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before the question. Again, welcome! RJFJR (talk) 21:54, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Wikimedes. You must have been working in a Microsoft editor and then cutting, pasting into the browser. That one Goldstein citation had Microsoft funny-quotes in it instead of ASCII /UTF-8 standard quotes "". I've fixed it. Thanks for doing that work on the new section. Bertport (talk) 14:42, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
You have it right. There are no large areas of land which were actually controlled by the old Tibetan government in 1949 but were not also included in the TAR. The area around Chamdo (a fairly large and quite populous area), which was controlled by the old government prior to the invasion, was removed from its control during the 1950s. It was governed instead by a Chamdo Liberation Committee. This may have been motivated by the fact that Chamdo was nominally part of the province of Xikang, although it had never actually been ruled by the ROC or affiliated warlords. The Chamdo Liberation Committee was represented on the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region (PCTAR) and it was merged back into the main Tibetan region when the TAR was established.—Greg Pandatshang (talk) 03:20, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
A while back, I posted a new proposal for Tibetan naming conventions, i.e. conventions that can be used to determine the most appropriate titles for articles related to the Tibetan region. This came out of discussions about article titles on Talk:Qamdo and Talk:Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture. I hope that discussions on the proposal's talk page will lead to consensus in favour of making these conventions official, but so far only a few editors have left comments. If you would be interested in taking a look at the proposed naming conventions and giving your opinion, I would definitely appreciate it. Thanks—Nat Krause(Talk!·What have I done?) 16:29, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
In the process of fixing these page moves by I messed up Shishapangma. Can you straighten this out for me and I will stay out of the way of you or anyone else who is actually sure they know what they are doing in fixing these pages properly. Thanks in advance.--Racerx11 (talk) 00:02, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Also would you be so kind as to check my contribtions to make sure the other moves were done correctly. Just not sure now. Sorry about all this, but I was just trying help fix the mess. Hope I didn't make it worse.--Racerx11 (talk) 00:08, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
I found 28 post-1993 atlases that use "Xixabangma", none for the alternate spellings, see Talk:Xixabangma#Other sources. Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 05:51, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
––虞海 (Yú Hǎi) ✍ 14:24, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi W/M - I addressed the problem with Dh vi double-listed in the article and its talk page. LADave (talk) 20:07, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
--Mike Cline (talk) 11:56, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi All. Yu Hai's action here and to a lesser extent here have left me with 2 options 1) Waste a colossal amount of time studying wikilaw so that I can report him, or 2) Take a wikibreak. I've opted for 2. Maybe after a few days and some more sleep, it will look less to me like he changed a Wikiproject rating in order to influence an ongoing naming discussion. His statement here indicates that he has not understood most of the discussion on polling and is not aware of the current state of the discussion, which presents its own difficulties. I'll be back on Friday to see how things are progressing and to either help organize or participate in the poll. Have fun.--Wikimedes (talk) 05:51, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
Be sure and notify both the Tibet and China projects about the poll. --Mike Cline (talk) 00:27, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Wikimedes - well unfortunately your patience and the patience of others on this is being tried again by 虞海. If you haven't already noticed, he short circuited the poll with a unilateral move to Shisha Pangma claiming the poll results indicated that. I left him a terse note on his talk page about my personal displeasure here, but moving forward, I don't want to see this thing turn into an edit war over the title. Thus I've move protected the page for 30 days. I can't immediately tell whether there's any move/redirect/history repair needed, but the bots will help sort that out. I really appreciate your patience and work and its ashame we couldn't bring this one to a better fruitition. --Mike Cline (talk) 14:43, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Sometimes I do assume bad faith. Well what I can say is that sometimes I cannot prevent myself from thinking that way. Indeed when Pseudois said "then please do it consequently" I thought he was accusing me again as if he told me "if you don't do that, you're self contraditory and doing systematic opposition". I admit that after his severe accusition to me, which successfully changed User:Quigley's idea from pro-Xixabangma to becoming disinterest about the result as long as conflicts not being intensified so that I wouldn't be banned, I didn't work well with him.
Anyway, whatever the result, everyone engaged in the discussion have becoming more sedate except for skilled arguer like you and Hike397. I believe I learned a lot from the discussion, and with I comparison I find that Pseudois' argument style has changed, too.
Due to my inadequate English (still I'm not sure whether it is inadequate English or selective receiving, in that each time when I read something carefully enough, I may understand it), I sometimes omit some critical point in arguments, e.g.:
“ | For example, it looks like Yu Hai is saying “Pseudois, you fool! You fell right into my trap! Muahhahahahahaha!!!!!” Because I used the phrase, “it looks Like”, (and the 5 exclamation points at the end) no one would think that I am quoting Yu Hai directly. Someone could then respond: “Wikimedes, your attempt at humor is unhelpful (and unfunny). | ” |
at a first reading I read it as (not diliberately)
“ | You are no difference to say “Pseudois, you fool! You fell right into my trap! Muahhahahahahaha!!!!!” And such humor is unhelpful (and unfunny). | ” |
another example, Pseudois':
“ | In addition to the arguments developed by Wikimedes, the pronuciation of "Shishapangma" does ... | ” |
at a first reading I read it as
“ | My point is, the pronuciation of "Shishapangma" does ... | ” |
and so on. I've realized this before, but not realized its severity (I mean, both the severity of my selective receiving and the severity of its result). Since the day I realized it perhaps one years ago, I've not succeed to reach a way to solve it, because Wikipedia comments are often long and careful reading simply take lots of time. Even when doing word-by-word reading, one may unconsciously skip one or several words.
