Contents
- 1 Request for comment
- 2 Battle of Canton (1856)
- 3 Disambiguation link notification for March 9
- 4 Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Kanye West/archive1
- 5 Karel Martens
- 6 Please remove page creation protection from Jeff Wells
- 7 ArbCom elections are now open!
- 8 Policy discussion in progress
- 9 Humphrey Fleming Senhouse
- 10 East India trade
- 11 Disambiguation link notification for July 20
- 12 Hi there
- 13 Korean War
- 14 Archives
Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Battle of Canton (1856)
Dear Spellcast, long time no see. But I found that you created the battle of Canton which is not a good idea. Because I considered that this battle is too small. Here are the detail of the battle.
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- The British army wasn't allow to invade Canton under the UK's order. Bowring just commands his army to attack.
- The Chinese didn't fight. I have read a related Chinese book, Ye Mingchen didn't send army to fight. He only closed the trade and retreated all Qing army to somewhere else. One more thing, Yeh didn't get normal soldiers because Emperor Xianfeng transferred Qing army from Canton during the Taiping Rebellion.
- This is not a battle. The British army invade and retreated Canton in few days. No strategic goal was achieved. The battle (if it was) happens before the second opium war. It shouldn't be called a battle.
Let me say it clear, I think the article should be removed. It's hardly possible to expand it as I could do. The battle was niggling, no notable fight between the British and Qing armies. Only few Chinese junks hit British warships. The Chinese army are not trained, they didn't even fight. --俠刀行 (talk) 09:20, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
- You said the same things about Battle of Canton (1857). This article is definitely possible to expand. Military conflicts typically start with the title "Battle of" or "Capture of" by default if there isn't a more common name for it. This battle being one-sided is irrelevant to the title. Spellcast (talk) 23:01, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Kanye West/archive1
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Karel Martens
Hello,
I believe the page you deleted on Karel Martens should not have been deleted: [1] The reason you gave was "not a notable graphic designer" which is not true.
Here are a few references that show how notable he is: He teaches for Yale: [2] He founded the Werkplaats school: [3] He won the prestigous Noordzij Prize: [4] His books are highly reveared and collectable: [5] [6] [7] He is included in a list of “one hundred of history's leading practitioners” in book “The Designer Says”: [8] along with other notable graphic designers like Ellen Lupton, Erik Spiekermann, and Jan Tschichold who are listed on the Wikipedia page for Graphic Design: [9] These are just a few of the many references showing how Karel Martens is an extremely notable graphic designer. Please let me know if you need any other information.
Thanks, Cdunn1981 (talk) 17:15, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
References
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Martens
- ^ http://art.yale.edu/KarelMartens
- ^ https://www.typotheque.com/articles/karel_martens_graphic_designer
- ^ http://www.kabk.nl/newsitemEN.php?newsid=0961&cat=04
- ^ http://www.ebay.com/itm/KAREL-MARTENS-Printed-Matter-Drukwerk-DUTCH-GRAPHIC-DESIGN-RARE-Shrinkwrap-/351293795022
- ^ http://www.ebay.com/itm/KAREL-MARTENS-Printed-Matter-1st-edition-WHITE-cover-1996-/221687445294
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Karel-Martens-Counterprint-Karl/dp/0907259251
- ^ https://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616891343
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_design
Please remove page creation protection from Jeff Wells
Way back in 2008, you or someone like you deleted and then create-protected Jeff Wells, probably for a very good reason. I have created an article for a notable person named Jeff Wells at User:Jonesey95/sandbox2. Can you please remove the page creation protection on Jeff Wells so that I can start this article? I'll clean up the articles that are linking to the page once it is created, since they are not all for the same Jeff Wells. Thanks! – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:27, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- It is possible that Jmlk17 protected this page, but that editor appears to be inactive. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:28, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
ArbCom elections are now open!
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Policy discussion in progress
There is a policy discussion in progress at the Manual of Style which affects the capitalization of "Can I Have It Like That", A Girl like Me, &c., a question in which you previously participated. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — LlywelynII 14:14, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Humphrey Fleming Senhouse
Hi, You reverted a link on the Humphrey Fleming Senhouse page to the WikiSource version of the Naval Biographical Dictionary. As far as I can see the link was correct - the reference is to the footnote on the article for Senhouse Edward Cooper. The WikiSource link correctly displays the footnote in context, the Archive.org one displays double page spread and it it not clear what the source is. GreyHead (talk) 12:36, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
East India trade
Hello! Since you seem to have some interest in some of the articles I've started, I thought I'd drop by. The Swedish East India Company and articles related to it is an on and off project of mine, one I hope to resume as soon as I've finished tidying up the Goland articles. During this work I discovered some maps that might be of interest to you. I use my sandbox as a note book for all things related, and you'll find them there. There is a bit of discussion done about them on the sandbox's talk page. Also lately, I became involved in bringing this article to GA. It's now listed at Peer review for an upcoming FAC. Any input about the article from an Australian editor would be appreciated, if you should feel so inclined. :) Best, w.carter-Talk 22:32, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
- The military history of the Opium Wars are an interest and side project of mine too, so I can see why we'd overlap. The article looks excellent and I'll let you know if I get the time to review it in more detail since the weekend has just come! Spellcast (talk) 23:23, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there
Hi Spellcast. I want to apologise to that minor 'edit war' we had on Humen, where I've been again replacing some historical spellings of places with their current pinyin names. I didn't mean to cause any inconvenience to you. All I wanted to do was to reduce the amount of bias on this website. I don't prefer pinyin over any other Chinese language romanisation, nor do I prefer simplified over traditional Chinese characters. Its just that I think its better to use the conventional spelling in the subject's context. Hence for historical articles, I think you have a point--I agree that the former spellings should be used instead of pinyin. For places/things that still exists today, however, I consider that would be another case. Nonetheless, to avoid such a thing happening again, I would first discuss any issues I noticed on the talk page. Regards, Wishva de Silva | Talk 06:46, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hey, thanks for your message. I wouldn't call this an edit war :P Yeah I also don't care if it's pinyin or not, I just go with the most common, popular English terms. It's obviously OK to add modern spellings, but if an older one is just as popular (or more so), I don't think it should be removed. I'm all for fixing bias but I don't think anyone deliberately intended that in the Humen article. Wikipedia follows common names for articles, not official ones. And what makes the Humen strait notable in English is more because of its past history than current history, which is why it seems to have been created under the older name. Spellcast (talk) 08:05, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Korean War
You reverted my edit stating that International Law doesnt need a Treaty etc. It states in the article itself "The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when an armistice was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone to separate North and South Korea, and allowed the return of prisoners. However, no peace treaty has been signed, and the two Koreas are technically still at war. Periodic clashes, many of which were deadly, have continued to the present."
I have reverted your edit because of this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basetornado (talk • contribs) 18:11, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
- Fair enough. There was debate on the talk page on whether it should be considered 'over' or still 'ongoing' with a ceasefire. Basically, the consensus was the former despite the popular media phrase of "technically still at war". Many wars have ended without a treaty. Here, it ended with an armistice, which although is not as 'final' as a peace treaty, is not as temporary as a ceasefire. Spellcast (talk) 10:51, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
Archives
Hello! Do you have an archive list and searchable box somewhere? Best. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:50, 9 September 2016 (UTC)