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Pyinmana vs Naypyidaw

Hello, Hintha Great thanks and appreciate your contribution. I have seen a lot of Burmese grafic update and article update in wiki especially for Burmese facts. Hope, we can be friend but I have very less contribution than you. I notice, you preferred to use Naypyidaw instead of Pyinmana. What is your reason.

Personally, I dis-like the king system of Naypyidaw. --Uzawaung 23:13, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


Yangon

Hello, you may be interested in voting on whether the article Yangôn should be moved to Yangon. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 21:06, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

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Burmese tofu

Thank you for adding the Burmese name and alternative romanization to the Tofu article. I can't see the Burmese font on my computer, though--do you have any suggestion for me? Also, can you check the part of the article about "Burmese tofu"? I was told by a Burmese restaurant that it's made from "lentils" rather than soybeans but I wonder which kind, and whether you might know more about this product. Badagnani 00:35, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Download the Unicode font (MPH Yangon) at this webpage: http://fixedsys.org/~node_ue/fonts/. Hintha

Thanks, I downloaded it and I can now see the Burmese text in the Yangon article, but the Burmese in the Tofu article still shows up as blank rectangles. Maybe it's best, as in the first sentence of the Burmese language article, to just spell the letters through graphics if it's so difficult to get the characters to show up. I've spent an hour and downloaded 5 different Burmese fonts, and still can't view the Burmese word in the Tofu article. The Unicode font isn't very readable; the letters are small and skinny and not clear like the Burmese text in the Burmese language article. Badagnani 01:10, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Dear Hintha, the Burmese characters are coming through very clearly and beautifully in the Tofu article now. Please let me know if there should be any change to the section in the article about "Burmese tofu" (the yellow kind made from lentils instead of soybeans), which I just learned about from a Burmese restaurateur today. Badagnani 02:12, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Burmese Indians

Can you start the Burmese Indians article? I thought it would making an interesting article.--Dangerous-Boy

Emigration/immigration - I believe if you are looking out from American soil, people immigrate when they come in, but if you leave Burma you are emigrating no matter where to. Wagaung 14:44, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Hinduism in Myanmar

Do you think you can expand on Hinduism in Myanmar? Your Burmese Indian Article was very good. --Dangerous-Boy

Yama Zatdaw

One last request. Can you expand the Yama Zatdaw? --Dangerous-Boy

Mandalay Palace

Thanks for editing that article. NickelShoe 05:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

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Bangladesh peer review

Hi, I've started a new peer review for Bangladesh, please express your opinions at Wikipedia:Peer review/Bangladesh/archive2. Thanks. --Ragib 05:30, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Spelling corrections

Hi,

Saw you corrected a spelling at Mumbai. After visiting your contributions page, I found that you do a lot of such work. Consider adding {{User wikipedia/WikiGnome}} to your userboxes if you want. BTW, artefact and artifact are considered equivalent spellings. Look it up. Anyway, keep up the good work. Ambuj Saxena (talk) 11:03, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


Hello Hintha,

While I respect your scholarly inputs, you seem to have a pedantic obsession with the romanisation of Burmese. Do you really feel that you know best how Burmese should be pronounced? I hope you are aware of voicing rules that change e.g. htamin kyaw in written Burmese to htamin gyaw when spoken/read or si htamin to si damin , just as there are such irregularities in English. I accept that "Kyi" in a person's name should probably stay that way by convention and not written chi or ji neither of which quite gets it right. But its awfully awkward for someone non-Burmese to try and say it - Is it ky-i? Is "Tha Gyaw" tha gy-yaw? And why shouldn't it be confined to names of persons and places, why inflict this unnecessary hardship on the rest of the world by its universal usage beyond proper nouns. Jor works on an English person whereas gyaw stumps them. What's more , they'd say "aw" as in "saw" and not as the soft "sor". Why can't we make life easier for those who show some genuine interest in the country and its culture? A restaurant in Burma would normally have the menu in English sensibly without attempting to romanise every Burmese item. Only Burmese know how to say Ky/gy sounds and they certainly don't have to read it in English! The IPA is all very well for scholars but for an ordinary Joe? It's so dauntingly esoteric who's going to bother? I was taught at school a much simpler phonetics according to A S Hornby's "Oxford Progressive English" but most of my fellow 12-13 year olds couldn't care less. So, Earth to Hintha, please get off that ruddy high horse. 86.7.135.224 19:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

