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Germany Article Dispute

Hello Jiang,
I would be ready to compromise with you over the Germany article.
I shall remove all the subsections of the article's chapters (with subsections I mean sections like "Holy Roman Empire", "German Empire", "First World War" etc in the History chapter, for example). That would automatically shorten the article. The idea with the subsections originally came to me when studying the structure of the Japan article - see for example the chapter "Society" there, which I copied and which you dissolved. Since they appear to offend you, the subsections will go.
You in turn will need to accept that the text of the article will not be shortened. The paragraph about the "Holy Roman Empire" for example will be reinstated, although it will no longer be a subsection but a simple paragraph. Likewise, the piece about "Foreign affairs", which you rechristened "Foreign relations" - and which for some unknown reason you placed behind the "Economy" chapter, of all places - will be put back into "Politics", though as a simple paragraph, not as a subsection.
Another point is your decision to remove my title "Parliament" above the piece about the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, and to rename it "Government". But in a parliamentary democracy like Germany's, parliament and government are not one and the same thing. In the Japan article, for example, the subsection about the parliament is rightly called "The Diet", NOT "Government".
So do us all a favour, ask AllyUnion to unblock the article. You have time to consider until next Monday, as I shall be away over the weekend.
Heimdal 13:58, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Jiang, I do not even intend to discuss with you any further, as long as you keep the article blocked. I do not want to explain to you why it is wrong to rename the Holy Roman Empire "Imperial Germany", and what is the democratic principle of the separation of powers. Go to your university library and look it up in a dictionary if you don't know. Apart from this, it would befit you if you were a little less arrogant, yes? - Heimdal 16:47, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I have no experience with arbitration, but I think it might be better than your threats to block the Germany article indefinitely, which amount to an attempt at coercion. Your edits are not really of such a quality that they would deserve unlimited protection. Alternatively, I have already thought to demand protection for my version for two weeks, once your protection request expires, so as to give interested readers and administrators the possibility to judge themselves whether the article is really "too long", as you claim. - Heimdal 11:17, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Jiang, I prefer to wait until your protection request expires. That should be next Tuesday or Wednesday. First thing I'll do is to revert the mess you've made of the article and give the whole thing a shorter structure. Then let's hear what the others have to say about it. Mediation can wait. I'm sure that no person in his or her right mind would prolong the protection of your confused edits any further. - Heimdal 15:36, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Jiang, I don't intend to "mass revert" you. I just want to repair some of your worst mistakes in the Germany article. I have explained them sufficiently on AllyUnion's protection request page. And please stop coercing me, will you? - Heimdal 17:33, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Bot for updating and tabulating CIA Factbook Data

I would like to assist you in creating this bot. I will need some specifications in what exactly you intent for it to do and I assist in designing one for you to operate. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:46, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The bot will take data from the CIA World Factbook and insert the values into Template:Military, which will then be applied to the individual "military of..." articles. For example, the template at Military of Afghanistan contains data from http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html#Military. I've never used a bot before and don't know the technical limitations and the specifics of operating one. Presumably, it will just generate the template wikicode and I'll insert them manually? I would like to have the template applied, with fresh CIA data, to all the military of articles. This could be expanded to other articles in wikiproject countries like demographics. --Jiang 06:43, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
It can either one of two things:
  1. Use, for example, based on the Afghanistan data, {{subst:military|age=22 years of age (2004 est.)|availability=6,785,414 (2004 est.)|service=3,642,659 (2004 est.)|reaching age=263,406 (2004 est.)|dollar figure= $61 million (2003)|percent GDP= 1% (2003)}}. This means that the taxobox is hardcoded into the page, rather than including the template into the page.
  2. Use it without the subst: tag, meaning it uses the template on the page with the facts and information based on the CIA page.
The specifics of operating one is that you must get it approved at Wikipedia talk:Bots first before using it. However, because this is a yearly thing, I don't think you necessarily need it approved.
Regarding the technical limitations... There is two I can forsee. The bot would need a list of the article names with cooresponding URLs. We're not certain for 100% that the URLs will stay static year to year. The second one is the color issue.
However, I have solutions for this:
  1. The bot is actually manually run and manually assisted
  2. The article and URL is entered manually (prompted part of the program)
  3. The color number is also requested by the bot
  4. Any additional text to be added.
There is one requirement on your part. You must have Python 2.3 installed on your system, as it will be using the pyWikipediaBot framework. I will assist you in the details of how to set up the framework for your needs.
Also, it can update and replace existing taxoboxes / templates / insert in the top of the article. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:08, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I think it will be easier to change the formatting if the taxobox is not harcoded (i.e., left as template in the page w/o subst:). Yes, updating and replacing existing taxoboxes seems a good idea.
Originally, I designed the template so that we would be using national colors, corresponding to the country in question. If that is too much of a hassle, we can make everything gray (a neutral color). I'm fine with manual, if it will make things easier.
Yes, I can install Python 2.3, but I've never run a bot before so I'll need so assistance on getting it started. Maybe work this out through instant messaging? --Jiang 21:41, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Email me, and I'll send you my AIM SN. I would not prefer to list it here. You can also try reaching me in IRC. -- AllyUnion (talk) 14:05, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I still haven't seen an email from you. You may attempt to reach me at allyunion AT yahoo.com. -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:27, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm online often, yes. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:02, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Seeking attribution

