Alanmak

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Away from Wikipedia

I am now not as active in Wikipedia as I was two years ago. I apologize for not being able to reply to your messages promptly. - Alan (talk) 02:39, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

June 2009

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on List of circulating currencies. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 13:34, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello Alanmak. If you don't revert the article again for at least 24 hours, it is possible that no action will be taken. See the latest comment in the report at WP:AN3. Please use the article talk page to reach consensus. EdJohnston (talk) 18:08, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Sha Tin

How do we work together? I am mainly concerned about the private housing estates and shopping centres in the district. Ricky@36 (talk) 14:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Street template

Is there any reason why you remove the street template from articles? And can you fix the template so that Cantonese is displayed before Mandarin in Hong Kong articles in the Chinese template? Umofomo (talk) 18:37, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Template:Chinese

Whatever you tried to do with this edit to Template:Chinese broke the template horribly. Please test changes to templates before you make them. And if you were trying to do what Umofomo asked above (make Cantonese display above Mandarin only on certain articles), that kind of change likely cannot be made (I don't think you can make a template behave differently only on some articles) so please do not try to do that again. -Amake (talk) 06:46, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Shopping centres in Hong Kong

I have added some of shopping centres in the list you mentioned. Ricky@36 (talk) 06:50, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Please help me reserve Celestial Heights articles

Some foreigners don't understand the buildings of Celestial Heights and said the article is worth deleting. I am afraid they can easily remove Hong Kong property articles later. Please support me to reserve the article. Ricky@36 (talk) 01:37, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

香港私人屋苑被加tag

佢地好似關於香港的屋苑都加notability，我地有無得投訴佢地種族歧視？Ricky@36 (talk) 05:38, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

• 條友叫RadioXXX Ricky@36 (talk) 05:40, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
  • 佢地成日話我地講的屋苑唔聞名，佢地唔識就話唔聞名，我地夠可以話佢地唔聞名，一樣可以加tag。我俾晒所有reference落文章度，佢地仍話有問題，擺明喺度搞事Ricky@36 (talk) 05:44, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
  • 你搵返晒所有被tag屋苑的原作者，唔該 Ricky@36 (talk) 06:25, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
  • 唔該幫手除番晒所有私家樓的notability tag呀，條友成日係咁加，玩針對。 Ricky@36 (talk) 15:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

IPAEng

Hi Alan,

{{IPAEng}} has been renamed {{IPA-en}}. The old name is being phased out. kwami (talk) 11:10, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh, please try to follow the IPA key linked by the template. Otherwise many of our readers won't understand what the symbols mean. If the key doesn't cover a distinction you need, please bring it up on the IPA key talkpage. Thanks, kwami (talk) 11:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

求救幫忙﹗

又有人得鬼閒話delete公屋文，佢地咁搞我地香港人唔使生存。請支持保留公屋文﹗Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tin Tsz Estate同Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shek Yam East Estate Ricky@36 (talk) 15:57, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Charles K. Kao. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. --Aqwis (talk) 14:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

馬鞍山私人屋苑

我已經表達支持保留你兩篇馬鞍山私樓的文章，但我覺得開始有部份外國人唔係咁支持呢種行為，你睇下紀錄，就知道一二Ricky@36 (talk) 00:25, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

October 2009

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Pic of The Peninsula in in the article Hong Kong

Hi there~ Very sorry that I removed your fine pic, there seems to be way too many pic on that page and even if a pic need to be added to the architecture section, that pic has to be of architecture significance, to tell at least a architectural style or identify of Hong Kong. The windows details of Peninsula is quite plain and modest compare to other examples of neo-classical building, and the columns are so small that the classical order can't even be identified with certainty =_="". If u have other pics of better significance feel free to add again. ^^ Da Vynci (talk) 05:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Hong Kong

This user helped promote Hong Kong to good article status.

Well done. SilkTork *^YES! 14:47, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

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Mong Kok

You would certainly agree that noone today would call the area "Argyle". So writing "Mong Kok (also Mongkok or Argyle)" in the first sentence of the article is misleading, since it gives the impression that the area is still called this way. If, as I may understand, the area was called "Argyle" sometime between 1979 and 1985, then a detailed explanation would be welcome in the "Name" paragraph of the article.

My understanding was that the MTR station was named "Argyle Station" after Argyle Street, Hong Kong in 1979. That is what the Mong Kok Station article says. I can understand that the area was later called casually by extension after the name of the station, which is exactly what happened with "Jordan", "Prince Edward" or even "Tin Hau". This is when "Argyle Building" was named. Then in 1985, the name of the station was changed to "Mong Kok" and people stopped calling the area "Argyle" in English.

Again, if that is the course of events, then it would be better to include it in the "Name" section. Writing "Argyle" in the intro line is not appropriate.

Best. olivier (talk) 15:33, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply on my talk page. I believe that we essentially do not disagree. I have made some changes to the article, which I hope you will find appropriate. olivier (talk) 14:50, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Regional differences in the Chinese language for deletion

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page review

can you please review this page: sakib

thanks :)--Historyfeelings - talk 06:59, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Map of Macau in Portuguese

I would like to thank you, in the name of all Lusophone Wikipedians, for the somewhat detailed administrative map of Macau you've developed and made available here. Keep up the good work. - Popotão (talk) 07:37, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Revived interest in the film Infernal Affairs

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contact

I would like to talk to you about your work on historical timezones in China. Can we communicate by email? Mine is on my user's page. I would hope that you can provide me with a copy of the article 建国初期的北京时间 by Guo, Qingsheng (2003) , and possibly a translation of that article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aloist (talk • contribs) 17:41, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

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Merge discussion for Sha Tin Heights Tunnel

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