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Welcome!

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Hello, Xinbenlv, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Thank you! I will go through this. Xinbenlv (talk) 01:17, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Copying licensed material requires proper attribution

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Hi. I see in a recent addition to Wei Dai you included material the Bitcoin wiki, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this legal requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:17, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for help, Diannaa! I actually included that information in both talk page and the comment of primary article, whats the best way to do it? Xinbenlv (talk) 21:55, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Diannaa, I just realized I didn't trigger the mention. Xinbenlv (talk) 15:00, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
A comment on the talk page is optional. You should mention the license in your edit summary and place attribution in the article itself like I did here. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:24, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Got it. Will do the same next time. Thanks for the guidance. Xinbenlv (talk) 22:45, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

March 2018

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Proposed deletion of ZaiGeZaiGu Community

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Not a notable organization. Running a single Chinese New Year Gala doesn't make the group notable, and the coverage appears to be WP:MILL coverage of that event, not the group running it.

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Thanks, power~enwiki for the efforts of cleaning and educating me. I left a message on the Talk page of ZaiGeZaiGu Community in defending the challenge believing the article's current state satisfies Notability. Please let me know if you would advice otherwise. Also, help me with your guidance how to request for halting the Speedy deletion? Xinbenlv (talk) 21:18, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I seconded the PROD. This is not speedy, if you think it meet feel free to remove our tags and then we will take it to WP:AFD. See my comments there --Quek157 (talk) 21:20, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of ZaiGeZaiGu Community for deletion

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Ways to improve JD Asia No 1 Warehouse

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Hi, I'm Quek157. Xinbenlv, thanks for creating JD Asia No 1 Warehouse!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. this is okay not rotm meet ncorp .

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Quek157 (talk) 12:01, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Quek157 for suggestions. I am still practicing starting subs. I added some of the Wikipedia links and thus I removed the deadend template. It was challenging for me to determine other categories to apply. Feel free to suggest more categories. I will keep the categories template as-is for now until I learnt the best way to determine categories and come back to update it. Xinbenlv (talk) 13:51, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
some people will monitor the templates I'm sure. so no worries. focus attention to get more sources on this than that afd to escape someone trigger friendly afd this also. Based on my experience, that seems like a delete already Quek157 (talk) 13:55, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Done, Xinbenlv (talk) 17:54, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Air China Flight 1350 for deletion

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Test edit

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Xinbenlv (talk) 01:15, 22 February 2019 (UTC) test edit[reply]

Draft:Swarm(distributed storage)

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WikiProject Numismatics newsletter - June 2019

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WikiProject Numismatics

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This is a continuation of a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numismatics/newsletter#Great newsletter.

Recommended reading for the WikiProject is as follows:

A list of tasks can be found here, but it has not been updated for about a year. I would suggest reading currency articles until you find one you would like to improve. You could also create an article for the project. - ZLEA T\C 23:23, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ZLEA:, I plan to focus my efforts on articles related to the emergence of Euro, including all kinds of previous organizations and treaties that lead to the birth of it. Xinbenlv (talk) 18:07, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
A good place to start would be History of the euro. - ZLEA T\C 19:10, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@ZLEA: yeah, I added a few to [[Category:Euro]] (how do I literally mention a Category without mistakenly add the current page to the Category like using a [[]]?) Xinbenlv (talk) 22:29, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Xinbenlv To add a link to a category without adding the page to said category, you add a colon (:) to the link after the first brackets ([[:Category:Euro]] links to Category:Euro). You do the same thing to link to an image ([[:File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.svg]] links to File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.svg). The colon doesn't show in the text. - ZLEA T\C 22:35, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@ZLEA: that helps a lot! What are your latest interest of space in editing? Xinbenlv (talk) 06:54, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've recently taken an interest in the commemorative coins of the United States. I'm currently working on splitting up Early United States commemorative coins and Modern United States commemorative coins by decade. - ZLEA T\C 11:04, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@ZLEA: cool, I am going to ask my questions about commemorative coins

tatyour talk page. Xinbenlv (talk) 23:30, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

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Please stop editing my drafts in my userspace. It is not finished and what looks like errors to you are abbreviations for future content. You look pretty great on your other editing activities and I hope to see you around making improvements. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 12:43, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Barbara (WVS): oops sorry about that, thanks for taking the effort to notify me! I should consider it bug in the software of WikiLoop Battlefield and it should filter out user namespace stuff. - I will fix it immediately. Sorry about that and thank you! Xinbenlv (talk) 17:14, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit conflict?

