User talk:Chensiyuan

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Contents 1 Invitation 2 Michael Jordan FAC 3 Pawgabr 4 Michael Jordan 5 Gilberto Silva goals page 6 Sorrry 7 Regarding the DMC2 Article 8 YOUR work on DMC2 9 WP:AIV 10 Reef 11 Devil May Cry

[edit] Invitation

Hi. I picked up your link from a warning on the talk page of a recent vandal. I noticed you are Singaporean and interested in classical Chinese tales. Please consider joining our web forum at http://www.chinahistoryforum.com --SohanDsouza 05:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Jordan FAC

I nominated MJ for featured article status I thought you'd like to know. You can comment and/or vote on the article's candidacy page if you'd like. Quadzilla99 10:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pawgabr

Why did I get a warning about my blue jay edit when I corrected my blue jay edit around 1 minute later ?

[edit] Michael Jordan

while editing one of the references, you used the month-day format for the date. is it your intention to change them all since the current references use the day-month format. thanks. Chensiyuan 05:05, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

The reason dates are wiki-linked is so that each editor's date preferences are respected; that is, each editor will see dates according to their own preferences. But, I'm curious anyway, since I don't believe I've changed anything—can you point me to a date I changed so I can see what you're referrring to? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 05:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Oops, just saw your never mind :-) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 05:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gilberto Silva goals page

Hey, thanks for the note. Thanks also for initially helping me with the article, and for your support now that it has been nominated for deletion. Like you, I strongly believe that type of article has a place on Wikipedia. As a silent protest, I am not getting involved in the debate. I am instead spending my day being constructive; expanding some football articles... something which I believe everybody at the deletion discussion should also be doing. Again, thanks for your help. All the best, prolly speak to you soon. -GilbertoSilvaFan 14:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

aye, i only have respect for wikipedians such as yourself who do productive things and earn articles FA class. cya around. Chensiyuan 15:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey there again. I'd like to pick your brain, if you don't mind :-) It's about image fair use. I found an image of Ottorino Barassi, and I'm wondering if this image would be considered 'fair use' on the article. It's from this page. I think it may well be fair use, since it's a low-res photo to identify a deceased person... however, I can't find a suitable license on the upload page. To your best judgement, do you think that the image counts as fair use, and if so, which license is most suitable? Thanks! -GilbertoSilvaFan 22:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

hi. you're right there isn't a suitable license. technically if you read the instructions, stating the license is an alternative to providing a summary of the image (author, source, fair use rationale). however it is likely some silly bot will tag the image for deletion if you don't state the license.

WP has really stringent criteria on what constitutes fair use. imo this image will pass fair use under usa law, but will have some difficulty passing WP criteria and ONLY because there will be a ton of "fair use" fanatics out there waiting to make some noise when an image isn't free. they will just throw wp:fair use at you without explaining how the image does not pass fair use.

i'm about to go to school now, so i can't help you scour WP at the moment, but my advice is: (1) sniff around something like category:1971 deaths (better still if the person is an Italian) and see if some of the articles there contain images. if the images are licensed, check out what fair use rationale was provided and see if it fits the image you found; (2) i don't know if you have checked this out, may be useful.

keep me posted and i'd try to find out more for you in the meantime. Chensiyuan 01:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for all the advice! I had a look through about 100 image pages and saw a few of the images which qualify as fair use. I've uploaded the image with the tags/rationale which I think give it the best chance of not being deleterated. The image is Image:Ottorino_Barassi.jpg. Also, feel free to read through the brand new Peter Knowles and correct any grammatical errors. I've spent too long looking at the article, and I am now desensitized to it. Anyway, if you need a favour on WP, just give me a shout... I figure I owe it to you. Thanks again, GilbertoSilvaFan 20:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

i think the description is fair enough (pun intended), but keep fingers crossed for some silly wikilawyer to come mess things up. 50-50. Chensiyuan 02:40, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

