User talk:LlywelynII

Querandí[edit]

Hi, I replied on my talk page. Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 12:04, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Move[edit]

It is very important that you read the procedures that have to be taken in order to move an article. I already fixed the movement of Governorate of the Río de la Plata, which you only copied and pasted the hole article into a new one instead of moving it. There are a lot of reasons not to do that, mainly the impossibility of following the article's history. If the article you need to move to already exists, contact an Administrator to delete it. (You can contact me).

Good wiking, Mariano(t/c) 16:56, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, but Wikipedia:Move says there should be a "Move" tab on the page, and while there are no images to direct attention to the proper part of the page, I'm pretty sure that regardless there just isn't one on my browser yet. Maybe it'll show up later. -LlywelynII (talk) 03:29, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

It should be the fifth tab from the left on the top of the page, the other four are "article", "discussion", "edit this page" and "history". Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 06:59, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. Nothin'. Maybe after chrysalis or something... -LlywelynII (talk) 07:18, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

September 2008[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Maté has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. StaticGull  Talk  14:09, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Maté / Mate[edit]

A consensus hasn't been reached on the matter; I suggest you start a discussion in the relevant talk page and await the decision pending on your requested move. You cannot achieve things in Wikipedia by bullying or edit-warring. BTW, maté and yerba-maté refer to the plant, while mate is an article strictly about the beverage. Rsazevedo ^msg 10:01, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

The only one bullying and edit-warring here is you. Maté refers to the drink as well in English, which is not pronounced the same as in Spanish. Please see all the English-language sources at Talk:Yerba maté. -LlywelynII (talk) 10:08, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal[edit]

Please see WT:Only_make_links_that_are_relevant_to_the_context#Break 1 for the current discussion. I'm letting everyone know who has a comment on the relevant talk pages. Obviously, we're not going to push anything through without a full discussion of every issue, including whether to merge at all. My sense is that there's wide agreement on all the big points, but the devil is in the details. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 18:26, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Cannon class destroyer escort[edit]

I noticed your work on this article. Those transfers need to be cited, and the proper way to present ship names is to italicize them ({{USS}} helps out with that). -MBK₀₀₄ 04:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

While I appreciate your commitment to Wiki-wide regularity, I was just quickly correcting for in-article regularity. The transfers are already documented on Wiki, and none of the other transfers are documented on that page; so that request seems rather specious. Further discussion at your talk page. -LlywelynII (talk) 04:54, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Nubian Kings[edit]

Hello LlywelynII, on the German wiki you asked for updating the English list of Makurian rulers. However, the German list contains all Nubian rulers. The English list is just the list of the kings of Makuria, so I am not sure whether this makes sense. best wishes -- Udimu (talk) 13:01, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Cathedrals[edit]

I read your edit summary that said that it was "important to note early that in English the term is often aapplied to a large church." and the removal of my word "mistakenly", replacing it with "by analogy".

I find this problematic, particularly in the article that is not about architecture but about function. When a large church is referred to as a cathedral, it is almost always done erroneously, and it doesn't really happen all that often.

Within England a big church is not often mistakenly called a cathedral by anyone who knows anything about churches, because of all the thousands of parish churches in England there are few that could possibly be mistaken for cathedrals. It is a characteristic of English ecclesiastical architecture that the cathedrals tend to be enormous and that parish churches are very much smaller and simpler, so that the one could hardly be mistaken for the other, unless through ignorance. The only exceptions to this are the remaining handful of intact but non-cathedral abbey churches, of which one, Westminster Abbey, served for a time as a cathedral.

The error occurs primarily with English speakers referring to buildings in Europe that are well-known and are mistakenly thought of as cathedrals, in particular St Mark's Venice (often mistakenly called St Mark's Cathedral) and St Peter's Basilica, which people (not surprisingly) presume is the pope's cathedral. In the case of St Mark's, the tourist might well ask "Well, if it isn't the cathedral, where is the cathedral of Venice, then?" It is characteristic of Italy that the major pilgrimages/tourist churches are not cathedrals. It is not simply the size that fools English speaking tourists into thinking these churches are cathedrals. It is also their apparent status.

One of the few examples that I can think of where there is clearly an analogous (rather than an erroneous) calling of a church a cathedral is at Tideswell where the church is proudly called "the Cathedral of the Peak" and has been given the name not in error but deliberately on account of the beauty of its architecture. This sort of use of the term is uncommon, which is why Tideswell comes immediately to mind.

The Shorter Oxford gives the first meaning as the principal church of a diocese, seat of the bishop. - Amandajm (talk) 12:35, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

That's a lot of words to get around the point that you're ignoring the other meaning listed directly below that. I get your point, but it's a disservice to other readers to impose it on them at the expense of their understanding of how the language is actually used. -LlywelynII (talk) 12:53, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

This is not about bias. In the article about architecture, your edit remains. Whatismore, as the writer of that article, I am perfectly well aware that there is little to distinguish some very large churches from cathedrals. For that reason a number of those "cathedral type" buildings are included in the article, with an explanation to that effect. Their exact function is not particularly important within that context.

However, in the article which is most specifically about the function of a cathedral, it is hardly appropriate to inform the public that an erroneous use of the word is an equally valid use, regardless of how frequently that error may be made by people that don't understand the difference. This is an encyclopedia. Amandajm (talk) 13:17, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

It isn't an erroneous use. It's passed into common, accepted usage. Furthermore, even if it were erroneous, note should be taken of it. Honestly, I'm not involved enough to fight about it all night. I've brought your POV to your attention; you don't acknowledge it; meh. -LlywelynII (talk) 13:20, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I can't imagine why you are being so rude, accusing me of POV-pushing. The erroneous calling of a large church a "cathedral" is dealt with, a little further down the introduction, or haven't you read that far?

In common speech people often call a locomotive a "steam train". Any railway buff will immediately correct them and say that the thing at the front is a locomotive, and the "train" is what it pulls. The uninformed will continue to call it a "train".

I am quite interested to know what churches, other than those I have cited, are commonly referred to as "cathedral". You tell me that it's in common parlance. But I am left wondering where. A few interesting specific instances, like Ulm Minster have been discussed. - Amandajm (talk) 13:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Where did this nonsense about the "primary reference" being "a large grand church" (or some such) come from? The primary reference in everything I have checked out, including Websters, which you have cited, gives its correct meaning first.

The correct meaning of the word has never been replaced, and has never ceased to be the meaning that is in most prevalent use. People who concern themselves with churches and cathedrals every day of the week probably account for far more usages of the word, than the average English speaker, who uses the word very occasionally, and then wrongly. I might use the word in spoken or written English fifty times a week, correctly. How often do you use it?

You have made it clear, on my page, that this is really about your POV. You are somehow (inexplicably, to me) offended by the Catholic (and C of E apparently) use of the term in an episcopal sense and would prefer to see it (is bowderlised the right word here?) watered down in some way to a very general meaning. Why?

Why don't you go to the disambig page and leave an additional meaning of "large grand church". Not as the primary meaning, because that would not be appropriate in light of what the dictionaries say.

James E.B. Austin[edit]

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Your advice[edit]

I would appreciate your thoughts on something I think you have had some involvement in. There seems to be some confusion about the translations that define the distinction between Captain General of the Church and Gonfalonier of the Church. There are a number of referenced sources (usually translations of original Italian to English) that seem to describe both posts as Commander of the Papal Army. On this basis I tried to fill in some gaps at Gonfalonier of the Church which could be obviously filled using the varying translations (there are corresponding gaps in the list into which variously described Commanders fit).

I noticed, though, that Taddeo Barberini is already listed as a Captain General of the Church. Most evidence suggests his appointment was purely nepotistic (thanks to his uncle) and that there was little consideration of military leadership talent. His only real ‘military’ endeavour was the Wars of Castro and the use of the term ‘Wars’ is generous – more accurately neighbourhood spats between families. Given that his role was almost certainly ceremonial, and given the seeming uncertainty over the English translation, is it not more likely he held the ceremonial role rather than the military one? Are you aware of anyone being appointed to both?

I'm not sure others would think it particularly important but I think it would be nice to have as close to a complete list of each as possible.

Thanks, Stalwart111 (talk) 13:53, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Replied on Talk:Gonfalonier of the Church. -LlywelynII (talk) 13:50, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, much appreciated. I will go back through the sources and see if they can't be cleaned up a bit. Cheers, Stalwart111 (talk) 13:57, 3 July 2010 (UTC).

Stress marks[edit]

Hi there! Just wanted to let you know that if you are experiencing problems with the stress marks in the Russian words, it means a problem with the fonts support on your side. I have restored the marks where they belong—per previous consensus, they should only be removed where an IPA transcription is present. In other cases, where the stress marks are introduced properly, they do not create problems in compliant browsers. Hope this helps. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); September 27, 2010; 14:02 (UTC)

[Reply on Ezhiki's talk page.]

Hi, Llewelyn. I did not provide a link because I honestly don't recall where the discussion took place—last time total removal of the stress marks was seriously considered was, if I am not mistaken, in 2006, if not before that. You are probably going to be better off starting a new thread; just remember that browser support for stress marks in 2006 was much more abysmal than it it now, and the consensus was still to retain them (it was worded something to the effect of "technology will catch up with proper support, as long as we use proper standards to implement the stress mark"). The Russian stress mark is Unicode symbol 769.

What's more, the problems you are experiencing are problems on your side, not on Wikipedia's side. I can't tell whether you have a browser problem, or a font problem, or something else entirely, but for majority of readers these stress marks display correctly. For example, out of six different computing platforms I myself am using, only IE on my smartphone has trouble with rendering the stress marks (and it just shows a blank square instead; nothing like the problem you are describing). All in all, I'd recommend you check for bugs on your side first; perhaps post a message at WP:VPT to see if this problem came up before. As for the way Wikipedia chose to display those stress marks, I am pretty confident there is nothing wrong with it. I am not well-versed in how Unicode works myself, but I've seen quite a few outside opinions, often in relation to bug reports similar to yours. Once again, you'd be better off seeking an expert opinion. In this case, I am merely a keeper of the previous consensus :) Hope this helps. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); September 27, 2010; 17:49 (UTC)

P.S. I'm also not sure what you mean by "Russian browser". The computer I am currently using is issued by my US employer and it is overall pretty horrible at supporting Cyrillic, yet even in IE6 I can see the stress marks just fine.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); September 27, 2010; 17:56 (UTC)

[Again.]

I get your point, too, but one can make an equal argument than a non-negligible population of English language users exists who are unable to see Russian at all, stress marks or no stress marks. Same can be said about any other language utilizing a non-Latin script. Heck, on the computer I am currently on I can't read Dravidian scripts, such as Tamil, and loading the Tamil Wikipedia crashes my browser. Yet it doesn't mean we should rid en_wiki of Tamil spellings or close the Tamil Wikipedia altogether.

Also, the argument about the stress marks being "non-standard orthography" is simply false. They are rarely used, that much is true, but they are quite standard and are actually supposed to be used in certain cases, such as when one need to distinguish between identically spelled but differently stressed words, or to hint at the correct pronunciation of an obscure word, or in dictionaries and encyclopedias. It it were truly non-standard, then we wouldn't expect Unicode to support it, yet a separate symbol for the stress mark exists. And if by "non-standard" you mean that it is not used in the English reference works, then including Russian in the first place would be non-standard, too. Same goes for pretty much any diacritics other than relatively common acute and grave accent marks. Once you say it's OK for the English Wikipedia to include spellings in languages other than English (which is a de facto situation), you are automatically accepting that the rules governing the spellings in those languages automatically apply, too.

The overall philosophy of Wikipedia is not to make sure everything works on everyone's computer—which is a laudable goal, but, unfortunately, impossible to reach. The best thing we can do is to avail ourselves of the existing standards to implement features. With this approach, if a user has a non-standard browser or lacks support, studying applicable standards would be a starting point to remedy that situation. If you have problems with stress marks displaying correctly, start with the Unicode support for your browser. Ditto for my Tamil problem—I'm sure if a proper font is installed or something, I'd be able to see the text just fine. But ridding the encyclopedia from a useful feature just because some people might have a problem with it is not a solution, and abandoning standards in favor of non-standard solutions (like a plain-text stress mark you proposed) is worse yet. Sure, that'll fix the problem for you, but what about those who rely on us to follow the proper standards?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); September 28, 2010; 13:54 (UTC)

Chihuahua (state)[edit]

You wrote at Talk:Chihuahua#The_dog... and mentioned policy appropriateness. Is there any way to enforce the policy other than by voting? If people vote without brining evidence, then the policy is of no value if it cannot be enforced. 2011 Talk:Chihuahua#Requested move - Chihuahua (state) shows two votes claiming primary topic without showing evidence. TopoChecker (talk) 23:55, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2011-01-25/List_of_sovereign_states[edit]

I'd ask you to please reconsider your rejection of mediation here. Alinor certainly isn't the only editor who is pushing this issue. Please see the archives here: Talk:List_of_sovereign_states/Discussion_of_criteria/Archive_1, and all subsequent pages up to 6, of the extensive discussion we've had on this issue. We've been discussing this for over a year now, and have yet to find a compromise. Mediation is a good way for us to focus our discussion on finding a solution. As you can see on the current setup of the list, we can't agree on whether "widely recognized" includes states like Palestine and Kosovo or not. Currently they are listed with the widely unrecognized states, so clearly not everyone agrees with your definition of "widely recognized" as "more recognition than a rebel client state". Palestine is recognized by a majority of states and still listed with the widely unrecognized states. This is why we need a more precise definition. I'd ask you to please allow the mediation to go forward so we can discuss these issues in a structured way. Of course, you are welcome to contribute to the process and help us find a compromise! Thanks. TDL (talk) 17:46, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for reconsidering! Hopefully we can get this thing going and find a solution.

Also, why does your signature link to another user's talk page? If this is a previous account or something, it's a good idea to put a notice on both user's pages that stats that they are both owned by the same person. Otherwise someone might accuse you of sock puppetry. See WP:SOCK#NOTIFY. TDL (talk) 20:30, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

It's not. I edited my signature to get the shadow effect. I must've muffed the link. I'll fix it. -LlywelynII 20:40, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah OK...no problems. I wasn't trying to accuse you of anything improper, I was just confused when I followed the link in your signature and found a stale account. TDL (talk) 20:51, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Sure, I see that. And like I said on your namespace, thanks for the heads-up. — LlywelynII 21:02, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

List of sovereign states - sorting criteria[edit]

The initial MEDCAB mediator got busy and a second mediator is willing to take the case, but we need to re-state our acceptance/decline. Please see the discussion here and indicate whether you consent to mediation or not. Please, even if you don't expect to participate (because of lack of time or other reason) - state your acceptance/non-acceptance of the mediation process - so that we don't have to wait for unaccounted for users. Thanks. Alinor (talk) 18:34, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Turkish Lira[edit]

Do you think any official cites about TL "use" the pound sign? As from Turkey, WE DON'T USE IT! OnurT 00:38, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, but not recent ones. If you didn't already, I'll edit it out and make a note on the talk page. If you can find any official source, that would be great, although obviously it's an informal practice and the banks use the three-letter codes. — LlywelynII 01:43, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Reopening a discussion[edit]

I want to reopen the discussion Naming_conventions_(Cyrillic)#Example_convention regarding bibliographic references because I think Unicode changes the game somewhat. Since you have participated in the same talk page, I hope you will visit the discussion and give me your opinions. Thanks! LADave (talk) 23:23, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Republic of Macedonia[edit]

Hi. Just to let you know, you have been pushing your Point of View on the Republic of Macedonia page. You have overriden by reverts twice, and keep in mind that any further edits of the sort may constitute a violation of Wikipedia's 3 revert rule which could get you blocked. The changes you are making to the article are incorrect. The "Republic of Macedonia" is not for domestic use, and "FYROM" is most certainly not for "international" use. The term FYROM is a UN provisional designation, and the Republic of Macedonia is not obliged to call itself FYROM. I suggest before making such edits again you read the Interim Accord in its entirety. If you are stil interested in making the change, please discuss it on the article's talk page first. Thanks --Philly boy92 (talk) 14:38, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

See the talk:Republic of Macedonia page. You were reverting so quickly between my edits, they didn't even appear on the conflict page. Plus, of course, you're wrong: 20 years is neither provisional nor temporary and they are obliged to be called that by international organizations. — LlywelynII 14:41, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Please both of you keep in mind that edits affecting the "Macedonia" naming issues are subject to an Arbcom-imposed "one revert rule", so please cease reverting. On the merits of the issue, describing "former Yugoslav..." as the state's "official name for international purposes" is in fact wrong, because the state itself doesn't use that term for itself, not even in those international contexts were other parties refer to it in that way. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:56, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Other parties referring to it that way = international use. Feel free to rephrase to suit your terminology, but it's an official international designation of long standing. As for the reverts, again, they were unintented, but thanks for the heads up. — LlywelynII 16:09, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Let's continue on the article talk page. Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:32, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Kanije[edit]

Hi, LlywelynII. Do you have any sources for Sanjak of Valpuva. I couldn't find any source for that naming. Thank you. Takabeg (talk) 03:17, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

I took that from Nagykanizsa which seemed to have the correct names for the other sanjaks. If you have a source that disagrees or Valpovo is the normal form in modern Turkish, there's no need not to correct it. — LlywelynII 04:04, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

We must provide information with reliable sources. Thank you. Takabeg (talk) 04:07, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

I understand that should be added by people who have them. In the meantime, WP:DISRUPT applies unless you have a good reason to think it's incorrect. [Naturally, if you do, simply correct it.] — LlywelynII 04:10, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

I always have good reason :) P.S. Do you know where is Zane ? Takabeg (talk) 04:13, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Nope, haven't been able to find it. Sometimes Ottoman Turkish would be transcribed arbitrarily, so it could be Zane or Sane but I don't see anything that looks that way. As for the Kanije Eyalet being under the Crimean Khan, it looks like the map on the Crimean Khan page is simply bad and the Ottomans held a sliver of the coast free and clear (that being the eyalet). That was pieced together from websites as I was looking for Zane, though, so no WP:SOURCE. — LlywelynII 15:18, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Ottoman language[edit]

About your comment. Seriously. See:

• "Ottoman language" -Llc 394 results.
• "Ottoman Turkish language" -Llc 365 results

Stereotyping and prejudice are always harmful. See you. Takabeg (talk) 14:44, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

P.S. Personally I like usage of Ottoman language, because it's short and economic :)) Takabeg (talk) 14:47, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Turkish is shorter, Ottoman Turkish is shorter, and Ottoman is shorter. It's like saying "English language" instead of English. Was being light-hearted and sorry if I caused any offense, but it's poor English language to add language after the name of language. — LlywelynII 14:48, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

By way of comparison with your 394, "Ottoman Turkish" produces 38000 results. So please do stop using it. [NB. I do know the Ottomans' language employed many Arabic and Persian terms and the effort to increase its native Turkish content was political. That said, it was still a species of (albeit literary) Turkish.] — LlywelynII 14:50, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

In addition, there's a template (lang-ota) and a consensus to use templates for lede translations. If you have serious evidence to present about not calling the language of the Ottomans "Turkish," you should present it over there. Then all the uses of the (lang-ota) template will automatically shift. But you shouldn't push POV over the normal English. — LlywelynII 14:55, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

You counted also "Ottoman Turkish Army", "Ottoman Turkish authorities", " Ottoman Turkish reform", "Ottoman Turkish art", "Ottoman Turkish music", "Ottoman Turkish architecture" etc.... Takabeg (talk) 14:59, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Comment them out and you'll still have vastly more than you get for "Ottoman language" as a phrase unto itself. Using the awkward "Ottoman Turkish language" is a false dichotomy that still shows it's nearly as common as what you're claiming is standard. It just isn't how English language works, except possibly among Russian language expats. — LlywelynII 15:03, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

You could also try building your consensus by trying to move Ottoman Turkish language. I'd oppose (if we're not going to call it Ottoman Turkish, we should call it Ottoman; the "language" is simply superfluous for anything except disambiguating the namespace) and the searches seem to be against you, but in the meantime really should still use the template. — LlywelynII 15:03, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Requested moves[edit]

Do you know Wikipedia:Requested moves? I recommend you to use requested moves, instead of changing titles with only your POV. Thank you. Takabeg (talk) 15:07, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

a. What did I move? b. Given the policies and numbers above, it's really you pushing POV. The only thing I can recall doing was including information from another page that wasn't sourced. You edited that, and it's fine. Really not sure what your problem is. — LlywelynII 15:13, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

aaaaa I'm sorry. I confused you with this user :)) But I don't have any POV. Because I only transfer information from sources. You don't edit without showing sources. In this situation, other users can think you edit by your own POV. Regards. Takabeg (talk) 15:24, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Howevermuch POV you displayed right above this ;), no prob. Have a question that I'll leave in your talk space. — LlywelynII 15:28, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

?[edit]

Like Province of Van (disambiguation) ? Takabeg (talk) 06:34, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Not really. The point I was making at Talk:Adrianople Eyalet was that the current nomenclature is actually OR neologisms. The English common name is simply "Province of X" (although in Van's case we'd obviously need to use (Ottoman Empire) to distinguish the page).

