User talk:Spencer195

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 22:21, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hello and welcome. You can sign your name with ~~~~. IMO, "Zhou Enlai" sounds closer to the acutal pronounciation than "Joe Un-lai". The Zh sound is not pronouced like J. Unless we use complex notation (such as those used in dictionaries), the name will still be mispronouced. Let's discuss this at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style for China-related articles so others can participate.--Jia ng 01:03, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

1 A-Mei
2 Xi'an Incident
3 Chinese family names
4 Ethnicity infobox
5 Full Nice Handbag Co
6 Taipei
7 about Taiwan counties & cities
8 Favor
9 Pix positions Tiananmen Square
10 Re: Name
11 Barnstar (DF08)
12 Unit 731 protected
13 Chinese Wikipedia
14 Hu Jintao Portrait
15 zh-cn, zh-tw -> zh
16 Jump in
17 Category:Chinese dissidents
18 Re: Expressway maps
19 New Youth
20 Vrykolaka
21 You're an admin!
22 Thank you
23 Pihat
24 recent deletions
25 "Uploader requested" deletions
26 Regional notice boards
27 Small cap for surname
28 Re: admin
29 Hello
30 The Humungous Image Tagging Project
31 Article Licensing
32 Template:Move to Wikitravel
33 Stalinism Article
34 Thanks
35 Template messages - Infoboxes
36 Abortion
37 Image:Spencer195.png listed for deletion
38 Image Tagging Image:Panda.png
39 Pinyin tool link doesn't work anymore
40 Lists of Taiwanese counties
41 Peer review/Yuan (surname)
42 Head of Brian Boitano
43 Image:Scott hamilton 0305426.jpg listed for deletion
44 Image:Brian Boitano 0204401.jpg listed for deletion
45 Image:Irina Slutskaya 0405721.jpg listed for deletion
46 Image:Michelle Kwan 0106301.jpg listed for deletion
47 Image:Michelle Kwan 0407303.jpg listed for deletion
48 Image:Chen Lu 0107307.jpg listed for deletion
49 Image:Kristi Yamaguchi 0400514.jpg listed for deletion
50 Image Tagging Image:Opiumwar.jpg
51 Image Tagging Image:Fiery-mario.png
52 Interesting in Project???
53 Unspecified source for Image:Mao-young.jpg
54 Image tagging for Image:Anti-japan.jpg
55 Excuse me. Could I use this picture for Min-nan language?
56 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Taipei City seal.png)
57 Image:Wuyi.jpg

[edit] A-Mei

If it's not paraphrased enough, then please do fix it. Cheers, Jia ng 08:19, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Mr. Spencer195, you were obviously not at all informed on the entire "Little Black Sambo" issue you wrote for Ethnic issues in Japan. If you had read the book you mentioned as a source, please show where such completely false and misreading associations were made.

Revth 12:42, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Xi'an Incident

See Wikipedia:How to move a page. --Jia ng 23:16, 2 May 2004 (UTC)

Oops. Thanks for fixing that. -Spencer195 23:27, 2 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi Spencer195, thank you very much for your message! It is inspiring. I should go on. :-) :Sure 00:38, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese family names

Great links to wiki dictionary. Thanks! I didn't know there are dictionary entries for those characters. Are those entried imported from some public domain database? Kowloonese 22:34, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Nanshu filled in the data with a bot, getting the information from the Unihan database (which in turn got their information from CEDICT (http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html), which is open-source). ☞spencer195 22:52, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Actually, I think the only problem with linking the characters like this is that the underlining can be kind of distracting and the page can get a little harder to edit. I wonder if there is some way to modify the Wikipedia software so that Chinese characters would automatically link to their corresponding Wiktionary page? ☞spencer195 22:55, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

See Special:preferences re underlining Dysprosia 02:30, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ethnicity infobox

I actually think your recent change of colors for the ethnicity infobox in the article Jew is probably an improvement, but it really should be taken up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic Groups Template and Wikipedia:Infobox rather than changed in one place on an ad hoc basis. -- Jmabel 05:37, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Full Nice Handbag Co

