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Sea of Okhotsk edits[edit]

Thanks for adding all that content to those articles. Unfortunately, you created a bunch of redirects and red links. Could you please fix the former and stop creating the latter? ST1849 (talk) 02:12, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What are you talking about? Can you be more specific?Xufanc (talk) 15:27, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You created a bunch of redirects for Tugursky Bay. Could you please fix them? ST1849 (talk) 20:46, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have fixed them, but things will be far easier if you try to do some previous research and stop using Russian genitives in geographic names before creating an article. Example Ulban Bay and not Ul'bansky Bay. Xufanc (talk) 00:16, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I've seen both forms used in English. I figured someone might come along and change those spellings. You did. A slow clap just for you. C-L-A-P C-L-A-P C-L-A-P C-L-A-P C-L-A-P ST1849 (talk) 00:24, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Inquiry[edit]

I appreciate your edits that are concerning German pages. One small question I have for you, respectfully, how do you manage to maintain an unbiased approach while editing? Danielle 1944 (talk) 18:48, 30 January 2017 (UTC) beginner wiki-editor[reply]

Not all articles involve that approach. But in the articles that call for it, as a rule of thumb by being mindful that there are different takes or opinions on the subject and researching about both —or all of them if there are more than two. Xufanc (talk) 05:54, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks for getting back to me. Would you say you took that approach in this past edit? The changing of a sight word added to the conclusion of thoughts from this information. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reichskolonialbund&type=revision&diff=599479653&oldid=550383694

Danielle 1944 (talk) 05:03, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The edit mentioned was not done by me. I did not choose word "conjecture". When it comes to Gleichschaltung much has been written a posteriori about the attitude of Germans towards it. But at that time the only thing Germans could have done was to accept it because it was imposed from above, and they could not have foreseen any of the consequences of their openly passive attitude at the time when Gleichschaltung of different types of German organizations was following its course. Opposition to it would have been only in their hearts back then, since it could only be freely expressed a posteriori, in writings done after the totalitarian government had no more power over the German people following its military defeat. Xufanc (talk) 01:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]


My apologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reichskolonialbund&type=revision&diff=599479653&oldid=561293009 is the correct link including the word choice of "conjecture". I agree that Germans had to accept the policy due to the commands from the hierarchy of Hitler as the time. However, I am not fully sure that the word choice of conjecture is suited since as you said "Gleichschaltung" was not something the citizens of the German nation were in the position to oppose. Could you clarify for me please? Danielle 1944 (talk) 01:57, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Doi Lan (Phi Pan Nam Range)[edit]

As you wrote the article on Doi Lan (Phi Pan Nam Range) some years ago - I am trying to match this hill with those bot-created on the cebuano wikipedia, and it seems that at the given location actually there is a hill named Doi Ian. While this could have happened by confusing the capital I with a small l, but the Thai name in the article is really Lan, Ian is spelled differently. Do you maybe still have any resources which could match the two names, and especially which name in the more common one. andy (talk) 23:18, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It is a transcription error into Latin script as you point out. It was most likely in the source I consulted back then about mountains near Thoeng, but I can't check it now because it is a permanent dead link. It made sense because Doi Lan or Loi Lan (Bald Hill) is a very common name in the area for mountains where the terrain at the summit does not allow the forest trees to grow and is grassy or rocky. The name Doi Ian ("Fed up with it Hill" or "Sick of it Hill") is very uncommon. Thank you for telling me about this. Even in Thai Wikipedia nobody noticed. Now I have made two separate articles. Xufanc (talk) 14:46, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for clearing this up, I now adjusted the items on Wikidata accordingly as well - there was one bot-created article on the real Doi Lan already to be merged. andy (talk) 22:31, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Move page to Phu Tabberk[edit]

