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Shouldn't Pinyin-English News Summary‎ be part of the Pinyin project/namespace ? (You can move pages, remember to target the original location that will automaticly be tuerned into a redirect for deletion.) --Panic (discuss • contribs) 03:53, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your suggestion. I like to make it systemized but I don't know how to do.  Efex (discuss • contribs) 11:26, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I have moved it for you, and added the link in the appendix section. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 22:29, 26 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Efex (discuss • contribs) 23:52, 26 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Look at the edit history when you don't understand a change. I made use of transclussion of the same section (you can rollback my change on that page edit history), this has helped me in the past to coordinate extensive books (in moving and organizing its sections and having a global look). See C++ Programming or Hypnosis for examples.  --Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:28, 27 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Efex (discuss • contribs) 12:30, 27 October 2011 (UTC)


 * On Commons (click on the image now on the book, if you don't know what Commons is) there is a lot of Pinyin related material take a look it may help you structure the book, it also has some audio files that could be interesting to you.  Search by Pinyin there to see the list.  --Panic (discuss • contribs) 03:10, 29 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Please can you moderate the type of news you are translating to Pinyin at least to balance the tone. I'm with you on your view of the severity of our global situation but can't you find any more proactive news to add, of efforts to counterbalance the global trend, news of proposal to address the issues... --Panic (discuss • contribs) 20:47, 4 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your suggestion. Do you mean proactive news like this?  Efex (discuss • contribs) 03:10, 5 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I would put that in a gray area, next to "Cameron joins EU financial crisis talks in Brussels" that is already there. They are indeed irrelevant moves to simulate addressing the problem. I had a good laugh when I saw some commentators point out how irrelevance of the UK is on this subject (not part of the euro-zone and was excluded by the three way dialog between France, Germany and Greece, that is already a subversion of a united EU), he was in fact out of the room when the deal was made.
 * The UK has a bigger problem in their hands but no one is talking yet about them (they have invested in the policy of quantitative easing, printing money, devaluing it and passing it later generations). The asinine political move of the Greek PM could have been had extreme results, but the deal has for now survived (the Greek leader survived the vote of confidence by a narrow margin). Had he lost, it would require snap elections, if the deal was delayed or failed to be implemented the state would have collapsed in December.
 * The IMF boost is important but there is not enough money to save for instance the collapse of Italy (the would drag all other already troubled nations Ireland, Portugal, Spain) there is also the silent trouble Cyprus seems to be experiencing. Ultimately all of Europe is indebted, even Germany and globally we are all connected.
 * I am not too optimistic on the outcome and see all moves as a dealing tactic for a real larger war, unless a systemic change is made requiring the adoption of global policies regarding taxation of monetary movements and the end of tax havens and the move forward to if not a federal Europe to a real monetary union that includes the taxation policies.
 * Things could start small but would rapidly turn into a snow ball, 44% of the youth in Spain is unemployed. Remember that the last war had as its undeclared origin the Spanish Civil War (Fascism vs Democracy).
 * So while I share your concerns and am not optimistic, and so see why you seem to chose one type of news I have noted to you that all your selected news are pessimistic in nature. Sorry for the extended response but probably like you I have spent some time thinking about the issues that indeed will affect us all. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 08:27, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * PS: If you are interested in geopolitics and economics take a look in a project I've started Understanding Global Trade Policy. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 08:31, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Efex (discuss • contribs) 02:23, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry but...about the page Pinyin-English_News_Summary
The Chinese sentences in the page are not fluent. A lot of of them are strange, while some don't make many sense. Many sentences are even not correct. You can find mistakes and errors in most sentences. Few sentence is good enough to be an sample "for learners of Chinese language, can be used as teaching material as well as for self-learning". That'll be horrible if people really do and use them as if they are correct ones.

...I don't know if I made it clear. In my opinion, the page should be rewritten completely, since once you fix a sentence error, then the Roma transcriptions and the English-Pinyin section are all in need to be fixed to agree with the sentence.

Rethliopuks (discuss • contribs) 03:26, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * You may help to improve it and fix the Roman transcriptions and the Pinyin-English section accordingly. Efex (discuss • contribs) 07:50, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

ASCII tone rendering
Is there any chance of switching back to conventional tone marks or numbers? I've never seen this rendering before (except for Shaanxi, obviously) and I doubt many learners have seen it... Kayau (talk · contribs) 23:25, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Need your attention here
Kedar Joshi‎ At this page. I have requested for it's deletion in Requests for deletion, and provided reason too. The article is solely managed by the creator itself who has been promoting the same thing in other wikis, but banned or lost the access to the page. Bladesmulti (discuss • contribs) 10:37, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I should have probably ignored this post, but I put the "rfd" tag on the page since it'd been taken to RFD. The nom is constantly removing relevant, scholarly links from the page while requesting speedy deletion, which is inappropriate as it is being discussed at RFD and the page does not seem to qualify for speedy for several reasons anyway. ~ RogDel (discuss • contribs) 13:37, 15 December 2013 (UTC)