User talk:CaliforniaAliBaba/Archive20090424

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a favor

Hello, CaliforniaAliBaba. I've noticed that you've got many DYK titles, and I want to nominate kimchi bokkeumbap to the page for the first time. The article lacks inline citation, but putting aside the matter, do you think the article at the status is qualified for the nomination? You know the procedure well, so I need your help. Thanks.--Appletrees (talk) 17:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Replied [1] cab (talk) 09:00, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your input!!! The food is not much familiar to outside world of Korea, so I want to introduce it. :)

One more question, I also notice that you use a kind of "secure" tool when you insert a link on talk pages. How do you use? I'm just curious..--Appletrees (talk) 17:42, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:SOCK

Hi CAB!

I don't know how to report a user violated WP:SOCK. Please help me, Thanks!

Thank you! Angelo De La Paz (talk) 03:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Created and replied [2]. cab (talk) 09:00, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Talk:Ministry of Education (Republic of China)

Sorry. I reverted my edit. See my discussion at that talk page. --Neo-Jay (talk) 10:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Nick Savoy page

Hi! I didn't write the Nick Savoy page but I worked on it extensively. I noticed that you voted to delete. I'm not sure if this sways your decision (which was made based on 'notability' but he is on the Dr Phil show tomorrow, April 11. I just saw him on TV as the Dr Phil show is promoting him extensively (www.drphil.com/shows). So now I have found:

Dr Phil
CBS National Radio
Fox TV
Playboy TV
Brink Magazine
Globe and Mail magazine (quoting him as an expert)
Mentioned in other wikipedia pages such as Mystery Method
As far back as 2006 there was some consensus to include him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Seduction_community)

Does the Dr Phil showchange your opinion? If not, what would? I would like to get the page back up; I worked really hard on it. Thanks so much for your time! Camera123456 (talk) 23:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: ABCD

Hey there, see this. The article is poorly written; I guess that could be rectified. The problem is that this term is virtually unknown outside South-Asian American circles. I guess my reaction was more knee-jerk, since I did a merge discussion (as you can see in the link) and every now-and-then, someone comes along and reverts the article to the state before the merge. You've provided a bunch of useful references and what I'll do is rewrite the article, incorporating them. --vi5in^[talk] 15:36, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Hanja

For example, the word 'salty' 鹹 is pronounced [ham²¹] in Cantonese and [kiem⁵⁵] in Teochew. Shingrila (talk) 07:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I've just noticed you'd said onsets, did you actually mean codas or was it a typo because the edit was about labial codas in Cantonese and Min languages Shingrila (talk) 07:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

You're right, that was my mistake. I misread the line. I'll revert the edit then. Thanks for the correction! Shingrila (talk) 07:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Koreans in the Philippines

I responded on my talk page. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 22:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD: Nominated for deletion; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American-Born Confused Desi

Hi, this is just a courtesy notice regarding the article. Since you either edited the article, or participated in talk page of the article, I thought you might be interested. --vi5in^[talk] 16:37, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: User_talk:Elbonia#British vs. American spelling

Thank you for the welcome and tip, friend! Elbonia (talk) 07:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Official Warning: Vandal Edit

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
If you add defamatory content once again, as you did to Han Chinese, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.14.53.149 (talk • contribs) 10:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

CaliforniaAliBaba, please stop reverting on Talk:Han Chinese to reinclude unhelpful comments. They do not aid in building a better article. They are personal attacks. Reinsert them again and I'm afraid you will be blocked. I will also have a word with the IP, as they are also not being constructive. Neıl ☎ 11:11, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Replied [3]. cab (talk) 11:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, well, scratch my warning, there's more to it than first appears. Note 217.227.74.20 is not reporting as a TOR node. I will look into this more. Neıl ☎ 11:23, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

None of the IPs who have edited Talk:Han Chinese are reporting as TOR nodes. I would suggest just ignoring them. Neıl ☎ 11:27, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:RSUE

You may be interested in this proposal to revise the text for articles using non-English sources. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 04:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm inviting your comment

Here (and also, if possible, here?) $\sim$ Justmeherenow ( ) 05:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Korea sock

It looks like Korea4one (talk · contribs) is back with more socks:

So far, no POV-pushing, though, just changing sourced info to unsourced at Korean language and associated screaming at Talk:Korean language. —An gr 18:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

I've started a report at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Korea4one (3rd). —An gr 18:40, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

And this continues... KoreanGovernment (talk · contribs), KoreanResearchTeam (talk · contribs) and KoreanResearch (talk · contribs). You seem to have been taking care of these so far. Are you on top of getting these accounts blocked? --Swift (talk) 12:15, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

The following is a reply to this comment

It would help if we knew an admin who could monitor these korean pages and just block each instance on the spot. Well, that's how we do things over at Wikibooks. Do you know if every instance requires a formal process? Do you know an admin that could adopt this little project? --Swift (talk) 04:47, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

You have no right!

