User talk:Lao Wai

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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chinese box

Just so you don't find this a surprise, I wanted to let you know that I am moving Chinese box to Chinese box (torture) so that Chinese box itself can become a disambiguation page for 5 different meanings of the phrase. Thanks. --Tabor 20:19, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chinese marriage

Thanks for your top-notch recasting. Actually that's a translated article, and I would translate the rest if time allows...:) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 14:35, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism or extreme POV

It's either vandalism or extreme POV; it's often hard to tell the difference. Anyway, thanks for fixing it. Jayjg ^(talk) 4 July 2005 19:45 (UTC)

Fascinating insight

I was completely unaware that you were a Spice Girls fan... Or is it just Melanie Brown? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 4 July 2005 21:30 (UTC)

Genghis Khan

I appreciate the changes you are making to the article, help is needed to make sure some of the editors do not gloss over the "less positive" aspects of his conquest. At the same time, though, I would ask that you not understate the nature of your changes in the comments that go with them. For example, while I agree with this change, it alters the entirel meaning of the paragraph, rather than "Correcting slight mistake." I would happily defend your changes, but it helps to make it clearer when you are alterning the article in a significant way. --Goodoldpolonius2 7 July 2005 21:49 (UTC)

Tenzin Gyatso

Hello Lao Wai,

I was just wondering, what proof do you have for the fact that the Dalai Lama's parents were moderately wealthy and lived with some ethnic Chinese? Also, you said that the Dalai Lama traditionally claims to be Tibet's Head of State. I thought the Dalai Lamas were always the head of state, I could be wrong though. You also said, "He also claims to believe that modern science takes precendence over ancient religions", but that doesn't really make sense because no one really "claims to believe something" Finally, the part about the Dalai Lama's suggestion for Tibet to not have to be independent but at least get to manage its own personal affairs while China manages foreign affairs, you changed that to "some aspects of Tibet's defense and foreign affairs" What proof do you have about this? Oh, by the way, thanks for correcting all those other errors in the article. Please reply on my talk page. --Hottentot

Size and extent of the world

Hi, and welcome.

In an edit summary, you made a wry observation:

there is a world beyond America you know

I'm not sure this is correct. I saw a map recently, which shows the Upper West Side as the center of the world, with The Hamptons and Hollywood at the furthest borders - and all those Red States in between. Everything beyond the borders of the civilized world is unexplored territory, probably very dangerous and certainly uninhabited. We are "the only people who are people", as Pocahontas sang in Colors of the Wind

Oh, and in case you hadn't noticed, I was writing ironically. Uncle Ed 15:38, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Question

Can you recommend a good, authentic, inexpensive Malaysian restaurant in SG? Not tiny/cramped, and relatively easy to find would be a plus. Thanks for your time and help!! Viva Singapura :) ~ Dpr 20:32, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese Jews

Thanks for your work at Jews in China. Would you mind sifting through Kaifeng Jews? Particularly, I see that the Jews in China says that the Kaifeng Jews are not registered as a minority in China, but the Kaifeng Jews article seems to say exactly the opposite. Also, with respect to the Jews in China article, I note that there synagogues in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, yet it says in that article that Judaism is "functionally extinct" in China. Tomer ^TALK 22:39, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry, go ahead!

I only just now saw that you are still working on it... go ahead, I'll wait til you're done... Try this template and I'll wait til you move it:

(inuse) {{inuse}}

Regards,Codex Sinaiticus 21:26, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sandy Lam

Thanks for your interest in improving the article about Sandy Lam, but most of the text in the article is copied from the website [1]. We can't legally accept copyrighted text. If you are interested in adding to the article in your own words, that would be great! Cheers, FreplySpang (talk) 20:15, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for rewriting the article! And, how annoying that someone has decided to work against you. The key things are to be patient and avoid revert warring. Getting some other people to look in on the article will help a lot -- Wikipedia runs on community consensus. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about Sandy Lam except what I read on Wikipedia :-) so I can't help you too much with the content. I've labeled the article with Category:Hong Kong musicians and

This Hong Kong biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

which might bring some more people in. The anonymous editor is very close to violating the three-revert rule. If they do violate it, you can report them at the admin's noticeboard, and an admin will investigate. I've left a stern note on the editor's User_talk page, too. Finally, if this continues, you can list it at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Media, art and literature. Whew. Anyway, thanks again for your work, and I hope this problem goes away soon. FreplySpang (talk) 17:38, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

East Timor

I don't know enough about the politcial side of things, but the article does seem odd (and the contents are very misleadingly written). I've done some work on it, added an "NPOV" template, and left a note on the Talk page. The title needs to be NPoVed too; I'd have moved it, but I thought I'd ask your opinion first; would Allegations of Australian cover-up in East Timor do, or is that too unwieldy? Can you think of a better title? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:31, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Tickling "irrelevance"

(Foreword: If anyone has a reply to this, please send it to my talk section. Thanks.

--Shultz 16:32, 13 August 2005 (UTC) )[reply]

What do you mean removing the irrelevance??? C'mon! Why do you consider that "irrelevant"?? It's true: laughing while tickling ISN'T ALWAYS INVOLUNTARY. I went out of my way to PROVE that.

If anyone's curious as to what I'm talking about, it was this entry that Lao Wai removed:

Unwanted Tickling

When someone gets tickled when they don't want to, it may cause discomfort, even anger. Laughing from it also turns out not to be totally involuntary after all. Some people also prefer to get tickled only by those they approve of, so they consider anyone else tickling them to be an annoyance, even an act of torture.

In fact, a song has been thought up that reflects this:

(To the tune of Feliz Navidad)

instrumental intro

Stop tickling my feet!