User talk:CharlesZ

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Hello, CharlesZ, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Chinese characters

Charles, I honestly have no idea how to input Chinese characters. Probably your best bet is to ask on one of the Chinese article talk pages e.g. Talk:China. Let me know if you have no luck, and I'll make further enquiries. I'm glad to see you have a user name now. Welcome to Wikipedia! Cheers, SlimVirgin ^(talk) July 2, 2005 02:43 (UTC)

Images

Hi Charles, if you scroll to the very end of User:SlimVirgin, you'll see a description of "fair use" in the United States. Because we're a non-commercial site, we can often claim fair use, especially if the image has no commercial value and/or there is a strong public-interest component. However, if it does have any commercial value, it's difficult to claim fair use. We're also not allowed anymore to use images with the permission of the copyright holder (where the permission is restricted to us or to non-commercial sites), because of the difficulty that creates for other people who want to copy material from Wikipedia. The best thing is to find images that are in the public domain, though that is difficult. You might consider e-mailing the person who maintains the website, and asking whether his material is public domain, and explain it's for Wikipedia. People are often happy to help when they hear it's Wikipedia, because it's such a popular website. There's more information at Wikipedia:Images. Hope this helps. SlimVirgin ^(talk) July 4, 2005 00:48 (UTC)

Vandalism

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RE: The Four Classics

Well thanks. Mandel and Mark seem to have retired and so should I, I suppose. Let you guys take over. :D I did the best I can, but sometimes I simply don't have the time or the energy to deal with these guys. You don't win an RfC per se, you get people to comment on it. If the comments, are pretty much in your favour, then you can rest easy knowing that you've done a good job! :p What really can be won is the RfA, because it's more like a judge's verdict than anything else.

I live in Olympia, WA but spent some time in China, specifically Hunan, Ningbo, Nanjing and Shanghai, when I was young (<10), but my memory is... hazy at best so I don't know a lot about Chinese geography. As for the four classics, I'll do what I can. I won't have much time in the coming few days so please babysit my pages (look at my contribs), thanks! -Hmib 03:07, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Japanese war atrocities

Do you think the POV and cleanup tags are still needed at List of Japanese War Atrocities? The article has been improved a lot...CharlesZ 18:19, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

The tag was removed long ago. Maybe the article title can be improved to (by moving) Alleged Japanese war atrocities as there is a lack of acceptance of the incident according to some views. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 19:09, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Meanwhile I'll review the page. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 19:09, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

According to the article some people do not classify everything in the list as "war crimes" There are conflicting views on what are to be considered war crimes and what are not."

So I think NPoV will ask us to make this an alleged page as there are clasing views. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 19:19, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Also images dont fit in. This article should be and is a general list of unpleasant (I do not want to use strong words) events in history of ww2. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 19:19, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Also linked articles such as War Crimes in Manchukuo, War Crimes in the Pacific, War Crimes in Asia Mainland should also be "alleged" war crimes unless an international court ruled that it was a warm crime meaning international acceptance. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 19:19, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Wait, so you're saying they shouldn't be called war crimes because nobody specifically labeled them war crimes? Well, In the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, in the first phase they tried Iwane, the commander responsible for the Nanjing Massacre. Why else would they try him in a war crimes tribunal, if what he committed wasn't a war crime? -Hmib 23:39, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

It may very well be war crime or not. It is not our duty as wikipedia editors to decide if a significant comunity is not viewing it as "war crimes". --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 16:19, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Correct me if I am wrong but Japan acknowleges commiting war crimes but does not specify individual cases right? --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 16:19, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

GLP

Check Talk:Great Leap Forward. Thanks. Colipon+(T) 23:26, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

FOC Alert!

He's back, just so you know. I'm looking forward to his entertainment, after him being away for half a month. -Hmib 00:21, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

I seriously don't think it's a debate... more like a vandal-whacking spree to me. -Hmib 00:28, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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Re: Peng Dehuai

I've trimmed the section of unreferenced quotation. It is still not entirely factual and NPOV. Instead of simply deleting it, we should try to replace the current text with something more factual. For example, it should be mentioned that Peng was rehabilitated under the direction of Deng Xiaoping with certain political aims in mind.--Jiang 03:51, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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