I am not trying to be rude in any way, but you have no right to talk with me that way! You can continue to treat me like a servant, but then I will be fed up. As I repeat, I am not trying to be rude, but I have no choice! Forgive meRussian Luxembourger (talk) 05:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Haunting comments

Stop your haunting comments on my pages. I can see that you want me banned! Well you know what! I am reporting you. That is final! Russian Luxembourger (talk) 19:43, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK

I would like to nominate the following fact from the article Vietnamese people in Germany that you recently created, what do you think?

...Vietnamese people are the largest group of resident foreigners from Asia in Germany, totalling 83,526 people as of 2004?

DHN (talk) 05:31, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Replied [4]. cab (talk) 11:06, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

I reported you

I reported you due to your horrible commentsm, and your act. I am reporting you, I've had it! Russian Luxembourger (talk) 15:45, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Vietnamese people in Finland

If you ever decide to write this article, these studies by the same author are valuable resources. DHN (talk) 00:05, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Vietnamese people in Germany

On 29 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vietnamese people in Germany, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 09:34, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Chinese people in Madagascar @ DYK

Thanks for the DYK nomination --- I modified the hook a bit and rewrote the paragraph in question because after I reread the source, I think it meant the present day and not 1896 --- that also agrees with the numbers I got from other sources. See Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on October 27. Cheers, cab (talk) 13:31, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, CaliforniaAliBaba. Thanks for fixing both the article and the DYK hook so quickly. --PFHLai (talk) 13:39, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Stop haunting me!

I am reporting you once again. You are a ridiculous person, all you want to do is ban me. I am reporting you. Russian Luxembourger (talk) 21:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Chinese people in Madagascar

On 4 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chinese people in Madagascar, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 15:20, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Koreans in Spain

On 13 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Koreans in Spain, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cirt (talk) 20:25, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Diaspora articles

A good resource I found that might be helpful for your article creation is the Encyclopedia of Diasporas. It contains detailed articles on the Hakka, Hmong, Hui, Jewish in China, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipinos, etc, and has specific articles on each of these diaspora groups in specific countries such as Hungary, Japan, Canada, the US, Denmark, Russia, Australia, etc. Cheers. DHN (talk) 18:21, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
		For your excellent work on expanding the Ethiopian Australian article! Matilda ^talk 22:25, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
		_{this WikiAward was given to CaliforniaAliBaba by Matilda ^talk on 22:25, 1 December 2008 (UTC)}

UK Ethnic group articles

Hi, I am really impressed and thankful for you contributions to the article Bolivians in the United Kingdom, I am looking to improve other articles in this way, have you got any particulat websites or sources that would help me to be able to exapnd the UK ethnic group articles. Thanks. Stevvvv4444 talk on 20:02, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

請創建「Vietnamese Migrant Workers and Brides Office」（越南外勞配偶辦公室）的條目

我是台灣人，不明白英語和越南語，希望你可以創建「Vietnamese Migrant Workers and Brides Office」（越南外勞配偶辦公室）的條目，感恩！

TAIWAN ACT! Taiwan Alliance to Combat Trafficking - www.taiwanact.net

--越南萬歲！ (talk) 20:17, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

你是支持獨裁政權的共產中國，還是支持自由民主的台灣？

中文維基百科到底合不合法？回應一位可憐而不自覺已成為台支人的朋友。

--力道山 (talk) 12:57, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

thx

You're right. Thanks for the correction. I was too quick. Victuallers (talk) 11:59, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

RE: Fooian Brazilian articles and sockpuppets

I did what you ask, and in my opinion, I think Skanter is not a sockpuppet of Troy86.

