User:K.C. Tang

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This user is taking a long wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia who know when.

Hello. I am from Hong Kong. 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.

A good article? From my own experiences, I'd say what a wikipedia reader needs is a pretty summary plus a good bibliography or other resources. Add more resources instead of more details. Help the readers find out the thing themselves.

[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).
We don't need to provide a source for every statement in an article, but make sure what you say is at least source-able: you can provide a source for a statement when someone asks for it.
Do provide a source for any quote, though. Don't attribute words to someone unless you have a source. False attribution causes slander.
Sectioning facilitates editing, but 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 Both the content and the style are outdated - the latter more often than not violates NPOV.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] To do or have done

[edit] Chinese linguistics

History of Chinese linguistics
Western study of the Chinese language
Transliteration into Chinese characters
Chinese particles
shengxun (聲訓)
xiehouyu (歇後語)
List of Chinese linguists
Wang Niansun (王念孫)
Luo Zhenyu (羅振玉)
Liu Bannong (劉半農)
Baron Alexander von Staël-Holstein
Wang Li (王力)

8 different cursive representations of the character 龍 (dragon), from Compilation of Cursive Characters (草字彙), authored by Shi Liang (石梁) of the Qing Dynasty