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Banknote image reversion

For the record, I had the File:NT500.png specifically uploaded with the holographic strips; I have reverted your uploads on commons as well as updated the images in the table at New Taiwan Dollar page. - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 07:59, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Penwhale You might want to make the same change for the NT$1000. Szqecs (talk) 11:52, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have the version w/o the holographic strip. Feel free to do so, though. If not, I'll get to it later today. - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 17:52, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Lists of earthquakes

Hi, the 921 event is one of our articles that doesn't fit the standard year + location naming convention, but we can probably just leave it as it is for simplicity. That's one thing I'm always aiming for around here. ;) Dawnseeker2000 17:26, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Page moves

I have reverted your moves of History of Taiwan and Taiwan after World War II, because I believe the extra precision is superfluous. I was surprised to see that shortly after you had opened a discussion on naming policy in this topic area, that you were undercutting any discussion by making unilateral moves. Kanguole 22:44, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Kanguole: I moved the pages on the grounds of WP:D. I don't know if you've noticed but that discussion is being deleted and I don't see you backing it up. The discussion I opened is going nowhere. It's all "I think this should be like this", with no clear rationale. No one is following the procedure similar to a successful attempt, or even talking about that. If you have beliefs about the issue but are not willing to discuss them what's the point? Szqecs (talk) 02:23, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Last ditch attempt

Sorry to lose your centralized discussion, if that dispute continues, we can take this case here to the Arbitration committee. Supreme Dragon (talk) 15:52, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of History of Taiwan (disambiguation)

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You tried, and that took a lot of work.

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For attempting to create order in the chaotic Chinese naming conventions of ROC vs Taiwan Vs PRac vs China. Sunshine Alexi (talk) 13:54, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Taiwan High Speed Rail

Please check this edit at Taiwan High Speed Rail#Ticket fare and discount. It is currently showing "Lua error in Module:New_Taiwan_dollar at line 37: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'a' (a string value)." Johnuniq (talk) 04:02, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thanks. Szqecs (talk) 04:03, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Taiwan

Hi, I have just restored the content you removed in the Taiwan article given that your rationale that those are controversial edits simply cannot be justified. Feel free to let me you know your opinion. --Aisakano (talk) 13:57, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

AWB and WP:ENGVAR

Do not use AWB to make mass edits that are not supported by consensus, for example your violation of WP:ENGVAR in Taiwan-related articles. There is zero reason to use British spelling in Taiwan-related articles, and slightly more reason to use American spelling. If you want to propose a general change of the variant of English used, please propose it at a relevant WikiProject talk page. Do not use AWB again for edits like this, or your AWB access may be revoked. I have reverted some of your recent edits. —Kusma (t·c) 09:40, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I am linking administrator @Kusma: on this because I'm getting tired of reverting your disruptive editing. I'm not sure how many times you've been warned about mass changes using AWB and Taiwan related articles. You are systematically changing all date formats to something not used by Taiwan. I have told you not to do this whether through AWB or not, and so have administrators. Please revert ALL the changes you have made. Examples are here, here, here, and here. It looks like 25 done just today! It was also discussed at the Taiwan talk page so you know darned well it is controversial and non-consensus. I beginning to think you can't be trusted with AWB and perhaps Taiwan related articles. Prove me wrong and revert yourself. Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:18, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
With date formats, you are the only one against DMY. Phlar doesn't care, nor does anyone else. In that discussion I stated the policies that I base my edits on, and you did not comment further. I don't see how this is controversial. Szqecs (talk) 07:14, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Also, your edit on NTD made the article have inconsistent formats, going against MOS:DATEUNIFY. Szqecs (talk) 07:17, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Baloney, you KNOW it's controversial and did it anyway. Plus... why are that date inconsistent??? Because once again you personally changed them all with this other edit. You have been asked multiple times not to change the dates, yet you do it anyway. Stop changing all Taiwan date formats. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:50, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Guess what, the version before that edit was inconsistent. Szqecs (talk) 11:35, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Do not use AWB to change date formats without pointing to a consensus. "Cleanup using AWB" is a fairly deceptive edit summary for this practice. I will remove your AWB access if you continue this way. —Kusma (t·c) 14:47, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Fyunck(click): Are you ok with yyyy-mm-dd in lists, tables and infoboxes? That is what East Asia uses. Szqecs (talk) 07:32, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I would run it by the Taiwan talk page where it was initially brought up, and the administrator who admonished you. They also use mm-dd-yyyy but my understanding is that your suggestion of yyyy-mm-dd is much more prevalent in Taiwan. I'm not sure if we are supposed to mass change things like that so you might need consensus at talk:Taiwan, but I'm ok with it if everyone else is. Thanks for asking and happy editing. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:54, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Adjacent stations

Recent edits at Module:Adjacent stations have put many articles in the script error category. Also, are you sure it is a good idea to redefine standard Lua type by using Type? Johnuniq (talk) 10:22, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What is this script error category and why is this considered error when the module works just fine? Szqecs (talk) 10:30, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The link above shows articles that are in Category:Pages with script errors. That is caused by a module responding with an error. I purged the category and it seems many of the errors were fixed. That sometimes occurs when a couple of edits are made to a module—the first edit might have resulted in an error that was fixed shortly after. However, the system can respond slowly and the error message might stay until a null edit occurs at the article. An example of a problem is at Hankou railway station which currently shows Lua error in Module:Adjacent_stations at line 542: attempt to concatenate local 'color' (a nil value). That might be due to an error in the article wikitext, or a problem in the module. There might not be any other articles with a problem—the system is slow at the moment and it is not responding as it normally does to the purge I did. Hmm, on previewing, that error I mentioned is gone and I see Jc86035 is editing the module. Perhaps that removed some of the errors? Johnuniq (talk) 11:50, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have undone your addition to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/China and Chinese-related articles as there is no consensus for such a change. I see you linked it to this section, but that does not establish consensus; other than yourself there were no participants, so the section just contains your views. If you want to change policies then a clear consensus among editors is needed. A RfC is a good way but it needs to be much better advertised, so multiple editors participate. The guideline is about not just China the country but the use of Chinese in articles, so it clearly covers Taiwan in many aspects. As with all guidelines editors should use common sense when applying it, but that is not particular to Taiwan or any other topic area.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 11:51, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WP:PGCHANGE: It is not strictly necessary to discuss changes or to obtain written documentation of a consensus in advance. If you personally object, bring it up where you think is better advertised and we can talk about it. Szqecs (talk) 12:52, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, I have brought it up here before. Also no comment, so it is uncontroversial. Szqecs (talk) 13:06, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"National Freeway" vs. "National freeway"

In normal English, if there are two words in front of a number in a highway name, and one is capitalized as part of the proper name, then both should be capitalized because the first word is modifying the second, and the two of them are jointly modifying the number. "State Route 1" is correctly capitalized, but "State route 1" is not. So if these roadways are really named as such, "National Freeway 1" is the correct capitalization, but "National freeway 1" is not.

As for "Route nationale 1", that is a French name, and it follows French capitalization and word order. If it were translated to English, it would be "National Route 1", and not "national Route 1" nor "National route 1". Imzadi 1979 → 18:56, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth, the Freeway Bureau uses "National Freeway" on its website. -happy5214 06:53, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The bureau (and most Taiwanese people for that matter) capitalises everything, proper or not. On the said page, I see 'Contact Us', 'Safe Driving Tips' and 'Related Websites'. If 'National Freeway' is a proper name, the two words should always be used together, which is not the case: 'Freeway No. 1'. Szqecs (talk) 07:05, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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