Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Three Kingdoms

message: Hi! I found a source describing a TV series based on Three Kingdoms.
* "Ancient classic, modern tale." Global Times (China.org.cn). May 28, 2010.
WhisperToMe (talk) 20:26, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: TV series

message: Hi, everyone. I did this originally out of personal interest, but after learning that I can share it, I'd like to present to you my book - Campaigns of the Three Kingdoms.
This is intended to provide information on the battles, sieges, conflicts or incidents of the era (and nothing else). If any of you are interested, you can find the book here. 
Enjoy. Benjitheijneb (talk) 13:48, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for sharing with us. User:Kamek98 also did something similar here. I previously created a sandbox page listing all the military conflicts in the Three Kingdoms period, but had it deleted when I discovered that people were indiscriminately copying from it (including mistakes I had deliberately made to serve as a deterrent measure against plagiarism).   Lonelydarksky (暗無天日)  contact me (聯絡) 14:42, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks LDS! Oh, and I enjoyed your compile of these articles Benjitheijneb. I'm currently ordering mine off the internet. Although I am doing editions since this project is far from done. Also, I'm doing another compile of each kingdom's biographies. --Eric - Contact me please. I prefer conversations started on my talk page if the subject is changed 17:24, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Book - Campaigns of the Three Kingdoms

message: I'd like to bring a new article Assassination plots in the Three Kingdoms to the attention of all members in this Wikiproject. The page contains not only assassination plots (including fictional ones) mentioned in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but also loads of random information on the deaths of certain people. The article is also poorly written. Would anyone here like to do something about it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.1.172 (talk) 16:23, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've proposed a delete, as I don't think it fulfils notability guidelines at all and serves no use to the Wiki; the additional issues of poor writing and inaccuracy (as well as the fact that it does not distinguish between history and fact, despite the author's apparent intention for its use for fiction) are moot points in comparison, and alone would only require re-editing and re-writing segments. The discussion page is available here; if anybody is able to provide a reasonable argument for relevence, then I'll happily support a simple multiple issues tag, or at worst article incubation. Benjitheijneb (talk) 01:08, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Assassination plots in the Three Kingdoms 

message: Hi, all. I'd like to raise the issue of the new article I wrote based on the article requests section, Zhong Hui's Rebellion. I don't think it's one of my worst article starts, all things considered, but there is a great deal I cannot do for it (for example, I only have Romance and a few small excerpts of Records translated into English, so the most I can do is check the historicity of involved officers, rather than detail their actual roles.) If anybody can spare some time to review and edit it as needed, please do. Thank you! Benjitheijneb (talk) 22:39, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zhong Hui's Rebellion 

message: Let's visit User_talk:Deadkid_dk/Archive13#Lu_Su. He said that I'm not so versed in the novel (I've only read it once ten years ago) so I can't check whether the details are accurate at a glance, but it looks okay so far. Good luck! _dk (talk) 09:48, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Congratulations on your block. _dk (talk) 12:19, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  A User named Deadkid_dk 

message: Hello, everyone. At long last, I've made the jump to French Wikipedia as well (gotta practice my Babel Level 1 French somewhere!), and I've noticed that the Three Kingdoms (Trois Royaumes) pages on French Wikipedia are extraordinarily few and far between, and those that are tend to be lacking the detail of the English equivalents - for example, the summary on the page for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms ("Histoire des Trois Royaumes") is essentially copied from the French version of the Dynasty Warriors games, with only three quarters copied at that.
With the dual aim of improving the French Wikipedia and improving my own French, I will be starting to work at these articles. I'm aware that even the English Three Kingdoms WikiProject is undermanned and thus in no position to start a French project, but if any of you happen to have any spare time and competency with French (the latter of which I myself lack), please try to drop by and neaten up or start an article or two (even if it ends up as a stub after your attention). Thank you! Benjitheijneb (talk) 22:27, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is the personal project page on the French Wikipedia. It is in my user space, as I do not think it should be proposed as a WikiProject equivalent without sufficient support. If you would be willing to join, please feel free to add your names to the list (it's not a binding contract to help, simply a display of interest). Benjitheijneb (talk) 23:16, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: My own knowledge of French is woefully inadequate (I've returned all knowledge learned from those compulsory French courses years ago back to the respective schools), so I can only wish you the best of luck in your endeavour :) _dk (talk) 10:18, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  French Wikipedia (Wikipédia?) Three Kingdoms 