I moved the conversation to the Ottoman Wikiproject, though. — LlywelynII 02:37, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Talk page[edit]

Hi, You may be interested in the discussion on page Talk:Eyalet of the Archipelago Cheers. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 16:20, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of River Odysses[edit]

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Topal İzzet Paşa[edit]

Hi. I'm writing this reply for your question. According to this article Darendeli Topal İzzet Mehmed Paşa was Grand Vizier between 1828-1829 and 1841-1842. According to this article Topal İzzet Paşa is a completly another person. He was Kapudan Pasha between 1827-1829. I hope this helps you. Regards.--Rapsar (talk) 06:26, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, but I'm not sure you read that article you linked to.

A) I wrote it, leading to the original question;

B) it currently precisely says that they are the same person;

C) Wikipedia is not a reliable source, especially the unsourced pages.

Even if you were trying to use the Turkish pages, they're unclear stubs. We really need something (English is better, Turkish is workable) saying that they are different people, who just happen to be very very similarly named, very similarly ranked statesmen at very similar times. — LlywelynII 14:16, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

I gave you wrong links, sorry about that. I fixed links now.--Rapsar (talk) 14:29, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Mentioned the Turkish pages already, but will double check to make sure no one added better, sourced info explaining the difference. [Edit: Nope.] — LlywelynII 15:12, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Belarus[edit]

Your edit at Belarus is the original state of the article. No idea who combined the history and the etymology sections but they are supposed to be separate. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 12:49, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Glad to be of service. — LlywelynII 13:31, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Belarus 'twas User:FinnishDriver on 17 Jan. Part of their attempts to redesign country articles the way they wanted. European articles are a mess. Anyway, I came here Llywelyn to ask where all these sections are linked from? Can you include that in the hidden notes? Chipmunkdavis (talk) 14:42, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

That's just there to discourage random renaming, but you can pick it up from the Linked here. — LlywelynII 14:49, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

My linked here won't show me links to specific sections, just articles. Any hints? Chipmunkdavis (talk) 14:52, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

BC/BCE @ Yellow Emperor[edit]

Both usages can be considered pov. Do you know about WP:ERA? As Yellow Emperor started with BC and I see no consensus to change it, I've not reverted you on that. Hopefully just a minor point and thanks for the edits there. Dougweller (talk) 04:46, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Although given wp:english wp:commonname – and, yknow, the whole issue of what BCE is dating its "Common Era" from – protecting BCE is always the Wrong Version, yeah, I know and abide by wp:era.

My point at Yellow Emperor was that it had been POINTy to change it, given both ERA and the discussion on the talk page. — LlywelynII 05:00, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I see now. Dougweller (talk) 04:23, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Question about etymology of word "Kongo" in Kongo People[edit]

I put a response to your question concerning the etymology of the word on the talk page of that article.Beepsie (talk) 22:16, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Shanghai#History[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, I see that you added the sentence "Shanghai fell to the Taiping Rebellion in 1851 but was recovered by the Qing in February 1853" to Shanghai#History. As far as I know Shanghai never fell to the Taiping, and I couldn't find it in the source you provided, or other sources about the Taiping Rebellion. Are you sure about this? Zanhe (talk) 18:58, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

It just occurred to me: were you referring to the Small Swords Society instead? They occupied Shanghai's old town, but not the foreign concessions. Zanhe (talk) 19:03, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm not and, with respect, if you didn't find it in the source, you weren't looking. The cite included the page number.

Granted, it's an old source and he might have confused/conflated it with the Small Swords esp. given that they apparently proclaimed their affiliation to the Taipings. But if you can find out whether it was The Taipings or Rebels who Affiliated Themselves with the Taiping Cause, feel free to clarify with a cite. The page should certainly mention the Small Swords (it doesn't right now) and whether they held the city (the Chinese city was the city) alone or as Taiping ally/proxy. — LlywelynII 00:03, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Qgis ?[edit]

Are you in a map making week / month right now ? I'm not (and quite busy), but I may give you indications for the QGIS cropping issue. Yug (talk) 12:32, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

I suppose I could just run it through Photoshop before putting it in QGIS. I just figured there had to be some easier way I was just missing somehow. — LlywelynII 13:23, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Nationalism and ethnocentrism[edit]

Equating Sinocentrism with Chinese nationalism is factually wrong. Chinese nationalism is called Chinese nationalism, and is located at Chinese nationalism. Sinocentrism =/= Chinese nationalism, and refers specifically to Han Chinese ethnocentrism, and is used in that sense in most English sources on the subject. Western sources don't distinguish between "Han chauvinism" and Sinocentrism, and having two articles on the same topic is redundant. Let's continue the discussion on the talk page.--Ross Monroe (talk) 06:24, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Presumably this one? — LlywelynII 10:31, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

More on "dynasty" vs. "Dynasty"[edit]

Hi. I'm contacting all the editors who have commented on whether we should un-capitalize "dynasty" in wiki titles. I have just proposed a new and simple way to make a final decision on this issue. Could you go to this new section to say whether you support my proposal? Thank you! Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 01:30, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Help with Texan/Texian consensus[edit]

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is ""Texan" versus "Texian"". Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crews Giles (talk • contribs) 04:10, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Medieval Germany[edit]

Hi Llywelynll, what do you think should be done with the Kingdom of Germany article? I think it would be best to rename it to Regnum Teutonicum. Do you think that would solve things? Machinarium (talk) 20:14, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Please see here[edit]

Talk:East_Francia#Merger_proposal Thanks! Mootros (talk) 06:19, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Guocun[edit]

My work at List of township-level divisions of ____ comes entirely from ZH-wiki, which, as you point out, is not 100% correct in this regard. As tedious translating and disambiguating may already be, confirming at XZQH, which has many holes, or local gov't pages is unbelievably time-consuming. If you could (even occasionally) verify the entries, the strength of this partnership will be undeniable. GotR ^Talk 23:00, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

That was fast. If I notice anything, I'll point it out, sure. And thanks for your hard work slugging through over there. — LlywelynII 23:02, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Also, please note WP:NC-ZH for Place names, which closely mirrors ZH-wiki's practise; the current guideline is that township-level divisions are disambiguated by the prefecture-level city (if part of a district) and by the county-level city or county otherwise, never by the province. You are however of course free to ask that this guideline be changed (at WT:NC-ZH), and I have no particular preference for neither the status quo nor a change. GotR ^Talk 01:26, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. Names are disambiguated from homonyms regardless of their level. Are you saying that the township-level pages should not mention what province they're in (which is insane)? or that province pages should not list every township (which is sensible, but has nothing to do with my edits as far as I know)? — LlywelynII 12:49, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

No, the conventions concern only article titles, and currently state that township-level divisions are to be disambiguated at the prefecture- or county-level. GotR ^Talk 15:18, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Ah. That does seem unhelpful, unless there are multiple similarly-named townships within a single province. — LlywelynII 03:39, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

As I said, you should bring this up at WT:NC-ZH if you feel the guideline needs to be changed. I feel there are pros and cons to both a simplification of DAB-ing and the current guideline. GotR ^Talk 03:44, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Inasmuch as no one has changed the links I created to something less helpful, I don't really care and I certainly have no interest in going through and revising previous entries by hand: someone should script up a bot, but I can't. Nonetheless, fine, in the interest of civic discourse, I'll post something and get the hidebound to defend their current policy. Cheers. — LlywelynII 04:53, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

I've responded there, and could do with a clarification from you. GotR ^Talk 19:23, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Is it really that important? The current policy is nonsensical and goes against the standard in any number of other countries, but it's no skin off my nose since it concerns pages maybe a few dozen people will see before the heat death of the universe. I only reply here to make the page banner disappear.

In any case, if you have a question here, you may freely copy the answer to that discussion for other interested participants. — LlywelynII 19:28, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Chinese names in English[edit]

Hi LlywelynnII! I took notice of this edit. I am reverting it immediately. Keeping the entire section in the Chinese name article is necessary and vital.

You said "needless editorializing & japan bashing, without adding any information not contained elsewhere in the article" That is an incorrect summary of the section.

• 1. There is no information elsewhere in the article that states that names from the Mainland switched to Hanyu Pinyin after normalization, and the information about Chinese names in Western publications is not present elsewhere in the article.
  • If you try to point to unsourced information elsewhere in the article, that does not count. Information on Wikipedia needs to be sourced.
• 2. The comparison of Chinese names to Japanese names was made in a reliable source, so it is in our interest to post this comparison in the article about Chinese names.
• 3. The characterization of the section as "Japanese bashing" is highly inaccurate. The woman's quote represents a "reliable source" interpretation that needs to be included.

The Chinese names in English section is the equivalent of this section in the article about Japanese names.

Thank you for your understanding, WhisperToMe (talk) 03:01, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

It's badly written, sourced, POVy, and needless. I'll delete it again later. But thanks for the heads up! =)

More seriously, I'm working on going through the list of common Chinese surnames article — sourcing it with actual comprehensive surveys instead of the partial ones from before, and including data about Taiwan, America, and Canada — so I took a break in the middle of redoing the Chinese name, given name, and surname articles (the surname one is particularly awful). If I deleted a section without having already included better, more sourced, and more comprehensive discussion elsewhere in the article, it may have been a mistake or ahead of schedule. Apologies. — LlywelynII 13:05, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

1. How is it "POVy"? How is it "badly written"?

Firstly, remember that opinions do belong in Wikipedia articles. Opinions that do not come from reliable sources aren't included, but opinions that are printed from reliable sources are included. If somebody writes in a book that "it was one of the ironies of the late twentieth century that Japan remained stranded in the formal devices underlining its historical quest for equality with the West, while China set its own terms, in language as in big-power politics", we include that opinion in the article. It is not "POVy" to include an opinion attributed to someone.

One thing is that I strictly stick to what's in the sources, and that's how it should be. WP:V makes it clear that it's a core principle to only include what's sourced. If you want to make the section better written, you should find more sources that discuss the matter in further detail.

2. In any event, the topic of "Chinese names in English" is worthy of having its own section. The way names are used in English should be addressed by the article.

3. If you "delete it again later" I will go to a talk page of the China WikiProject and ask the userbase their thoughts on the matter (that is unless you want it discussed by them right now) - There was a previous discussion you might want to read, where a user believed that the section content was inaccurate, but he had not read it closely enough: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_China/Archive_19#Chinese_names_in_English

WhisperToMe (talk) 13:47, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

First off, you're the one pushing for opinion; I'm the one who was gunning for encyclopedic content.

Second, your second point was partially right: opinions recorded in reliable sources are sometimes perfectly appropriate. Of course, it was also partially wrong: sometimes opinions are needless POV regardless of sourcing. Getting the Godwinning out of the way early, the Mein Kampf's theories on Jews are perfectly appropriate for an article on antisemitism or Hitler, not so appropriate for an article on, say, Jews. I'm sure your intentions are good, but one encyclopedic fact is that Japanese and Chinese names typically have different orderings in English; another is that the Japanese ordering became much more common under the American military occupation following WWII; but claims that this distinction involved some superior Chinese resistence to imperialism is needlessly POVy, even ignoring the way the 19th and early 20th centuries make the point demonstrably false. (Or to be charitable, too contentious and POVy for inclusion on a tangentially related article instead of, e.g., on one specifically interested in name order.)

Potentially there should be a section on Chinese names in English beyond the material already covered in other sections like romanization. But like I said, I haven't looked at that material in a few days and am in the middle of something else. I'll look at it again in a few days, be sure to include any relevant sourced material somewhere, and if you're feeling particularly ownery or unpersuaded by my masterful arguments, when we hit WP:3RR we'll take it up with the community and higher-ups.

And again, absolutely apologies if I blanked any encyclopedic content without having included the other edits maintaining them in other sections. I'll look over it again in a few days. — LlywelynII 03:05, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

About "First off, you're the one pushing for opinion; I'm the one who was gunning for encyclopedic content." - My argument is that I am, in fact, pushing for the inclusion of an encyclopedic, noteworthy, significant opinion, which is "gunning for encyclopedic content" - I argue that trying to delete it is removing an encyclopedic opinion, which is the opposite of "gunning for encyclopedic content" - Hopefully you now understand my point of view.

Now, you say "sometimes opinions are needless POV regardless of sourcing" - That depends on their prevalence, related to the subject at hand. Wikipedia:NPOV#Due_and_undue_weight covers it. Problem is, it's the only opinion we know of related to the subject. We can't say it's undue, because there is no other opinion more prevalent than Terry's! You use Mein Kampf as an example of an opinion which cannot be taken at face value. The problem is that Mein Kampf has been analyzed by many sources, and its views on Jewish people has been demonstrated as false. There are many other sources which have higher quality/more prevalent opinions than Mein Kampf in relation to Jewish people. Therefore taking Mein Kampf at face value would be violating UNDUE. Edith Terry's opinion has not received the analysis, dissection, and negative reception that Hitler's has. And I have not yet found any other analysis/interpretations of the differences between Chinese and Japanese names. It stands alone. It's the only opinion about the comparison of Japanese names to Chinese names that has been recorded in reliable sources that we know of.

" but one encyclopedic fact is that Japanese and Chinese names typically have different orderings in English" - Yes - that comparison is part of the section.

"another is that the Japanese ordering became much more common under the American military occupation following WWII" - Is there a source saying this?

"but claims that this distinction involved some superior Chinese resistence to imperialism is needlessly POVy" - I do not believe that is what Terry is saying. The quote says, exactly "it was one of the ironies of the late twentieth century that Japan remained stranded in the formal devices underlining its historical quest for equality with the West, while China set its own terms, in language as in big-power politics." - While she argued that China had dealt with the west "on its own terms" while Japan didn't, she isn't saying that China has an innate resistance to imperialism that makes it superior.

"even ignoring the way the 19th and early 20th centuries make the point demonstrably false. (Or to be charitable, too contentious and POVy for inclusion on a tangentially related article instead of, e.g., on one specifically interested in name order.)" - How is this the case? In which ways?

WhisperToMe (talk) 06:02, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

I decided to hit Google books and see if I can find any more opinions and facts related to the contrasting of Japanese and Chinese names. (If I can source the bit about prevalence of western order of Japanese names increasing after WWII, that would be a bonus)

Lu, David John. Japan: A Documentary History, Volume 1. M.E. Sharpe, 1997. xv. ISBN 1563249073, 9781563249075 - No opinions or new facts, just a note on what order the author chooses

Chan, Wing-tsit. Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy. Greenwood Publishing Group, March 1, 2002. xii. ISBN 1400809649, 9781400809646.

"Except for some contemporaries who put their personal names before their family names (as I do), Chinese and Japanese names are given in the Chinese order, that is, with the family name first. Chinese and Japanese scholars are not consistent in using the various names of Chinese writers. Here the private names of philosophers, rather than their courtesy or literary names, are used, except in the cases of Lu Hsiang-shan and Wang Yang-ming, who are generally known in China, Japan, and the West by their honorific names." - Information added to Chinese_name#Alternative_names, Lu Jiuyuan, and Wang Yangming

Beasley, William G. The Rise of Modern Japan, 3rd Edition (January 2000). Palgrave Macmillan, June 27, 2000. xi. Retrieved from Google Books on April 1, 2012. 0312233736, 9780312233730. -- First edition is dated London May 1989, from the Acknowledgements section on Page viii.

Gives preferences used in book, in terms of name order and Japanese romanization system. It also says "Chinese words and names are romanized according to the Wade-Giles system, which is more often to be found in books relevant to Japanese history. Alternatives to the Pinyin system, now becoming standard for references to contemporary China, are given in the index." - Information added to Chinese_name#Chinese_names_in_English WhisperToMe (talk) 06:41, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Obviously you missed the three or four times I already said I'd get back to this later.

In the meantime, save your arguments in text file somewhere for later use and post article source material like this on its talk page. =D — LlywelynII 07:12, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

I'll be happy to move it to a new talk page later. But, I don't see a problem in posting stuff now, knowing that you'll get to it later :) - I knew you would get to things later, but I decided to respond now, knowing my content will still be up when you return WhisperToMe (talk) 07:20, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Thai versus Chinese names[edit]

You have pointed out deficiencies in Thai name, and I hope that your chosen name reflects that you have the chops to straighten me out — mine merely reflects that I have a sense of humor, and don't take myself too seriously.--Pawyilee (talk) 07:49, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Hm?

No. I just fixed one deficiency in the page.

I'm not sure what you need straightening out with, but those services cost extra. — LlywelynII 08:00, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Thai name and Thai Chinese need attention again.

How do you mean? — LlywelynII 02:22, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Are you by any chance related to Llywelyn the Last? (If so, I'll be more respectful.) --Pawyilee (talk) 13:37, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Hopefully, your upbringing was such that you can be respectful regardless. — LlywelynII 02:22, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

"With respect to," as a phrase, hints as to different kinds.

WRT Thai Chinese, your having spotted a deficiency re a surname by a Thai family of Chinese extraction, extracted from Sanskrit for "Does Good Routinely," led me to invite you to spot any I may have added in my recent changes to that, and Thai name, as well.

WRT The Last Leader, my interest is in the Last Leader of the Vientiane kingdom, a rump state of Lan Xang, who led the Laotian Rebellion of 1826-1829, and met much the same fate. If there is a category for failed heroes of failed kingdoms, then they belong in it.

WRT the Treaty of Montgomery, I'd like to know what Montgomery was involved. --Pawyilee (talk) 10:17, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. --Pawyilee (talk) 12:35, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Dispute resolution survey[edit]

Request[edit]

Hello LlywelynII, I noticed you are active in creating Greenland related articles. I am wondering if you have access to a publication about Greenland I would like to obtain. I am, from time to time, working on creating lists of Lepidoptera species by country. A lot are done (see my sandbox User:Ruigeroeland/Sandbox3 if you are interested). To make a list for Greenland, I am looking for access to a publication from "Meddelelser om Grønland". I thought you might be able to get your hands on it for me? I would only need the names of the species (including the species authority):

• "The Lepidoptera of Greenland", Wolff, N.L., Meddelelser om Grønland. 159 : 11, C.A.Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen. 1964. 74 pp plus b/w 21 plates, distribution maps to all species.

It would be great if you could help me out! Cheers Ruigeroeland (talk) 07:20, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry. Shanghai's English-language library is very limited; I've been doing all of my work with internet-available sources, so I'm afraid I can't help. My suggestion (fwiw) is to look around for a wikiproject:scholarship or something, a community of people with access to LEXUS/NEXUS & the scholarship databases & American university libraries. They might be able to rustle something up for you. — LlywelynII 11:08, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for the info. I already made a request at the "Resource request" project, but nobody seems to have access to it over there either. I might try the Danish wikipedia if all else fails. Cheers and thanks again! Ruigeroeland (talk) 11:19, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Lutai[edit]

I wonder whether your creation is the same place as the town of Lutai (芦台镇) in Ninghe County, modern-day Tianjin? GotR ^Talk 04:55, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

King of Cerdagne[edit]

Can you provide a citation for this? Thanks. Srnec (talk) 20:32, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Already did. Two, in fact. — LlywelynII 10:45, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

List of English monarchs[edit]

I am posting this notice here to advise that on the talk page of an article to which you have made substantial edits I have asked a question concerning the validity of the article. The question has been there for some time but received no replies so I am giving my question wider distribution by notifying selected editors who have been involved with the article and giving them an opportunity to respond. Please do not reply here on your talk page or on my talk page but on the talk page of the article where other editors can easily see your comments so that hopefully we can have a constructive debate. The article is List of English monarchs. Thank you. Cottonshirtτ 07:30, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

I notice that you responded to this, but your response does not answer the question. On the article's talk page I have asked you to please put aside your incorrect assumptions, review the question, and then try to answer the question that was actually asked. Thank you. Cottonshirtτ 16:21, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Cocom[edit]

I found Cocomes which is new and was sourced to Lewis Spence, not an RS. Searching for sources I found that Cocomes has more than Cocom, esp when you look at Google scholar. I sources Cocomes with one reliable sources, and redirected your article. Then I thought - rather late - that maybe I should have discussed this with you first. Apologies. I was really only interested in finding better sources than Spence for articles - didn't plan to do this, sorry! Dougweller (talk) 16:33, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Common and uncommon titles[edit]

Hi LlywelynII. Would you please reply at Talk:Etiquette and Rites#Uncommon title? Thanks, Keahapana (talk) 00:34, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of FEDIMA[edit]

Hello LlywelynII,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged FEDIMA for deletion, because it seems to be an promotion, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, atnair (talk) 11:22, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

No question, but reread the article. It's a stub, sure, since I'm not in the field; but it's unambiguously an encyclopedia article about a notable organization and not a promotion. This is not an article about a "garage company": it's about a trade union for an entire sector of the European economy. Chill. — LlywelynII 11:25, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Hebrew calendar Era styling[edit]

I reverted only those portions of your edits that explicitly changed era styling from BCE/CE to BC/AD. I do not believe you are justified under WP:ERA in making this change at this time. Please see my comments at the talk page. StevenJ81 (talk) 20:43, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

I can understand that, given the pre-existing discussion. Kind of you to keep the other edits. — LlywelynII 23:20, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

I, for one, always try to be kind. Thank you. But it is not hard to be kind when the other is kind, too. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:24, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

On the internet? You must be new here.

