User talk:Badagnani

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Bonay Bolay

I've added the redirects for these words to pu-erh tea. What I meant was that I thought someone moved the original redirects from **** to ****_tea. Can't say I've seen the words on tea boxes, but then again the teas I buy usually do not come with English labels. I'll ask my Cantonese friends about the bo"yi" v.s. bo"lay" question. Sjschen 22:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll put that into the page when I have access to a computer where I can set chinese typing. I've had the foojoy stuff before. It's not bad, but to me it's always a bit too "composty" for enjoyment. If you are interested, try the stuff here and in particular, this. Sjschen 23:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Copy and pasted the characters in. My opinion (and solely mine) on Pu-erh's popularity in Hongkong is that they have some of the easiest access to much of the teas from Yunnan and due to demand has become popularized and even,"hyped" up worldwide. I would not say it's not popular in Yunnan, if that were the case the tradition for tea production would not have been passed on in the "low" periods. Still, currently much of the good stuff produced is shipped out of Yunnan, so I don't know how much access the population there has to good pu-erh tea. Sjschen 23:37, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

Oh, it's no problem for me, either way. My only concern is that the tag adds you into Category:Requests for unblock, and if you're not blocked, then... well, you get the idea, I bet. :) If you'd like to keep the tag all nice and pretty, I suppose you could subst it and just remove the category tag (or let me know and I could do it for you). As it is now seems fine, but if you'd like to just remove it completely, I won't call the wikicops on you. Luna Santin 00:02, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Kung Pao Chicken

No, the rm tag was placed on the article because the text is a direct copy of the linked website. --— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.164.253 (talk • contribs)

My apologies... thanks for the clarification on that, I've just seen several pages in the past few days where that had to be done. Marrilpet 00:58, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

FUC

I really don't know if they're planning to go that route or not, but, as I said on the FUC talk page today, this "totally free" thing is a pipe dream they're going to still be chasing ten or more years from now. Ironically, "fair use" images are probably the safest stuff they have, because it's pretty easy to source them. The images under the various licenses will be the first to get attacked in any sort of legal argument because there's some ambiguity. This group of admins (and it appears to be a pretty small but vocal group) haven't quite figured out that idealistically wanting something and reality rarely align. -- ChadScott 03:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

guzheng techniques

I've put back the sentence (rephrased). It's just I prefer a more absolute interpretation of music, I don't know if that's the right word, you know the idea of music of being music itself, not that music can't evoke certain feelings or imagery. Also expressing waterfalls etc is open to POV, and I though it might be better to be as objective as possible. LDHan 18:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, there is certainly a programmatic element to much of Chinese music that goes back centuries, eg the pipa piece Ambush on all sides. LDHan 20:03, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Andres Quintana Roo

Ok first time putting something in discussion but here I go. Thanks for the quick edit on the Andres Quintana Roo article. Alixb 14 November 2006

Your question left me thinking... "Quinto" means fifth it could be derived from there, but I have no idea if that would apply for "Quintana". As for the Roo it sounds more like a Nahuatl word but your guess is as good as mine. Quick question (probably in edit guide or something but can't find it) how is it you redirect if someone searches ie: "andres quintana roo" it shows you that there is no such article, because the proper name for it is "Andrés Quintana Roo", so how would you make it so if they type that it goes to the "Andrés Quintana Roo" article? thanks :) And nice to meet you too.

Alixb 17 November 2006

Thannks for the help, it worked :) Alixb 18 November 2006

Word capitalizations

I don't think the second words should be cap-ed. However I've edited them with cap. to be consistant. Sjschen 05:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

"Dian hong" is one word so the D should remain capped. However, I sorta rethinking Orange Pekoe. I've seen the P being capped in many places. Sjschen 05:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Wolfberries

You're probably right about the idea that cooking wolfberries (wb) and doing so with oil probably allows one to get more of the nutrients in the wb. But this is sorta the same idea between eating tomatoes raw versus cooking it into marinara sauce. Cooking opens up the tomato cells so ones body can adsorb the nutrients. The oil used in making marinara sauce dissolves the lycopenes and other fun hydrophobic compounds, which also aid their absorption during digestion. By eating dried wb straight, you might absorb less nutrients from it, maybe. But that does not make doing so a dangerous act or even something "bad", it really becomes a personal preference. I mean, I'm certainly not going to give up eating tomatoes straight, whether in its dry or fresh forms. Sjschen 06:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

External links to images

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! You recently added an external link to an external image in an article. It has been removed because the link pointed to a non-encyclopedic source. Per WP:IMAGES Images on external sites can no longer be linked inline due to several reasons: inline linking to images on other sites is often considered "leeching" and is thus rude; allowing online image linking makes it easier for vandals to post images from shock sites; external images are often unreliable and may sometimes be removed by the webmasters. Please refer to Wikipedia's policy on external links for more information. --thadius856talk 06:23, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Links to external images should be avoided at almost all costs. Images which qualify as fair use should be uploaded to en.wiki through Special:Upload. Any public domain or similar license images should be uploaded to the m:Commons. External links to pictures rob the owner of bandwidth which they pay for in their webhosting — they receive no pageload — and may be considered bandwidth theft. You can find more about this at WP:EL and WP:IMAGE or the template above.

However, note that the process is not fully automated. It's semi-automated, meaning that VP2 loads the page diff for me and I choose whether to mark it 'Not Vandalism', 'Skip', 'Rollback' or Rollback plus a warning. The {{test}} template which I chose was the least harshly worded readily available. Perhaps it wasn't 100% applicable, so I've replaced it with my own creation above, which you may or may not prefer. Thanks. thadius856_talk 06:23, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Erhu players

I think it's better and more managable if the main erhu article include only historically important and major players, that's why I move the list of players to its own article. Of course this would leave out many players who are no doubt brilliant and virtuosic, after all hundreds of players graduate from Chinese converstories every year. LDHan 20:03, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Vladimir Tosic.jpg

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keep adding my ip/signature

why do you keep adding my ip address to my latest comments at zhajiang mian? it doesn't really make sense to me - if someone really wants to see the source of a comment or edit, they can simply refer to the history page. --— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.100.151 (talk • contribs)

okay, in your reply you infer that it is "policy" or at least "customary" to sign all discussion commentary. not trying to discount you or attack you personally, but since this is the first time i have ever encountered such a claim, may i ask, if only out of genuine curiosity, where this policy is stated? --— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.100.151 (talk • contribs)

Yeagley merger

I deleted the "David Yeagley" article in favor of the "David A. Yeagley" one. No need for merger. EVula // talk // ☯ // 20:15, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

My Apologies

Apparently they're still working out the kinks in Vandalproof 2. My apologies. I've removed the warning, and I'll try to figure out how that happened. -- dhp1080 ^(u·t·c) 22:26, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

GFDL violations

Hi Badagnani Thanks for the frank comment at Talk:Double bass. Made my day! The Electric violin page you have contributed to is also ripped off by koopal (around the date of your early 2006 contributions, at a guess) at http://electric-violin.koopal.com/. Pretty much all their pages are WP based, AFAICT, but maybe not all their photos. Photos are much easier to pin down, as there is a single copyright holder. The DB photo is mine, so I followed the DB one up (see discussion on DB talk). Later, I found form letters and recommended recipes via WP:MF, including how to do a DMCA take-down after several notices. You might want to follow this up fo EV. I have also put a couple of notices around WP about some of koopal's other pages. Cheers Andrew Kepert 10:51, 22 November 2006 (UTC)