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Asia Project‑class

This page is within the scope of WikiProject Asia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Asia on Misplaced Pages. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AsiaWikipedia:WikiProject AsiaTemplate:WikiProject AsiaAsia Project This page does not require a rating on Misplaced Pages's content assessment scale.

Postcards

I have received several postcards from Asia as a result of this initiative. Not only do the cards show places in the world I am never likely to visit, but they remind me that Misplaced Pages editors form a worldwide brotherhood with a common objective. I would like to thank those who organised the Asian Month, as well as all those who participated. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:42, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

How many prospective recipients out of total 147 have so far received the post card? Nannadeem (talk) 13:41, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

WAM 2016

I understand Misplaced Pages Asian Month will be repeated in November 2016. As there are only four weeks to go, perhaps a preliminary announcement could be made. To avoid confusion with Misplaced Pages Asian Month 2015, it might be useful to create a new page Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Asian Month 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 06:59, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

I concur. It would help to have a page for 2016.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:34, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

I really enjoyed participating in WAM 2015, but I won't be involved this year because of the Africa Destubathon. It seems to me that Asian Month probably should be deferred to another time. StAnselm (talk) 21:53, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

• StAnslem raises a very good point. Having events that cover two whole continents at the same time is a bad idea, especially when the other event has already started and is offering prizes. I ask the organizers AddisWang, SuperHamster and Rosiestep to consider delaying this until December. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 00:26, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

I'm excited to see there is another project focus on African content, which is also less represented on Misplaced Pages. But Misplaced Pages Asian Month has set up to be hold in November since last year and its also a global multilingual event that can not be compromised due to other campaign on one Misplaced Pages.--AddisWang (talk) 00:40, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Apologies, I forgot there were other Wikis involved. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 01:19, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

AtHomeIn神戸: No problems. Hope you enjoy the Destubathon and maybe also have time joining us. Best WIshes,--AddisWang (talk) 02:11, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Can AddisWang, SuperHamster and Rosiestep put a page up somewhere about when Asia Month is going to be and detailing the rules. It takes time to plan these types of things so we should at least have a page to help people understand what is expected and plan something.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:34, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

AddisWang, SuperHamster and Rosiestep, what is going on with Asia Month? Is anyone making a page for it?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:51, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

• Although there is no Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Asian Month 2016 page, I see that on October 23, the WP:WAM page got updated (per this edit. No one pinged me. At this point I have family travel plans and will be unable to plan anything in November for Chicago.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:28, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Update logo

Suggest having a new logo/graphic with "Misplaced Pages Asian Month 2016" rather than "Misplaced Pages Asian Month 2015". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:56A:76A4:9800:A849:C833:AD85:20AD (talk) 12:21, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

That is coming soon! Thanks for pointing it out :) ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 00:27, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Rules

In the rules it has mentioned that "The article is about an Asian Country or region except ". Does it mean a user from another country, (ex. India) shouldn't create an article about his/her country?--L Manju (talk) 04:21, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

L Manju: Such rules does not affect EnWp just because its hard to determine which are English-Speaking country. Furthermore, this rule means, for example on Hindi Misplaced Pages, article about India should not count. "your language speaking country(s)" may make more sense in meaning of "The language speaking country(s) of your home Wiki"--AddisWang (talk) 14:02, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you AddisWang. --L Manju (talk) 07:47, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Question

I'm just too curious of this new social networking site. so i just tried to signed up for me not to be ignorant with but as of now I'm confusing about article. and do not know yet what — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayrcainoy (talk • contribs) 04:13, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

• This is a competition to create or expand articles related to Asia. Please see the rules here . If you have specific question(s) about rule(s) or anything, please let us know. Best, --Tito Dutta (talk) 07:20, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Stubbs

I'd rather see a "contest" (collaboration) developing pages. Even Mencius isn't developed, in the sense of discussing his brand of Confucianism. Compare with Zhu Xi.FourLights (talk) 07:50, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Article

May I provide previous articles for the contest with new one.Rosepal8 (talk) 11:28, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

• Hello, please explain what you mean by "previous articles". If you are talking about expanding articles, this does not seem to be part of this year's edit-a-thon. Regards. --Tito Dutta (talk) 13:15, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

A piece of anti-Indonesian propaganda

Currently, on the map of Asia on this article, eastern Indonesian provinces of West Papua and Papua are shown as not part of Indfonesia and Asia. I understand that it's due to the map being a physical one, but, considering we're dealing with the Asian countries, it sends a racist anti-Indonesian sentiment. I doubt it is the official Misplaced Pages's stance on this controversial issue, so I request this map to be removed or changed accordingly. Thank you for understanding.--Adûnâi (talk) 18:26, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

