User talk:Nlu/archive64

Creation/Appointment

Dear Nlu, please see my response at [1]. If you know a dicussion page where this dicussion belongs to (it pertains to very numerous cases), I will gladly copy it over to that page. Regards, Barefact (talk) 19:18, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

My comments [2] Barefact (talk) 05:21, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Commenting on your thoughts: I do not think that direct translation is applicable here, and faithfulness (信) refers to facts, not to textual translation, even though I do subscribe to the same principals so eloquently expressed. The "Enfeoff" is not applicable, because it is not granting a honorific title, it is a property grant that entitles to a title. We are not faithfuly translating Chinese idiosyncrasies here, we are composing for an average 9-grader in Rumelia. I bet you that you will not see "create" used in the English-language news reports about the British and Japanese monarchies; neither did they (Times, NY Times, etc) used it in the past 100 years; if I am wrong, I will gladly send you a check for a sixpack of beer upon first request, but that is entirely different subject. Barefact (talk) 06:11, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

This counts? --Nlu (talk) 14:45, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

User:Justin Slider

Not questioning your rationale, but if you look at this user's history, he has had 10 edits on only the one article in less than 2 hours. 7 of those were tagged as BLP violations, all were reverted.. I got in late or would have been warning him much earlier. To me, this constitutes a vandalism-only account. Just because he wasn't "warned" all 10 times should not preclude a ban on vandalism-only grounds. Thanks for the re-look. Regards, --Manway (talk) 02:09, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Never mind. TideRolls got him. Thanks for the look. Regards, --Manway (talk) 02:14, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I understand your point. I still feel uneasy about blocking an user who's not warned enough times. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 03:09, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Arilang1234

since we have have been involved in a previous incident regarding this user, i suggest you take a look at this section on ANI- Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Break_1, Arilang1234 apparently still thinks its "amusing" to call manchus barbarians, accuse other people of being wumaodang, and saying its all a joke in an "apology". He offered an extremely similar worded apology in january 2009 when he insulted another user and called manchus barbarians, he promised it wouldn't happen again.

it did happen again, numerous times, the way he suddenly offers an apology immediately after being threatened with administrative action makes it seem as if hes pushing the envelope with his instuls on purpose to see how far he can go.

hes on the verge of being "let off" again.Дунгане (talk) 02:11, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Semiprotection and Pending Changes on Leehom Wang

I notice you have applied both semiprotection and Pending Changes to Leehom Wang. I believe it should be one or the other. If users who are not autoconfirmed cannot edit, there can be no pending changes to require approval. The article Slash (musician) provides an example. Thanks. William Avery (talk) 21:01, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

That was accidental. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. --Nlu (talk) 21:55, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Sinicization

do you have anything to add to the Sinicization regarding the Tang and Song dynasties? I already noted on the article that some southern provinces were settled by Chinese troops and taken over from the aboriginals, weren't there some native tribes in like Fujian province who could not speak chinese at that time?Дунгане (talk) 20:45, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I don't think I really have anything to add there... The sources that I use do not really shed much light on the subject, and I don't currently have access to any university libraries. --Nlu (talk) 21:10, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

FYI

Please check out my comment on talk:Yan (Anshi). Kayau Voting IS evil 09:20, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Responded. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. --Nlu (talk) 15:17, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks

Hey, thanks for your response on Talk:Two Qiaos. I won't be around until Sunday, so can you help me keep an eye on any changes on the article? Thanks. :) Lonelydarksky (暗無天日) _{contact me (聯絡)} 14:55, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Will try to do. Some unexpected real life issues came up yesterday, so I'll have to see how my time is. Also, perhaps ill-advised, but I recently requested to be a Chinese Wikipedia admin -- and the folks there have tons of questions for the request. :-) I'll see how things go. --Nlu (talk) 15:30, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

:(

You've made Hu Jintao upset! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.54.32 (talk) 19:31, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The PRC Barnstar
		For awesomeness, excellent arguments, etc. :) Kayau Voting IS evil 01:10, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
		this WikiAward was given to Nlu by Kayau Voting IS evil on 01:10, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate it greatly, but (I hope you are not upset or insulted by this) this is one particular award that I think I would have to decline. The reason is that while I identify with China as a nation and an entity, I do not identify with the PRC, and therefore I do not believe I can accept it. --Nlu (talk) 02:04, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Incident

There's a discussion over at ANI on a user. I would appreciate your input. You were one of the editors participating in the previous discussion, and I'm currently informing all the editors involved.--hkr (talk) 11:15, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Taking your suggestions into account, I've written up a proposal. What do you think?--hkr (talk) 07:58, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

I see your point. I've reduced it back to one-month, as you first suggested.--hkr (talk) 21:59, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 03:01, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

69.178.194.88 &

I have tagged these as socks of the long-blocked and tenuous editor Hypocritepedia/Zimmbotkiller; the editor has snuck back on via Daktel IPs as the blocks on them have expired, and has no business editing here at all as they have made threats in the past to 'hack' editors and added irrelevant information to articles. Nate • (chatter) 21:26, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. --Nlu (talk) 22:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Terracotta Army

Hi WikiProject China editor, can you please come to the article Terracotta Army and gave your input on some issues.

