The MNLF claims Mindanao, Sabah, and Sarawak to be part of their country "Bangsamoro" which again is still is not recognized. I hope they stop because their the only one that will be happy, not the citizens. Please don't revert my edits — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.144.44.131 ( talk) 22:05, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
Do you agree to my concession over this subsection?
Gintong Liwanag Ng Araw ( talk) 06:46, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
“ | Kingdoms and city states (called
barangays) dominated the
1st millenium such as the
Confederation of Madja-as in
Panay and the
Rajahnate of Cebu,
[1] Philippine prehistory ended on April 21, 900 when the
Laguna Copperplate Inscription was written documenting the
Kingdom of Tondo, which was ruled by the
Lakandula dynasty.
[2] On March 17, 1001, the
Song Shih documents the
Kingdom of Butuan trading with the
Song dynasty of
China.
[3] Great epics such as the
Hinilawod,
Darangen and the
Biag ni Lam-ang trace their origins to this era.
[4]
In 1380, Karim ul' Makdum arrived from Malacca to Simunul, Tawi-Tawi and established the oldest mosque in the country. The Sultanate of Sulu was established by Sharif ul-Hāshim in November 17, 1405 by converting the local rajah to Islam and marrying his daughter. [5] [6] At the end of the 15th century, Shariff Mohammed Kabungsuwan of Johor introduced Islam to Mindanao and established the Sultanate of Maguindanao extending it further into Lanao. [7] Islam spread out of Mindanao in the south into Luzon in the north. Manila was converted through the reign of Sultan Bolkiah in 1500, wherein, the Sultanate of Brunei subjugated the kingdom, converting its ruler. [8] [9] [10] [11] Rivalries between the datus, rajahs, huangs, sultans, and lakans eventually eased Spanish colonization. These states became incorporated into the Spanish Empire and were Hispanicized and Christianized. [12] |
” |
I need feedback on this edit. I am planning to add it within the next 24 hours.-- ♥ 10:04, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
I provided 4 references for the addition of the Binuangang Civilization that was recently rediscovered in Manila Bay, yet you claim it's not well sourced. I actually contacted a member of the University of the Philippines Archaeological Society for help in making that article. Anyway I think that it's well sourced since there will be a symposium on it this May and a book is currently being written about it and that the Philippine military already acknowledged it. However, I shall assume that you have good intentions and I should refine my wordings of that the sentence about that lost civilization should be made less flowery and pea cocky. Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 08:41, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Should we continue on condensing the article? I supplied some references and deleted some content from some citations needed tags, I'm working on condensing the article even further, once done, should we submit it for a Featured Article review? The article was a featured article before it lost it status, then we edited it and it regained good article status, I think it's high time that we should try to return its featured article status. Should I do a voice recording of the article before we submit it to featured status or after it? I'm in quarantine so I have the free time to voice record.-- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 13:45, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Corcerning your removal of a source in the Philippine History Article about the Manila Galleons...
You removed it saying that it's not supported in the source that the Manila Galleons are among the largest then in the world, I think it is supported in the source, I will show you a screenshot of the page and passage that said it is.
https://i.imgur.com/68VriZH.png
I don't know if, that's enough for you though. Please, enlighten me, thank you.-- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 14:06, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Oh ok thanks for the clarification. I guess I should rephrase it to just 'it is alleged that some Manila Galleons are "among" the largest ships constructed in the era." How about that? Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 21:02, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
How about: One Manila Galleon is alleged to be among the largest ships in the world. Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 06:13, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Hmmm youre right, how about we focus on the reasons why the size changed and state that there was many contraband traded and royal size limits were violated and that Mexican and Manila merchants were in leaugue to defy Madrid's royal laws for the sake of profit. Maybe posting the background as to why the sizes were that way is more apt for the article. What doyou think? Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 09:11, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
This is corncerning one edit, where you removed the approximate amount of people possesing Spanish admixture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Philippines&type=revision&diff=967979225&oldid=967961574
I however agree with you that most of it is original research, however there is one source there that categorically stated that 1/3rd of the population of Luzon Island, which now hold half the population of the Philippines had varying degrees of Spanish admixture.
