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Contents 1 Paul Kane 2 Good work 3 Technology of the Song Dynasty 3.1 Greek fire account 3.2 Good job 3.3 New picture 4 Schoenbaum ref 5 Cymbeline 6 Sylvanus Morley

[edit] Paul Kane

Thanks for catching the inconsistency with the dates. I had mis-typed "May" when I meant "March". It's fixed now (and sourced, too). Cheers, Lupo 13:21, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good work

I think you are doing good work translating english FA to chinese. Is there a Wikiproject or task force in Chinese wikipedia that focuses on this? 40fifw0 (talk) 15:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Technology of the Song Dynasty

Wow, I can't believe no one caught that, not even me! Thanks. And yes, it is Needham's 3rd volume, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. I just added it to the references section.

If you're interested in translating another featured article later (after translating the Technology article), I also have managed to get Society of the Song Dynasty up to featured article status. Feel free to translate that if you have the time. So far I've also gotten Shen Kuo, Tang Dynasty, Augustus, and Song Dynasty up to featured article status, and now I've just submitted Ming Dynasty as a featured article candidate.

Thanks a bunch for doing this. Zaijian!

Eric --Pericles of Athens^Talk 18:27, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greek fire account

Once again, thanks for catching these things. I understand now how I messed this up, as this Needham passage is sort of confusing on whether Qian Yuanguan was a ruler from Huai or the Wenmu King:

So far nothing has been said about any siphon-like projector pump. But sure enough it appears only a few years later, in fact in +919. The Wu Yüeh Pei Shih (Materials for the History of the Wu-Yüeh State in the Five Dynasties Period), written by Lin Yü only a few decades later, gives us an extremely interesting passage. The Wên-Mu King (Wên-Mu Wang) was in command at an important naval battle when with more than five hundred dragon-like battleships he attacked the men of Huai at a place called Lang-shan Chiang (Wolf Mountain River). This was Chhien Yuan-Kuan, the seventh son and later (+932) the successor of the Wu-Su King (Wu-Su Wang), Chhien Chhiu. They won a great victory over the other side's forces 'because fire oil (huo yu) was used to burn them up'.

It's the mishmash of the order of subjects here that screwed up my understanding of Needham's passage. I will go and fix the article now...and several others! Lol. Oops.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 21:09, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Good job

You're doing an excellent job translating the Technology of the Song Dynasty article; it's great that you're using most of the original pictures as well. Thanks for doing this!--Pericles of Athens^Talk 00:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New picture

Hi Mywood, I just wanted to let you know that I've uploaded some new Song Dynasty paintings to Wikimedia Commons, including this one that I've just added to the "textiles" sub-section of Technology of the Song Dynasty. I thought you might want to know since you could use the same pic in the Chinese language article. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 17:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

You still around, Mywood?--Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:12, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Schoenbaum ref

Schoenbaum, S (1987), William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life, Revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195051610.

Thanks for spotting that. We have always had a technical difficulty with this article, which is that ideally we would like to have a full alphabetical reference list, but it would be so long that it would overburden the page and make it take longer to download. So we adopted the principle of stating the full reference at first mention in the notes and using shortened references thereafter. As you can imagine, the problem with this is that someone may edit out the first full mention or lose it in some other way, without our noticing.

By the way, someone half-heartedly started a "Further reading" list (which I believe is unnecessary), naming a different edition of Schoenbaum. I believe most recent editions are similar, though I am not sure about the pagination. The one I have given you above is the one I used when I regularised the notes.

I'm so pleased you are translating the article for your wiki. I believe it is one of our best articles; but no doubt you will find other little problems, and I would be very glad if you would let me know about them. Please don't hesitate to ask further questions. Best of luck! qp10qp (talk) 17:32, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cymbeline

You are quite right. How embarrassing! I must admit, I never checked those lists—which just goes to show that everything needs checking on Wikipedia (it seems you are doing just that). I have changed it; but I don't know how to change the big template at the bottom of the article, so I have asked for help on that. Your sharp eyes are much appreciated: thanks for letting us know.

I hope your translation is going well. It must seem a colossal job. qp10qp (talk) 15:39, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sylvanus Morley

Hi Mywood, thanks for the question, made me rethink about what had been intended in the older version. That's being thorough! I answered to the best of my recollection at my talk pg.

If in the course of your translation you come across anything else that seems inconsistent, uncertain or unclear, pls let me know = much appreciated. Keep up the good work, and all the best. Regards, --cjllw ʘ TALK 13:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)