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[edit] Pageview statsAfter a recent request, I added WikiProject China to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject China/Popular pages. The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 01:41, 1 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] Need help on a pictureI am currently looking for a picture of Prince Tuan, a figure from the Boxer rebellion. I have found this photo and this one, but I am unsure that they represent the same person (the second one was probably taken way after the Boxer rebellion, IF it is him). Also, which one of the persons on the first photo is supposed to be Prince Tuan ? Is it the seated man ? None of this photos remotely look like this wax figure : not that it means anything, but Ronglu's figure does look like the real guy so I assumed at first that the figures at the George Stuart museum were based on actual photos. If anyone knows what Tuan actually looked like, I'd appreciate the help. Thanks. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 13:01, 3 September 2009 (UTC) .jpg)
[edit] HELPI have authored a series of articles on Chinese literature and art. These works were filled with unsightly tags and basically defaced by a hostile administator (Enfermo) in conjuction with another indiviual (jcrin). Both of these people are Mormons who are hostile to me for opposing their Mormon sanctified historical ideas. I want the tags removed. They hinder the reder and are unsightly.--Iwanafish (talk) 17:20, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
DETAILS The dispute is an old one and predates Wikipedia by years. However the important matter is that this dispute has nothing to do with the China related articles that I authored. The Wikipedia editor (Enfermero) has used her authority to discredit and disfigure articles relating to China that I (Iwanafish) had authored. Another Wikipedia conributor (Jrcrin001) works in conjuction with Enfermero to block any attempt by me to fix my articles. Enfemero has deleted references I have made with accusations that they are examples of illegal copyright infringement (see Ouyang Xiu article history). Please look at the China related articles authored under Iwanafish and the tags placed there by Enfermero. I am a trained Sinologist and university professor. These individuals have no interest in China and no right to act like this.--Iwanafish (talk) 16:08, 6 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] Unequal TreatiesUnequal Treaties is up for rename and a relate page is to be deleted. See Talk:Unequal_Treaties#Requested_move 76.66.200.21 (talk) 03:52, 4 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] 尺Shaku → Chi (length) - has been requested at WP:RM, see talk:Shaku 76.66.196.139 (talk) 05:00, 9 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] NOTICE. Request For Comment: Changes to Naming policies which may affect WikiProject naming conventions.Following recent changes by some editors to the Wikipedia:Naming conventions policy page, a Request For Comment, (RFC) is now being held to debate the removal of the passage specifying that individual WikiProject and other naming conventions are able to make exceptions to the standard policy of using Common Names as the titles of Wikipedia articles. This WikiProject is being notified since it operates such a specific naming convention. Editors are invited to comment on the proposed change at this location. Xandar 01:04, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] CantonesePlease, we need as many people as possible to discuss sudden sweeping changes over at "Cantonese", which is now re-named "Yue Chinese". Join the discussion here. Colipon+(Talk) 23:05, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Chinese astronomyI've noticed that there are {{Indian astronomy}} and {{Islamic astronomy}}... does Wikipedia have enough content to make a {{Chinese astronomy}} ? 76.66.196.139 (talk) 13:11, 17 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] Invasion of Tibet (1950–1951) → Invasion of TibetInvasion of Tibet (1950–1951) has been proposed to be renamed as Invasion of Tibet. see Talk:Invasion of Tibet (1950–1951) — 76.66.196.139 (talk) 06:55, 19 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] What is the reading?File:CalcadaSaoPaulomacau.jpg - The Chinese name of the street is 大三巴斜巷 - What is its reading? Also what are the readings for:
Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 21:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC) 国(guó)立(lì)台(tái)湾(wān)民(mín)主(zhǔ)纪(jì)念(niàn)馆(guǎn) 基(jī)金(jīn)會(huì) Raintwoto 18:03, 25 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raintwoto (talk • contribs) [edit] Beijing and Shanghai task forcesWould anyone be interested in starting task forces for Beijing and Shanghai? WhisperToMe (talk) 06:50, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Well, instead of a Task Force for Pearl River Delta, why not just have a Task Force for whole of Guangdong? Outside of Shenzhen and Zhuhai related articles, there aren't that much about the PRD that's not already covered in WP:HK and WP:Macau. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 17:22, 30 September 2009 (UTC) Or maybe the PRD should cover all the cities in this list - Pearl_River_Delta#Metropolitan_area, except for HK and Macau - and their related articles? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 17:24, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Skype chat?I've been thinking for a while that it might be interesting to organize a Skype (or some other protocol) chat for WPCHINA members (or just people working on China related things). We could talk about the articles that we're writing, whatever cleanup/administration tasks we're doing, and any controversies that need to be addressed. Does anyone else think that this would be a good idea?