LOL

Regardless, a blessing on your house (mazel tov, mazel tov). — LlywelynII 14:25, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

I only have sons to marry off, not daughters. Doesn't mean they don't bring their own challenges. (;-) StevenJ81 (talk) 14:28, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

PS: There is a whole big question as to exactly what the correct Hebrew behind "yasher koach" (definitely with an r) is. It's something that's become a little sloppy through Yiddishization. But I'll take the compliment anyway. StevenJ81 (talk) 15:20, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

I thought you might have an interest in this discussion on the very topic: Wikipedia talk:Manual of style#rfc_ABCA17E StevenJ81 (talk) 16:45, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Maelgwn, Merfyn et. al.[edit]

Hello LlywelynII, I've recently returned from a long break and I noticed some of your improvements to several Welsh history-related articles. They are certainly to the good, at Maelgwn Gwynedd and Merfyn Frych, for example.

I support your efforts to improve/correct anything I once wrote, but also please don't be too hasty in some conclusions as to the origins of their current state, which is a result of multiple editors and the contentions of several years ago, in addition to any shortcomings that I may have introduced. Your comments on Maelgwn's name apply to an article prior to my involvement, and I later added Rhys' etymology because I couldn't stand the same "popular" etymology about which you complain (I'm not Welsh-speaking, and in the absence of anyone else's correction of the text, I picked a respected individual who was); the literary "misinformation" and "record" sections were in reaction to then-common efforts to present traditions as historical facts. Your improved "focus" at Merfyn Frych certainly improved my update of that article, but I was not the origin of much that you changed.

Maps are useful if referenced with the same rigor as article text (eg, a map of Roman-era civitates rather than a list), though they also seem to give weight of authority when that should not be the case; and they can be misued (the OR map I removed from Cunedda was stolen from my workspace without my knowledge or permission; I've since erased it from wikipedia, so that cannot happen again). Esthetics vary (this map of Gwynedd is crowded and needs improvement, else it can be erased, in my own opinion).

Again, you recent efforts are a great improvement, and most welcome to see! For myself, please assume that if I wrote it, it bears improvement and should probably be shortened with better focus. That applies to maps as well as article text, and your critique and criticism and complaint will be well received. Best Regards, Notuncurious (talk) 21:35, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

I find your edits and points so generally well taken, I'm still not sure I understand. Did you came here in response to this? I was addressing an overstatement on the other editor's part and clarifying (I assume) yours. I just phrased it the way I did for parallelism's sake. Or was there something else?

Anyway, thanks for the kind words and constructive approach. Let's raid the Welsh Wikiproject sometime and give each other barnstars before they notice.  — LlywelynII 21:27, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I think that I tried to instantly absorb all that had changed since I semi-retired, then saw that that stolen map had actually been inserted into an article, and quick-skimmed some of the talk pages without taking time to digest ... looking at what I wrote, it does sound weirdly defensive. Maybe I can start over ...

Mostly I wanted to say that it's good to see your well-written and well-referenced material, and I'll be glad to have knowledgeable eyes lurking about. Agreed on raiding the wikiproject! And if I see a copy of that new TCE history of Britain lying about, I'll swipe that, too ... I see that you already have a copy. Looking forward to crossing paths in the future! Regards, Notuncurious (talk) 23:48, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Talkback at Plague of Justinian[edit]

Two replies, thanks for your work on the article. Dougweller (talk) 09:23, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. Fyi, though: that template doesn't really work for article talk pages.  — LlywelynII 09:27, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Augustine of Canterbury[edit]

You deleted a statement on this page which was supported by a source. You shouldn't do that; if you disagree with what it says, open a discussion on the talk page. Or find a source that agrees with your point of view and re-write it as controversial. But your opinion on the matter, by itself, carries no weight. Moonraker12 (talk) 16:44, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Horsepucky. It's not controversial; it's patently false and thus unreliable.

Also, kind of you to stop by and point out your edit so I can undo it, but you should learn to take a less snotty tone. — LlywelynII 17:22, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Welsh princes[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, some of your recent edits have included changing the names of Welsh princes to “son of” from “ap” e.g. Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, Llywelyn ap Seisyl etc. All the sources I've read refer to them by their Welsh name. These changes are a major departure from the accepted precedent on Wikipedia and should be discussed at a central point to gain consensus before embarking on wholesale changes. Please take this somewhere like Wikiproject Wales for discussion before making any similar changes. Many thanks, Daicaregos (talk) 13:58, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

They're not a "departure from accepted precedent"–the English commonname is X ap Y and that's exactly what the article name should be and where it should stay. However, formatting "X son of Y (Welsh: X ap Y)"

(a) is actually fine.

(b) looks better than "X ap Y (English:...)" as though it weren't the English name and

(c) keeps people from thinking "ap Y" is some kind of surname.

If you're paying attention to these pages, you obviously have seen people formatting the {{persondata}} to read things like "Farfog, Triffyn" and "Ap Llywelyn, Gruffydd". This gets things across very easily and cleanly.

In any case, despite the schoolmarmish tone, you're quite kind (stopping by & not just reverting the edits) and obviously a force for good around here and nice to meet you. Your Welsh articles seem to be more the current stuff, but if you're into the history as well, kindly look over/add more to Synod of Chester or some of the kings I've been adding in to have something to link to from the Annales Cambria Wikisource.

Particularly like your take on "Taffy was a Welshman". Just learned about that awful tune the other day. — LlywelynII 14:17, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, that was an hour out my life, but proposal is up. Since you seem to disapprove, it's ok if you want to sit out the conversation; but thought you'd be cheered I got the ball rolling like you asked. — LlywelynII 15:22, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi LlywelynII, nice to meet you too. I enjoyed your Synod of Chester. I'm sure I've seen that story about Augustine before (possibly here), though I couldn't find it in John Davies' A History of Wales. Davies says (p 61) that Bede says Aethelfrith ordered the slaughter of 1,200 monks at Bangor-Is-Coed, because they fought against them wth prayers, which met with Bede's approval (p 76). Nice! Sorry you dislike my tone. I find feeling quite difficult to convey here. I mean no ill-will towards you. Nevertheless, whether "X son of Y (Welsh: X ap Y)" looks better than "X ap Y (English:...)" is irrelevant. We should go with the sources, and the sources use “ap”. Thank you for posting your proposal. I look forward to the response. Best, Daicaregos (talk) 15:40, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Again, that's a mistake of wp:COMMONNAME (regarding the page titles) and WP:LEADSENTENCE (regarding this and which explicitly makes exceptions for cases like this where the meaning and use of ap is unclear to normal readers). — LlywelynII 15:49, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

As for tone, don't beat yourself up about it. You didn't bite the nooB very hard – it's just that I'm not a newbie at all. ;)  — LlywelynII 16:08, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

As an english-only reader, I support your proposal :) GoodDay (talk) 18:09, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank y'kindly, but be sure to note that here, if you didn't already. — LlywelynII 18:12, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Buellt[edit]

Hi, this afternoon I noticed you copied my Buellt material from my userspace to the mainspace. I certainly don't mind it being used, but copy-pasting broke the edit history necessary for attribution. It also would have been nice to know you were using it, as I would have liked to submit it to WP:DYK. At any rate I merged the histories and added a bit; in the future just please let folks know if you're using userspace material. Thanks, --Cúchullain t/c 20:53, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

My apologies if userspace material is not covered under Wiki's relevant licenses and, more to the point, if you were keeping it hidden for personal reasons til it was well-polished.

For myself, I was building a Buallt article regardless, found it via Google, and made the obviously inappropriate assumption that Wiki material is always intended for public consumption and that you'd rather I employed your words than my own lesser ones. But I will definitely post a message to its talk page and, again, apologies. — LlywelynII 21:00, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm certainly happy to see it in the mainspace; I'd more or less forgotten about it for over 3 years. All material is covered by the licenses, but preserving the edit history is necessary for attribution. It's also nice to let folks know when you're copying their material to the mainspace. At any rate, it's fixed now, no harm done. I'm sure we'll cross paths again.--Cúchullain t/c 21:28, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Owain ap Hywel[edit]

Hallo, It appears that you moved the page previously at this title to Owain ap Hywel Dda, and then created the dab page at this title. There are a lot of incoming links which were intended for the moved page and now lead to a dab page: it is your responsibility to fix them, as is explained on the message you got on screen when you made the Move. Please fix them. Thanks. PamD 23:09, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Also, when you create a disambiguation page, please add a disambiguation template {{dab}} or {{hndis}} (human name disambiguation), rather than adding Category:Disambiguation pages. Various bots expect to see a template to recognise dab pages, and it adds a useful message to the bottom of the article. See WP:MOSDAB for more about dab pages. Thanks. PamD 23:12, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I did fix most of them (as a courtesy, not a responsibility – my edits were constructive & it's a collaborative project). You're welcome to get the rest (Mostly a long line of 'ruler in X year' links that can handle the dab page just fine). Cheers. — LlywelynII 09:55, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

As for overly-picky issues related to which template or if any template should be added, again, knock yourself out. I only added a template at all because another user was moronically calling the dab pages {{name-stub}} and I was attempting to preëmpt him. But I will try to keep the MOS guidelines in mind in the future, thanks. — LlywelynII 10:01, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Your comments[edit]

I just wanted to say that I found your comments at the merge discussion to be very thoughtful and well-stated. They reflected the fact that you put some time and thought into them. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 01:39, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm sure the other side felt they were overstated and off-point, but thanks for the kind words. My apologies that they're so used to the way it was written when they were growing up that they ignored the perfectly valid sources and points you had already given them. — LlywelynII 08:23, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Funny.--Epeefleche (talk) 23:27, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Synod of Chester[edit]

Hello Llywelynll, I noticed the new article Synod of Chester ... I'm not aware that such a thing happened; did I miss something, or is there a mixup somewhere? Regards, Notuncurious (talk) 23:24, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Fwiw, it's II.

And yes, of course it did (or at least was described that way by the annals). Did I not include references? or you were just pointing out that we should polish it up for a DidYouKnow? — LlywelynII 23:37, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

I think that should be Caerleon Upon Usk (not Chester), held under the auspices of St David's (Moni Judeorum being ultimately from the Irish form for Hen Meneu = St David's), and likely in preparation for (or somehow conflated with) the 2nd Augustinian meeting at Augustine's Oak. Several articles go into some detail (not all details and characterizations of which I buy), such as at Gregorian mission and Augustine of Canterbury.

btw, as to the massacre ... it's a good thing that those British Christians were so unChristianlike, else it would be a story of a Northumbrian (Bede) justifying the massacre of defenseless Christians by pagan Northumbrians by placing words in the mouth of someone who had died a century earlier ... how often do Christian sources really justify the massacre of Christians by pagans? Regards, Notuncurious (talk) 02:45, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

The sources I saw place it at Chester, not Caerleon upon Usk; it would be under the auspices of St Davids anywhere in Cambria given St David himself was supposedly there and they theoretically raised it as their archdiocese at the synod; different 2ndary sources make it identical w/Bede's council or prep for it: the primary ones are simply unclear. You wouldn't use an "of" in that grammatical construction.

But just like any other article: go find reliable sources for positions like the one you personally have re:Bede's lack of objectivity and knock yourself out, provided you don't unduly ignore the narrative of the primary and secondary sources already provided but simply put it into the best context. — LlywelynII 07:28, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Fair enough, I was just checking (didn't go through your sources at the time, but did notice that you were providing them in enough detail to check things out ... always a good sign!). Regards, Notuncurious (talk) 16:10, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Spelling: Theatre District, New York[edit]

The move discussion was closed without alerting editors at the relevant Wikiprojects to join in. It has long been the consensus at WP:THEATRE and WP:MUSICALS to spell the word "theatre", in part because theatre professionals prefer this spelling throughout the English-speaking world, and because this spelling it is not wrong anywhere, while "theater" is wrong in many places,such as the UK. BTW, I am an American from New York City. Note that nearly all of the Broadway theatres are called "X Theatre". I have re-opened the discussion on the talk page to see if we can get a wider consensus on this issue. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:04, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Llywarch ap Hyfaidd: text missed out?[edit]

In this edit, I notice there's a space after "where it states Hyfaidd was", before the full stop, so I'm wondering if you'd intended to continue the sentence.--A bit iffy (talk) 08:15, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Tyre[edit]

You are one of several people that have tried to change it from "international spelling" to "British" spelling. Please join the discussion on the talk page [1] so a proper consensus can be formed. Dream Focus 14:38, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Hasmonean dynasty[edit]

Please notice that your edits at Hasmonean dynasty regarding WP:ERA might not come in line with the Wikipedia policy on WP:NPOV. While the standard you used is implementing Christian symbols (AD, BC); it is a common practice implement secular symbolism (BCE and CE) for non-Christian articles in order not to offend the readers of another culture/religion. Hasmonean dynasty is obviously a Jewish history article, hence it would better be using non-Christian standard (BCE, CE). WP:ERA policy states you should use the same standard throughout the article, but the standard form to be decided by editors, hence i think it should be returned to BCE, CE form.Greyshark09 (talk) 19:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Your opinion is duly noted but that consensus should be built at the article's talk page, not mine. The article's format was chosen by the authors; hence my edit to restore/standardize it. Cf. WP:ERA if you missed that the first time.  — LlywelynII 21:17, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Dione[edit]

Hello, LlywelynII.

You tagged Dione (mythology) as having numerous issues. I've just tried to fix at least some of them. Please have a look, and decide whether to remove the tags. SamEV (talk) 16:12, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Nice of you to bring it by. Personally, I didn't think nearly enough of the vague and unsourced Earth Mother bit had been dealt with (one way or another), so I just reworked it. If you see anything I wrongfully left out and have sources for it, add it back in. — LlywelynII 19:58, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Great job. I don't think I have any more I can offer the article. SamEV (talk) 23:55, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

After correcting several articles which confused the Diones, I got hit with a DPL bot notice. I know I can ignore it, but still I wonder whether we should move Dione (mythology) to Dione (Titaness) and use Dione (mythology) for discussion of all the mythological Diones (though there isn't much to write about the other three of them). What do you think? SamEV (talk) 15:26, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

No problem. Although I personally wouldn't capitalize the titaness, just go with whatever the style is elsewhere (presumably there's something like Titan (mythology)?). — LlywelynII 07:25, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Done.

I went with capitalization, since the Titanides (as are their male counterparts the Titans) are a specific group, so that "Titaness" and "Titanides" are proper, collective names. (See for example dictionary.com.) SamEV (talk) 19:17, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to Join the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields Task Force[edit]

J654567 (talk) 20:18, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Indian Hills[edit]

Hey, I saw your edits to the Indian Hills article. I have scans of the ancient articles I used still, I don't think I can link to them in the article for copyright reasons, but here is the the scan of the article for the stuff about the leaflets and people's objections. The attitude might not make a lot of sense nowadays, I was trying to just copy it into the Wikipedia article and not apply any editorializing. It might be useful if you want to work on the article more.

Indian Hills was kind of a clear illustration of the suburbs vs. Louisville culture clash of the mid-20th century, not wanting bus lines into Indian Hills meant keeping out the riff raff, or something like that. --Runame (talk) 02:32, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

I tried to clean up the style and reorder the structure to make the section flow better, but I don't think I added any editorializing disparaging the local's resistance to Louisville Metro. If I inadvertently phrased things in a POV manner, feel free to patch it up. "Battles with Louisville" seemed to me the tersest way to express the tone of what was going on (Louisville isn't so positively considered that that phrasing makes I.H. sound bad, is it?). It's quite possible the "something like that" involved race but, unless that's in your sources, let it alone: it's perfectly plausible they just didn't like the poor or their corrupt government on its own merits. Certainly all of their fears about the expense of urban sewer connection turned out to be justified.

What I'd like to see with Indian Hills has nothing to do with that. I'd like the Secretary of State or the local government clear up whether Cherokee and the other cities were fully absorbed or not. The Land Office still lists them as active cities. In general, we could use some sources that address the origins of Louisville suburb place names like Strathmoor, since Rennick & the Ky Encyclopedia don't mention most of them. Within Louisville Metro, Heritage Creek, Kentucky, is a mess: Google thinks it exists where it obviously doesn't & Bing thinks it doesn't exist where it might.

Another oddity is Keene, Kentucky, which isn't being dealt with by the 2010 census even though smaller 'cities' still are. Was it disincorporated and again the Land Office is out of date? No idea. — LlywelynII 03:35, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Yeah I didn't put anything on race in the actual article, the sources just aren't there for it... even if well, it was the 1950s and 1960s, an all-white suburb... but yeah without sources it can't go in the article. My main concern is having the Wikipedia article just summarize what's in the old newspaper articles, with no content changed... people can draw their own conclusions. I don't really know anything about the Secretary of State issue... I am sure the other cities are now legally a part of Indian Hills, as they are all taxed and regulated by Indian Hills and no governments exist for the other cities. I assume the secretary of state just doesn't have a very accurate database. --Runame (talk) 12:35, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Chinese Cuisine[edit]

Hi LlywelynII --

I very much agree with the recent edits you've made at Chinese Cuisine, and hope you keep them up. The article has a long way to go, and, as I am not surprised to see, you are taking it in the right direction.

One minor point: we should keep the list of Further Reading, for reasons that I've explained on the Talk Page there. Basically, it's "half a loaf is better than none." And besides, it's in line with WP:FURTHER and WIKIPEDIA:Further Reading.

Cheers, ch (talk) 03:00, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words, for which I'll hold off on a protracted edit war. ;) As I pointed out, in this case, half a loaf is worse than none since it (a) gives the appearance of a well-researched article instead of the website-based mess that actually exists; (b) is completely unexplained and uncurated, giving the appearance that these tomes are well-known authorities when that may be very far from the case; (c) is therefore liable to stealth bloat and advertising; (d) does not remove any content from the reader since it was still available on the talk page.

I have no especial quarrel with WP:futher provided it's labelled as a "Further Reading" section and not a bibliography or references one; but I would request that you reconsider the length and dubious quality of the books involved on this particular page. If you can't give at least a short gloss on each entry explaining the reason for its inclusion, my opinion is there's really no helpful service being provided that couldn't be better dealt with by surfing Google Books or Amazon recommendations. — LlywelynII 12:22, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Yangtze River[edit]

It's always good to see some solid content creation on Wikipedia. From patrolling recent changes, sometimes it seems like three-quarters of the edits are vandalism, bot edits, or updates of football goals scored. Have you stumbled across Listen to Wikipedia? (Link:[2]) If only all the editors of Wikipedia could focus on harmonious content creation rather than petty disputes. Altamel (talk) 03:43, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Well, again, thanks for the kind words. (Quickly blanks the page of petty disputes filling the rest of his talk page...) — LlywelynII 03:54, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Is Mary better described as 'Judean' or 'Judean-born'?[edit]

On 8 July 2013, in Three Secrets of Fátima, you changed my wording 'Palestine-born Mary' to 'Judean Mary', with the explanation 'Miriam mother of Josh was from Hasmonean Judea, not "Palestine"'. I don't have a problem with getting rid of 'Palestine-born', and it's an irrelevant triviality that I think she was born in Herodian Judea rather than Hasmonean Judea, since that doesn't change the text of the article. However for much of her life she can arguably be more accurately described as Galilean, since the Tetrarchy of Galilee ceased to be part of Judea after Herod's death. So it seems to me that 'Judean-born' might well be better than 'Judean'. However, I don't think it's worth risking getting into a row over the matter. So I've decided to simply bring the matter to your attention, and let you make the change if you think it's a good idea, and to forget about it if you don't. Tlhslobus (talk) 02:00, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Galilean is fine, although (as you're well aware) Mary was born well before the end of Herod's rule so its status after his death is beside the point. The larger point is that at the time the entire vague area was Judea and (as you're well aware) Palestine was used by the Romans and in modern discourse specifically to disassociate the area with the Jews Mary and her family were very much a part of.

