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Thanks!

You gave me the valuable info, so I can implement relevant articles. Keep up the good work! --Caspian blue (talk) 22:06, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Mock duck flavour

Excuse me, but would you happen to know how mock duck's (or mock chicken's) flavour is achieved? Is it really done without using non-vegetarian ingredients? I ask because I don't trust the lists of ingredients on food imported from East Asia after a bad experience with Nongshim, not to mention Western translations that often cut the number of ingredients in half. – Wikipeditor (talk) 03:04, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! – Wikipeditor (talk) 22:58, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

I have sampled a can for important Wikipedia research. The article said “distinctive flavour” so I expected it to taste like real killed ducks, but it turns out it's just slightly sweet (and otherwise fairly tasteless) gluten, like I should have expected after reading your helpful explanation. A great day for food science! – Wikipeditor (talk) 2008-10-30

Smoking as a wok cooking method

Thanks for correcting my revert. I really thought that smoking in a wok was a fraud. The 'zhangcha duck' recipe seems to be rather special and I doubt that anybody without a knowledge of that recipe will think of such a kind of smoking. The wikilink to smoking you inserted actually links to the classical kind of smoking which is not done in a wok. This problem should be addressed more clearly in the article, I think. -- DrJunge (talk) 19:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

charcoal

Will you let me reword it? Only what I added is not all about charcoal biccies, they are incidental, it's about charcoal tablets, whose only active ingredient is charcoal. Give me a sec to fix it please. Sticky Parkin 21:57, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree with how you worded it in activated charcoal, thank you. You said all that was necessary. The other bit (biscuits) was someone else's bit. I just think the biscuits aren't independently notable and don't need their own page. Also the biscuit and some of the other pages said this is a historical remedy when it's not just that. Rightly or wrongly, it's still in use, and I wouldn't say it was "alternative medicine" either, I think it's only notable enough for the charcoal page, if you see what I mean. We agree with each other- I just think the biccie info is only worth a redirect/merge in the manner that you have rewritten it in the activated charcoal page. I think we can mention it was once sold in the form of a biscuit (because that's a fact) but we don't need to witter on at length about it in thhe article- that was just someone else's info I kept out of respect because it was well-referenced, but didn't think was all that significant (that's why I redirected it.) Sticky Parkin 22:11, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

I am not obliged to do anything other than WP:BOLD and WP:MERGE on an infrequently edited article, ask anyone. Nothing is required for a merge I considered uncontroversial per WP:MERGE, of an article that is hardly ever edited.

"Merging is a normal editing action, something any editor can do, and as such does not need to be proposed and processed. If you think merging something improves the encyclopedia, you can be bold and perform the merge, as described below. Because of this, it makes little sense to object to a merge purely on procedural grounds, e.g. "you cannot do that without discussion" is not a good argument."

I don't think there will be much response to a merge discussion. Most discussions should be given a week, then acted upon. Are the biscuits so important to you?:) :) :) They aren't to me or anyone else I don't think :) I really don't care what the outcome is but don't think this is worth an article. But feel free to attempt to have a discussion. Sticky Parkin 01:33, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I've actually worked to rescue a few food articles from AfD (see my userpage), I rescued Macaroni soup and cheese pudding, those are two I can remember, and I agree with you that they are often shockingly undervalued. This to me wasn't a food article though (are people going to eat charcoal biscuits for fun :) ) I came across it from Category:Alternative medicine which I'm trying to clean up. The article said that this is a historical food- I think it's not a historical remedy as it's still used as a home treatment for indigestion etc, and my alternative thought would be a move to charcoal tablets so we could include the different, modern uses. Anyway, we'll see. :) Sticky Parkin 01:57, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Oooh does it? I'm surprised. I didn't think charcoal and carbon were entirely the same thing but then I'm not a chemist, hence I'm tinkering with the alternative medicine category lol:) Sticky Parkin 02:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok, if it helps you could try and steal the info I put in the carbon article back if you want lol, or steal the sources, they were from pubmed and google books anyway. Now I personally want you to find a source that people ate the scrumptious charcoal biscuits for their delicious taste, as well as just for medicinal purposes. Digestive biscuits are scrumptious, we eat them to this day and we don't always need a medical reason.:) I suspect the charcoal biscuits were sold (this is what the article seems to say) more as a patent medicine. My only objection was that I thought you might be an alt.med POV pusher who just wanted as many alt.med articles as possible for the sake of it. But if you're fighting for the food articles, that I can support.:) Sticky Parkin 04:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, sir