There have been anonymous user that are inserting content describing the Terracotta Army as "fake" and "inauthentic" to the article [3], and several anonymous users in the discussion on the talk page. The anonymous user based the claims on a book "La société du spectacle"/"The Society of the Spectacle" (1983) by Guy Debord (who according to the anonymous user calls it a "bureaucratic fake"), a 2007 book "L'Empereur jaune" by Térence Billeter, and "La Chine est un cheval et l’Univers une idée" by Jean Lévi (2010). I checked the book by Guy Debord on Google Books [4], which is the only one of these three that's available, and could not find anything related to the Terracotta Army in it.

Importantly, I haven't been able to find any scientific studies doubting the authenticity of the Terracotta Army, and did not find anything about this in any mainstream English publications and media.

I found several published articles from Scientific American [5] and Nature [6] about the restoration and preservation of the Terracotta Army, but the anonymous user insist these studies did not study the authenticity of the Terracotta Army and they did not show "any datation of them", though some of the articles clearly contains statements such as "this was triggered due to it having spent more than 2,200 years in water-saturated soil" [7]. There are also many sources from Google Scholar [8] about the Terracotta Army and its conservations, such as this article from International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation [9] and this from Conservation Information Network [10], that contains detail about the age and materials of the Terracotta Army. Please come to the Talk:Terracotta Army and gave your input. Thanks!--TheLeopard (talk) 03:06, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Noob query

Umm, would you mind checking my block of 119.155.34.12 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) for sanity? I want to make sure I'm doing things right in this new job.--Danger (talk) 16:24, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. --Nlu (talk) 16:25, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Looks all right to me. I don't think the request to block was brought to the right forum (but that's not your fault), but the block was justified. --Nlu (talk) 16:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Sorry about the template issue in my initial post. --Danger (talk) 16:30, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem. Thank you. --Nlu (talk) 16:31, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

my user page

you recently said i put innapropriate content on my user page- i didnt thanksBigboysssssss (talk) 09:13, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes you did. You were stating your desire to have sexual relations with two girls. That is clearly inappropriate content for an user page. Continuing to do so will, again, be viewed as vandalism and dealt with. --Nlu (talk) 09:15, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

85.5.167.221's edits

Hello Nlu! I see that you did not consider 85.5.167.221 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) to be a vandal. Permit me to disagree. Even after your intervention in his talk page, he again attacked the articles Portuguese people and Spanish people. And in a manner that can be straighforwardly classified as vandalism. He has a clear POV agenda, that can be seen in this edit, and he persistently goes around blanking and changing stuff to accomodate his ideological bias. He should be moritored, to say the least. Thank you! The Ogre (talk) 13:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

It's fairly close, but I still don't think it quite qualifies as vandalism. I think a report to WP:AN3 or a request for discussion is more appropriate. WP:AIV really is for clear vandalism. --Nlu (talk) 15:44, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

68.38.136.230 Well, lets see....Where should I start with this.

1. There is no third season

2. Trying to suggest with a straight face that an episode in a show for preschoolers is based on "Left 4 Dead "

3. He's been doing this for about a month.

The main reason I'm even watching the page is precisely due to crap like this. HalfShadow 01:12, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the information. Blocked for 24 hours. (That's my standard first block; I know some admins prefer 31 hours; I like to keep it in line with the number of days.) --Nlu (talk) 01:23, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I don't even care about the show; I'm only keeping an eye on it because I noticed it seems to be a pretty common target. In fact, a lot of the kid's shows seem to be. HalfShadow 01:31, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

My guess is that their older brothers/sisters who are still in school are sick of the shows. --Nlu (talk) 02:13, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Help on Survivor: Redemption Island

I don't know if Survivor is your cup of tea, but I need on a certain user Gbold1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and his edits on the article I mentioned. He was already warned about adding unsourced info into said article, but he seems to reinstate his edits. His latest now has a source (TVGrapvine), but I don't think it's reliable (and it's in the External Links section as well). Can you help on this guy. BTW, I gave him a level 3 warning, but afterwards, he "reverted" my revert after that. But I don't want to 3RR on the guy. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 11:46, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

I'd say give him a level 4 warning. If he still doesn't heed it, report him to WP:AIV. --Nlu (talk) 11:48, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Should I revert his last edit? He "reverted" my reversion, as I already mentioned. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 11:49, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

I did it. (I will say that I don't watch the series, but yes, the source that he cites seems unreliable.) --Nlu (talk) 11:58, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Removed your block notice

at User talk:173.32.99.158 as Favonian, who blocked the IP (did you try to block also?) added his first. Dougweller (talk) 12:14, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, and I didn't notice Favonian's notice. Thanks! --Nlu (talk) 12:18, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem. I recall an issue I had when I and another editor made simultaneous edits. Shouldn't happen, but it did, and there was quite a dispute over it with the other editor insisting I must have seen his edit (something to do with tags or deletion, I don't recall now). But the time stamps were identical. Dougweller (talk) 14:53, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

thank you, but...

