User:K.C. Tang
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Hello. I am from Hong Kong. I was born in 1980.[citation needed] I don't like meaningless and redundant internal links, I remove them whenever I spot them. Another thing I loathe is "and/or" - those who use it must think that they are being very clever and/or precise.
[edit] To remember
- In many cases the best way to improve an article is to rewrite it, therefore, be bold like hell.
- Avoid weasel words.
- Work the "See also" into the main text, to show why they should also be seen.
- Internal links are for the sake of convenience, they are not obligatory. Ask yourself before you create an internal link: will people also want to or need to know about that when reading this article? The internal links of dates are most annoying: in most cases people won't care to click them (the links of the birth and death years are useful in a biographical article, though: they give context to the life of the subject).
- Citations are often repetitions of errors. But providing sources can at least make a claim verifiable: in many cases that means to show what an unreliable source one has cited.
- We don't need to provide sources for every statement, but do provide source for any quote. Don't attribute words to someone unless you have a source. False attribution causes slander.
- Avoid too-short sections. Divide an article into as few sections as possible.
- Think twice or thrice before copying and pasting the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Both the content and the style are outdated - the latter more often than not violates NPOV.
[edit] Motto
The following over-quoted words should be inscribed on the main page of Wikipedia:
吾生也有涯而知無涯，以有涯逐無涯，殆矣。 － 莊子
(The span of our life is finite; the boundary of knowledge infinite. One must not pursue the infinite with the finite. - Chuang Tzu)
[edit] Chinese language: to do or have done
- Western study of the Chinese language
- Transliteration into Chinese characters
- History of Chinese linguistics
- List of Chinese linguists
- shengxun (聲訓)
- Chinese particles
- To re-cat all Chinese books
