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Please help translate stroke order to zh:筆順.

Content from stroke order was pasted in zh:筆順. Any help translating the English content to Chinese is appreciated. Asoer (talk) 03:27, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

I'll get to it, although I will be lacking in some of the more technical translations. --HXL's Roundtable, and Record 04:34, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Articles to merge

I found another case. Seymour Expedition, China 1900 and Seymour Expedition seem to be duplicate. Please consider merging. Thank you. Oda Mari (talk) 15:08, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

I've redirected the first page to the second. However, I think some of the material that was in the first might be useful in the second. John Smith's (talk) 18:47, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

What you did was delete entirely my article, "Seymour Expedition, China 1900" and keep the other article. My article was well-sourced, neutral, scholarly, and contained pictures and maps. THe other one has numerous inaccuracies and was replete with emotional non-neutral language that does not belong in an encyclopedia article. I request a qualitative review of the two articles to see which is the more worthy of retention. User:Smallchief

That isn't the way Wikipedia works. You don't try to supercede an existing article, you add to it and refine it. You seem to have completely misunderstood the point of Wikipedia. Articles are not fixed, they are always evolving. You are free to take the text you provided and use it to improve the existing article, but please do not do a copy and paste job. John Smith's (talk) 20:35, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

I would hope that Wiki's first priority would be to present accurate and impartial information to the public. My article did that; what you kept didn't. Now, how do I recover my article with all the Wiki code? User:Smallchief

Already informed you. John Smith's (talk) 21:30, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Smallchief, if you have a problem with an existing article, you add content to it. I understand in this situation it was a mistake since the article was originally title "Battle of Langfang", but i moved it to Seymour Expedition since that was more accurate, in between the move, you created the other article. However, you did make the mistake John Smith described when you created a second article on the legation siege. I created an article on the siege, with the correct title before you did. You then proceeded to create an entirely new article to add massive amounts of content. What you did with the legation article was basically if a stub article on the US president Barack Obama existed with deficient information, and you decided to clone the article name and create a new biography on Obama. Which totally would not make sense at all.Дунгане (talk) 02:32, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

By the way, the article i created before you already was essentially a summary of the expedition even before it was renamed. It was linked from the Boxer Rebellion main article in the template and you should have seen it. You should work on existing articles rather than creating multiple articles on the subject.Дунгане (talk) 02:40, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

This double article incident on the legations article occured here, i first created the article Siege of Beijing Legation Quarter, then over 15 days later Smallchief created Siege of the Legations, Beijing 1900. Smallclown then merged them.Дунгане (talk) 03:57, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Quemoy

Category:Quemoy has been nominated to be renamed to Category:Kinmen see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 December 15 .. 65.93.13.227 (talk) 06:48, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Requested move notice for "An Shi Rebellion"

• An Shi Rebellion → ? —(Discuss)— As this topic is bannered by your wikiproject, I have taken the step to inform you of a move request —65.93.13.227 (talk) 12:01, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Reassessing rating for Chinese Archery

Hi, I have significantly expanded the Chinese archery article, which used to be a stub. How do I request someone to reassess the quality rating for the Talk:Chinese_archery page? - Jtma (talk) 14:05, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Assessed as C class for WPCHINA. I see that the MILHIST project has carried out their own assessment as well. Thanks for your hard work!--Danaman5 (talk) 15:56, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Anti-Chinese Riots needs to be disambiguation

I discovered this redirect last night, which somebody had made to refer to ... Vancouver anti-Chinese riots, 1886 (that's the corrected title; it had been "1886 Anti-Chinese riots in British Columbia". Clearly the Rock Springs massacre and variously elsewhere in North America, and the anti-Chinese riots in Jakarta and various other countries over time, are also to be listed, given that the redirect needs to be made into a disambiguation list; I'm not familiar enough with the relevant articles, though I know of some in North America, to begin the page. NB the article is POV in tone, kinda point-form biased (blunt facts adding up to a sentence, i.e. a guilty sentence); I've provided some further readings, all of which can be cites for what I've just added, but I don't ahve them on hand so couldn't line-cite, so left the "unreferenced" tag and just called them "further readings". I figured this was the better place to bring it than WP Talk:Asian American or WP:Canada, though once the redirect is converted to a disambiguation those WPs should be on the template; presumably WP:Aus and wherever else...Skookum1 (talk) 06:03, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Help wanted on reading characters

Hi! I found the Chinese names of nine Houston streets, posted at Talk:Chinatown, Houston But I am not sure how the characters are read in all of the instances.