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I assume you had an edit conflict here and did not deliberately remove my comments. DuncanHill (talk) 17:52, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DuncanHill: Yes, it was a conflict of edits. Sorry I didn't know that will occur. Please kindly add that back. I was commenting on another sub-thread Xinbenlv (talk) 18:07, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've restored it. DuncanHill (talk) 18:09, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiloop

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Hey there. Am of course looking forward to seeing how your Wikiloop Battlefield project comes along, but I wanted to point out that you might get quite a few incorrect results as the user's edit summary is currently hidden in Wikiloop's user interface. Edit summaries often contain an explanation for why an edit was made, so it's not really possible to decide if reverting is the right action.

The tool's edit summary is also a bit off at the moment (containing "vundefined"), maybe it could be changed to a more descriptive "Identified as test/vandalism using [[m:WikiLoop Battlefield|WikiLoop]]"?

Again, hope to be able to see your finished project soon, --83.240.234.220 (talk) 02:42, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. vundefined is a bug, it should be something like v1.0.0-alpha-4 etc. I will update the comment and also display summary. Thank you for suggestion! (I can't ping you because you didn't login, hopefully you will see it.) Xinbenlv (talk) 04:44, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have taken down your suggestion and put into issue tracker, should be rolled out next release. Thanks again for reaching out! Xinbenlv (talk) 01:58, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@83.240.234.220:, update after your report:

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WikiProject Numismatics newsletter - August 2019

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Mercury dime

The Mercury dime is a ten-cent coin struck by the United States Mint from late 1916 to 1945. Designed by Adolph Weinman and also referred to as the Winged Liberty Head dime, it gained its common name because the obverse depiction of a young Liberty, identifiable by her winged Phrygian cap, was confused with the Roman god Mercury. Weinman is believed to have used Elsie Stevens, the wife of lawyer and poet Wallace Stevens, as a model. The coin's reverse depicts a fasces, symbolizing unity and strength, and an olive branch, signifying peace.

By 1916, the dime, quarter, and half dollar designed by Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber had been struck for 25 years, and could be replaced by the Treasury, of which the Mint is a part, without Congressional authorization. Mint officials were under the misapprehension that the designs had to be changed, and held a competition among three sculptors, in which Barber, who had been in his position for 36 years, also took part. Weinman's designs for the dime and half dollar were selected.

Although the new coin's design was admired for its beauty, the Mint made modifications to it upon learning that vending machine manufacturers were having difficulties making the new dime work in their devices. The coin continued to be minted until 1945, when the Treasury ordered that a new design, featuring recently deceased president Franklin Roosevelt, take its place. The Mercury dime was minted again but in gold for its centenary in 2016. (Full article...)

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The Louisiana Purchase (shown in white)

The Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial half dollar was a proposed United States commemorative coin. Intended for the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase (shown in white), the coin was sought by both the Missouri Historical Society (MHS) and the Louisiana Purchase 150th Anniversary Association of New Orleans, led by Clay Shaw; they hoped to be able to buy the entire coin issue from the government and sell it at a profit. Numismatist Eric P. Newman advocated for the bill on behalf of the MHS. The House of Representatives passed authorizing legislation in April 1953, but the Senate was slow to act, passing it in January 1954. The Treasury Department strongly opposed the bill, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower vetoed it and two other commemorative coin bills on February 3, 1954; Congress made no attempt to override the vetoes. No commemorative coins were authorized or issued by the United States after 1954 until a new issue was struck in 1982. (Full article...)

