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The Rural Education Action Project released:
For the Chinese Wikipedia, the http://reap.stanford.edu/publications/malnutrition_in_chinas_rural_boarding_schools_the_case_of_primary_schools_in_shaanxi_province
More info:
PRC Government release on rural boarding schools: http://english.gov.cn/2006-06/12/content_307828.htm - http://www.webcitation.org/66K0Nx4In
WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:13, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
I have pictures of specimens on display at the National Zoological Museum of China. I would like to use these images on Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the official stance of the museum is on this issue. Does anyone know? Better still could somebody contact the museum directly and ask on my behalf? Jason Quinn ( talk) 04:39, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
I noticed this Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012/Drafts/Tomb of Sultan Abdul Majid Hassan --- it's been requested to be moved to mainspace. 70.24.244.198 ( talk) 03:52, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
It has been proposed in that Taiji be renamed and moved to Taiji (concept) because T'ai chi ch'uan, “T'ai chi”, is arguably the WP:PRIME target for English speakers. Misspellings, pinyin and Wade-Giles renditions of a word all mean exactly the same thing, however, an " RfD" on certain redirects, seeks to avoid the WP:PRIME guideline by an admittedly fictional distinction: “Pinyin vs Wade-Giles is an unfortunate circumstance brought about by laymen, but the truth is that the (usage) ambiguity surrounds the Wade-Giles version(s), so sadly the line is actually between pinyin & WG, when there shouldn't even be one”.— Machine Elf 1735 21:33, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Geography of China (which may/should be renamed Geography of the PRC) need a frank clean up, rewriting, sourcing. Frankly, it should be one of the 6 best articles of about China/PRC. If some of you can rewrite it, or create a team work for it based on academics or books, that woulb be a appreciable and visible improvement. -- Yug (talk) 17:45, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
There are some books which have received book reviews in major publications. One could write articles about those books.
WhisperToMe ( talk) 07:29, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Kamek98 ( talk · contribs) appears to have been changing 3K articles from knowledge gleaned from Dynasty Warriors 7 (as stated at Talk:Zhuge Dan Rebellion) This may require cleanup. This user also requested to be an administrator... so future cleanup may not be so easy.
65.92.180.188 ( talk) 03:15, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Kamek98 ( talk · contribs) has requested dispute resolution for three article names, you may be interested. Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Wang_Ling_Rebellion.2C_Guanqiu_Jian_and_Wen_Qin_Rebellion.2C_Zhuge_Dan_Rebellion
Can someone also check Zhong Hui's invasion of Shu ? It needs sourcing.
70.24.244.198 ( talk) 01:26, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
I've started a move request at Talk:Qi (Shandong), for moving the article to Qi (state). Your input is welcome there. Best regards. -- Zanhe ( talk) 05:02, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I'm Srikarkashyap.I'm interested in improving PLA articles. Recently, I've added the aircraft flown by PLAN in the lead section like the pages of US Navy, Indian Navy, French navy, etc... I would need more editors to further improve and expand the article.If you have any suggestions or complaints, please contact me. Regards Srikar Kashyap ( talk) 16:24, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
I am university student who has been assigned the project of expanding the stub article about the relations between China and Saudi Arabai. I am currently focusing on China and Saudi Arabia's energy trade. If there are any sources, comments, advice, etc please post to the discussion section of my sandbox. Here is a link to my sandbox article: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Bparker-goos/sandbox&action=edit&redlink=1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bparker-goos ( talk • contribs) 05:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Please assist by weighing in on the new proposed lineage trees. I'm in need of assistance with gathering information on the lineages and constructive feedback.
