User talk:Steven Walling/Archive 1

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Chen Qingping

Greetings, I have created a new article about Chen Qingping, but need some input and a reference other than an external link. I have created the article from general knowledge so it needs some verification. Cheers Realtaichi 14:10, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Chen Changxing & Chen Youben

Greetings again, I have also created a couple of new articles about Chen Changxing and Chen Youben, please edit/update if you have some time. I have also invited Fire Star to contribute. Cheers Realtaichi 19:34, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: thanks

Heh -- as morbid as it is, the general saying among countervandals is that the users with the most userpage vandalism are probably the most active counter-vandals. :) Thanks for helping to keep Wikipedia going. Luna Santin 23:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Go

Ok I will take out the explanation point. How often do you come across a number that has 120 more digits than the number of atoms in the known universe squared to the fourth power. Since you may not know much about math, the number of possible go games has 766 digits. The number of atoms in the known universe only 80. Square that and you get 160 digits. Take that to the fourth power and you have 640 digits, 126 less than the number of digits in the number of possible go games. That is why I put an explanation mark. I felt it deserved it. I will take it out, however, why did you revert the rest???? Please leave it.

Please unrevert your last revert. You are creating a mathematical error. The number of positions is 2.1 x 10^170 If you doubt that use your calculator to confirm it. Note that there is a huge difference between the number of positions (10^170) and games (10^766). Also note that it is absurd to talk about games lasting 10^48 moves, although that is another issue.

it's exclamation point. your english is atrocious. the inclusion, even if the math is right (which it isnt), is a redundant statement. VanTucky 08:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the added clarity with your better organization. The Go (shape) article looks very good now. Larry R. Holmgren 01:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

IN RE to your Go rank, I recall that there is a Chinese go club in Vancouver, BC., et. al. Try there and play someone two ranks stronger than yourself to learn and get stronger. I went from 17 Q to 2Q by reading, studying, and playing stronger players. At 5Q you should know how to make and kill the bulky five shape. Read the book Lessons in the Fundamentals. Larry R. Holmgren 03:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm in Vancouver, Washington not Canada. But just across the river Portland has a strong club, we're even trying to put in a bid to host the Congress next year. VanTucky 03:31, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

VanTucky, the Go (shape) article is clear and visually superb. I nominate it for an award or as the daily featured article. Thanks. Larry R. Holmgren 03:29, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

yang style taichi

why have you removed my contribution, as fu sheng yuan is not only the current holder of the yang style, but also a family member of the yang family. Fuqilung 00:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

he is not, yangzhenduo is the lineage holder. also, for there to be such and exstensive bio of him there needs to be mention of Fu Zhong When, who already has his own page. add to that. VanTucky 00:44, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

check your facts and ask yang zhen dao. Fuqilung 23:26, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

well, I dont think I'd ask anyone named Yang Zhen Dao because Yang Zheng Duo is the holder of the Yang Cheng-fu lineage. VanTucky 07:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Hobbyists

Yeah, you are correct that my last contribution could have been worded better. I was thinking of the difference between back when it was an adjunct of professional military training and now. It wasn't a sudden change from the Chen family militia to the Imperial Guards Brigade to the Northern Route Army, which is where I got into trouble, as I tried about 6 different versions of time frames before I gave up and settled for what you saw. I'd like to get the process mentioned somehow, Doug Wile sources it well in his books, if you have any ideas. --Fire Star 火星 20:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Neijia

I deleted that second line because it's probably a fragment of code that wasn't deleted during a previous edit of the intro.

Take another look for yourself.
JFD 21:45, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:guinea pig

Yes, you're right, but I am waiting on some books I ordered from the library to do that. I just happened to have that information available right now. Chubbles 19:15, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Chicken

Van, your revert of MY revert was just toally uncalled for. ^_^ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.37.134.182 (talk) 23:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

Krishnamurti

Why are you being obstinate? If the fact is so clear why can't you cite the source that says it? These articles are supposed to be founded on sources, not our feelings or personal experiences or beliefs. You're making it difficult to work with you unless you're willing to abide by what we're trying to do here. That is, to improve the article with citations and sources, not edit-war over the contents based on personal opinion. Wjhonson 08:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

If what you wrote on my talk page is true, then it should be very easy for you to prove with a citation. You may believe it, it may be true, but if you expect the world to take your statements as truth without any proof, you're in for a lot of disappointment. Wikipedians should be able to put aside their own personal agenda and work on collecting the sources and citations together to support their case. Wjhonson 08:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello Vancouver. I presume you have an interest in J. Krishnamurti. Me too. I played videotapes of his Ojai, CA talks on the Long Beach Public Access Cable TV station for about 10 years. I attended several talks in Ojai, CA. At the last one he said to forget his 90th birthday, remember (donate to) the Foundation. Larry R. Holmgren 03:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

wow, you actually SAW him speak? that's amazing. I'm too young to have seen him in person, but my brother and I own the entire collected talks on tape. you should check out Alan Watts too if you like JK. VanTucky 03:30, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, after one talk as I was walking back to my car I saw K and his entourage walking slowly eastward along the trail through a field of dry grass. I approached him with my hand out stretched high to shake. He stopped walking. He had his arms crossed. As he started to uncross them I quickly lowered, then lifted my hand up again. Smiling, he reached with his uncrossed hand and shook hands with me. I said, "A fine talk," and turned and walked away to my car. Larry R. Holmgren 05:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Edit war on Toothpaste for Dinner

Mind the three revert rule; you almost broke it. It's over such a small matter, too – one internal link? Please. Also, don't ever ever ever write a blatantly misleading edit summary. Just take it easy and do what's right. →Ed Gl 21:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Resolving disputes. →Ed Gl 05:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC) (P.S. sorry for my unnecessarily blunt comment above, and thanks for your calm reply)

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Liuhe Bafa

I tend to remove youtube links as have seen several articles with lots of 'me to' links, Please accept my apologies. --Nate 09:43, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Vancouver Voice

The article seems fine to me - I made a few other minor gps and wikilink edits. There aren't any sources for the founding of the newspaper; that would be nice, but unless you're going for GA or something it's not really necessary. So this is a paper sort of like the Chicago Reader, Isthmus in Madison WI, Shepherd Express in Milwaukee, etc? (You can tell what part of the country I'm from...) Chubbles 03:54, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Gosh, I didn't know you were going to nominate it so soon! I mean, it's an alright article, there's nothing wrong with it per se, but it's not GA class. Check out some of the GA articles to see what I mean. I definitely don't think it's ready yet; if you want it to pass you will definitely want to expand it, and get more than one outside source. You can't use any links like this [1], they need to be real citations that link to the References section. You will need to expand the lead. You probably should have gotten a peer review before submitting it to GA; they'd be able to tell you a lot better than I can. I'm still learning the ropes; that's why I've been so slow with guinea pig in terms of pushing it for GA/FA. Chubbles 05:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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Fauna Barnstar

Thanks! Chubbles 22:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Block

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