Jiang, I am trying to beef-up the China section in the History of science. This poem is from memory; I read it 30 years ago but am hesitant to enter it into the article unless you know where I can dig up a copy of Needham's book. -- regards, Ancheta Wis 01:58, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I farm the the land from which I take my food.
I watch the sun rise and the sun set.
Kings can ask no more.
--after a Chinese poem quoted by Joseph Needham

Jiang, thank you for your response. I am including Needham's Grand Question in the history of science unless you would like for me to revert the whole issue. One of the things it teaches us is that the civilizations see-saw, and the civilizations slide off the top of the heap very suddenly sometimes. It is a cautionary tale for the current civilizations. I personally happen to believe that England evolved the Scientific Method because it is an island but that since China, as a continental civilization, has been subject to continuous invasion and war, so there was no peace and no science. Ancheta Wis 21:45, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

228 Incident

Hello, Jiang. If you have time, please have a look at Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 28. I hope I have the 228 Incident phrased properly. Thanks. -- PFHLai 02:37, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)

Chinese fan dance

There doesn't seem to be any articles on the Chinese traditional fan dance. Do you know of any? -- AllyUnion (talk) 20:54, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Instantnood character

Jiang, I have seen you comment pro and con on edits of the user Instantnood. You may want to make an appearance on this page: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Instantnood

RfC

Hello there. I am recently being listed on RfC. Feel free to comment as you wish to. I regard it as a way out and to have the matter settled. Thanks. — Instantnood 20:40 Mar 1 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for sharing your views. :-P — Instantnood 02:42 Mar 2 2005 (UTC)
The sharing at RfC seems to be over. I have made a response there. Please take a look. I do hope that with everyone's effort Wikipedia will soon be the best encyclopedia ever. :-D — Instantnood 21:07 Mar 5 2005 (UTC)

Culture of China

Unnecessary clutter. There seems to be unnecessary clutter in the article. What does government have to do with the culture of China? -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:34, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Your page

You state. "My name is not Jiang. I'm a grad student at Berkeley." Wouldn't it be better to reverse the sentences lest you partially give the impression you're implying that *because* you're a grad student at Berkeley your name cannot be Jiang? Dpr 02:40, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Unprotect Germany

Jiang, the guidelines you cited on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection are only of advisory nature. They are not mandatory. You do not have the right to force your personal interpretation of the Wiki instructions upon everyone else. Neither do the guidelines give you the right to block the Germany page indefinitely. - Heimdal 17:36, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Protection of article Bangladesh

Thanks for the "protection". Could you do something about the vandal too? I am not sure who to approach with this. I made an entry with the multiple IP's used over the last week by the vandal on the Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress page but no action has been taken yet or I'm not sure if some action has been taken. Thanks. (Pls. respond on my talk page.)-- Urnonav 04:28, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I was looking at the featured artical for Super Mario-64 and started thinking that there is no way to tell that an artical was a featured artical other than to go searching through the archive. I think since featured articals are some of this sites very best work, wouldn't it be good to have some sort of template that went into the artical and says "this artical was a wikipedia feature artical on date XXX." in addition, have that add a category at the bottom that would put it in with a list of other featured articals? Let me know what you think, or tell me who i would have to go to about this idea to make it a reality. --ZeWrestler 21:25, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Final Fantasy 6 maps

I found these on the site, Image:FF6 Map (WoR).jpg and Image:FF6 Map (WoB).jpg how would i tag them. i don't see a normal that that they qualify as.