I will add the links to the trees for the remaining styles as I build them. Thanks. InferKNOX ( talk) 19:16, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone, you're invited to share your views with us at Talk:108 Stars of Destiny#Merger with individual character articles regarding a proposed merger of individual articles on Water Margin characters (more specifically, the Liangshan heroes, including Chao Gai but excluding Song Jiang) with another page 108 Stars of Destiny. Lonelydarksky (暗無天日) contact me (聯絡) 06:16, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
There is an ongoing RM discussion at Talk:Itu Aba Island#Requested move: Itu Aba Island → Taiping Island that users may wish to participate in. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 06:26, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
There seems to be some inconsistency in the naming of articles on stations (see Category:Shanghai Metro stations. Some are "xxx Station", some are "xxx Metro Station", some are "xxxx Station (Shanghai Metro)", and two have the rather silly form "xxxx Station Station" (presumably because they're Metro stations coincident with aboveground train stations). Is there an agreed naming convention? Colonies Chris ( talk) 15:39, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
See Talk:Zhuge Dan Rebellion, a requested move that was not filed at WP:RM has appeared. 70.49.124.225 ( talk) 04:45, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Ali (character), the famous emoticon character, has an article in English that I discovered. The English isn't always the best, and we may have to rely on Chinese sources, due to a dearth in English ones WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:14, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
China self-taken pictures
I am in possession of 1000's of real photos not digital that I would like to offer wikipedians to use on their china articles. However, I don't have a good scanner and don't have the money to buy one. Moreover, these pictures were taken on aps film (lower resolution than 35mm) and thus must be scanned by a very good scanner to allow for good quality. I would like to give these pictures to someone who has access to a good scanner but sending them in the mail would also be expensive. So is there anyone in Minnesota twin cities area that I could drive to and personally give them to so they could upload them to the pictures database of China? There must be other people who have faced this kind of situation. Plus I'm not a techno expert so I'd like someone who is more versed in digital scanning and photoshopping to help. Whoisgalt ( talk) 15:42, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
In the dark and mid-evil time of 1999-2000 and 2002:-) 1999-00 = Zhaoqing (have the China Pabst Blue Ribbon factory interiors!!, Guangdong province, Haikou and Sanya of Hainan island, Hong Kong, Macau, Kunming, Xian, Lijiang, Yangshuo, Beijing, and 2002 (shanghai area, dalian, Sichuan, Qingdao, Shenyang, South Korea, Dandong China - City bordering north korea and various other tidbits... I of course wouldn't be handing you over all of them.. I would go through pick the good ones and with good focus and lighting. I'm guessing the total based on what I've already been looking through would be 100-300 pictures that I could offer, good quality ones...I've got a lot of junk!!! For more than a few I don't remember where exactly I took them or sometimes even what exactly they are of but in this case they could just be general interest pictures for beautifying and the like. Whoisgalt ( talk) 16:30, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Good Idea...I just called my countys libary helpline and they don't have public scanners. College and universities have scanners but technically you have to be a student to use them :-( So I'm not left with many options. Ups/kinkos stores offer scanning but for a fee. Whoisgalt ( talk) 17:51, 14 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whoisgalt ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
I think a special area for specifically chinese treaty ports will be very useful. Yes, this port system occurred in other asian countries but no other countries were affected by the trend as much as china. There already exists an article "treaty ports" but I think china deserves its own. It plays such a large role in its history and even its modern consciousness of feeling bullied or hedged in by the West. And where do you think the idea of SEZ special economic zones came from, from the international settlements/treaty ports memories/histories (i actually did my college thesis on this topic arguing that the SEZ's were a historical continuation of the treaty ports, but self imposed instead of from the outside). Even though the ports/settlements caused much pain and discrimination, they did cause large amounts of trade (and exploitation) and stimulated the economy and were testing zones for new policies and economics; just like the special economic zones are. I have particular interest in the Shenzhen special economic zone and canton treaty port/settlement and this topic and the other ports are only very very lightly covered on wiki, perhaps 3 paragraphs for something that played a monumental role in the modern and qing era history of China. And this is not to mention the opium wars..They are covered very widely but how about how they are connected to the opening of the treaty ports...Sorry for going on such a tirade but this is a very important subject that is covered very little if at all on wiki china.
Now to SEZ's...Yes there are these zones all over the world and there is a very short article on international ones but what about the Chinese ones. The article exists but is very very short considering the importance of the topic. They might not be playing the same main role they played in the late 7o's and 80's but their impact is vast. What other countries SEZ's served to help to change a country from communism to capitalism? Which other ones played such big roles in teaching their governments how to reform and open up their economies? Shenzhen (with HK), Zhuhai (with Macau) and Xiamen (with taiwan) I think are the most important ones, I know there is one in Hainan but that was a total failure, anyone going to the island and seeing all the empty closed buildings will see that;why did it fail, because it wasn't connected to an outside source of overseas/foreign chinese like the other ones were. The vast majority of the original investments in SEZ's were from overseas chinese HK,Taiwan...This topic is not to be found. Now is it a coincidence that these special economic zones of the modern era are the exact same ones that were treaty ports in the 1800's? I don't think so, and that topic needs to be explored and linked together. I will take on some of that responsibility of improving the SEZ's but I will need a lot of help and support two start the other article about chinese treaty ports.