Jagor, Fëdor, et al. (1870). The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes http://www.authorama.com/former-philippines-b-8.html
I feel as if removing mention of that in the Demographics section is unfair since the same section mention the 20% of Filipinos having partial Chinese descent yet, the 1/3rd of Luzon island which has Spanish admixture was erased. What do you think? -- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 07:50, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Ok lets just state that Spanish era news sources, said that then. Instead of letting original research exterpolate from that. Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 09:08, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Tell me when you finishined Copy-Editing the Philippine Article and when you finish putting the citations needed tags on it because once you are done, I will do some book crawling and furnish the needed citations, hopefully our library will be opened and I can furnish it, but if it's not I'll resort to online sources. Just tell me when you're done in my talk page, since I intend to supply the missing citations. -- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 12:19, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, may I request you to please check on the recent edits by PCommission on Philippines. Please check if it violates undue weight, or if it needs rewriting. Also, can you please check on the sources he used? He used a source about Ferdinand Marcos written by Marcos' political rival Benigno Aquino Jr., as well as the not-so-reliable Rappler, which is known to have high bias. Thank you.– Sanglahi86 ( talk) 18:46, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
Help! New Users have garbled our formerly streamlined edits in the Philippines article beyond recognition! I wanted to revert the article status to your streamlined editions but I cannot use the revert function because the Mods have placed me under probation (You can check my Userpage if you want), can you please talk some sense to our new users who are bloating our article again beyond recognition. If you send them to a discussion page I'll gladly inform them on what form for the article to follow, but since I am in probation I can't revert the article back to previous versions. Yours truly! Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 14:34, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Please see this edit. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 13:10, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
In this edit of our article: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Philippines&type=revision&diff=986191530&oldid=986030800 You said that the source you removed is not related to the text, but it's only the name of the book which makes it not related to the text. Upon clicking the source, you would find the text in Wikipedia used in the book. Here's the quote: "These Peninsular officers were less committed to the people they were assigned to protect and were often predatory, enriching themselves before returning to Spain, putting the interests of the metropolis over the interest of the natives." Let me underline it for you in a picture. It's written in Wikipedia how the Peninsulares only sought to enrich themselves whereas the Google Book cited that these Peninsulares love to enrich themselves: https://i.imgur.com/uLjjCrO.png . Would you mind if I restore the reference and add a quote from the book and it's page number and ISBN? Thanks and Happy Halloween!-- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 13:04, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello, the Philippines page (under Culture section) is missing information about the introduction of comedia (komedya), zarzuela, and vaudeville (bodabil) in the country. As I am not very adept at constructing sentences from scratch, may I respectfully request you to kindly expand the article to include these information? I have found the following sources that may be of help:
Thank you, and regards. - Sanglahi86 ( talk) 09:57, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
Please, discuss on talk page about your great discontent ( [1], [2]), is a key part in the history of Philippines, please, explain your removal claims. -- Pedro158 ( talk) 03:28, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Hello. May I kindly request you to please revise the Balikbayan box history section regarding the origins of the box? I have found several sources such as those below linking the balikbayan box to the Balikbayan Progam in the 1970s during President Ferdinand Marcos' time, but is nowehere to be found in the article:
And perhaps also the history section of the article Overseas Filipino Worker can be revised to include this information? Thanks.– Sanglahi86 ( talk) 10:11, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I've been working this morning to straighten out the cites in the Philippine–American War article which go to various versions of this source and I ran into a conflict with your edits when I tried to save the result of that. I've saved my edit-conflicted version offline and will suspend work on this for now. Please let me know when I can get back to this without conflicting with you -- early morning tomorrow would be a good time for me and I'll plan to let you know here when I'm done with that. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:44, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Chip.
This is following on the edit summary of
this recent edit by you. The short version is "I'm confident that they are the same". Both apparently refer to different instances of the compilation of insurgent records put together by
John R. M. Taylor. The reference here came via
this edit by you, copying it from the
History of the Philippines (1898–1946) article. I apparently put it in there a long time ago, without a wikilink to the source. That was added by me (with at least one typo) in
this 2009 edit, with a link to an online source which is no longer working; attempts to go there now end up
here I did find a web page where that quoted bit is visible
here, but there's a lot on nonprintable chars in there; you can find the quoted text there with a text search for attack was planned. That looks like an interpretive comment by Taylor someone, not part of the compiled records. A pdf of the insurgent paper compilation, or perhaps part of it, can be downloaded
here.
I don't know whether any of that is useful but, having dug it up, I thought I would pass it on in case it is.
Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 17:22, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
Adding a bit, I notice that Tay6lot's intro to the compiled papers (pdf linked above) says that they show, "... that it had been fully determined to attack the Americans in Manila upon a favorable opportunity, and that in the event of the success of this attack the so-called insurgent government would not have continued even to call itself a republic." Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 17:59, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
Adding another bit, I've been spending spare minutes searching for a document supporting the attack was planned text in the asserted quote in the articles mentioned above and quoted in several other related articles, after not having been able to find those words and other words in that quote with text searches in this apparent instance of the cited supporting source which is linked in at least some of the articles containing this asserted quote. This morning, I found this other instance of that online, and did find that quote with a text search there. Comparing the two instances, I see that the quoted bit is present in both, but on page 6 instead of page 5 as cited here. I haven't tried to find all those other places where this quote is present and to look at the cites there, but they should probably all cite the same source instance, and should surely cite the same source; I'm not sure which of these two instances of this source ought to be linked -- the one in which text searches don't work well is easier to read. Maybe link both instances separately in the cites? Dithering. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:34, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Adding a final (I think) bit on this -- I've created the pageno error from 5 to 6 and improved the cite in the articles: Battle of Manila (1899), History of the Philippines (1898–1946). United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 15:54, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Chipmunkdavis. I am not sure if you have been monitoring, but Presidency of Rodrigo Duterte has become one of the longest articles. I have been working on its expansion since last year, and I tried reducing its size by condensing; I also asked for a peer review and GOCE copyedit. Other editors also successfully reduced its size by trimming/condensing/spinning off its content over the months. If you have enough time, can you please take a look at it and hopefully reduce its size. I am having a difficult time condensing its current content through summary style. The talk page may also give some insights. Thank you. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 17:34, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello Chipmunkdavis. The article Philippines currently uses both {{ rp}} and {{ sfn}} for single sources having various page numbers. For consistency, I was thinking of choosing one, but need your input and suggestions since you may have used {{ rp}} while I opted to later use {{ sfn}}. The reason I used {{ sfn}} was because I initially did not know hot to add a link to the page number in {{ rp}}. What do you think would be better in terms of maintainability/readability? I am leaning towards using {{ rp}} since the references section would show the complete citation details without having to do a mouseover on the citation unlike in {{ sfn}}. Currently, 16 citations use {{ rp}} while {{ sfn}} uses 23. Thanks. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 19:02, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Why do you revert several of my edits recently? I just add a caret symbol (^) to the largest city/municipality on the list of every province as an indication. What's wrong with it? For example, in Iloilo, the capital and largest city is Iloilo City while in Ilocos Sur, Vigan is the capital while Candon is the largest city. 49.146.26.186 ( talk) 04:31, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello Chipmunkdavis. Can you please verify the citations used in Philippines Spanish and American colonial rule (1565–1946) section's sentence "The Spanish forces brought by Legazpi's five ships were a mix of Spaniards and Novohispanics (Mexicans) from New Spain (modern Mexico)." I checked the sources but could not find a source that explicitly stated that Novohispanics were included in Legazpi's five ships. The closest reliable and accessible source I could find online (which is not used as a citation for that statement) is page 102 of "The Spanish Lake" by O. H. K. Spate (2004) that simply stated "The four ships carried a total complement of 380, of whom 200 were soldiers for the settlement." Perhaps you could please check and revise the sentence according to the cited sources? Thanks. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 09:08, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello Chipmunkdavis. I was expanding some references in Philippines when I found the source of the phrase "usually paid as 75 tons of silver bullion from the Americas." [1] did not appear to support the said phrase. ( page 20 direct link) I could not find any other reliable source supporting it. Could you please verify and revise/remove the phrase if needed? Thanks. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 22:19, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello. There is an image of Sinulog festival in Philippines article (under section Holidays and festivals) that has a bad grammar in its image caption and a missing alt text. This image replaced the previous Ati-atihan festival image in one of the previous edits which involved adding excess images but of which most changes by the editor had been reverted. This Sinulog image was left unreverted.
Do you have suggestions on what to do? If we fix the image caption and add alt text to the Sinulog image, wouldn't it be giving undue weight/focus to the Sinulog festival since an image of the said festival is already under section Religion? Should we restore the Ati-atihan image instead, or do you think it is better to use an Independence Day (Philippines) image? Sanglahi86 ( talk) 02:31, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
The MNLF claims Mindanao, Sabah, and Sarawak to be part of their country "Bangsamoro" which again is still is not recognized. I hope they stop because their the only one that will be happy, not the citizens. Please don't revert my edits — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.144.44.131 ( talk) 22:05, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
Do you agree to my concession over this subsection?