I appreciate the feedback and the compliment. Sometimes my edits aren't appreciated because my "payoff" is to leave a snarky explanation. I do get a lot of satisfaction out of seeing something read better, though. --Preston McConkie ^{(talk • contribs)} 05:50, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Suanmeitang

Hi, can you please help at Talk:Suanmeitang? Badagnani (talk) 14:02, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

No, it's about the juice. Like we have tomato and tomato juice. The main thing is that there's an editor there who is disputing strongly that the translations from Chinese are good. It would really help if you look through the discussion page and the sources and give your input. Thanks, Badagnani (talk) 07:50, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Question

Chinese desserts looks good. Could use some images. I have a question: was the 中国广播民族乐团 founded in 1953 or 1949? I can't figure it out from http://www.cbpg.cn/gbmzyt/ . Thanks. Badagnani (talk) 23:15, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Also, is it based in Beijing? Is there an address given? Badagnani (talk) 23:28, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, is that in the 朝阳门 district? Badagnani (talk) 02:23, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

百戏图

Hi, can you tell me what 百戏图 means? Thank you, Badagnani (talk) 02:34, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, there's a famous one showing very ancient musical instruments, I think going back as far as the Han Dynasty, here. Badagnani (talk) 22:20, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Clay pot cooking

Hi, could you add the tone on the first syllable of wabào in the Chinese section of Clay pot cooking? Badagnani (talk) 01:19, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, could you also add pinyin for 煲仔類 and 煲仔 there? Badagnani (talk) 22:25, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Copyright Violation

Your last edit of Note_(perfumery) on May 25, 2008 contains what I believe to be 3 sections of blatant copyright violation. To give you the benefit of the doubt, I have added the copypaste template to the offending sections with a link to what is probably the source of the content. I believe that theirs came first, as you generated all of this content which so happens to be the majority of said article in five minutes, it used to be verbatim with the probable source and now differs slightly, and finally the copyright on the source page is a year older than your work on the wiki page. If this is the case, please fix the article so that it complies with the Wikipedia guidelines and no longer violates copyright.

Thanks. -- Urikon (talk) 16:00, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I replied to this at User talk:Urikon Sjschen (talk) 21:24, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

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Replied to this at User_talk:Moonriddengirl#About_the_copyright_violation Sjschen (talk) 21:26, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for my mistake. I've replied to you there. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Yangguan

Hi, could you check Yangguan, especially the etymology which is found on some travel websites? Badagnani (talk) 09:25, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Need Chinese name

Hi, can you help me find the Chinese name (or at least transliteration) for piñata? Supposedly this Mexican tradition of children hitting a candy-filled papier-mache animal was noted by Marco Polo in China. But every website I found in Chinese spelled piñata in roman letters. Thanks very much, Badagnani (talk) 17:35, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Chinese rank system

Hi, Sjschen, I'm seeking your opinion on Chinese rank system during dynasties because many of them were adopted to Korean bureaucratic systems so did other neighboring countries. In Korean term, the rank system is called "品階". But I could not find "correct English terms" for the subject nor articles. Therefore if there is any precedent of similar articles in Chinese subjects, I want to refer to them. Could you help me enlighten the subject? Thanks.--Caspian blue 21:38, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Notability of Roo'ra

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• Hi. It wasn't the notability so much as the lack of content. It appeared at first glimpse to be just another band vanity article and I wasn't the only user to think so. It was already tagged for deletion when I deleted it. I can easily recreate the article, but you'll have to expand it in order to keep this sort of misunderstanding from happening again. Thanks for asking. It'll be up by the time you get this message. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 21:24, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

K-pop artist article

Most of the information on that page is already present in Wikipedia's article. For everything else:

집 jip, preceded by a number, means “…th album”.

