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Battle of Fuzhou

Nice photos of the Pagoda anchorage! I must go and see the battlefield for myself one of these days. I visited Fuzhou in May 1989, when I was working as an administrator in the Hong Kong Government, as part of a government delegation, but at that time I hadn't even heard of the Sino-French War, so missed the opportunity to see the sights. As I still live in Hong Kong, it would be an easy trip to do. Do you live in Fuzhou?

Djwilms (talk) 01:27, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I live in Fuzhou now, working for China Telecom. I'm looking forward to your visit to my hometown and I would like to meet you then. I have two nineteenth century books (PDF version) concerning the Sino-French War which I'd love to share with you: one is The Foochow Arsenal and Its Results by Prosper Giquel and the other is The French at Foochow by James F. Roche and L. L. Cowen. Please send me an e-mail if you are interested. --GnuDoyng (talk) 13:32, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Flower Lane Church

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You've got it wrong. --GnuDoyng (talk) 06:05, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

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The original text which I referred to is the only English source I can find. Frankly speaking, I really don't know how to meet your requirement, since I've already tried my best paraphrasing and the information is itself rather limited. I don't think I have violated the copyright policy: Fact is fact, what I did was just retelling the fact without adding any personal viewpoints to it. "The sun rises in the east." How am I supposed to rewrite this fact to avoid copyright violation?

Please keep its first paragraph if you believe this article is a copyright violation. --GnuDoyng (talk) 05:00, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Let me see if I can help explain the difference between rewriting and paraphrasing. The original source has:

"In 1938 it was restored and became the only chapel with granite structure in Fuzhou City. TheShang You Tangat that time possessed classical, elegant style, with a flower hall and a fishpond."

Which you paraphrased as:

"In 1938, Siông-iū Dòng was reconstructed into the only granite structured church in Fuzhou, possessing a classical and elegant style, with a flower hall and a fishpond in the interior."

An example of a more thorough rewrite would be:

"When Siông-iū Dòng was restored with granite in 1938, it became the only chapel in Fuzhou City of its kind. The renovations included the addition of interior details like a flower hall and fishpond."

Notice that I completely left out anything about "classical, elegant style" since this is an opinion of the person who wrote the source, not factual - including this would be inappropriate. However, its difficult to give a good example of a rewrite with such a limited amount of text. Its often easier to look at the entire source and write what you learned in your own words. When you try to reproduce the source line by line, you run into problems not only with paraphrasing, but also ending up with the same layout, order of facts etc. - all things that should be avoided. It might also help you to take a look at some of Wikipedia's featured articles - you'll notice that the article text really bears no resemblance to the sources that have been used. Shell ^babelfish 17:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

OK thank you very much. I will try it again as best as I can. --GnuDoyng (talk) 00:34, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi. :) There are some more suggestions, if these should be prove helpful to you, at User talk:MLauba#Flower Lane Church. I am watching the conversation there if I can clarify my suggestions in any way, and you are welcome to come by my talk page as well. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:51, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Your user page on zh.wikipedia.org

Hi Doyng, have you deleted your user page on mandarin wiki? You might have reasons to do that, but it's inconvenient when I want to discuss with you on mandarin wikipedia. I hope you can restore that page. By the way, the article 福州历史 is nominated here, please check it if you have the time. --Luhungnguong (talk) 01:53, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK

Hello! Your submission of Shen-kuang-szu Incident at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello, King of Hearts. Thank you for reviewing my article. I've made a slight change in its last section to include the "cited hook". I have to reply in my own talk page because the DYK talk page is currently blocked by GFW (maybe it contains some blacklisted words) and the open proxy I use is also blocked by Wikipedia. Hope you don't mind. --GnuDoyng (talk) 13:12, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

I have passed the article; it's now at T:DYK/P2. By the way, have you heard of Wikipedia:IP block exemption? Editors in good standing (like you) who have no alternative can get it, so you can edit even if your IP is hardblocked. Normally, open proxies aren't allowed, but China is an exception. If you want the block exemption, just reply here below, and I'll give it to you. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:43, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I would like to have this privilege. Thank you very much! --GnuDoyng (talk) 09:47, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 16:00, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

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Move Fuzhou dialect to Foochowese language?

Hi Doyng, it's more proper to move Fuzhou dialect to Foochowese language. I really don't see why Foochowese seems the only one in Min languages that is denominated with "dialect". Please see here.--Luhungnguong (talk) 23:39, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Do you know how to move the article?--Luhungnguong (talk) 22:21, 30 August 2009 (UTC)