--Danaman5 (talk) 10:46, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Vase paintingDoes this type of painting ([1]) have a specific name, and/or do we have an article about it? ed g2s • talk 09:32, 2 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] Industry of ChinaIs this talking about Mainland China only? Or is this the whole PRC? WhisperToMe (talk) 22:08, 3 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] What is the reading? (2)What is the reading of the calligraphy in this image? File:Mao-calligraphy1.jpg WhisperToMe (talk) 07:51, 8 October 2009 (UTC) 中(zhōng)华(huá)人(rén)民(mín)共(gòng)和(hé)国(guó)各(gè)族(zú)人(rén)民(mín)团(tuán)结(jié)起(qǐ)来(lái) Raintwoto 18:06, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
起來!起來! Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 14:15, 2 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Help finding if "Jacob's ladder (toy)" is really of Chinese originHello, I wanted to ask if someone could help me find out if the Jacob's ladder (toy) was truly of Chinese origin. The difficulty is that if it was of Chinese origin, I'd need to know what it's name in Chinese script would be, but "Falling blocks" and other things I've tried in Chinese have not helped me find any information on it. Thank You for any help that you can offer. (Floppydog66 (talk) 06:03, 12 October 2009 (UTC)) [edit] Article RquestedI will be away from Wiki for several days, so I am unable to do this myself, but interested parties can think about creating an article on the 2009 Chongqing Trials for gangsters and municipal officials. This campaign is believed to be the single largest campaign against organized crime and corruption in the history of the PRC. Over 3000 people have been arrested, many of the city's top officials implicated. Colipon+(Talk) 12:50, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Hong Kong action cinemaHello crew! The Hong Kong action cinema article related to this project has been nominated for Feartured Article removal. If you have comments regarding the FA review, discuss it on the review page. Cheers! Andrzejbanas (talk) 02:59, 29 October 2009 (UTC) [edit] Translation request (I originally posted this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan, but Oda Mari says it is in Chinese, despite being in Seattle's Nihon Go Gakko.) Could someone please translate the text on the sign at the top of Commons:File:Seattle Nihon Go Gakko interior 12.jpg? Oda Mari says "It's a Chinese phrase. Probably by Han Yu. 一視同仁 means 'treat everybody equally'. But I cannot understand the rest." Please feel free either to edit the description directly or to use the "add a note" feature. - Jmabel | Talk 19:58, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Chinese calendarHi. :) I am in need of assistance with article Run Run Shaw. The Wikimedia Foundation received a letter today (Ticket:2009110410044908, viewable only to OTRS volunteers), which suggests that information within it is inaccurate. The information is sourced, but I cannot access the source. This is specifically what is in dispute:
According to our letter writer, the correspondence is wrong. He says that the 14th day of the 10th month would have been Tuesday, 19 November 1907. Since the source is not linked, I don't know if this is what Markus Shaw said or if Markus Shaw simply said that Run Run Shaw was born on the 14th day of the 10th month and the IP contributor who added the information derived at the correspondence himself. I have no familiarity with the Chinese calendar and would greatly appreciate assistance with this. If contributors here are not able to help, I will add a {{dubious}} tag to the sentence in the article and note the dispute on the talk page, but I'm very hopeful it won't come to that. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Infoboxes of Historical FiguresI've noticed that there seems to be an unspoken convention to indicate the place of birth and death with a political entity that was ruling at the time. For example, a figure like Li Hongzhang is said to be born in "Hefei, Anhui, Qing Dynasty" in his infobox, and a figure like Hu Jintao is said to be born in the Republic of China. "Anhui, Qing Dynasty" just does not make sense. It does not make sense in Chinese, nor does it make sense in English. Is it really necessary to reflect what was the ruling state, or is it better to just indicate the geographical location? I, for one, do not see the sense in obsessing over which political entity a historical figure was born in. Perhaps in European states where states constantly evolved, but "China" has been a relatively static concept. We should exercise some common sense and simply write that these people were born in China, and died in China. Colipon+(Talk) 20:36, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] ChengguanHi, the article on City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau currently contains the sentence "[In 2001/02] "城管出马，所向无敌！