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America

Thanks for the note you left on my talk page. I agree that including that wording was "not inappropriate", but unfortunately it seems there's 300 million of them and only a few of us. My remarks about the register of language in which it is used were pretty much finessed, too. Oh, well: there are other, more important things to be done. –Hajor 18:18, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Mrs. Jordan

Sharkford,
Thank you for the information about Mrs. Jordan; I had presumed that "Mrs" meant there was a mister. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 16:29, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

Emigration question thanks

Thanks for answering my question on the ref desk. Sorry if I seemed a bit defensive. --I. Neschek 20:09, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Smokey and the Keystone Cops

Salve, Sharkford!
Thanks so much for your answers on WP:RD re the Pennsylvania Department of Ag and Smokey and the Bandit. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:18, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Flag templates

Discussion moved from Wikipedia:Village_pump_(news)#Flag_templates to Template talk:Flag. USA (SEWilco 19:05, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC))

Maybe Katie

Salve, Sharkford!
We haven't communicated in a while and I hope this message find you well. Lately I've not fared well with my FAC nominees, some failing to win even one support vote. I wonder if you would look at Katie Holmes and its nominationhere and offer your comments. PedanticallySpeaking 15:51, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

Fathers

Thanks for your answer at WP:RD about fathers on birth certificates. I am grateful. PedanticallySpeaking July 8, 2005 20:50 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Jonathan Pater

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??? I've had nothing to do with that article...how did this end up here? Sharkford 17:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Pre-Meiji coinage in Japan

I'm contacting you because of your record of contributions in the edit history of Japanese yen.

An exchange of views at Talk:Japanese yen/Archives/2012#Etymology is developing. Attention is focused on two sentences only:

En literally means "round object" in Japanese, as yuan does in Chinese, referring to the ancient Chinese coins that were circular in shape and widely used in Japan up to the Tokugawa Period. In 1695, the character 元 (ghen), signifying "round or rounded") was placed on the obverse of copper coins.

The reference source for this fact is:

• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō (1652)], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.--Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click this link for digitized copy of page 415 from rare book in the collection of the University of Michigan

As I understand it, other editors are incredulous, suggesting that this data is likely to be spurious because confirmation is not readily found in conventional numismatic reference books which concern themselves with coins in general circulation during the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.

See corollary thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan#Pre-Meiji coinage in Japan

See corollary thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numismatics#Pre-Meiji coinage in Japan

I just wondered whether you might have a helpful contributions to make. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 15:42, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Min Chen

Perhaps there could be a disambiguation of sorts - Make "Min Chen (musician)" and turn Min Chen into a disambiguation page. Perhaps Chen Min could become a redirect to a disambiguation page as well. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:32, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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