User talk:75.33.205.84

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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Asian pride. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. - ∅ (∅), 07:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Asian pride

Hi, thanks for your comment on my talk page. I'm sorry I reverted your edits. The problem with these sites is that we can't know how reliable they are, which is why we have our policy on reliable sources. This site is out to sell you stuff, and we cannot know how reliable their translations are. Even if Oriental Outpost "worked on [the translation] for a long time" and "[t]he effort involved both Chinese and Japanese translators and lengthly discussions", it doesn't mean the result is in any way accurate, since their motive in translating the phrase was to sell scrolls with the phrase on them, not to produce an accurate translation (or to document a phrase that people actually use). In short, it appears that orientaloutpost.com coined the phrase "東方自尊", possibly with the help of professional translators, which makes it a neologism that shouldn't appear on Wikipedia at all. And that solves the problem: we don't need a cite for the "translations", we can remove them altogether. Originally, after all, "Asian pride" is an American expression. :-) - ∅ (∅), 09:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)