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Shwebomin, Crown Prince of Burma

Dear Hybernator, please take a look at Shwebomin, Crown Prince of Burma. I can't find any relation of Shwebomin, Crown Prince of Burma to Konbaung Dynasty in Burmese, and interviews with family of current pretender to the Burmese throne around 2013 ပါတော်မူနေ့ anniversary did not mention him. PhyoWP *click 15:09, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Just looked at it. Seems to me, the issue isn't just whether he is what he claims to be but also whether he's achieved enough notoriety (say, even as an imposter) to warrant an article. On the central issue, he or anything in the article has provided any proof from a reliable source that he is what he claims to be. (Most of the citations and external links are dead links. The Defining Moment website's interview videos are no more authoritative than Chris Buyers' Royal Ark website.) The second issue is whether someone going around in England claiming to be a pretender to the Burmese throne without proof has met the notoriety/newsworthiness bar of Wikipedia. On both counts, you can take action: for starters, highlight the dead links and tag the article with non-reliable sources (or the sort), etc. Regards, Hybernator (talk) 17:44, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

I nominated it for deletion. I think he is a fraud. But of course, even if a fraud, he has never obtained enough attention to warrant an article. SWH^{® talk} 06:52, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Hybernator. Regarding your nomination, I just have a concern over close paraphrasing in a small number of passages. Please could you have a look at my comments on the template page. Regards, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:57, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks; I have now verified this. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 16:59, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

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Bago as a seaport???

Hi. There are some mentions in Wiki (e.g. here) and elsewhere, that prosperity of the Bago in 15/16th centuries was an effect of its role as a seaport (or center of the maritime trade). But when one looks at the maps one can see that the coastline is in distance of about 40 km from Bago and that the river flowing through the city is relatively narrow. So how could the Bago be the "major seaport"??? How could sea ships reach the city by the not so wide river? I imagine that Tenasserim or Martaban were the major seaports of Hanthawaddy Kingdom and that Bago was its capital but not the seaport. Am I wrong? Can you help me to dispel this doubt as a recognized wikiexpert in the field of Myanmar history, culture etc., please. With kind regards Jeremiasz (talk) 19:18, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your interest in Myanmar's history and culture. And thanks very much indeed for your contributions on Myanmar-related topics on Polish Wikipedia. It's a good question, and I'll try to answer to the best of my knowledge. (I'm just an amateur; like a lot of Wiki contributors, my field of expertise (day job) is something else.) Bago is conjectured to be a seaport--right on the coast--during the Pagan period, before the gradual growth of the delta due to silting. See this reimagined map from 1925. But colonial era conjectures need to be checked with more scientific dating. And I don't know if Bago being on the coastline has been confirmed by actual archaeological/geological surveys.

That said, it need not have been on the coastline to have been a major port. We do know from 16th century European travellers that Bago, along with Mottama, remained a major entrepot still accessible from sea where merchant houses were set up to conduct trade. Even if it was no longer right on the coastline in the 16th century--mind you, it might never have been--we can say with a high degree of confidence that it certainly was not as far away from the coastline as today, and its port apparently was still deep enough to accommodate smaller ships of the era. We can confirm the southward shift of the coastline from the known records of other ports in the region. In the 17th century, both Thanlyin and Dagon (later Yangon) were much closer to the sea than ~50 km today. And silting has taken a toll on both Yangon and Thanlyin ports. Today, neither port can no longer support large ships, and the main port has been moved down to Thilawa, south of Thanlyin. (The coastline still inches southward each year, although its growth may have been slowed by the rising sea levels due to climate change.)

Lastly, to have been a capital for long periods, a city in those days needed to be a major economic center that could support a large population. (The kings wanted to control as many people as close to the capital region--for easier taxation enforcement, and faster mobilization.) Most capitals in Upper Myanmar were close to the Kyaukse region which was the rice basket of the country and was heavily populated. But in the south, agriculture was not as developed as the north--large scale farming in the south began only in the British era--and southern Myammar depended much more on external trade. Not surprisingly, the southern capitals of Mottama and Bago were both major ports that supported major population centers. If Bago were not a major port, we'd have to show other sources of economic activity that sustained it being a capital for centuries.

That's my two cents. I welcome more questions and feedback. Best regards, Hybernator (talk) 23:32, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much - your explanations are very convincing. I have one more (and not last, I suppose ;) ) request: would you be so kind to look at the questions that I asked Phyo WP and give me the lacking information? Best regards. Jeremiasz (talk) 14:05, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

I've answered on that talk page. Hybernator (talk) 21:24, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much, especially for interest in "guinea pig question" ;). Jeremiasz (talk) 09:36, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Some new questions

And next question: were U Ottama, U Wizara and U Nu detained in Insein Prison? Did U Wizara conduct his last hunger strike in Insein? Could you propose some other names of famous Insein's inmates, please (I have ASSK, Min Ko Naing, Saw Wai, Soe, Than Tun and Tin U on the list so far). BTW: for more detailed answers you can use my e-mail address. Jeremiasz (talk) 07:59, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry. I'm not sure, although given their stature, it's quite probable that all three served time there. User:Wagaung, who might have retired from Wiki, would be a good one to ask this question. Hybernator (talk) 21:34, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Thnx. Jeremiasz (talk) 15:08, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

