User talk:Sewing
Welcome
Hi Sewing, welcome to the 'pedia. You've been making some really good edits here, it's good to see you. The software here doesn't really go with spaces in the pipe (|) character though, it puts in an extra space where it doesn't need to be (kind of like my keyboard *grin*).
Hope you enjoy the place. We could use a few more like you. - Hephaestos 05:34, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hi! It is nice to have Wikipedians writing on Korean subjects. I have noticed that you always write something like "A city in ..." or "A river in ..." in the first sentence of an article. Well, I dont know why, but it is a standard to write " XXX is a city in ..." or " XXX is a rivier in ..." even if XXX is the title of the article. -wshun 00:35, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks for the comment and tip. As I said in my email to you, I'm changing my style to conform to the the norm. Sewing 15:38, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Annyoung haseyo! And wonyoung hamnida to the Young-eo Wikipedia. English is "younger" than Korean, so I guess that's why Hangookpoondul call it Yeonguh. (If you don't get the joke, don't worry)
Groan... Sewing 15:37, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I like what you've done with the Hangul article. --Uncle Ed 15:29, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Thanks. I just finished it about half an hour ago. Sewing 15:37, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
How redirect works
Redirect page (like Korean surname) must redirect to an actual (non-redirect) page, and not a redirect to a redirect. BUT, if you have done that properly, you do not need to change all references in another article -- say Chinese family name that refers to Korean surname -- to the target page (X). You can keep it as Korean surname and do not need to change it to X -- That's the beauty of redirect system: We don't need to use the target page name in the article. --Menchi 02:24, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hi...sorry for the late reply: I couldn't reply to you right away... I didn't want to rename the page since you had a link to it on your User page; on the other hand, some pages were already redirecting to "Korean family name" and I didn't want to redirect again...anyhow, I've moved the page. Thanks for your interest and quick responses; sorry for my slow reply. Sewing 07:29, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Move page
You must click "Move this page" button to move page. You can not simply copy-&-paste -- which means the history record of the page is lost. I've deleted Korean name. Please try moving Korean family name again. --Menchi 02:49, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Got it. Sorry again for taking so long to reply. The page has been moved. Sewing 07:31, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- You've done it. Excellent! --Menchi 08:00, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Wikifcation & Korean DMZ article
Hi there, nice work on Demilitarized Zone (Korea)! One very small suggestion: as a general rule, you don't need to Wikify elements (make links) more than one time in each text. If you view the current version, you will see I removed some doubles (ie, 2x Korean War). I look forward to reading future articles on Korean subjects. All the best, Viajero 19:31, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I also noticed this in your edits on Hanja; there must be 30 links to Hangeul in that article! :-) I wasn't sure whether to say anything, since I wasn't sure what the established practice was, but Viajero has made it easy :-) Rschmertz 23:03, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
You can Wikify a word once per paragraph (in case the reader skips the paragraph with the first reference). But to Wikify it twice or more in a sentence is too much. --Menchi 07:12, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Sorry, but this is not good advice. Though not entirely illogical, once-per-paragraph is not at all supported by existing practice nor the Wikipedia documentation. Sewing, please refer to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Free link style and Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context for more reliable guidance in these matters. Good luck! -- Viajero 08:13, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments, everyone. I can see that it's proper form to use a link just once, with the first occurrence of the word. I will stick to the practice as much as possible from now on. Sewing 14:10, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hi. In case you don't know, you can add the titles in List of Korea-related topics soax
- Yeah, I was going to do that...
Thanks, --Sewing 13:04, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Wiktionary
Hello, I would appreciate your opinion on wiktionary:Wiktionary talk:Entries on Chinese characters#Index_by_Korean_reading. --Nanshu 02:16, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks for your interest! I'll reply on that page, but are there any examples right now that I can look at of a typical Chinese character entry in Wiktionary? That would give me a better idea of our goal... I'm going to be busy for a few hours, so I'll post a reply later today/tonight. --Sewing 02:25, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Here it is. wiktionary:Wiktionary:Chinese index. There are six indexes at present. --Nanshu 02:34, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I added some comments last night (Tuesday morning if you're in Japan), but now (Tuesday morning my time), the Wiktionary server(s) is/are very slow, so I can't add anything else right now. Anyhow, it looks good; the only thing missing from the template is the 훈 (訓) readings, since they always go together with the 음 (音) readings in Hanja dictionaries. --Sewing 13:52, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Italics and bolding
Hi, you sometimes confused bolding with italics. Bolding (Wiki markup: ...) is used for the article titles (and their alternative names/synonyms), e.g.,
- Han-geul, also known as Han'gŭl, is a script...
But italics (...) is used for non-English words & book titles. So, in the following sentence, the bolded words should be italicized instead.
- 14 are consonants (jaeum; 자음; 子音; literally, "child sound") and 10 are vowels (moeum; 모음; 母音; literally, "mother sound").
But for Korean words that are part of the English vocabulary now (like kimchi and hangul, which have no easy translation), no italicization is needed.
Thanks for typing up the tables at Hangul#Jamo names! We've been needing that for a while! :-) --Menchi 05:00, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Looks like I have a lot of editing to do to fix this... ;). As I go through my edits, I'll fix the bolding as I find it. --Sewing 13:00, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC).