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DYK for Pieter Nuyts

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Victuallers (talk) 10:04, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK question

Do you have another source that the Taiwan Church News was the first printed newspaper in Taiwan, besides the newspaper's website for the DYK hook? Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 20:17, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Daniel Gravius

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Royalbroil 13:48, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Shenkeng, Taipei

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Dravecky (talk) 07:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Taiwan Church News

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Dravecky (talk) 20:02, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Glad to meet you

Hello, I am a Taiwanese. I found your page through the keyword "Verwaerloosde Formosa". I see some page you are editing is about the history of Taiwan. It's really nice to know more about my own country. Since you are now living in Taiwan, you might find that most Taiwaneses know little about their own history. Glad to meet you. Pang-hung.liu (talk) 13:11, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Sino-French War

Hi there! Congratulations on your excellent work on the early European settlement of Taiwan. I don't know whether you are interested, but I have written a series of articles on the Sino-French War (including the Keelung Campaign and the Pescadores Campaign and the Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895), among other articles on nineteenth-century Asian history. I used to live in Taiwan but am now working in Hong Kong. If you feel like getting involved with my Taiwan stuff, particularly on the events of 1895, I would welcome any additional material you could provide. I will shortly be publishing a book on the Sino-French War, and plan to follow it with an account of the Japanese invasion in 1895 (my enthusiasm having been aroused by watching the recent Taiwanese film '1895').

Keep up the good work, it's nice to see well-researched material on Taiwan.

Djwilms (talk) 08:01, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar, I've been on holiday recently and out of touch with computers. I see you got one too, and very well deserved it is. I'll be back in the office next Monday and will resume my work on Wikipedia then. I still need to rewrite the article on the 1874 Japanese expedition to Taiwan. Expect I'll be bumping into you again before too long.

Incidentally, are you living in Taipei? I'm based in Hong Kong, but I get over to Taipei every now and then, and it would be nice to meet up next time I'm there.

Djwilms (talk) 08:51, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Candidius and Lamey Island Massacre

Hi, Taiwantaffy: Bravo! Outstanding work! I have a question about Candidius. I find a letter on page 106 of Campbell Formosa under the Dutch from the Commanders of the Fleet, etc. to Hendrik Brouwer mentioning "We have very amply discussed with Mr. Candidius the best means to be employed for preventing Takaran from going to Japan, and have concluded that it would be well for Candidius on his arrival to present this Takaran with some gifts [etc., etc., I am to lazy to type] " ...anyway, this Mattau headman Takaran, or Taccaran, was to be informed of the Dutch plan to devastate Golden Lion island and "on the intercession of Candidius be employed as chief of this expedition". Would you know, if Candidius was in any other way involved in the planning of this massacre?

Best regards, Rolf-Peter Wille (talk) 15:50, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, Taffy, for your quick and interesting answer! Rolf-Peter Wille (talk) 04:11, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa

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DYK for Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa

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BorgQueen (talk) 15:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

T:TDYK#List of earthquakes in Taiwan

I have left a response to you there. Cheers, Dylan620 (contribs, logs) 16:59, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

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	For your excellent work on Taiwanese earthquake articles – that was an extremely commendable effort of yours to send all 12 articles to DYK in one shot. Cheers, Dylan620 (contribs, logs)help us! 20:58, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Help me please

Please help me to re-direct. I have checked local governments' websites, they do not spell like Zhongpu or Xinhua. Please check Hsinchu, Taichung, Jhongpu (http://jhongpu.cyhg.gov.tw/) and Sinhua (http://www.sinhua.gov.tw/), there are no Xinzhu, Taizhong, Zhongpu or Xinhua in Taiwan. Horikawa (talk) 08:57, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK for List of earthquakes in Taiwan

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Orlady (talk) 02:14, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK for 1904 Douliu earthquake

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DYK for Central Weather Bureau

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DYK for 1916-17 Nantou earthquakes

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DYK for 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung earthquake

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DYK for 1941 Zhongpu earthquake

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Orlady (talk) 02:15, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK for 1946 Xinhua earthquake

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Orlady (talk) 02:15, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK for 1951 East Rift Valley earthquakes

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DYK for 1959 Hengchun earthquake

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DYK for 1964 Baihe earthquake

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DYK for 921 earthquake

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DYK for 1906 Meishan earthquake

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Barnstars!!!

As I promised! :D

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DYK for Ts'ao Yung-ho

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DYK for James W. Davidson

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DYK for Alien Resident Certificate

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≈ Chamal ^talk ¤ 01:42, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Bristol Guild of Applied Art

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— Jake Wartenberg 13:07, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Source

Please provide official source refering TRTC has change station name to "Xindian City Office". Thank you. Bus88MRT (talk) 17:06, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

By the way

the name Muzha Line has been change to "Wenshan Line", so whole brown line will be called as "Wenshan Neihu Line", simple called "Wenhu Line". Official says among name of District is no longer Muzha, but Wenshan now. Media say another is avoid the words sounded like 詐胡, a behavior of cheating on Majiang. Bus88MRT (talk) 18:16, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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Pe̍h-ōe-jī GAN

You recently nominated Pe̍h-ōe-jī to become a Good Article. The article looks good. The only problem was that your rewrite subpage is not entirely by you but rather has one edit by another user. Your copy-and-pasting of this violated copying within Wikipedia and Cut-and-paste moves because you did not mention where you got it from. As the edit by User:Debresser was a minor one, this is an easy oversight to make and there is no doubt you worked entirely in good faith. However, I fixed this problem (see talk:Pe̍h-ōe-jī). With that problem resolved, I passed the article. Please consider reviewing some other GAN to help deal with the backlog. Remember that User:Taiwantaffy/POJ must never be deleted.