U Ottama and U Wisara were in Tharrawaddy Prison, notorious during the time of British colonial rule. U Nu was in Rangoon Central Jail where all political prisoners used to be during the time of his government before it was pulled down later by the military rulers. Wagaung (talk) 21:35, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

First, I hope you are not bored with my constatnt asking - believe me please, that I ask you only when I can't find reliable answers in my (rather scarce) sources. And the next questions:

1. What is difference between mohinga and mohinga-mon?

• Never heard of mohinga-mon. But I suspect they mean မုန့်ဟင်းခါး မုန့်, which sounds odd to me. I wonder if they mean optional fritters which in Yangon are called akyaw (အကြော်). Assuming my guess is true, I've never referred to those extras as mohinga-mon myself; nor has anyone I know. But it could very well be regional usage. (I can give you a more precise answer if you have the Burmese spelling.)

1. The "banana bud stem" is one of mohinga's ingredients. What is the bud in this case: the top of banana tree (i.e. meristem) or banana flower? Regards. Jeremiasz (talk) 10:11, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

• It's the banana trunk. It's sliced into thin pieces, thrown into the soup-base along with other ingredients. Anyway, you should try out mohinga if you get a chance. The soup is surprisingly similar to bouillabaisse. Hybernator (talk) 22:03, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank a lot. Mohinga is one of my favorite dishes. Unfortunately, Burmese cuisine is underrepresented in the world and barely existent in Poland :((( Even in Myanmar one can have problems to find Burmese dishes: when I was in Bagan I wanted my son to try Burmese cuisine (I always try to eat only local dishes of the country I am traveling to). But all restaurants around our hotel (4 or 5) had only Thai and Chinese dishes (which were very tasty, but not local...). Finally, when I asked for only Burmese dish hardly found in the menu (it was kind of salty bean paste - very tasty!) the waitress warned me: "You will not like it!". Regards. Jeremiasz (talk) 07:36, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Parabaik

Is parabaik ( ပုရပိုက် ) a type of paper (like is told here) or type of Burmese manuscript made of paper as opposite to palm leaf (like here) or both ? And why it is ပုရပိုက် in en-wiki and မြန်မာပုရပိုက် (Myanma parabaik?) in my-wiki ? Jeremiasz (talk) 14:33, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

It almost always refers to types of paper (although technically, parabaiks can be made of gold, silver, and other materials). Palm leaf manuscripts have their own name: ပေစာ. The Burmese term for literature စာပေ comes from that. Ancient manuscripts are often collectively referred to as စာပေ ပုရပိုက် because they were almost always written on these two media. (The third would be stone inscriptions, considered most reliable from a historical studies standpoint. Because they are much more durable, they are much much less susceptible to copying errors of palm leaf and parabaik manuscripts which need to be recopied every 100 years or so. But it took much more effort to inscribe on stones, so stone inscriptions weren't widely used.)

The Burmese Wiki article is a direct copy of the same article in the Burmese encyclopedia Myanma Swezon Kyan (MSK), which uses မြန်မာ ပုရပိုက်. I'm not sure why the authors of MSK chose to add the word မြန်မာ but based on the article, which talks about how it was made and used in the ancient times in Myanmar, it seems the authors added it to signify how paper manuscripts were used in Myanmar. It's my guess because the article doesn't talk about how parabaik paper types used in Myanmar were any different from those used in neighboring states to warrant the term မြန်မာ ပုရပိုက်. Hybernator (talk) 19:10, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Once again: Thank you very much. Jeremiasz (talk) 17:25, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

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Good articles

Hello Hybernator,

Several articles about Burmese kings that you have edited (Anawrahta, Tabinshwehti, Bayinnaung, Alaungpaya, Hsinbyushin) are really impressive. I would like to encourage you to nominate them, at least for Good Article (perhaps even Featured). Articles that excel the Wikipedia average by far should be recognised and marked as such. The same applies to the war articles (like Burmese–Siamese War (1759–60), Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67), Sino-Burmese War (1765–69)). Thanks a lot for these great articles. Kind regards. --RJFF (talk) 19:50, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi RJFF, thanks very much for the encouragement. I've made a conscious decision not to start the GA process (yet) because I've wanted to spend my limited time on improving the general state of articles on Burmese history and culture, which is still quite poor. (More than half Toungoo, Mrauk-U, Konbaung kings are at a stub or start level. Likewise with war articles. The Toungoo Dynasty and Konbaung Dynasty articles are in shambles.) Given the amount of work ahead, spending time on the GA process hasn't been a priority.

That said, I definitely want key articles to GA and beyond, not least because I'd like more eyes monitoring them. You might notice that I've been creating articles on auxiliary topics in the candidate articles to eliminate red links there. It's a slow and grinding process; as you know, even short (seemingly minor) articles take a lot of time to research. It's slowly getting there. E.g., I've eliminated most of the reds in the Tabinshwehti article; I still need to start Toungoo–Mrauk-U War (1545–47), Toungoo–Ava War (1538–45), List of rulers of Martaban. (I could not red-link them but red linking is a good way to force me to work on topics I consider important.)

Anyway, I do plan to start the GA process for at least a couple of articles later this year. I'll certainly need help and guidance from other editors. I'd like to enlist you to contribute to improve the articles. Again, thank you for the kind words and encouragement. Regards, Hybernator (talk) 17:20, 9 February 2014 (UTC)