User talk:Vsion/Archive02

Hi there. Sorry if i have posted the wrong page. I'm christine from Malaysia current studying at the shah alam college of economic at Kuala Lumpur and thank you for your message.

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Be courteous and kind in Wikipedia!

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-- Natalinasmpf 07:46, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Previous discussions:

• Archive 1:

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The Exceptional Newcomer Award

For the excellent work you have produced for Singapore-related articles since your splashing entry into wikipedia, I hereby bestow the Exceptional Newcomer Award upon you! We look forward to many more of your extraordinary edits! :D - Huaiwei 12:27, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wah! That's a really kewl stuff...I wish I could receive a barnstar award one day...*envy* ;) Anyway, keep it up, Vsion! You sound friendly as I first met you in the page about Singaporean cuisine. :-D --Jerry Crimson Mann 20:58, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

cuisines

I'm moving them because I noticed that apparently the majority of usage is /adjective/ cuisine instead of cuisine of /noun/ (evidenced by whatlinkshere outputs for the pages), but they had been mass-moved by another user previously (User:Dmcdevit), and a lot of the redirects were left not updated. In general there was a lot of inconsistency and disorder (cf. also Talk:Cuisine) so this really looked an area that needed a helping hand. --Joy [shallot] 21:04, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer - I went there and answered that. Hopefully we'll be able to come to an agreement about this. --Joy [shallot] 21:20, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support to Hong Kong!

\(^3^)/ -- Jerry Crimson Mann 6 July 2005 13:40 (UTC)

hey hi!!!Sghan 12:18, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Did You Know... (Chingay Parade)

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Chingay Parade, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

new vfd

The prior VFD that you voted at ended with no consensus, a new VFD has been opened at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Historical persecution by Muslims. ~~~~ 18:58, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

RE: Andrew Kuan

Yes it's true, I don't write crap OK? Terenceong1992

List of countries by infant mortality rate

Is that per 1000 live births? Also the numbers don't seem to match up with the numbers on Infant mortality. EG Sierra Leone has 284 (IM) or 162 (LOCBIMR). Of course I could be reading one of the articles wrong. CambridgeBayWeather 06:28, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Either way it's a horrible high number. CambridgeBayWeather 07:21, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article List of countries by infant mortality rate (2005), which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Hurricane Katrina

I, Titoxd, award you this barnstar for your impressive contributions to the Hurricane Katrina article.

Good work rewording, splitting, and keeping the article up to date. Your edits are most appreciated, and they're a major reason behind this article's high quality. --Titoxd 06:46, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

confirmed deaths at 100 in Harrison County Harrison County emergency officials confirmed that 100 people had died, at least 30 in the collapse of a Biloxi apartment house during the height of the storm. --hitssquad 07:50, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Speak Mandarin Campaign

Hi. Thanks for your work on this article. In future, please don't remove copyright violation notices from articles, even to develop new content. If you do this the copyright material is still present in the page's history and requires extra effort from administrators to sort out. If you want to develop a new version of an article that violates copyright it can be done at a temporary subpage (use the link from the copyright violation notice) and an administrator will move it to the main article when the copyright violation has been dealt with. Thanks! --Ngb ^?!? 08:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Maps of Singapore

I find the maps you created absolutely accurate, and maybe I will really wish to see more of them coming! Maybe some maps on the structure of the neighbourhood estates will be breathtaking. And of course applause for your work on the MRT maps, giving the MRT Stations article a little substainability for the due time. Slivester 04:12, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, certainly pleasing to hear that you will make those town maps! Singapore have an absolutely unique method of partitioning her housing district, and it will be great to have the plan laid out here. If possible, perhaps you can also work on the layout of buses in berths, in bus interchanges. Should you need resources, feel free to contact me. And about the estate infobox, I have taken your advice to include the land area and population. Lets just hope we can retrieve those informations; for now, its just To be filled in. Slivester 13:52, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Talking about maps, have you came to know of google earth? It might be a wonderful tool in our map-drawing endeavours! ;)--Huaiwei 12:45, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