My reasons: If you see the contributions of Skanter [5] or any of Skanter suspected sockpuppets [6], his edits only deal with Brazilian articles and he creates useless articles of Brazilian ethnic groups. When I saw Troy86's contibutions [7] or any of his sockpuppets that you presented, his edits dealt with African/Black articles and creates useless articles about African/Black groups in any country. The pages they edit together are the ones that deal with both Africans and Brazilians, and in my opinion, it just a coincidence. Skanter has also created many pages of small European, White, or Asian ethnic groups that have been deleted Belarussian Brazilian, Canadian Brazilian, and Filipino Brazilians (note: these are the AfD pages). The other incidents that you showed me that involved CARLMART, I think the same can be applied, that it is just a coincidence. CARLMART was making articles in random, and he didn't stay in a specific topic like Skanter (Brazilians) and Troy86 (Africans).

Another reason is the IP addresses. In the suspected sockpuppets of Troy86, he has only one IP address which is 70.156.138.197. If you look at all the IP address that are suspected to be Skanter's, the numbers begin with 189 while Troy86 only IP address begins with 70. I know that some of Skanter's IPs trace to a Brazilian website, but I don't know about Troy86's IP.

This is why my conclusion is Skanter is not Troy 86. I hope my information is helpful. If you need a second opinion, you should ask Opinoso, he has dealt more with Skanter than me. Anyways, Thank you for asking my help.

Thank you for reading. Lehoiberri (talk) 19:36, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi again, can you add 68.215.82.119 as a suspected sockpuppet of Troy86. I undid an edit [8] by that IP address, but Cup22, one of Troy86's sockpuppets, undid my edit [9] and left a message in the edit summary "says who!?". If you look at the contribution of that IP address, it similar to Troy86 and Cup22. Thanks again. bye. Lehoiberri (talk) 03:32, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I left a message for Lehoiberri to contribute to WP:SSP#User:Troy86. This will probably lead to a Request for checkuser, but it's more likely to succeed if the data is well-organized first. Any past IPs that have been suspected would be good to have in the report. EdJohnston (talk) 19:46, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Russians

What I say is at least questionable, from a source you speak "reliable", we all know that not even the same sources are 100% safe gubernametales on the other Russians in Chile 250 citations is that? you think that source reliable? And if these are the descendants recidentes but arrived more than a century ago as it added 70,000 source said that it is also very reliable so we let the two references. Saludos--Kusamanic (talk) 11:01, 24 January 2009 (UTC)--Kusamanic (talk) 11:01, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry

Upravo sam moj prvi korak u wikiju na hrvatskom jeziku, I'm learning za izmjenu cijene puno žao. pozdravi.

I just my first step in the wiki in English, I'm learning to edit cost much sorry. greetings--Kusamanic (talk) 10:41, 25 January 2009 (UTC)--Kusamanic (talk) 10:41, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

hey

perhaps then ethnic chinese's inherent "disambig-ness" could be rethought. apparently this term "overseas chinese" is pretty established and accepted tho it does smack of something a government somewhere came up with. come to think of it, it has a distinct POV flavor of "I'm inside china, I am what is called chinese, everyone else is someone who left or descended from someone who left." vibe, no? I didn't create the term. hey, it seems accepted and established. and I understand that the PRC has a complex relationship with ethnic chinese in other countries, as reflected in the overseas Chinese article.

Might sound weird-- and I guess this is in the article itself but-- some "ethnic" chinese persons in other counries are not in any reasonable sense "over seas". they are in various asian countries. why does this umbrella term seem to be the only one to refer to all the persons that make up these various unique populations. if you could direct me to anywhere I could learn more about this (that is, how these peoples are referred to) on or off 'pedia, that'd be awesome. thanks.

lastly for what it's worth, spoken language matters. the term "ethnic chinese" is a term that people use. (I'm not too good with the citation thing. I try to get someone in on my cause who's got those skills to find a cite.) I think it's usu in a geopolitics context. it would be silly, unclear or forcedly polite, in some conversations, especially if none of said persons are in the room to refer to them as "overseas". holler. Cogido 'll aka Huh? 18:20, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Chinese and Sino-Tibetan language

Hi, could you come to the Sinitic languages article talk page and discuss, as the article's merge is gone and an article has been written. User:Kwamikagami, who wrote the article, has been re-classifying Chinese language in pretty much all articles about Chinese (i.e. Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Min-Nan, Old Chinese...) as well as Sino-Tibetan language-related articles. The thing I found problematic is that Kwamikagami has been classifying Sino-Tibetan languages (Chinese and Tibeto-Burman) in a way that is contrary to mainstream encyclopedia sources, like Encyclopedia Britannica [10] and Ethnologue's [11] classifications (the user also classified Bai language under his/her newly created "Sinitic" language family instead of Tibeto-Burman language family), that is why I hope you can come and discuss with us.--TheLeopard (talk) 21:57, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Alternative to notability

