's gone now, so I can't really give you one. It was under the games section in Avatar... Mew Mitsuki (talk) 12:35, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

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Worship of the Golden Calf
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Actually, I warned Keyblade before he made his fourth revert. In an edit summary. He just brushed it off. Rau's Speak Page 22:58, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Yo. I didn't use the "undo" thing for that- I edited the page like normal. Isn't that warning only for if you do undo? Not if you just do it normally? Keyblade Mage (talk) 23:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)Keyblade Mage

Ah, to the letter. Even though I'm certain thats against policy. It's in the lead. Rau's Speak Page 23:05, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

You guys just wanna put today behind us, and just be duddies? Whaddaya say? Keyblade Mage (talk) 00:15, 5 August 2008 (UTC)Keyblade Mage

List of Avatar episodes Season 1

Hey, I just went and copyedited the summaries in the Season 1 list, as I am hoping to bring that up to FL as well. However, since I am absolutely useless at coloring syntaxes, would you mind re-coloring the DVD volume sales to match with the style used in the main "List of episodes" article? I would appreciate it greatly. Thanks! --haha169 (talk) 19:02, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh, would you also do the same with Season 2 and Season 3? I'm working on copyediting those lists as well. --haha169 (talk) 19:08, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks anyway. Rau J fixed the coloring syntax. :) Would you mind fixing up random tidbits on the season articles? I think that they are soon to be ready for FLC, especially in comparison with this. --haha169 (talk) 17:31, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

91.0.246.65

This person is quite beligerant. None the less, he does seem to have a point, the image he provided does not mention the CNSO, or any other orchestra. It does mention the London choir, so maybe he is onto something there. Have you taken any action against him yet? What should we do in regards to the article? --Simpsons fan 66 08:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Appearances section for Son Goku

Aren't you gonna do anything? If not, I'd rather bring the old section back. Lord Sesshomaru (talkedits) 22:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Just bring it back for right now. I'll whip something up later. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 23:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

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Cuju

Hello. I responded on the talk page. Note that I merely moved the part to the bottom, and did not remove it altogether. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 12:31, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. As long as it's mentioned. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 12:40, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Lau Gar

Whilst I understand you've edited some of the Lau gar page, I think you've been overly brutal in your edits. If you look at the sources on it compared to others, you'll see that alot of the more esoteric arts are scant on proper published sources - for obvious reasons. Just look at the choy gar page for example.

Do you have alot of experience in chinese martial arts? as I'm a little confused of your choices in what to remove. The section about the "lau gar" forms in hung gar is a very widely regonised fact, and is also VERY helpful for disambiguity between lau gar in hung gar, and lau gar proper. also you've left things that now don't make sense as you've removed sections but not changed the preceding paragraph so it reads "There are three different styles of Kung Fu that use the name Lau Gar:" but only two are listed. You've also removed the link to the newspaper article about Xiao Yong Ding which is an extremely useful source of info - though sadly in chinese... (what is the procedure for foreign language links?)

The list of forms in UK lau gar is quite handy too. Not sure why it's been removed, yes it's an uncited source but then so are the list of forms on other pages.

As for the controvsery section - i feel it IS important. whilst forums might not be reliable, they are useful for commentry. It's quite clear that the lack of evidence for jeremy yau claim has not gone unnoticed. Nor has the similarities between the second form in lau gar (jurn sau) and the first form in wing chun. If you are unhappy with forums, can we at least keep the bey logan comment?

Finally - Perhaps if we can't use forum/youtube links as source (though in the latter, it's quite clear from the comentry that it is Xiao Yong Ding perfomring) we can link them as external links? It seems a shame to not show footage of the art itself.

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Was given rational. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 21:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

did I mention...?