you're most welcome. i notice on the Knowles page, it is consistently written as "Wolves" without "the". that is intended? Chensiyuan 02:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey. Was just popping by to let you know that Peter Knowles is on the front page under the 'did you know?' section. Cool eh? Thanks for your help with grammar on the article! While I was popping by, I saw your note about 'the wolves' vs. 'wolves'. I'll quickly run through why I used 'wolves' and not 'the wolves'. While 'Wolves' is just a nickname, in England it is mainly used as the actual name of the club. It is an anomaly nickname, really. It is true that normally nicknames are prefixed by 'the' (ie. 'the gunners', 'the red devils' etc.), but in Wolves' case, you only say 'Wolves'. In grammar, it is treated like a club name; just like you'd say 'Bergkamp joined Arsenal' and not 'Bergkamp joined the Arsenal', you'd say 'Knowles joined Wolves' and not 'Knowles joined the Wolves'. From Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., "The club is mostly referred to by a shortened version of its name, Wolves." It's weird though, I hadn't really thought about that weird usage until you mentioned it in your edit summary. Anyway. Thought you'd find that interesting, since I certainly did! All the best, take care. GilbertoSilvaFan 17:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

yup it's cool to see something featured on the mainpage even if it's DYN. ok your explanation makes sense now. i thought you couldn't have left out "the" by accident. Chensiyuan 17:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey. Sure, I'll help. Some brainstormage:

• No citations in the lead para. The points are probably all cited further in the article, but citations should double up. If a GA or FA voter sees no citations in the lead, it makes them nervous :-)
• 'First years at Monaco' section starts without any mention of the first 6 years of his life. I'll try and find some info on it and make an 'Early life' section. Even if the text is very fleshed out and doesn't have much substance, it's nice to have a paragraph there about his baby days.
• The sections on his time at Monaco and Juve are very short. I don't know if much info exists on those days, but I'll have a look around for some.
• 'International career' section should be integrated into the previous club-only sections. The 'Arsenal career' header will be renamed 'Senior career', 'First years at Monaco' renamed to 'Early career'. FA voters don't like it when a new section of prose starts a new timeline.
• Only one citation in 'racism' section, I'll find some more to properly source it.
• A trivia section exists. Must deleterate. Or preferably, integrate into the prose (if appropriate).

Obviously you are a far more experienced user than I, so if you have any comments on those bullet points, let me know. Also, it would be great if you could write your own 'to do' list, so we can get a good idea of all the work that has to be done.

It's fairly easy to get an article to FA, I think we could do it by April 5th. As you probably know, the hard part isn't getting the article FA quality, it's convincing people that it is FA quality. ;-) Coolio; I'll have a go at all those bullet points in the next day or two. I'll hear from you soon. -GilbertoSilvaFan 12:10, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey again. I made a few changes to the article. Check Talk:Thierry Henry for details :-) -GilbertoSilvaFan 18:08, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. :-) Much appreciated. It's a shame we couldn't at least squeeze the TH article through GA before I went, but I'm sure you'll have no problems with it yourself. Good luck in the future! -GilbertoSilvaFan 09:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

if it ever gets squeezed thru much credit to you. Chensiyuan 00:59, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sorrry

Sorrry, meant to warn the vandal, accidentally got the reverter. —dgies^t_c 08:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the DMC2 Article

Thanks for wikignoming! I've had my eyes on this thing for so long that some stuff just passes right by my eyes. Cheers, Lankybugger 17:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments in the FAC. Cheers, Lankybugger 01:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YOUR work on DMC2

		The Original Barnstar
		Take a Barnstar for yourself. Without Wikipedians as dedicated as yourself cleaning up after the little things Wikipedians like I miss, no articles would make it to GA-class, let alone FA-class. Cheers, Lankybugger 17:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AIV

Thought I'd notify you about this page, in case you didn't know about it. I see you do a lot of vandal fighting. After a vandal has been given several warnings you can repoort them here and they'll start getting blocks. Quadzilla99 15:45, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reef

I gave the article a preliminary look over. I'll review it tomorrow, looks pretty solid, should pass. Quadzilla99 22:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Devil May Cry

Chensiyuan, I was wondering if I could prevail on you to take a quick gander at the Devil May Cry article and see if there's anything which jumps out at you. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Lankybugger ○ speak ○ see ○ 02:59, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

sure, would take a look at it now. Chensiyuan 11:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much for taking the time to look over the article. Cheers, Lankybugger ○ speak ○ see ○ 13:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

most welcome. Chensiyuan 00:57, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the size of the reception section on Devil May Cry the reasons behind that is to attend concers about it being "underdeveloped" and the constant presure of users telling us to add this and that, I don't think we an cut it any shorter without losing supporters, please don't let that be a obstacle in your evaluation of the article, if you need to contact somebody about how to improve the article please contact User:Boradis he will be dealing with the copy-edit of the prose soon, cause I will be unavailable this weekend, thanks for your help on the article. -凶 04:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Certainly, thanks for clarifying. Chensiyuan 04:12, 7 April 2007 (UTC)