I counted roughly 2:1 for deletion, which is in the realm of judgement calls. Given that that the responses from people in Hong Kong were of the "I've never heard of it" variety, I went for deletion. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:12, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Taipei

Nice work on all the Taiwanese county info boxes. If you get a chance, the table at Taipei needs some reformatting too. (I don't know how to do it myself.) Cheers, Jia ng 04:33, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] about Taiwan counties & cities

Thanks for creating and fixing the tables. I hope you can use your map to change my old map. If you can, I'll thank for your work. In addition, the maps can add blue color for ocean or sea.(like New York Map) Thank you very much! (Sichinaren 07:06, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC))

I was the one who came up with the shorthand for the "WP:SC" for shortcuts, and have been away for a while - apparently the standard for the new tags is lowercase, which is fine - I just didnt know. thanks. BTW, it looks like redirects work fine - so Moving the VFD template to vfd allows both to work. That should be fine. -Stevertigo 19:52, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Favor

Please look at this and see if the tags that I added are valid. If the case doesnt matter, (due the redirects magically working) then caps can still be used for visibility, eh? I have to run, so if you can follow up, TBG! Thanks. -Stevertigo

[edit] Pix positions Tiananmen Square

Does not seem to work well under varying window sizes. (I use Safari). Try some resizing. T.Gate OK. Leonard G. 04:29, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Name

Yep :-) - Ta bu shi da yu 04:35, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar (DF08)

Dear Spencer195,

It was an extremely pleasant surprise for me to see that I have received the barnstar. I want to thank you for your support, and I am sure that I'll keep on contributing more and more towards Wikipedia.

Once again, thank you very much. :-) --DF08 22:31, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unit 731 protected

FYI, I've protected Unit 731 and moved the disputed text/photo to the talk page. Feel free to discuss there. Thanks. Fuzheado | Talk 02:06, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese Wikipedia

I don't have the link - can you post to my page? Thanks, Leonard G. 02:10, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC) Must have missed it on the main page - I can't read to find the previous day's page or the article reference - any specific link (I'll save the HTML as a memento)

Found and saved - thanks, Leonard.

[edit] Hu Jintao Portrait

Hi Spencer,

I got the Hu Jintao portrait from the website of the CCP-owned newspaper China Daily. I have searched this website and other websites high and low to see if I could find any other good portraits of Jiang Zemin or Deng Xiaoping in the traditional uniform of the Central Military Commission (the green suit), but I can't still find a hi-res portrait of either. It would be great if you could try and search the rest of the site for these types of pictures. Thanks! --Valentino 04:31, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I've found some decent headshots of Jiang Zemin in a business suit (See [1]), but no larger versions or headshots of him in a Mao suit. I'll keep searching. -spencer195 05:05, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Actually, Jiang's Wikipedia entry has a picture of him in the Mao suit, but a face portrait of the same would be better for the entry. I did find a picture of Jiang in a traditional Chinese suit along with George W. Bush, but I don't think it's close enough. I hope you find it; I'll keep looking also. --Valentino 06:47, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] zh-cn, zh-tw -> zh

if didn't change this, crosslink robot doesn't work.

for example, zh:A page has a link to en:A, en:A has many links and zh-cn:A, then the robot can't automatic add the many links to zh:A, I fint this, so I do this change.

And, anyhow I will pause to make this change.--LiDaobing 17:25, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Please see new discussion that I started regarding this, Wikipedia talk:Chinese interlanguage links#Page combination and auto-converstion in MediaWiki 1.4. The combination are legal (both by the bot and manually). --Vina 21:46, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Jump in

Spencer195, absolutely be involved with editing/contributing to the articles. Part of the experience for the students is to in fact interact with Wikipedians. Treat them as any other newbies (er, that is, well behaving newbies) and hopefully you both will benefit from it. Thanks for asking. Fuzheado | Talk 03:18, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Chinese dissidents

Hi. Just wondering why you created this category? It duplicates the contents of List of Chinese dissidents, which contains a bunch of additional information. I think the general practice is to have one or the other, but not both. [[User:Noisy|Noisy | Talk]] 18:17, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Expressway maps

Hi Spencer195,

These maps will be coming soon! I've already done one or two for a few expressways (e.g. Jingzhang), these will get them first. Maps take quite some time, but the moment a map for an expwy is done, I'll add it to the article. Thanks again for the encouragement!

