User talk:Currentlybiscuit

On "resolution" of images concerning the presidential palace in Taiwan

You reverted a changing of the image of the presidential palace in Taiwan: diff1 anddiff2. Your comment appears to indicate that you thought my image and Jiang's restoration of previous image were of "lower resolution".

Here are the three images:

Jiang's image

Your image (the original before I changed it)

My image

Have you zoomed in on my image to compare them to the other two? Thanks. Fred Hsu (talk) 03:18, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

(Directed to this page by Fred Hsu): can't we have different photos on different pages? the same readers will be reading these different pages, and I think we ought to give them some variety. i don't think Fred Hsu's image is am improvement over the other two because the weather, and hence lighting, was crappy. the second image (not "Jiang's image") was taken by me, so there's my bias...what matters is not the high resolution, but the appearance of the thumbnail, since few readers will bother clicking on the image. so between a poorly lit high res image and a well lit low res image i would choose the latter to put in the article. there are probably many more options on commons.--Jiang (talk) 09:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, I think the first image was fine but that's just my opinion. Feel free to bring the issue on the talk pages of the respective articles to gather more opinions. Laurent (talk) 23:41, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Could you help with a wiki project on Human Rights in China?

Hi :), This is to invite you to join: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Human_Rights_in_China . You could contribute much to the project. Sincerely, Dilip rajeev (talk) 08:30, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

GA Review of Akmal Shaikh on hold

The GA review of the Akmal Shaikh article has been on hold for over 30 days. It is near to being passed, but the Akmal_Shaikh#Reaction section needs editing to reduce the amount of direct quotation as per Wikipedia:Quotations, and also to be trimmed in general to meet GA criteria 3(b): "stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail". Any assistance in this matter would be appreciated. SilkTork *^YES! 10:44, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

PRC government type

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Speedy deletion nomination of WorldVentures

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France

Bonjour Laurent,

Vous faites du bon travail de correction aux articles sur la France. (Merci d'avoir enlevé l'affreux "puppet regime".)

Que pensez-vous de cette photo [1] qui, à mon avis, n'apporte pas grand-chose à l'article? À première vue, on dirait un gros crapaud dans l'herbe. Il me semble qu'il y aurait mieux pour représenter un "French soldier".

Cordialement, --Frania W. (talk) 18:28, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Bonjour Frania, oui c'est vrai qu'elle est assez moyenne cette image car on ne distingue pas bien le soldat. Peut-être qu'on pourrait utiliser cette image à la place ? Le soldat est presque visible en entier et la luminosité est meilleure donc on voit mieux les détails (y compris son écusson "OTAN"). Laurent (talk) 11:19, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Bonjour Laurent, d'accord pour cette photo qui montre plus de détails en plus de la jolie tête du petit gars. Merci et bonne continuation. --Frania W. (talk) 12:48, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Réussi. Merci. --Frania W. (talk) 17:41, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Miser

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		Many thanks for the good work you are doing at Miser. I'll leave you to it now, to avoid edit conflicts. Colonel Warden (talk) 13:07, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

You might want to take a look

Looks like Polylepsis has accused you of sockpuppetry which can be found at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WikiLaurent. Elockid ^(Talk) 21:58, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Good try indeed ;) Laurent (talk) 20:27, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Multiple revisions of WorldVentures

I have noticed that the page about WorldVentures has been revised by yourself and another person since my revision quite a while back.

While I respect your right to change pages in this public encyclopedia, I would like to see some discussion on the 'Talk' tage for the WorldVentures when changing information on the page. It is only fair to allow other editors to see your reasons for your revisions.

The revision done before your current one was promotional, I agree. The page I had originally looked fair, balanced, and non-promotional. I merely described the products that the company offers. I would like to know why the information on the products was removed completely as well as the information about the company being featured in national magazines (which was sited from non-primary sources).

Your continued forcing of the company being called a 'pyramid-scheme' begs me to wonder if you might have a bias against this company. The current source you have supporting the claim of the company being a 'pyramid-scheme' is one I have seen that often slam various companies without proper knowledge of them. Information in that article in fact is misleading and some of it is completely false!

