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An article that you have been involved in editing, Jeff Rosenbaum, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Rosenbaum (2nd nomination). Thank you. Since you thought the number of keeps in the first AfD were almost as many as the deletes, please compare the users who expressed a keep opinion in it to this list. Thanks. Cheers, Pigman☿ 06:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks! You weren't a previous part of the group that worked on this, but having seen your sourcing and research skills, I wanted to ask. Lawrence Cohen 14:44, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly how are the characters confirmed by the Foundation? Did you contact one of their members for confirmation or did you use their online tool? As you are aware, each Vietnamese syllable can be represented by many Nom characters, depending on its meaning, pronunciation, and its creator's current mood, so it's kind of impossible to confirm the characters using the online tool. DHN (talk) 20:02, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do they have plans to publish the document? Then we can cite it when providing the characters. As I stated before, I feel uneasy including the Chinese or pseudo-Chinese characters at the head of articles because it's going to cause a lot of misunderstanding. DHN (talk) 20:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary music/Assessment for the details of how to rate the articles for inclusion in the table at the top of the page. John Carter (talk) 16:31, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's a difference in Northen and Southern speaking ways. However, now it's dau, right? Ok, keep this! Mr Vinx (talk) 20:32, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, you think again, you're the one who stands on people's way. I told you already, people when reading Vietnamese historic articles often only care about the Vietnamese names. It's like that no care about the dirty Han tu. Also, if Han tu characters are everywhere in the articles, some readers will feel as if they're reading Chinese history article, not Vietnamese anymore. And the final answer is that we must must remove all ugly Chinese characters from Vietnamese articles. You (Badagnani) are not Vietnamese but why you care about this. Most Vietnamese right now hate the stupid Chinese. They're consider China is the stealer of land, cultures, history, and territory; especially when Chinese navy killed Vietnamese fishmen is the Gulf of Tonkin, and Chinese occupation of Vietnamese Spratly and Paracel Islands. JacquesNguyen (talk) 23:58, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, you're wrong. When studying Vietnamese history in classes, no one knew about it (including me). Students thought Vietnamese language already used quoc ngu since the very start, no teacher had taught students that Vietnamese language used the ugly Han tu first. I just suddenly discovered this by myself. No teachers taught, also the Vietnamese history books in classes didn't had any Chinese characters but Vietnamese. That means Vietnamese people did't care about Han tu or chu nom anymore. We must eliminate them all. JacquesNguyen (talk) 00:20, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Arab people who lives in Israel are Israeli arab - not Palestinian. stop with that. Jusmine (talk) 18:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is no answer so I`ll change the categories. Jusmine (talk) 17:52, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i saw you make comments on the culture of china template. i would greatly appreciate if you could support the existnece of it by helping me improve it. thank you. Black Knight takes White Queen (talk) 21:41, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's both popular in Northern and Southern Vietnam. But we should keep it DAU because the other similar names in the article contain this word such as CHE DAU DO or something like that. Mr Vinx (talk) 13:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i found mr. maas's BD on the Social Security Death Index, which can be accessed via http://www.rootsweb.com Worc63 (talk) 04:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Badagnani, regarding this userbox discussion, if you need any further help I'd be happy to put that userbox onto your userpage for you. Just give me a shout. --Bruce1ee ^talk 07:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've added it to your userpage. Is that what you wanted? --Bruce1ee ^talk 08:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

With regard to your comments on Talk:Waterboarding/Definition: Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Consider this a formal warning. — BQZip01 — ^talk 09:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So, you don't like templates? It is just a quick way to type. Perhaps you should read the following then:

WP:POLICY

WP:NPA

WP:CIVIL

WP:AGF

WP:TALK

etc.

