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User:Tenmei's Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands/Proposed decision#Tenmei banned for one year

User:Tenmei has contributed to WP:Japan articles enormously. However Tenmei is now discussed to be banned for one year. Please see Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands/Proposed decision#Concerns. Although Tenmei is some problem in editing style in contentious articles, Tenmei should not be banned without any restrictions. I would appreciate any comment there from WP:China participants.

RfC on Senkaku Islands

There is currently an RfC on Talk:Senkaku Islands, a page that is marked as being of interest to this WikiProject. We would like to invite comments from other users at Talk:Senkaku Islands#Request for comment: Article naming. Qwyrxian (talk) 04:30, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

AfD

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Falun Gong’s Theory on Male-Female Dual Cultivation.Steve Dufour (talk) 17:17, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello

Anyone who can help me get started on Chinese history/philosophy/literature stuff? Good at reviewing and writing articles. Plus I need something to give me a break from climate change articles!--Shadowy Sorcerer (talk) 01:35, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Civil Aviation Administration of China

Does anyone know where the aircraft accident reports from the Civil Aviation Administration of China are? It would be interesting to read them.

Several crashes happened in Mainland China over the years... Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 04:36, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Dynasty Pages missing CE or BCE

Can someone add to the dates on the dynasty pages either CE or BCE? For someone who doesn't know off the top of their heads when the Song Dynasty is, the Tang Dynasty, etc, it would be useful. It breaks the idea that it is supposed to be an encyclopedia for the general public if you miss putting in BCE or CE... A small addition to the header and the sidebar would be useful. Many of the pages I found on the dynasties were this way... regardless of if they were BCE or CE. Thank you. --Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 08:10, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

1nd ed.

Hello, should this “1nd ed.” replaced by “1st ed.”? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=%221nd+ed.%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced --Diwas (talk) 21:02, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes. (The exception would be if the error "1nd" was in the source. In that case replace "1nd" with "1nd (sic)" to show that you are faithfully copying an error.)--Wikimedes (talk) 01:53, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Given [1] and [2], probably "1st ed." is correct.--Wikimedes (talk) 02:10, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanx, done! --Diwas (talk) 01:01, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

China National Aviation Corporation

Are China National Aviation Corporation and China National Aviation Holding Company the same company? WhisperToMe (talk) 06:32, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Chinese public dancing

I'm looking for the right name, or if the article already exists. The topic is those large groups of (mostly) women who congregate in the mornings and evenings for synchronized dancing. It's like Yangge, but is informal, with no costumes. The women all wear the same colour (usually black), but no fancy colours or props, is performed to music from a portable amp, mainly for entertainment and exercise. Hundreds of millions take part each day, loads of sources, I've got the pics, and an ogg vorbis video to boot. Worth an article indeed. Any thoughts on the best name? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:54, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Chinese Flash Mob Dance? --Ghostexorcist (talk) 05:28, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

The first term that came to mind was "公园跳舞" (park dance), which gave 160 kGhits, including this official one. But it's not an article in the Chinese Wikipedia. Baidu doesn't have one either, but it uses this term in a number of articles, including this one. "跳舞健身" seems to be quite popular, too with 800 kGhits, but that is of course less specific. — Sebastian 12:39, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks for digging. I just started it as Chinese fitness dancing. I figure that makes the most sense for now. Eventually it will find its correct name, and I'll make a bunch of redirect pages. I'll build it up over the next few days. By the way, I asked a large table of people at dinner tonight. Everyone started commenting and it got really noisy for about two minutes. Finally, they all agreed that there's no official name for it. Again, thanks for digging. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:48, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I like "Chinese fitness dancing"; it fits nicely to "跳舞健身". Maybe you just coined a new term! — Sebastian 20:52, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Anna asked me to thank you. :)   — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 15:38, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Funny, she was just here a moment before you herself. What people outsource nowadays! — Sebastian 18:11, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, the GFW objects to something in this section, so she can't touch it. :(   — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 04:52, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Ah, ok. I can handle things here in edit mode, if I know the section number. Plus, it's watchlisted, so I can see activity. Cheers. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:16, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Chinese vegetables

I'm looking for the correct Mandarin name, and species name if possible. (2 and 3 are the same, the former being pickled.) Many thanks.

