User talk:Michael G. Davis

Discussion

Huawei[edit]

Did you get any concensus before creating Category:Transportation in mainland China, and reorganising the entire hieracy in China-related articles?--Huaiwei 00:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean? Michael G. Davis 00:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know what concensus-building is in wikipedia before effecting your edits?--Huaiwei 00:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(I guess you are talking about consensus.) Why? Is consensus required to write "There has only been one female PM in Canadian history", for example? Michael G. Davis 17:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of fact, yes.--Huaiwei 22:39, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is consensus required to write "Lee Hsien Long is the third prime minister in Singaporean history since independence?" Michael G. Davis 19:50, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes of course.--Huaiwei 21:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why? Michael G. Davis 20:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Because this is wikipedia.--Huaiwei 13:34, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it necessary? Do we need consensus to write in an article about the Moon that it goes round the Earth? Michael G. Davis 21:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion[edit]

There is no template cfd-speedy. "Categories that qualify for speedy deletion (per WP:CSD, e.g. "patent nonsense" or "recreation") can be tagged with the regular speedy tags, such as {{db|reason}}, and no delay is required for these."

The creation of categories putting things in "mainland China" has been rejected by the Wikipedia community. In all cases, those categories are more appropriate as PRC categories which already exist. Please don't edit war over this. SchmuckyTheCat 17:11, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you provide some details? To my understanding "mainland China", or its variants, has different meaning with "People's Republic of China". Michael G. Davis 17:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide some details. Or else undo your deletion as soon as possible. Michael G. Davis 18:50, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome[edit]

Nobody has welcomed you and by the experience shown in your edits I doubt you need the tutorial information... but:

Welcome!

Hello, Michael G. Davis, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Thank you. But who are you? Is the signature missing? Michael G. Davis 17:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning: Category:Cinema of mainland China[edit]

Sorry for the late reply...but why do you want to know this? Cheers. Lectonar 17:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your reply still doesn't answer my question above; maybe I forgot to give another reason...the CAT was empty as of my deletion. Lectonar 17:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That category should not be empty. Why was it empty? Michael G. Davis 19:18, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

category about Hong Kong[edit]

Please don't add the category relating Hong Kong to category by countries. See here[[1]]--Ksyrie 13:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean? Michael G. Davis 19:18, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"China"[edit]

See Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Chinese)#Political_NPOV, and Caerwine's comment in that SFD discussion. Likewise, links with text "China" would reasonably be expected to go to China, not to mainland China, or to People's Republic of China, which practice and interpretation is making a nonsense of the supposed relationship between the permanent and stub categories. Alai 16:24, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes and no. When talking about trade, "trading with China" or products marked "Made in China" would be meaning mainland China. As I read Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese)#Political NPOV, I would think it actually means if the content is about mainland China, it'd be better to write "mainland China" than "China". That's exactly the case with the China university stub category. Michael G. Davis 22:09, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your new articles[edit]

The new articles I've created recently are for the People's Republic of China (as indicated in the titles). I can tell that you are concerned about the legal exceptions in Hong Kong and Macao. I intended to add disclaimers about these situations and apologize for not getting those in quick enough.--Daveswagon 23:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Passing acknowledgement[edit]

Hi Michael,
Just to thank you for the courtesy of leaving a link to Category:Economy of mainland China's deletion review. Best wishes, David Kernow (talk) 11:30, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Secrecy[edit]

Hi, I just bocked Secrecy (talk · contribs) for 24 hours for disruptive editing. From his edit history it seems he's been mass reverting edits you've made and modifying your comments. Can you shed some light on what is going on? Thanks. -Loren 20:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He has been undoing whatever I have done. That's all what I know. Michael G. Davis 20:42, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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