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US Banknote Contest
November-December 2019

There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons.

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The euro (sign: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 of the 28 member states of the European Union. This group of states is known as the eurozone or euro area, and counts about 343 million citizens as of 2019. The euro, which is divided into 100 cents, is the second-largest and second-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar.

The currency is also used officially by the institutions of the European Union, by four European microstates that are not EU members, as well as unilaterally by Montenegro and Kosovo. Outside Europe, a number of special territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency. Additionally, over 200 million people worldwide use currencies pegged to the euro.

The euro is the second-largest reserve currency as well as the second-most traded currency in the world after the United States dollar. As of August 2018, with more than €1.2 trillion in circulation, the euro has one of the highest combined values of banknotes and coins in circulation in the world, having surpassed the U.S. dollar.

The name euro was officially adopted on 16 December 1995 in Madrid. The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency on 1 January 1999, replacing the former European Currency Unit (ECU) at a ratio of 1:1 (US$1.1743). Physical euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation on 1 January 2002, making it the day-to-day operating currency of its original members, and by March 2002 it had completely replaced the former currencies. While the euro dropped subsequently to US$0.83 within two years (26 October 2000), it has traded above the U.S. dollar since the end of 2002, peaking at US$1.60 on 18 July 2008. In late 2009, the euro became immersed in the European sovereign-debt crisis, which led to the creation of the European Financial Stability Facility as well as other reforms aimed at stabilising and strengthening the currency. (Full article...)

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1916 McKinley Birthplace Memorial gold dollar, obverse (left) and reverse (right)

The McKinley Birthplace Memorial gold dollar was a commemorative coin struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1916 and 1917, with the obverse designed by Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, and the reverse by his assistant, George T. Morgan. As William McKinley had appeared on a version of the 1903-dated Louisiana Purchase Exposition gold dollar, the 1916 release made him the first person to appear on two issues of U.S. coins. The coins benefitted the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial at Niles, Ohio. The issue was originally proposed as a silver dollar; this changed when it was realized it would not be appropriate to honor a president who had supported the gold standard with such a piece. The coins were poorly promoted, and did not sell well. Despite an authorized mintage of 100,000, only about 20,000 were sold, many of these at a reduced price to Texas coin dealer B. Max Mehl. Another 10,000 pieces were returned to the Mint for melting. (Full article...)

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Hi there! I stumbled across Wikipedia:WikiProject Blockchain, which looks like a proposed project that never got started. Any objection to me moving it back to your userspace for now? You're certainly more than welcome to launch or propose it any time. I hope all is well! Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 02:01, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ajpolino: support, please go ahead, thank you for letting me know in advance xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 15:45, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
 Done, now at User:Xinbenlv/WikiProject Blockchain. Thanks for the quick reply! Ajpolino (talk) 17:09, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Kalākaua 1883 dime

The Kalākaua coinage is a set of silver coins of the Kingdom of Hawaii dated 1883, authorized to boost Hawaiian pride by giving the kingdom its own money. They were designed by Charles E. Barber, Chief Engraver of the United States Bureau of the Mint, and were struck at the San Francisco Mint. The issued coins are a dime (ten-cent piece), quarter dollar, half dollar, and dollar.

No immediate action had been taken after the 1880 act authorizing coins, but King Kalākaua was interested and government officials saw a way to get out of a financial bind by getting coins issued in exchange for government bonds. Businessman Claus Spreckels was willing to make the arrangements with the United States in exchange for profits from the coin production, and contracted with the US Mint to have $1,000,000 worth of coins struck. Originally, a 121⁄2 cent piece was planned and a few specimens were struck, but it was scrapped in an effort to have uniformity between US and Hawaiian coins, and a dime was substituted. The coins were struck at San Francisco in 1883 and 1884, though all bear the earlier date.