Best, --DF08 19:06, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

PS: Check out the 5th Ring Road article in Chinese -- it's got a map (scroll down), that's a prototype of an earlier map I made. (I wasn't born an artist, so improvements to come...) The new ones will be unified in size (300x300, as the pictures) and be a bit more informative.

Hi again,

Check out Jingcheng Expressway -- how do you like the map? I used OmniGraffle on Mac OS X 10.3 to do it... wasn't all too difficult. --DF08 (English) 15:13, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] New Youth

The redirect did not have a page history so deleting was not required for moving. I've nominated you for adminship. --Jia ng 04:47, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Vrykolaka

Hello Spencer,

Thank you for your welcoming message,this is much appreciated. Howerver, I'm an old wikipedist (I favour this term over wikipedian), since I first contributed in june 2003. It just happens that I usually edit the French Wikipedia. That is why my English page is not that organised.

I saw you signed a petition for the return of the Old Wikipedia. Do you know if there is any petition or lobbying or whatever to change the rules for hyperlinking? I find it annoying to have a double bracket+pipe rule for internal links and a single bracket+space rule for external links… [[User:Vrykolaka|Reply to Vrykolaka]] 12:49, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] You're an admin!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 05:06, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations! Enjoy your new powers. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me. --Slowking Man 09:49, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

Hello Spencer! I want to congratulate you on being an administrator. I am sure you will find the new job enjoyable, and I'm confident we as a whole (with other Wikipedians) can work together to make Wikipedia better. --DF08 (English) 13:45, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Congrat on your adminship. Since voting, I've been looking over your work, and I'm glad we could recognize your accomplishments. -- user:zanimum

Congratulations! Fire Star 18:29, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

That was speedier than I ever thought possible, and, to be honest, I wasn't around in the area where it was happening, but you speedily edited one of the articles I started (I think it was on Chen Haijan). Great work. Bobo192 19:14, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Pihat

$\widehat \pi$ forever! Snowspinner 19:22, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] recent deletions

I know you're new at this, but some of your recent deletions are a problem. First off, just because the uploader or author requested something be deleted, it is still not within policy to honor that request. The one exception is deletion of User: subpages, because everything becomes "owned" by the entire project, not just the originator. The second thing is that when you delete something, you should leave in a summary of the text, as in "Content was: Foo". -- Netoholic @ 06:34, 2004 Oct 31 (UTC)

Unfortunately, images are not retrievable, which is why you have to be careful there. What was Rhett Eldred before it was deleted? -- Netoholic @ 07:12, 2004 Oct 31 (UTC)

Checking the history (something you must always do) shows that it was on WP:VFD. I would say that it can be speedy deleted, since it is clearly vanity and contains personal information of the user. Please make sure to leave a "Content was: " deletion summary and leave a note of it's deletion on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Rhett Eldred. -- Netoholic @ 07:48, 2004 Oct 31 (UTC)

[edit] "Uploader requested" deletions

I noticed in the deletion log that you have deleted a number of images while leaving the edit summary "Uploader requested deletion" or something similiar. I wanted to clarify to you that just because an uploader requests one of their images be deleted (unless it is a personal image, like a photograph for Wikipedia:Facebook) does not mean that it can be automatically deleted. Unless it meets one of the criteria for images at Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion, then it must go through the full one-week process at Wikipedia:Images for deletion. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 18:36, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Regional notice boards

I notice you left a message on the Category discussion page on moving the notice boards from "X Wikipedians' notice board" to "X-related topics notice board". I think this is important - the current convention discourages the contribution of those who are interested in a particular country/culture but are not residents. Did you have any success/opposition? --[[User:OldakQuill|Oldak Quill]] 19:38, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Small cap for surname