As far as Judean v. Judean-born: Judean. It's shorter, clearer, and just as accurate. It's not as if she left Judea to became famous for her work in Gaul or India. If we were going to be POINTy over nationalities, she was "Roman" but calling her that would make the article less accurate and helpful, not more. — LlywelynII 02:15, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Fair enough regarding 'Judean' v 'Judean-born'.

But I very much regret feeling somewhat obliged to say, if only for the record, that I take exception to the second of your '(as you are well aware)' comments, which, doubtless unintentionally, seems (and/or could be interpreted or misinterpreted) to be vaguely hinting that I must be something like some sort of anti-semite, or enemy of Israel, or supporter of terrorism, or whatever, seemingly just because I used the term Palestine to refer to an area which, to the best of my rather limited knowledge, has been known as Palestine for most of the past 2000 years.

You have no way of knowing what I am and am not well aware of. [textwall]. Tlhslobus (talk) 20:52, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Jeez, the NSA thing in really messing with people if they feel their Wikipedia handles are going to come back to haunt them.

In any case, having assumed in WP:GOODFAITH that you aren't in middle school and know anything whatsoever about the subject under discussion, I am perfectly comfortable in stating that you are well aware that "Palestine" has political implications. (That knowledge is, in fact, the very reason for your former text wall above.) Those implications are (historically) anti-semitic and (as stated) inappropriately pointy for discussing Mary mother of Jesus in an article about Christianity, all the more so because the polity and area was clearly known as Judea at the time. If you were unaware of that, I gave you links to peruse above; if you felt they were wrong, you could have discussed that here or at those pages.

Your off-topic ad hom and attempted rationalization actually make you seem more anti-semitic than the original edit. No reason (other than the over-reäction) to assume you are, so I'll suggest you take a moment sometime to read WP:Don't shoot yourself in the foot.

All that said, you now understand and don't mind the actual edit to Three Secrets of Fátima and we're done here, right? — LlywelynII 22:47, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Languages of Italy vs Italian Dialects[edit]

Hi. I saw your edits (Languages of Italy and Italian Dialects) and I agree with you. There is too much confusion among these two articles. As you suggest, Italian dialects should include all the idioms that are spoken in Italy and that are closely related to and not officially recognised (Venetian, Sicilian, Neapolitan...). In fact these languages are deeply influenced by Italian and today they are not so different . While the Language of Italy should include only those languages recognised (Sardinian, German ...). But in order to do it we have to start a deep edit of the article Languages of Italy because there are a lot of languages not recognised and part of the Italian dialect indeed. --Walter J. Rotelmayer (talk) 11:43, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Well, thanks for the support. I was just stopping through, but couldn't just let it alone. Good luck fighting the good fight against whatever local patriots created that mess in the first place. =) — LlywelynII 11:48, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Tattoo fad among rich[edit]

Hi Llywelyn, I happened on some checkable refs for the improbable statement that the rich 'n' royal had tattoos in the late 19th c. Must have been something to do with the Naughty Nineties. Have added the refs and removed the 'dubious sources' tag.RLamb (talk) 07:52, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

As long as it's sourced, peachy, but the article I saw was very much overstating the case that tattooing was looked on as a privilege of the rich and powerful. They may have slummed it up, but that didn't get rid of the overall association with Asians, sailors, &c.

But thanks for dropping by. — LlywelynII 03:14, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

See what you mean, tried to balance it.RLamb (talk) 11:31, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Submitting an RM[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, please don't convert another user's comments into an RM as you did at Talk:Baekdu Mountain. This is not an acceptable reason for reformatting others' comments, and may be considered disruptive. It also throws a wrench into the RM process; in this case, it made it look like the request had been open for a month (and thus was ready for a close). In the future, it's fine to start an RM in an existing section if you want to work off of their comments, but the request needs to go at the bottom of the section, signed by you. In many ways, it's preferable to start a new section, in which you can still refer to previous comments on the talk page. Understand? --BDD (talk) 20:37, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Of course not. It's what he meant to do but was ignorant of the process for. That is in no way disruptive and (in fact) is covered by the REFORMAT policy you linked to. The admin can clearly see what was going on, since I explained it in my comment. If the admins are really on autopilot and would close the discussion after only two comments, feel free to weigh in or helpfully edit my edit. Cheers — LlywelynII 00:05, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

It's not to anyone's benefit to put a new RM straight into the backlog. And in fact, it's not unusual for RMs to have low participation, so two comments wouldn't necessarily be a red flag. Just don't do it again. --BDD (talk) 03:32, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Been here for years and first time it's come up. It's obviously what the guy wanted but, if it confuses the admins that much, I'll be sure to claim it as my own with the new date. — LlywelynII 14:42, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Kosciuszko[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, Just wanted to say thanks for your contribution on the Kosciuszko page in the Memorials and tributes section, however you apparently forgot to add the citation. As the article is currently undergoing an FA review, and unless someone can source this information, the edit will no doubt be reverted in short order. If you could, would you please provide the source? Regards. -- Gwillhickers 05:16, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, but I've always found it obnoxious when people demand repetition of cites provided on the the linked pages. That said, I think the stub on Thaddeus of Warsaw is still unsourced, so I'll see what I can do to fix that. — LlywelynII 06:47, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Russell[edit]

Hi there. I see you reverted my edit to Russell, Kentucky.

From Wikipedia:Hatnote...

Readers may have arrived at the article containing the hatnote because:

• they were redirected. (nope)
• because the sought article uses a more specific, disambiguated title. (nope)
• because the sought article and the article with the hatnote have similar names.
  • "Russell", "Russell Springs" and "Russellville" seem pretty dissimilar to me. And none leads to a disambiguation.

What about Russell, a neighborhood in Louisville?

I know you were trying to be helpful, and I'm not trying to seem like a know-it-all, but hatnotes really mess up an article unless they're necessary (and this one isn't). I'll add a note to the talk page, instead of just revert your edit.

Thanks. Richard Apple (talk) 04:38, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Already handled the talk page and will add the Louisville neighborhood. They are quite similar, particularly the county, and your edit – while well intentioned – is (yes) in violation of the policy you're citing. There are numerous cities in Kentucky that added or dropped -ville from their original names, and these are similar enough to mention while we're dabbing the county. — LlywelynII 04:43, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Thaddeus of Warsaw - expanding?[edit]

If you could add just 130 or so referenced words, it could be T:TDYKed. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:09, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Is that good?  — LlywelynII 16:07, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Categories[edit]

WP:CFD/S is the proper place. Do not try to do this manually. Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 00:47, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

See Category_talk:Louisville,_Kentucky_politicians. Come here first before mass reverting my good-faith (and perfectly correct) edits.

[edit: I see you started a template move. Peachy. Still talk about it here first.] — LlywelynII 00:52, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

RE: Comments on Ten Little Indians talkpage[edit]

As per [3], I was wondering what you meant and to whom you were referring specifically (if you were in fact specifically referring to anyone or any group in particular) with your comment that there is nothing wrong with showing how others are uncivilised. (I don't have the words verbatim in front of me but that is the gist of it.) I agree with the sentiment in theory, but it's not clear to me what you meant.

Also your spelling of Llywelyn is curious; it's not the most commonly spelled/orthodox version of the Welsh name (i.e. Llewellyn, Llewelyn) but how Irish author/writer Morgan Llywelyn spells her own surname, although what name she was born under is anyone's guess. Yours, Quis separabit? 15:40, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit warring on Myriad[edit]

Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Til Eulenspiegel /talk/ 12:47, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Removing ported comments from my talk page, since I was the one who went to you to discuss this reasonably. — LlywelynII 12:59, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Template:...[edit]

Hi, this is to inform you, as a contributor to Template:..., about a discussion at Template talk:... regarding the purpose of this template. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:05, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Warning[edit]

Stop edit warring at the IPA help page or I will ask to have you blocked for disruption. These examples have been there for years and reviewed by many people. If you think they're wrong, take it to talk. As for checking with the OED, I verified with the OED before reverting you, so you might want to check it yourself. You might not distinguish between words like hire and higher, mare and mayor, but many people do, and we have a general audience, not just you. — kwami (talk) 08:06, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

You obviously didn't. The talk page has the actual OED pronunciation. — LlywelynII 08:12, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it does. The two-syllable OED pronunciation. Perhaps you should read the pronunciation key there so that you understand dictionary conventions (also used by Webster's, BTW). Or compare loir to see what the diff is: If there's a stress mark, it's two syllables. No stress mark, one syllable, even if stressed. — kwami (talk) 08:25, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Article titles for Chinese kings[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, please do not rename articles for Chinese kings without discussion. The situation for Chinese kings is very different from other countries, due to complications with personal name versus posthumous name. -Zanhe (talk) 01:22, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Hey. It's not different at all and there are WP:MOS guidelines on ruler's names. If you want to take it up with them, cool, but the Chinese pages shouldn't have a WP:LOCALCONSENSUS where we needlessly add titles. The only issues are the occasional homophony, which are properly dabbed; the issues where state rulers and imperial dynasts have the same name, which would need sorting out, granted; and the era-named kings, which are properly called the X Emperor.

If there is an existing discussion somewhere, cool, point it out; but otherwise the current page names are unhelpful; they're against policy; and I'm just fixing them. I tried doing that for individual pages, but then editors were confused about "but the other ones look like X"... so if it's just inertia, I'll go ahead and do the work.

For what it's worth, I've already fixed at least two bad names in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

EDIT: Also, I'm just fixing the formatting on the standard names. Obviously, I'll steer a wide berth around the ones that are actually contentious and well-established like Qin Shi Huang, & al. (Mho is Shi Huangdi/Qin Shi Huangdi is at the wrong place but there's long and very careful arguments about why it's there.) or at places where the common usage is clear like at Liu Bei instead of Zhaolie of Shu Han. The current situation elsewhere is just sloppy. There weren't even redirects, e.g., from Wu of Han to Emperor Wu of Han before I started doing this. — LlywelynII 01:28, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

I agree with Zanhe. The name of Chinese monarchs are inseparably connected to their titles. You cannot referred to Emperor Wu with the name of Wu without his title. You can referred to him as Liu Che without his title. It is Han Emperor Wu or Emperor Wu or Emperor Wu of Han NEVER Wu of Han.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 01:47, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

With respect, I don't think you know what you're talking about. You should never refer to the Hongwu Emperor as "Hongwu" but after introducing "Emperor Wu", people drop the title all the time and there is no problem with doing so. His existing article does so repeatedly.

On the other hand, it is Chinglish to refer him as the "Han Emperor Wu" in the manner of Han Wudi.

[added during Kave's comment below: If we're going to switch over to using the Chinese names completely, I can understand that. But this is just a question of formatting the English names and the MOS is pretty clear on how we should treat royal names. Thinking about it, even the Zhou states don't matter too much since the emperors will generally be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.] — LlywelynII 01:51, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:History standards for China-related articles. Make a request for your moves or I will revert all of them if Zanhe doesn't already do so.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 01:53, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, I'll have to go to work soon, so you'll probably be doing that before I can. I'm not exactly sure how reverting a move works, but make sure to leave redirects from the correct namespaces in any case if either of you start in on that.

The redirects are needful even everyone else is going to agree they prefer the wordier titles.

EDIT: Also, I'm not sure if you're paying attention to the arguments I'm putting forward, but the page you sent me to starts out with a giant banner saying : "This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear." I'm not sure it means what you think it does. — LlywelynII 01:57, 29 November 2013 (UTC)EDIT

The current policy is WP:SOVEREIGN (generally, don't use titles) and WP:Manual of Style (China-related articles)#Names of emperors. That just says that you should use temple, era, etc. for the correct particular dynasties. This is unaddressed and I don't see any good reasons to ignore the general practice. (And in any case, we need the redirects.) — LlywelynII 02:03, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

In my opinion the consensus would not change even if the page was active. Also you say "after introducing "Emperor Wu", people drop the title all the time and there is no problem with doing so. His existing article does so repeatedly. " Have you read Emperor Wu's article or the Hongwu Emperor's article? Nearly every single sentence (I haven't read their entire article so there might be minor reference to Wu or Hongwu without Emperor next to them) calls him Emperor Wu this or Emperor Wu that and with the Hongwu Emperor it is "the" Hongwu Emperor this or the Hongwu Emperor that.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:24, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

You should read the article. That was my point. It does appear simply as Wu and there's nothing wrong with that.

And the Hongwu article looks that way because I fixed it. — LlywelynII 07:49, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

The names of Chinese sovereigns are far more complicated than European ones, with personal names, posthumous names, temple names, etc., while European rulers just use their personal names. That's why Wikipedia:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility) specifically makes exceptions for Chinese and related East Asian royalties. Conventionally, posthumous and temple names are almost always accompanied by the title (king or emperor), while personal names are usually not (same as European royalties). Otherwise there's no way to tell if a king's name is his personal name or posthumous/temple name. In any case, it's almost always a bad idea to start moving hundreds of articles without obtaining consensus first. -Zanhe (talk) 04:21, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

You're wonderfully friendly and respectful, which is rare and thanks for that. At the same time, yes, I do understand what I'm talking about and there's no more reason to have Emperor Wu of Han than to have King Charles II of England. It's unnecessary in a way that (e.g.) Hongwu of Ming is entirely incorrect.

If we're switching to Chinese names and moving to Han Wudi, that's fine, but the current pages are simply badly formatted English, per the way we handle nobility everywhere else on the project. — LlywelynII 07:49, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Llywelyn, there is no problem with having the redirects. But in the future, please make the redirects directly (eg. create Wu of Han as a redirect) and not move the article itself unless the consensus to do so has been reached. An undiscussed large-scale move of several dozens of articles can be considered disruptive, especially when it contravenes existing conventions (even if they had been marked historical). _dk (talk) 02:18, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Again, the consensus is well-established. See WP:SOVEREIGN. It simply hasn't been observed for Chinese articles. Emperors known by their era names are distinct: they must be addressed as the X Emperor as shorthand for the actual "emperor who ruled during the X years of Chinese history". Emperors known by their posthumous and temple names are no different from European regnal or papal names and there's no obvious reason why they've been left badly formatted when Charles II of England, e.g., is given without the "King".

Since there is some pushback from editors above (albeit apparently owing in part to a misunderstanding about how Chinese titles work in English), I've stopped for now but the current situation is still a (bad) WP:LOCALCONSENSUS issue in violation of outstanding Wiki-wide policy. — LlywelynII 07:45, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Llywelyn, WP:SOVEREIGN explicitly says that it only applies to European monarchs, and Chinese monarchs are governed by Wikipedia:Manual of Style (China-related articles). -Zanhe (talk) 04:50, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, it has a separate section for dealing with them and announces there are other policies, owing to irregularities. Since the section linked above is moot and no longer active, the rest of the page is actually controlling. [Like I said above: you've got to treat the era-named ones differently, but (unless we're going to get overly morbid about when it's appropriate to use temple and posthumous names) the rest simply function as regnal names and there's no good reason to have them in the page titles when we don't do that for any other similar figure.] All the same, I have suspended by edits given the feedback here showing that they're appreciably contentious (albeit correct) ;).

EDIT: Also, there's WP:ENGLISH WP:COMMONNAME, but that just concerns which name we use for which dynasty, not the way we format their titles. And also there's WP:CONSENSUS which controls Qin Shi Huang &c. and is what's going on right now. — LlywelynII 05:46, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Memorials / Official Communications[edit]

Hi LlywelynII -- Just saw your excellent work on Memorial to the throne, which has both important content and well chosen references. But there is considerable overlap with Official Communications of the Chinese Empire -- in fact some of the same sources and the same topics. How would you feel about merging the two? At least the Official Communications article could be the main article, since it is more general, with sections marked "see also." I'd be happy to have you make the revisions and decide which topics go where, though I would also be happy to do the shuffling around my self. Cheers and thanks in any case. ch (talk) 16:36, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. Let's talk over here, though. — LlywelynII 16:40, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Merge discussion for List of saints by pope[edit]

Compatriots Rebellion?[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, I've never heard of this term being used to describe the rebellion that deposed King Li of Zhou. Could you point me to reliable sources that use this term? Thanks, -Zanhe (talk) 09:28, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

I hadn't ever heard about it before but I saw it in another article and then found a few sites like this. Look around, though. If it's completely nonstandard in English, there's no problem with removing it even if it is infrequently used within China. — LlywelynII 10:24, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Regarding the use of foreign language footnotes[edit]

Since using Chinese footnotes is not fine, why does the Chinese Wikipedia allow so many articles with English footnotes? There are many Chinese Wikipedia users who do not understand English or did not have proper English education.

Does sound like a problem. [Sort of: I'm pretty sure it's standard within China to leave Roman-letter names and titles in the original and not to phonetically transcribe every occurance within scholarly articles. That is completely not the case with (mostly) nonphonetic and (otherwise) incomprehensible characters for consumption in English. In any case,] Take it up with them. — LlywelynII 08:05, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Despite that, I'll take your advice and complete the translation of sources in a period of time soon. Anyway, I started a discussion on the talk page of Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei. Why don't you take part in the discussion? --Huang (talk) 05:01, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks.

If it didn't come across clearly enough in the other discussion, lemme say it here. The big thing is thank you for helping out. Some article is better than no article; some footnotes are better than no footnotes; and you could always just write the articles and let other people do the translations or replace your footnotes with something else. Keep on keeping on and don't let the bastards get you down.

But (A), yeah, that's the policy; (B), it's a pretty good one as they go; and (C), if you are hanging around and working on more Chinese articles, it does help ease the load if you just include the translations as you go. (Personally, I don't always include full sections of text; but I do translate the names of the sources so people at least know where to start looking, especially if the English name is distinct and has its own article: 山海经 [Classic of Mountains and Seas].)

Thanks again. — LlywelynII 08:05, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Your recent edits[edit]

When creating new articles, such as Gadi Kinda, please ensure that all information is supported by reliable sources. An editor who has been around as long as you should know that by now - and if you continue to create unreferenced articles then your account may be blocked. GiantSnowman 19:31, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

A Gun for Sale[edit]

I understand the reason you moved the article title; however, we present the name not as how the book title appears on the jacket - which would be the publisher's house style, but according to MOS:CT, which is the Wikipedia house style. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:36, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

• shrug* The rule about not needing to follow their style is always a judgment call but, if you feel strongly about it and no one else wants to go digging around for other sources that support the capital F, sure, man. Knock yourself out. — LlywelynII 10:59, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

WP:ERA[edit]

I've seen a number of editors make your mistake. WP:ERA says "Do not change the established era style in an article unless there are reasons specific to its content." Now we can debate about what established means, but it doesn't mean the first mention. That would leave us in the ludicrous situation where the first edit to an article 10 years ago is BC, the 2nd edit is BCE, and then after it's been stable all that time someone comes along and reverts to BC. Or vice versa. Dougweller (talk) 16:20, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Nah, you're making the mistake (or at least, I strongly disagree with the reading of the policy you suggest.)

The entire purpose is to avoid needless edit warring, but basing it on "stable use" (a) encourages stealth editing of uncommonly-visited pages in the hope of establishing a 'new normal' and (b) active disrupting of any page in the hopes of challenging the 'old normal'. I get that you apparently prefer BCE/CE, but just take up the issue on that particular page's talk page, if there was a good reason for the edits away from the originally-established use. The example you give isn't ludicrous, except for the idea that any prominent BCE-using page wouldn't have been reverted numerous times over the course of ten years. (And of course, in reality, the normal situation is an uncommonly-visited page that was BC for two years, BCE for three years, and mixed for five.)

In the specific case I imagine you're discussing, there might be a good reason: two guys did talk about it on the talk page. But it was only two, 7 years ago, and the page's normal use seems to have been BC in the time since (at the very least, all I did was bring the infobox in line with the running text).

Moreover, those two had fairly bad logic: there's nothing "more Chinese" about either system; both are external impositions. We're not going to use the Taiwanese era system for the articles and, while the Chinese term for AD translates as "Common Era", it's completely standard for the Chinese to translate that as BC/AD in practice. That's because implicit in the editors' argument is the idea that AD represents WP:BIAS and not WP:ENGLISH; if it were accurate, the only appropriate time to use AD would be in articles about Church councils and policy would reflect that. It doesn't because they were wrong to be so reflexively oikophobic.

