User talk:Novacatz/Archive3

The Navigational aids

It does help some. What would help is more than just me maintaining the list. I'm close to burn out. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 05:16, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Honestly, I don't think that will help, I really don't. It's laziness that causes admins not to list protected articles. Adding steps wouldn't help. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 06:25, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Unprotects

I'm with you on this. There are several admins who simply protect-and-forget, and it's very annoying. -Splash^talk 19:09, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpower ^háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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Simplified Chinese character

I think it should be at the singular in this case: note Traditional Chinese character and Chinese character. Although looking at other examples is never a definitive test, I suggest the following points (following Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)):

• It isn't a term that's always referred to by its plural form, and grammatical niceties don't apply here.
• I can imagine a case where people would want to write Simplified Chinese character.
• Although it may seem analogous to the example given on languages, the characteristic of those articles is that they discuss the group (the language group) together with an examination of the component parts of the group (some mention of each language in the language group). However, in this case, the analogous situation would be for the Simplified Chinese characters article to list all Chinese characters and provide a link to them. A better view of the article in question is that it discusses the charactertics of a Simplified Chinese character, providing just a few examples along the way. It's like Radical (Chinese character), which is at the singular; there are many Chinese radicals, yet singular is suitable here.

Admittedly, this is a borderline case, but one that I think falls on the side of the singular argument. In any case, I think we should follow precedent with established articles Traditional Chinese character and Chinese character. Hope to see you on Sunday. enochlau (talk) 12:18, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Street food

lol at your edit [1] - sure there isn't a character for "bin" (side)? :) enochlau (talk) 13:04, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey I am on vacation! I don't want to spend my vacation time hunting down the character for 'bin' (not hard but time consuming) -- anywayz - Instantnood has fixed that up already so point is moot. novacatz 23:18, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for letting me know about the broken link in the Instantnood RFAr. It was caused by that category being deleted per a CfD vote, I undeleted it and protected it to preserve the evidence there while the case is considered. Thanks again for the heads up. --Wgfinley 13:53, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

"Kung Hei Fat Choi" signs

Hello Novacatz do you think you can take some pictures of such signs in Sydney? — Instantnood 20:25, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I will see what I can do. novacatz 23:18, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to thank you for dividing WP:PP into dates. I just did the same thing with the semi protection section. Makes it much much easier to edit. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 12:24, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower ^háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
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傑 versus 杰

Hi, I saw your comment in the Jet Li discussion.

You said: "杰 is also a traditional character sharing the same pronouciation as 傑. 杰 is his name. As original poster mentioned, google is not very reliable here as it changes the simplified to traditional wrongly. novacatz 05:06, 11 December 2005 (UTC)"

So both 傑 and 杰 are traditional characters, and 杰 is the simplified version for both of those characters? So what does the 杰 traditional character mean as opposed to 傑? Are those two characters interchangable in traditional writing? Can I write "outstanding, 傑出" in traditional writing using 杰?

My Chinese name in simplified is 张安杰 , but when a chinese newspaper translated it to traditional characters, they put 張安杰, when it's supposed to be 張安傑。Illusionz 02:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

'Cos both 杰 and 傑 are used in the traditional set of characters. — Instantnood 17:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

That still doesn't help me. I want to know if 傑 and 杰 are interchangable in traditional writing. Is 傑 even used anymore? As a related example, people in taiwan write "台灣" instead of "臺灣". They tend to use 台 instead of 臺. Is this the case with 傑? Do people who use traditional characters use 杰 as a replacement for 傑?

Better yet, the ultimate question is: If 傑 and 杰 are used in the traditional set of characters and have the same pronounciation and same meaning, when do you use which? Illusionz 23:20, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

To my understanding they're two different characters in the traditional set. They're not used interchangeably. Not too sure if they've the same or similar meaning. — Instantnood 19:30, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Are you going tommorow?

I'm busy enough in my real life, and I wasn't free at that time. Did you guys have fun? :-) — Instantnood 17:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Tram

Please refer to my response at K.C.'s talk page. Cheers. — Instantnood 20:15, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Hong Kong pics

Admittedly they are a little on the empty side of things, but I do have a slight bias for pictures of Sydney or Hong Kong on FPC. But still, I think if there were more people, it would have been impossible to capture a reasonable picture without people in the foreground blocking your view (blurry heads in pictures 1 and 3 on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Busy Street). A pity that my picture of people heading home after NYE at Tsim Sha Tsui is all blurry, cos there was no way I could stand still in one spot! enochlau (talk) 04:52, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Btw, did you manage to photograph Kung Hei Fat Choi signs while in Sydney as Instantnood suggested? I spotted one but I didn't have my camera on me at the time, and my camera phone just isn't up to scratch... enochlau (talk) 04:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Unfortuantely no, I was really busy back in Aus this time. novacatz 05:57, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks anyways. :-P — Instantnood 10:02, 18 February 2006 (UTC)