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Khin Nyunt

Your requested translation is complete; I took the liberty of not translating the whole of it, as there is much POV materiel in the German version. Also, I wasn't able to verify the date of his trial (21th or 22 of July 2005). BTW, how did you find me to do your translation; as far as I remember, we didn't have any contact before. Lectonar 14:06, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

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Shri Kali Hindu Temple in Yangon

Every think of making an article on that?--Dangerous-Boy 00:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'll add it to my to do list. Hintha 07:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Nice work!--Dangerous-Boy 22:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism on Shwebomin

Shwenbomin is South Pal Gyi and everybody know that

{{subst:Shwenbomin}} Myanmar sit sit 17:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar of National Merit

This Barnstar of National Merit is hereby presented to Hintha for his/her tireless contributions to Burma/Myanmar- related articles.
This Barnstar of National Merit is hereby presented to Hintha for his/her tireless contributions to Burma/Myanmar- related articles.

You don't know me, and I don't know you either. But I chanced upon your page and noticed you have made over 3000 edits, many of them on Burma/Myanmar, an area Wikipedia is sorely lacking in. So here is a Barnstar for you!

PS. Are you a Burmese Chinese (Chinese Burman?) living in Singapore? -- Миборовский U|T|C|M|E|Chugoku Banzai! 06:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! And, yes, I'm a Burmese Chinese, living in the United States. But I was born in Singapore. Hintha 07:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I see. I'm a Chinese Chinese (heh) who lived in Singapore and is now living in the United States. :D I look forward to your contributions. -- Миборовский U|T|C|M|E|Chugoku Banzai! 07:38, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

you are scarm

Why would you vandalize our prince of shan page????

i think South Pal Gyi page and Na Pal Gyi should not be delete because i think he is south pal gyi too lololololololol

and i know you are the same person as shwebmini

Wikipedia has a Neutral Point of View policy that you should use as a reference before vandalising pages. Hintha 20:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Myanmar sources

Hi Hintha. How are you? (By the way, I don't think you are "scarm," no matter what the person above says.) Anyway, the reason I'm writing is to tell you great work on the Politics of Myanmar page, and to ask if you have some good sources on that topic. The reason I ask is because I am writing a term paper on Myanmar's politics - particularly on how severe and continual human rights violations keeps the people from gaining enough power to overthrow the military junta and establish a democracy. That is my thesis anyway. Any suggested sources for me? Matatigre36 23:51, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Hintha, you know the "1990 People's Assembly election results" table that you put on the Politics of Myanmar page? Well, the number of seats adds up to only 479, NOT 492 as we have it and as the source, Adam Carr's website, says. We will need to see if we can track down some better info. Also, on that note, a lot of the sources I have looked at, including the CIA World Factbook and others, say that there were only 485 seats "available" for that election. If I come across the accurate numbers for the election as I write my term paper, I'll make the changes and let you know. In the meantime, keep up the good work on the topic. Matatigre36 21:50, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that as well. Thanks. Hintha 00:12, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Re:Sims 2 screenshot

Don't mind at all; the new shot looks pretty. Thanks. :) ╫ ２５ ◀RingADing▶ 03:21, 14 April 2006 (UTC) ╫

Mediation

Have you spoken to Aung win about this? Both of you must consent to mediate. Andre (talk) 20:42, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Ethnic groups

Hello, do you know if there's a complete list of Myanmar ethnic groups anywhere? The demographics article lists only a few. Badagnani 02:37, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I've begun List of ethnic groups in Myanmar. I started with the official list of 135 (re-alphabetized) and started a list broken down by language group. I agree that the government's listing is not particularly helpful. It's a huge job with not much information on many of them, so please add what you can and/or have time for. Badagnani 09:56, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Other strange things about the government list of 135: Moken is classified as a "Burman" ethnic group, when they are clearly a Malayo-Polynesian (that doesn't make sense), and Hmong doesn't appear at all, at least as far as I can tell, though I'm sure some Hmong live in Burma. Badagnani 10:50, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

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Adoniram Judson

Thanks for doing some cleanup behind me on this article. One quote in my source is that he is much better known in Myanmar than the U.S. today. If you have anything handy, can you build it up more? (I have material to work on articles for all three of his wives, but haven't gotten there yet.)

