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Featured lists that need work to avoid removal nominations
Hello. I'm not a regular participant in this project, but I am a delegate at WP:FLC. I wanted to note that a couple featured lists I stumbled across don't meet our modern day requirements.
To be more specific, neither one is accessible (row and column scopes are a requirement at FLC now). I don't want to nominate these for featured list removal, as they're both part of featured topics, so I thought I'd bring it up here first as an opportunity for interested editors to make the relevant improvements. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:07, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am writing this; the source I am using, while recent and reliable, states that the number of Chinese POWs who died in WW2 are unknown. I assume this is a sad example of Western bias, as surely there should be some estimates for that from Chinese scholars?
If someone is interested in this topic area, note that we still do not have any article about Japanese war crimes against the POWs. I just finished one for the Germans, which also was missing... see the linked article for list of what we have. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here01:54, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Unreferenced and unimproved for 15 years. No articles in Mandarin or other Chinese languages to expand. Run of the mill, very small charity. Not enough information to merge.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Hi there, I and another editor are discussing whether Chen Zongying should be moved to "Chen Congying". I would love additional input from editors more familiar with Chinese to English transliteration/romanization on whether the move should happen or not. ForsythiaJo (talk) 18:59, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is a short article created by a student of mine, translated from zh wiki. I worry she might have invented the name (with machine translation); I am not getting any non-wikipedia hits for that. Could someone check whether it needs renaming? TIA Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here07:57, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, this is interesting: the coordinates do seem correct, and this 2015 government report (25mb pdf) does show a reservoir at the location specified (p 162), as an extension or something of the nearby larger Hongyashan Reservoir (zh:紅崖山水庫). It also mentions that due to some problems, the Xima reservoir was only actually used a few times immediately following its construction, and photos on the following p 163 show that it was not a body of water in 2015 (gmaps's satellite layer seems to corroborate this; unsure of its recency).Unless I've misread or totally overlooked something, this lake isn't.Piotrus, any way you could convince your student (if still enroled in your course) to translate zh:紅崖山水庫 instead? I'd propose merging Lake Xima into it, since I don't believe Lake Xima is independently notable, even as a former geographical feature. As it stands I'm not sure there's a valid merge target, although I haven't checked Minqing County and have to go soon. Folly Mox (talk) 14:57, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Folly Mox Interesting research. Sadly, the student's motivation to do anything after the course finished is close to zero (plus students in Mainland China have to use VPN to edit Wiki, which is extra demotivating). Is there anyone here interested in geography of China who could comment more, or translate that other, short article so we could merge and redirect this? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here02:04, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
When i visited sichuan a week ago i noticed some police cars were marked with "Sichuan Public Security Department [zh] Highway patrol" but i don't see much information on chinese provincial highway patrol agencies on wikipedia.
Can someone do some more digging into this subject?
Most information comes from other wikis, forums, app stores, Tencent itself, or game review websites such as TapTap, which would not really address the problem. Vacosea (talk) 23:41, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just thought I'd ask; has anyone got access to a pre-1930 printing of The Scarecrow, maybe through a university library? All of the covers online are from the 80s or later, and the article is currently unillustrated. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:54, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am currently writing an article, and one of my references is authored by somebody called Li Yifan. I know that the Chinese naming convention is different than the western one, so I'm just wondering what is the surname and what is the first name here.
I know this isn't the resource exchange, and I have also asked there, but I thought my chances here might be higher in case somebody happens to have access to this article.
I need this article for my draft, Draft:Shamate (yes it's currently empty but I have written a lot, just haven't published it yet)
I found it on ResearchGate, but there's no PDF, and I found it on Ingenta too, but it costs $30 to access.
I don't have an answer for the second question, but from everything I've seen, the quality is pretty scattershot. Text similar to modern natural speech and other informal language is accurate for the most part. Anything more formal or archaic or uh highfalutin— those will really confuse google translate at least (no experience with the other two directly, although I'm sure I've seen Baidu's product's output unattributed in the wild). Folly Mox (talk) 18:45, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dispute at LG Cup (Go) involving China and Korea
The LG Cup is a competition which had a recent controversy between China and South Korea over the rules and refereeing. The question is, how should the final score be summarized? Please join Talk:LG Cup (Go) and weigh in on the dispute. Adumbrativus (talk) 08:19, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Happy new year. This stub has been unsourced for 20 years, and tagged so for 15 years. Please find and add reliable sources to this article. Bearian (talk) 05:14, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Tencent survey
Hello!
I recently blew $36 on an article about the Shamate subculture in China, which said the following:
In an online Tencent survey, 21,000 respondents answered "yes" to the question "Do you consider shamate culture vulgar?", an overwhelming 73 percent of all replies.
Resolved