I have noticed that you recently made Zhang Ziyi's surname ALL CAPITAL. That was what I proposed two to three years ago. Back then, there were objections because it did not follow some wikipedia naming conventions. My user page talked about that too. I was wondering if your recent action will be shot down by the same group of people who want to stick to an arbituary choice that fails in international usage. I just hope those who objected three years ago are no longer here, then we can do it right. Perhaps your new standard should be updated in the Wikipedia naming convention. Kudos for the starting a revolution. You have my support. :-) Kowloonese 00:47, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Re: admin

Hi Spencer,

I accept the nomination with pleasure. I'm here for Wikipedia -- be that contributing articles, writing up about the Beijing expressways, or helping out in general. I'm ready for the challenge.

I'm also rather sorry I failed to vote for you when you were about to become an admin yourself. I was always in favour of you being an admin, you can count this as my (rather delayed) vote -- of confidence -- a yes vote.

A personal thank you -- to you -- for your confidence, in me, in my contributions. I now face the consensus on the vote page with pleasure. :-)

All the best, --DF08 04:42, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hi spencer! It's a pleasure to know you. Feel free to work with me by creating and modifying articles about Korean actors. It will be a pleasure to do so. Thanks. User:Chan Han Xiang

Hi to you as well, and nice work on those articles. :) –spencer195 07:00, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)}[[]] 14:12, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Move to Wikitravel

What are your thoughts/reasons for creating this? Wikitravel is not a Wikimedia sister project, and as such, shouldn't be treated like Template:Move to Wiktionary. We have no instructions for just how to move that information, especially because Wikitravel uses a completely different license. -- Netoholic @ 19:46, 2004 Dec 21 (UTC)

[edit] Stalinism Article

Thanks for reverting that silly edit. I was just messing around and didint intend to change it like that.

No problem. And welcome to Wikipedia. –spencer195 00:27, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi, Spencer195:

This is a belated thank you for the barnstar you put on my talk page. It was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.

Sewing - talk 15:29, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template messages - Infoboxes

I see you're the only one who's edited Wikipedia:Template messages/Infoboxes so far. I'm wondering whether listing this section on Wikipedia:Template messages is a good idea. Please see my comment on Wikipedia talk:Template messages#Infoboxes listed elsewhere. - dcljr 23:35, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Abortion

Why did you do that?

[edit] Image:Spencer195.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Spencer195.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. —MetsBot 18:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Panda.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Panda.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, so its copyright status is therefore unclear. Could you add a tag to let us know its copyright status? (If you created/took the picture then you can use {{gfdl}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{fairuse}}.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know on the image description page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Otherwise, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. Thanks so much. --michael180 16:05, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pinyin tool link doesn't work anymore

I have noticed that the link you provided on your front page for the pinyin typing tool has ceased to function properly, since I am directed to the CJB home page whenever I click it. Can you provide me with an alternate link?

[edit] Lists of Taiwanese counties

Hi. I recently came across List of Taiwanese counties by population, List of Taiwanese counties by area and List of Taiwanese counties by population density, which were created by you. Is it necessary in this case to have three different articles, or could we perhaps merge them all into a new article called, say, List of Taiwanese counties? Punkmorten 15:51, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review/Yuan (surname)

If you have a minute, could you take a look at the article Yuan (surname) - I've put it up for peer review (see Wikipedia:Peer review/Yuan (surname)). I hope to make it a model for expanding other Chinese surname articles. Since you've contributed to the Chinese surname article, I would really appreciate your suggestions. Yu Ninjie 21:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Head of Brian Boitano

Hi, you have uploaded image:Brian Boitano 0204401.jpg. Please see Talk:Brian Boitano. I do not know of it is true but maybe you know. Greetings,--Walter 23:51, 15 December 2005 (UTC) (interim for contactpoint Wikipedia EN)

Nevermind. It seems to be fixt now. --Walter 07:46, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Scott hamilton 0305426.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Scott hamilton 0305426.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.