Also, can you take a look at Zayat? Is that the right Romanized spelling? I haven't had time to do a web-search yet, so it is probably readily expandable. GRBerry 03:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC) Is it categorized appropriately? Who might have an appropriate image to add to it? GRBerry 19:42, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Amarapura

Hello and thanks for doing the external links properly for me. It certainly looks better. Wagaung 18:23, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

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Burmese script for Roman Catholic diocese of Myanmar

I noticed that you seem to be able to write in Burmese. I have written (rather short) articles about some of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Myanmar, and the local name in Burmese script might be a good addition, just like the Thai name for the Diocese of Nakhon Ratchasima. Can you find these native names? As you have also uploaded several images with burmese script - I think it is a good idea to add the actual text in Unicode into the image description. I personally don't like the image solution to show Burmese script - while they are a good idea to show the native name on systems which don't support Burmese script, however anyone who whould actually be able to read it would have his machine support them. andy 11:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I know the Caholic Mission Hospital in Yangon was called ka to leik say yon and Diocesan schools were called simply daing o kyaung or daing o si zin kyaung. Sect is gaing and an archbishop/deacon will be gaing ok. Catholics are called bayingyi or yei hpyan (water sprinkle) and referred to in English as RCs; Baptists are yei hnit (water immerse). Perhaps Hintha can help with the script. Your best bet is of course Burmese Catholics who would know for sure. Help, anyone? Good luck. Wagaung 20:21, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Hintha 22:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Burmese font

Hello Hintha, thanks for the Unicode font replacing images of the script. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. You have basically a problem with the vowels:

ya gauk for ya yit, ya pet let for ya pint, wa for wa swè, a redundant a that, tha wei hto behind the consonant instead of in front, and a redundant "pipe" symbol

I'm sure you can fix it, please and thanks. Wagaung 20:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, the script you just changed back from looks OK to me i.e. bazun thouk, whereas I still can't read the current font. I don't know about the others but I can't get it right somehow; I guess some of those who don't know the language may also see what I see and think that's how it actually looks! Just a thought. Wagaung 20:44, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Unicode How-To

Thanks Hintha for all your hard work. You do an excellent job as editor.

A page explaining how to get font support working correctly would be a useful addition.

I've tried installing the font off the SIL page but can't get it to work yet.

If I figure it out, I'll create a How To page. Thanks again. (Jonfernquest 06:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC))


Broke the Tatmadaw article

I'm not sure what you did but you broke this article as the letters no longer show. I am reverting back to the last working state. --mboverload@ 02:31, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Update: Actually, it seems all your edits have broken articles. Could you please revert them until you get it fixed? --mboverload@ 02:33, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Burma election

Thanks for reporting the dead link at my website, which to my mortification has not been noticed for more than two years. As for the figures, there are as I obtained them from the other website. After this length of time I don't remember whether I noticed the discrepancy, and I have no explanation for it. Adam 06:10, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Chamber of Nationalities

nice little article, but it seem to lack some pretty basic elements: why and when was it abolished? Circeus 04:17, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Saraswati

I don't know much about how she was transferred to Burmese Buddhism but I do know that she transferred over to general buddhism through the Sutra of Golden Light and Lotus Sutra. I sure some kind information and cultural exchange must have occurred over the centuries since India and Burma are right next to each other. Hope that helps. I hope the little section you are helping becomes its own article one day. --D-Boy 07:58, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK

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Myanmar article

In looking for sources to create Karen Rifles, I found this page. It appears some sentences in the Myanmar article were lifted straight out of this page.