Assuming you know all the policies & guidelines and do not desire any warnings, I will simply move further problems to administrators as appropriate. Agreed? — BQZip01 — ^talk 10:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you got it right. I didn't add the Arabic script because I wasn't sure of the name. A quick Google search shows yours was actually spot on. —Anas ^talk? 06:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm impressed, very impressed. And yes, you're right about the Lebanese not being able to pronounce the ق correctly. I know that because I've been around Lebanese people long enough to discover that. I'm surprised how you know a lot about Arabic; if I remember correctly, you're studying Arabic, no? —Anas ^talk? 07:36, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Badagnani, sorry I edited the University of Florida Taser incident page without noticing that the change had already been made and un-done. It makes sense to have a policy not to edit (even incorrect) quotes, but I think that the way it is now is still misleading. Having [sic] in the quote makes it seem that it was Steven Blank's error, but it was most likely the Alligator's. This confused me when I first read the article ("Why would the chairman of ACCENT capitalize ACCENT wrong?") Perhaps changing "later said" to "was later quoted as saying" would clear things up? --24.222.124.6 (talk) 15:21, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter January 2008
--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC (talk) 05:17, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Once upon a time you asked about Rainwater Madeira on Talk:Madeira wine. In case you're still curious, at long last, I just added the answer to Madeira wine#Types. Tomas e (talk) 22:45, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Bagdani, Now that the article for WinterStar Symposium has been deleted, I was wondering if you could create a redirect page for it to Association for Consciousness Exploration. I don't know how. If possible, could you also do it under the spelling Winterstar Symposium (without the capital "S" in WinterStar)? I would greatly appreciate it. If you like, you can also post an explanation on my talk page as to how it's done (or direct me to one). Even Kathryn had suggested a merge or redirect from this article and Jeff Rosenbaum, although she didn't actually include any info from either one in the ACE article when they were deleted. (I guess deleting them was all she really wanted to accomplish.)Rosencomet (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to an obscure legend, Ho Quy Ly (the founder of the Ho Dynasty) was able to marry a Tran Dynasty princess because he memorized a line he found during his youth. One day, he found the following line written on the sand at the beach:

Quảng Hàn cung lý Nhất Chi Mai.

He memorized it, and years later he became a mandarin. One day, while he was accompanying the king on a trip, the king had to take refuge from the sun in Thanh Thu palace. In front of Thanh Thu palace were some cinnamon trees. The king composed a parallel line:

Thanh Thử điện tiền thiên thụ quế (In front of Thanh Thu Palace there are thousands of cinnamon trees)

A parallel line poem (câu đối) consists of two lines of parallel structure and rhythm. In can take the format of a challenge/response where the challenger composes the first line and the responder would compose the second line to show how erudite/clever they are. Great responses even match the challenge not only in structure but in the shape of the characters. Now that Chinese characters are no longer used, câu đối had grown out of usage and historical examples had to be explained to the modern readers.

Ho Quy Ly remembered the line from his youth and responded with:

Quảng Hàn cung lý Nhất Chi Mai. (In Quang Han Palace there is Nhất Chi Mai [an ume plant])

It just so happens that in Quang Han Palace there are no ume plants, but there is a princess named Nhat Chi Mai. She's never been outside and nobody besides the royal family knows of her existence. Astonished that Ho Quy Ly would know about her and after being told the story of how the line came to him, the king decided that it was fate and married the princess to him. DHN (talk) 17:02, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As I said, it's an obscure legend and I don't think it's worthy of being mentioned in the article. DHN (talk) 02:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Probably because of confusion of what exactly is "Nhất Chi Mai" (I have no idea). DHN (talk) 03:34, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Badagnani, try Google Transliteration. It almost always gets it right. deeptrivia (talk) 06:46, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, it was an accident due to an edit conflict. It's already been reverted. Just an error. Walton^One 20:09, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I kind of like harvard classes helping out with mediation :-) , so I've left a (perhaps slightly strongly worded) answer to you on Talk:Waterboarding.

You are likely acting in good faith. If so, are you aware that there is no actual rule on transparency for wikipedia?

--Kim Bruning (talk) 04:55, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the above link as I have requested arbitration for a dispute that you are involved in. Feel free to contribute there. Regards, henrik•talk 11:42, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]