The coins met a hostile reception from the business community in Honolulu, who feared inflation of the currency in a time of recession. After legal maneuvering, the government agreed to use over half of the coinage as backing for paper currency, and this continued until better economic times began in 1885. After that, the coins were more eagerly accepted in circulation. They remained in the flow of commerce on the islands until withdrawn in 1903, after Hawaii had become a US territory. (Full article...)

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1921 Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar

The Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar was a commemorative fifty-cent coin struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1920 and 1921 to mark the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims in North America. It was designed by Cyrus E. Dallin. Massachusetts congressman Joseph Walsh was involved in joint federal and state efforts to mark the anniversary. He saw a reference to a proposed Maine Centennial half dollar and realized that a coin could be issued for the Pilgrim anniversary in support of the observances at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The bill moved quickly through the legislative process and became the Act of May 12, 1920, with the signature of President Woodrow Wilson. Sculptor James Earle Fraser criticized some aspects of the design, but the Treasury approved it. After a promising start, sales tailed off, and tens of thousands of coins from each year were returned to the Philadelphia Mint for melting. (Full article...)

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1959 sovereign obverse

The sovereign is a gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling. Struck from 1817 until the present time, it was originally a circulating coin accepted in Britain and elsewhere in the world; it is now a bullion coin and is sometimes mounted in jewellery. In most recent years, it has borne the well-known design of Saint George and the Dragon on the reverse; the initials (B P) of the designer, Benedetto Pistrucci, are visible to the right of the date.

The coin was named after the English gold sovereign, last minted about 1603, and originated as part of the Great Recoinage of 1816. Many in Parliament believed a one-pound coin should be issued rather than the 21-shilling (1.05 pounds) guinea struck until that time. The Master of the Mint, William Wellesley Pole, had Pistrucci design the new coin, and his depiction was also used for other gold coins. Originally, the coin was unpopular as the public preferred the convenience of banknotes, but paper currency of value £1 was soon limited by law. With that competition gone, the sovereign not only became a popular circulating coin, but was used in international trade and in foreign lands, trusted as a coin containing a known quantity of gold.

The British government promoted the use of the sovereign as an aid to international trade, and the Royal Mint took steps to see that lightweight gold coins were withdrawn from circulation. From the 1850s until 1932, the sovereign was also struck at colonial mints, initially in Australia, and later in Canada, South Africa and India—they have been struck again in India since 2013 (in addition to the production in Britain by the Royal Mint) for the local market. The sovereigns issued in Australia initially carried a unique local design, but by 1887, all new sovereigns bore Pistrucci's George and Dragon design. Strikings there were so large that by 1900, about 40 per cent of the sovereigns in Britain had been minted in Australia.

With the start of the First World War in 1914, the sovereign vanished from circulation in Britain, replaced by paper money, and it did not return after the war, though issues at colonial mints continued until 1932. The coin was still used in the Middle East, and demand rose in the 1950s, which the Royal Mint eventually responded to by striking new sovereigns in 1957. It has been struck since then both as a bullion coin and, beginning in 1979, for collectors. Though the sovereign is no longer in circulation, it is still legal tender in the United Kingdom. (Full article...)

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Obverse of the coin

The Maryland Tercentenary half dollar was a commemorative fifty-cent piece issued by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1934. It depicts Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on the obverse (pictured) and the coat of arms of Maryland on the reverse. The Maryland Tercentenary Commission sought a coin in honor of the 300th anniversary of the arrival of English settlers in Maryland. The state's senators introduced legislation, and it passed both houses of Congress with no opposition. A design had already been prepared by Professor Hans Schuler; it passed review by the Commission of Fine Arts, though there was controversy over whether Lord Baltimore, a Cavalier and Catholic, would have worn a collar typical of Puritans. The Commission sold about 15,000 of the full issue of 25,000 for $1 each, and thereafter discounted the price for large sales to dealers and speculators. The coins have increased in value over time, and are now valued in the low hundreds of dollars. (Full article...)

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