message: Hello all! I’m working with the Saylor foundation to create a series of original, crowd-sourced textbooks that will be openly licensed and freely available on the web and within Saylor’s free, self-paced courses at Saylor.org. We are using Wikibooks as a platform to host this project and hope to garner the interest of existing members of the Wikibooks and Wikipedia community, as well as bring in new members! We thought that some of your members may be interested in contributing to our book Saylor.org's Ancient Civilizations of the World. (talk)--Thomas Simpson (talk) 16:04, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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message: I am unsure how much this project is involved with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (video game series), but :File:ZhenJiart_DW5.jpg, a KOEI-produced artwork image of Lady Zhen (Zhen Ji) is currently at FfD on en.wiki & Commons. I however think it is an interesting piece of artwork, hopefully someone will be able to find a use for it. Salvidrim! 07:56, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless the image is being used or put to use on a page related to Dynasty Warriors characters (or, less likely, on Lady Zhen's own page, though its use would be confined to the section concerning her appearance in popular culture), there is unfortunately no rationale for keeping it on the wiki. If someone thinks it appropriate to add the image to any of these pages, the FfD notice might be contested. But at present, this is not the case, and I cannot say I think such use is appropriate. Anyone else? Benjitheijneb (talk) 14:21, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  FfD Notice 

message: Can someone help me improving this article Tenbu (video game series) a little bit? Cheers. --Hydao (talk) 09:32, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Tenbu (video game series)]] 

message: Hey guys, some of you may already know these incidents, but I'm still posting a message here for the benefit of those who are not aware of them. Starting last year (2012), there have been many anonymous IP users adding unsourced birth and death dates to articles on Three Kingdoms persons, especially for persons whose birth dates are stated as (unknown). Dates taken from works of fiction, the Koei games and anywhere else, except for historical sources (e.g. Records of the Three Kingdoms, Zizhi Tongjian, Rafe de Crespigny's works), are not acceptable because they are not historically attested.
Besides, these IP users also have a tendency to list out the family members of certain Three Kingdoms persons in full, including members of their extended families and so on. Although this is not wrong per se, I feel that it's very redundant to provide such superfluous details. Therefore, I've been attempting to limit these lists to only members of the persons' immediate families. Let's take the Sun family for example: The family section on Sun Jian's page already lists out his children, so it's unnecessary to list out siblings on the pages of Sun Ce, Sun Quan etc. I don't hope to see very long lists that do not serve any purpose other than to regurgitate what has already been included on other articles. An example would be this. (A very short article on Cao Jun suddenly became longer after a list of his siblings, directly copied from Cao Cao#Family, was added. This doesn't help to improve the article in any way.)
I'm somewhat convinced that these IP users are actually the same person editing from various IP accounts, due to the similarities in editing patterns and the pages they typically edit. Some of these IP addresses include:
* 76.227.180.214
* 79.71.119.176
* 79.70.238.62
* 79.71.120.231
* 79.70.235.21
* 80.42.234.90
* 80.42.229.27
* 119.193.35.145
* 122.59.34.2
* 212.139.108.94
I've posted messages on at least two of their talk pages (see here and here), warning them about their edits. However, it appears that either they have not received the messages or they ignored the warnings and persist in their edits.
Please help by reverting such unsourced or unnecessary changes if you spot any. Thank you.   LDS  contact me 05:39, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced additions by IP users 

message: See WT:CHINA#Discussion on splitting the Chinese Wikipedia where a notice has been posted about ZH.wiki splitting into PRC-wiki and ROC-wiki -- 76.65.129.3 (talk) 06:42, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinese Wikipedia is considering splitting in two

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It's hilarious, guys. You should look at it and weep before it gets deleted. _dk (talk) 17:50, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Yang Tiao]] for deletion 

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thread_title:  Leaflet for Wikiproject Three Kingdoms at Wikimania 2014 

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message: I intend to retire the template. Please see Template_talk:Infobox_Chinese_historical_biography#Retirement. _dk (talk) 19:31, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
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