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Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:15, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

2 and 3 are 榨菜 (zhà cài; Brassica juncea, subspecies tatsai). Not sure about #1, but it does look like a brassicacea, too. — Sebastian 18:23, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks. I've moved the files and added descriptions. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:45, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, where did you move them? Now they don't display anymore. — Sebastian 18:33, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I named them in the most searchable way I could think of.

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Here's the cat: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese_food_ingredients

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:32, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Image identification help request

Hi. Anna has some images at User:Anna Frodesiak/Violet sandbox that she would like help with.   — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 04:31, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Giant pots which come in twos and sit outside restaurants making soup

Hello. Does anyone you know what this is?

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They are all over the country, and I think they are sort of called 缸, but I forget. Many thanks for any help you can offer. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:21, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

    Are they sand pots or clay pots (shaguo/沙鍋)? Ri xiao jie (talk) 04:51, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Questions about List of cities in China‎

I tried sorting this list by "Urban Population", but that doesn't work. Can this be fixed?

Also, what does "Rank" mean in this table? Who determines this rank? It doesn't seem to be urban population, since 重庆 with over 28 million comes after 武汉 with under 10 million. Bandiaozi (talk) 03:48, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Portal intro

Would an expert please have a look at the recent edits at Portal:People's Republic of China/Intro? I suspect they should be reverted per WP:UNDUE but I don't want to dismiss them out of hand. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:09, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Reverted; that was pretty blatant. Shrigley (talk) 17:49, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Stone (Chinese mass)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was:

• Stone (Chinese mass) is merged to Picul.
• Stone (imperial mass) has been moved to Stone (unit). See the latter move discussion at Talk:Stone (imperial mass)#Move?. EdJohnston (talk) 05:34, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Stone (Chinese mass) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) is under discussion, it has been suggested to be merged into Stone (imperial mass) to become Stone (unit), or to merge into Picul, or both. 76.65.128.132 (talk) 08:15, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for alerting the WikiProject. I haven't seen the names Stone (unit) suggested; I would prefer Picul for the same reasons why "Buddhahood" was preferred over "Buddha (...)" here. — Sebastian 17:23, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, one of the discussions is at Talk:Stone (imperial mass). 76.65.128.132 (talk) 07:56, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Oh, thanks, I hadn't even been aware that there exists a very different unit by the same name. In that case, I would even more favor Picul; as the "stone" meaning is not even the main one in Chinese. — Sebastian 08:13, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

There is also a listing at Chinese units of measurement. Benjwong (talk) 05:54, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm in favour of merging Stone (Chinese mass) to Picul (with only a hatnote at Stone (unit) which Stone (imperial mass) should be moved to). But are the stone & picul the same unit with a differnt name? Stone (Chinese mass) says a stone is 120 catties whereas Picul gives a definition of 100 catties. Does the unit have two different definitions as well as two different names? No, that's a serious question: how many ounces are there in a gallon, how many pounds in a ton, how many joules in a calorie? It's quite possible ... indeed common ... that a unit have different names and different definitions. JIMp _talk·cont 03:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

If you look at the imperial mass article, it isn't actually about the British unit, it is about the traditional European unit, with lots of different names and values. Similarly, the "picul" article is about a traditional measure with differing values depending on location. The name "picul" is derived from the Malayan version. (Just as the name stone for the European unit is derived from the British version) 76.65.128.132 (talk) 08:03, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Template:Weibo

If anybody sees articles using regular links to Weibo, use the template instead.--Lpmfx (talk) 20:07, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Chinese speakers needed

Hi, please could we have some Chinese speakers to help with the deletion review for Po Sum On at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 January 6? Thanks very much and all the best—S Marshall T/C 23:10, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Speedy closure of WikiProject_China/Uyghurs workgroup Mfd

