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I have to say you've done an excellent job - well done! Number 5 7 09:55, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Good work boos , and thanks for informing the WP:KSA . have a nice day. Ammar ( Talk - Don't Talk) 23:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I would have to think about it more. The first sentence is cumbersome. The dictionary definitions are variations of "a route used by traveling traders or merchant ships". What are your overall goals for the article? I'm interested in trade routes too. I have written little sub articles on trade routes like Siraf and Miran (China). Let me look at the article more. It looks interesting. Regards, -- Mattisse 16:24, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
A template is a great idea. You probably know more about the Silk Route than I do. I actually don't know very much. But I can see if I can come up with something. If I had known about your articles I could of stuck links in many articles to yours. In fact I still will. I had now idea there were all those articles. (I'm still looking through them). -- Mattisse 20:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
That is great! I think it will help a lot. Just looking at it I saw routes I still haven't hear of - the Amber Route and the Trans-Saharan trade. You have done a lot of work. Would you mind if I copy edited some of your articles, like the Trade route article (getting rid of most of those links)? -- Mattisse 23:22, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Either of the original ones you came up with is fine. I was thinking of the type of info box where each route would stick it own map in it. But that is just an idle idea. I have no idea how to come up with one of those. It seems more important to try to get the articles in some kind of shape. The Silk Road article is a mess. I think I saw a book on the Silk Route somewhere. Have a good trip! -- Mattisse 19:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I reviewed your Good Article Nomination for Incense Route, but I have a few small concerns, so I've put the article on hold for now. If they can be fixed up, I think everything else looks great and I would gladly pass it as a Good Article. Cheers, CP 17:25, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
And now I have passed it, congratulations! This is my first time doing a good article review, so if there's some sort of template I'm supposed to put on your talk page, let me know... I haven't seen one yet. Also, if you want me to fix up the citations, just let me know and I can take care of it tomorrow. Cheers, CP 06:03, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Sure. I will look through it for typos, spelling, wording and MoS issues. Regards, -- Mattisse 19:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems like the routes should be listed in the order that they appear in the article, so I rearranged them and now have several routes left over.
The period from 1500 BCE- 1 CE saw the Western Asian, Mediterranean, Chinese and Indian societies develop major transportation networks for trade. [1] The main networks included the Incense Route of Arabia, the Silk route, the Grand Trunk Road of India, Via Maris, the Spice trade and the Amber road. (Left over are The Royal Road of Persia, the Yellow river system of China, and, the Phoenician sea lanes of the Mediterranean. [1] )
I do not know what all those extra routes are that do not have heading below and it does not seem that you explain where they fit in further down in the article. -- Mattisse 20:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
This was a time when western Asian, Mediterranean, Chinese and Indian societies developed along relatively independent lines. Regional transportation arteries emerged; The Royal Road of Persia, the Grand Trunk Road of India, the Ambassador Road and Yellow river system of China, the Incense Road of Arabia and, adjacent to it, the Phoenician sea lanes of the Mediterranean. Regional constellations of cities sharpened in resolution; a world galaxy of cities was still embryonic.
I don't have a good source and just piece things together. The article I had trouble with, Songyue Pagoda, I just built off some phrases from a book and then found info on the pagoda. Then a DYK editor asked many specific questions about how what I described in the article all happened. I just said that it would take a treatise on Buddhism in India, on the history of Chinese architecture going back thousands of years and history of the many trade routes to try to explain and that in the end we don't really know. -- Mattisse 01:19, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
All those questions about the Songyue Pagoda occurred on the DYK discussion page. I don't know where the discussion part of the page goes after the date is archived. It is somewhere, I guess. You seem to know way more about trade routes than I do. When I was copy editing and Indian history articles, I asked the editor how the Indian traders moved their goods around, and he was very vague. That's when I started to get interested in places like Siraf -- actually fixing a red-link for one of his articles.
I only found out about the Silk Route accidently by doing a bunch of geography/geology articles involving the Taklamakan Desert, Lop Nur, Tibetan Plateau etc. I have no real source of information except what I happen across on the Internet. -- Mattisse 23:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I'll look into your sources. The only area I have covered is Buddhism and the Silk Route in the Taklamakan Desert. I too wish I were more multilingual! Regards, -- Mattisse 11:57, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
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OK, on looking further, the problem would seem to be that Template:Wide image itself uses Template:Click, and so any use of that template will end you up in the deprecated template pages category. See Template talk:Wide image#use of deprecated template. So, unless or until someone fixes it, you're stuck with it as the price for your wide images. Regards, Bencherlite Talk 20:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Your comments are appreciated. I wasn't looking after Trade routes specifically; just doing WP:RCP. Reverting mindless vandalism like that is a one-click job. Philip Trueman 19:53, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for writing a good article (not official) on Jim Corbett National Park, you can see Kaziranga National Park for further help. Hope, i can help u in making this aricle better. Amartyabag TALK2ME 08:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Its good to see a responsible editor like you, with little past history in Protected areas of India, get involved in this article. However please remove the messy citations in the lead. The statements are non-controversial and the citations are used later in the body anyway.