Basically, I am merely inviting you to share your concerns about my revision (now buried deep in the page's history). I have started a 'talk' on the page but I have yet to see any contribution to it before your revisions (or the other editor's revision). Please share your thoughts and concerns for my revision and the company on the WorldVentures 'talk' page.

Cheers --ManUtdDenBronx (talk) 22:54, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Please consider participating in this discussion

Another editor and I have a disagreement about a table (here [2]) at Popular cat names. Since you contributed to the article, perhaps you'd be interested in the discussion on the talk page. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 02:48, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Reactions to gaza flotilla raid

Please do not remove information from articles. Wikipedia is not censored, and content is not removed even if some believe it to be contentious. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page to reach consensus rather than continuing to remove the disputed material. You also have the option to configure Wikipedia to hide the images that you may find offensive. Thank you.

Not while the discussion is still ongoing! (Lihaas (talk) 00:47, 9 June 2010 (UTC))

Which one? so i can clarifyLihaas (talk) 08:36, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

This edit summary was quite misleading as you've done a lot more than copy editing and fixing links. Laurent (talk) 08:47, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

The Great Chairman and Tutor Mao Zedong

I ask that you revert the link to "Chinese people", as labelling him Chinese (correct), and linking it to "Han Chinese" equates the term Chinese people with only the Han group: though Han occupy around 90% of the mainland population, many consider such equating to be wrong, and such labelling is therefore not NPOV. It seems to me, from your edit summary, that you do not understand this dispute or refuse to recognise the major implications of it. I ask that either you change the label to Han Chinese, or you leave the link at "Chinese people". I'm just outraged that the Wiki-link was like that for such a long time and the fact that, due to the high percentage of editors from the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, people confuse their labellings: errors such as this and China tantamount to PRC (and vice versa), etc, are shocking and not tolerable. ---华钢琴49 (TALK) 14:47, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Under the legacy section... your recent changes were not merely minor changes. Altering the text from "Mao is regarded as a national hero of China" to "The Chinese government officially regards" has two issues:

• previous wording clearly stated that the people of the mainland revere him, Although it is true that the previous wording was vague (could have placed a "who" tag), and that TW-ese certainly vilify him...
• what really should be referred to as "Central People's Government" or "mainland government" or "PRC government" (as HK, Macau, and ROC would disagree) is instead labelled as "Chinese government".

and it is a widely-held fact that his military theory is nearly universally praised, and that the People's Volunteer Army faced considerable odds against UN imperialist forces is also widely-held. To me, your "fact" tags only serve to downgrade both of their accomplishments. ---华钢琴49 (TALK) 15:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm fine with what you're saying about equating Han Chinese with "Chinese". Would you be ok with rewriting the link as simply [[Han Chinese]] instead of [[Han Chinese|Chinese]]? For the other changes, I think it's not right to write that "Mao is regarded as a national hero of China" because we probably don't have any reliable data on what Chinese people (and not just the government) think about him. So I agree that the previous wording was vague - if the new one is not right either, do you have any proposition on how we should rewrite it? As for the "fact" tags, I'm not disputing what's written but we still need a source for it. Hopefully someone will come up with one. Laurent (talk) 18:11, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

ok. let's fix it to Han Chinese and label it as such. Cheers ---华钢琴49 (TALK) 18:37, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

 Done Laurent (talk) 18:40, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks article is delisted as a GA article, but does that mean it has no class at all until improvements change the status back to GA? I have not seen this situation before, so tell me about how it works. --DThomsen8 (talk) 15:15, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

To be honest, I didn't know what rating should replace the GA status. However it looks like the article has been rated B-Class by Geometry Guy, so perhaps we could apply that same rating to the other project boxes? Laurent (talk) 20:51, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Commons - QI File:Black iPod Nano 4G.jpg candidate

Hiho, I've uploaded newer version of photo which you opposed, can you take a look at the new one? Read my info: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images_candidates/candidate_list#File:Black_iPod_Nano_4G.jpg. Greetings, Jackzor (talk) 14:29, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Long-term abuse report on Eeeeeewtw

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refimprove

Hi Laurent,

You have added a 'refimprove' tag to DirSync Pro page. What does this mean and what is to be done? I'm not sure I get the clue from the documentation. Thnanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ogivi (talk • contribs) 15:08, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit: I added some references. Please confirm if the refimprove could be removed. Thanks!