  • "Burmese fought for both sides in the war. The Burma 1st Division, the Kachin Levies, the Karen Rifles and in other formations ... fought for the Allies...

and this whole paragraph that was recently taken out

The Karen Rifles did not fight during the second world war. The paragraph you reference was rewritten because it made no real sense and was factually wrong. There are few easy to access sources for the history of the Karen Rifles. I have lots of information/archive sources on them and I'm willing to make an attempt at creating an initial Karen Rifles article if you think one is needed. The short history of the Karen Rifles is that they were raised by the British in the spring of 1945. There were eventually three battalions. They were used against communists in central Burma in 1947-48. In late January 1949 when Ne Win was put in charge of the army and civil war broke out between the Burman/Karen, two battalions of the Karen Rifles broke away from U Nu's government. The third battalion was disarmed and imprisoned along with all other Karens serving in the military. The two battalions of the Karen Rifles eventually made up the core of what became the Karen National Army (KNA). 168.127.0.51 17:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
  • "One of the top figures in Burmese history in the 20th century is Army founder and freedom figure General Aung San, a student-turned activist whose daughter is 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate and worldwide peace, freedom and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi of the NLD, now under house arrest. The third most recognised Burmese figure in the world is U Thant, who was UN Secretary General for two terms and highly respected throughout United Nations' history.On 27 March 2006 the military junta moved the national capital from Yangon to Pyinmana, which has been renamed "Naypyidaw" meaning "seat of kings"".

The page says it's copyright 2006 by NAM so I don't think it is a Wikipedia mirror. Can you take a look and help make sure the article isn't plagiarising or violating any copyrights. Let me know what you think. Thanks.--WilliamThweatt 00:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

After clicking on the profiles of other member countries, I found that the "history" portions largely came from Wikipedia mirrors (using Google searches on some awkwardly written sentences). For example, Thailand's profile [1] has written "The Thais are very proud that they were never colonized by a European power.", which appears in nearly identical form on the Wikipedia mirror at Answers.com [2] ("The Thais are very proud that they have never been colonised by a European power."). I would say that NAM copied portions or entire articles of countries from Wikipedia's mirrors. Hintha 00:58, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
And besides, I remember writing "On 27 March 2006 the military junta moved the national capital from Yangon to Pyinmana, which has been renamed "Naypyidaw" meaning 'seat of kings'.". Hintha 01:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, that selltles that! Thanks for clearing that up.--WilliamThweatt 01:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Sai Sai Kham Hlaing

I've checked with a mutual cousin and he's checked with SSKH's mother. Like you said Sao Pan Thee is a hoax or just incorrect info and the article has been edited by my source. Wagaung 12:15, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

RE: Myanmar article

Excellent job with the "Culture" section. It looks great. I probably won't get around to working on it tonight...it's getting late and I've been busy dealing with Theonlyzarni and all his personal attacks and disruptiveness, I believe he's blocked now, but I don't know for how long. I'll start work on it tomorrow.--WilliamThweatt 03:48, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I've added to the "Geography" section. Mostly descriptions of forests, animal and plant species, etc. Feel free to rearrange or edit as appropriate. I've also done some very minor copyediting of the "History" section. I have one question about this paragraph:
  • "In 1947, Aung San became Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Burma, a transitory government. In July 1947, Aung San and several cabinet members were assassinated.[7] On January 4, 1948, the nation became an independent republic, known as the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu as its first Prime Minister."
After the second sentence, it seems a little amiguous, reading as if the independent republic came about as a result of the assisination of Aung San and his cabinet. Was this the case or am I misreading it? I'm not too clear about this particular era of Burmese history.--WilliamThweatt 04:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Oh, the assasination did not lead to independence. I think I clarified the sentence, but if you still have questions, ask me. Hintha 05:45, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Too bad about the FAC. Don't be discouraged and don't give up (I won't). It seems the problem was with writing style, not content or formatting. If you know of a Wikipedian(s) who is gifted in the "art" of writing (as opposed to the "science" of writing) maybe consider recruiting him/her/them to help reword the problematic sections. I personally am very satisfied with the present content and think a reworking by a gifted writer would warrant another attempt at FAC.--WilliamThweatt 23:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

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Great work!

I, Shreshth91, award Hintha the Original Barnstar for great work on Myanmar. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 07:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
I, Shreshth91, award Hintha the Original Barnstar for great work on Myanmar. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 07:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Great work in responding to all my comments, and solving all of the problems at the Myanmar PR! --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 07:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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Libya

Libya referencing

Please consider striking your objection to lack of referencing in the Libya article.

I have spent the last three days thoroughly increasing the number and quality of references. I have also updated the bibliographic style to be comprehensive and organised.

There are now over 60 references in the page and almost every paragraph and fact is referenced at least once if not more.