Self reference

I will come back on this issue soon om my talk page. Gangulf 18:07, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

protecting a page

hiya Jiang, I've been in a revert war with a pathetic Afrocentrist for quite a while. The specific article right now is Melanin, but it was going on for Afrocentrism as well (fortunately the person must have felt that he couldnt make any substantive contributions and left, so far). This person is a total nutcase preoccupied with race and gets into arguments with just about everybody (see contribution on talk pages on different articles for examples). I've submitted the melanin article for RfC and RfM, but I think they're just ignoring them or something. Anyway, can you protect the page since you're an admin. Thanx a lot Wareware 19:00, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

thanx a lot Jiang, really appreciate it. Wareware 15:47, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ignorant Bear

How dare you change my entry for "China" regarding culture, medicine, and history? You are a bastard from Berkeley.

"Mainland China" in titles

Hello Jiang. I have proposed at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) to change the title of some articles and categories. Would you be interested to join the discussion and say something? — Instantnood 20:29, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

File:Infoboxtemp.JPG listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Infoboxtemp.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the [[Wikipedia:Files for discussion/{{subst:#time:Y F j|-0 days}}#File:Infoboxtemp.JPG|discussion]] to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you.

Edits by SchmuckyTheCat

What can we do to deal with people like SchmuckyTheCat to edit and not to follow the conventions deliberately? — Instantnood 14:33, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)

Hello Jiang. SchmuckyTheCat has reverted the following articles again. Chinese language, Twin cities, Bubble tea, Red Imported Fire Ants and Tian Tan Buddha. He has also edited 99 Ranch Market and Chinese numerals. What can we do to deal with these? — Instantnood 07:13, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
And Beijing [1]. — Instantnood 10:35, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for going somewhere else to talk about me. I examined many articles that linked to mainland china and found that for many of them that link wasn't correct. For instance, 99 Ranch Market is a grocery store where I shop every week. You'd think I might know what products they carry and since you're several thousand km from the nearest one, you aren't likely to know what products they carry. For others it was correct and I left the link in place. I also fixed re-directs, both away from and to the main article. If you think these edits were in bad faith, you could have asked me, or in the articles. From now on, I will justify each change to that article in the talk page of the article. Please discuss it there. Jiang, I am sorry for the intrustion on your talk page. SchmuckyTheCat 02:23, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

image needed for asap deletation

Image:Osama double fuck.jpg

just by chance i caught this image. i used an ifd tag on it, but other than that, how quickly can it be removed from here? --ZeWrestler 7:23 Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

Cut and paste move by SchmuckyTheCat

Hello Jiang. Please help reverting the cut and paste move conducted by SchmuckyTheCat on the article Autonomous region of China (moved to Autonomous Regions of China).

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Autonomous_region_of_China&action=history and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Autonomous_Regions_of_China&action=history — Instantnood 10:32, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

Hello Jiang. SchmuckyTheCat did the same thing again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ministry_of_Finance_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China&action=history and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ministry_of_Finance_People%27s_Republic_of_China&action=history

May I know if the the edit history of the pages have to be combined? Thanks. — Instantnood 21:20, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

  • Yes, I added the words "of the" to match the rest of the similar articles. There was no discussion page or history. Why do you want this reverted? SchmuckyTheCat 21:38, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Jiang, thank you for the proper move instructions. Sorry, I thought C&P was the way for non-admins to move. SchmuckyTheCat 01:47, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Archive 4 of Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)

I am afraid it's too early to archive it. The discussion at #Hong Kong people's name ends a few days ago, and no consensus has yet been reached at #..of Taiwan → ..of the Republic of China. — Instantnood 09:19, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

help

i don't know if you are free to help, i am trying to get some information about the colleges and universities in US for my post graduate study. can u help? maybe you can email me if you'd like to help. thx! --User:Yacht (talk) 11:39, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

Reagan

You were right about the Nixon funeral photography; sorry that I reverted your change last time. Cheers.--BaronLarf 18:27, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

Presidents template

Someone recently pointed out that we've reached the anniversary of my Presidents template, and looking back at the discussion, I'd like to apologise for certain comments I made that may have been undiplomatically worded. I feel I made the argument more heated than it should have been. No hard feelings, eh? - Calmypal 02:30, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

