User talk:MChew/Archive 3

About neutrality

hi, I see you have done some good works on Wikipedia. Keep up the good work. Not to be offensive, I saw on your page, some politics section, you have very strong opinions on all the controversial issues of the independence of some regions in China, how do you strive to maintain a policy of neutrality on them as you claimed on your Wiki philosophy section? --Chadsnook

Easy. I do not contribute articles on Tibet or East Turkestan. And what articles I do write, I always make every effort to present only the bare facts, without letting personal opinions intervene. Wikipedia is based on secondary sources and not primary research, which means that there is no room for POV (something which many editors sadly ignore or misunderstand). Where a legitimate secondary source indicates something contrary to my personal opinions, I will still tend use that source, and state that it is one of several viewpoints available. Where issues are at dispute, it is important to present both sides of the picture. There are many instances of this in my edits on Sino-Japanese War articles. If you ever do feel that my edits are not neutral, feel free to let me know. --MChew (talk) 03:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

That's a good answer. I haven't really read any Sino-Japanese War articles on Wiki, will definitely give you my feedback once I read some. In the past I have mostly just been using Wikipedia to find out about things in the US and Canada which is where I live, but I seldom edit anything. About the independence of Tibet, East Turkestan and Taiwan, I assume you have a lot of knowledge on these issues before you come out with a very strong opinion on them. I am just curious, does it make it hard not to contribute on those articles about them? From my own experience, I find it difficult to contribute to things I do not know much about for obvious reasons, but when it comes to things that I have a good knowledge of, especially if I see someone previous edited it left very inadequate information or simply was giving wrong facts, I always try to edit it a bit or correct the wrongly presented figures, even if I originally wanted to stay away from them. I have wasted a lot of time doing that. Of course, sometime my resource are not as reliable as I wish they would be. I am just really amazed that you can stay away from editing things that you know a lot about. I would have saved a lot of time if I was able to do the same thing. On the other hand, thanks for contributing on Sino-Japanese War articles. I am happy to see more people writing about it, not just the academic field. The more information people know about it, the easier it is to be fair. --Chadsnook (talk) 19:05, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Hello MChew, I hope you had a pleasant New Year's Day, and that 2008 brings further success, health and happiness! ...and further nationalist conquests ;) Take care in Japan!.... ~ Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

A Happy New Year is Coming !!!!!

Thank you very much for your kind wishes and compliments, I do not deserve that much... Your work sure brings a lot to the community. --Flying tiger (talk) 14:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 10 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Toba-Fushimi, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Wizardman 20:14, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Date format

Hi MChew! Congratulations for your great contributions to Japanese History articles. It seems we do have some interests in common!... Just a question on your date formats: you seem to be changing dates such as September 24, 1877 to 1877-09-24. Is it a new Wikipedia rule for date formating or just a personal preference? Best regards. PHG (talk) 18:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK

• ...that Charles Le Gendre was born in France, married in Belguim, but died an American General in 1899, working for King Gojong, Emporer of the Korean Empire? by you nom. by Victuallers (talk) 22:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Nice! OK? (I added inline cites to support the hook as required by DYK). Victuallers (talk) 22:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 20 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Charles Le Gendre , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Maxim_(talk) 16:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Fuji class battleship

On 24 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fuji class battleship, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 18:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Japanese-Australian relations

Hi. Just wondering if you had any sources/citation for the pre-war relations between Japan and Australia (census data, economic ties etc). I'm fairly interested in that myself and it'd be interesting to see how the diplomatic ties developed after the Meiji restoration and up to World War I. By the way, what is it like living as a foreigner in Japan? I've been there just once on a school trip, and as a complete newcomer with only only a few years of Japanese learning, I found it to be both crazy and awesome. Mostly crazy. Bronzey (talk) 11:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:Alistair_Maclean_-_Athabasca_book_cover.jpg

I have tagged Image:Alistair_Maclean_-_Athabasca_book_cover.jpg as a disputed use of non-free media, because there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please clarify your fair use rationale on the image description page. Thank you. Rockfang (talk) 23:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Bad interwiki on Double Leaf Society

The Japanese wikipedia article ja:双葉会 is a later and different organization, not at all related to the organization described in the English language article Double Leaf Society. I have already reverted this once. Please delete from your bot list. --MChew (talk) 08:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I corrected interwikis in other lang too. In such case, please, correct all page else bot will continue to add the same iws over and over Phe-bot (talk) 09:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

I am still stateside, I will be in Japan in 68 days. :) Thank you for the welcome! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 17:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Zheng Xiaoxu and National Anthem of Manchukuo

Reviewing ja:満州国の国歌, I accept the lyrics of the 1933 anthem as written by Zhen Xiaoxu. However, it's not the same one that was used in the 1932 Olympics. They were two different songs composed by different people. The lyrics of the 1932 song is as follows:

地闢兮天開 松之涯兮白之隈 我伸大義兮繩於祖武 我行博愛兮懷於九垓 善守國兮以仁 不善守兮以兵 天不愛道地不愛寶 貨惡其於地兮獻諸蒼昊 孰非橫目之民兮視此洪造

Moreover, using Wikipedia as reference of Wikipedia articles is not a good practice. We should use the references for that fact in that Wikipedia article as reference. (BTW: I wrote the Chinese version of that article to, so...) --Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 19:40, 8 March 2008 (UTC)