수상 susang means “award(s)”.

대한민국 영상·음반 대상 Daehan minguk yeongsang–eumban daesang must be what is rendered in English as “Korea Visual & Phonogram Grand Prize Award” on this MIAK page. I guess that award is awarded by the Korea Movie & Video Industry Association (KMVIA; in Korean: (사[단법인]) 한국 영상 산업 협회 Hanguk yeongsang saneop hyeophoe; the “(사)” is for sadan beobin “corporation”; source for English and Korean names: [1]) and the Hanguk eumak saneop hyeophoe (한국 음악 산업 협회; their Korean site says (in English) Music Industry Association of Korea (the aforementioned MIAK), but their English site says Recording Industry Association of Korea), and perhaps other bodies. In 1995, the band won that award in the so-called Golden disk category (골든디스크 부문 goldeundiskeu bumun).

SBS 가요 대전 대상 [eseu-bi-eseu] gayo daejeon daesang is an award obviously related to SBS, but I can't find its English name. The band won this one in 1995, too.

Curiously, the page gives 100-[=baeg]iljjae mannam (1994) as their debut (데뷔 debwi), but the album list contains an entry that is equally labeled “1집”: Roots Of Reggae (1994). I don't know what to make of that.

Also, the page has The Final (1997) where the Wikipedia article has Roo'Ra (1997). Perhaps that is the same album, and one title is for foreign markets?

The comment in the review section only says “That was our favourite band at middle school.”

KMOCT romanisation (which is identical with Wikipedia's romanisation except for a few some surnames) of the band members' names is I Sang(-)min, Go Yeong(-)uk and Gim Ji(-)hyeon (hyphens, although generally not used by ROK authorities, are optional), but these should not be used in the article text unless it is very unclear how they usually spell their own names. The band itself would be Rulla in KMOCT. AFAIK rulla is a nonsense sound for singing, much like “la la la” in English.

I think the Wikipedia article should not give album names and such in the form of hanja(hangeul), but hangeul(hanja) or just hangeul, because that's how the albums are listed here. Except perhaps if hanja feature more prominently than hangeul in the title's display on the actual cover.

Hope this helps; I am not that interested in pop music bands and don't want to spend much time on them here, particularly if they already enjoy the industry's support. Thank you for your contributions on soy, gluten and whatnot! – Wikipeditor (talk)

Naming convention for Chinese foods and usages of Wikitionary

Since you're an active contributor to Chinese cuisine-related articles, you input on ongoing disputes over naming conventions for Chinese food and usages of wikitionary on Chinese characters would be appreciated. WT:WikiProject China#Naming convention for Chinese foods and usages of Wikitionary.--Caspian blue 03:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

List of sources of Chinese culinary history

Could you add some information to the article that is not up for AfD because I don't read simplified Chinese, and could not find sources easily. Your help would be appreciated.--Caspian blue 18:08, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Your citation on tofu

Since Phoenix7777 (talk · contribs) has contested the reliability of a Japanese cookbook (ISBN 978-4104719013) that you used for citation on tofu, I'm informing you of the discussion at Talk:Tofu#Selective blanking by User:Phoenix7777 and contested reliability of a Japanese book. Thanks.--Caspian blue 05:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Pickled tofu

Hi, an editor is trying to move Pickled tofu to Fermented bean curd. Do you think the latter name is more common in English for this item? Badagnani (talk) 05:12, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Kala Namak

Hi, Kala namak, which is consumed in India, is not mined - there are no active volcanoes in the Himalayas - they are fold mountains, so there can possibly no volcanic salts which are mined in Tibet or China. Possibly you are confusing Kala namak with Himalayan salt. So please do not undo my changes - my references especially reference no. 5 are more reliable than your non-verifiable references.

Thanks Thinkspank101 (talk) 12:29, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Please see reference no 1 on the kala namak page. Can I expect you to undo your own changes? [2]

Thinkspank101 (talk) 19:27, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

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