Flags 300 pixels high

Hi Jiang. It seems that most of Wikipedia's flags follow a set height of 300 pixels. At some point (in the distant past) this was set down as some sort of policy, either official or unofficial, I'm not sure. But I can't track down such a discussion if it did in fact exist. And with MediaWiki 1.3 and up supporting image resizing, it now seems like an unnecessary rule. Do you have any idea where such discussions would be located, or where to strike up a conversation about changing the 300 pixel high policy? Especially for flags with lots of detail, 300 pixels seems too small to me. I ask because you uploaded one version of the flag long ago, and because recently Zscout370 was asking about making a smaller version of the US flag that's now there (it's now 800 pixels high). A policy for this should be decided and stated somewhere where those looking for it will find it (like redirected from wikipedia:flag or something). Thanks --jacobolus (t) 02:33, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The actual size of the uploaded flag images, for most of them, is 300 pixels, and I believe that before MediaWiki could resize images, there was some sort of policy about this, official or unofficial. So that would be in Image:Us flag large.png, the png file itself. The US flag picture I made is 800 pixels high, but Zscout370 recently asked at the talk page about making a 300 pixel high version. This seems silly with current MediaWiki resizing capabilities. I was just wondering if you knew where the 300 pixel high norm first came to be. It doesn't sound like it. I'll keep looking. --jacobolus (t) 03:38, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You have no right to change the edits of others. Who made you in charge of enforcing the past?

Re: Proposed reogranization of Taiwan articles

Hello Jiang. Thanks for telling that there's such a discussion. I am afraid there's nothing much to add at the time being, but I will keep an eye on its development. — Instantnood 08:11, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Jiang if you have comments you should make them openly instead of just enlisting sympathetic points of view to yours.--160.39.195.88 12:43, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sovereignty

care to go to the talk page and discuss the revert? I'd already created a section for it, did you read it? It's also never a minor edit to do a revert. SchmuckyTheCat 02:38, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) - you replied:

You have a point. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Perhaps a better solution is to edit out the term altogether? But then the ROC's stance on HK and MO isnt really clear. The laws seem to refer to the "Hong Kong Area" separate from the "Taiwan Area" but then the ROC never claimed HK... --Jiang 06:32, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I looked at removing it, but it's pretty clear in context. The article just uses the two Chinas as an example in an article that isn't about China at all. No need to muddy a simple example with the dirty details and politics. SchmuckyTheCat 13:43, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

West Germany

Have now peotected West Germany because of Heimdal's IP-addy self - am prepared to protect East Germany, East Berlin and West Berlin if i have to. PMA 20:25, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Your vote is needed!

Hello Jiang. Despite the ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) over the use of the terms "mainland China" and "People's Republic of China", SchmuckyTheCat and Huaiwei have listed category:Cities in mainland China, category:Companies of mainland China and category:Laws of mainland China onto Wikipedia:Categories for deletion.

Your vote is now essential and vital for the survival of these categories, and to avoid attempts to bar the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese) from truly enforced. — Instantnood 20:44, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

Update: there's also a poll at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese). — Instantnood 01:02, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

==Heimdal again

I have now had to protect other German related articles because of Heimdal and his bizarre behaviour (and FRG/GDR fetish). He needs to be dealt with ASAP. PMA 21:15, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

PRC vs ROC

Point taken. The discussion relates to a bevy of articles, not one only. Tell me what namespace you want to page to go in, and I'll move it. — Xiong (talk) 05:42, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)

Please discuss the settlement on: User:Xiong/xiongxiong. Thank You! — Xiong (talk) 05:47, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)

Correct name for debate page

As I said, I accept your criticism of the name I chose for the debate page. I hope you understand my failure to agree with your first choice. I have been on this (extremly annoying) project for several hours and really need to move on -- in the Real World. I would like to settle the point you raised, to our mutual satisfaction.

Please suggest a name for the debate page, and I will make the move. — Xiong (talk) 06:22, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)

Absent better suggestions, I have moved debate on the debate on how Chinese things may be named to: User:Xiong/Chinatalk. Debate on the debate on the debate is now at: User talk:Xiong/Chinatalk. — Xiong (talk) 08:06, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)

Xiong

Hi Jiang, thanks for helping with Xiong's moves ... and sorry about not giving you anything to rollback to, I wasn't really thinking about those lines when I posted the extra thing at the bottom...-- ran (talk) 08:22, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

PRC's infobox

Regarding this edit, are Quemoy and Matsu included in the figures? They are not part of Taiwan, but ROC. — Instantnood 14:04, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

I know. But the term "Free Area" has much stronger legal basis than "Taiwan Area". The latter is only used for cross-strait trade or exchange issues, as it has less implications. In my opinion, "Areas administered by the ROC" should be used, rather than simply "ROC" or "Taiwan", as the footnote, but that seems too clumsy. — Instantnood 15:54, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Laws of the PRC

Regarding your comment at WP:CFD#Category:Laws of mainland China, would you consider changing your vote, given the fact that most laws are only valid, applied and applicable within mainland China?

