User:Menchi

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I am a Canadian and a Taiwanese guy who is proud to have two places to call home. I am a Han, which, among other things, means that my ancestors were born in Mainland China, specifically, China proper. But it was so many generations ago that I don't know a single living relative in the Mainland.

The only TV shows I like are all the Star Trek series except TOS. But I don't go to cons.

The following is a list of my work here, for your interest and curiosity and my own unreliable memory:

Only the Wikified texts are the articles, the rest are category titles and summaries.

• Korea(n)
  • Hanja, the Chinese characters in Korean
  • Ed. Han-geul, the Korean alphabet
  • King Sejong the Great
  • Korean family name
  • Provinces of Korea
  • Do (Korean and Japanese): "the Way"
  • Special cities of Korea
  • Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, in the Chinese Northeast
  • Hunmin jeong'eum (document), Han-geul creation document
  • Hunmin jeong'eum haerye, Han-geul explanation document
  • Nam Sung-yong, Korean athlete
  • Sohn Kee-chung, Korean athlete

• China + Taiwan
  • Culture
    • Titles
      • Ed. Chinese family name: Table of the Top 60 Family Names in Characters, Mandarin and Cantonese Transliterations
      • Posthumous name (de-stub)
    • Myths and religions
      • Dragon Kings of Sea/Lake
      • Eight Immortals
        • Immortal Woman He (He Xiangu), Royal Uncle Cao (Cao Guojiu), Iron-crutch Li (Li Tieguai), Lan Caihe, Lu Dongbin, Philosopher Han Xiang (Han Xiang Zi), and Zhongli Quan
      • Matsu (goddess) of Sea (new feat.)
    • Languages
      • Languages of China, as opposed to the Chinese languages
      • Vernacular Chinese
      • Ed. Chinese proverbs: + Hakka, Taiwanese language examples
      • Ed. Wade-Giles: + list of major differences with pinyin
      • Ed. Cantonese Romanization (penkyamp)
    • Historic sites and artifacts
      • Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain, the Chinese Northeast
        • Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao
      • Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, that of a Mongolian leader
      • Zhaojun Tomb, Han commoner who became a Hun chief-consort
    • Customs and traditions
      • Yuanfen, a Chinese social relation
  • People
    • Woo Tsin-hang, Taiwanese linguist
    • Yuan T. Lee, the Taiwanese Nobelist scientist
    • Madame Deng Yingchao
    • Hong Xiuquan, Chinese king
    • Liang Fa, first Chinese priest
    • Namesakes: Eight Immortals of Communist China, Eight Immortals of Huainan, Eight Immortals from Sichuan, Eight Immortals Indulged in Wine
    • Hong Tianguifu, Chinese king
    • Jin Shengtan, a Chinese editor
    • Qian Xuantong, a Chinese phonetician
    • Qu You, a Ming novelist (de-stub)
    • Lu Hao-tung, the 1st Chinese Nationalist matyr
    • Ed. Zhuang Zi, a Chinese philosopher
    • Ed. Confucius: + names, descendants
  • Politics
    • Flag of the Republic of China
    • "Three Principles of the People (anthem)", national anthem of the ROC
    • Mengjiang, a puppet state (new feat.)
    • The Central Advisory Committee of China
    • Crown Prince Party, children of people like Deng Xiaoping
    • People's Political Consultative Conference
    • The Chinese Soviet Republic led by Mao
    • Circuit (political division): former division
    • Commandry: former division
  • Geography
    • Political divisions of Taiwan
    • [China/Temp] (de-stub) (now moved to China).
    • Chahar Province, a former Chinese province
    • Suiyuan, a former Chinese province
    • The Matsu Islands, ROC, near Fujian. (de-stub)
      • Chükuang Township, a Lienchiang township
      • [Lienchiang County], ROC county of the Matsu (de-stub) [now merged with ]
    • Yantai City
    • Zhifu Island
    • Ed. Hainan: + history, administration, demographics
    • Ed. Jiangxi: + history, administration, demographics
    • Hohhot, Inner Mongolian capital city
  • Science
    • Petuntse (china stone)

• Asia
  • South China Sea Islands
  • Ed. Courtesy name, a.k.a., style or zi (字)
  • Demchugdongrub, Mongolian leader (new feat.)
  • Tibetan language, one of the most wanted during early June 2003
  • Tibetan written language
  • Vietnam
    • Tonkin (redo from scratch), historical part of Vietnam
    • Cochin China, historical part of Vietnam
    • Annam, historical part of Vietnam (de-stubbed)
    • Ed. Nguyen dynasty: + intro on history
    • Ed. History of Vietnam: + earliest history, before the French Occupation; one-paragraph intro
  • Kyodo, Japanese news agency
  • Ed. Wang: + king

