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Rice production in Vietnam

Hi! Thanks for flooding me with literature on floods. I have down loaded most of them. However, the text of a paper on Famine which I downloaded and also read, I forgot to save. Instead, I seem to have pressed the delete button. I am unable to find it in my mail. Will you please send this artcile again? If there is a url where it can be accessed, pl let me know. It has to be quoted to the text I have added yesterday on this famine and Japan's contriibution. --Nvvchar 07:47, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Ok YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 03:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have introduced the famine reference in the article under history section aftewr making some additions to the earlier text. We did some temple articles (Buddhist and Hindu) in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma earlier. We will do it now on temples in Vietnam. Are there any functional Hindu temples now in Hanoi or Saigon?--Nvvchar 08:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, there are at least two functional Hindu temples in Sai Gon (as far as I know). One is located in District 5 (I can't remember extractly the address); and one is located in District 1 (http://thanghoa.net/2010/01/sai-gon-co-chua-nguoi-an/).--AM ^(talk) 10:41, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The one in District 1 is the Mariamman Temple, Ho Chi Minh City, right by Ben Thanh Market; I believe the other is the Sri Thendayyuttha Pani Temple, although I don't know where that one is; there's only one picture on Commons to show for it. An interesting point for me (as I've been working on the Religion in Vietnam article) is how the article refers to the temple as "chùa người Ấn", or "Indian Temple", not "Hindu Temple", probably because the temple is seen as mainly catering to the expat Tamil population, and not, say, the indigenous Cham population. (I'm not as well-informed as I could be on the different flavours of Hinduism, so maybe that'd be blindingly obvious to others.) (That also shows that the article on Hinduism in Vietnam needs a lot of work to explain these differences.) (lots of brackets.) --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 13:43, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Found the address for Sri Thendayyuttha Pani Temple on this picture: Ton That Thiep street, Ben Nghe ward, District 1. See it on Google Maps. Damn, it's right next to Saigon Centre. I've gone there for coffee so many times, and never noticed it! --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 15:33, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have loaded a few images in my sandbox user pages 1 and 10. I am not sure of the captions since the names and brief details given in the flickr images are in the Vietnamese language. May I request you to have a look at them for proper captioning if they are in the provinces referred? Thanks.--Nvvchar 10:34, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

I have now posted the article Rice production in Vietnam as a joint article with you and Dr. Blofeld on 22nd. You may like to tweak the hook or post an alternate hook. Thanks.--Nvvchar 03:13, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Ok, but I didn't do much YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 01:57, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yen Bai

Hi! I was wondering why you had not responded to Dr Blofeld's suggestion of collaboration. Your comments on the history section are most proper considering the propoganda angle. Since I don't have access to a relaible History book on Vietnam, I made use of the available web references.Please go ahead with your valued inputs. Since User:Dragfyre has also been writing articles on Vietnam, and also made some editng on my user page, I requested him also to collobrate with us. You can read his reply on my talk page.--Nvvchar 07:01, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am interested in Hindu temples in Vietnam. Web search did not yield much info on this. If I am not inqusitive where are you located and have you been to Vietnam? Cheers.--Nvvchar 07:01, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Sure, I will photograph the textbook on My Son and email it to you. I think I can find some journal articles on Hindu-Champa deities as well, but not many as Western scholars only focus on history after the French intervention started in the 1790s, mostly on politics/war. I hadn't been quick to start work as my personal expectations of what is a reliable source rules out a lot of things. Almost all English books are only about the last 200 years of history, and most websites are usually not reliable. So I only had the the railways and roads stuff, because I have a map, or if a famous battle occurred in the region. YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 07:42, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in Adelaide. This is not a secret at all, because of the photos I've uploaded of Adelaide and cyclists at the Tour Down Under. I was born in Australia and haven't been to Vietnam and my father has banned us from going to Vietnam; he thinks that the Australian Government considers people who visit communist countries to be security threats, which they don't. The Deputy Prime Ministers Julia Gillard goes to Vietnam for holidays, the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is an open Sinophile who talks in Chinese instead of English to impress the Chinese Communists, the disgraced Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon took undisclosed presents and holidays (which is illegal) from a Chinese businesswoman who got an award from the Chinese government for doing outreach (ie, trying to turn Australian ministers into Chinese spies). But on a more amusing note, my cousin's husband is a not-very-active, largely apolitical member of the Vietnamese Professionals Society. He has a very common name, and a lot of people of the same name from the US kept on getting mistakenly deported the the communist police upon arrival at the airport. YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 07:42, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sent a wikimail with my address this morning (last night in .au) --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 01:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Photoing. Along with snippets from other religion scholars on google books, more than enough for a very fat article YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 01:39, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the addtionan info on Rice production in Vietnam. I have added the text from wiki article on famine in Vietnam. Can you kindly fix the reference, which you have that gives the relevant details. Do you think the coverage is adequate and truly represents the ground situation? ou are welcome to edit it.--Nvvchar 07:21, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Sure. The textbooks should be rolling into your inbox now YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 07:52, 23 June 2010 (UTC) Thanks for the information! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:30, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More coming now, a scholarly article on grain production, Red Rviver Delta and fishing as well. And finishing off the book YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 01:20, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I will raed it now. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk. 07:11, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Review request