Under my proposal, national laws (i.e. those listed in Annex III (Hong Kong) (Macao) of basic law, e.g. nationality law, national flag law) shall remain in category:Laws of the PRC. — Instantnood 21:14, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

Jiang, Why are you such a communist?

(unsigned comment by 70.242.208.89)

Arbitration

Hello Jiang. I've got listed onto requests for arbitration by SchmuckyTheCat. Could you have a look? Thanks. — Instantnood 04:28, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Right. He is now creating a subpage listing all the so-called evidence. — Instantnood 05:09, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Could you give me some advice? Thanks in advance. — Instantnood 11:16, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. — Instantnood 19:10, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)

I was doing some cleanup with regards to copyrights, and I noticed you uploaded this. I wondered if you could elaborate on its source. Burgundavia 03:00, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

In the news+

I rearranged the items so that the 'news' about EB is last, and the 2d to last item isn't so grim and focused on death. See what you think... if that joke can't go in ITN, it doesn't really belong on the main page; except perhaps as a link from one of the standard hyperlinks. +sj + 11:23, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

SchmuckyTheCat's latest edits

This series of edits (economy of the People's Republic of China), this edit (Chinese federalism) and this edit (Capital punishment in the People's Republic of China) by SchmuckyTheCat seems clearly not following the naming conventions. He replaced all references to "mainland China" with "China", effectively equating the two terms.

In this edit, she/he's implying Taiwan not part of China, which is not a NPOV.

By the way, she/he's been moving list of companies in the People's Republic of China to list of companies in mainland China (at 01:41 Apr 2). I have moved it back just now.

She/he moved

She/he moved the following articles from category:Mainland China to category:People's Republic of China

She/he has rewritten the PICC article, and she/he's also getting into trouble with Ran with Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China (see its discussion page).

What do you think we can do to deal with her/him? — Instantnood 08:23, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

Update: List of companies in mainland China is moved to list of companies in the People's Republic of China again, at 16:19, Apr 2. — Instantnood 16:31, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
  • Jiang, I'm sorry to pollute your talk page. You were certainly aware of this without him telling you. I realize you're often closer to agreement with him than I during discussion but I'm usually able to justify why I'm doing something. I don't change things without having justification. It bothers me that he comes running to you everytime I do something he disagrees with.
For list of companies in the PRC, I justified my move in the talk page.
For PICC, I rewrote it, yes. It was mistitled if it was only about one subsidiary, so I made it about the entire company. I also corrected factual problems. Why is that a problem?
ran and I came to agreement, which we usually do. why are you bringing this up to Jiang?
I moved things to the PRC cat from the mainland cat if there was a compelling reason to do so. I didn't just choose a random article and move it.
I retitled articles that were about the PRC away from articles titled "China" or "mainland China". In these cases I also made the original pages dabs and not just blind redirects. This removes conflict by using the official names, making readers aware of the differences, and splitting the conflicting entities away from each other. Helpful!
I didn't remove all references to mainland China from the articles. I removed extraneous ones. I leave it when necessary to disambiguate and point the reader to the reason for difference. China does not need to be pre-fixed with "mainland" everywhere it appears.
Chinese Federalism is a political theory - not real life. That the PRC was willing to incorporate the SARs while leaving their economic systems intact is a re-inforcement of that theory which is why I removed the mainland references.
Instantnood, you can settle on she and her if it will make your typing easier. Do you want to make out?
SchmuckyTheCat 17:22, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Update: SchmuckyTheCat kept depopulating category:Laws of mainland China, despite the words " Please do not remove this notice or empty the category while the question is being considered. " on the CFD template. The articles and categories being taken off from this category include:

She/he has also removed Ping An of China and PICC from category:Insurance companies of mainland China, despite an earlier decision at WP:CFD.

Further, she/he has set up category:Culture of the People's Republic of China, and moved Chinese house church from category:Culture of mainland China to it.

See also the discussion at category talk:Culture of the People's Republic of China. — Instantnood 09:20, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

I have read all the comments above, but *probably* won't be able to respond to them or make massive edits since I am pressed on time this week. I will probably look into this on friday. --Jiang
Thanks Jiang. — Instantnood 09:39, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
By the way, this page is updated from time to time. — Instantnood 15:33, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

How do you deal with a problem user with a Range IP?

An anon user has been using ethnic slurs against Halibutt at Talk:Vilnius. The anon was repeatedly warned that he would be blocked if he continued his behavior. However, he is using the 85.206 range and therefore can only be blocked for 15 minutes. I have blocked him for 15 minutes, and will do so again when/if he uses another ethnic slur. At some point, if not already, that's going to be laughable. Is there not some stronger action that can be taken? Please advise. -JCarriker 14:28, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Alternative text for images

Well, since there are most likely multiple instances of each of those usage codes in use right now, it would take a long time for me to do this single-handedly. However, you could help out the process. Just refer to the vexillological symbol article for a legend that goes with those codes. Denelson83 08:24, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks a lot for notifying people around about the poll. — Instantnood 15:30, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

Can anons vote?

I'm almost certain that anonymous IP's can't participate in polls, but I can't seem to find a statement of this anywhere. Do you know if there's such a policy? -- ran (talk) 16:47, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

  • Wikipedia:Guide to Votes for deletion Anyone can contribute to the discussion and vote, anonymous users as well as pseudonymous users. ... What is important is not your name, but whether your contribution and voting is in good faith. SchmuckyTheCat 19:06, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What can I do if..

What can I do if somebody, for instance, say "bullshit" in bolds and allcaps, or label other people as "provincial"? — Instantnood 13:17, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

Your Unjustified changes to the Taiwan article

You made really sneaky changes, which I know you have a history of, to the Taiwan article. You deleted the disambiguation notice stating that the article was about the island along with the notice that there is currently a vote about changing the scope of the article. There was no explanation of justification for such a major change. Yet, despite all this, you still are going around changing anything that implies that Taiwan is not just Taiwan Island even though this is not English usage at all. So what is it? You are trying to reduce attention towards the poll and preserve the scope of the article without stating it. This is ridiculous. And after I pointed out your completely inappropriate edit, you threaten me and say I'm personally attacking you. Yeah? I said your actions are sneaky. Let's talk about the changes, let's not try to change the topic and pretend I'm attacking you. I don't like what you're doing, and I think you have a history of it. This is the idea of reputation. I am doing nothing wrong. Talk about your changes, not about me. In fact, you're the one that's doing a passive-aggresive personal attack, by saying I am personally attacking you when I'm not.--160.39.195.88 16:50, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Eastern Orthodoxy

Comrade, take a look at Eastern Orthodoxy and the last discussion at Talk:Eastern_Orthodoxy, and tell me what you think about the competing introductions. --Xiaopo ℑ 22:33, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Double Jeopardy Policy on votes

The articles involved in the vote initiated by Instantnood have been voted exactly one month ago. I belive that there should be a limit on initiating similiar kind of votes for the sake of everybody's time and energy. Thus, I have posted a Double Jeopardy on votes discussion to see if we can come up something to curtail this type of frivolous votes in the future. Please kindly spend some time and participate in that discussion if you have any suggestion and opinion on in this regard. Best regards. --Mababa 00:03, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"China"/"PRC" vs. "mainland China" for page titles

Following the long discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) regarding proper titling of Mainland China-related topics, polls for each single case has now been started here. Please come and join the discussion, and cast your vote. Thank you. — Instantnood 16:54, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

RoC Olympic code

Do you know what country code was used for the RoC when it competed as "China" or the "Republic of China" in the Olympics? I'm guessing it wasn't the currently used TPE as that's an abbreviation for a term that didn't exist until after the Games in question. But the IOC tends not to change the entity its codes refer to. Was it CHN as an exception to that tendency, or something else entirely? -- Jonel 21:59, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I need your help

Hello Jiang. A request for arbitration has been filed against me at WP:RFAr by Snowspinner as the AMA advocate for jguk. What do you think I can do? — Instantnood 20:43, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

help and mediation needed

There is a person who wrote a controversy section on the article about Taipei American School. I've tried to remove the controversy section two times because the accusations on the school are done without citing any sources. I've also placed comments on the talk page for that article. But there's this certain poster who keeps on putting the controversy section back. Allentchang 01:08, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Chinese naming controversy

Dunno if you have noticed there's another discussion at Wikipedia:Chinese naming controversy, started by Uncle Ed. Do take a look. :-D — Instantnood 14:41, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

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