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 01:21, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Though this seems to be a reference desk-type question, I am willing to help out personally. In the future, though, you could do it yourself by pinyin-ising (converting to pinyin, which is the standard romanisation for Mandarin) with tools such as [www.pin1yin1.com this]. --HXL's Roundtable, and Record 01:27, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Lemme see how many of these I can get done with http://www.pin1yin1.com - Thanks for letting me know about that site! If I have any further questions I will post additional responses here. WhisperToMe (talk) 01:29, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Wait, is Houston's Chinatown a Mandarin Chinatown? If it's like most North American Chinatowns, all those readings are wrong, because it would be Cantonese. 184.144.170.217 (talk) 20:04, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Editing Request

I need to request that someone with more editing experience than myself (that is, almost anyone) edit the examples given on the Wikipedia:WikiProject China/Assessment page, in order to verify whether these examples currently reflect the definitions of their respective classes. The example given for "stub"-class articles, the Wu Hu Uprising, does not currently seem to meet the definition given for "stub". Also, the example given for "start"-class articles, Luo Guanzhong, does a better job referencing sources than the example for "C"-class articles, Gan Ning, so I am unsure if either of these articles are currently appropriate examples of their respective classes.

I am hoping to review some articles currently classified as "stubs" which are obviously not stubs, but I am not completely sure which categories they should fit in. I would appreciate the assistance of anyone more senior than myself in reviewing the given examples. Thanks.Ferox Seneca (talk) 10:56, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Regional differences in the Chinese language

Regional differences in the Chinese language has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.14.196 (talk) 06:34, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese is being moved back and forth, while under an active move discussion... 65.93.14.196 (talk) 13:23, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Simplifications to written Chinese in Hong Kong

Simplifications to written Chinese in Hong Kong has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.14.196 (talk) 06:24, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Opposition to the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Express Rail Link

Opposition to the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Express Rail Link has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.13.210 (talk) 03:56, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Re-assessment Request

Hi, I'm requesting a re-assessment and importance rating for the article Ejin Horo Banner. I have significantly expanded it, added references, images, etc. I didn't see anyplace else to list this type of request. Thanks! Boneyard90 (talk) 17:27, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

After giving it some thought, I assessed it as C class. It is right on the cusp between C and Start, though, in my opinion. It still needs more comprehensiveness and balance in terms of content, and more sources.--Danaman5 (talk) 12:54, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Copyright concerns related to your project

This notice is to advise interested editors that a Contributor copyright investigation has been opened which may impact this project. Such investigations are launched when contributors have been found to have placed non-free copyrighted content on Wikipedia on multiple occasions. It may result in the deletion of images or text and possibly articles in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations. The specific investigation which may impact this project is located at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Arilang1234.

All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to CCI clean up. There are instructions for participating on that page. Additional information may be requested from the user who placed this notice, at the process board talkpage, or from an active CCI clerk. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:44, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

New articles

Hey, would someone take a look at Cheng Jianping, see if I missed any cultural/geographical details, slap a China project tag on it, and give it a rating? Thanks! Ocaasi (talk) 09:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC) I've written some others. Here's the list:

• Cheng Jianping
• Lan Zhixue
• Shibali River Women's Labour Camp
• Hua Chunhui

Thanks. Ocaasi (talk) 21:18, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Chinese Language

Old Chinese and Middle Chinese has a problem. The dates don't close to overlap. Old Chinese claims to end at 9 AD, However Middle Chinese starts 6th century AD... So you have a few hundred years to account for. Please repair this.--76.169.133.154 (talk) 04:52, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Confirmation of Chinese name in Chinese characters

I just need to confirm that the Chinese name taken by Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Lu Tian Na, is indeed 陸天娜. The source for Lu Tian Na is here, but the article makes no mention of the name's equivalent in Mandarin characters (okay, there's a picture of a kid with a sign, but I can't read those characters...). If somebody could help out, that would be great! Thanks. upstateNYer 01:50, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Mandarin characters? what's that?

And of course most articles in English will not give quoted mention of non-Latin script.

As far as I can see, what you gave is exactly (yes) what the sign reads. To confirm the pinyin romanisation, copy the characters into a site dedicated to Mandarin such as this one, or even Google Translate. To use Google Translate, select either Chinese-Traditional or Chinese-Simplified as the second language, and then click "show romanisation". --HXL's Roundtable, and Record 01:56, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Looking at the Chinese versions of the article, [1] and [2] , 陸天娜 is in traditional characters and 陆天娜 simplified. There's also a reference which gives the characters if you're looking for one.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 02:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

陸天娜 (陆天娜) and Lu Tian Na (Lu Tian-na/Lu Tian-Na) should redirect to her article. 65.93.15.80 (talk) 05:59, 30 January 2011 (UTC)