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User Categorization -- Pingtung County

You were listed on the Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians/Taiwan page as living in or being associated with Pingtung County. As part of the Misplaced Pages:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Pingtung County for instructions. Rmky87 20:46, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Super Mario 64

This wasn't the first 3D platformer - there were others. It was just the most well-known and influential. Andre (talk) 19:43, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: Appeal to consequences

Thanks, my full reply is on the article's talk page. slambo 18:27, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

MMAStatbox

Very funny indeed! (for other readers: Shawnc tried to add the MMAStatbox to the Royce Gracie archive just five seconds after I´ve added it myself!). They said great minds think the same at roughly the same time when surrounded by the same context (that´s why, they also claim, so many inventions happens to be "invented" by different people, in different places, at almost the same time). Hope it´s true, and not the other way around: "stupid people always think the same stupid things"... let´s hope we are the smart ones, not the stupid ones, only time will tell... (i´m in a kind of humorous mood tonight!) regards and thanks, Loudenvier 03:43, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Argumentum ad populum

• hey shawnc, my fault, i confused the two ad-whatevers terms. i think the page looks good, whats the difference between renaming and redirecting? Spencerk 07:15, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Martial arts categorization

Happy to help. But based on what you have worked on, you have fallen into my trap: You might be the person who can handle the one category in the Sportspeople section that I can't: Martial arts practitioners. There's a large number of different martial arts (hapkido, for example) that I don't know's a subcategory of what. Sometimes an article states it (Jackie Chan doesn't practice kung fu, for example), but sometimes not. So without that knowledge I can't really handle the mass of uncategorized people in the Martial arts practitioners main page. Maybe you can?--Mike Selinker 14:40, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

• Take a look at Category:American_martial_artists. This is how I'd like to see all the martial artists categorized as they get moved out of the main section. Note that this will result in a single entry under the Category:Sportspeople by nationality subcategory of ("X" martial artists). Make sense? If so, please move anyone you feel comfortable moving appropriately.--Mike Selinker 21:08, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Wushu vs Kung Fu

I am not too sure if the two terms are exactly referring to the same thing. As far as Hong Kong is concerned, it's called kung fu there, both in English and in Cantonese. — Instantnood 09:23, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Welcome. People use kung fu and 功夫 predominantly whenever they talk about martial arts, e.g. to refer to the genre of films and dramas. In fact 武術 is far less frequently used, except for sport when 武術 is the official name of the particular events (e.g. Asian Games). — Instantnood 10:02, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Categorization

Greetings! I'm sorry that I haven't gotten back to you about the categorizations yet, but I've been a bit busy for the last couple of days in the "real world"... I think I'll be able to look it over tomorrow. Cheers! --Fire Star 04:31, 20 November 2005 (UTC)