Thanks for putting up with my longwindedness. Whoisgalt ( talk) 15:12, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
I have already created the [[ ]] to make this an entry but I haven't started it. There is already a "local specialties" articles but guys, what country has every city, country, region known for special products,foods,alcohol,arts and crafts,products, historical oddities and the such. China isn't a mass market in terms of most products and ideas yet like Western countries are and thus still has many small local characteristics that are very noteworthy and give a good window into the culture and flavor of the country. And in the coming years much of this will be lost. Anyone want to help on this article? I am interested in Zhaoqing city and county and possibly guangdong versions of it. Maybe people could each pick a county,city,region their familiar with and find all the specialties for it and descriptions/history/modern economics of it. I think we would need a lot of native chinese help on this but it could be done. I was thinking of categorizing it by region (for ones that cross provincial borders) and then by province then county -city so on. What does everyone think of this idea? Whoisgalt ( talk) 14:36, 14 May 2012 (UTC) Whoisgalt ( talk) 13:49, 14 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whoisgalt ( talk • contribs) 13:18, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello Everybody! In order to improve Wikiedia’s coverage of articles relating to China and to maintain the goals of this Wikiproject I plan to create a new entry on Gender inequality in China. This entry would be an appropriate addition to the WP: China because it would provide comprehensive information on a significant problem in China that is currently not presented on Wikipedia. The current entry on Gender Inequality has a subsection titled “Gender Inequality Across the Globe” but it only provides a brief summary of international gender inequality issues. There is no reference to the gender disparities that plague China. I propose to add an overview of gender inequality in China under the “Gender Inequality Across the Globe” subsection and link it to my new Wikipedia entry which will cover legislation, cultural/societal norms, and implications in regards to family structure, education, healthcare, and employment. I hope that other contributors will continue my contributions by adding subsections including but not limited to, the history of gender inequality and the impacts of gender inequality on sexuality. If you have any suggestions for the execution of my proposed entry, please let me know. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. Nqogu ( talk) 17:19, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
== Proposed Entry: local Chinese specialties == I have already created the [[ ]] to make this an entry but I haven't started it. There is already a "local specialties" articles but guys, what country has every city, country, region known for special products,foods,alcohol,arts and crafts, historical oddities and the such. China isn't a mass market in terms of most products yet like Western countries are and thus still has many small local characteristics that are very noteworthy and give a good window into the culture and flavor of the country. Anyone want to help on this article? I am interested in Zhaoqing city and county and possibly guangdong versions of it maybe people could each pick a county,city,region their familiar with and find all the specialties for it and descriptions/history/modern economics of it. I think we would need a lot of native chinese help on this but it could be done. I was thinking of categorizing it by region (for ones that cross provincial borders) and then by province then county -city so on. What does everyone think of this idea? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whoisgalt ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
I would appreciate at least a translated version of this article from the japanese Wikipedia version: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国帰還者連絡会. 190.191.50.114 ( talk) 07:27, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Basketball (particularly NBA) is very very big in China especially in recent years with Yao Ming and Jeremy Lin being so big. I think the topic is really fascinating from an anthropological standpoint and also as a modern cultural phenomenon. Any basketball fans out there interested? I would be interested in the anthro part of it and cultural but not so much the basketball. Any takers :-) ? Whoisgalt ( talk) 07:37, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm on a roll!