With this in mind, I notice that you have additional subpages. In the future, please make sure that this sort of incident does not recur by properly attributing text with authors other than you that you copy from rewrite pages to the main namespace in the future. If you happen to have done something similar to this in the past, again make sure that copy-and-pasted text, if any of it is by someone other than you, is properly attributed. If it helps, you can always work on temporary rewrites outside of Wikipedia, using your favourite text editor.

Thank you and keep up the good work. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 07:45, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Pe̍h-ōe-jī/archive1

comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Pe̍h-ōe-jī/archive1 GlitchCraft (talk) 04:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry re. my lousy mood

It's a poor excuse, but I was in a crummy mood when I logged on and I reacted badly to the AfD notice. I wouldn't have reacted at all beyond voting to either keep or delete it. This site needs a lot more authors like you; I've spent too much time playing policeman and not enough time in the article space as of late. Thank you for your diligence and consideration and please accept my apologies for getting upset at you. You did the right thing bringing the article up for AfD. That's how substandard stuff often gets fixed.

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Pe̍h-ōe-jī file(s)

• I have at least one, maybe more articles about Pe̍h-ōe-jī from my Ling classes. Same author as two others you have, it seems. Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Childish writing? by Chiung. Email me if you want it. • Ling.Nut 04:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the DYK, but

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DYK nomination of Shalun Line

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DYK for Kirchardt

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DYK for Shalun Line

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Pe̍h-ōe-jī FAC

Alas, I see that a delegate has archived the nom, even though I specifically asked, a couple of days ago, that it be left for a while, given that it had received no content review at all before my intervention on 15 August. Ah, well... I will raise a polite protest, but from the point of view of the article's future, and possible renomination, I suggest we continue our discussions on the article's talkpage. I will transfer my FAC comments to there. Brianboulton (talk) 18:57, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

dead links, Taiwanese aborigines

• see this. • Ling.Nut 08:01, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Mike He

Taiwan,

You tagged Mike He as containing content that isn't suitable for an encyclopedia. I'm not sure what content you're referring to. Please comment on Talk:Mike He as to what shouldn't be in the article. Don't comment here, as I probably won't see it. Thank you. D O N D E  groovily Talk to me 04:20, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Railroad stations

210.70.131.254 (talk · contribs) geolocates to Taipei Municipal Ta-An Senior Vocational Industrial School. I blocked that IP for 31 hours, after urging him to explain himself (no response to that) and placing a level-4 warning on the talk page. All edits have been undone. 61.62.92.16 (talk · contribs) may be his home IP and is currently not blocked. Please be alert for further edits. Thank you so much for reporting this problem. --Diannaa ^(Talk) 04:23, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for William Lai

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

An earthquake article I found

I found this article about an earthquake that occurred near Taiwan in 1994. I didn't see it on your List of earthquakes in Taiwan so I thought you would be interested to add information to the article. Cheers! :) - iForce= 08:49, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem, another one I found, 1972 Ruisui earthquake. Both seems to be from the same contributor User:Qrfqr - iForce= 20:50, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Zhuluo County

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

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Help Maybe?

Hello I saw you work with Taiwanese article. I thought you would maybe be interested in getting 2009 Little League World Series to GA? I know you mostly work with history of Taiwan but maybe you can try? This world series was the most recent championship that Taiwan was in. Its also a very important article to the city of Chula Vista which im trying to expand coverage of for its centennial this year. Spongie555 (talk) 04:05, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for the pinyin!

Can you also do pinyin for Chau Cham Son and Draft:Alexander Wong? Thank you again!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 16:14, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

• Done! Taiwantaffy (talk) 08:19, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

You are a genius, thank you! How do you decide when to pinyin and when to jyutping?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:59, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome! Jyutping for Hong Kongers, pinyin for the PRC and Taiwan. Taiwantaffy (talk) 11:04, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

I'm finishing the last Bronze Wolf articles for Wikipedia-still trying to find the Chinese characters for Taiwanese Bronze Wolf #188 Ming-huey Kao, 210 Teh-Li Tsui, 242 Chih-Yun Liu, 256 Shoei-Yun Wu-can you guess?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

This might take some time. I'll update here when (if?) I find them:

• Ming-huey Kao (Chinese: 高銘輝; pinyin: Gāo Mínghuī)

You are great, thank you! I just got the characters for Henry C. Ma, can you jyutping? :)--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:57, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

1. 210 Teh-Li Tsui 崔德禮 pinyin?
2. 242 Chih-Yun Liu 劉熾雲 pinyin?
3. 256 Shoei-Yun Wu 吳水雲 pinyin?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:34, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your hard work on all of these!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:39, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome! Taiwantaffy (talk) 10:14, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, one more Chao Shou-Po--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:31, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, also for the {{Like resume}} tag! I thought so too! I didn't know we had that, I will use that!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 17:09, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Can you tell me what this name is, the Chinese characters and the pinyin? I can't read any of them. Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:22, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

That's former Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui (Chinese: 李登輝; pinyin: Lǐ Dēnghuī) Taiwantaffy (talk) 11:07, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much! He won a big Japanese Scout award!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 17:07, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

This is what I was working on: Golden Pheasant Award, thank you so much!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:03, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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