牛B" becomes common idiom of chinese.", added in July. I don't know what exactly it means (translations of 所向无敌/explanations welcome!), but it certainly looks strange. If it's not vandalism, it should at least get a source. Yaan (talk) 14:33, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] "Prefecture-level city"This is another reflection of somewhat pedantic attitudes that seem to prevail all over Wikipedia. Editors somehow have the obsession of describing Chinese cities by their administrative strata and in the process forgo common sense. When a lead section describes a city, it should simply state that "X is a city located in this province of this country", and maybe give a few ordinal specifications. I have serious issues with seeing a description like "X is a prefecture-level city in [province], People's Republic of China." The average person frankly could care less whether something is "prefecture-level" or "sub-provincial". If we argue that a city's status on the administrative strata is encyclopedic and therefore rightfully belongs, we can easily relegate it to later parts of the article (or introduction) and discuss it in detail there. But it does not belong in the first sentence. I have cleaned up some articles for easier reading but it would be nice to get some help from other editors as well. Colipon+(Talk) 16:30, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] What is the readingIn this image: File:RanchesterStorefrontHoustonTX.JPG there is a sign for the Houston Police Department Ranchester Storefront in Chinese. How are the characters typed, and what is the reading of the characters? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 00:22, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Not necessarily relevant, but Chinatown can be translated as both 中國城 and 唐人街. The former is often used in more official and formal context, while the latter is more often used in the vernacular. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 17:50, 9 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Lang Qi DaoA Village Voice Media article referred to a "Lang Qi Dao" island in Fujian Province. Where is Wikipedia's article on the island? WhisperToMe (talk) 01:09, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Update ratingHi together, [edit] Wu SienCan anyone help me with this? I can find no sources for such a person, is there a spelling problem in the translation of his name, or? It's creator, Kungkang (talk · contribs) has created several similar stubs with no sources. He has also edited Zheng He today - and I think added some copyvio -- see my diff [2] where I revert him, I found the material here [3] where it seems to have been taken from two Chinese language newspaper articles. If anyone can assist this editor I'd be grateful. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 09:49, 11 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Shanghai Yangtze River Crossing ProjectIt's complete, according to the Chinese Wikipedia, and needs to be updated. It also needs to be renamed because it is no longer a 'project'. Colipon+(Talk) 18:32, 12 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Keep the Chinabounder pageSome sock puppet are trying to delete this page.--Ksyrie(Talkie talkie) 01:40, 13 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] Topical articlesThe following two topical articles have been created: The latter has been nominated for WP:DYK. Ohconfucius (talk) 07:31, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Eurasian Land Bridge- New articleI just posted a new article on the Eurasian Land Bridge. It appears that there may be more sources of information in Chinese than there is in English. Request that a link be added to the Chinese equivalent Wiki article (which may be called something along the lines of the "New Eurasian Land or Continental Bridge"), Chinese characters added to the intro, and, if anyone is interested, please see this section of the talk page for a list of information that the article is lacking but may be available in Chinese language sources. Thanks in advance. Cla68 (talk) 12:41, 21 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] CantoneseCantonese is up for renaming again. This time, the request is to move Canton dialect to Cantonese and move the dab page that is sitting there now to Cantonese (disambiguation). (A few months ago, the issue was the unrequested move of Cantonese to Yue, which now sits at Cantonese (Yue)... so this move would replace one kind of Cantonese (moved away earlier this year) with another kind of Cantonese (the current request), both linguistically based, and not the same concept). The discussion is occurring at Talk:Canton dialect 76.66.197.2 (talk) 06:15, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Wiktionary redux
Hello, since a couple of editors perceive the discussion in May is not as a firm consensus on usage of Wiktionary, I'm bringing in with the issue again. Please give your input on this, so let's reconfirm or settle this issue to prevent the silly long-term edit warring between GraYoshi2x (talk · contribs) and Badagnani (talk · contribs).--Caspian blue 17:31, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Review of edits by User:24.199.92.29 neededSpecial:Contributions/24.199.92.29 Could someone please review the recent edits made by User:24.199.92.29 to China-related articles? Content and references have been moved around and deleted, and a lot of unsourced (and possibly POV) content has been added. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 10:24, 26 November 2009 (UTC) [edit] 坪There is an article on the "坪" (ping) at pyeong. Going by the decision at talk:Shaku, these multinational traditional units should sit at the most common one found in English literature, regardless of which language/country that pronounciation is based on. This article is currently mostly about Korean usage, usage in China would be nice to add. 76.66.194.23 (talk) 09:55, 30 November 2009 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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