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!Achtung!

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer! Und ein Wikipedia! Lol.

Untermensch! Dis ist your captain speaking! You vill report immediately to de vunderful artikle Han Dynasty und you vill see dat it is now ein Featured Article! Macht schnell! Time is money for de Führer!

Lol. Those Kaifeng Jews better hide before those evil Wikipedia Nazis find them! Hope you like the article. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 19:30, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Supertomiman reply

I was indeed the one who reverted the page before, but I was unable to explain why because i didn't have an account on wikipedia. I think that Xia should not redirect to Youxia because it doesn't mention anything about the code of xia. It may also lead to the conclusion of some readers that all Chinese knights were knight-errants. I have corrected the link to knight-errant in Youxia and replaced it for Wuxia. I also added some links that have an extremely similar text to the one in the article, providing a sufficient source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Supertomiman (talk • contribs) 03:16, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

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Arabic

The best advice I can give is don't let it slip away...keep at it, and study it intensely. It's not terribly difficult, but it's so totally different from English and any other language I know that it is hard to grasp some of the basic concepts sometimes. The sounds and the alphabet are actually the easy part! I haven't kept up with it, unfortunately, and now most of my Arabic knowledge is lost again...so just beat yourself over the head with it until it sticks. Read children's stories and newspapers, anything at all, even the Arabic wikipedia, not just the exercises in the textbook. Adam Bishop (talk) 01:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

What up man!

How's it going. Long time no see. I've got a new FA candidate if you want to check it out: Ancient Egyptian literature. Have fun with that; it's a decent-sized read. Peace.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 04:59, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Really? I never knew you were into Egyptian mythology. That's cool! The Cairo Geniza documents are really an awesome find and reveal snippets of the extent of knowledge that premodern scholars had about their Eurasian world.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 22:16, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Bodhidarma in martial arts

That is surprising. Have you traveled to the Shaolin temple near Deng Feng, China?Clftruthseeking (talk) 00:23, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Ghostwhatever. I have also tried to clarify this well-known point. I ref'd the shoalin website for ease. It's a shame you appear to show such apparent naive prejudice. I hope that when I find some references that prove Tat Moh taught the precursor of Kungfu to Chinese monks (that pass your ridiculous standards compared to other articles) you won't pass your orwellian brush over them. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.220.11.36 (talk) 00:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

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Removal of AFD notice

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Ashida Kim. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. It is clearly not appropriate to remove the AFD notice from an article while the discussion is continuing. In general, such notices may only be removed after the AFD discussion is properly closed. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 19:38, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Read the edit summary again. The last deletion was closed because people kept on nominating it over an over again. It was decided that the page should not be put up for deletion again until a year after the previous one. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 23:36, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Nothing of the sort was "decided"; and you did not leave anything resembling a "viable explanation." You removed a deletion notice before the AFD had run its course. You did not close, or attempt to close, the AFD, or participate in the AFD, and your action did not reflect the consensus of the AFD. Nor did it reflect the consensus of the prior AFD; the one-year hiatus was a suggestion made by one editor, not accepted by anyone else, in particular the closing admin. (Even if that was the past consensus, consensus can change.) If you're going to misrepresent the outcome of a prior process, and ignore the process for handling a current dispute, your edits will be indistinguishable from, and treated as, vandalism -- as 99+% of the removal of deletion notices without proper closure of AFD discussions are vandalism. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 00:09, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

You can call it vandalism if it makes you feel better. Any further comments from you on my talk page will be struck through and duly ignored. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 20:42, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I sympathise with the frustration over the repeated deletion nomination, but I think we are better off pointing these out in the debate, if you leave the template up it will attract more people to review the arguments & the article, and hopefully improve that article.