In the meantime, in general use, bright lines work much better and, if there are involved editors, there will be pushback as here. This is a better way both in theory and in practice: it's much easier to check the first use than to try to work out every dating edit of a decade-old page trying to count how many months it bore either use. Go with the first one and then if there are reasons for moving away from that, discuss them. — LlywelynII 22:28, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

However, there is no 'bright line' in WP:ERA. I wish that it was more explicit. Are you really arguing that, for instance, a 10 year old article that was BCE for the first 6 months and then changed to BC where it remained until today can be changed back to BCE? Dougweller (talk) 10:34, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm not the proprietor of Wikipedia, so I don't see what you plan to get out of your hypotheticals. (I could easily give you one you'd agree with—a little-monitored page on an obscure rabbi could certainly and sensibly be changed over if people felt strongly enough—but does that actually change your mind?) You prefer to read "established" in a rather unhelpful way, which is your choice, and I'll disagree with that where I see it in action and it isn't supported by any other rationale or consensus (which will probably be never).

It's pretty uncommon to change anyone's mind on the internet, but I laid out my reasoning above. If you want to stick with yours and wade through the edit history of Yu the Great to count how many months it's spent as one, the other, or both so we can figure out whether you think it should be BC or BCE, be my guest. Short of that, whatever number of recent weeks or months you think counts as "established" will be far more capricious and conducive to continuous unhelpful editing aimed at setting a new normal. Better (mho) to just read "established" as precisely what it does mean and request some consensus prior to any change. — LlywelynII 17:08, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry but I'm not sure what we are disagreeing about. My mind gets changed by other editor's arguments fairly often, but until I know what you mean by 'established' I'm in a quandry. And this has turned out more argumentative than I expected it to. Dougweller (talk) 17:07, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, happy holidays in any case. — LlywelynII 06:55, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

And to you. Sometime I may try again to get clearer wording for this. Dougweller (talk) 18:52, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Big ad[edit]

Greetings. So there's a big, intrusive, racist ad wherever {{Infobox Chinese}} is used, discussed at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Advertisement.3F.3F. Since you were the last to edit that template, I thought you'd want to know. Any idea how to fix it? It seems to take advantage of complex template syntax or something... – Quadell ^(talk) 16:10, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Nevermind. It has been fixed. – Quadell ^(talk) 16:13, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, that was certainly odd. Anything in particular about the {{Infobox Chinese}} template that left it open to that? or it just came from simple vandalism of one of the underlying template pieces? — LlywelynII 17:54, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes, {{Infobox Chinese/Footer}} contained the offending code. Whoever it was, they knew what they were doing. Anyway, Merry Christmas and happy editing, – Quadell ^(talk) 18:38, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Battle of the Conwy (13th century)[edit]

I see you created a redirect from Battle of the Conwy (13th century) to Madog ap Llywelyn. I have posted a comment at Talk:List_of_battles_301–1300#1294_Battle_of_the_Conwy querying whether this name for the battle is correct. Can you help? Dudley Miles (talk) 19:12, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Mos:saint listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mos:saint. Since you had some involvement with the Mos:saint redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). John Vandenberg ^(chat) 03:19, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

FYI[edit]

I have replied to your comment at User talk:PMLawrence#FYI. Is that a fair assessment of the historical situation? PMLawrence (talk) 06:07, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Second Lincoln Administration[edit]

You created the redirect Second Lincoln Administration to Template:Lincoln cabinet in October. It is now appearing on Wikipedia:Database reports/Cross-namespace redirects, as that was refreshed today. Any chance you are planning to create an article about that topic any time soon? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 05:42, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

As I mentioned before, you very seriously need to review WP:BROKE. I applaud your desire to fix actual problems. Leaving a red link for all of these pages because you feel pangs of OCD is not an actual improvement.

If you very much dislike the present situation, you can create a stub article for Second Lincoln Administration that includes the presently-linked template. You don't need to bother other editors to do so, and (while the notices are very kind of you and huzzah) it would take less time to make that stub than coming here and asking me to do it for you. Best of luck, — LlywelynII 05:49, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 29 January 2014 - Unification of Hispaniola into Haiti be renamed and moved to Unification of Hispaniola[edit]

Hello there fellow scholar/editor,

There is a talk page on this subject and since you have an interest in the discussion I would love to hear your views on it as well. I've responded with my viewpoints against the potential move as you will soon see why. I thank you for your time. Savvyjack23 (talk) 18:52, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Stub tags[edit]

I see that you created several pages back in October where you did the stub tags wrong, such as this one. Just to clarify:

1. Stub tags go all the way at the end of the page, after the other categories.
2. The first letter of a stub tag should be capitalized if the first word in the tag name is one which is always capitalized, such as Kentucky, but not otherwise.

עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:19, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

As to your first point, kindly link the policy.

As to your second, Wiki's markup automatically capitalizes the first letter regardless and I can't imagine how it makes any difference.

As to your general approach, it's Wiki. If something's wrong (or even "wrong"), fix it yourself. If you're trying to cajole other people into doing your work for you, work on your phrasing. WP:YACATCHMOREFLIESWITHHONEY. Cheers. — LlywelynII 16:26, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

As to the first, the link is: WP:STUB#How to mark an article as a stub. As to the second, I'm not trying to get other users to do my work; I'm trying to get them to do it right wen they do it themselves anyway. And while it may not matter fir the software, it looksbetter to human eyes when they look at the wiki-code. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:09, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

"Foo Dynasty" or "Foo dynasty"?[edit]

There's an RFC here. Taekwondo Panda (talk) 08:04, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Opium War merge[edit]

Hi Llywelynll. I have a DYK in preparation, which will reference the First Opium War and I'd rather that there wasn't a merger tag on that page given it's potential exposure on the main page. Do you mind if I go ahead and carry out the merge? Best, ► Philg88 ◄ ^talk 09:34, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Elaeis guineensis[edit]

I'm glad you made that edit to Elaeis guineensis correcting the factual information. I just wonder what a "generic name" for an area is. I've never heard "generic" applied to the name of a geographical area. CorinneSD (talk) 22:58, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks.

As to your query, I sadly can't write to William Safire but I think the usage fits, as it would for using "Sudan" to describe the general prairie south of the Sahara rather than the Islamic republic now using that name. In any case, the usage is linked through for any confused; if you think of more felicitous phrasing, feel free to emend it. — LlywelynII 12:34, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your beautifully written reply. I'm going to see if I can find a synonym for "generic" that would be appropriate. If I don't find one, I'll leave it as it is. CorinneSD (talk) 19:07, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

John J. Jacob (Kentucky)[edit]

In the article, created by you, there is a link to a disambiguation page, probably by accident. You may be interested to read the talkpage in fixing the mistake. Thanks Piguy101 (talk) 00:25, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Togarmah[edit]

Bulgars originate from Togarmah, there are many fading errors over the centuries. Ongar was fading or mistyped or mistranslated as ohguz. The word GAR means tribe. Bul-gar, Un-gar, Ma-gar (used with Hungarian accent as Ma-gyar). further mistranslations were Aldi-gar written in some sources as Altsek, Aldzi-gar, Aldjigher and so on.

If you read the history of Great Old Bulgaria and the First Bulgarian Empire you would make direct connection for the hegemony of the Bulgars in Europe. John of Nikiu says there are descendants of the Huns which makes sense, considering where the Hourse was first found of earth. Tyurk was wrongly adopted termin from Communist Russia derived from Kotrak the son of Kubrat and the one who establishev Volga Bulgaria. The termin Kotrak was mispelled Kokturk,but this is evidence that Great old Bulgaria holds legitimacy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.33.211.25 (talk) 07:34, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for coming by and I'm sure most of that made sense in the original language (presumably Bulgarian), but I can't really follow most of what you're trying to say. If you have sources for better reconstruction of the historical names of these illiterate nomad polities, just add them to the pages. — LlywelynII 02:44, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:KNBrugsenilogo.jpg[edit]

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. TLSuda (talk) 19:26, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of James Pinnock (disambiguation)[edit]

A tag has been placed on James Pinnock (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates two or fewer extant Wikipedia pages and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
• disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title.

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Hello[edit]

Do you know why Opium Wars wasn't merged with the others page? If it was by the lack of a volunteer I could do it. Ruddah (talk) 04:56, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi Ruddah. The merge is in progress. I also left you a message on the Opium wars talk page. Cheers,  Philg88 ^♦talk 06:43, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Great Green Ocean listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Great Green Ocean. Since you had some involvement with the Great Green Ocean redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:17, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Liu Dan[edit]

Can you explain LlywelynII moved page Liu Dan to Liu Dan (basketball player): not PRIMARYTOPIC to me? I see a basketball player mentioned in four templates and 29 articles (now links to disambiguation pages). I see a red linked prince, linked three times (including the dab page) and I see an actor with a different name. S I really don't understand why the basketball player is not the primary topic here. The Banner talk 10:41, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

To start with, the actor doesn't have a different name: the actor has the exact same name. Second, the fact that the Chinese dynast doesn't have a page up yet does not make him less notable than a random stub on a basketball player that isn't even thorough enough to have her Chinese name (or even more than a single sentence, iirc). I would have fixed the links if I had seen them, though: you're right that we shouldn't leave it hanging on a disambiguation page. I must have accidentally looked at the double redirect only option when I didn't see any incoming links at all.

As for justifying the primary status, I'll do some googling for you in a bit. — LlywelynII 10:46, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Yep. Vanilla Google pulls up a page full of references to a Chinese artist and the Google Books page is artist, artist, prince, artist, prince, prince, random bank worker, random prisoner, artist, prince. The basketball player is a footnote, albeit one that someone bothered to link a bunch. I'll fix them. — LlywelynII 10:52, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

You have mentioned the actor as "Lau Dan" not "Liu Dan". The Chinese spelling of his name is not relevant for the English-language WP. And at present, the basketball player is the most linked topic. The just found model does not even have her own article... The Banner talk 11:23, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

A) Kindly comment to the appropriate comment.

B) I mentioned no such thing. You claimed the names are different, when in fact they are literally and exactly the same. There is no such thing as a Chinese "spelling" and the Mandarin(/pinyin) spelling is relevant when it shows up in English, which it does even for Cantonese stars.

C) Mostly, though, go review WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. It has nothing whatsoever to do with fanboys who have covered their topic extensively here and most-linked carries no weight whatsoever (although, again, apologies that I missed them and didn't already straighten them out prior to the move: am in the process now). The sports figure is not the PRIMARYTOPIC for that name in the English language, there is no standout replacement, so that's where the dab page goes. — LlywelynII 11:29, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Dianxin[edit]

Hi there. I noticed a recent edit of yours which translated "dim sum"/"dianxin" as an "a la carte item". I am assuming that you derived this translation from dian, the verb, which can mean "to order, as from a menu". This is not the correct etymology for "dianxin" - if followed literally, this etymology would yield the literal translation "to order, as from the menu, a heart", which is not what the phrase means. The phrase means literally "to touch lightly on the heart", which refers to its role to lightly line one's belly, without filling it up. "Snack" is a more apt translation than "a la carte item". --62.189.73.197 (talk) 12:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

With respect, you are incorrect in almost every particular. I have never edited dim sum and have not recently edited anything about it; I presume you're talking about something related to Chinese cuisine, which I have edited but my edits left untouched the idea that it literally derived from "touch your heart". That is completely true. It is completely untrue (albeit common Chinglish) that "snack" is an appropriate translation of English dim sum. I assume your use of a URL name and failure to link the article in question was a deliberate attempt to hide your mistaken edits. Sorry it didn't work out for you. — LlywelynII 12:39, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

點心 defies any kind of useful translation. Railing at the anonymous meanderer was entertaining but failed to satisfy. You both need a little something to tickle your fancy, i.e. 點心, "fancy ticklers" laced with congenial banter weaving through the deafening din. sirlanz 16:36, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

WP:CIVIL[edit]

Hi there. Please be civil. Labelling other people's edits as "terrible" or "Chinglish", as you have done on Xiaolongbao, is not helpful. If you have content-related issues, please discuss on the talk page before mass reverting again. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 12:48, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

I am writing them onto the talk page. It is Chinglish and has nothing to do with a pejorative. — LlywelynII 12:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Having checked, where did you see me calling his edits "terrible"? He seems well-meaning, albeit misinformed. — LlywelynII 12:57, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

To clarify, I read "terrible" in your previous edit notes. Apologies for the confusion. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 13:10, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

There were no edit notes that said "terrible", as far as I can see. — LlywelynII 13:18, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Hello there. I have not been back to the xiaolongbao article since the discussion above and do not care enough to engage your substantive arguments beyond what I have already said. I am posting here simply to add a general reminder to be WP:CIVIL in your activities on Wikipedia - and in life. Your posts make strange assumptions. The post on my talk page, for example, seems to assume that I am a Chinese English teacher or speak Chinglish, or somesuch. I am not. I learned to speak English in an English-speaking country and I learned to speak Chinese in China, and I speak both at a native or bilingual level, so quite apart from civility, you are in no position to challenge my grasp of either language based on what I have seen of your grasp of the two languages. Taking a different approach in your social interactions both on Wikipedia and in life generally will no doubt make you a more likeable person. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 16:39, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Louisville Metro[edit]

Moved. — LlywelynII 01:31, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Template:Zh-stub listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Zheng He converted to Buddhism. Zheng He left Islam.[edit]

There seems to be a big push by some Islamists to change the history of Zheng He. Yes, he was born a Muslim, but left Islam when he was older. Zheng He or Cheng Ho, left Islam before he commenced his voyages. According to several sources Zheng He had left Islam and became a Buddhist before his voyages. Check out this source http://www.docstoc.com/docs/83218267/Influence-Of-Tibetan-Buddhism-betan-Buddhism-On-The-Hinterland-In Here is the reference with many sources. http://en.tibet.cn/culture/tibetology/200811/t20081127_440393.htm

I believe there is an effort to change Zheng He's biography and remove the fact he left Islam and converted to Buddhism and died a Buddhist. This is a blatant change of historical facts for an agenda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TeeveezAlBundi (talk • contribs) 11:00, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Not sure why you're posting this here, but it's certainly not a blatant change and your sources don't seem particularly reliable. Afaik, he couldn't possibly have been a devout and strict Muslim or Buddhist, inasmuch as he sacrificed to and honored various local gods, but he was in a political position where you go along to get along. You can try to get by with your current sources on his page, but I'd certainly remove them if I noticed them. — LlywelynII 15:14, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Also, sign your posts. — LlywelynII 15:16, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Duanwu / Dragon Boat Festival[edit]

I have changed my mind on this as far as mainland China is concerned. While I think the official usage reflects the longstanding usage in English language reference tools, it is clear that the Chinese government is using "Dragon Boat Festival" primarily and "Duanwu" or "Duan Wu" secondarily in English language sources. The most convincing source for me was the 2011 UNESCO report submitted by the Chinese government, where "Dragon Boat" is used throughout.

The same is true of Taiwan. My only reservation is for Hong Kong, where the official name is Tuen Ng Festival. As a result, I do not feel sufficiently convinced to vote for a move to Dragon Boat Festival, but I probably will not vote against it.

I am posting these thoughts on your talk page because you posted on my talk page, but I feel my thoughts are not sufficiently crystallised for the article talk page just yet. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 17:28, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

I've tagged it all[edit]

All the redirects have been tagged for the rubbish bin. I hope you're quite happy about that. We can both have our own little essays, isolated in far corners of Wikipedia. That seems amenable to me. We wouldn't want mine or your PoV corrupting these sacred halls, now would we? RGloucester — ☎ 04:39, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Brazil attorney general[edit]

By any chance could you merge Attorney General of Brazil and Solicitor General of Brazil per your Sept. 2013 proposal? They are indeed identical. Thanks if possible! Prburley (talk) 18:23, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Promoting DYK nominations to queues[edit]

LlywelynII, you promoted two hooks today, but ran into trouble. Your edit summaries said "since template seems hinky", but that's not correct; the templates were fine, but you didn't take the right steps for the promotions.

The instructions for the steps required to approve nominations are at T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook; basically, you neglected to add the "subst:" before the "DYKsubpage" template name, which causes a number of changes that close the template. You also added your name in the "2" parameter, which is not necessary: the template substitution automatically takes care of that. Another problem is that you didn't not copy the DYKmake templates from the nomination template to the prep page from the Pettakere cave nomination (there were four); instead, you created your own single DYKmake in prep, and it was formatted incorrectly. (You had two users in a single DYKmake, which is not allowed, instead of duplicating the four DYKmake templates that were in the nomination.) I have cleaned up the promoted template so it's formatted correctly (basically, I went back to before the promotion and redid the proper promotion steps, subsequently replacing your sig over mine).

Finally, you may have noticed that one of the two promotions you did, Template:Did you know nominations/Evolution of snake venom, has been reversed. Although there is no specific rule against it, reviewers are strongly discouraged from promoting nominations they've reviewed, and especially if they proposed one of the hooks—there's an element of conflict of interest involved, and also the basic idea of getting another, independent set of eyes to cast their eye over things. Most of us take this as an effective prohibition, even with years of experience. As someone who is new to promoting nominations to prep, and who missed the fact that the ALT3 hook wasn't really reviewed but just liked, I'd advise promoting only nominations that you haven't reviewed or proposed a hook for. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:20, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

BlueMoonset (talk · contribs) Thanks for the link and info. Sorry for the trouble. =) — LlywelynII 17:23, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

As promised[edit]

Here you are. Parsecboy (talk) 13:09, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Re: Is the hook fact permitted to be cited in the lead?[edit]

Please don't edit my comments. I chose to draw attention to this here because I wanted further input from the DYK community. My first comment describes the background and the second my opinion. Although I can now see that it veers off topic, so I've collapsed those. The template is understandably a wall of text and most people (including myself) are not going to touch it with a barge pole. Fuebaey (talk) 03:37, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Apologies that I gave offense. All I did was keep your comments on the same conversation level: it's not as if you were replying to yourself, although that's what you were are still making it look like. It's well within policy to fix formatting, layout, and sectioning errors. You're welcome to ignore that and I won't restore the improvements, but it's quite probable I or others will perform similar edits in the future and you should understand where we're coming from and not take offense.
As to the substance of your post, I'd never edit the content but this is the wrong forum for some of them and shopping those around just to get more eyes isn't the way to go. It's probably a better idea all around to just leave them in the proper place and use a RFC, user links, or comments to active editors' talk pages to get people to notice something you think is important. — LlywelynII 12:04, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

I understand what you were trying to do, but I don't think it was necessary. Nor do I believe that my reply (above) was terribly aggressive. I hope you don't mind but I've moved this here because I think you're going off topic on a post that I've already settled. If you would like a further explanation - I had intended to reply to Template:Did you know nominations/Italian cruisers but was put off by the argument that had fermented since I last replied. The text was initially written on the template before I copied it to the talk page, which is why my off topic proposals were mistakenly left there. If you go through the intial dispute, you may notice I called for a second opinion. When it became apparent that it wasn't going anywhere I made the choice to post it where I did. I don't see asking for a rule clarification on a talk page to be "forum shopping". Fuebaey (talk) 17:22, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

@topicality: With respect, you went off topic in your original post and in the discussion of offense (if you didn't want me to post a response to it). Given the nature of your complaint, I wasn't going to move it but it's fine that it got shunted to my talk page. You shouldn't, however, have moved the topical part of the discussion along with it.

@offense: Keeping a single poster's comments at a single level isn't "necessary" but it's certainly helpful. It's much better practice to just leave a blank line between your posts unless you're actually replying to yourself in some sense. You weren't. That said, obviously your post wasn't aggressive at all nor did I take it as such. If the rules cite was a little much, it's a side effect of that DYK's having produced such agita from Parsec, as above. If you're posting very often to DYK and make a habit out of adding comment levels randomly, I'll almost certainly reformat them again at some point, so it's better to let you know where such edits are coming from.

@placement: This actually should be part of the conversation on the DYK talk page, if the initial comments are still there. (No, there wasn't anything off at all about the rule clarification. That wasn't what I was talking about: there were aspects of your post focused solely on the particular DYK that you said you included just to get some more eyeballs. That's not evil, but it's not helpful, as noted above.) — LlywelynII 20:35, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what you want me to say really. I've explained my actions and I sincerely apologise if I have offended you here. Unfortunately, I cannot help it if you continue misconstrue my intentions. I think it's best if one of us walks away from this so I'm now going to refrain from replying here. Good day. Fuebaey (talk) 21:48, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Altered speedy deletion rationale: Renzhong Emperor of the Song[edit]

Hello LlywelynII, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I deleted Renzhong Emperor of the Song, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, under a different criterion from the one you provided. The speedy deletion criteria are extremely narrow and specific, and the process is more effective if the correct criterion is used. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. NW (Talk) 19:12, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

March of the Volunteers & Liu Liangmo[edit]

Much admiration for your work on March of the Volunteers! It's now a weighty and interesting article. Are you planning an article on Liu Liangmo? I see you redlinked here and at Xi'an Incident. I have some references on Liu which I'd be glad to share or, if you're not planning to do one, maybe I'd start at least a stub. Cheers in any case. ch (talk) 07:03, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words! Eh... seems like he had an interesting life, but that's probably a good reason not to: I'd get started and end up losing my free time for the next two days. I just noticed that "March of the Volunteers" was missing its "the"... then that the dates contradicted themselves... then...

