I have posted about this before, namely the unkind reception often given to User:Wladk, usually posting as an IP number 200.46.++. He has identified himself as Wellington Perez Ishikawajima, Peruvian of Japanese extraction. He has now initiated 100 pages or so; these exhibit almost all possible problems, beginning with poor English. Only User:Wikibofh seems to have recognised, as I do, that this prolific contributor is posting material that includes real gems, and is expanding the East Asia coverage in a way for which Wiki-en should be grateful. Plenty of really quite nasty comments have been seen at VfD.
To give an example of the value: a recent high profile biography of Mao Zedong argues that the Chinese Communists only came to power after they were handed factories in ex-Manchukuo (which Japan overran in 1931), by the Soviets who invaded right at the end of WWII. Reading that, I realised that I knew chapter and verse about that, from the WP articles I had been cleaning up about Japanese heavy industry there.
So - please can I have some help in my campaign to have these articles cleaned up first, before rushing them to VfD? I think some Wikipedians' comments (such as 'contribute to the WP in your native language') are completely out of order. I see no reason to believe that the wiki process does not work, with these articles as for all else. There is a listing I maintain at
[[User:Charles Matthews/Imperial Japan]].
I should be grateful to be notified of more such - I found around ten major ones this morning alone, while the database was locked.
Charles
This is the sort of thing I'd like to see more of here. I'm glad to help you clean up these contributions.
You have my utmost respect Charles, and deserve it. Lets get back to writing an encyclopedia, and leave all the rhetoric and theatrics at the door.
Jack (Sam Spade)
On 6/27/05, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
I have posted about this before, namely the unkind reception often given to User:Wladk, usually posting as an IP number 200.46.++. He has identified himself as Wellington Perez Ishikawajima, Peruvian of Japanese extraction. He has now initiated 100 pages or so; these exhibit almost all possible problems, beginning with poor English. Only User:Wikibofh seems to have recognised, as I do, that this prolific contributor is posting material that includes real gems, and is expanding the East Asia coverage in a way for which Wiki-en should be grateful. Plenty of really quite nasty comments have been seen at VfD.
To give an example of the value: a recent high profile biography of Mao Zedong argues that the Chinese Communists only came to power after they were handed factories in ex-Manchukuo (which Japan overran in 1931), by the Soviets who invaded right at the end of WWII. Reading that, I realised that I knew chapter and verse about that, from the WP articles I had been cleaning up about Japanese heavy industry there.
So - please can I have some help in my campaign to have these articles cleaned up first, before rushing them to VfD? I think some Wikipedians' comments (such as 'contribute to the WP in your native language') are completely out of order. I see no reason to believe that the wiki process does not work, with these articles as for all else. There is a listing I maintain at
[[User:Charles Matthews/Imperial Japan]].
I should be grateful to be notified of more such - I found around ten major ones this morning alone, while the database was locked.
Charles
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