Hello Xufanc - sorry - I deleted my wish to move the page "Phu Thap Boek" to "Phu Tabberk" again. The title is okay. The first read introduction and link number 5 led me on the wrong track of the "Phu Tabberk". With kind regards --KusiD (talk) 11:43, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Well - the longer I deal with this post - I'm convinced that my first thought was not so bad after all. You certainly do not describe the "Phu Thap Boek" here. This starts with the height of the mountain, followed by the location, the management, the inhabitants and so on. My suggestion is now: because the title does not fit the post, it would have to be changed to "Phu Tabberk". I would make the necessary adjustments. Since my English (as Swiss) is not as good as yours, I would be glad if you would read my changes. With kind regards --KusiD (talk) 12:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
KusiD and Paul_012, sorry for the delay in replying. I remember I used Thai military maps when I did some of these mountain articles. But since my wife had a massive stroke I am checking Wikipedia only irregularly. It is possible that there is a confusion. please give me some time.Xufanc (talk) 15:27, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Terribly sorry to hear about that—hope she recovers well. I'll see what I can do with the article in the mean time. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:34, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. If you have time, you might want to re-check the article, as it seems to include a confusion between Phu Thap Boek and Phu Man Khao, which are two separate peaks. Thanks. --Paul_012 (talk) 03:19, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Xufanc, thank you for creating pages like Manipur (princely state). According to Xtools, 77% of the content is yours, and most of it is probably good.

But I also find edits like this, which added unsourced content under existing citations. Such edits destroy WP:Text-source integrity. We don't know in the end, what part is sourced and what part is not. Our only recourse is to delete everything and start from scratch again. I hope we don't need to do that with this article, but I notice that there are some extremely controversial issues that need care in treatment. So at least some of this content will have to go. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 10:07, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Kautilya3, all this was many years ago. My wife had a massive stroke in 2016 and is paralyzed at home. I am looking after her and am not writing any lengthy articles for Wikipedia such as Manipur (princely state) anymore. I can't even recall the circumstances. Please do as you see fit.Xufanc (talk) 21:27, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for responding despite your difficult circumstances. Please don't worry about it. I can sort it out. All the best with your family! -- Kautilya3 (talk) 21:33, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Anyuyskiy is an incomplete name. It is the genitive form of "Anyuy" in the Russian language (of Anyuy). For example, the mountain chain is named "Anyuyskiy Khrebet" in Russian (the mountains of Anyuy). The volcano would be "Anyuyskiy Vulkan". The other sources in the article also mention "The first data on isotopic age of Anyui volcano (Chukotka)", "Anyui Volcano in Chukotka...", etc. The "На Анюйском вулкане" page may not be appropriate from an academic point of view, but it mentions the complete name of the volcano. For Aluchin, I added an infobox, no extra information.Xufanc (talk)

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Ukpik Peak[edit]

I just wanted to check on this 2016 edit. Should the word "rising" be "located"? It looks to me as if the sentence is saying that the Sail Peaks are 4.5 km high. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 16:34, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Xufanc,
on 15 April 2016 you edited the article Sermilik. There you quoted from a source, but part of a sentence is missing: "... they were within sight of the Sermilik Fjord, which Nansen [???]"
Could you look at the source and finish that sentence or change it in some other appropriate way?
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Thank you. It was an oversight. I should have checked the text before saving. Xufanc (talk) 04:06, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I wasted my time. Xufanc (talk) 12:47, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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"Yama Bay" page name[edit]

Are you sure you didn't mean Yam Bay? ST1849 (talk) 05:53, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The river is named Yama, the genitive would be Yamskaya. The Olsky District is named after river Ola in the same area, keeping the Russian genitive. Yam Bay would not be wrong, because the origin of the name is in v'ayam, a local Chavchuven term for river. The final "a" comes from the Russian language. If you prefer Yam, it is also OK. The name of the islands nearby has also been transcribed without the "a". Xufanc (talk) 14:26, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've never seen it called that in English once. I'm gonna move it back. Same with Gizhigin Bay. Why are you changing names? I've always seen it spelled Gizhigin Bay. Never Gizhiga Bay. ST1849 (talk) 05:10, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The bays are named after the rivers. Gizhigin Bay is wrong. Why are you feeling so strongly about this? Why are you getting so personal? Better check scholarly works on whales for example and maps of the Library of Congress instead of perpetuating errors in your deep ignorance of inflected words. Xufanc (talk) 15:03, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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U with main town Alohkapw[edit]

Hi Xufanc,

you'll certainly remember U, Pohnpei. I am editing in that area, mainly in the de-WP, but also in the en-WP, and I would be curious about te source that says that Alohkapw is the main town of U Municipality (I would be interested in the main towns of other municipalities, too). The book by Panholzer and Mauricio places Alohkapw in Madolenihmw Municipality, not in U. Greetings,--Ratzer (talk) 11:14, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ratzer,
Unfortunately it is not possible me to track this. It was so long ago. I think I was in a library and I wrote the article consulting a physical book or atlas. The information I used as source was not from the internet. Regards, Xufanc (talk) 03:43, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your redirect from manigua[edit]

It seems that back in 2012 you created a page for the term manigua that is a redirect to the article on tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

Well, I've just come to Wikipedia to learn what manigua means. But I found myself transported someplace with very little notion why and only a bit better guess about even what general category of concepts that manigua might involve. What about tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests? Is that what a manigua is? Would

"A tropical or subtropical moist broadleaf forest"

constitute a definition of the word manigua? Or maybe a manigua is one particular type of tropical or subtropical moist broadleaf forest? Or...?

