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(a)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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