Talk:Science and technology of the Song dynasty

message: I can't wait to hear the responses for this article. I've put a lot of work into it, and I'd love to hear suggestions/criticism/approval.--PericlesofAthens 03:08, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Very informative article, well written, shows true understanding and enthusiasm on the subject. However, some work is needed to make it more easily approachable for a general reader. Some chapters are very long and clearly require reorganization to sub-chapters, like Polymaths and mechanical engineering and Nautics. Some blockquotes are in italics, while some are not. Extensive usage of "()" to provide notes is rather interrupting, consider putting those to sub-notes or merge them with the main text, for example as links. I have put the article's nomination on hold for you to react to the feedback. --Drieakko 07:38, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Nominee 

message: As you've requested, I've organized those two sections into multiple sub-sections, made all block quotes normal font, not italic, and converted most of the text that was placed in parentheses into article prose instead.--PericlesofAthens 11:11, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi Drieakko 

message: I did the GA review for the article. Findings:
:1. Well written?: Very fluent English.
:2. Factually accurate?: Nothing that would stick out as erroneous as far as I know.
:3. Broad in coverage?: Could not think of anything to add. Covers the subject in detail, well referenced throughout.
:4. Neutral point of view?: Yes.
:5. Article stability? Loads of edits in the recent days, but seemingly not resulting from disputes of any kind.
:6. Images?: Good images.
Passing GA. Added the article to Wikipedia:Good_articles. --Drieakko 11:56, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome! I'm glad all that hard work meant something.--PericlesofAthens 12:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA review 

message: Where is the (featured article) star??????????!?!??!! (pardon my use of punctuation, I just found it particularly amusing) Pandacomics 20:20, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for noticing!--PericlesofAthens 08:16, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  a star is needed 

message: The picture of a modern odometer is an anachronism of the technology of the Song Dynasty.  Even the caption, "A modern mechanical odometer of an automobile." proves so.  They also did not have automobiles at the time.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdodo1992 (talk • contribs) 03:15, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And your point is what? I think anyone viewing this article would be able to discern that the picture is of a modern odometer in an automobile, and that the automobile is a modern innovation.--Pericles of AthensTalk 13:56, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct, it only made a sound each time a certain distance was traveled; it was up to the observer to record in his log how many times the bells and bells rang out and he would manually have to calculate the total distance. Perhaps, in this case, the odometer picture should be removed, since we are not burdened today with recording each time our vehicles bang drums and ring bells. Lol.--Pericles of AthensTalk 15:39, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odometer 

message: What a superb article, it really is a fascinating read. Congratulations to all those who contributed to it and brought it to this fine standard. Keep up the good work. WilliamH (talk) 02:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I'm the creator and prime editor of this article, so I truly appreciate your comment.--Pericles of AthensTalk 03:20, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And to think some losers complained about computer articles making the front page, I bet they would approve of this article. Well attention to them, it's the exact thing thing, technology from a certain era. Well done on the great article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.229.70 (talk) 15:39, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wow 

message: Is the Chinese text in this article in Simplified or Traditional?
1. It should be mentioned.
2. Both versions should be offered. -68.4.73.34 (talk) 08:08, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a total of 4 Chinese characters in the entire article; does this issue even merit discussion? It was the written radicals and other most commonly used characters in the writing system that were "simplified", but as John has noted, most characters in the Simplified and Traditional systems are the same.--Pericles of AthensTalk 22:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simplified or Traditional? 

message: This article is definitely FA, but I could see some room for additions from other sources, given that much of the sources seem to be from a single Needham. John Riemann Soong (talk) 19:27, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would love to include more sources, it's just that I don't own every book in the world, JSTOR only features so many scholarly journal articles related to pre-modern Chinese technology, and I've been working on a dozen other large wiki projects, such as improving the history articles of Society of the Song Dynasty, Augustus, Giovanni Villani, etc. Feel free to improve the article if you have access to sources, but I'm afraid that additional sources will come slow, since there are not many books on pre-modern Chinese technology.--Pericles of AthensTalk 20:50, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  could we see a bit of source diversity 

message: The MoS says that either BC/AD or BCE/CE may be used in an article.  Since this article is about a non-Christian part of the world, it seems to me that BCE/CE notation would make the most sense. The Chinese use the term "Common Era (公元)" and I note that key articles about China, (e.g., China, Song Dynasty) use BCE. Comments? Sunray (talk) 20:55, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Changing to BCE/CE is perfectly acceptable. I have no objections; BC/AD was just the format I chose a long time ago when I created the article, and didn't think too much about it at the time.--Pericles of AthensTalk 22:58, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since only two people have commented in over eight days and both are in favour of the change, I shall proceed with it. Sunray (talk) 01:37, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dating (eras) of this article

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Technology of the Song Dynasty's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "chase":
From Cannon: 
From Gunpowder: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:39, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Technology of the Song Dynasty]] 

message: Hartwell's iron production figures are fundamentally flawed, as the cited article by Wagner argues in great detail. The actual production could easily have been an order of magnitude smaller or larger. 83.92.91.2 (talk) 19:11, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron production figures