I think the China project is a very worthwhile project and due a lot of attention. China is rising in the world of nations. I have several professors that might remember me from my college days and some that don't but who would be softer if they knew I was one of their students. Why not try to contact them and see if they would like to help out with contributions or by reviewing articles for accuracy and fullness. Or they could give suggestions and offer good sources. Whats more, they could encourage there hundreds of students to use it in conjunction with their studies and papers. To get ideas and to give ideas. I remember one professor whose specialty was "colonial policing in the international settlement of Shanghai" Circa early 1900's. She probably even wrote a book or periodical about it. Where else would such a specialized expert be available? And professors are very used to the citing and article writing process. This could also spread to other parts of Wiki. And why not include undergrads and grads who are writing or who have written specialized papers or thesis (what's the plural for thesis!!!) on China? All the information would be fresh in their minds and they would have all their sources and cites from their papers. And what about think tankers, they spend their whole careers learning about relevant topics. We might not know them personally but I think a few could be convinced to help out with a nice email or a call from a friendly and warm wikipedian. Please let me know what others think. Am I stepping over some unspoken line for wanting to do this? How can kindly inquiring to see if people might help out and from ones that we know or whose intelligence we respect be a bad thing? I've already tried to recruit an old friend who I lost contact with who knows a lot about China to come and help me out on certain topics. If everyone did this the China project and wikipedia would be much more content rich and well groomed. Whoisgalt (talk) 08:13, 15 May 2012 (UTC) Whoisgalt ( talk) 09:20, 15 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whoisgalt ( talk • contribs) Whoisgalt ( talk) 09:20, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Okay then thanks for the ding..Hopefully more will ding in. I will try to contact 2 or 3 of the professors that I actually remember and lets hope they are still there. They always pretend to remember you to make you feel good so I'll just go with it! Whoisgalt ( talk) 14:06, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
It's not that hard I don't think. I think we could let them just write the content and deal less with the nitty gritty. Let them specialize in what they do best, that's how we developed from the cavemen :-) They take a topic write about it and then drop them like bombs for others to work out. That would then give them incentive to contribute. Sure it might get changed some but if it is so in-depth and detailed a person would have to go out and read a handful of books just to have the knowledge to change it. I just started 5 days ago and I just created my first page already, albeit a very rudimentary one due to my lack of skills and shortage of information on the subject. How did I do this? I just opened two of the same page and looked at how the mark-ups matched up with the final result. If I were to go through and do this seriously I think I could reach an intermediate level within a week or so. Check it out if your interested China Pabst Blue Ribbon Whoisgalt ( talk) 15:09, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Could we make a list of not so covered very well topics and then distribute that to the professors and let them pick what they are interested in. Or ask what their strengths and interests are and let them choose themselves or we pick the ones of their strengths that aren't covered enough. We could do active professors and retired (the retired ones may still be interested in the research but no longer professionally doing it yet still want to contribute to the learning field) They could write summaries on those topics and gave general citations (per individual little event might be too much to ask)and then each person could pre-edit them before posting on wiki. Or post the original and let wikipedians take over. Or they could give us articles/periodicals that they have published previously on specific topics(not books,too tedious) and we could go through and cherry pick the good stuff that we need and ferret out the thesis bias if we must. I've got three chinese subject professors that fit the bill and others who studied about china in college might have just as many. This would solve the problem of professors having to deal with the nitty gritty of wiki but still allow them to contribute to human knowledge (which is what they are already doing for their career). Whoisgalt ( talk) 11:27, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I reckon that there may be a relatively large contingent of Wikipedians living in Shanghai... if so, I think it would be beneficial to go around the neighbourhood and take some pictures, particularly of the buildings listed at this template:
I don't imagine this to be all too difficult... even if you snap a picture with an iPhone just walking around town or while commuting to work. Same can be done with subway stations etc. Colipon+( Talk) 02:28, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
There is an ongoing RfC at Talk:Chinese characters#RfC: Simplified Chinese within the infobox image regarding whether or not Simplified Chinese should be removed from the infobox image on that article. It would be helpful if a third opinion can be provided to assist in forming consensus. If you would like to participate in the discussion, please feel free to do so. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 10:00, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
User BOY ( talk · contribs) has been going around town adding Politburo membership to the infoboxes of a series of articles dealing with Politburo members. While I don't feel terribly passionate about this issue, I do not think membership in any sort of council is necessary in the infobox as a separate item - and in general we should restrict the number of official roles in the infoboxes to avoid clutter. In addition, I also do not believe being an NPC deputy should be segregated to its own section in these politicians' infoboxes. If there are no objections to this I will begin reverting these changes. But I wanted to start the discussion to see what other user's views are on which positions are 'infobox' material and which are not. Colipon+( Talk) 19:14, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Due to contentious editing at Template:American cuisine, this has resulted in the deletion of the image at Chinese cuisine template. You may wish to discuss whether to keep the image or not, but someone should watch the template to see if further contentious editing at American cuisine results in spillover to your template. 70.24.251.208 ( talk) 11:31, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
An user has proposed the move at Talk:Flag of the People's Republic of China#Requested move. -- Cold Season ( talk) 15:36, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
{{ User Guangzhou}} has been nominated for deletion. 70.24.251.208 ( talk) 05:16, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
I searched for "北京昌平区秦城一号" in Google Maps and got this
Is this Qincheng Prison? WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:28, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking for aviation accident reports at http://www.caac.gov.cn/ but the site's only in Chinese. Are they hosted on here? Where do I find them? WhisperToMe ( talk) 04:07, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
There is also CAAC Flight 3303 (1982, B-266), but I have doubts it will be online. -- Chinese Wikipedia give some reasonable coverage Pol430 talk to me 16:13, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
The first version of a report on the use of self-published sources is now available, in Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia reliability. Some of the self-published sources listed in the report pertain to this project.