This is a bit unusual - you seem to be an active FAR maintainer, and was wondering if you could review Microsoft at here; the usual part is that it's still a FA but I was on a 3-year wikibreak and came back recently and obviously standards have changed, as well as the article a bit due to lost info from vandalism and such. Even if you only have time for cursory glance or just to say "it looks good" would be very much appreciated; feel free to be harsh if need be, like I said, it's an older FA, standards have changed, and most of the older reviewers that I relied on at the time are not present. If you don't have time, I understand as well. RN 08:29, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Right, I'll look YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Banned user is back

Tennis expert is now using two new anonymous ip's to harass me in other areas of wikipedia and to edit tennis articles once more. User:70.253.75.221 and User:97.77.159.243. I know he'll just move to new places but I'm trying to stay on top of it. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:38, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Saffron Terror

I've been involved in some discussions at the page Saffron Terror (See discussion), in which myself and two other users have been discussing whether the 2002 Gujarat violence and the Anti-Christian_violence_in_Karnataka are examples of "saffron terror". Myself and another user are of the opinion that they are not, and User:Bluerasberry disagrees (but has been civil and has been discussing, and that's fine because the page is born out of discussion). However, if you look at the page history User:Akilash (who has been reverting also with his IP) has rebuffed my attempts at even coming to the talk page to discuss. I would rather discuss than have to keep reverting his edits, but a page like this (especially one with words to avoid and possible libel issues, not to mention one so prominently in the news) is extremely delicate. I was hoping you could give me some advice on how to progress, as I think I may be getting sucked in. Cheers, Pectore^talk 03:16, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well since ST is a neologism and slogan of uncertain scope attached to various things, examples can't be used unless some expert categorised it as such, rather than some other bland thing. So some violence by RSS/BD etc can't simply be stated under such labels YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 04:50, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Tinh Xa Trung Tam

More to come, nếu anh cần thêm... Nguyễn Thanh Quang (talk) 07:32, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ashley Mallett

Hello again, could you revisit Ashley Mallett and add in whatever the ref name "ow" is for? Thanks. - Salamurai (talk) 04:53, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Despite having just 2.5 per cent of the country's population, 27% of the Test team will be Tasmanian. lol ;) Must be a record? Aaroncrick ^TALK 06:05, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yeah, no other states have 10X their ratio as they all have at least 8% of the population. Mumbai have often had more with 20m (2%) especially in the way old days when they won everything. Durham has a disproportionate amount these days too YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:26, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And Troy Cooley is a Launnie boy. Boon and Cox are both selectors, too. ;) How many South Australians are in the setup? lol. Just never happened before that all - bit excited! Now if only we can get a AFL and A-league team. Aaroncrick ^TALK 06:39, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

LOL: [1] Aaroncrick ^TALK 09:02, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lol... and Smith should be top 6 or not in. Not another White in India job. North is hopless only plays well at 4/200+ YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:21, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PING

Hi, I emailed you with a request. Tony (talk) 08:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Np

this looks like him too. Wiki contributor 21 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) --Wikireader41 (talk) 04:32, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your signature

