Talk:Qian Daxin

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Notes

Hi Cuiying_Huang, I wanted to leave you some notes on the article itself as well as in email, as that would likely be easier to keep up with than email only. Here are my notes for the article:

Be careful of making statements like "Qian Daxin was the most profound, and specialized Academic Master", as these can come across as opinion statements. Essentially, while one group may believe that he was the most profound and specialized Academic Master, someone else may disagree and think that another person holds this title. It's easy enough to re-write, though.

During his lifetime Qian Daxin earned an international reputation as a profound and specialized Academic Master.

This gets the same point across but removes the emphasis that he was the absolute best - that's something that we would need to attribute to a specific person.

Also, when adding sourcing make sure that you place it in the article proper. You have it in the reference section, so we can't really tell what it's supposed to be specifically referencing.

Other than that, the only thing that really needs to be worked on is tweaking the writing so that it flows a little easier. I can help you with this, if you like. It looks like you translated the material from the Chinese article, which was an excellent idea, as there are a lot of articles on the Chinese Wikipedia and other non-English Wikipedias that could be either added to existing articles on here or used to create new ones. Well done! There are always more articles that need to be translated than people who are willing and able to do them, so you've done a hugely important service with this! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:31, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! Something I forgot to mention - Baidu Baike cannot be used as source because it's a collaborative wiki site akin to Wikipedia - essentially the Chinese government's version of Wikipedia. This means that since it can't be verified in the way that Wikipedia can't be verified, as everything can change at the drop of a hat and there's no way to completely vouch for the credentials of editors, it can't be seen as a reliable source. I've removed these links. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:50, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Cuiying_Huang, I have another note I want to make sure to give you - when you are translating an article from another language's Wikipedia you must make sure that you mention this somewhere, either in your edit summary when you're editing the main article itself or on the article's talk page. There's a template for this specific thing, which I added to the talk page so there's nothing to really worry about. Just make sure to be careful about this in the future. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:31, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]