HenriLobineau

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You're right about Zheng He

Henri, thanks for stepping in to a discussion that has frankly tried my patience. I replied to you at Talk:Zheng He. If you choose to wade through the discussion and help resolve the claims being made, I will be grateful. Sllee19 is the owner of the brass medallion that he wishes to insert in the article. When questions are raised, he seems to take it personally, and he has a personal grudge against one of the historians cited in the article, so keeps deleting that paragraph.

My bias is that I am a student of southeastern Indian history, and I find Dr. Lee's assertions on that topic to be embarrassingly crude. I am surprised that he does not see it that way himself. Then there is the fact that we can't find a single professional historian who accepts the theory that Zheng He's fleet ever reached the Americas. The only authority is the popular writer Gavin Menzies and his fans.

I get a sense that Dr. Lee believes that the world does not pay sufficient respect to the achievements of Chinese culture, and this is his idea of a way to rectify the balance. I think he is the author of the website asiawind.com. Maybe that is a hint for resolving the issue amicably. -- Rob C (Alarob) 15:55, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Henri, if you wish to make a sandbox for the Zheng He question, you can do it easily.

First of all, your user page has not yet been created. Click the "user page" tab on this page, type anything you like into the edit field on the new page, and save it.

To create a sandbox, begin at your user page. Click in the address bar of your browser, which will read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HenriLobineau

and place your cursor at the end of that address.

Supposing you want to name the sandbox page Zheng He you would add a slash / and the title to the end of the address, so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HenriLobineau/Zheng He

Press the Return key on your keyboard, and you can start working on the sandbox page.

Place a note on Talk:Zheng He inviting editors to work in the sandbox at User:HenriLobineau/Zheng He (or whatever you name it).

Apologies if you already know this. -- Rob C (Alarob) 22:14, 28 June 2007 (UTC)