Your other concern was copyediting. Since posting your objection, several parts of the article have been re-edited by myslef and others.

Please reconsider your objection,

Thank you

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Every edit minor?

I've noticed you've marked almost every recent edit minor, including [3], which adds useful info but isn't minor. Minor is usually just typos, punctuation and the like. Do you have My preferences -> Editing tab -> "Mark all edits minor by default" checked? If you make a lot of edits which changes any info, you might want to uncheck that.

I don't want to insult your intelligence or experience, but I am confused why most of your recent edits are marked minor, when you seem to make more substantial contributions than I do.

Also, may I ask why, in the same diff, you removed Image:Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.JPEG from the Politics section of Myanmar? I liked having her picture there, it seemed appropriate, and arguably didn't crowd the article. TransUtopian 02:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

"If you'd like to argue for the photo, please do so." Done. :) TransUtopian 04:09, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I have also made a case for the photo on the FAC page. I stongly believe it should stay.--WilliamThweatt 04:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

PNG to SVG

I would quite like to do the stuff you suggest, but my ETA for it is sometime next weekend or later (due to lots of high priority real life tasks), so don’t expect to see anything tomorrow. —xyzzyn 08:19, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I’ve traced Image:National League for Democracy flag.png, but before I upload it, I need to know which licence to use. Just add the necessary information on the PNG file’s Commons page and drop me a note when you’ve done that, I’ll copy it from there. Sorry to hear the FAC failed, but you can nominate it again once the problems have been fixed. —xyzzyn 22:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
The {{insignia}} tag is not a licence, according to commons:Commons:Copyright tags#Other tags. I am not an expert on Commons, but, as far as I can tell, images there must be freely licensed (e. g. licensed under GFDL, CC-by[-sa] etc. or in the public domain), cf. commons:Commons:Licensing. I have no idea of who holds the copyright to the flag, if any, so I could at most upload it here instead of commons: and you would have to write fair use rationales for all uses of the flag. —xyzzyn 19:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Flag uploaded to Image:National League for Democracy.svg. I recommend that you replace the remaining use of the PNG version (at zh:全國民主聯盟), if possible, and get the image deleted on Commons, because it really does not belong there. —xyzzyn 13:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Image:MyanmarAdministrativeDivisions.svg done. Consider changing references from the PNG version to this one and nominating the PNG version for deletion and feel free to suggest improvements. —xyzzyn 13:54, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
… By the way, what exactly does ‘Vectors adapted from Geographica's World Reference.’ mean? You are aware we can’t publish derivative works of non-free books, right? —xyzzyn 19:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
You should generally give the source exactly as it is, and if it’s a commercial book, then that’s a problem, regardless of whether you could have found the map elsewhere. I’ll go look at CIA maps. —xyzzyn 11:24, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Which Web Browser are you using?

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monastery

hi. no Nyannghwe is not a spelling mistake but it is probably highly likely that it is the other monastery you are talking about with a slightly different spelling. Many of these places have many different spellings e.g. Mt Shishipanga or whatever it is has about 7 different! If the other article exists I will move page James Janderson 08:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Kokant/Kokang

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I see you've completely gotten rid of the former website. Are there any other differences in spelling between the two as regards any of the other 134? Badagnani 00:59, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Uh-oh -- Kokang is listed under Tibeto-Burman languages in the second half of the List of ethnic groups in Myanmar article. Should be the Chinese branch of Sino-Tibetan but we didn't have a Sino/Chinese subsection there. I guess that should be added. Also, are there any others in the Tibeto-Burman subsection that should actually be in the Chinese subsection? Are "Chinese" (other than the Kokang) classified as one of the 135 ethnic groups? Badagnani 03:35, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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Oh, those groups are listed in the lead paragraph. I see that the additional Chinese groups were added to the list broken by language group but not the list of 135. This could create problems of internal logic between the two lists, which I think we should try to keep correlated as much as possible (though I still haven't been able to determine the language groups for many of the ethnic groups--the ones marked with hidden tags). Badagnani 04:06, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

These proposals sound good, and you have more expertise than I, so I'll leave it up to you. One question: do you propose leaving the "Government list" alphabetical, or do you want to break it down by "races" instead (or in addition)? Badagnani 04:27, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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