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Magical negro oversight

Hello, Ghostexorcist … I noticed that you (and TheRedPenOfDoom (talk · contribs)) have been monitoring Magical negro (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for unsourced references … we've reverted about the same number. :-)

I also notice that, like me, you don't bother to comment on the talk page of anons when it's their first or only edit … I chalk that up to WP:AGF, and they can be dealt with politely if they try inserting the material a second time … anywho, just wanted to give you an "Attaboy!" for your due diligence. :-)

Happy Editing! — 138.88.43.201 (talk · contribs) _{22:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)}

Northern Shaolin

The most recent additions to the Martial Arts pages have been EXTERNAL RESOURCES. I see that you "allow" other Northern Shaolin people to put up links, yet decide mine is not allowed? This is unfair and is NOT "personal opinion". I am a teacher of the style. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Northwind (talk • contribs) 01:07, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't monitor the page on a daily basis. I only revert the additions I happen to take note of and see they don't adhere to wikipedia policy on WP:RS. It does not matter if you are a teacher of the style at all. The blogs you add are just not reliable sources. Plain and simple. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 03:04, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashida Kim (7th nomination)

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Hey Ghost

Thanks for the link! I'll check it out. I'm always interested in Sino-Iranian cultural exchange in pre-modern times, so you definitely brought up the right subject! Cheers.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 11:31, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

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Chinese Selichot

Cool. The words are a bit hard to make out, but I've never before seen מי-אל abbreviated as מייל! -- Zsero (talk) 14:30, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

On a closer look, I don't think it's an abbreviation, but a misspelling. The next word, נושא, is misspelt נוסי; clearly the writer was transscribing a prayer that he had only heard, and guessing at the spelling. -- Zsero (talk) 15:49, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

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Avatar

I've started a section at Talk:List of Avatar: The Last Airbender characters#Fact tag necessary for common language knowledge?. Also, I'm not sure why you undid the other half of my edit (changing Chinese to Mandarin) with no explanation. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:55, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, but I am still waiting for a response. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 15:21, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

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AfD

I've nominated List of former Jews, List of former Christians, and List of former Muslims together for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of former Jews.Kitfoxxe (talk) 17:55, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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Zhou Tong TOC

How does this look as a compromise? You are free to add padding if you like, of course, but the TOC certainly shouldn't be on the right, so far down the page, and wedged in between an infobox and an image. When I first saw the article the TOC was so hard to find that I thought there was none (when I opened the edit window I was looking for the __NOTOC__. Obviously a TOC doesn't help readers if they can't find it. Changing it to {{TOCleft}} in my edit allows the text to wrap and avoids the large whitespace, which I assume is what you wanted, without making the TOC so hard to find. Note that, per Template:TOCright#Cautions, TOCs are not to be moved around for stylistic concerns alone. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 19:23, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Looks good to me. Thanks. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 19:24, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

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Shhh! Don't talk too loud! You'll wake the Wiki neighbors...

Hi Ghost, long time no see! How's it going man?

I almost never come on Wiki anymore (I'm way past my Wiki withdrawal phase), but this week I thought I'd slip under the radar and do a few things here and there. To be honest, I've been doing mostly simple stuff like adding hidden links, reverting vandalism, etc. But as you can see from my talk page, I briefly got involved with an effort to improve the intro to the Tang Dynasty. Don't announce anything, though! *Ssshhh* I'm not even here folks, nothing to see, move along. Still in retirement. Relaxing and enjoying it.

Lol.

And yes, John Hill is an awesome intellect; I have deep respect for him. Unfortunately I haven't gotten a chance to look at his translation of the Hou Han Shu, but now that you mention it, I will be taking a look.

Cheers and beers buddy, Eric --Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:58, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Weeeeelllll, there is one little thing I've done here recently that is of importance. It's actually more of a proposal than an action. See Talk:Parthian Empire for my suggestion to team up with someone who wants to tackle that article.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 22:05, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello there!

Thank you so much for taking the time to write and make contact again and, of course, for your very kind comments about my book. I am so glad you like it. I am now working to get my annotated translation of the 'Chapter on the Peoples of the West' from the 3rd century Weilüe ready for publication. This will take some time, but is also really interesting - especially as it has a lot more detail on the Roman Empire. Anyway, thanks again for your encouragement and all best wishes to you. Sincerely, John Hill (talk) 23:31, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Roman Empire

I'm a China-type person and I read Italian...if you still need help please let me know (user talk:user:Dpr) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.229.19 (talk) 02:19, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

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