––虞海 (Yú Hǎi) ✍ 18:41, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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I don't understand why you delete my edits about Li Xiannian and his role in Great Leap forward?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koroknait1 (talk • contribs) 13:08, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Wikimedes, I'm trying to find people working on Wikiproject China (like you) who would be willing to re-rate my article Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. You can make comments on this review page. Any help would be much appreciated! P.S. I think your wikiname is great. best, -Darouet (talk) 00:29, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
It is pretty obvious that you are trying to push the point of view that China had nothing to do with ruling Tibet before the 1950's which is dishonest, and not the view of a consensus of scholars, or even the current Dalai Lama.
I cannot see any other plausible explanation for your continued removal of any comment about China with regards to the Yuan and Qing dynasties, or for your original supposedly neutral wording which gave 1 sentence to the modern Chinese position and 6 sentences describing the position of Tibetan independence activists.
If you actually read any neutral content about the Yuan dynasty (e.g something about Marco Polo) it highlights both its Chinese characteristics (e.g. its Chinese capital and its mandate from heaven) and its Mongolian descent and Mongolian summer capital. You also seem to be confusing the Yuan dynasty from the previous purely Mongolian rule of China, which everyone, including the current Chinese government, seems to manage to accept.
If the British government had moved its capital from London to New Delhi apart from in the summer, and gave themselves a name like other Indian dynasties and started exams in India for the running of its entire empire, then to claim the entire Empire was at that point entirely British would be dishonest - even if the King/Queen of Britain was still in charge.
With the Qing dynasty while it is clearly of Manchu origins, it is also clearly a typical Chinese dynasty with a capital in China, the mandate from heaven and the imperial examinations etc. etc. - and while of course sources will mention the dynasties Manchu origins I think it is highly likely to be similar to mentioning the House of Hanover's German origins. which is of course entirely reasonable. It doesn't mean that the British empire magically became German because the Empress was technically of German descent.
All in all I have added the term "Chinese" before the mention of the Qing dynasty, which while not entirely accurate cancels out the fact that the Yuan dynasty wasn't in fact entirely Mongolian. But if you want we can escalate the issue to a noticeboard or similar, or we can go back to my previous wording, which I prefer, as it highlights the Yuan dynasties Mongol origins without ignoring that it was at least partially Chinese. If there is a better way of highlighting the Yuan dynasties Chinese tendencies and its Mongol origin that is more reasonable I am also open to doing that. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:53, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
The NPOV section is getting rather long and unwieldy - therefore I have moved our comments on de-jure independence into a new section, I hope you don't mind. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 19:09, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks, but I'm really not a professional historian. The only books of that type that I'm personally somewhat familiar with are The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant 1854-1861 by William W. Freeling (ISBN 978-0-19-505815-4) and The Slaveholding Republic by Don E. Fehrenbacher (ISBN 0-19-515805-9). AnonMoos (talk) 20:29, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
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In reference to your statement here about Mao's pre-1958 legacy, you may be interested in Frank Dikotter's latest book The Tragedy of Liberation. I'm reading it now. It is wrenching and extraordinary. Homunculus (duihua) 14:45, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
I saw your "rant" (your own words) but a word of advice: what you have to say would be received better if it wasn't laced with ad hominems and sweeping slurs against other editors motives such as "pride" and the like. And if you want to make a personal observation on an editor then please name them, otherwise all will think you mean them. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:43, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedes, I’ve had a chance to look over the changes to No Gun Ri Massacre, in hopes that some tinkering might fix several newly introduced errors and misunderstandings, and then we could deal with the documents links, perhaps consolidating them in one place. But I find the new structure – the reshuffled sections – has confused things considerably.
The original laid out facts in a logical, chronological order: the war’s background, the events of July 1950, the survivors’ efforts to get at the truth beginning in 1960 (the “Petitions” section) and their final rejection in 1998, followed by the journalistic investigation confirming the killings in 1999, then the official investigations of 2001, followed by post-2001 revelations in the “New evidence emerges” section and the resulting “Continuing appeals” section. Eventually, the article reached the “No Gun Ri’s repercussions’’ section involving the T&R Commission, which did not investigate No Gun Ri and should be kept separate.
With the reshuffling, we now have the early “Petitions” section dropped down toward the bottom, after all the investigations that came afterward, even though it was that section that led naturally and necessarily into the “Associated Press story” section. We have the T&R Commission section plunked into the middle of the NGR investigations material, to which it does not relate, standing ahead of and separating the “Legal framework” section from the investigations, even though the investigations and legal framework are integrally linked. (In fact, some might see it as discussing the “legal framework” of the T&R Commission.) And then there’s suddenly a new section down below, “Possibility of investigations into other killings,” material that was pulled from the T&R Commission section and now makes little sense standing alone, out of context.
Similarly, the now-orphaned lines about Sloyan of Newsday and Kim Taewoo make no sense, and have been misunderstood and contorted. Sloyan’s news story was not an “additional investigation of air attacks.” Rather, he simply reported that the Army NGR investigators did not include the incriminating elements of the Turner Rogers USAF memo in their final report. Other newly introduced errors include an incorrect reference to “claims by the South Korean compensation committee,” misspelling of the ambassador’s name, and a syntactical problem or two.
I’m sure this article could benefit from some reorganization (but it would benefit far more from contributors’ taking an active interest in undoing the defamations, untruths and deletions inserted and perpetrated by one POV warrior). However, I think this reorganization started down the wrong road, producing a very confused article, and the only way out is to revert and start over, perhaps with the documents links, which I'll be happy to discuss further. Charles J. Hanley 21:27, 28 March 2014 (UTC) Cjhanley (talk • contribs)
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Hi, hope all's well. I was wondering if you could help me out in looking over No Gun Ri Massacre, which has seen some very intense disputes in the past. I believe uninvolved editors are badly needed on this particular article, especially given the sort of debate over sources and deep hostility that marred the editing process. Thanks very much; I appreciate your time. GeneralizationsAreBad (talk) 20:37, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
I was very hesitant to get involved in editing this article at all, thanks to the long and heated dispute that I observed in the talk archives. Once I made some comments, another minor flare-up occurred. It is as follows: Me: [9] Cjhanley: [10] Me: [11] WeldNeck: [12] Me: [13] WeldNeck: [14]
Understandably, I was quite skittish while editing this article, fearing I would reignite the dormant dispute which had led to cordial exchanges such as the following: [15] [16] [17] [18]
I think these are highly representative of the past situation on the page, which really does have me worried of some sort of resurgent edit war. More contributors are needed to defuse the tension.
My apologies for this lengthy rant, but I greatly appreciate your helpfulness.
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Thanks for your efforts thus far on No Gun Ri Massacre. At this point, because I sense some confusion, and a natural lack of background on the subject, I'm urging all who are taking a hand in this to, please, review the documents at the Wikimedia page Category:No Gun Ri Massacre, here [[19]]. It can be a quick run-through. I've just discovered there's no link at the WP page to this compilation. I can't remember how it was configured previously, whether someone deleted it etc. But this is really a must. Thanks. Cjhanley (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 20:28, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm sorry to both you once more, but I fear that things are becoming unmanageable over at No Gun Ri Massacre. We need to work on depersonalizing this dispute: each source and "viewpoint" has become too closely associated with each editor. If there's any way you could help -- anything at all -- I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
GeneralizationsAreBad (talk) 17:57, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Just wanted to give you a heads-up that Iryna Harpy is reviewing the whole No Gun Ri dispute, and will (hopefully) be submitting to ANI in the near future. Lest I be accused of canvassing, I'll leave it at that. However, I think this is probably the best chance we have of resolving this situation.
Thanks for your help,
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Have you seen this new requested move?A ri gi bod (talk) 01:37, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
Although I'm not an expert just an enthusiast, I edited the fish section of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event page. I'm not a native speaker, so maybe the language cleanup request still applies, but I think the inconsistencies are gone. To be honest, I'm not quite sure if this is the correct way of denoting a change, but as far as I can see you was the one who asked for some cleanup, so I decided to write to you.
Regards Hzsm (talk) 07:46, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Wikimedes,
I wish I never touched this article! :) This was the first time I've ever tried to improve something here, and now I'm in trouble.
Maybe you're right, it would be feasible to combine the two paragraphs about neoselachians, but I think the original author's intention was to show the differences between the survival rates of teleosts and neoselachians so I tried to change as little as I could.
Here is a little summary table I put together from Kriwet and Benton about the whole story. I think it will answer some of your questions about the generic and species level. (It answers one question for sure; all this info comes from K & B)
The numbers are: total(sharks,batoids)
Family Genus Species Maastrichtian: 41(28,13) 107(61,46) 216(130,86) Danian: 37(27,10) 78(57,31) 130(98,32) ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Extint: 7(3,4) 60(21,39) 182(99,83) Originated: 3(2,1) 31(17,14) 96(67,29) ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Survived: 34(25,9) 47(40,7) 34(31,3)
As you can see some groups vanished, and some emerged around the K/T boundary, so one can play with this numbers endlessly. The original author used the same data, but sometimes wasn't clear enough about which numbers he refers to. So as I tried to clarify the picture I decided to speak strictly about the extinctions. Unfortunately the original paper is erroneous at the Danian genera, 57+33 yields 88 for total, however their table clearly shows 78. The paper also tells about some contradictions at the species level, so I tried not to mention anything but the families and keep as much of the original wiki text as I could. Yes, the result is far from perfection, but I think it's a bit clearer than the original was. Hopefully I can improve it a little further, but I have to look behind these pesky numbers before. Regards Hzsm (talk) 23:27, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
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