Anyway, let me know if you've got some outside sourcing pinning down exactly when Liu started his programme or whether it was exactly the same as the Commies' pilot chorus. Liu Ching-chih is obviously following the Party line with his treatment of the history of the mass singing movement and seems to be marginalizing Liu for having been a Christian; at the same time, the Robeson sources might be overstating his case out of monolingual ignorance or the desire to improve his stature and all of the period sources might have been trying to play up a Christian's involvement precisely in order to downplay the Party members.

PS Here's an article with a 1941 photo of him I found. (It may not be out of copyright and eligible for the commons but might be able to upload it here at Wikipedia or just put it in an external links section.)

PPS I know I've made Talk:March of the Volunteers a bit of a mess but, if you agree (or disagree) that the title should be treated similarly to "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "La Marseillaise", add a comment to the #Name section over there for when someone tallies those votes.

PPPS If you work on Chinese pages, kindly do me a favor and avoid {{zh}} in favor of {{Chinese}} (or anything else, really). It's terrible they're still treating pinyin like a separate language, but they are. Here's the Chinese for his name according to Rob Chi: (Chinese: t 劉良模, s 刘良模, p Liú Liángmó) — LlywelynII 07:34, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Amen to the prudent reluctance to start another new article! I have one of those "someday" files on Liu from references that overlap with other projects I am working on in my non-Wikipedia existence. Maybe the best compromise is to do a short write-up as a stub, just to give you and others a target and to turn the red links to black.

As to the "the" question, I assume (maybe you have already done it) you know that you can/should still add DEFAULTSORT:March of the Volunteers template (enclosed in {{}}).

Also, thanks for the heads-up on the zh/Chinese distinction, which I admit I don't entirely follow. In fact, from the reactions of my students, who are representative targets of these articles, we use too many Hanzi paraphernalia in leads & should probably move them to info boxes. Cheers. ch (talk) 17:50, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

UPDATE: I've started a draft article on Liu, which I will transfer to my userspace in a few days for you to critique (or maybe put into mainspace if it develops well enough). Cheers. ch (talk) 19:20, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Rochester Cathedral[edit]

I've tried to clarify the reason for describing the south transept with the Lady Chapel. In particular taking the description of the original altar in the decorated arch in the eastern wall away from the transept and into the modern Lady Chapel is misleading to a visitor or student. If you're not happy with this feel free to revert or recast the sections, you're senior to me and I will accept your judgement. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 23:08, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Recruitment for Wikipedian Interview[edit]

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Deruvian[edit]

I've found a source which talks about the church at Llandyfan:

The present church, built in 1864-5, was designed by R K Penson, the architect of Newton House, Llandeilo the home of the Dynevor family and Llandyfeisant church in the grounds of the Dynevor estate. Penson also designed a battery of lime kilns at Llandybie in an ornate ecclesiastical fashion as well as churches throughout Wales and the Grosvenor Hotel Chester. The building was funded by Lady Dynevor and Mrs Du Buisson of Glynhir.

Newton House, Llandeilo was the main residence of the Dynevor family. -Niceguyedc ^{Go Huskies!} 13:16, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

King Arthur[edit]

Hi. I see you immediately reverted my undo of your edit. Perhaps you'd like to notice that all i did was put back material that you had previously removed, leading to loss of information and a broken paragraph (broken in the middle of a wlink, no less) in a Featured Article. Is that really what you intended? Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 04:34, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Hey, of course not. Sorry.

I saw the image being moved and the formatting being undone and didn't see where my Chinese internet connection had eaten the part of the page below. Thanks for the catch. I'll redo the intended improvement to the caption treatment. — LlywelynII 04:36, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Greek letter redirects[edit]

Hello there. I reverted your weird redirects for the Greek letters Β, Ε, Θ and Κ. Not sure what you were trying to do there. Iago212 11:03, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

I reverted your unhelpful removal of more direct redirects for those letters. If you don't understand something, ask or leave it alone. Certainly don't leave hatnotes in the wrong parts of pages when you go about removing detail from other people's work. — LlywelynII 11:33, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, then explain please, why you think that searching, for example, for the normal capital epsilon should redirect to the section about the lunate epsilon. Iago212 15:36, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

If you offer no explanation I'll go ahead and change the redirects again, and also move the hatnotes this time. Iago212 09:10, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

I am really interested in this, LlywelynII. Please explain.Iago212 13:28, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Trolls[edit]

Re this edit, please do not feed the trolls. Thanks, -Zanhe (talk) 22:06, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Roman provinces of Britain[edit]

Hello! I was notified that you annotated my map of the Roman Empire ca. 400 AD regarding the British provinces. Admittedly Britain was one of the hardest areas to find good sources for, so if you would be kind enough to share your information, I'd correct it rather than simply have it heavily annotated ;). Constantine ✍ 10:23, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

"Archbishops" of London[edit]

Moved to Talk:Bishop of London

Bull of Heaven[edit]

Moved to Talk:Bull of Heaven

Early Lý dynasty[edit]

Wonderful, I like people who use BC/AD. Plz continue to maintain this style. ༆ (talk) 23:30, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Odd to get a note about it, but you're welcome. Do remember not to get into fights over it, but yes I think that BCE/CE dating is an affectation that does nothing to change the semantic content of using the Christian Era. Non-Christian people still understand where it came from and calling it by another name isn't any more inclusive, just patronizing.

Pretty character, btw. — LlywelynII 00:02, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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Nanyue deletion[edit]

Hi Llywelyn II,

On this edit you blanked most of the Nanyue article (I've restored it all, I think). I assume this was just a careless accident. Please be more careful in the future.  White Whirlwind  咨  07:50, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Yep, sorry about that. If you notice it happening on Chinese pages, try to be a little patient (at first, anyway): it seems to be a glitch I keep getting because the internet here pretends to have loaded the whole page but cuts off the bottom of the text. I'll definitely try to avoid it as I go, but I can't imagine I'm the only one experiencing it. — LlywelynII 13:20, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Charles Bertram[edit]

The article Charles Bertram you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Charles Bertram for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. CookieMonster755 (talk) 19:08, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

'k. — LlywelynII 13:57, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Charles Bertram[edit]

Someone should at least thank you for drawing attention to the fraudulent work of Charles Bertram. The degree to which outright fraud, myth, romance and nationalism have become embedded in Scottish history is a fascinating subject which I've been investigating over the last three or four years. Defenders of the status quo have deleted my supportive comment on Wiki's Scottish History talk page. You may however find my own investigation and deconstruction of the supposed history of the Scots Language, posted on my own Wiki page, to be of some small interest. You may also find the personal attacks by M Lunker, evidenced on the talk page, to be astonishingly virulent. Cassandra Cassandrathesceptic (talk) 08:54, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Odd. No one should be deleting your messages from a talk page, particularly not in order to remove opposition to their pet ideas. Might be worth taking to the admins, if you have the time. — LlywelynII 13:57, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Llywelyn, if you are interested in Cassandra's activities I can give you chapter and verse (some of the more recent are discussed in my attempts at engagement on their talk page) and they are almost entirely concerned with sifting through article talk pages to coatrack their pet POVs in general forum-type posts, over several years now and largely from multiple IPs rather than their much more recent and still occasional user account. Their contribution to Talk:History of Scotland is a case in point, having nothing genuinely to do with the thread it has been attached to. As I understand it, there is no dispute in the thread that Bertram's work was fraudulent and there is no assertion that his aim was to advance a Scottish nationalist agenda, Cassandra's evident general sphere of interest, so the post irrelevant there and not pertinently supportive of either side in the debate. If I'm correct the thread instead regards whether Bertram's work be covered in the article. Incidentally I feel insufficiently knowledgeable on the debate to have a view either way, so my intervention indicates support for neither case, solely a WP:NOTFORUM removal. As I have stated to Cassandra, the quote from Mitchison that they added is fair enough in itself but clearly shoe-horned in as part of their sustained agenda, somewhat partially represented and says nothing about the Bertram discussion. Matters are different when my tackling of forum posts regard opposing (arguably nationalist) viewpoints to theirs however, as the support at the tail end of this thread attests. All the best. Mutt Lunker (talk) 02:45, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Well, neither here nor there for me. If you had a good reason for your removal, that's something to bring up but it's also pretty common to become overzealous once an editor takes a dislike to someone. — LlywelynII 06:25, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Cassandra's front or long sustained inability to appreciate what a talk page is for, whichever it is, is bemusing but there's nothing personal I assure you; not on my part at least. Their posts are overwhelmingly of a forum nature but not exclusively so. Any WP:NOTFORUM reverts have been after the post has been checked and if a post does for once address improvements to the content of the article and no agenda is evident, I don't touch it, zealously or otherwise. Such posts are distinctly in the minority and an agenda has sometimes transpired in later posts but there are a few. E.g. I'm not fully across the thread but this recent edit appears legit. Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:28, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Cut-and-paste moves[edit]

They're not OK, please stop doing them. When there is a consensus that Annuity (finance theory) is the primary topic, then an admin will move the dab page (via the move function and not by cutting-and-pasting) to Annuity (disambiguation). When you make cut-and-paste moves like this you are breaking the attribution and effectively violating the copyright of everyone who has contributed to the dab page since Jan 2006. Jenks24 (talk) 12:16, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

I meant this talk page. The current situation already violates the copyright of all the people who contributed to 50k of text before 2006. For now, we can redirect to the primary topic; put the dab where the dab belongs; and the admins can sort the histories out once the move is complete. If you do object to the primary topic of Annuity being the Annuity article, do kindly go explain that at the move request. — LlywelynII 12:28, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ghalib Efendi[edit]

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Hannibal edits[edit]

There's no reason, even in mid-2015, to think that all important historical resources or sources will be found online, as electronic resources. I think you should question the article, but show where you think the article needs further scholarly citation: Empty citation (help). MaynardClark (talk) 05:18, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

On the contrary: I think you're not paying attention to context. There is absolutely every reason to think that if a figure such as Hannibal—one of the most famous figures in world history—were universally described a certain way in the original Punic mentions of his name, that Google Scholar or some online text would mention it somewhere. Utterly none do and that is prima facie evidence of WP:FRINGE/WP:UNDUE if not simple error. (Looking at the archived discussion, it seems to be the later. A lazy editor seems to have generalized from statements about generic Punic practice without bothering to find any examples that it was ever generally applied to Hannibal himself.) All the same, I took it to the talk page and didn't remove the entire section yet, pending someone checking what that offline source actually does say. (Given how fringe it is and how misguided the original editor was, however, it's probably time to just remove the entire section to the talk page pending some editor going to find the offline German volume being cited here.) — LlywelynII 05:34, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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Baalbek[edit]

Please search Baalbek for "convert:" to see four {{convert}} errors. The problem is that "ton" is ambiguous—the cure is to use LT (long ton = 2240 pounds) or ST (short ton = 2000 pounds). It is also possible to use shton (short ton), and some others seen here. The system is very weird as each of these default to "t" for the output which is a metric ton (1000 kg). Using "sp=us" has no effect on these units. Possibly converting to kg would be more helpful; examples:

• {{convert|300|LT|2}} → 300 long tons (304.81 t)
• {{convert|300|ST}} → 300 short tons (270 t)
• {{convert|300|shton}} → 300 tons (270 t)
• {{convert|300|shton|kg}} → 300 tons (270,000 kg)

Johnuniq (talk) 07:44, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

The term is ambiguous and shouldn't've been used. I'm happy to have drawn attention to that fact. Now someone needs to go and find out what the sources were talking about. — LlywelynII 23:20, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

The page I write[edit]

If you like editing grammar, consider contributing to the page I write, Chinese Legalism. I'll be hard pressed to get anyone to go over it. But it is an evolving article. I could also use a new "part of a series on..." template, to put it's figures in, if you know how to make one.

The original page before I took over last year is here. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy)&oldid=610725612 FourLights (talk) 14:20, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Or even just make commentary on the talk page.FourLights (talk) 14:23, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

FYI on BMK[edit]

User talk:NeilN#How to request 1R notice Checkingfax (talk) 04:07, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, but I'll just add my 2 cents in when someone else gets sniped at. I just had one detail to add to that page, sourced it, and made my case. It'd be a 3rr issue for me to keep pushing it, but it certainly didn't need even a single reversion. What's bizarre (/completely in character) is that he has a little shrine set up on his user page about our need to service the readers. It was a point so confusing he even acknowledged he didn't understand what other sources were saying; I clarified it for him; and it got 3rr'd. xD

I'm not canvassing, but if it's a page that's close to your heart, you can try to find some way to get the info onto the page if BI didn't. — LlywelynII 10:03, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

why WP Holland[edit]

Please do not create a template labelled {{WPHOLLAND}} or similar (unless you refer to the specific region within the mainland Netherlands) referring to Netherlands related articles. It is about as offensive as putting a Wikiproject England tag on Wikiproject UK related topics like Cardiff. Arnoutf (talk) 20:49, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Please feel free to emend it to whatever you prefer. At the same time, chill and remember that this is the English wikipedia and we use common names here. "Holland" does in fact refer to the entirety of the Netherlands, like it or lump it, whereas Wales—while technically part of the Kingdom of England—is considered a constituent country of the United Kingdom in its own right.

More to the point, {{WPENGLAND}} exists. If there is no project devoted specifically to "Holland proper", then there should be a redirect linking to the project's actual name. (Just as, in the absence of a {{WPWALES}}, it should link to the extant and next-best {{WPENGLAND}}) The namespace should not be empty. — LlywelynII 02:43, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Your source states the following: " 1. a. The name of a province of the Northern Netherlands, formerly a county or ‘graafschap’ (comitatus) of the German Empire" How exactly does that support what you say? Arnoutf (talk) 16:51, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Keep reading...

Or read your own template. If people intend or are trying to get to WPNETHERLANDS, just send them there. Don't sneer at them on the way. — LlywelynII 16:54, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

So the subordinate clause trumps the main clause in dictionaries. Good to know. And by the way you may have seen that I have changed all usages of Wikiproject Holland type templates into Wikiproject Netherlands templates so readers will not notice. At best these templates are POV forks, at worst they will cause a mess if a Holland province is ever created. So they should not be used in my view. Either they should be deleted, or a message should be given to that effect. But of course bluntly reverting stuff without any discussion trumps the main clause in Oxford. Arnoutf (talk) 16:59, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm sure you know how dictionaries work. The definitions are all simultaneously true; further, that ain't a subordinate clause; semicolons create completely parallel constructions. Disingenuousness isn't really a way to win any arguments. Meanwhile, pending the creation of a WPHOLLAND, those namespaces should point where people want to go, so kindly stop the edit warring on the topic. Yes, if you want to emend the uses of those redirects, you're more than welcome to type the extra letters. It all displays the same to our readers. — LlywelynII 17:08, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

To avoid the extra letters I long ago created the {{WPNL}} template - which also correctly redirects; and is even shorter. My problem is that the WPHolland (variant); due to its ambiguous dictionary defionition (simultaneous true as you say) creates a potential pov fork, and that should be avoided, even if some editors (talk page is not article space) may sometimes see an irrelevant message. I think our analysis of the situation (broad use of the term Holland) is not that different, but that our views on which of two imperfect solutions should be chosen differs here. Can we at least agree on that. Arnoutf (talk) 17:16, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Vine staff[edit]

I note that the citation "Roman Antiquities of the Middle Rhine", The Archaeological Journal (London: British Archaeological Association) 47, 1890 appears in the sources, but it isn't accompanied by an in line citation. Also, there are many articles in that journal, and surely we could put in the author, title and page. Just a minor suggestion. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:38, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Never mind. Fixed 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:44, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Peter of Spain[edit]

There is a discussion over at the talk page about the move you performed and subsequent DAB page. From a quick overview it seems that the author, while not very popular is the only on-wiki article that uses that as a COMMONNAME. The pope clearly is not since the Peter of Spain (pope) redirects to his common name, and Petrus Ferrandi Hispanus is clearly his CN, while Peter of Spain may also be an alias. As such, my recommendation on this is to restore the author as the PRIMARY TOPIC and then use WP:TWODABS to direct people to their the pope or Ferrandi... Your thoughts?Tiggerjay (talk) 15:05, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Didn't I already correct this misunderstanding of what WP:COMMONNAME means and how it has nothing to do with WP:PRIMARYTOPIC? — LlywelynII 12:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Bei Bei[edit]

I appreciate your improvements to the nomination Template:Did you know nominations/Bei Bei. I see that you also pinged L.tak to come and sign off on it. That is the third time they have been asked to do that - twice on their talk page. They are not away from Wikipedia - they are actively editing - but they just haven't responded to requests to complete the review. If they don't respond this time either, would you be willing to take on the "reviewer" role and sign off on the article? I think you have already done a more thorough review than they did in any case. Thanks! --MelanieN (talk) 15:34, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Come and get me in a day or two if they still haven't shown up. — LlywelynII 15:59, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

They responded to your ping but bowed out of the discussion. Mind doing the honors - at your convenience? --MelanieN (talk) 00:32, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

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Missing word in Celtic Christianity[edit]

Is there a missing word in "while the Welsh did not adopt the Roman and Saxon computus induced to do around 768 by Elfodd, "archbishop" of Bangor"? (From your edit.) Eric Kvaalen (talk) 06:54, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Yes, but looks like someone (you?) already fixed it properly. Good on y'. — LlywelynII 02:27, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Well, no. It still says exactly that. There's still a word missing. Eric Kvaalen (talk) 09:02, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Ah. The phrase appears twice: once in the Computus section and once in the Welsh section. Both should be fine now. — LlywelynII 14:24, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Template[edit]

You might actually like {{sc2}} better than {{SC}}, since it's closer to the conventional book style of small-capping acronyms. This template has been under-utilized (wasn't being linked-to from the others).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  03:24, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

I wouldn't, but thanks for the heads up. — LlywelynII 05:16, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Talk:It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)[edit]

If you are interested in a general matter, I invite you to the ongoing RM discussion. --George Ho (talk) 22:56, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

History of Carthage merge[edit]

There is a discussion regarding merging History of Punic-era Tunisia: chronology and History of Punic-era Tunisia: culture into History of Carthage being held at Talk:History of Carthage#Merge. You are being approached as you are a recent or significant editor of one or other of the articles, or because you have expressed interest in the merge previously. SilkTork ✔Tea time 18:55, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Disambiguation page[edit]

Hello, LlywelynII. When you changed Argala into a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:

When creating disambiguation pages, fix all resulting mis-directed links.

Before moving an article to a qualified name (in order to create a disambiguation page at the base name, to move an existing disambiguation page to that name, or to redirect that name to a disambiguation page), click on What links here to find all of the incoming links. Repair all of those incoming links to use the new article name.

It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Argala" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:06, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I generally do, but sorry if I forgot this time. — LlywelynII 04:04, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sutiono[edit]

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I don't see any tags on the redirect and Sutiono is an Indonesian form of the surname Zhang. What was the problem? — LlywelynII 03:59, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Talk:As Long as You Love Me[edit]

I invite you to discuss the ongoing RM discussion. --George Ho (talk) 04:00, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Template:Cite EB9[edit]

Back in September 2014 you made this edit, along with similar edits to a number of other pages. FYI there is a more appropriate template which fills in more fields and places the page into an appropriate maintenance template. It is called {{Cite EB9}} -- PBS (talk) 19:16, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Attribution[edit]

Why did you make this edit back in August 2014 which removed the EB1911 attribution from an article? -- PBS (talk) 21:47, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

A) That entire "attribution" template is a lousy kludge that encourages shitty editing and worse articles. The actual cited sections should be referenced directly. You should also remove it when you see it, as articles accumulate more and more edits and grow farther and farther from their origin as cuts-and-pastes of the EB articles. (The original rationale for that template: it is a minor improvement over a footnote to every single line, though footnoting each paragraph is probably a better idea.)