Amartyabag TALK2ME, the lead editor of Kaziranga National Park, the only WP:FA article about National Parks of India so far, is looking over our shoulder and hopefully will jump in. Go for it. Regards, Marcus 16:21, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Great work on improving the article - so much that you're drawing some other good editors to join in the fun. Thanks, ॐ Priyanath talk 16:50, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry! I've been preoccupied! Just took a look at it and it looks great. I'll look through it and see if I spot anything, although it look like it is more than enough for GA! -- Mattisse 20:16, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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I'm really glad to hear that it's been helpful. Sometimes I have to guess at what is meant so I know I make mistakes. The article is really interesting. That photo of the elephant is great! -- Mattisse 16:53, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
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Big step! I certainly will look through it and do all that I can. Just glancing at it, it looks great. -- Mattisse 19:23, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
I asked the following question to SandyGeorgia re using default image size for FAR:
Are all images supposed to be default size? Last time I was over at FAR, it seemed there was disagreement over this issue. (I am trying to help Trade routes and was wondering about the images there, as they seem quite large.) Thanks! -- Mattisse 20:23, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
It is an exceedingly frustrating business, even when I am just monitoring the article because I did the copy editing. It is very brave of you to go through it. A very good thing is that editors are interested in it. Some articles get no comments at all -- think how you would feel then!
If you think it is trying so far, wait until they get into the "MoS breach" objections. They have many obscure rules - like the default size picture "rule". And many that there is no agreement on, so it all depends on what editors happen to be interested in your article.
But the discussion is already yielding some interesting ideas. The subject is obviously massive if everything, canal, railroads, blah is going to be in it. There has to be a way to narrow down the topic to something manageable. Really this article should be a very main article, with sub articles galore. It has gotten me thinking. I had already realized that just the Silk Road/Route is huge.
I think, in the end, it will be a rewarding experience for you because you will be aware of a whole other level of sophisticated Wikipedian concerns! Mattisse 19:42, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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I have to say you've done an excellent job - well done! Number 5 7 09:55, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Good work boos , and thanks for informing the WP:KSA . have a nice day. Ammar ( Talk - Don't Talk) 23:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I would have to think about it more. The first sentence is cumbersome. The dictionary definitions are variations of "a route used by traveling traders or merchant ships". What are your overall goals for the article? I'm interested in trade routes too. I have written little sub articles on trade routes like Siraf and Miran (China). Let me look at the article more. It looks interesting. Regards, -- Mattisse 16:24, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
A template is a great idea. You probably know more about the Silk Route than I do. I actually don't know very much. But I can see if I can come up with something. If I had known about your articles I could of stuck links in many articles to yours. In fact I still will. I had now idea there were all those articles. (I'm still looking through them). -- Mattisse 20:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
That is great! I think it will help a lot. Just looking at it I saw routes I still haven't hear of - the Amber Route and the Trans-Saharan trade. You have done a lot of work. Would you mind if I copy edited some of your articles, like the Trade route article (getting rid of most of those links)? -- Mattisse 23:22, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Either of the original ones you came up with is fine. I was thinking of the type of info box where each route would stick it own map in it. But that is just an idle idea. I have no idea how to come up with one of those. It seems more important to try to get the articles in some kind of shape. The Silk Road article is a mess. I think I saw a book on the Silk Route somewhere. Have a good trip! -- Mattisse 19:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I reviewed your Good Article Nomination for Incense Route, but I have a few small concerns, so I've put the article on hold for now. If they can be fixed up, I think everything else looks great and I would gladly pass it as a Good Article. Cheers, CP 17:25, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
And now I have passed it, congratulations! This is my first time doing a good article review, so if there's some sort of template I'm supposed to put on your talk page, let me know... I haven't seen one yet. Also, if you want me to fix up the citations, just let me know and I can take care of it tomorrow. Cheers, CP 06:03, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Sure. I will look through it for typos, spelling, wording and MoS issues. Regards, -- Mattisse 19:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems like the routes should be listed in the order that they appear in the article, so I rearranged them and now have several routes left over.