• I personally can not verify the statement, but I strongly believe that no attempt was made to hurt anyone's sentiment. Misplaced Pages Asian Month is a community-driven initiative and Misplaced Pages/Wikimedia (WMF) are not controlling it.I'd try checking this. --Tito Dutta (talk) 18:52, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
• This map is only showing the outline of Asia, geographically, not politically. If by your opinion, West part of Russia on this map is also not part of Russia? Please make sure you understand this page is not suppose to show the all territory of any country before censuring others.--AddisWang (talk) 19:03, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
• Comment: Looking at the file history of File:Asia (orthographic projection).svg, West Papua has been added a few times but it has never lasted long. Asia#Asia–Oceania boundary should cover this, but the discussion there is short and vague. In any case, there are other countries that are only partially in the shaded area - for example, East Thrace (part of Turkey) is regarded as Europe and is not shaded. StAnselm (talk) 19:26, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge

The Asia Challenge is supporting Women for Asia Month, feel free to also add all Asian Month entries you do anybody to the challenge!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:14, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

This is great - thank you Dr. Blofeld! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:21, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Q

@AddisWang, SuperHamster, Rosiestep, and Titodutta: If the article is more than 3,000 bytes and less than 300 word then. Will it be the perfect 4 this asian month. 36.253.254.27 (talk) 05:12, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi there - great question. An article should be both 3,000 bytes and 300 words long. Having one but not the other will not qualify. Thanks, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:14, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks 36.253.255.224 (talk) 05:19, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Clarification: "The article should be about any topic concerning an Asian country."

Does it have to concern "an Asian country" or just about topics in Asia in general? The thing is, unlike countries in Europe, many countries in Asia haven't been around for a long time. For example, topics about the culture of the Islamic caliphates (at least the Asian part of it) are certainly related to Asia, but not necessarily about any Asian country, given that countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, etc. have only around in the last millenia. HaEr48 (talk) 06:22, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

@HaEr48:, as long as the main object of the article is about/ located geographically in Asia, it does not matter which current country it related with.--AddisWang (talk) 17:49, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

@AddisWang: awesome, thanks for the clarification! HaEr48 (talk) 17:51, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Creating new article on a redirect page

@AddisWang:, @SuperHamster:, @Rosiestep:, @Titodutta: Good day! I just want to ask, if I create a new article on a current redirect page, can I submit that article in WAM, and will it count to me? Thank you! ~Manila's PogingJuan 06:30, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

@PogingJuan: Yes it will count. But you can not submit the article through the tool. So please submit the article on this page.--AddisWang (talk) 06:38, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Noted. Thank you! :) ~Manila's PogingJuan 06:49, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Stub articles

Hello, specially for the WP Asian Month I started creating stubs of notable people from Asia. These stubs are not fulfilling the rules as they are not long enough. However, are you intersted in listing these pages for the records? If you are interested I will continue working on them and will create many Asian stubs in November (already created 171 Asian sportswomen in 2 days). Cheers, Sander.v.Ginkel 16:11, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

@Sander.v.Ginkel: Yes you can go ahead do that, I created this section for you. Though I strongly suggest you improve four of these articles to fulfill the requirement so we can (we would be glad) to send you a postcard. Many of the articles may only need a small expansion to just fit the WAM rules.--AddisWang (talk) 17:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism in the list of participants

When I click the "show" button to see the list of participants, the first line is this: "TRUTH:INDIAN GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT AND KILLS INNOCENT SIKHS, PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS AND HELP JUSTICE THRIVE." I'm hesitant to believe that this is supposed to be there, but since the page is semi-protected I cannot remove it. If it is supposed to be there, could it be explained, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imcanderson (talk • contribs) 19:35, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

It was removed, thanks letting us know!--AddisWang (talk) 22:55, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Guan ware

Computer says no to this because it was moved from an old sandbox page. Johnbod (talk) 03:05, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

@Johnbod: So the article has to be created and finished in November. This article by rules are not qualified. According to previous discussion, this rule is bit confused. So you can submit this article on this page next to your user name. And we will count to your accepted articles if that will make you 15th accepted article.--AddisWang (talk) 03:53, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 04:05, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

to high scales

Hello! I faced a problem, which I want to share with all. "Only new articles are needed" this rule is very high. Because most of stubs are needed extension in Hindi wikipedia. We are working for quality not for quantity. And secondly it is to high for user to find articles. So please tell me if we can change "only new articles" rule from Hindi wikipedia and Sanskrit Misplaced Pages. NehalDaveND (talk) 11:19, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

@NehalDaveND:The judging tool can not identify the expansion on articles, and it will require a lot of judge's workload. So you can if you don't mind manually check all articles and report the statistic in the end (it is handled by judging tool right now for new articles). People can report their expansion contribution on the Participate page just like last year. Hope that can help you. BTW, can you post the link of Hindi version Asian Month page?--AddisWang (talk) 13:33, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanation. This is the Hindi Asia month NehalDaveND (talk) 07:49, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