WP:WikiProject_China/Uyghurs workgroup was nominated for Mfd by Shrigley yesterday, It was closed 26 minutes later by Nihonjoe who made the workgroup into a redirect, preempting any scrutiny or discussion by Mfd participants, see here. I've started a discussion about this, please see here. (Of course the Mfd should also have been announced here in the first place.) Thanks. --Kleinzach 02:06, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

You should be bringing that to WP:DRV as an improper closure. 76.65.128.132 (talk) 08:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

I was hoping for a response from the nominator, Shrigley, and this project. The closure was out of line but I'm not going to challenge it if people are happy with the redirect. So — opinions please! --Kleinzach 03:04, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Translation request: Startling by Each Step to 步步驚心 (電視劇)

Hi, I'm NeoBatfreak. The reason I'm writing is that I am requesting translation of the plot summary of Startling by Each Step to 步步驚心 (電視劇). If possible, please tranlate the summary and paste the translated text on my talk page. PLEASE? Thank you very much.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 00:29, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Yangzhou Museum

Hi! I found Yangzhou Museum as part of some clean-up initiatives at the Museum WikiProject and this one really needs some help from Mandarin readers. One source says it's in a 1500 year old building but the photo appears to be a new museum. There don't seem to be enough sources in English from which to write this article and based on previous requests, we don't have enough active Mandarin readers at WP:Museum so I'm flagging this for your project. Thanks in advance StarM 03:14, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Y Partly Done I think! My reading ability in Mandarin is rudimentary, however, the Yangzhou Museam appears to be now co-located, with the China Block Printing Museum in the building in the photograph. It was formaerly located in the temple building. Pol430 talk to me 23:42, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much. I got stuck between a lack of English sourcing and poorly translated Chinese sources. If anyone has time and if you enjoy museums may I also suggest The Old Museum of Wisteria. Similar sourcing issue, likely compounded by uncertainty around the name of the museum. Thanks again StarM 04:04, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Also done, it would appear the building this article relates to is a historic building that is under the control of the Changzhou Museum. It appears to be colloquially known as 'The Old Museum of Wisteria' but was originally built as 'The Sun Pavilion'. I have re-written the article into better English with the help of a couple of the sources. A native Mandarin speaker may be able to add more. Pol430 talk to me 00:37, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Wow, much clearer now. The back story will help with some additional sourcing, I'm sure. Thanks again for all your help StarM 04:11, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Qian Zhijun/Little Fatty DRV debate

Hi! There is a debate over whether Qian Zhijun is now notable enough for Wikipedia,. Please see: Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Qian_Zhijun Especially for people who know Chinese, it is appreciated if you review the noticeboard post! WhisperToMe (talk) 02:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Does anyone know how I can find the box office numbers of "The University Days of a Dog" (一只狗的大学时光)? Official DVD sales would be good too!

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 17:06, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Now it's at DRV: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 January 12 WhisperToMe (talk) 22:53, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Shanghai art world

Via List of women photographers, I discovered the article on one Rose Tang (seemingly a "persona" rather than a person). This led me to articles on Island6, Liu Dao, Wang Dongma, Thomas Charvériat, Zane Mellupe and Ifa gallery. I haven't yet looked in their histories, but they link to each other a lot and not much to anywhere else, they have little independent sourcing for what they say, and they obviously have certain other features in common. Indeed, it all seems a bit of a "walled garden". Could anyone here who, unlike me, knows something of the "art scene" of Shanghai please take a look at some of these? -- Hoary (talk) 06:32, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Crossposted here. -- Hoary (talk) 02:30, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Ejiao

Just a heads up, ejiao is being proposed to be merged with/redirected to donkey-hide gelatin. Your input is welcome at Talk:Ejiao, thanks. _dk (talk) 14:59, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Request assistance: Startling by Each Step (novel) (步步惊心)

Hi, I am requesting help that someone please have some of the information from this website to the page Startling by Each Step (novel). Thank you very much.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 21:07, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

NC-TW straw poll

A straw poll has been opened on the question of whether WP:NC-TW represents current consensus and so should remain a current guideline. Opine at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)#NC-TW straw poll. Shrigley (talk) 17:16, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Chen Shuozhen

Appears to be worth an article but this looks like a machine translation of a Chinese text and is almost unsalavagable in its current form. Could someone kind please check for copyvios and fix this? Thanks Spartaz ^Humbug! 04:12, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

China Food TV

Hi! I just moved China Food TV to the mainspace. Does anyone here know more about the cable channel and/or the production company? Some supporting info would be nice too :) WhisperToMe (talk) 18:30, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Which film is this?

