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[edit] Tiananmen Square

I have reverted your insertion of statements about a discrepancy of the area of Tiananmen Square because of the Wikipedia policy against original research: see WP:OR. To be precise, your calculations based on google earth appears to be original research on your part, rather than being based on reliable, published sources.

I am, however, interested in how you came to that conclusion. How did you define the "Square" in your calculation? For example, did it include the National History Museum and the Great Hall of the People, or Mao's mausoleum? Did it include the roadway of Chang'an Avenue? You are welcome to post on my talk page. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 03:05, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I think that the official figure includes the roadways around your rectangle as well - i.e. including the entire open space bounded by the Tiananmen in the north, the National Museum in the East, Great Hall of the People in the West, and the Qianmen in the south -- I've marked that area out in this image (with apologise to Google Earth). From a rough calculation by hand (you can check with your google maps area tool), this seems to be around 400,000 sq meters - still a little different from the official figures, but fairly close. The darkish paved roadway you see around the square should, I think, be regarded as part of the square - they're usually sealed to traffic and is pretty much identical to the stone-paved part of the square in terms of usual usage. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 10:12, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Tiananmen-square.png)

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[edit] Wikipedia weekly interviewee userbox

Hi there, I've been thinking about this for a bit and I think we've got it working. User:scartol has been kind enough to create a userbox for the interviewees of Wikipedia weekly so you can put it on your userpage if you wish. Just copy this code:

{{User:Scartol/ubx/WikWeekGuest|32|http://wikipediaweekly.org/2007/10/09/episode-32-trust-me/}}

Which should come out looking like this

Best, Witty Lama 00:05, 28 October 2007 (UTC)