User talk:Arilang1234/Archive 1

September 2008

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Boxer Rebellion edits

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I believe that there are various issues with the new section you added to the Boxer Rebellion article. I have moved it to the talk page temporarily for discussion. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 13:35, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Taiyuan, etc.

Arilang1234; your edits on the Boxer Rebellion article aren't, I'm afraid, up to scratch. The sentence structure is poor, their are numerous misused words, your date format is not consistent with the rest of the article and much of the information is presented elsewhere are is not really needed within the article.

I refer particularly to Boxer_Rebellion Revision as of 07:20, 5 September 2008. I wrote a large chunk of the article on the Taiyuan Massacre, your copy in the Boxer Rebellion article contradicts some of the spellings used there, is not as clearly written IMO and is better placed outside of the main page on the Boxer Uprising. Perhaps you could post any further additions on your suer page and then ask for assistance on the Talk:Boxer Rebellion page? You also appear to have added a lot of info on the Dowager Empress, which duplicates what is in the article about her.

Lastly a factual point: it seems strange to focus on the BMS, especially concerning Taiyuan, as Taiyuan was not a major posting for the BMS prior to 1900 as far as I'm aware. The_Sheo_Yang_Mission (later absorbed into the BMS) and the CIM appeared to have been the main protestant groups in Taiyuan Fu at the time. If you have more info (I was aware of [1] but haven't yet included the details in the Taiyuan Massacre page - then please add it to the talk page and I'll try and incorporate it when the page gets converted from the simple quotes it holds now to being proper prose. Thanks. Pbhj (talk) 16:35, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Transparent1

I understand the importance of eunuchs in Chinese politics but your section on the chief eunuch is not relevant in relation to the Boxer rebellion. In that section, you introduce the chief eunuch but he is not subsequently mentioned and is not seen to play a role in the event. Therefore I removed that section as being irrelevant.

Additionally, I suggest the section entitled 'Diane Preston' should also be removed. Diane Preston is simply an author and you're using her book as a source of reference. It would make better sense to move the information she's contributing into the main body of the article, e.g. into the section 'Results' and add her book as a reference.

Finally, please take note of the comments from Pbhj. I believe your additions are making the article less coherent than it was previously.

Transparent1 (talk) 15:07, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]