Gintong Liwanag Ng Araw ( talk) 06:46, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
“ | Kingdoms and city states (called
barangays) dominated the
1st millenium such as the
Confederation of Madja-as in
Panay and the
Rajahnate of Cebu,
[1] Philippine prehistory ended on April 21, 900 when the
Laguna Copperplate Inscription was written documenting the
Kingdom of Tondo, which was ruled by the
Lakandula dynasty.
[2] On March 17, 1001, the
Song Shih documents the
Kingdom of Butuan trading with the
Song dynasty of
China.
[3] Great epics such as the
Hinilawod,
Darangen and the
Biag ni Lam-ang trace their origins to this era.
[4]
In 1380, Karim ul' Makdum arrived from Malacca to Simunul, Tawi-Tawi and established the oldest mosque in the country. The Sultanate of Sulu was established by Sharif ul-Hāshim in November 17, 1405 by converting the local rajah to Islam and marrying his daughter. [5] [6] At the end of the 15th century, Shariff Mohammed Kabungsuwan of Johor introduced Islam to Mindanao and established the Sultanate of Maguindanao extending it further into Lanao. [7] Islam spread out of Mindanao in the south into Luzon in the north. Manila was converted through the reign of Sultan Bolkiah in 1500, wherein, the Sultanate of Brunei subjugated the kingdom, converting its ruler. [8] [9] [10] [11] Rivalries between the datus, rajahs, huangs, sultans, and lakans eventually eased Spanish colonization. These states became incorporated into the Spanish Empire and were Hispanicized and Christianized. [12] |
” |
I need feedback on this edit. I am planning to add it within the next 24 hours.-- ♥ 10:04, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
I provided 4 references for the addition of the Binuangang Civilization that was recently rediscovered in Manila Bay, yet you claim it's not well sourced. I actually contacted a member of the University of the Philippines Archaeological Society for help in making that article. Anyway I think that it's well sourced since there will be a symposium on it this May and a book is currently being written about it and that the Philippine military already acknowledged it. However, I shall assume that you have good intentions and I should refine my wordings of that the sentence about that lost civilization should be made less flowery and pea cocky. Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 08:41, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Should we continue on condensing the article? I supplied some references and deleted some content from some citations needed tags, I'm working on condensing the article even further, once done, should we submit it for a Featured Article review? The article was a featured article before it lost it status, then we edited it and it regained good article status, I think it's high time that we should try to return its featured article status. Should I do a voice recording of the article before we submit it to featured status or after it? I'm in quarantine so I have the free time to voice record.-- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 13:45, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Corcerning your removal of a source in the Philippine History Article about the Manila Galleons...
You removed it saying that it's not supported in the source that the Manila Galleons are among the largest then in the world, I think it is supported in the source, I will show you a screenshot of the page and passage that said it is.
https://i.imgur.com/68VriZH.png
I don't know if, that's enough for you though. Please, enlighten me, thank you.-- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 14:06, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Oh ok thanks for the clarification. I guess I should rephrase it to just 'it is alleged that some Manila Galleons are "among" the largest ships constructed in the era." How about that? Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 21:02, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
How about: One Manila Galleon is alleged to be among the largest ships in the world. Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 06:13, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Hmmm youre right, how about we focus on the reasons why the size changed and state that there was many contraband traded and royal size limits were violated and that Mexican and Manila merchants were in leaugue to defy Madrid's royal laws for the sake of profit. Maybe posting the background as to why the sizes were that way is more apt for the article. What doyou think? Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 09:11, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
This is corncerning one edit, where you removed the approximate amount of people possesing Spanish admixture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Philippines&type=revision&diff=967979225&oldid=967961574
I however agree with you that most of it is original research, however there is one source there that categorically stated that 1/3rd of the population of Luzon Island, which now hold half the population of the Philippines had varying degrees of Spanish admixture.