...did I mention this? Ling.Nut 13:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

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I originally added a rational for the wrong article. I fixed it. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 21:00, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

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The image already has a rational. I'm confused to why it was tagged. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 20:59, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

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It has a rational already. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 16:59, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Chaquan

The article on Muslim Chinese martial arts attributes this martial art to a Muslim named Zhamir, and this form being exclusively most Muslim style, other sources including Changquan#Subtypes_of_Long_Fist, http://www.northernshaolinmontreal.com/en/system.html , http://www.atlantamartialarts.com/styles/chaquan.htm say otherwise, since this information is not sourced, would be ok to delete Zhaquan off of the Muslim Chinese martial arts article as original research? Abstrakt (talk) 05:25, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Re:Protection

But is it not protected anymore? If so, he only needed to say that. *SIGN* 22:56, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll ask. *SIGN* 23:24, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

my english is not verey good so i will be glad if you corrected some of my mistakes in that page --Bayrak (talk) 21:53, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

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I just received your message. Unfortunately, the book is now selling for 124 dollars. Thanks for watching out for it, though.  :)

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Cotton

Now that you mention it, I have included some information about cotton in one of my articles:

Using this source:

  • Adshead, S.A.M. (2004). T'ang China: The Rise of the East in World History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1403934568 (hardback).

Although he did not have much to say about the topic. I'll check indexes shortly; right now at this moment, I'm compiling notes from:

  • Sun, Xiaochun and Jacob Kistemaker. (1997). The Chinese Sky During the Han: Constellating Stars and Society. Leiden, New York, Köln: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 9004107371.

...at one of my sandboxes, User:PericlesofAthens/Sandbox5, for rewriting the Han Dynasty article.--Pericles of Athens 20:46, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Great, and it's good to hear your work is coming along. Although I'm busy with real life concerns, all my Wiki energies are now consumed by the Han Dynasty project, which I had aimed to complete by the end of the summer but things just got in the way. My goal is to finish the Han Dynasty completely before 2008 is done.--Pericles of Athens 22:45, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I did see that question, but I couldn't answer it so I didn't say anything...I don't know where to look or who to ask. I searched the library for something appropriate and came up with "Studies on the Levantine trade in the Middle Ages", a Variorum collection of articles by Eliyahu Ashtor, which contains "The Venetian cotton trade in Syria in the later Middle Ages." Venice of course would have been trading with the Muslims. It's a little old (1978) but hopefully it's a start. Adam Bishop (talk) 03:16, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Aang and Katara

Hey there. I was hoping to start up a discussion on the edits which you've labeled as "shipping" and removed. Can you post here a little more detail why you feel my additions were "Shipping"? NuclearWarfare My work 20:10, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey there. I had responded to your post on my talk page, but you still reverted my edits :( Can you please respond to them? NuclearWarfare My work 19:37, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Explanation

You wrote [this is an edit comment recently. "Why don't you make an effort to find a better source than just to delete the thing altogether next time. It took me all of one second to find one"

I didn't "just delete the thing altogether" -- I deleted the part that HAD to be deleted and left a tag so people would know to look for it. You might as well say why does anyone just tag anything when they could do it themselves... There are multiple steps involved in making any improvements, and it's odd to complain when someone doesn't do all of them. In this case that site was listed on a ton of articles and I made the effort to remove it from all the places it was. That's more than a little effort. Was I supposed to take the effort to redo sources on all the articles for all the topics? If you didn't know about that end of it, that's understandable, but leaving an odd edit comment isn't particularly helpful. DreamGuy (talk) 21:59, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

RE: Aang and Katara

It appears that there was number consensus here. Though I was not initially comfortable with the idea, I'm copacetic with the decision ATM. Lord Sesshomaru (talkedits) 01:54, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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RE: Zhou Tong

Hey, this is great news - the new pic is brilliant. Glad I was able to help! --Dave the Rave (DTR)talk 11:38, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

re: looking for info for an essay

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I don't know of an English translation of Tang Hao's work or of the Yi Jin Jing itself.

As for Brian Kennedy, his Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals touches on Tang Hao's work on the Yi Jin Jing and is widely available. (I've seen it in Barnes & Noble and Borders.)

Kennedy seems to publish regularly in Classical Fighting Arts and has also had several articles published in the Journal of Asian Martial Arts.

Also, the dubious nature of the Yi Jin Jing was suspected as early as the 18th century by Ling Tingkan (Shahar, p. 168).

JFD (talk) 17:44, 18 February 2009 (UTC)