Suggestions on the report itself (a discussion has started here), and help in remedying the use of the self-published items that relate to this project will be appreciated. History2007 ( talk) 06:18, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is simply a hoax or the equivalent of an April Fool's joke. Any advice on this would be welcome. Dougweller ( talk) 08:19, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
Can someone add Chinese positions to Astronaut ranks and positions ? 70.24.251.208 ( talk) 06:47, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
An earlier requested-move survey generated lots of controversy and an arbitration case. Therefore, this one is being posted here and in many other places, to gather a very wide range of opinions outside of the Scotland and Australia WikiProjects. |
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, which proposes to move:
Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette ( talk) 03:39, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Concerning the following articles: Sino-Xiongnu War, Gojoseon–Han War, Goguryeo–Wei War, Goguryeo–Sui War, Goguryeo–Tang War, Silla–Tang War, Ming–Kotte War, Ming–Hồ War, Mongol–Jin War, Gaya–Silla War, Goguryeo–Yamato War, Goryeo–Khitan War.
The move request is at [1].-- Cold Season ( talk) 02:11, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Macclesfield Bank#RfC. CMD ( talk) 00:19, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Why are the names of the emperors of Ming and Qing dynasties listed with the title "emperor" coming after the name? Perhaps I misunderstood it, but if the title is in English (emperor, king, etc.), you should follow the English convention, only if the title is not originally English (Khan, Huang, Di, etc.) do you follow the convention whatever the original language uses. Therefore you should have Emperor Qianlong, Kublai Khan, Qin Shi Huang, etc. But if you look at some of these pages, you'd find that in the same page you'd have contradictory naming conventions, for example, in Emperor Qianlong, you'd find Qianlong Emperor, Empress Xiaoxianchun, Prince Bao. Why?
If this has been discussed before, please direct me the relevant place. I'm not asking for anything to be changed, just curious about the rationale. Hzh ( talk) 23:35, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
D.E. Mungello, in the preface to one of his books, explains this convention as follows: The term "Kanxi" is a reign title rather than a name, and this explains why this book refers to the "Kangxi Emperor" rather than to "Emperor Kangxi". For similar reasons, we would refer to Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the "New Deal President" rather than "President New Deal". Then he continues to explain what the actual names of the Kangxi Emperor were. (The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800, page xiv). -- Vmenkov ( talk) 14:47, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
I just came across an article on jade which is highly dubuious - Ancient Old Jade. Many of the jade pieces look like obvious fake to me, i.e. styles not old enough, or forms unknown in ancient period, or just plain bad. For example, I don't think I have ever seen ancient figures of the terracotta army made of jade, so that looks like a modern invention to me. I don't really know much about jade (I'm not even sure that the category "Ancient Old Jade" exists, it is a very odd term), so I can't pronounce anything definite about them apart from that they look highly suspicious, can someone who know more about this do something about this page? It is possible that this page may have been created for fraudulent purpose, so a deletion may be necessary if a complete rewrite is not possible. Hzh ( talk) 10:23, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
I am considering adding a hatnote to warn about the content of this article before the issue is resolved, but not sure of the right way to do it. There are too many fake items in there (perhaps all of them) and it gives me serious concerns. Hzh ( talk) 11:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
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Ancient Old Jade is a jade terminology of jade category to be distinguished from Modern Jade. This jade terminology is well-known by jade dealers and collectors. In Chinese they say 高古玉 (spelling as: Gao Gu Yu) or just 古玉 (spelling as: Gu Yu) as Ancient Old Jade in English.
Basic Concepts of Authenticity Examinations against Fakes of Ancient Old Jades
(1) Scratch Test: Jades are firm enough to resist from Scratch Test by human finger nails.
(2) Semi-Translucence Test: Jades are semi-translucent under the light of portable flashlight.
(3) Sound Test: The sound of a jade knocked slightly on another jade is just like that from a musical instrument and very clear. It’s not such heavy as those sounds knocked by stones or plastic goods.
