User talk:Visik/Archive/2011/Jul

Some township help

Sorry that this is late, but I figured you could make use of some of the help anyway. Firstly, per WP:NC-ZH except where a town has the same name as its parent county, do not add "Town" at the end. Secondly, some very common subdistrict names are 新华、建设、团结、红旗、胜利、新城、和平, etc. You will certainly need to disambiguate those by city. This has not been written in NC-ZH yet but it is standard practise on Chinese Wikipedia.

PS: I cannot believe that you went through two "Wulumuqi" without noticing that it is Ürümqi... Also, I have completely filled in the lists for Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin and even added the lists to those articles. Hundreds of cheap edits, eh? --HXL's Roundtable and Record 05:42, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

HXL49, thanks for your help. Your probably right, its a mind numbing exercise and there are bound to be minor mistakes or obvious translations such as "Wulumuqi" should be Ürümqi. I'll correct them when I can. I think there are a few sections I could quickly translate and do the formatting and tidying up e.g. common subdistrict names are 新华、建设、团结、红旗、胜利、新城、和平 later on. --Visik (Chinwag Podium) 05:46, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

I might get u to go over the article once the translations are populated completely except for some quirky ones like the Bingduis. --Visik (Chinwag Podium) 05:47, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Cheap edits. lol. Man, your hardcore. It takes me months to try and completely translate a single article and you can do a couple of articles with almost complete translations. keep up the good work!.

--Visik (Chinwag Podium) 05:56, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Any ideas on how to translate, say, 满族镇? --HXL's Roundtable and Record 17:03, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Interesting dilemma. Manchu is a ethnic group and they name it as a ethnic town. Manchu Manchu Ethnic Town would sounds weird. Manchu Ethnic Town will be too generic. Manchu Town, Liaoning?

--Visik (Chinwag Podium) 03:46, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Towns task force

I invite you to join here for now. –HXL's Roundtable and Record 04:15, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. Been busy with real life commitments. Will join when I have more time dedicated. Sporadic time at the moment. --Visik (Chinwag Podium) 03:49, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Anhui

We need to have a second attempt at this list, and reformat it after either my lists or yours. The initial work with the Xinjiang list is mostly finished, so you don't have to worry about that. However, we will need someone like Dr. Blofeld or Vmenkov with the PRC government atlases to figure out the official English names. —Xiaoyu: 聊天 (T) 和 贡献 (C) 05:25, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I have been thinking about that as well. Formatting and minor fixes, I can surely help out with when I do find the time. Been busy with real life. --Visik (Chinwag Podium) 07:17, 19 July 2011 (UTC)