So, because Wikipedia articles aren't supposed to create this kind of experience for users, I have a suggestion/request. Is there any chance you could augment the article for those who mysteriously find themselves beamed there?—PaulTanenbaum (talk) 16:05, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Xufanc (talk) 03:38, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for expanding the article! It looks like you may have left a ref error by mistake and I can't fix it since I don't know what source you were intending to put. Could you have a look? ♠PMC(talk) 04:24, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind - looks like Anomiebot was able to figure it out, sorry to bother you. ♠PMC(talk) 05:12, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For you, a Barnstar[edit]

The Kanglei Barnstar
For your good contributions of creating articles on the Meitei royalties of Manipur, among which your articles like Pakhangba and Manipur (princely state) turn out to be extremely useful to readers, you deserve THE KANGLEI BARNSTAR! Keep up the good work! :) --Haoreima (talk) 08:33, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. Xufanc (talk) 15:00, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Revista de Historia Militar (ISSN 0482-5748) published by the Ejército de Tierra de España[edit]

Hello Xufanc,

I am directly approaching you as one of the task force participants of the Spanish military history task force, which invites interested parties to contact you.

The magazine/academic journal by the Ministerio de Defensa of the Kingdom of Spain which I cited above has been published twice a year since 1957. I created its article, duly referenced to
(1) CSIC = the Spanish National Research Council), to
(2) Dialnet (an academic research network) of University of La Rioja, to
(3) the Real Colegio de Artillería, to
(4) the Ministry itself (ejercito.defensa.gob.es), and to
(5)a book, namely ISBN 978-84-617-2104-7, citing page 59.

Well, the English Wikipedia entry about Revista de Historia Militar has just now been draftified, four months later, and after others have contributed to it. I would appreciate it if you could have a gander at it, and, if you think it fair, push the big blue button "submit the draft for review!" if you deem it appropriate.

Note: a version of this article (in Spanish) exists at wikipedia in Spanish (I know we consider other wikipedias irrelevant, but it probably does not hurt to mention it).

Else, we can always delete it. I would appreciate any comments you may have. XavierItzm (talk) 05:34, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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What is your source of the name? There is already Zhyngghyldyözek in Wikidata. Xx236 (talk) 06:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Transcription of the name Жынгылдыозек from the USSR Topographic Map.Xufanc (talk) 07:25, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There is still the problem in Wikidata. Xx236 (talk) 08:40, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I made a redirect. There is no information for "Zhyngghyldyözek" in Google. Please find a scholarly article on the river that uses that transcription.Xufanc (talk) 11:06, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The problem still exists - other pages are linked as Zhyngghyldyözek in Wikidata and this one is not, I do not know how to solve it. Xx236 (talk) 11:32, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I also don't know how to fix it, but in Kazakhstan there are places such as (Aktobe, Aqtöbe, Aqtobe) which have more than one transliteration in Wikipedia. These options are surely reflected in Wikidata, so there must be a way. Xufanc (talk) 13:04, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I wrote the article 9 years ago when I was teaching. At the school library there was a thick book on WW2 aircraft. It was catalogued as one of the projects of the last phase of the Nazi Regime. I doubt it is a Wunderwaffe spoof. Xufanc (talk) 03:55, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the clarification. Another editor has supplied a reliable cite and has removed the deletion proposal. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 09:46, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Interwiki[edit]

Please, use Wikidata for interwiki. 194.50.12.56 (talk) 22:59, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have never done it yet. Will try in the next article. Thanks for telling me. Xufanc (talk) 04:01, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It's simple. Example: Margaret Plant, link to added in left block, bottom. 194.50.12.56 (talk) 05:12, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you. Likewise for you too. Xufanc (talk) 11:10, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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