Talk:Guo Shoujing

THIS is the "talk page"

Please stop changing my article. I'm just a 16 year old girl who is trying to turn in her AP World History project. Please stop since all this information is credible and I have the sources to prove it. STOP ERASING IT!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.97.183 (talk) 05:24, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean by credible? How is anyone supposed to trust you, when none of your hyperlinks work, you don't provide a single inline citation for any statement, and last I checked AP world history courses don't assign students homework to do at Wikipedia. How do I know that all of this "work" you've done here isn't just copied verbatim from a source that you haven't listed? You need to provide citations quickly, or else I will revert your edits again.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 23:01, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Don't touch my page. I've been working on it for months. I'll fix the links. Or u could copy and paste them into a search engine and it works there. And by the way, two of them do work. Just back off! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.152.0.81 (talk) 06:04, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi everybody. I don't really know what's going on here, but it's not very clear who is addressing whom. The third message (from 32.152.0.81) says something about "my page," but I don't see any edits from 32.152.0.81 on this particular page (and no Wikipedia page is technically anybody's page, but this is a different matter). 32.152.0.81 also tells someone to "back off," but I'm not sure who that would be and in what sense. I can guess what's going on, but could someone make it clear how many parties are involved in this dispute so that we can work on solving it? Also: it might be a good idea for the parties involved to sign in in order to discuss these matters. For the sake of disclosure, I "know" Pericles of Athens (though only online, not personally) and I admire his enormous contributions to China-related articles on Wikipedia. Here I also see that the large new additions to Guo Shoujing, though not properly "wikified" (no hyperlink in the text) and not directly referenced, seem to be serious, fairly well researched, and made in good faith. Also, this article was originally a stub that demanded to be expanded, so I'm sure we can work something out! Let me assure you that Pericles of Athens was acting in good faith too, and that he didn't mean to terrify anybody (or to "terrorize the lives of high school girls," which was a great image), so there was no need to get angry at him personally as someone did on his talk page. Let's all calm down, smile at all this, and discuss this issue coolly. For one thing, all the parties involved are interested in Guo Shoujing and seem are acting in good faith, so I'm sure we'll find a solution. One last detail: inserting inline references is actually very easy: press "Edit this page" on top of the wiki, look at how previous editors have done it, and just do the same. Oh and another "last detail": if you log in, you get a user page where you can create "sandboxes." In your sandbox, you can write all kinds of essays until they're ready to be posted into main pages, and nobody will be able to bother you, because they're yours (check my user page if you need examples). Cheers to all, Madalibi (talk) 09:38, 12 December 2008 (UTC)