(4) Soakage Color Test: The soakage color formed in the earth for thousands of years are natural. People are used to put Ancient Old Jades in pure clear warm water for at least one day and one night to see if the soakage color is still remained the same as usual before to judge if it’s dyed manually. From long-term basis, the manually dyed Fakes will fade their false soakage colors into one another gradually.
(5) Age Test: The Ancient Old Jades must have the appearance and totems of Imperial Royal His Majesty Dignity of an Emperor or a King. This is quite different from the modern jade carved work of art designed just for an Art purpose only.
(6) Carvings of Holes Test: The holes of Ancient Old Jades were not straight penetrated from one side. They were penetrated from two sides and formed a curve path gap between two holes from each side.
(7) Carvings of Lines Test: The inclined feminine lines of Ancient Old Jades were not carved by machine tools that make lines straight forward with two sides of line wall straight upward vertically. They were carved one side of line wall straight upward vertically, while another side of line wall plane inclined by ancient bronze jade carving wheels.
(8) Totems test: The Ancient Old Jade must have Jade Carving Totems used in that dynasty to be presented to the Imperial Royal His Majesty Dignity of an Emperor or a King.
(9) Smooth Carvings Test: The Ancient Old Jades were carved by imperial skillful hand-made jade carving masters and must be carved simply, clearly and smoothly upon specially selected solid fine jades. This kind of carving is not existed in modern world by machine tools and art carving artists or sculptors.
(10) Weight (Density) Test: A true experienced jade collector or dealer can easily tell the difference between a Jade and other stones by just holding a Jade in hand to feel its heavy weight of high density.
(11) Surface Test: The surface of a jade is very smooth and quite different from other stones. A true experienced jade collector or dealer can easily tell the difference between a Jade and other stones by just touching the surface of a jade carved work of art gently with his fingers.
(12) Color Test: A true experienced jade collector or dealer can easily tell the difference between a Jade and other stones by just examining its natural beautiful color appeared in front of human eyes.
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The above contents have been added in the article of Ancient Old Jade to avoid unnecessary mistakes and misunderstandings of readers outside of jade world. -- Orionandhsu ( talk) 09:04, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
It's just an article written on a subject of Ancient Old Jade and has nothing to do with Possible Fraud guessed by somebody. If someone has different opinions about the contents of this article, he should then join to edit the contents to improve this subject. It's really not good to delete the whole subject of Ancient Old Jade for interfering the readers' rights to understand this subject. -- Orionandhsu ( talk) 14:31, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Orionandhsu ( talk · contribs) is under investigation for spamming and sockpuppeting, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Orionwebmuseum -- 76.65.131.160 ( talk) 05:54, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi all, I am improving the Corona Australis article and need some more information about this website, which google translate can't read - i.e. what institution it is and other information that I can add into its reference template. Also, is it a reliable source?
While I am here, I am trying to look around to embellish the chinese folklore/astronomy section of the article (chinese characters for chinese words would be greatly appreciated). I have found this and referenced a bit of it - some others turn up on google books too. Anyone more familiar with folklore would be most welcome to help out....cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 14:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
RfC: Should the spelling of Vietnamese names follow the general usage of English-language reliable sources? Examples: Ngo Dinh Diem, Ho Chi Minh, and Saigon, or Ngô Đình Diệm, Hồ Chí Minh, and Sài Gòn. The RfC is here. Kauffner ( talk) 12:31, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure what to think about this sort of addition. Examples:
Should it be in the lede? History section instead? Infobox? Not at all? I guess it's more information, so that's good. But is it useful? Plus, the "Chinese Postal Map Romanisation" seems so long, and rather dominates the first sentence of the lede. I'm not that sure it serves most of the visitors most of the time.
I can see it being challenged later on, so best see what folks think before zillions are added. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:13, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi all,
This is to let you know that I've been working with the International Dunhuang Project group at the British Library to plan a multi-day editing event in late October focused on Central Asian archaeology ( details). As well as contributions from IDP staff, we're hoping to get involvement from academics and students at UCL, and planning a session for interested Wikipedians.