Jagor, Fëdor, et al. (1870). The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes http://www.authorama.com/former-philippines-b-8.html
I feel as if removing mention of that in the Demographics section is unfair since the same section mention the 20% of Filipinos having partial Chinese descent yet, the 1/3rd of Luzon island which has Spanish admixture was erased. What do you think? -- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 07:50, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Ok lets just state that Spanish era news sources, said that then. Instead of letting original research exterpolate from that. Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 09:08, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Tell me when you finishined Copy-Editing the Philippine Article and when you finish putting the citations needed tags on it because once you are done, I will do some book crawling and furnish the needed citations, hopefully our library will be opened and I can furnish it, but if it's not I'll resort to online sources. Just tell me when you're done in my talk page, since I intend to supply the missing citations. -- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 12:19, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, may I request you to please check on the recent edits by PCommission on Philippines. Please check if it violates undue weight, or if it needs rewriting. Also, can you please check on the sources he used? He used a source about Ferdinand Marcos written by Marcos' political rival Benigno Aquino Jr., as well as the not-so-reliable Rappler, which is known to have high bias. Thank you.– Sanglahi86 ( talk) 18:46, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
Help! New Users have garbled our formerly streamlined edits in the Philippines article beyond recognition! I wanted to revert the article status to your streamlined editions but I cannot use the revert function because the Mods have placed me under probation (You can check my Userpage if you want), can you please talk some sense to our new users who are bloating our article again beyond recognition. If you send them to a discussion page I'll gladly inform them on what form for the article to follow, but since I am in probation I can't revert the article back to previous versions. Yours truly! Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 14:34, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Please see this edit. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 13:10, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
In this edit of our article: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Philippines&type=revision&diff=986191530&oldid=986030800 You said that the source you removed is not related to the text, but it's only the name of the book which makes it not related to the text. Upon clicking the source, you would find the text in Wikipedia used in the book. Here's the quote: "These Peninsular officers were less committed to the people they were assigned to protect and were often predatory, enriching themselves before returning to Spain, putting the interests of the metropolis over the interest of the natives." Let me underline it for you in a picture. It's written in Wikipedia how the Peninsulares only sought to enrich themselves whereas the Google Book cited that these Peninsulares love to enrich themselves: https://i.imgur.com/uLjjCrO.png . Would you mind if I restore the reference and add a quote from the book and it's page number and ISBN? Thanks and Happy Halloween!-- Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. ( talk) 13:04, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello, the Philippines page (under Culture section) is missing information about the introduction of comedia (komedya), zarzuela, and vaudeville (bodabil) in the country. As I am not very adept at constructing sentences from scratch, may I respectfully request you to kindly expand the article to include these information? I have found the following sources that may be of help:
Thank you, and regards. - Sanglahi86 ( talk) 09:57, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
Please, discuss on talk page about your great discontent ( [1], [2]), is a key part in the history of Philippines, please, explain your removal claims. -- Pedro158 ( talk) 03:28, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Hello. May I kindly request you to please revise the Balikbayan box history section regarding the origins of the box? I have found several sources such as those below linking the balikbayan box to the Balikbayan Progam in the 1970s during President Ferdinand Marcos' time, but is nowehere to be found in the article:
And perhaps also the history section of the article Overseas Filipino Worker can be revised to include this information? Thanks.– Sanglahi86 ( talk) 10:11, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I've been working this morning to straighten out the cites in the Philippine–American War article which go to various versions of this source and I ran into a conflict with your edits when I tried to save the result of that. I've saved my edit-conflicted version offline and will suspend work on this for now. Please let me know when I can get back to this without conflicting with you -- early morning tomorrow would be a good time for me and I'll plan to let you know here when I'm done with that. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:44, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Chip.
This is following on the edit summary of
this recent edit by you. The short version is "I'm confident that they are the same". Both apparently refer to different instances of the compilation of insurgent records put together by
John R. M. Taylor. The reference here came via
this edit by you, copying it from the
History of the Philippines (1898–1946) article. I apparently put it in there a long time ago, without a wikilink to the source. That was added by me (with at least one typo) in
this 2009 edit, with a link to an online source which is no longer working; attempts to go there now end up
here I did find a web page where that quoted bit is visible
here, but there's a lot on nonprintable chars in there; you can find the quoted text there with a text search for attack was planned. That looks like an interpretive comment by Taylor someone, not part of the compiled records. A pdf of the insurgent paper compilation, or perhaps part of it, can be downloaded
here.
I don't know whether any of that is useful but, having dug it up, I thought I would pass it on in case it is.
Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 17:22, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
Adding a bit, I notice that Tay6lot's intro to the compiled papers (pdf linked above) says that they show, "... that it had been fully determined to attack the Americans in Manila upon a favorable opportunity, and that in the event of the success of this attack the so-called insurgent government would not have continued even to call itself a republic." Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 17:59, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
Adding another bit, I've been spending spare minutes searching for a document supporting the attack was planned text in the asserted quote in the articles mentioned above and quoted in several other related articles, after not having been able to find those words and other words in that quote with text searches in this apparent instance of the cited supporting source which is linked in at least some of the articles containing this asserted quote. This morning, I found this other instance of that online, and did find that quote with a text search there. Comparing the two instances, I see that the quoted bit is present in both, but on page 6 instead of page 5 as cited here. I haven't tried to find all those other places where this quote is present and to look at the cites there, but they should probably all cite the same source instance, and should surely cite the same source; I'm not sure which of these two instances of this source ought to be linked -- the one in which text searches don't work well is easier to read. Maybe link both instances separately in the cites? Dithering. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:34, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Adding a final (I think) bit on this -- I've created the pageno error from 5 to 6 and improved the cite in the articles: Battle of Manila (1899), History of the Philippines (1898–1946). United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 15:54, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Chipmunkdavis. I am not sure if you have been monitoring, but Presidency of Rodrigo Duterte has become one of the longest articles. I have been working on its expansion since last year, and I tried reducing its size by condensing; I also asked for a peer review and GOCE copyedit. Other editors also successfully reduced its size by trimming/condensing/spinning off its content over the months. If you have enough time, can you please take a look at it and hopefully reduce its size. I am having a difficult time condensing its current content through summary style. The talk page may also give some insights. Thank you. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 17:34, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello Chipmunkdavis. The article Philippines currently uses both {{ rp}} and {{ sfn}} for single sources having various page numbers. For consistency, I was thinking of choosing one, but need your input and suggestions since you may have used {{ rp}} while I opted to later use {{ sfn}}. The reason I used {{ sfn}} was because I initially did not know hot to add a link to the page number in {{ rp}}. What do you think would be better in terms of maintainability/readability? I am leaning towards using {{ rp}} since the references section would show the complete citation details without having to do a mouseover on the citation unlike in {{ sfn}}. Currently, 16 citations use {{ rp}} while {{ sfn}} uses 23. Thanks. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 19:02, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Why do you revert several of my edits recently? I just add a caret symbol (^) to the largest city/municipality on the list of every province as an indication. What's wrong with it? For example, in Iloilo, the capital and largest city is Iloilo City while in Ilocos Sur, Vigan is the capital while Candon is the largest city. 49.146.26.186 ( talk) 04:31, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello Chipmunkdavis. Can you please verify the citations used in Philippines Spanish and American colonial rule (1565–1946) section's sentence "The Spanish forces brought by Legazpi's five ships were a mix of Spaniards and Novohispanics (Mexicans) from New Spain (modern Mexico)." I checked the sources but could not find a source that explicitly stated that Novohispanics were included in Legazpi's five ships. The closest reliable and accessible source I could find online (which is not used as a citation for that statement) is page 102 of "The Spanish Lake" by O. H. K. Spate (2004) that simply stated "The four ships carried a total complement of 380, of whom 200 were soldiers for the settlement." Perhaps you could please check and revise the sentence according to the cited sources? Thanks. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 09:08, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello Chipmunkdavis. I was expanding some references in Philippines when I found the source of the phrase "usually paid as 75 tons of silver bullion from the Americas." [1] did not appear to support the said phrase. ( page 20 direct link) I could not find any other reliable source supporting it. Could you please verify and revise/remove the phrase if needed? Thanks. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 22:19, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello. There is an image of Sinulog festival in Philippines article (under section Holidays and festivals) that has a bad grammar in its image caption and a missing alt text. This image replaced the previous Ati-atihan festival image in one of the previous edits which involved adding excess images but of which most changes by the editor had been reverted. This Sinulog image was left unreverted.
Do you have suggestions on what to do? If we fix the image caption and add alt text to the Sinulog image, wouldn't it be giving undue weight/focus to the Sinulog festival since an image of the said festival is already under section Religion? Should we restore the Ati-atihan image instead, or do you think it is better to use an Independence Day (Philippines) image? Sanglahi86 ( talk) 02:31, 25 July 2023 (UTC)