Thank you for locking down Colorado Springs Christian Schools and blocking the IP, but c'mon. A week for the article, after 6 weeks of vandalism? A day for the sock? What can possibly be your rationale for such weak treatment? This is why good long-term editors are leaving Wikipedia in frustration.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 15:47, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

I don't have enough information to completely convince that it was a sock. The protection can always be extended later if necessary. (Usually, a one-week protection causes the vandal to lose focus.) --Nlu (talk) 15:48, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

If it was a week or two I could see them losing focus, but not this long. It was actually longer, but more sporadic earlier. So I did some legwork. The same text, "Jamieson Miller", no hyperlink, no source, is all that's been repeatedly added. I thought, maybe it's some hip new somethingorother all the kids are talking about. Nope. Google brings up an Australian sculptor, no link, and this guy http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jamieson-miller/1a/6b8/584 comes up when I add Colorado Springs. Truly notable auto-parts manager. I am convinced it is all a sock of the same self-promoting nobody. How can I sell you on this?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 16:25, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

OK, I'll extend it to a month. Let's see what happens. --Nlu (talk) 16:26, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Good, thank you and good night.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 16:35, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. --Nlu (talk) 16:35, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Coverorange user was just what I suspected, made 10 minor corrections to articles then waited four days to be autoconfirmed just to add his name to the Colorado Springs Christian Schools article you protected for a month from just that same stupid edit. Should I report him at ANI, or something else?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:11, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

You've got mail

Please see your email for a very urgent request. Dusti^*poke* 08:01, 29 January 2011 (UTC) {replied} Dusti^*poke* 08:07, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Taiwan boxers

Hi - for info, I've replied back to the CfD. Lugnuts (talk) 08:09, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Will read. --Nlu (talk) 15:30, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi again - I've added in all the basketball players from 1956. I'll sort out a couple of the boxers later too. Thanks. Lugnuts (talk) 09:44, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I've been sick the last few days, so tried to limit my wiki editing. --Nlu (talk) 15:35, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

And thank you for the banner - hope you're feeling better too. Lugnuts (talk) 07:37, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

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Uruguay

The confirmation was on the Talk:Uruguay page. Cripipper (talk) 15:26, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Empress Zhang's death year

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Categorisation

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Talk:Huanggang, Hubei

Hi, Nlu, you recently moved Huanggang, Hubei to Huanggang. Please also move Talk:Huanggang, Hubei to Talk:Huanggang. Thanks. --Pengyanan (talk) 09:08, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Done. Somehow I missed it... Sorry. --Nlu (talk) 14:15, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!--Pengyanan (talk) 14:32, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Your translation of Remin Ribao

Hi User:Nlu, it appears some individuals are desperate to have me to discuss with you on our disagreement on the semantics of the Remin Ribao article.

The issue I find problematic is your assertion that there is one sentence acknowledging the Japanese argument in the Remin Ribao article. My assumption is that you were refering to that first sentence and my caveat for you is that the author of the article listed the Senkaku Islands as part of the Ryukyu Islands. If you are not particularly familiar with East Asian geopolitics, the Ryukyu Islands did not belong to Japan at that time and is not the same entity as Okinawa. Although the current Okinawa district encompassed most of the Ryukyu Islands, it also did not exist until some 20 years after the article was published. I hope you notice the distinction.

Since I wasn't sure if you are going to check the Senkaku Islands dispute page, I wrote this piece on your talk page. For future responses, you should direct them to the thread you started. Bobthefish2 (talk) 19:35, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Lao-Tse

Dear Nlu, I see you have undone my insertion of Lao-Tse's perception according to Dravidian traditions. I apologise for not inserting any citations as I forgot. I do have two now: http://www.silambam.in/silambam.htm and http://www.markphillips.com.au/ayurveda1.html

Thank you very much for your contributions. --Avedeus (talk) 01:11, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Three Kingdoms people lists

Hello, please take a look at User:Lonelydarksky/Sandbox/List of people of the Three Kingdoms and User:Lonelydarksky/Sandbox/List of fictional characters of the Three Kingdoms period. What do you think? For the first page, I haven't thought about what to include under the description column. Any ideas? Lonelydarksky (暗無天日) _{contact me (聯絡)} 08:49, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

I think, for the "founders," I think you would describe them in terms of their official Han titles and/or relationship to the first emperor. For the emperors, I think you can describe them with ordinals (first emperor, second emperor, &c.) as well as their relationship to the previously emperor (or earlier emperor). Same for royalty. For officials and generals, it gets tricky; I would say that I don't have a suggestion for a set formula; just what is most notable about them. --Nlu (talk) 09:01, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestions. Lonelydarksky (暗無天日) _{contact me (聯絡)} 13:15, 12 February 2011 (UTC)