Hello The great huha, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay!
Please read The Five Pillars of Wikipedia to help you get to know this place, and you might want to look at What Wikipedia is not to see what is and isn't suitable for Wikipedia.
And remember, don't submit copyrighted work without permission. By submitting your work you promise you wrote it yourself, or copied it from public domain resources — this does not include most web pages.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages or ask a question. Again, welcome! Philg88 ♦talk 06:57, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
All names added here must have a source that meets our criteria at WP:RS - see WP:BLP. Because of that, I've removed the ones you added. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 05:25, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! Your submission of Marquis of Extended Grace 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! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:49, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Jr8825 • Talk 09:29, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The great huha: I appreciate your thorough consideration of the matter. A few points in response:
- Encyclopaedia Britannica is not as thorough as Wikipedia. Accounts of the Chinese Civil War generally refer to Nationalists and Communists because the Communists did not declare the founding of another sovereign government until October 1, 1949, in the latter phases of the war. The taking of Hainan and Woody Island by the Communists occurred in 1950, after both governments had come into existence. The Britannica article on Hainan is not concerned about the China versus Taiwan debate so it does not need to clarify that what Wikipedia calls Taiwan derives from the Republic of China.
- The reader of the Paracel Islands article will not be confused into thinking that the ROC refers to China, because the first sentence of the article mentions the PRC and Taiwan (ROC). This will alert the unsuspecting reader that there are two Chinese entities involved in the competed claims the island. Further down, in the third paragraph, this reader would learn that the PRC took the islands from the ROC in the Chinese Civil War.
- The references to the sovereign names of the Chinas and Vietnams in the lede is to lay out the fact that despite three claimants to the islands, they make two claims -- a Chinese claim (which the PRC assumed from the ROC, but which the ROC still independently maintains) and a Vietnamese claim (which North Vietnam assumed from South Vietnam). The history is complicated by the two countries' civil wars in the 20th century, which spawned four actors.
- But to say that China captured the Paracels from Vietnam in a war in 1974, as the article previously did, is misleading because most readers would assume that the PRC fought the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. This is not the case. ContinentalAve (talk)
Second response
My responses -
- Prior to May 12, 2014, the Paracel Islands article did not make clear that the 1974 battle was between the PRC and South Vietnam. Your edits on May 13 and 19 came after my edit clarifying this point. In fact, pre-May 12, the article introduced the Republic of China (Taiwan). I've merely added (Republic of China) after Taiwan. Common name is not violated.
- A reader who is confused about the Republic of China will not search Google with -wikipedia appended to the search terms. Without that -wikipedia, the searcher will find that about half of the top search results refer to the ROC and half to the PRC whose name includes the "Republic of China". That should be enough to alert the unsuspecting reader about the distinction between the two. ContinentalAve (talk) 19:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Shubinator (talk) 20:25, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You have been self-identified by blocked account User:King of all fruit as a previous sock account, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Kauffner/Archive for link. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:06, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