I saw what you show at AfD, it is pretty cool! Yes, I have it also, and just found out that the Tuas area in my locator maps are wrong. Nobody will notice that, right? Or can I claim my maps are more updated? haha.. , but the resolution is amazing. Unfortunately for Sengkang, a small strip of lower resolution lies just on top of it and there are lots of clouds. For woodlands, it is almost prefect, with just two tiny patches of clouds. It will be useful, definitely --Vsion 13:16, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Haha..thank God I came across Google Earth just when I was desperate to illustrate them! :D Too bad some parts are still not updated thou, especially the Sengkang area you mentioned and the entire region to the West. Also, clouds cover some of our more important points, such as Raffles Place. Too bad I cant show Tampines Interchange too..haha. As for Tuas...do not worry. The satelite image is actually quite outdated...by about 2 years or more? Changi Naval Base is shown to be under construction even thou its completed long ago, for example.--Huaiwei 13:23, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

My comments on AfD

The reason why I make those comments is because every time a Singapore article comes up for AfD, somebody has to make the comment that the only reason somebody nominated the article is because of anti-Singapore bias, and then all of a sudden, a whole bunch of "keep" votes show up that wouldn't be keeps if the article were about any other place in the world. The Singapore voters seem to think that their country is special, and that the rules of notability which apply to evey other bus terminal, street, church, etc., in the world don't apply to Singapore. Zoe 07:15, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

"Hong Kong, China" in the Basic Law

Perhaps you'd be interested to take a look at how the use of "Hong Kong, China" is prescribed in the Basic Law: Article 116, Article 149, Article 151. :-D — Instantnood 12:33, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Please see reply at Talk:Singapore International School --Vsion 12:54, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Votes for Deletions - Ensuring your vote is counted

Hi, I thought I would just mention to you, that if a reason isn't given when you vote *some* administrators will not count your vote. I noticed in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nautilus Middle School, you didn't give a reason for your vote. I have nothing to do with the making or enforcement of this rule, but thought I would tell you, so that you can ensure you're vote is counted. Note: The reason given can be versy short, like "per above" or "what so-and-so said". It doesn't have to be long, and sometimes people give only a couple-letter abbreviations, which is fine. But, it should be something. --rob 16:44, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article list of countries by military expenditures, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Re: Hong Kong as a country?

Correct and wrong, depends on whether you're reading country as a synonym of sovereign state or not. In strict sense the two are differentiated, although sometimes they're used as synonym. Basically countries include both sovereign states and non-sovereign territories. Meanwhile, could you please elaborate a bit on what is " non-conventional naming practice " and " frustrating " [1]? Thanks. — Instantnood 10:20, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

As for entity, perhaps you may be interested to take a look at Wikipedia:categories for deletion/Log/2005 September 8#Category:Political entities. :-) — Instantnood 10:45, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Vision, if you have not noticed, he said the following in my talkpage:

"There's no dichotomy. But if you do really want a yes-no answer, then I'll have to say yes, as in the strict sense country and sovereign state are not synonym."

In other words, he says Hong Kong is a country, and at the same time defines a "country" as inclusive of SARs. Dosent need a genious to figure out whats going on, does it? :D--Huaiwei 10:57, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm still in shock by his statement. I sincerely hope he is not breaking any subversive law. --Vsion 11:06, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

No problem as long as I fully acknowledge the sovereignty of the PRC over Hong Kong, and is not claiming or advocating Hong Kong as a sovereign state. :-P — Instantnood 11:21, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah. Good luck in telling the Chinese authorities that a country is not equal to a sovereign state, even if that is technically disputable. Afterall, they will prob be asking him the questions in Chinese. I can picture him being hauled away to the firing squard yelling 不!!! 国家并非是独立的!!!.--Huaiwei 11:33, 22 September 2005 (UTC)