The period from 1500 BCE- 1 CE saw the Western Asian, Mediterranean, Chinese and Indian societies develop major transportation networks for trade. [1] The main networks included the Incense Route of Arabia, the Silk route, the Grand Trunk Road of India, Via Maris, the Spice trade and the Amber road. (Left over are The Royal Road of Persia, the Yellow river system of China, and, the Phoenician sea lanes of the Mediterranean. [1] )
I do not know what all those extra routes are that do not have heading below and it does not seem that you explain where they fit in further down in the article. -- Mattisse 20:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
This was a time when western Asian, Mediterranean, Chinese and Indian societies developed along relatively independent lines. Regional transportation arteries emerged; The Royal Road of Persia, the Grand Trunk Road of India, the Ambassador Road and Yellow river system of China, the Incense Road of Arabia and, adjacent to it, the Phoenician sea lanes of the Mediterranean. Regional constellations of cities sharpened in resolution; a world galaxy of cities was still embryonic.
I don't have a good source and just piece things together. The article I had trouble with, Songyue Pagoda, I just built off some phrases from a book and then found info on the pagoda. Then a DYK editor asked many specific questions about how what I described in the article all happened. I just said that it would take a treatise on Buddhism in India, on the history of Chinese architecture going back thousands of years and history of the many trade routes to try to explain and that in the end we don't really know. -- Mattisse 01:19, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
All those questions about the Songyue Pagoda occurred on the DYK discussion page. I don't know where the discussion part of the page goes after the date is archived. It is somewhere, I guess. You seem to know way more about trade routes than I do. When I was copy editing and Indian history articles, I asked the editor how the Indian traders moved their goods around, and he was very vague. That's when I started to get interested in places like Siraf -- actually fixing a red-link for one of his articles.
I only found out about the Silk Route accidently by doing a bunch of geography/geology articles involving the Taklamakan Desert, Lop Nur, Tibetan Plateau etc. I have no real source of information except what I happen across on the Internet. -- Mattisse 23:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I'll look into your sources. The only area I have covered is Buddhism and the Silk Route in the Taklamakan Desert. I too wish I were more multilingual! Regards, -- Mattisse 11:57, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
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OK, on looking further, the problem would seem to be that Template:Wide image itself uses Template:Click, and so any use of that template will end you up in the deprecated template pages category. See Template talk:Wide image#use of deprecated template. So, unless or until someone fixes it, you're stuck with it as the price for your wide images. Regards, Bencherlite Talk 20:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Your comments are appreciated. I wasn't looking after Trade routes specifically; just doing WP:RCP. Reverting mindless vandalism like that is a one-click job. Philip Trueman 19:53, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for writing a good article (not official) on Jim Corbett National Park, you can see Kaziranga National Park for further help. Hope, i can help u in making this aricle better. Amartyabag TALK2ME 08:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Its good to see a responsible editor like you, with little past history in Protected areas of India, get involved in this article. However please remove the messy citations in the lead. The statements are non-controversial and the citations are used later in the body anyway.
Amartyabag TALK2ME, the lead editor of Kaziranga National Park, the only WP:FA article about National Parks of India so far, is looking over our shoulder and hopefully will jump in. Go for it. Regards, Marcus 16:21, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Great work on improving the article - so much that you're drawing some other good editors to join in the fun. Thanks, ॐ Priyanath talk 16:50, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry! I've been preoccupied! Just took a look at it and it looks great. I'll look through it and see if I spot anything, although it look like it is more than enough for GA! -- Mattisse 20:16, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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Big step! I certainly will look through it and do all that I can. Just glancing at it, it looks great. -- Mattisse 19:23, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
I asked the following question to SandyGeorgia re using default image size for FAR:
Are all images supposed to be default size? Last time I was over at FAR, it seemed there was disagreement over this issue. (I am trying to help Trade routes and was wondering about the images there, as they seem quite large.) Thanks! -- Mattisse 20:23, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
It is an exceedingly frustrating business, even when I am just monitoring the article because I did the copy editing. It is very brave of you to go through it. A very good thing is that editors are interested in it. Some articles get no comments at all -- think how you would feel then!
If you think it is trying so far, wait until they get into the "MoS breach" objections. They have many obscure rules - like the default size picture "rule". And many that there is no agreement on, so it all depends on what editors happen to be interested in your article.
But the discussion is already yielding some interesting ideas. The subject is obviously massive if everything, canal, railroads, blah is going to be in it. There has to be a way to narrow down the topic to something manageable. Really this article should be a very main article, with sub articles galore. It has gotten me thinking. I had already realized that just the Silk Road/Route is huge.
I think, in the end, it will be a rewarding experience for you because you will be aware of a whole other level of sophisticated Wikipedian concerns! Mattisse 19:42, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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