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Orphaned fair use image (Image:Cumyow.jpg)

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Can you add Moi-yan audio samples to the Hakka page?

Hi Dylanwhs. Can you please add some Moi-yan audio samples to the Hakka page? I don't want Moi-yan Hakka songs but some Moi-yan conversation recordings. Sonic99 01:44, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't have any Moiyen sound recordings at all. I speak a Hakka dialect from Hong Kong, which has certain features about it which differ from the Moiyen dialect. Dylanwhs 08:19, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: "How to delete my user account?"

It's impossible to completely delete your account, but you can have all pages associated with you deleted (your user and user talk pages.) If you replace your talk page with {{db-userreq|rationale=I would like my right to vanish, please - Sonic99}} , say, someone will delete your talk page, and you needn't edit further. Does that help? Nihiltres(t.l) 04:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC) (cross-posted)

No, that is not possible. You can't have your edits deleted, but your user discussion page (all of User talk:Sonic99) can be deleted using that method. Once both of those are deleted, it is unlikely that anyone will find your edits unless they are specifically searching for them. Nihiltres^(t.l) 01:45, 25 July 2007 (UTC) (cross-posted)

Why Europeans did not enslave other Europeans instead of Africans

I saw your question but figured I'd have got blasted on the page for answering there instead of here (rules, rules, rules). Anyways, its a good question u bring up. To understand why things went down as they did, you have to understand that most slaves were sold to Europeans and not taken by Europeans (as portrayed in ROOTS). When Europeans began exploring Africa (roughly around the same time they started exploring the Americas) there were already many slave markets in existence. Slavery had been in Africa longer than just about anywhere else, though the forms of slavery varied depending on where u were. It was far easier to buy slaves from Africans more than willing to sell them than to steal them from the Africans (whom militarily were more or less on par with europeans up to the 18th century) or for that matter other Europeans. If a vast slave market existed in Europe at the time of its exploration of the Americas, it surely would have been exploited. But Europeans weren't that big into slavery cuz there was a huge peasant labor force already existing. The only reason slavery was so big in Africa, specifically Sub-Saharan Africa, is because the continent has always had a low population and thus a small labor force. Basically, in Europe people fought for and purchased land. In africa, people fought for and purchased PEOPLE. This circumstance led to the development of many slave markets where kingdoms sold prisoners of war to whoever could afford them as a way of removing hostile military elements from their land. The reasoning behind this becomes clear when you look at the Haitian Revolution, where the French unwisely filled a valuable New World colony full to the brim with african prisoners of war from a dozen different wars and civil wars. Hoped that helped out. Holla back if u have any other questions.Scott Free 20:12, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

thanks and request

Thanks for your recent edit to Mark Weil. Could I ask you to consider using an edit summary in future? It helps us all keep track of changes. Good luck. BrainyBabe (talk) 06:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Black Canadians

You need a source for that. You can't just type that based on judgement alone, you have to back it up with something. Also, I changed the last sentence in the first paragraph, because "Many Black Canadians identify as black" basically defeats the purpose of the sentence, so it made more sense to slighty change it. Blackjays1 (talk) 13:41, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not denying that there are fair-skinned Black Canadians, but it's kind of irrelevant. Everyone knows that the whole world is mixed. It would make more sense to add that information to the black people article, but it's probably there already. Blackjays1 (talk) 14:04, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

RE: Request for Renaming an Article

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Request to move article List of Canadians of Asian ancestry incomplete

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Image:Yue Dialects.png

I use a book call "Language of China". Image:Yue Dialects.png was based on 3 maps on that book here are the 3 scan of the maps I have used:

• image 1
• image 2
• image 3

— ■~∀SÐFﾑｻ~■ =] ^{Babashi? antenna?} 22:22, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

It's pretty old it was published back in 1987 could not find a very accurate updated version. — ■~∀SÐFﾑｻ~■ =] ^{Babashi? antenna?} 03:49, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

There isn't any new book based on dialects since then most are just an updated version of the same book published back in 1987 if you like to updated the current map you may but I had ready added Hainan. I got no there resources that let me do so anymore. — ■~∀SÐFﾑｻ~■ =] ^{Babashi? antenna?} 04:19, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Suggest this dialogue, if it continues, might continue at Image talk:Yue Dialects.png. Andrewa (talk) 12:03, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

List of Canadians of Asian ancestry

I'm a bit confused as to why you created the duplicate article, List of Canadians of Asian Ancestry. I've turned it into a redirect. No need for two articles one with and one without a capital A. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 03:50, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Sichuan's History

Hi! I really think that there's no need to mention the 2nd immigrantion wave at the beginning of the article. Of course it had influence on the language, however, may not be so crutial as the 1st one. Besides, the traditional thought that Zhang Xianzhong was due to the decrease of Sichuanese population at the beginning of Qing Dynasty is recently be challenged, many research prove that it may be the Manchurian Army that cause the decrease and planted it to Zhang. At least, this issue is quite disputed, so I believe we should be very careful to mention Zhang Xianzhong in the article.

I really like to have a discussion with you about the history, if you are willing to.-本本一世 (talk) 05:42, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Geneva Bible edit

The site you placed in, does not work on my linux computer. I see not a better result --Soenke Rahn (talk) 03:06, 22 December 2010 (UTC) But you have erased another link? The thing with the KJV could be, I must look on my Geneva facsimile to compare it. But, I suppose in this case it would be better to place such informations into the article text, with an reference. (-: --Soenke Rahn (talk) 03:18, 22 December 2010 (UTC) To my computer. My computer Asus EeePc crashed down on the link, but the computer is an old prototyp ... I like this computer I will not kick this computer away. (o: --Soenke Rahn (talk) 03:22, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Southern and Northern Chinese

Don't think I saw that comment. I am curious as to what drives you to say that, as I have many friends who are the product of unions between southerners and northerners. --HXL's Roundtable and Record 04:39, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Redirect into article

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans#Change from Redirect. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 17:00, 19 May 2011 (UTC) (Using {{pls}})

Vietnamese

Of course it's Mon-Khmer, but that's just another name for Austro-Asiatic. And your edit got it backwards, as I explained in the edit summary. Please take it to talk rather than edit warring. — kwami (talk) 02:19, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

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