I would like to politely request that you refrain from using your full signature on project pages such as WP:GAN, where it was lengthening the already hefty page code by an entire kilobyte. Instead, please just link your name followed by five tildes, or use something such as '''[[User:YellowMonkey|YellowMonkey]]''' (''[[User_talk:YellowMonkey|talk]]'') ~~~~~, which renders as "YellowMonkey (talk) 09:03, 14 July 2010 (UTC)". Your standard signature, while permissible on talk pages, is disruptively huge when placed on project pages. --erachima talk 09:03, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A matter at ANI regarding an issue that you have been involved in

I have brought up an issue at ANI in which another editor on my talk page made claims about a block you placed. See: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Return_of_a_blocked_sockpuppet. Active Banana (talk) 21:00, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your block of User:Abhayakara

Would you care to comment on the unblock request at User talk:Abhayakara?

And I have a request of my own. It would be very helpful if you could post a proper block notice on the talk page. Indeed this is required by the blocking policy. That would save some time when reviewing unblock requests. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:37, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Goodolefactory

I see you also find this editor particularly annoying. I'd like to know who gave him admin tools. So unreasonable and stubborn. He uses his tools to delete things for the sake of it and so laud himself for being so "powerful".... On a more positive note, Nvvchar and I have now expanded User:Nvvchar/Vietnam Province 11. If you have any further additions please add them to the sandbox not the article. We are planning an 11 article DYK in a month's time or so for all 11 provinces of the northeast region of Vietnam. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:56, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PLease expand any of the following over the next few weeks. As you understand Vietnamese your translations of articles from Viet wiki particularly history etc is vital..

Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:43, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll begin with uploading photos from Vietnamese wiki and listing the communes in the table. I'l import the Vietnamese wiki info for start. I would be deeply grateful if you could translate it. Then Nvvchar and I can find sources and build upon it like Yen Bai once youve done the preliminary translation. Could you begin with translating User:Nvvchar/Vietnam Province 1? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:19, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Are you going for GAs or something with it? I wasn't joking about the CU results on the guy though. Are you guys interested in doing ancient temples? A book about My Son (a Champa Hindu temple) has just arrived in my library. I can scan the whole thing. YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 01:16, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not yet. First priority is to expand them all. Yes ancient temples are Nvvchar's speciality! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:03, 22 June 2010 (UTC) Pl have a look at the Vietnam Province 4 draft. Most of the translated texts are not referenced. I tried to fix a few relevant references in English but they were blocked. Has all the text in Vietnamese text in the artcile tranalated? -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk. 05:35, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'll ask someone to have a look as some of the original vi text was pov, pro-communist in parts. All the text has been imported but not finished with translating yet. And the animal and geological terminology has caught me out a bit. YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:21, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RE:User talk:HaydowP#Fair use rationale for File:Natnalex.png

I've replied via HaydowP's talk page. The user keeps adding unsourced material to the Nat and Alex Wolff article and the navigational template. Please block the user, as the user had never responded to any alerts in months (possibly over a year.) Thanx. ATC^{. Talk} 02:45, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I checked, since September 2009 actually. I don't think the problem with the user is "refusing" to respond, nor is the user "purposely" creating vandialism (apart from unsourced material that the user added) but we can't have the user get Wikipedia in any copyright legal issues (especially the uploaded photos the user did that everyone is deleting.) ATC^{. Talk} 23:56, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not seeing anything ercent YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:33, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand, I searched the word "ercent" online and nothing came up. What do mean? ATC^{. Talk} 17:01, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recent YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 04:24, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hanoi: Biograph of a City

Hi, could you send me this one like you said at the project? Though very busy right now, I would like to write smth about my home town on this special occasion. Thanks in advance. Grenouille vert (talk) 06:15, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'll get it organised. Do I have your email address? YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yay :D And thanks for the copy YM. --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 14:35, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Herbert Sutcliffe

Hi YM. Thanks very much for the advice about the online citation syntax. It took a few minutes but I edited the lot on TextPad and they're looking better now, though a few tweaks may be necessary here and there. Much appreciated. ----Jack | ^{talk page} 05:12, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Question about Splittist