B) In that article, the cited section is already being directly cited and the "attribution" is utterly superfluous. You're welcome to expand the "Chisholm 1911" formatting of the cite if you like, though, or to emend it so that it refers to a proper bibliography entry like the example at Bagatelle. — LlywelynII 08:22, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

To answer your two points:

• A I use Earwig's Copyvio Detector to help me sort out what needs an EB1911 inline citaton. I use short citations in the form of {{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=number}} (unless of course there is a named author for the EB1911 article in which case I use that author's surname.
• B Even if the article is directly cited, attribution must be included if the text is copied from a PD source such as EB1911. This is to stop accusations of plagiarism, and is required by the WP:PLAGIARISM guideline. Whether the attribution is added inline or in the references section is as I said a matter of choice and practicality (with large articles with many pages are probably better dealt with using short citations) and also meeting the limitations imposed by WP:CITEVAR.

Further:

I had already put the attribution back (see this edit at 21:42, 22 April 2016 ), to support the short citation that already existed in the article, and was no longer supported when you removed the attribution back in August 2014. Why have you now repeated the edit you made back in 2014 and left the short citations unsupported? Please revert your most recent edit to that page.

Attribution is required to meet the requirements of the section WP:FREECOPYING in theplagiarism guideline. Whether you include short inline citations to a long citation in a references section, as for example is done in Jan Gruter; or using the "inline=1" parameter option that exists in the {{EB1911}} and many other similar templates is a matter of choice (see for example Aleksander Wielopolski). But removing an attribution from a References section is not the way to go, unless:

1. as with Aleksander Wielopolski the attribution is moved inline
2. or text in the Wikipedia article is supported with other citations and the it no longer contains any copied text.

The reason why about 6,000 articles (see EB1911 category no parameter) contain a general attribution without inline citations, is because most of them were imported into Wikipdia in the early days before the push from 2006 onwards to start to include inline citations. Some editors, such as DavidBrooks spend a lot of time working through this backlog adding inline citations, to bring them up to the standard used today. -- PBS (talk) 09:11, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

And in the normal course of events I'd get to this one when I'm about 177 years old. To explain, there has been evolution. Back in the early 2000s when thousands of EB1911 articles were siphoned into WP, the old {{1911}} template was used merely as an acknowledgment. Then in the late 2000's when plagiarism was a concern, a general {{EB1911}} reference was intended as an explicit defense. If the article was still substantially unaltered, there was a fashion to add Attribution (btw, was your objection to the attribution itself, or just to the Attribution sub-head?). Now we have moved to verifiability, and many of the articles have been or may later be incrementally changed, we have to insert footnotes inline, which requires laborious verification and is still underway. Earwig's thing works great for highlighting the verbatim text when comparing against WS; it even works well enough with the unverified OCR text in Page space.

For the inline citations, PBS prefers {{sfn}}, but I prefer <ref>{{EB1911|inline=1... because I find it easier to navigate. In particular, in a stub like the article under discussion, which only takes up one screen, clicking on the "Chisholm 1911" just reloads the article, which makes me think it is referencing itself (the intention is to bring the citation itself into view). David Brooks (talk) 15:59, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Adding the bold Attribution: was a Wikipedia editor compromise between those who think that adding text from reliable sources such as EB1911 is acceptable and those who think it is plagiarism/laziness and that all text in Wikipedia articles ought to be hand crafted as summaries of reliable sources. You can measure the correspondence on this subject by the metre starting in June 2008 with Wikipedia talk:Plagiarism/Archive 1#Incorporating other free content into Wikipedia is not plagiarism. The placing of the attribution notices in a highly visible way meant that it could not be the case that Wikipedia editors were passing off other peoples writing as their own (hence it could not be plagiarism). -- PBS (talk) 16:33, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Llewelyn, this edit removed the referent from the Chisholm 1911 sfn, so that footnote is now meaningless (refers to nothing). PBS's style was the version you changed; my style would be to add <ref>{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Ávila, Gil Gonzalez de |volume=3 |page=64}}</ref> at the end of the (only) paragraph instead of the sfn. It should be reverted to one of the two styles, but I have to log off in a few moments and I'll leave it at that for now. David Brooks (talk) 01:02, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

The short citation was added by Slowking4 in January 2012 I have restored the long citation to support it. -- PBS (talk) 06:30, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#The word "as"[edit]

I invite you to central discussion. --George Ho (talk) 05:17, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary[edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:54, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

And, again, thank you very much. =) It's appreciated. — LlywelynII 08:22, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks[edit]

Thank you for your recent improvements to Li Yuru! Howkafkaesque (talk) 22:43, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

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Small room listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Song of Songs[edit]

You messed up a ref and I'm not sure what you were trying for. It's the first ref in the references section and it's obvious which one. Bgwhite (talk) 07:16, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Second Lincoln Administration listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Wikipedia the time-sink![edit]

@Boleyn: Because I've got Boleyn's talkpage on my watchlist I was curious about the post she immediately deleted, so rummaged around and found Eliza Stewart (ship). I've added to it a bit ... and complicated matters by finding that there were two ships of the name, I leave it to you to sort that lot out. But I've now created a solid little stub for William Clark (artist), the Scottish marine painter who painted the (other?) ES ship. And thus have probably now not got time to go out and shop for a new pair of tights to wear to today's funeral of neighbour as planned, so will be wearing winter-weight hosiery during a heatwave ... but that's how Wikipedia editing goes! PamD 09:50, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

God bless. ; ) Just remember to get out apart from funerals, even if editing by phone is a huge pain. — LlywelynII 12:39, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Edwin Stevens (missionary)[edit]

Congrats, finally! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:20, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Made it to the stats! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:22, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Benjamin Hobson[edit]

Hello! Your submission of Benjamin Hobson at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:04, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Crime in Zambia[edit]

The page doesn't contain any informations. I know many substubs, but they generally contain several words.Xx236 (talk) 07:33, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Crime in Zambia[edit]

Hello LlywelynII,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Crime in Zambia for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Kostas20142 (talk) 10:33, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Japanese China listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Classis Germanica listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Suggestion[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, What do you think about this suggestion? Keahapana (talk) 19:48, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

JE 1902[edit]

Can you write for me please the whole booktitle with the name of the author? Thanks Informationskampagne (talk) 00:58, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

No idea what you're talking about, but it looks like a reference to the Jewish Encyclopedia, which would have been written around that time. You can check on Google: there are some online editions. — LlywelynII 01:01, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

You have written this on the article Chalkis. A standard reader would never know what this is. Also, if it is really from the year 1902 the informations could be obsolete. Thanks. Informationskampagne (talk) 11:38, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

What was the information? If it's not about "current population", there's no reason it would necessarily be inaccurate. — LlywelynII 13:14, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Oh. Ok. You're just blind. There's a clear entry on the Jewish Encyclopedia in the bibliography just below the part you were looking at. I patched the hyperlink, though, so it'll be more obvious for future readers. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, since I'm sure that if you were confused there were others as well. — LlywelynII 13:16, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Weight plate DYK review[edit]

Yoninah is apparently requiring your final signoff at Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Weight_plate before the nomination will proceed.

While I'm at it, thanks for the review and the kind words about the article.--Father Goose (talk) 17:01, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]

Hemp in Kentucky DYK review[edit]

Hi, hoping I could trouble you again for re-review of Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Hemp in Kentucky. Your feedback was valuable amd I think I have addressed the points of clarification that you raised. - Brianhe (talk) 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Yep. Sometime today. — LlywelynII 00:48, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Perilla[edit]

DYK nomination of Grand Matsu Temple[edit]

Hello! Your submission of Grand Matsu Temple at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Gulumeemee (talk) 07:40, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

I'm sorry for repeating myself and making the discussion heated. I should have waited for other editors to come by, as you said. I will not make any more comments, and I will let someone else review the nomination. Gulumeemee (talk) 04:03, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

No worries. You weren't very heated and I do understand where you're coming from but WP:IAR is precisely part of Wikipedia's bedrock in order to avoid situations like this where decent info might get tossed out on procedural grounds. We're not the police and it's better to be transparent and informative than to be overly cautious. Misinformation should be removed but potential mistakes can be noted with {{fact}} or {{dubious}} and left for people to fix down the line. With biographies of living people you are absolutely right that we can't even be a little lax, since giving people leeway there might impact lives and start lawsuits. With obscure foreign temples, it's better to be informative even if it's not a scholarly source. There's no journal that mentions the fun moving parts on the ship models at the sea museum in the Ningbo Mazu Temple but there's a mom whose son enjoyed them a lot, as noted on her blog. Is a blog a bulletproof source? Of course not. Is she lying about the things she photographed and documented on her blog? Of course not. Should it be included? Absolutely in this case, though blogs are worthless in other situations.

It's fine if you still disagree with that, but yeah I'll wait for a second opinion before I blank anything. — LlywelynII 04:10, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Tianfei Palace (Songjiang)[edit]

You added a message to the archived template for this nomination accusing me of mucking up the hook. I do not like your nasty comments because in fact I promoted the exact hook as originally nominated by you and you have, with this edit removed that hook. Please explain. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:38, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

In fact, not liking the hook that appeared on the main page, you are falsifying the evidence and blaming me for your error. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:43, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

On further inspection, I see that I moved the hook to Prep3, but made no changes to it, and it was later moved to Prep4 by another editor. So not only have you falsified the evidence but you have also accused the wrong person. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:05, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

I have no idea what you're on about but the hook was fine when I left it and I have no clue what you consider "falsified". I did thank you for your work (sincerely: I know you aren't paid to deal with messes like this) and, if some other editor whose trail I didn't pick up was responsible for the changes, (a) of course sorry for any unpleasant feelings and (b) you need to watch their work or replace them. It's one thing to edit a little or even to add the unhelpful link. It's quite another to turn a perfectly accurate hook into a false one and to mangle its grammar. They don't really know what they're doing. — LlywelynII 06:15, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

The hook was not fine when you left it. You edited the template after it was archived and removed the original hook while condemning my actions. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:01, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

It wasn't a question. I even linked it: the hook was fine when I left it and before it was promoted. You claim you didn't muck it up and I have absolutely no reason to doubt you. You're generally a fine guy, even if you're pissed at me now.

Whoever did mangle the hook (which has absolutely nothing to do with my cutting it to paste it into the emergency fix-the-front-page template) is still someone to keep an eye on. They think they are improving hooks by misspelling things and wrecking their grammar and presumably will continue to do so in the future until major mistakes like this are pointed out to them.

You can keep being angry at me for my straightforward mistake that I already apologized for but improving the project moving forward involves fixing that other editor, not bitching at me some more (...though you're welcome to if it cheers you up. Like I said, honest mistake, but you're obviously still in a bad mood over it.). — LlywelynII 08:05, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Well actually you have said it yourself, you "cut" the hook to paste it into your front page comment whereas you should have copied it. I thought you has removed it on purpose to make my actions seem more heinous. Let's forget it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:53, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

I'd rather not forget it to the point you have someone incompetent involved with placing material on the front page. I never claimed anyone blanked the hook (though I apparently did by accident); they adjusted it in such a way as to make it grammatically and factually incorrect for no reason apart from their own poor understanding of the material and the English language.

My blanking apparently made this unclear but the promoted hook was
... that, since it honors a notionally illegal cult, suburban Shanghai's Tianfei Palace is officially classified as a museum?
which someone turned into
... that since it honors a nationally illegal cult, suburban Shanghai's Tianfei Palace is officially classified as a museum?
siphoning off about 4,000 views through a link that shouldn't be there and turning it into an untrue statement. Mazuism is notionally illegal but the Commies provide workarounds. "Nationally illegal" is not even an English expression: this hook is literally the third result for it on vanilla Google. We should find them and address the problem before moving on.

Again, though, sorry to have caused you needless agita by not knowing multiple admins are involved with adjusting the hooks, which caused me to make the complaint personal and to the wrong guy. I tried to follow the trail myself but couldn't make heads or tails of where to find the hook's edit history at T:DYK/Q. — LlywelynII 21:38, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Ok, it was Yoninah. Odd since they claim to be a professional editor and usually have pretty decent English chops. Must've been having a bad day. Still annoyed this needless edit siphoned off 4000 views. Yon, you're normally a force for good, but this was a big miss. Do be more careful. — LlywelynII 21:53, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

The matter has been discussed at the DYK discussion page. Neither Yoninah nor I are admins, we're just editors trying to help out to keep the DYK project running. Since most reviews of nominations are done as QPQs, they are not necessarily done to the highest standard, and often the hook is not ideally worded even when the hook facts have been well checked. So hooks frequently need to be adjusted when in prep, and your hook lost out on this occasion. You also need to make allowances for the fact that American and British usage is sometimes different. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:58, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Late to this: I missed the changes, sorry. I appreciate your work around DYK, Cwmhiraeth and Yoninah, but can you perhaps reduce your load by not making changes that are unhelpful? In this case: not changing a spelling to nonsense, and not linking where a link was intentionally avoided? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:30, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Yup, those were my thoughts so thanks for the note but I was obviously over-reacting in the moment. Cwm was completely innocent and I'm sure it was an honest mistake on Yon's part. They're both very active and very helpful and mistakes like this are uncommon, as far as I've seen. At the same time, yeah, he needs to bone up on his commas and, I'd say, moving forward never add in new links since they just hobble the hooks... but there's probably a better place to have that discussion than the bottom of this talk page. =) — LlywelynII 13:22, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

The German Wikipedia has an easy solution for the latter: only one link, the one to the article in question. No noms of multiple articles, no distraction by other topics. It works once you get used to it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:34, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Template:Did you know nominations/East Zhejiang Maritime Affairs/Folk Custom Museum[edit]

You are invited to join the discussion at Template:Did you know nominations/East Zhejiang Maritime Affairs/Folk Custom Museum. A user has posted a comment there about ALT6. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:08, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

I've also posted a comment there, if you want to add your own input. ^Falling_Gravity 04:58, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

DYK[edit]

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Santo Domingo de Copán listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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DYK nomination of Yu Zigao[edit]

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Template:Did you know nominations/Lal Sena[edit]

LlywelynII, there hasn't been a peep from the nominator on this review; they last edited the article over a month ago on December 16, and haven't edited Wikipedia since December 26. Perhaps it's time to close the nomination? Please let me know what your plans are. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:50, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Shuixian Zunwang[edit]

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Attribution[edit]

When you make edits like this one, please do not remove the Attribution line as it is required by the WP:PLAGIARISM guideline. In this case the earwig tool suggested that 92.5% confidence" that most of the text in the article was a copied from EB1911. -- PBS (talk) 21:40, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Inclusion in the references section is attribution. Creating a subsection of the references section for superreferences is needless and counterproductive. — LlywelynII 04:21, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

It is not a subsection it is to make it very clear that the text is copied from another source, the line is in bold not a section header.

Your opinion is not the opinion of many editors who contributed to the talk page of Wikipedia talk:Plagiarism or the guidance given in Wikipedia:Plagiarism. Many editors do not agree with copying text from a PD source, the compromise reached over this issue was to highlight such text with explicit attribution. If you do not think it necessary then please raise the issue on Wikipedia talk:Plagiarism-- PBS (talk) 20:49, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

It's peachy you have your own understanding of what they've said but even if a LOCALCONSENSUS has formed it doesn't actually trump the actual core policies. Now, that said, it'd probably help if you reread your own cite which explicitly says that other appropriate forms of attribution (such as inclusion in the page's bibliography) are fine and your malformatted templates (I can't count the number of pages I've seen where well-meaning editors have attributed articles personally to Hugh Chisholm because of EB’s shitty default template) are not required. — LlywelynII 12:37, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

And (of course) the page in question is an example of that mistake. I'll go ahead and fix that as well. — LlywelynII 12:39, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

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DYK[edit]

Hello! Your submission of Al Zab at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:01, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Just dropping a personal note here so you know about this. You need to review someone else's DYK nomination and then report which nomination you reviewed. I would encourage you to do this as soon as you can, so this hook can be passed. Regards, epicgenius (talk) 00:59, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you and will do. I've just been busy with the Chinese New Year. — LlywelynII 01:34, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 19:01, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 16:45, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK[edit]

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DYK nomination of Grand Matsu Temple[edit]

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LlywelynII, it's been 19 days and you still haven't addressed the issue you said you would. Can you please give this your attention very soon? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:06, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

no article about William Matthew O'Neil on Wikipedia[edit]

W.M. O'Neil, the author of "Time and the Calendars" Böri (talk) 07:56, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

What? — LlywelynII 12:29, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

I mean, if you care about the calendars, where is the article about William Matthew O'Neil on Wikipedia? Böri (talk) 07:01, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Here, apparently. — LlywelynII 10:20, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. (but it's not an article on Wikipedia... When you have time, please write it as an article.) Böri (talk) 06:23, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

No thanks. — LlywelynII 14:27, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Tell it to your friends then Böri (talk) 10:19, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

RFC closure...[edit]

May you take a look at Talk:Sirius#Merge.Cheers!Winged Blades ^Godric 14:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK review of Nundinae[edit]

I enjoyed reading the Nundinae article – I think the points I raised are very minor and you'll be able to easily sort them out. I'll keep a close eye on the nomination to try and respond quickly. I use HarvErrors all the time to help me when I create articles (I also use shortened footnotes on new articles) but I find HarvErrors intrusive when I'm I'm just reading other people's articles for pleasure. Best wishes. Thincat (talk) 09:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

I've given it good to go. More best wishes! Thincat (talk) 14:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Any suggestions on who could help with Heliopolitan Triad[edit]

The wikiproject on mythology seems dead. The triad article is both wrong (no Greek god Adon, Adon isn't another name for Adonis) I believe and obsolete.[4] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs) 15:44, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

tip: reverting page moves[edit]

Hello LlywelynII I saw your note about the move on Zuo Zhuan and thought I'd mention that you can revert a move like that using the move log You should see a revert button. Enjoy Mduvekot (talk) 00:11, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

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Template:Did you know nominations/Rise of Macedon[edit]

LlywelynII, the nomination has a newly proposed hook that's under 200 characters, and is ready for your review. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:38, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Zhangzhou[edit]

Please take a look at Zhangzhou because after a series of edit that you made that extended the article in November last year several long citations carry the same parameters in ref={harvid}. This means it is not clear to which long citations some of the short citations refer. -- PBS (talk) 13:34, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Ritenbenk[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, it's been a few years, but where did you find the information that Ritenbenk was on Appat Island in Uummannaq Fjord? On this map you see that Ritenbenk (Agpat) was almost 80 miles further south, on a tiny island (possibly in modern spelling also called Appat Island, immediately west off much larger Alluttoq Island). The coordinates in the article also would place it there. Possibly, the error arose from two islands both called Appat. In this case, the article Appat Island also needs to be corrected. BTW, Ritenbenk used to be a municipality until 1950, and then became part of Jakobshavn. I have started to work on the original sixty-so municipalities of Greenland that existed before 18 Nov 1950, when 16 new municipalities were created in West Greeland (if interested read here. Greetings from the de-WP,--Ratzer (talk) 06:51, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Precious two years![edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:00, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Star of Time[edit]

John Vanbrugh[edit]

Apologies. I certainly did not mean to be rude or combative. As you will have seen, I did replace the link with a more appropriate one to the Office of Works immediately afterwards. Paul W (talk) 17:09, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Review DYK red-billed quelea[edit]

Thank you very much for reviewing the quelea article. I did not know about the copyvio detector, very useful. Some of the indicated word groups will be easy to paraphrase. In some others however, the result would be convoluted, or are the result of links to existing wiki pages. One phrase indicated as copyvio is "The red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) ...", which is in fact the way almost any species article begins, and I think it would be strange to have to change it, or "the cardinal quelea Q. cardinalis", where it would be odd to not give the common name followed by the scientific name at the first mentioning of a species. Another example where I would suggest giving dispensation would be for other names that consist of several words, such as "southern Democratic Republic of Congo" and "the Lake Chad basin". I've made many changes and hope these suffice. Regards, Dwergenpaartje (talk) 15:03, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

You're welcome and absolutely right: the lead should start the same way and I'm not about to bother you over that. Ditto obvious expressions like those you gave: although it really is easy enough to come up with "the southern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo", "the Democratic Republic of Congo's southern reaches", "the Lake Chad watershed", "the drainage basin of Lake Chad", &c., all of those are wordier and may not fit the sentence. It was the other stuff that could be easily rephrased that should be, particularly full sentences where the verb is easy enough to change.

