User talk:百家姓之四

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Hello, 百家姓之四, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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1 Babel
2 Request for edit summary
3 RE: Greek letters
4 Nice
5 Chinese numerals
6 Hello!
7 User name
8 Your opinion?
9 Languages
10 Template:Userboxtop
11 User:Cool Cat/In many languages...

[edit] Babel

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zh	這個用戶的母語是中文。这个用户的母语是中文。

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If you were trying to add a template for your language skills, see Wikipedia:Babel. I assume that this is the template that you wanted: BlankVerse ∅ 08:05, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

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When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.

– Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:17, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Greek letters

Hi there! I hope you're well; thanks for your note. I used Swis721Greek BT and SymbolProp BT variants to render the letters, both of which slightly differ from the font names you've provided ... I HATE using Arial :) I also tweaked them graphically. If you'd like for me to produce alternate or high-resolution versions, etc., let me know! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 13:40, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Let me check: nope, no bold (precise font names above; corrected). Also note, though, that I used CorelDraw to render the letters and slightly tweaked some of them, so the images may exhibit slightly altered versions of the bona fide characters. I hope this helps. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 13:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

OK; I'll send the fonts to you tomorrow. Pleasant dreams! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 13:54, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice

Found you in the edit-history and wondered - how do you write for the chinese wp without your government knowing? AFAIK they're blocking wikipedia as good as they can... Well, but probably you're one of the bad-bad individualists of Taiwan? Or Hong Kong? Well, just guessing ;-) ... --PSIplus 20:30, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese numerals

Hello, 百家姓之四 (whatever may be your name in latin characters). Although I've really no idea about chinese language and numerals, I translated that article to Spanish wikipedia (earlier Spanish article was very defficient). And I added an image instead of descriptions of huāmǎ characters. My image was erased from the article twice:

It had an error in nine numeral.
Patch redirection does not work in Wikicommons, and image was not displayed.

So I ask to you if you can check the image, add the fourth numeral variant and indicate the stroke order, if it's not much work to you. Thank you very much.

—Nethac DIU, would never stop to talk here—
20:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Note: Be careful with my English: I can know a lot of words, but I'm not a native speaker. Sorry.

[edit] Hello!

I took the liberty of fixing up your user page, there were a few grammar mistakes, but otherwise your English is quite good! I definitely think you should upgrade to at least en-2! -- Best Regards, PerfectStorm 01:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Best compliments? Now I'm touched:) Anyways, enjoy yourself, Wikipedia is a great project! Proud to contribute. Regards, PerfectStorm 02:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User name

Hello 百家姓之四, welcome to Wikipedia!

Please consider changing your username to one with only alphanumeric characters (English alphabets and numbers)). Although it is not an offensive username, the English Wikipedia tends to object to non-alphanumeric characters in usernames, because people who do not have Chinese fonts in their computers will not be able to see your username properly.

You can make a request to change your username at Wikipedia:Changing username. Regards, Kimchi.sg 04:09, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

They will also not be able to type it and will just call you "that Chinese dude" --mboverload @ 02:19, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Yea, I agree with Kimchi. 对不起！And for the record, it's pronounced something like "bye jia may zh-e s-uh" (damn Chinese is hard to pronounce using English sounds). Hope you consider changing it once you come back. :-) 谢谢您。再见！Sasquatch t|c 21:51, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I too agree. I am sorry to put you in this position, however on the english wikipedia it would be helpful to other users if your username used roman characters. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 04:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Isn't that quite offensive?. that chinese dude? come on, please stop that. I think anything it is an excuse to ignorance of foreign languages. However, it would be nice to see a pinyin romanization of your user name. If you feel this is the way you like it, leave it as currently is. I dont see if there is a violation of some sort of wikipedia policy but i like your style :) , cheers and welcome to wikipedia.--HappyApple 02:26, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't see the problem with non-Latin characters in usernames. Everyone should be using unicode these days, and people have 100s of fonts installed, so why not have just one for displaying each foreign character set? And who types other people's usernames in rather than pasting anyway? I think the pinyin version should be Baijia xingzhisi. Perhaps people persist, rather than change your username, you could just use a custom signature. JRawle (Talk) 12:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm going to add my voice to those asking you to change user name. The problem is not reading it, it is typing it, which I cannot do. The relevant policy to take into account is WP:USERNAME, subsection: "Names with non-Latin characters" (Under "Inappropriate Usernames".) --Storkk 13:39, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your opinion?

Dear... Sir. (Or 百家姓之四.)

I understand that you are a resident of the people's republic of China, and opposed to the internet censorship that goes on there. I was curious if you could give me your opinions on the censorship that goes on in China. You can remain anonymous, if you wish, but I would appreciate it if you could render any assistance to what is happening in China, by explaining your views to me.

Thank you for your time. Scalene 08:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Languages

Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 19:29, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Userboxtop

Ni hao! I saw you had edited the template Userboxtop to remove the spacing on the left-hand side. Unfortunately, this meant the text to the left of the boxes on my userpage, and probably on very many other users' pages, went right up against the boxes. Therefore I reverted the change, as with a basic userpage layout, text flows around the boxes.

I took a look at your page, and I could see why you don't want a space to the left of the boxes. Therefore I suggest copying the template to User:百家姓之四/Userboxtop, then you can edit it as you wish and include your own copy on your page. Best wishes, JRawle (Talk) 11:49, 3 August 2006 (UTC)