User:Kowloonese

An anonymous wikipedian using IP 63.192.137.xxx since first week of July 2001. Also appeared as many other IPs. Wish to stay anonymous, though the pseudonym may have already revealed too much.

Wikipedia related opinions:
I am a proponent of adding native text to article title terms of non-English origins, e.g. Yahweh (יהוה). Title terms shown in its original native spelling would help wikipedia users and researchers to eliminate ambiguity in transliteration and enable them to further their research using native sources. (Wiki policy)

I prefer entering one sentence per line instead of merging the whole paragraph into one big blob. I argue that the web browser automatically joins these lines into paragraphs. It is not the author's business to worry about the paragraph layout. The time should be spent on the contents instead. The advantage of one line per sentence is better diff'ing when viewing the revision history of the article. This page is a living example of such practice. View the page history to see how good the diff is done compared to other pages. The revision history often fails to handle long paragraphs correctly. I have noticed some wikipedians took special efforts to revert what I did, but that is okay with me. In wikipedia, no one owns any article. If one has so much spare time to perform the browser's formatting task, it is his choice. (Wiki policy)

I had a debate with the wikipedia "policy makers" regarding the use of all capital letters in surnames which do not follow usual English convention, e.g. MAO Ze Dong or Martin LEE Chu Ming where MAO and LEE are family names. They are not placed at the end of the name according to English convention. It would be an overkill to standardize on the name format such as "BUSH, George W." which is unnatural in the English language. I gave up on the debate because it was hopeless to win on issue hinged on matter of preferences.

I proposed that individual names should be presented in a manner the person is called in their native country. Since each culture presents people's names in different order, it would be necessary to use capital letters to highlight a surname when it does not follow English convention. e.g. George W. Bush (standard English format), MAO Ze Dong, Leslie CHEUNG Kwok Wing etc. Even the CIA World Factbook uses the all capital letters convention to address the multicultural needs. I argued that Wikipedia is not international savvy to stick to a rule that is good only for English.

See more background information in family name. (Wiki policy)

I am a strong proponent of using pinyin over Wade-Giles. See m:Use_pinyin_not_Wade-Giles.

Contributions to Wikipedia:
I mostly contributed to Chinese related topics. I have added native text to many Chinese and Japanese related articles.

I have started many new articles. Due to page conversion from the old Wiki system to the new, and some page renaming and merging, some revision history was lost. As a result, I wasn't able to recall all my contributions. The list below is far from complete. It contains fully written articles and stubs that later filled by other wikipedians. e.g. American Chinese cuisine, Anglo-Chinese College, Beijing, Boba milk tea, Cantonese, Cantonese cuisine, Cantopop, Chiuchow cuisine, Chinese Buddhist cuisine, Chinese film history, Chinese five elements, Chinese medicine, Chopsticks, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Many stubs for Chinese Dynasties, Double steaming, Food therapy, Grand Teton National Park, G11n, Hang Seng, High tech baking, Hot salt frying, Hot sand frying, How to tell the origin of an accent, Hunan cuisine, Jet Li, Jiu, Li Po, Macau, Min Guo, Music lesson as child development tool, Myriad, Nanjing, Nutella, Republic of China, Sir Run Run Shaw, Sleep apnea, Soul food, Steaming, Stir frying, Stock market index, Szechuan cuisine, Shanghai cuisine, Taiwan Capitalization Weighted Stock Index, Tung Chao Yung, Vacuum flask cooking, Vera Wang, Wu Xia film, Wing Chun, Zhang Heng, Zhang Xue-liang, etc.

I have contributed major addition to many existing articles, e.g. Abacus, Chinese astrology, Chinese calendar, Chinese numerals, Floating point, Hot air balloon, I Ching, Zhuyin, etc.

I didn't start using this identity until Nov 23, 2001. Besides, I don't always log in before typing, and also my log in session often expired during an edit, so most of my contributions are listed under various IP addresses. Since IP addresses were dynamically assigned by my ISP, it is possible that the same IP was used by another wikipedian though very unlikely. The IP addresses in the some contribution lists contain a wild card xxx, i.e. multiple contributors in the same subnet may have folded into the same list.

The contributions in the following lists were mostly mine as

login	date range	duration
63.192.137.xxx (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=63.192.137.xxx&limit=500&offset=0)	2001/07/11 - 2002/02/25	(7 months)
47.83.107.xxx (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=47.83.107.xxx&limit=500&offset=0)	2001/08/22 - 2001/11/12	(3 months)
24.4.254.xxx (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=24.4.254.xxx&limit=500&offset=0)	2001/09/01 - 2001/12/11	(3 months)
kowloonese (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=kowloonese&limit=500&offset=0)	2001/11/23 - present	(over 17 months)
63.192.137.21 (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=63.192.137.21&limit=500&offset=0)	2002/02/11 - 2002/05/03	(3 months)
12.234.76.230 (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=12.234.76.230&limit=500&offset=0)	2002/09/27 - 2002/11/03	(2 months)
12.234.68.204 (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=12.234.68.204&limit=500&offset=0)	2002/12/06 - 2002/12/20	(1 month)
12.234.73.11 (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=12.234.73.11&limit=500&offset=0)	2003/01/04 - present	(over 3 months)
67.117.82.5 (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=67.117.82.5&limit=500&offset=0)	2003/03/11 - present	(over 1 month)

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