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Windows 3.2

Quite surprised to come across you here. (I'm a happy user of your MS-DOS 7.10 :-)

As a person who is both Chinese and well-versed in history of Windows, could you please provide some background on Windows 3.2? I believe it deserves more than just one sentence, but couldn't find any relevant details. --tyomitch 15:14, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Windows Defender

Btw have you tried the "official workaround" on Windows 2000? :-) If you have access to Windows 2000 in a VM or real machine, can you please try that? : ) Does it install after installing GDI+ or is there an "XP required" enforcement in the MSI file? - xpclient ^Talk 11:08, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's why I haven't reverted. I'm asked merely so that our contributions remain 100% accurate and confirmed. :-) - xpclient ^Talk 18:47, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Qianlong

What made you think that they are tributes? The article clearly stated "Burmese thought Qing sought peace and Qing thought Burmese sent tributes to them". It's simple. Because Qianlong thought they were tributes doesn't necessary mean they are tributes. In fact, what you are considering tributes are not tributes, they are presents. A country pays something to other country doesn't necessary mean tributes. Beijing replied Burma with some presents as Burmese chronicles records. Shouldn't it be considered as Beijing pay tributes to Burma?

the Gengma native official earned Beijing's praise for facilitating the submission of Burma. The page clearly stated subterfuge used by Gengma official. Yes, that caused Beijing to think Burmese submitted to them while Burmese were replying conciliatory attitudes by Qianlong. This is just misunderstanding by Qianlong. He himself, interpreted them as victories. That all. Simply, my friend gave me a pencil as a friendly remark. I considered as a tribute, I can, but nobody is going to accept this reasoning. Same goes to Qianlong.

Anyway, what Qianlong interpret doesn't matter. What the matter is whether Burma submitted to China. Clearly they didn't. And the Sawbwa ruse didn't make them submit It just fake Qianlong to think that Burmese submitted while it fake Burma to think that Qianlong want peace. They faked both parties. I deleted the Invasion of Burma at Qing dynasty talk page. I think it doesn't relate to the article. I am discussing about Sino–Burmese Wars (1765–1769) Soewinhan (talk) 12:57, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the detailed message. Replied in your talk page. --Wengier (talk) 23:31, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Apology for removing that discussion. (although it has been a year since then) It was a violation of talk page guidelines.. I did violate too many wiki rules when I was a newcomer. SWH^talk 06:24, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about it. It's possible for anyone to violate certain wiki rules sometimes due to certain reason, especially for newcomers. But it will be no problem at long as he is good-faithed and willing to do it better in the future when he finds it. The important thing is to have mutual understanding, then everything will be fine. Thanks again. --Wengier (talk) 07:06, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Yes. Thanks! I removed my message because I think it might be a violation of WP:CANVASS. I know you would help if you were active at that time. SWH^talk 16:16, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of HX DOS Extender

Hello Wengier,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged HX DOS Extender for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ubiquity (talk) 17:54, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Was it your intention to quote that content? If that was you intention, it wasn't clear that it was a quote. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 19:57, 21 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for leaving me a message. I originally indeed intended to quote the relevant content from the cited source (so that the original meaning will be retained [as much as possible], but without taking too much space for the article), although I forgot to put quotation marks earlier. Considering the potential copyright issue I have now completely paraphrased the original content from the source, and with a small amount of direct quotations with double quotation marks as mentioned above, in order to more closely follow the said practices. This will hopefully solve the issue, although you can surely let me know if you have more concerns. Thanks again! --Wengier (talk) 20:34, 21 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think that was a good reword, although I have some concerns about close paraphrasing in the passage and htink it needs a few more rephrases. Here's something that can help-- the edit I previously reverted was flagged as a concern by Copypatrol, which reviews recent edits for copyright issues. This was the report generated on it, and if you click the "iThenticate report" link, you can see the overlap between the source and the text that I saw. Comparing the text highlighted there and your current text in the article will hopefully make the overlap and what needs to be changed a little more clear. Let me know if you have any questions, Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 02:24, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have just done more paraphrases, which hopefully eliminated even more potential overlaps. At the same time, I think it will likely be more difficult to do further paraphrases without potentially changing the meanings of the source contents. I hope the paraphrasing efforts have solved the problem. Thanks again! --Wengier (talk) 03:05, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for leaving the message here concerning "contentious topics". Of course I was simply trying my best to improve the quality of the said WP article using reliable sources with my knowledge, but thanks for making me aware it is a "contentious topic". --01:19, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

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Turns out it was still close (thanks for letting me know). Rewrote the contents again while trying hard to not change the meanings from the source. --Wengier (talk) 03:10, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Where are you getting info from on Turpan Khanate?

What sources are you using for Turpan Khanate? The source does not verify the content in the page. Qiushufang (talk) 20:50, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw you added a "failed verification" template in the Turpan Khanate. This content was added via the edit [1]. Both this content and the sources were basically copied from the Chagatai Khanate article (under the section "Turpan Khanate (1487–1660?)"), which were not originally added by me. I was wondering about the end date for the Turpan Khanate, so I copied this information from the said article. --Wengier (talk) 20:59, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the problem is that nothing else is copied from there or verified by the source. Qiushufang (talk) 21:01, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was trying to further edit my reply and it went to edit conflicts. Much of the information in my original edit (not the edit I mentioned above) was translated from the corresponding article in Japanese Wikipedia. --Wengier (talk) 21:04, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A translation without a source is meaningless on Wikipedia. It is supposed to be based on reliable secondary sources and to a lesser extent, primary and tertiary sources. There's no point translating Japanese Wikipedia when there are no sources provided. Qiushufang (talk) 21:07, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but I have not finished the article yet. You were so fast coming here before I finished cleaning up. --Wengier (talk) 21:08, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide always provide the sources next time and say where the content is coming from if you are taking it from somewhere else in Wikipedia. Qiushufang (talk) 21:11, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the message. Sure, I will try to use an edit summary (even if it is short) whenever possible in the future. --Wengier (talk) 16:28, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]