• North America
  • Chinese Canadian (de-stub) (new feat.)
  • Canuck, nickname for "Canadian"
  • Ed. Jook-sing, "bananas"
  • Ed. Korean American: + list
  • Asian Canadian
  • Athens, Georgia, a city in southern USA
  • Ed. Lakota, a Native American People
  • Bishops of New France
  • Individuals
    • Wayson Choy, a Canadian author
    • Samuel C. C. Ting, a Chinese-American Nobelist scientist
    • Chen Ning Yang, a Chinese-American Nobelist scientist
    • Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American Nobelist scientist
    • Chien-Shiung Wu, a female Chinese-American scientist (new feat.)
    • King's Daughters, earliest French-Canadian women
    • Gary Locke, the Washington governor
    • Pitseolak Ashoona, Canadian artist
    • Ed. Adrienne Clarkson
  • Popular culture
    • Dr. Noonien Soong of Star Trek
    • The Breen of Star Trek (de-stub)
    • Captain Nemo
    • Ed. About.com, some website I used to visit a lot
    • Spongebob Squarepants (character), + appearance. I only saw 1 entire episode, I used a drawing on-line to filling the details.
    • The Fifth Element, sci-fi action movie (de-stub)

• Europe
  • Eostre, pre-Christian European goddess
  • University of Seville, Spain
  • Ed. Terra: a Roman goddess, moved material

• Africa
  • Ed. Hausa, a western African language

• Cross-cultural / International
  • Politics
    • Subprefecture
  • Linguistics and language
    • Agglutination, word-formation
    • Compound verb, redefine
    • List of subnational name etymologies: mostly moved stuff from deleted materials found in the revision history List of country name etymologies, except Taiwanese etymologies, which I Googled.
    • Ed. Interjection: + Phonetics
    • Ed. Cedilla, a diacritic
    • Ed. palindrome: + 6 Chinese examples [1] (http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Palindrome&oldid=836789) (had since been replaced in mid-June 2003)
    • Ed. eh, an interjection
    • Ed. Punctuation
    • Ed. Handwriting foreign accent: + numerals and alphabets in Chinese
  • Geography
    • Marginal sea
  • Biology
    • Emperor Penguin
    • Chiton, shelled slow sea-animal
    • Seagrass
    • Pollination
    • Baleen whale, toothless sea mammal
    • Baleen, the "tooth" of some whales
    • Ed. Weed control: intro, Wikipedize
    • Ed. Fertilisation: + 2 paragraphs on animal and plant methods.
    • Ed. Carnation, a flower
    • Ed. Quetzal, a bird
  • Misc. science
    • Ed. Burn, original layperson's intros
    • Leaving group, molecule in reactions
  • Arts
    • Ed. Paint Shop Pro, a digital graphics program
    • International art?
  • Politics
    • Ed. United Nations: + a short paragraph on languages
  • Culture
    • International student
    • Given name: de-stub
    • Acculturation: obtaining cultures

• Participated and had fun in the following Discussions/Talks:
  • Talk:Transcription of Chinese: Summary of "Library of Congress Romanization (Pinyinization) Guidelines"
  • Talk:Dao De Jing: Comparison btwn e, ê, eh in pinyin and Wade-Giles
  • Talk:Glagolitic alphabet: + Hebrew origin

I've also added Chinese characters (and when possible, their literal meaning), hanja, kanji, pinyin and tones to several pages.

Feel free to edit/correct the mistakes, including errors on info, typos and grammatical errors, that I made.

Image I worked on:

• Image:Greenland small.png & Image:Greenland_big.png
• Image:Blood circulation (human).png
• Image:Pyramid.png, simple b/w diagram
• Ed. Image:Hawaii_map.png: label the islands
• Ed. Image:Whiptonguegraft.png & Image:Budgraft.png: delete caption (convert them to text)

Abbreviations:

- "Ed." = I did not start those articles anew or completely rewrite them, but just edited them more than typographical copyedits.

- "(new feat.)" = articles that came to my attention that have been listed on the Main Page for a day or two. They are deemed fun-to-be-looked-at by somebody else not myself and simply shows that they could use a hand or two, and it's not like the representative articles.

- "(de-stub)" = Make a cute stubbie a few paragraphs longer

A lack of perfection

If I happen to have the time and the references, I try to improve and improve, then improve again the articles I started (such as the endless copyedits I had made to Hangul). Sometimes I unfortunately lack one or both elements in my cyberspace life. So, some, perhaps all, of the above articles don't live up the standards of some other Wikipedians or visitors. I do what I can to share what I know to be true in the areas that I describe. I also make mistakes, but never intentionally.

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Discussion/Talk

Please post on my Talk Page. I try to be friendly, but have only succeeded with my friends. :o)

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for your great work on Wikipedia. (Kokiri)