Hey YM. What a coincidence that you blocked one of the socks I was reporting at SPI. I have a question. Does this user along with the socks that you blocked that are Splittist have any relation to the A piano on the floor (talk · contribs), Jpggjpeg (talk · contribs), or Hong Kong ICC (talk · contribs)? Elockid ^(Talk) 15:46, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't checked the editing times, but they are separated by an ocean. Ah, what would we do without a Han ethnic supremacist YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:21, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay then. Thanks for checking. Elockid ^(Talk) 01:28, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sheffield

Hello, I noticed you nominated Sheffield for Featured article review a while ago. I just nominated it to be a featured article again, and I welcome your feedback. Thankyou. -- Jack?! 02:35, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll try to have a look YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:21, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnamese diacritics discussion

Hey, I've cleaned up the "In a nutshell" section in the diacritics discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vietnam#Diacritics. When you get the chance, could you please indicate your support or opposition to each consensus point to allow us to determine which points have the most support? I've also added a note to the effect that, for now, these points do not constitute a formal proposal, but just indicate where we're at in our discussion. --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 14:36, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Brown FAR

Oops, I forgot about it. Yes, I'll add some more references from Infotrac, probably on Monday. As for the grammar criticisms, why didn't he just fix them him/herself? I guess I'll do those too. I do have one objection to his critique which I'll place on the FAR page. Cla68 (talk) 07:55, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting other people's edits

Hello yellow,

What are the wikipedia guidelines for reverting edits? There is an article where I reverted the edits of another person, they then re-reverted my changes. A 3rd editor has then reverted the other person's edits who then reverted them once more. Are there rules that I should be aware of in this situation. My concern is that I wish to revert back to what I had changed in the 1st instance. Ozdaren (talk) 13:05, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) See WP:3RR. –xeno^talk 13:08, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please

see the plea I have made on the Australia about your removal of my edits relating to Australia's strength in association football. You accuse me without foundation that my edits are POV. You apparently derive income from writing about cricket - are you sure you are not guilty of bias and partisanship? Silent Billy (talk) 13:32, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No I am not a paid cricket writer YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 04:24, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Income? Boy Yellowmonkey must be really rich by now! I want my share! :P Seriously though soccer is as small as basketball and baseball. Cricket and football (NRL and AFL) are far bigger sport and according to world rankings, we suck at soccer, just look at the SWC! Bidgee (talk) 14:37, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Soccer's a lot bigger in Tasmania than rugby is ;) Aaroncrick ^TALK 08:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That is because Tassie is overseas, though Tassie is rather a small island. ;) Sorry, I love picking on Tassie! :D :P Bidgee (talk) 01:28, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ey! Rude! Haha, yeah I know, very small. One day we might get a side in a national competition ;) Aaroncrick ^TALK 03:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Barobax

you nominated this article before and It was deleted, now It's here again and I put Afd on it, take a look. Spada II ♪♫ (talk) 06:24, 18 July 2010 (UTC) ==File copyright problem with File:Damien_Fleming_graph.[reply]

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Barnstar

Hi YellowMonkey, thanks for the barnstar, it is appreciated! I see you are doing some great work in the cricket area so thanks for that work. Camw (talk) 04:15, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another sock...

of Mukesh... I'm pretty sure it's him - the account was created after the previous account had been blocked - Ur bap (talk · contribs). He again reverts sourced information and his edits are true examples of sneaky vandalism. Shahid • ^Talk2me 19:04, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and a few other on the CU YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 07:05, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mahindra World City, New Chennai

There's a request on WP:RPP wanting full protection on this presumably due to your blanking of content. Apparently an editor is interesting in improving it. Perhaps you could come to some kind of compromise on this? RN 02:31, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well I got reverted again and haven't been back. Nvm, India is just a giant dump of spam and POV YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 07:05, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Done I hope YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 01:02, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Willie Irvine FAC

Hi there, you placed an oppose vote at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Willie Irvine/archive1, on the grounds that the article was based on an autobiography. Well, apparently it isn't, and it was just a misunderstanding on my part. I had thought Irvine had written some of the book, but it appears that writing was done by Dave Thomas. I hope you will revisit the FAC and reconsider your objection. Cheers, Big Dom 07:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Noted YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 06:09, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]