User talk:Ligand

T-26

Although I appreciate your efforts to improve the article, T-26 is a featured article and represents some of the best work on Wikipedia - as a result, it's entirely cited. If you can cite what you added using references (the same as the rest of the article) then your addition can remain, but otherwise uncited details will have to be removed. Thanks. JonCatalán (talk) 10:49, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Oops, I didn't notice the two references you aded - my mistake. Would it be possible to add those two sources to the bibliography using one of these citation templates, and have the references follow the same pattern as the other ones (as in, not the full bibliographic information of the sources, to keep footnotes concise). Thanks! JonCatalán (talk) 10:52, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 7th Military Region (Vietnam People's Army)

A tag has been placed on 7th Military Region (Vietnam People's Army) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.) or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Rural coummune (Vietnam)

Please reference your articles. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 17:25, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

this article is translate from the corresponding article vi:Xã (Việt Nam) of Vietnamese Wiki. Thanks, ligand (talk) 02:35, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Chào anh, I think he means the article needs sources outside Wikipedia. WP:CIRCULAR states that "[a]rticles on Wikipedia, or on websites that mirror its content, should not be used as sources". If you could find a link on the web that describes rural communes and how the different subdivisions work—for example on a Vietnamese government website—that should be enough.

By the way, I've added a tag on Rural commune (Vietnam) asking to clarify this sentence:

Rural commune has equal level with the town governed under the county, or equal with the ward in the urban district, county-level town and provincial city.

I'm getting confused because I thought that a rural commune is a third-level subdivision. This sentence (esp. the bold part) seems to say that a rural commune is a second-level subdivision, on the same level as a county-level town. Can you explain what this means? --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 15:21, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Rural communes are the third-level subdivision. The bold part refers to the commnue-level town, which is the third-level subdivision also. County-level towns are the second-level subdivision. In your quotation, it should be "or equal with the ward in the urban district or in the county-level town or in the provincial city" --ligand talk 2:30, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification—I've copy-edited the article and added a few more bits of information. Keep up the good work! --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 20:30, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Vietnam-related articles

Hi there! I notice you've been working on articles related to the Vietnam People's Army, which is a great addition to Vietnam-related content on the English wikipedia. I was wondering if you might be able to work on expanding some of the Top-importance Vietnam articles (the ones listed at Template:Vietnam topics), especially the ones that are rated Stub-class or Start-class (see links for a list of these articles). Some of these, for instance Military Courts of Vietnam, have only a few lines of text on them, but as top-importance articles, they should really be expanded. Also, as you seem to be working on a number of Vietnam-related articles, you may want to add your name to the list of contributors at WikiProject Vietnam, where many other people working on Vietnam-related articles tend to check in. Thanks and keep up the good work :) --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 23:44, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your suggestion! I just read WikiProject Vietnam. I have added myself on the list of contributors. I mainly focus on creating a series articles to cover the absent top topics of Vietnam military, such as the General Logistics Department of PAVN. I have read the Military Courts of Vietnam, it seems no corresponding Vietnamese Wiki article. It is typically for English world to acquire the Vietnam information in such situation. I am not sure complement more info for this article. -- Ligand | Talk 11:56, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Welcome, welcome. We really need more people with access to Vietnamese sources. Hardly anything in English language books about anything before European colonisation YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 02:07, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Vinashin / Vinalines

Hi—would you be able to translate the Vietnamese wiki article on Vinashin? It'd be nice to have an article about them, seeing as they're in the news right now. It'd be nice to have an article about Vinalines too, seeing as they've been involved in cleaning up the mess, but I can't find the article for that one on the vi.wikipedia. --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 14:51, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Chinese characters

I see that you've been wantonly adding Chinese characters into Vietnamese-related topics with no regard of whether the term is a recent creation ("thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh") or an ancient term. Whatever the case, I've removed them all since they are anachronistic in articles about modern Vietnamese concepts and are not used officially in documents describing them (such as political divisions). DHN (talk) 21:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

external link in Symmetric matrix

Hello Ligand,

last year you added a link to symmetric matrix (to [this page). The link is still in the article, but the webpage does not seem to be about symmetric matrices at all. I think the link should be removed, what do you think? Arthena^(talk) 15:05, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Water resources administrations of China

Category:Water resources administrations of China, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 19:23, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

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