Again, thanks for creating such an interesting article on such a major part of our world most people don't know about. — LlywelynII 22:42, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Lazy Afternoon (Barbra Streisand album)[edit]

Put in an alternate hook. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:27, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Gonçalo Teixeira Correa[edit]

Thanks for writing Gonçalo Teixeira Correa! Definitely one of the most fascinating figures of the late Ming period, and I had been hoping someone would tackle the subject. --diff (talk) 23:35, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

You're quite welcome and the story overall is interesting, but it was very hard to find information on the man himself. If you have anything in any language, go ahead and add it to the article's talk page and I'll see if I can add it some time. — LlywelynII 07:59, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Ditto that. Great job again LlywelynII! -Zanhe (talk) 03:09, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Sun Yuanhua[edit]

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Last call to respond to the nomination. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:39, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Jeong Duwon[edit]

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DYK nomination of Riwŏn[edit]

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The Hum[edit]

Hi LlywelynII. Sorry about the revert - I thought it was an infrasound add. However, having looked at the Schumann resonances page, I can see that's not necessarily the case, and they may be audible. I don't suppose you have an article that specifically mentions the Schumann resonances and the Hum? Cheers, Bromley86 (talk) 23:55, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

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I don't see the problem as long as it still displays but thank you for providing a clear solution to the "problem". I'll adjust the code and stop using it going forward. — LlywelynII 04:30, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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The xing surname[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, thanks for your new articles in ancient Chinese history! One thing I noticed is that you kept appending the xing surname such as Ji and Ying to the names of noble men. Please note that in the Zhou dynasty the xing surname was only used by women: Li Ji, Huai Ying, Mu Ji, Wen Jiang, etc. Men only used the shi surname, such as Hu Yan, Zhao Cui, etc. And rulers usually did not use surnames at all (officially the name of their state is their shi surname), similar to modern European royalty. So Chong'er, Prince Chong'er, or (rarely) Jin Chong'er is correct. But Ji Chong'er would be akin to calling Queen Elizabeth "Elizabeth Windsor". Cheers, -Zanhe (talk) 18:16, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Also, please don't add your own gloss to personal names without an RS. That's not even done for modern names (we don't interpret Deng Xiaoping as "little flat" or Xi Jinping as "near flat"), and it's even more treacherous for ancient names, when the same words could have vastly different meanings from their modern usage. You wouldn't gloss Hu Mao 狐毛 as "fox fur", would you? -Zanhe (talk) 20:32, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

That's very interesting but (as with your earlier misunderstanding of raw Google results) you seem misinformed or in need of some editing elsewhere. Our sourced article on Chinese surnames—linked at your own edit—disagrees with what you wrote above, stating that the men carried the surnames as well; every article linked to a royal figure includes their xing; and I am not remotely the only one to call the guy 'Ji Chong'er'. (We just discussed the problems with Google searches, but fwiw it's more common than 'Prince Chong'er'.) You may very well be right about the usage ('Prince Chong'er' is more common at Google Scholar) and I think you mean well (I appreciate your articles on Chinese figures as well) but you need to tidy that surname article up, with better sourcing about how you think the usage worked, rather than just re-editing my pages without sourcing to reflect what you think is appropriate, lest we start having WP:HOUND issues.

Courtesy and posthumous names are always meaningful and that meaning should be noted on the page, rather than continuing the misunderstanding that they were proper names. (You're right I should find sourcing. I hadn't added it yet, but it's in Nienhauser Jr's translation of Sima Qian.) There is certainly an argument that, e.g., "Duke Mu" is the much more common English name for the guy but it's so substantively wrong that I do think we should push back and highlight the posthumous and descriptive nature of that title (not name) more strongly. That's a discussion for WP:MOS-ZH, though, and not my talk page.

"Ji Chong'er" is wrong. It does get lots of google page results (so does "Elizabeth Windsor"), but very few google books results. Please read some scholarly works like Endymion Wilkinson's Chinese History: A New Manual: "Although they had clan names (xing), they were not normally referred to by these ... Note that Zhou Gong's clan name (xing) was never incorporated in his name (so never Zhou Ji Dan gong or Zhou gong Ji Dan). It was only centuries later, when clan names (xing) and lineage names (shi) had long since become combined ... that people very occasionally anachronistically referred to him as Ji Dan. Unlike elite men, elite women were normally referred to by their clan name (xing)." (pp. 114-5, unfortunately not on Google books). -Zanhe (talk) 01:26, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

No, "Duke Mu" is wrong, if conventional. "Ji Chong'er" isn't wrong; it's just anachronistic in the same way referencing the Emperor Kaitian Xingdao Zhaoji Liji Dasheng Zhishen Renwen Yiwu Junde Chenggong Gāo of the Ming as the "Hongwu Emperor" or "Zhu Yuanzheng" isn't wrong but is anachronistic. The error Wilkinson has an issue with (Zhou Ji Dan Gong) isn't something that I'm doing. And, again, my talk page isn't the place to put your references and corrections and usage guidelines. Chinese surname is. — LlywelynII 01:41, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

"Hongwu Emperor" or "Zhu Yuanzheng" is not anachronistic. One is the emperor's reign name, the other his personal name. How is Duke Mu wrong? Posthumous names are descriptive, but in Chinese adjectives and nouns are often used interchangeably. On the other hand, names like "Ji Dan" or "Ji Chong'er" are anachronistic and wrong. They're never seen in the copious ancient works or bronze inscriptions and they are avoided by most scholars, especially when the correct version is readily available and more concise (e.g. Chong'er). This has nothing to do with my personal preference, but it's about academic integrity. Wilkinson is only one of the many scholars who insist on this; there are many others such as Yang Kuan in his History of the Western Zhou, Zheng Qiao in his Tongzhi (which is cited by Wilkinson in his book), etc. -Zanhe (talk) 02:02, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Again, you seem to be confusing "wrong" and "anachronistic", misreading what Wilkinson actually said, and gleefully importing modern naming conventions anachronistically into Ming names while disparaging doing so for the Zhou despite knowing that some academic sources already indulge in it... but all of that is neither here nor there. Take your sources and go correct the Chinese surname and any affiliated pages, so we can improve the quality of the project. My talk page isn't the place for further discussion on the point. — LlywelynII 03:49, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

While you're here, though, what you should absolutely not do is change content that is already sourced and leave the source as though it agrees with what your change turned it into. The guy with a job as a sinologist at the University of Tübingen might very well be wrong (or, same as, out of date with current theories) but he still has more credibility than random internet helpers like us, which is why we have WP:RS in the first place. — LlywelynII 00:15, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Ulrich Theobald is pretty good in general, but his website is not a peer-reviewed publication and does make mistakes (I've seen quite a few over the years), such as misreading Juancheng 鄄城 as Zhencheng. 鄄 Juan and 甄 Zhen are similar characters that are easily confused. -Zanhe (talk) 01:26, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

That's great. You still can't just change the text without changing the reference, pretending that it supports your reading. At bare minimum, you'd need to change the text and add a {{fact}} tag, at which point your edit would probably get reverted. WP:RS is a thing. (And again I don't think you mean ill or are even wrong about your reading. It's just this particular way you just did this particular thing that you should be better about.) — LlywelynII 01:41, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Being an RS does not mean it's infallible. And in this case, the source in question is self-published, even if by a generally knowledgeable person. Demonstrably wrong info needs to be corrected (or at least omitted). -Zanhe (talk) 03:16, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

You're still missing the point. It's not that I'm convinced he's right or that you shouldn't correct mistakes. You absolutely should. You cannot, however, leave the previous source as the article's source for your correction. Given that it is sourced (however fallibly), you should further ideally provide a source for your correction, if you want other editors to accept it as correct. — LlywelynII 03:49, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Hey, I just saw this and this. After all these years of editing Wikipedia, I was kind of expecting you to be a bit more mature and receptive to well-meaning criticisms. I've reviewed about 300 DYK nominations, and you're the first person to suggest that I need to improve my reviewing ability. But that's fine, your request is granted and I'll stay away from your nominations. -Zanhe (talk) 00:20, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Oh, and I didn't get a chance to reply to your note here before the nomination was promoted and closed. That's a very interesting read! I actually toured much of Shanxi last year, but passed by Jiexiu without visiting Mount Mian. Wish I had read the article before! BTW, if you're planning to write about other sites in Shanxi, let me know as I may have photos that I can upload. Anyways, I'll leave for my Christmas break soon, so Happy Holidays! -Zanhe (talk) 00:30, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Tao Tea Ching[edit]

Heh. Thank you. Nice to get some kind words before the inevitable agita that comes with editing a page on a major topic. — LlywelynII 21:54, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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List of township-level divisions of Hubei[edit]

I see you are a long-time editor on here. I'm doing some groundwork on the subdistricts and townships of Wuhan and Hubei. I would appreciate any input you have on what I have done so far: List of township-level divisions of Hubei. Thanks! Geographyinitiative (talk) 05:12, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Well, first and most importantly, thank you (or y'all) for taking the time and effort to cleanup and expand Wikipedia's coverage of China. We have stellar stuff on Shanghai and 1989 but interest usually tapers off pretty quickly: Simple Wikipedia has a better National Day article than we do over here and, like you noticed, coverage of districts and smaller towns is almost nonexistent. I'm kinda busy on my own slowly working down the list of AAAAA tourist attractions to see where I should go next (Mt Mian, e.g., has almost no English language coverage but seems like it'll be gorgeous come summer), but if you just wanted general advice?

Well, 1st, it's always better to have a placeholder page than nothing.

2nd, it's better to use {{chinese}} infoboxes instead of the {{zh}} template since it has better formatting, more room, and keeps the lead sentence clean. You can use Pin1yin1 to get the tonal pinyin and traditional/simplified forms and this page to add the Wade-Giles forms that you see in older English scholarship.

3rd, use the {{linktext}} template to connect the Chinese characters to more info at Wiktionary. If you don't mind learning their formatting, you can make entries for the city names themselves (like {{linktext|上海}}: 上海). It's ok if you don't want to bother. In that case, just use pipes to link each character separately (like {{linktext|上|海}}: 上海). Curious people can still learn more about what each character looks like, sounded like in Old Chinese, etc.

4th, if you use the infobox, don't also include the Chinese text in the lead sentence (WP:MOS-ZH).

5th, the Chinese system doesn't really fit English, especially the different levels of "city". I think it's more natural to say X District is part of Y, but X County is in Y Prefecture when Y is a "prefecture-level city"; or A is in B County when B is a "county-level city". That's just my own personal opinion, though, and not something that's official policy anywhere.

6th, it's nice but not necessary to create redirects (#REDIRECT [[X]]) from alternative names.

7th, it looks like you're responsible for the citations on the Hubei townships page. I get what you're trying to do and it might even be appropriate on the townships' individual pages, but it really is an eyesore on the list page. You don't really need the quotes and translations that just repeat the Chinese and pinyin you just listed. As soon as the pages exist, you don't really need the references at all, though yeah it's better to have them while most of the content still consists of red links.

But again, the most important thing is thanks for your help. 加油! — LlywelynII 06:58, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your support and your criticism! Having this kind of feedback will make my edits stronger, so I really thank you for it.

Concerning points two and four, I love having the Chinese & pinyin in the lead, but I also love the Chinese sidebox. Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Hu Jintao all have a little Chinese in the lead but then also at the same time have a Chinese box. I recognize that doing it this way may be seen as a duplication of existing material. I see the style manual says you should only do one or the other. I for my part am just going to avoid changing the status quo on any page I edit concerning adding or deleting Chinese in the lead and/or the Chinese box. It's not really the area I am interested in editing anyway.

Concerning point 3, I will link the individual characters if there is no wikitionary article. I will take it under consideration; right now I am not that interested in adding new wikitionary articles, just shoring up the existing articles. I am interested in character construction/liushu/zaozifa and have made edits there on that front.

Concerning point 5, I will try to go by your standard on 'part of' and 'is in'. I really don't know how it should be written. If you would be willing to do a specific edit or two of this type and link me to it, it would be helpful for me to get the jist of how I should write. I ask this because I want to slowly move towards making high quality edits that use the experience of people who have been doing this for a while.

Concerning point 6, I will try to do one redirect a day. Here's one I just did for today using the Wade Giles romanization: Wu-ch‘ang

Concerning point 7, I hope to create well-sourced, well-cited lists of the component divisions of the districts and counties of Wuhan and maybe even Hubei. I invite you to edit some of the citations I have done in the way you see fit as an example so I can mimick your way. I also hope to clearly understand the difference between what would be the appropriate citation method on the list page, and what would be appropriate citation method on on the district/county page.

Thanks again! Geographyinitiative (talk) 00:00, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

@Lead/infobox: I do know what you mean. Eg, Shanghai has it but Beijing doesn't. It's just better if you're creating pages to do it right to keep the work down from the people who care about style guides, etc.

@Wiktionary: Absolutely, creating entries there is above and beyond. It is still helpful to link the individual characters if you can.

@Phrasing: Like I said, it's just what I think is clear in English since Chinese "cities" really cover both an urban core and its surrounding jurisdiction, including counties and other cities with no connection to the urban core. You can always say something like

"Yingzhou District is a district of Zhejiang, China. It is under the administration of the sub-provincial city of Ningbo."

"Yuyao is a county-level city of Zhejiang, China. It is under the administration of the sub-provincial city of Ningbo."

"Ninghai County is a county of Zhejiang, China. It is under the administration of the sub-provincial city of Ningbo."

Again, the important thing is having the articles at all. I do think it flows better and is clearer, though, if we adjust the phrasing:

"Yingzhou District is a district of Ningbo in Zhejiang, China."

"Yuyao is a county-level city in Ningbo Prefecture in Zhejiang, China."

"Ninghai County is a county in Ningbo Prefecture in Zhejiang, China."

You're mostly interested in township-level divisions:

"Dongqiao is a town in the Yinzhou District of Ningbo in Zhejiang, China."

"Qiantong is a town in Ninghai County in Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang, China."

It's just about keeping the phrasing sensible for English readers, who won't grok how a town can be part of a city inside a city inside a city, none of which are connected with each other. That is, though, a personal thing I do with articles I create and isn't something I've pushed for adding to the style guide.

@Redirects: That's great, although I think the standard is to just use straight apostrophes ⟨'⟩ in the article titles even though it's nicer to use the actual reverse curled quotes ⟨‘⟩ in Wade part of the infoboxes. I'm pretty sure Google just treats them the same, and more people will be typing the straight kind into the search box here. It's best to have both, of course. — LlywelynII 04:48, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Nanjing ENGVAR[edit]

Your accusation that I am changing ENGVAR ("converting the article to British English, against policy, ignoring the original spellings") at Nanjing, when the single edit that I ever made was this, prior to reverting your somewhat bold engvar edits, does not strike me as calml and reasonable as recommended by the Wikipedia:Civility policy. Batternut (talk) 22:58, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

It isn't an accusation. It's an accurate description of your no doubt good-faith edits. You should pay attention to all the actual policy you are ignoring, though. — LlywelynII 23:04, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

I have made precisely 3 edits to Nanjing. One entirely unrelated metro population figure, and two reverts of your bold edits. The article is not marked as US engvar, it appears that you are trying to impose it without much discussion. I fear that WP:ANI beckons. Batternut (talk) 23:08, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

I was using policy to standardize the article, yes. If there's a reason to standardize it the other way, address that without the personal attacks. — LlywelynII 23:16, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Your "So you're converting the article to British English, against policy, ignoring the original spellings" was the first personal attack. which was totally and absolutely unjustifiable!! But listen, I am sure we both want the best for the article. Yes I see the spellings mess that it had. I'm just saying the choice of engvar should be discussed fully before making that change. I just reckon you jumped into action a tad quickly, that is all. Batternut (talk) 23:44, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

By way of advance notice, hoping to avoid the eventuality, my ANI complaint will be worded along the lines of:

LlywelynII made some bold bold edits to Nanjing, which isn't marked with an established engvar, with cursory justification and go-slow-debate on the talk page without the revert element of BRD. The WP:Dispute resolution noticeboard requires extensive talk page discussion, where the user is not (so far) being very obliging, hence my arrival here. The user does have some recent US ENGVAR history. Batternut (talk) 00:44, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

ANI-notice[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Batternut (talk) 07:27, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Articles for Creation Reviewing[edit]

The WikiCup[edit]

As a WikiCup judge, I am disallowing your submission of the DYK for Jingchu Suishiji as the article was worked on and nominated for DYK in 2017 and thus does not qualify for the 2018 WikiCup. This rule is explained more fully here. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:38, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, and I see now that CoE's nomination was submitted on the first and just got processed faster. I'd thought it was based on promotion, but I see now what you mean. Sorry for the trouble. — LlywelynII 12:22, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

When you have a minute to answer, though, that makes me curious. I usually haven't bothered with the GA process, but the WikiCup had me curious about polishing up some of the things I had already done. Given that they're already mostly written, though, they wouldn't qualify even if I shepherded them through the GA process now? — LlywelynII 02:50, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

If you just nominated them as they are now for GAN, they wouldn't qualify, but if you looked at them critically and found some extra information to add or various improvements to make before nominating them, they could. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:08, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, that's the problem: I already tried to make them as well as I could for the most part, so if there's anything major to add I didn't see it. But you're saying that doing the process now and addressing the reviewers' concerns isn't enough to qualify. Thank you: very glad to know that now at the outset before I started anything with, eg, François Noël or House of the Huangcheng Chancellor; I'll just do it with things I work on going forward. — LlywelynII 07:59, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Excessive redirects[edit]

Hi LlywelynII, much though redirects are cheap, 15 redirects linking to a new article with no references about a Chinese lake (Lake Huangqi) does strike me as somewhat excessive, no? | Naypta^✉ opened his mouth at 09:54, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Not particularly, no. It's not well publicized in English, and people might encounter it under any of those numerous names via the mess that is Chinese romanization. Cf. Lake Tai's redirects, even though its name is only one character long. I didn't even get into the obviously erroneous translations like "Huang Qi Hai Lake", even though those show up too. There are sources for every data point in the article; Baidu Baike just isn't a RS worth noting except as an external link. You're welcome to improve the sourcing for the article if you can find anything; if you doubt the existence of the lake, follow the GPS links; if you doubt its importance, (a) reread WP:BIAS and (b) go back and follow the links in the History section, which have references on the other end. There's actually going to be a lot more redirects once I'm able to get my VPN to work and I can finish translating the historical names for the lake from its Baidu Baike article; Lake Huangqi has only been its name for the last two centuries or so and it's been important to China for two millennia plus. If you want to edit in all of the alternative names to a persondata style template or port it all to Wikidata, that's fine too but the redirects would need to be made in any case.

Now, all that said and even though you were wrong in this case about this concern, thank you for being one of the people watching over the project. Keep up the good work; it's appreciated. — LlywelynII 09:59, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Atooi (disambiguation) for deletion[edit]

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atooi (disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 02:22, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Wainui Falls[edit]

Hey mate, thanks for your comments on the Wainui Falls DYK and your useful comments. You mentioned GA at the time, and following some cleanup and expansion I have nominated the article for GA. As you are already familiar with the subject, I wonder if you would be interested in performing a review? The article itself is quite short, but it represents all of the published knowledge about the subject (see the talk page for a full canvassing of available sources, including offline sources that I checked out of the library). If you aren't interested, no worries. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 00:57, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Yuanqu County (Shandong)[edit]

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DYK nomination of Yanmen Commandery[edit]

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DYK nomination of Dai County[edit]

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DYK for Yuanqu County (Shandong)[edit]

DYK nomination of Yanmen Commandery[edit]

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DYK for Yanmen Commandery[edit]

DYK for Bianjing Drum Tower[edit]

DYK for Dai County[edit]

DYK for Dai Commandery[edit]

DYK for Dai (Spring and Autumn period)[edit]

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Bozhong Mountain[edit]

Hey! It's been a while! Based on my reading of Cihai and a bunch of other sources, there are apparently two locations known as Bozhong Mountain, both of which claim/claimed to be the Bozhong Mountain in the Book of Documents- see Talk: Bozhong Mountain. Let me know what you think! Geographyinitiative (talk) 12:04, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Precious three years![edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:07, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Re-title "Enlightenment in Spain" - agree[edit]

I have been editing articles on the history of Spain and Latin America only since 2014. I saw your comment about the need to re-title the WP article Enlightenment in Spain to "Bourbon Spain." I entirely agree. I left a comment on the article talk page. I think the section on the intellectual Enlightenment in Spain should stay, but the Spanish Bourbon dynastic history should be re-titled "Bourbon Spain."Amuseclio (talk) 00:50, 21 May 2018 (UTC)Amuseclio

Guangwu Great Wall[edit]

I saw you did a lot of good work for Dai County. Just wanted to mention that I started an article for the Guangwu section of the Great Wall which is in the adjacent county to the west: Shanyin County. I thought you might have come across some of the history of the section while writing about Dai County. Also it is interesting to note that the present day villages of New Guangwu and Old Guangwu are located in Shanyin County. I've also created a disambiguation page for Guangwu to try to clear up any confusion about the many places named Guangwu present and past. Muzzleflash (talk) 18:18, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Henry Garber Hanks[edit]

ArbCom 2018 election voter message[edit]