If you're interested in taking part (online or offline), or you'd like further information when we've more details organized, please let me know or sign up here. Andrew Gray ( talk) 13:18, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
I have requested a move for the article bopomofo, an article covered by this Wikiproject, to Zhuyin fuhao. Your participation in the discussion would be appreciated. -- PalaceGuard008 ( Talk) 14:07, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Where I get ethnic composition of China prefectures and counties by cencus?-- Kaiyr ( talk) 16:26, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Please see here. A user who can't read Chinese is using district lists to generate township substubs. I don't think it is a very good idea to do that without at least making sure zh interwikis and preemptive disambiguation. (A well-written bot would probably do better work than this user). Please see also the history at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/User:Jaguar and then comment at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Jaguar_again. — Kusma ( t· c) 13:56, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Where I get Percent of Taiwanese aborigines by Counties of Taiwan?-- Kaiyr ( talk) 14:33, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Requesting a reassessment for Stroke (CJKV character). A number of significant updates have been made since this was last assessed. Missylou2who ( talk) 20:07, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Censorship in the Republic of China has been requested to be renamed, see Talk:Censorship in the Republic of China -- 76.65.131.160 ( talk) 05:15, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Are there Census data for spaekers of language of PRC? Where I get it? For example quanty of miao language by Chna census?-- Kaiyr ( talk) 16:52, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Good links about China division http://chinadataonline.org/cgepublic/cityclient16/# -- Kaiyr ( talk) 19:18, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Template:Tea map china province locator has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 ( talk) 07:36, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
It is strange that 12 ethnics depopulated in 2000-2010. Why? Mistake in census?-- Kaiyr ( talk) 07:10, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
This is a bit off-topic, but is posted here because China is a neighboring country and it is desirable to get as wide participation as possible for a potentially controversial title change. |
A requested move survey has been started (by Marcus Qwertyus ( talk)) at Talk:Burma, which proposes to move:
Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — P.T. Aufrette ( talk) 22:56, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Anybody from Changsha? I'm looking for a snapshot of Guishan Guanyin of the Thousand Hands and Eyes. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:51, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Template:PremierofChina has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 ( talk) 00:52, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of 2012 Summer Olympics broadcasters#Macau. Has TDM in Macau simulcast CCTV in mainland China for Olympics coverage before 2012 games? JSH-alive/ talk/ cont/ mail 14:53, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Category:Tiangong and Category:Shenzhou programme have been proposed to be renamed. There's also an issue on which English variant should be used. As HK has been part of China since 1997, would HK English be the preferred form of English? Would HK English use "program" or "programme" ? -- 70.24.247.242 ( talk) 02:09, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
See this thread at ANI. GotR Talk 15:45, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Template:China-header has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 ( talk) 11:29, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
There's a request for information on Cantonese braille at the talk page and WPHK. -- 76.65.128.252 ( talk) 11:04, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
I'd like some thoughts from anyone who might be familiar with the campaign: does it call for having its own article? I am better at writing biographies than I am at events, I would say, and my own inclination initially is just to cover it in the relevant articles (mostly Emperor Mingzong of Later Tang, An Chonghui, Meng Zhixiang, and, eventually, when it is created, Dong Zhang), but I am wondering whether the campaign is complicated enough that the better treatment is to cover it largely in a separate article. Thoughts would be appreciated. -- Nlu ( talk) 01:54, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
image:Taklamakan desert sand dunes landsat 7.png has been nominated for immediate deletion. -- 76.65.128.252 ( talk) 07:42, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
image:SunYatSen.jpg has been sent for immediate deletion due to lack of a source, but it is tagged as a public domain photo. -- 76.65.128.252 ( talk) 12:46, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
File:Yi Syllabary Chart.svg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.252 ( talk) 05:56, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
According to chinese sources, since 2011 Suifenhe is not a part of Mudanjiang Prefecture-level city, now it directly subordinates to the Heilongjiang province. Is it necessary to change the maps and info in articles? -- Slb nsk ( talk) 08:12, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
I have posted a image request of the former headquarters (大北电报公司大楼) of the Great Northern Telegraph Company at The Bund in Shanghai. I would be most grateful if any wikipedian in Shanghai could take a free-use photo of this building at 7 East Zhongshan Road, since it can be used at multiple language versions dealing with this company.-- Bothnia ( talk) 12:02, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Im an experienced wiki editor but newbie in wikipedia. I want to start adding content about geological formations, deposits and such to wikipedia. I have copyright permission of 150 pages worth of formation information of a book (equals to approx 750 formations each worth its own article) the information I can add would be location, age of formations, English and Chinese names and many have information of where the name was first coined and what the geological formation is actually made of. So my question is to help future proof my work. Should I continue adding them to one big dated List at List of Chinese geological formations? or should I delete that page (since I created it) and merge them into it's own category page?