PS. Question: how do I get my comment 'Singed'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ogivi (talk • contribs) 17:02, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

To sign your comments, just add "~~~~" at the end. Yes I guess there are enough references now so feel free to remove the template. Laurent (talk) 02:17, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Roger! Thanks! Ogivi (talk) 06:50, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:Gang of Four at trial.jpg

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Cradle of civilization

Hi, just heads up, the discussion has been moved to Talk:Cradle of civilization. So far, the IP hasn't yet backed up their claim about "all sources" nor do they seem to understand that there is no worldwide critical consensus on the issue.--The Taerkasten (talk) 14:49, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

this discussion isn't really going anywhere. I don't know what to do anymore. --The Taerkasten (talk) 12:42, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Richard Friesner page

Hello,

I am unsure if you rejected this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Richard_Friesner based on verifiability or notability. What can I do to improve this article for re-submission?

Thank you. Capitals tp (talk) 07:12, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

It was based on notability. In particular, I think it needs at least one or two reliable third-party sources. If I'm not mistaken, the sources provided either come from his own university or don't address his life or work in details (the NY Times is reliable but I don't think a marriage announcement is enough to establish notability). See Wikipedia:Notability_(academics) for more details. Laurent (talk) 09:23, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Thanks for your speedy response. However, references 5 through 8 are all independent third-party sources. Specifically, they are the following: ^ "Editorial information for Chemical Biology & Drug Design". Wiley.com. http://www.wiley.com/bw/editors.asp?ref=1747-0277&site=1. Retrieved 2010-11-20.

1. ^ "Schrodinger, Inc. Scientific Advisors page for Richard Friesner". Schrodinger.com. http://www.schrodinger.com/advisors/. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
2. ^ "Sloan Fellowship page". Sloan.org. http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/list/page/2500. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
3. ^ U.S. Patent 5,600,571 and U.S. Patent 7,756,674

Can you please let me know why these are insufficient, and what types of third-party sources are expected? Thanks again. Capitals tp (talk) 04:32, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Stroke order

WikiLaurent, your changes were either preferential wordings, either misleading statements. For stroke order, Asoer (talk · contribs) and myself (Yug (talk · contribs)) already looked at authoritative sources to write down this article, and create illustrations.

You made about 10 specific changes. Some are are misleading, others are preferences. The misleading part is for me in 2 categories:

• the will to speak about an "area", while we are talking about Ministry's standard, we are talking about States, government, not areas. Thus, PRC is better than Mainland (what is Mainland ? include HK? Macao?), and ROC is better than Taiwan (what is Taiwan ?).
• state that [ =Traditional stroke order. This character is also traced that way in mainland China.] is quite courageous, since there was NO stroke order standard in China before PRC, and both stroke orders were thus in free use.

For aesthetics:

• moving |year=1958 is a meaningless change, we can keep it or cancel it.
• Etymology of the character "马" (horse) is quite an unaesthetic move when you compare to the table width.

I thus explained all the revert, but the |year=1958. We can't simplify to geologic area, never be bold enough to state the official order in ancient China. Yug (talk) 18:16, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I replied on the article page - [3] Laurent (talk) 03:17, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Teresa Lewis review

Hello, I have been working with the nominator (User:BabbaQ) on your comments in the GA review of Teresa Lewis. Let us know if the updates to the article have addressed your concerns or if you have any additional recommendations for us. Thank you! KimChee (talk) 14:48, 26 November 2010 (UTC)