User talk:Basschimp

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your questions on the Talk:Tai Chi Chuan page. I'd like you to consider writing an article on Lee style T'ai Chi Ch'uan if you have time. There are several "family" articles along the lines of Yang style T'ai Chi Ch'uan or Wu style T'ai Chi Ch'uan that can serve as templates for you. Here are a few good links for style and policy issues that may be helpful:

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Li style T'ai Chi Ch'uan[edit]

Greetings Kyle.

I tidied up, just a little, and redirected a series of potential variations of the name to Li style T'ai Chi Ch'uan. The redirects will make it easier for people searching for Li style on Wikipedia to find the article. I didn't want to do too much, (since you are going to expand it) but there were some simple things that I put in to make the copy readable as it stands.

Sorry about the speedy delete notice, but that is something that you'll get used to if you stay around long enough. It is alarming to have an article that you've worked on lovingly be worked over by less sympathetic hands. WP runs by consensus, though, so if the changes aren't demonstrably valid to a significant number of other editors, then they will be reverted.

You can also list your training forms in a separate article, as I have at 108 form Wu family T'ai Chi Ch'uan, for my school's.

Also, you can list yourself at Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by martial art. Cheers, Fire Star 21:11, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Invite to Wookieepedia[edit]

I saw your List of Star Wars books, which garnered my attention, for you may be worthy of the Star Wars Wiki aka Wookieepedia. Hope to see you there. -- Riffsyphon1024 June 30, 2005 23:20 (UTC)

List of Star Wars Books[edit]

I just like to thank you for originally making the List of Star Wars books. :) User:Jedi6 November 28, 2005

Thanks for saying thanks to my thanks and Yes Star Wars Books do rule!Jedi6 20:01, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Li style Tai Chi Chuan[edit]

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Your recent edits[edit]

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 13:13, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lee style Tai Chi Chuan[edit]

Hi Kyle, it looks like we've reached a consensus on renaming your page on Li style tai chi chuan to lee style tai chi chuan, Ive put in a request so we just have to wait for them to clear the backlog. I have also proposed that the folks over at WP:TAOISM give it a gander and let us know how they rate it. I'm not so sure about the martial arts project lot as some of them seem to be more than a little biased and I would like a more neutral opinion. Reading the wikipedia page on Tai chi chuan one might come to think that all Tai chi styles by definition are derived from the Chen village story and Chan San Feng.
Who did you train under? Chuangzu (talk) 22:46, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well I got fedup waiting so I took a shortcut.
I went on #wikipedia on irc.freenode.net and asked an admin who fixed it in about 2 secs. :)
Btw I got a message warning about double redirects, not sure exactly what that was about but apparently a bot maybe deals with it :o
Maybe you can help? Chuangzu (talk) 21:18, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At the risk of sounding like a "negative bitch", I'd like to ask if either of you have any third party articles about Lee style? Magazines, journals, newspapers, books, print or online. As it is, the article is entirely sourced from Lee style primary souces, which isn't enough for a WP article, unfortunately. --Bradeos Graphon Βραδέως Γράφων (talk) 01:22, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Âllo. I agree primary sources are important information mines, as long as they are reported with a qualifiers like passive voice, My main thought is that an article or articles from a journal would strongly establish notability for the style. Other taijiquan articles have (or had) the same problem, I'm not singling out Lee style. Cheers, --Bradeos Graphon Βραδέως Γράφων (talk) 15:11, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An exclusively primary source referenced article isn't really good enough for WP, and will be shaky ground, liable to be challenged repeatedly, until secondary sources are found. We are in an interesting position that very few people on WP seem to care about the tai chi articles generally, so there is time...

Are there any articles that say, John Ding's Yang style magazine has done on Lee style? Or Smalheiser's T'ai Chi Magazine? Those are the places to look. I don't have any recent issues, but will search the internet, etc. for back issue listings. Any local newspaper article would be good, too. --Bradeos Graphon Βραδέως Γράφων (talk) 15:25, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of the article are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article" is from the template for tagging articles as primary source driven. That is common sense, an encyclopaedia should be driven by objective reporting, not subjective claims. Your insinuation about fashionable admin positioning, added to your earlier statements about "negative bitches' is starting to make me wonder exactly what you are trying to do here? I am a reasonable person, but that's two insulting statements from you now on this issue, belittling people whom you find inconvenient. That has to stop. --Bradeos Graphon Βραδέως Γράφων (talk) 03:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thanks for your replies. I'm sorry I've been away for a few days, but the world does that, you know. I'm grateful for your words, and am willing to go forward from here. I want to nail down that the Lee style article (among others, Wudang Tai Chi Chuan and Taoist Tai Chi for example) is well documented. I'm reasonably sure there are articles out there in the English speaking world (I haven't had much time to look in the last week, though...) and that's all we need.

Also, I'm told by Egmontaz that Bradeos Graphon in Greek alphabet is Βραδέως Γράφων (ς goes instead of σ at the end of a word) and Graphon if masculine is with ω (Omega) and with ο (Omikron) if neutral. It is a 2,000 year old construction (meant to be mildly self-deprecating in my case), modern Greek is probably different. Cheers, --Bradeos Graphon Βραδέως Γράφων (talk) 16:15, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ch'ang Ming[edit]

Hello Kyle I can see you haven't been much active on Wikipedia lately. I just thought I would mention the newly created page on Ch'ang Ming and you may consider adding to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ch%27ang_Ming discussion. Chuangzu (talk) 15:59, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back[edit]

I'm not sure how you go about changing a username, but anyways, welcome back! NemesisAT (talk) 09:39, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]