Category:Chinese literary derivative works has been nominated to be merged into the Chinese classics category. -- 76.65.128.252 ( talk) 06:29, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Per the file description on Commons, this coat of arms image is a fictitious hoax. It is a misattributed coat of arms mentioned only in one source (a Russian book), and there are no official Qing records that even mention a "coat of arms". Please, do not use this image. I've had to remove it from Emperor of China. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 03:47, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
After creating the article on Guo Huaruo, I found that the Chinese Wikipedia seems to have a template on PLA officials: zh:Template:中國人民解放軍開國中將 - Would anyone be interested in making an English version of this template? WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:36, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
File:BruceLee1971.jpg is up for deletion. It is a screenshot of Bruce Lee in his only television interview, for The Pierre Berton Show. -- 76.65.131.248 ( talk) 19:40, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
I've just recently created Tibetan Army. I recall that there were a few experts in the modern history of Western China (Xinjiang, the Ma Clique, etc) that were quite active a few months/years ago, where have they all gone? These editors seem to have disappeared (I remember Dyngane being one of them). Currently the article is very short, and I wouldn't mind some additional assistance in improving and expanding the article. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 04:58, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
I'd really appreciate it if someone could help out at WP:RSN#Wikisource as a source? where I've brought up sourcing problems in Zhang Xianzhong#The Seven Kill Stele - I deleted this section a while ago as it had an August 2009 fact tag and I couldn't find any useful sources, even after looking at [4]. Wikisource is being used [5] and now [6] which itself is sourced to something referred to as 稿源: 中华网论坛 编辑: 胡永秋. There are also talk page complaints about the other sources for the rest of the article. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 17:51, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at the China section of Talk:Caste? There are some pretty blatant errors in the article, like calling the shi of late imperial China, or scholar-officials, a hereditary nobility. Some editors have argued that the article has become a WP:COATRACK by editors of South Asian articles to push the view that the caste system is not linked to Hinduism, although some have also defended the article's portrayal of the caste as a "universal" phenomenon. Whether or not that's a valid argument, based on what I've read of the sources, I feel that the editors have misrepresented (intentionally or not) the sources in the China section (one source cited never calls the Chinese system a caste, and in fact explicitly warns against it) to make their point of view. Involvement by other editors familiar with Chinese history would be most helpful.-- Ninthabout ( talk) 01:45, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm working on the article about the edible mushroom Phallus indusiatus, with the goal of soon bringing it to FAC. I was wondering if someone from this project might be able to help me find a reliable source for the latter half of the following sentence (and comment if the transliteration is accurate). Sasata ( talk) 19:40, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Since we have a Sea of Japan naming dispute article, should a companion article be created for the South China Sea naming dispute ? As it is the "South Sea" (PRC/ROC), "East Sea" (Vietnam), "West Philippine Sea" (Philippines) and "South China Sea" (internationally/HK). As the Philippines and HK are English speaking localities of the region, and Vietnam uses "East Sea" internationally in English, there seems to be enough to work from. -- 76.65.131.248 ( talk) 03:14, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
The section, ( example) seems awkward to me. As a legend, it should maybe not be a main, first, and whole section. Also, maybe it should be a template because it appears in so many of these lists. This has always bugged me, but I've never thought of an alternative. Thoughts and suggestions? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 01:39, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Recently a number of categories, including one related to this project, were moved without any discussion. The category related to this project is Category:Chinese television navigational boxes, which was moved to Category:China television navigational boxes. The moves have been opposed and a new discussion is in progress at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 September 17#Television navigational boxes. -- AussieLegend ( talk) 17:37, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
I have created a new navbox for Tang Dynasty topics, Template:Tang Dynasty topics, based on the navbox Template:Han Dynasty topics. It's incomplete, and needs more links, so I'm looking for anyone who could help out.-- Ninthabout ( talk) 15:13, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
FYI, both Taoism and Tao Te Ching have been proposed to be renamed to the Pinyin romanization, see Talk:Tao Te Ching -- 76.65.131.248 ( talk) 22:40, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
The edit here at 2008 Sichuan earthquake http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=2008_Sichuan_earthquake&oldid=457076884 was done by a Wikipedian that only came here and made 1 edit and probably created a page on himself that was speedyed. I am wondering if someone can verify the duration of the earthquake lasting 2 Days and 8 Hours? I can't find anything on this right now as I thought it only lasted a few minutes. Please Help! Sawblade5 ( talk to me | my wiki life) 19:36, 22 September 2012 (UTC)