Hello! I am working on an objective alternate to notability in my userspace. Please read User:A Nobody/Inclusion guidelines and offer any suggestions on its talk page, which I will consider for revision purposes. If you do not do so, no worries, but if you wish to help, it is appreciated. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 01:47, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Peter Nguyen

阮文雄 - 台灣大百科全書

--林元曌 (talk) 20:10, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

阮文雄神父：曲折聖召路(完結篇)

--林元曌 (talk) 07:46, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

--林元曌 (talk) 07:53, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

chinese-iranian

hey, just to let you know i spent alot of time and effort on this article and used all my information from an issue of the economist magazine i had. id apreciate it if yu could revert the edits again. thankyou user:megastrike14 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.0.136.37 (talk • contribs) 00:08, 23 February 2009 (UTC

Koreans in Singapore

Hello

I got the information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea. Funnily, it was stated in the following paragraph where the information came from, but yet you stated that I did not cite a reference?

Anyhow, I've added reference numbers including a good hyperlink. See if that's fine with you? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zhoos (talk • contribs) 21:14, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

我看是你在破壞Peter Nguyen和Vietnamese people in Taiwan的條目吧！

用戶User:阮明珠是在維護和修正Peter Nguyen和Vietnamese people in Taiwan的條目，可是你卻惡意回退User:阮明珠的貢獻，我看你才是破壞者！--阮明惠 (talk) 14:32, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

我不明白英語，請使用中文來答覆我。--阮明惠 (talk) 14:37, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

我也請你不要破壞我的用戶頁面，否則你也是在對我從事破壞行為！--阮明惠 (talk) 14:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Narrowing

Hi there. I'm curious why I always see you making the text of {{cent}} more compact, and sometimes a bit confusing for me. Can't users just set a width= or similar, that way those who want a narrow banner can have one, but those with larger resolutions can have it set to regular. Which is still pretty narrow to begin with. Thanks for your time, §hep ^Talk 00:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Please don't stop because of me. I thought that maybe the width param wasn't working and I was going to take a look at it. §hep ^Talk 00:41, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

???

Further down, it states:

As of 2006, the Hoa became the largest ethnic minority in Vietnam, with figures of 2.3 million.[3]

I think this article contradicts itself. I noticed that, but added just in case. Umm, yeah, I do NOT know. My ba is an Hoa but left the country way back in 1977 for bustling Los Angeles. ★Dasani★ 02:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Possible sockpuppetry

Given the probable sockpuppetry from the users who have vandalized your user page, I'd recommend you to file a report at WP:SSP (and especially while they're still on their blocks!). Cheers, — sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 08:45, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

I've been bold :) -- lucasbfr ^talk 12:56, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

April Fool's DYK for China, Kagoshima

On April Fool's, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article China, Kagoshima, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thank you for your contribution to the April Fool's Day fun! Royal broil 00:20, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Qapqal News

Thank you for this article! I've nominated it for DYK. Vmenkov (talk) 06:17, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

No, no idea who can make an image of Manchu text. I suggest you look at the edit history of articles that already contain Manchu-text images, to find the contributors who created them. I suppose anyone who has a word processor that supports Manchu can just make a screen shot, and then crop the necessary word - but of course very few people have such a word processor and know how to use it! Vmenkov (talk) 06:35, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Great work on this article! An old advisor of mine, Loretta Kim (currently at SUNY Albany) is active in Xibe language revitalization projects and has told me about this newspaper before; great to see it on WP. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 15:50, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

BTW, I left a comment at the DYK nom here. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs

Thanks

[12] I agree your edit. I 100% support your edit. thanks. Cherry Blossom OK (talk) 11:18, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

China/Korea etc.

Replied [13]. cab (talk) 11:49, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry, I posted that on the wrong page. -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs email guestbook complaints 11:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Also, it doesn't explain Cherryblossom deleting my refs from Seoul Broadcasting System and Hani. -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs email guestbook complaints 11:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Disruptive Editing

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
If you add defamatory content once again, as you did to Chinese people, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Meitoufu (talk) 11:07, 22 April 2009 (UTC) — Meitoufu (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Replied. I have no idea what this new user is talking about. cab (talk) 11:29, 22 April 2009 (UTC)