@NehalDaveND: Does Hindi Misplaced Pages not have any long lists with a large number of red links, like List of Three Hundred Tang Poems poets or Ogura Hyakunin Isshu#Poets? Setting aside the proportion of stubs to full articles, Hindi and Sanskrit Wikipedias definitely have a smaller overall number of existing articles than English, so Hindi Misplaced Pages editors actually have an advantage over English Misplaced Pages editors when it comes to the supply of notable topics that don't already have some form of article. It also might just be my opinion, but quality is a higher standard than quantity. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:05, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

;) There are so many stubs in hi-sa.wiki and some users are interested quality work only. They are not going to make new article about 300 words. I am personally too believe in this philosophy. Some of them will make new articles. So I tried to open second way for others. Lastly I think that kinds of lists are there or not I don't know. Sorry. NehalDaveND (talk) 08:14, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Thing is, Asian Month by its very nature has to reward quantity over quality. The judges can't determine whether one or two long articles are FA standard, but they can determine whether an article is adequate, so the only thing Asian Month can reward editors for is the number of articles they create that are at least adequate. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:23, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

How to contribute

Hello. I am new to wikipedia and I am not sure how to contribute to Misplaced Pages Asian Month. Where to I write the articles and submit them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlotteamc (talk • contribs) 15:11, 4 November 2016 (UTC) @Charlotteamc: I left a welcome message on your talk page so you can try to make some edits on Misplaced Pages.--AddisWang (talk) 00:04, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

"There must be ...no tags... within the article"?

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hey. I'm planning on submitting the article on Yu Wuling I created, once I've expanded it a bit. But I have a question about this.

I replaced a reliable scholarly source that gave the poem's text in Japanese shinjitai rather than traditional or simplified Chinese with a dubious blog that gave the exact same text in what looks like the correct Chinese orthography. The text itself is public domain and all goes back to the same ninth-century author, and I know it's still accurate because it's the same basic text as appears in the reliable sources. Obviously in the long run I would like to replace the blog with a reliable source that gives the Chinese text, but I'm not sure if this will be feasible within the month, and it wouldn't be a serious issue with regard to either WP:V or WP:COPYVIO if I just removed the citations altogether.

So I'm wondering which would make the article best from the point of view of Asian Month:

1. remove the tags because the blog source is adequate for the "claims" being attributed to it per WP:BLUE;
2. remove the tags and the citations because the BLUE "claims" don't need citations; or
3. leave the citations and tags in because Template:Better source is here being used as a pedantic and unnecessarily strict measure and the Asian Month judges can see that.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 06:39, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Considerably expanded articles

Are expanded articles eligible for this year Misplaced Pages Asian Month, say a 5 times expanded article?--Rochelimit (talk) 18:48, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

ok, only new article.. got it.--Rochelimit (talk) 02:58, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

@Rochelimit: If I recall correctly (and I was too busy with other stuff to fully take part last year), last year the rules were a little different (hence the misprint that was in the template until I corrected it earlier today). They must have changed it for whatever reason. If I had to guess (and it's only a guess!) I would say that there were problems with users taking short but well-written and sourced articles, and expanding them and making them worse, but getting points in the short run anyway. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:08, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

@Hijiri88:I thought it has something to do with this year's manpowers and the judging system. I prefer to still have the expansion though, but oh well, maybe next year.--Rochelimit (talk) 09:25, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, you might well be right. I really don't know. I agree with you that including expansions would be nice, too: my best work ever was in 2015 on an article someone else started in 2005. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:30, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

new article location

Hello. I was wondering when I submit my articles, could I submit an article that is in my userspace? Or do i need to move it into the mainspace before submitting it to WAM? Thanks. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 05:05, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi @MrLinkinPark333: You are welcome to create drafts of articles in your userpace, but only articles that have been moved to the mainspace should be submitted. Thanks! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:08, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

@MrLinkinPark333: BTW make sure the article you submit has to be created during November. So if your draft page is created before November, and you move it to main space, you can not submit it.--AddisWang (talk) 15:55, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Translation

As some might have noticed, I'm creating for the WP Asian Month stubs on female international footballers. I found a list of some notable international Asian footballers, but I only know their original name. Are people willing to translate them to their name in Latin script so I can start creating these articles if they are not already on Misplaced Pages?

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Will there be a Caucasion month anytime soon?

I think I could really contribute on such a project. So, is there a Caucasian month planned anytime soon? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.172.216.52 (talk) 14:26, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 November 2016

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180.148.213.158 (talk) 14:53, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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