In File:Qianzhijunexamples.png on the second row, second picture from the left, which movie is this from? WhisperToMe (talk) 01:16, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Hero, in the pic is a character played by Zhang Ziyi. --Cold Season (talk) 01:30, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! WhisperToMe (talk) 01:46, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Proposed split of Hainan into Hainan Island and Hainan Province

Please give your input at Talk:Hainan#Separate articles and categories for Hainan Island and Hainan Province. Thanks much GotR ^Talk 04:06, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Requested move of Anshan, Liaoning

Please give your input at Talk:Anshan, Liaoning#Second Requested move. Thanks much GotR ^Talk 03:33, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:Vertical text RTL

FYI, {{Vertical text RTL}} is under development at WT:JAPAN for traditional text that is oriented vertically, from right to left. 70.49.124.157 (talk) 05:39, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:China will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Chinese history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:33, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Train accidents in PRC

About Wenzhou train collision, which PRC agency is responsible for investigating train accidents? We know CAAC investigates air accidents, and the MSA investigates maritime accidents. Which agency investigates rail accidents? WhisperToMe (talk) 02:00, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Chinese romanization template

A user has just modified {{Infobox Chinese}}, which is used for a lot of articles under WikiProject China's scope, in order to add a prominent, required option for ad-hoc romanizations. I started a discussion about it here, and you are all encouraged to participate. Shrigley (talk) 19:37, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Vote on requested move - "Republic of China" to "Taiwan"

A vote on the above proposal is being voted on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Republic_of_China#Responses Wider involvement by Wikipedia Community would be desirable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.42.28.118 (talk) 11:05, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Birman on Yau

A related discussion is taking place at Talk:Manifold Destiny#Birman. Tkuvho (talk) 08:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

East Asian calligraphy?

East Asian calligraphy has been proposed to be renamed to Chinese calligraphy, see Talk:East Asian calligraphy

70.24.251.71 (talk) 08:19, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

QRpedia

QRpedia is a WikimediaUK project which uses QR codes to deliver Wikipedia articles to users, in their preferred language. We need a version of the article about it, in Chinese. Can anyone oblige, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:14, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposed classics merger

It is proposed that Four Books and Five Classics be merged with Thirteen Classics to form an article called "Confucian classics" (discussion). Kanguole 09:49, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Yang Jian (Water Margin)

This article, which I found out patrolling new articles, seems to be a machine translation from Vietnamese. I tried to copyedit it but I can not make sense of what is written there, especially since the names of characters and emperors are all from Vietnamese. Help would be greatly appreciated.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

File:China administrative.svg

Recently there has been a dispute regarding File:China administrative.svg: Should South Tibet and Taiwan Island be included within this map, but as grey, to demonstrate an official territorial claim with no actual control? The map originally showed de facto PRC territory in yellow, and disputed/claimed territories in grey; in the past few days editors have removed these areas, citing that "it is not WP:NPOV" to show Taiwan and other disputed areas on a map of China. If you would like to join the discussion, you can visit either Commons:File talk:China administrative.svg or Talk:China. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 04:53, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Category:History of China on novels

Hi, I need help categorized novels with this category, but having trouble identifying novels' settings from Category:Novels set in China . Hope that everyone around here can help. Please help identifying novels' settings.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 23:40, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

House of Li

Hi, can anyone creates the House of Li article, featuring history of the imperial family of the Tang Dynasty?--NeoBatfreak (talk) 23:51, 4 March 2012 (UTC)