User:Menchi

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I am a Canadian and a Taiwanese guy who is proud to have two places to call home. I am a Han, which, among other things, means that my ancestors were born in Mainland China, specifically, China proper. But it was so many generations ago that I don't know a single living relative in the Mainland.

The only TV shows I like are all the Star Trek series except TOS. But I don't go to cons.

The following is a list of my work here, for your interest and curiosity and my own unreliable memory:

Only the Wikified texts are the articles, the rest are category titles and summaries.

Korea(n)
- Hanja, the Chinese characters in Korean
- Ed. Han-geul, the Korean alphabet
- King Sejong the Great
- Korean family name
- Provinces of Korea
- Do (Korean and Japanese): "the Way"
- Special cities of Korea
- Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, in the Chinese Northeast
- Hunmin jeong'eum (document), Han-geul creation document
- Hunmin jeong'eum haerye, Han-geul explanation document
- Nam Sung-yong, Korean athlete
- Sohn Kee-chung, Korean athlete

China + Taiwan
- Culture
  - Titles
    - Ed. Chinese family name: Table of the Top 60 Family Names in Characters, Mandarin and Cantonese Transliterations
    - Posthumous name (de-stub)
  - Myths and religions
    - Dragon Kings of Sea/Lake
    - Eight Immortals
      - Immortal Woman He (He Xiangu), Royal Uncle Cao (Cao Guojiu), Iron-crutch Li (Li Tieguai), Lan Caihe, Lu Dongbin, Philosopher Han Xiang (Han Xiang Zi), and Zhongli Quan
    - Matsu (goddess) of Sea (new feat.)
  - Languages
    - Languages of China, as opposed to the Chinese languages
    - Vernacular Chinese
    - Ed. Chinese proverbs: + Hakka, Taiwanese language examples
    - Ed. Wade-Giles: + list of major differences with pinyin
    - Ed. Cantonese Romanization (penkyamp)
  - Historic sites and artifacts
    - Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain, the Chinese Northeast
      - Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao
    - Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, that of a Mongolian leader
    - Zhaojun Tomb, Han commoner who became a Hun chief-consort
  - Customs and traditions
    - Yuanfen, a Chinese social relation
- People
  - Woo Tsin-hang, Taiwanese linguist
  - Yuan T. Lee, the Taiwanese Nobelist scientist
  - Madame Deng Yingchao
  - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese king
  - Liang Fa, first Chinese priest
  - Namesakes: Eight Immortals of Communist China, Eight Immortals of Huainan, Eight Immortals from Sichuan, Eight Immortals Indulged in Wine
  - Hong Tianguifu, Chinese king
  - Jin Shengtan, a Chinese editor
  - Qian Xuantong, a Chinese phonetician
  - Qu You, a Ming novelist (de-stub)
  - Lu Hao-tung, the 1st Chinese Nationalist matyr
  - Ed. Zhuang Zi, a Chinese philosopher
  - Ed. Confucius: + names, descendants
- Politics
  - Flag of the Republic of China
  - "Three Principles of the People (anthem)", national anthem of the ROC
  - Mengjiang, a puppet state (new feat.)
  - The Central Advisory Committee of China
  - Crown Prince Party, children of people like Deng Xiaoping
  - People's Political Consultative Conference
  - The Chinese Soviet Republic led by Mao
  - Circuit (political division): former division
  - Commandry: former division
- Geography
  - Political divisions of Taiwan
  - [China/Temp] (de-stub) (now moved to China).
  - Chahar Province, a former Chinese province
  - Suiyuan, a former Chinese province
  - The Matsu Islands, ROC, near Fujian. (de-stub)
    - Ch�kuang Township, a Lienchiang township
    - [Lienchiang County], ROC county of the Matsu (de-stub) [now merged with ]
  - Yantai City
  - Zhifu Island
  - Ed. Hainan: + history, administration, demographics
  - Ed. Jiangxi: + history, administration, demographics
  - Hohhot, Inner Mongolian capital city
- Science
  - Petuntse (china stone)

Asia
- South China Sea Islands
- Ed. Courtesy name, a.k.a., style or zi (字)
- Demchugdongrub, Mongolian leader (new feat.)
- Tibetan language, one of the most wanted during early June 2003
- Tibetan written language
- Vietnam
  - Tonkin (redo from scratch), historical part of Vietnam
  - Cochin China, historical part of Vietnam
  - Annam, historical part of Vietnam (de-stubbed)
  - Ed. Nguyen dynasty: + intro on history
  - Ed. History of Vietnam: + earliest history, before the French Occupation; one-paragraph intro
- Kyodo, Japanese news agency
- Ed. Wang: + king

North America
- Chinese Canadian (de-stub) (new feat.)
- Canuck, nickname for "Canadian"
- Ed. Jook-sing, "bananas"
- Ed. Korean American: + list
- Asian Canadian
- Athens, Georgia, a city in southern USA
- Ed. Lakota, a Native American People
- Bishops of New France
- Individuals
  - Wayson Choy, a Canadian author
  - Samuel C. C. Ting, a Chinese-American Nobelist scientist
  - Chen Ning Yang, a Chinese-American Nobelist scientist
  - Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American Nobelist scientist
  - Chien-Shiung Wu, a female Chinese-American scientist (new feat.)
  - King's Daughters, earliest French-Canadian women
  - Gary Locke, the Washington governor
  - Pitseolak Ashoona, Canadian artist
  - Ed. Adrienne Clarkson
- Popular culture
  - Dr. Noonien Soong of Star Trek
  - The Breen of Star Trek (de-stub)
  - Captain Nemo
  - Ed. About.com, some website I used to visit a lot
  - Spongebob Squarepants (character), + appearance. I only saw 1 entire episode, I used a drawing on-line to filling the details.
  - The Fifth Element, sci-fi action movie (de-stub)

Europe
- Eostre, pre-Christian European goddess
- University of Seville, Spain
- Ed. Terra: a Roman goddess, moved material

Africa
- Ed. Hausa, a western African language

Cross-cultural / International
- Politics
  - Subprefecture
- Linguistics and language
  - Agglutination, word-formation
  - Compound verb, redefine
  - List of subnational name etymologies: mostly moved stuff from deleted materials found in the revision history List of country name etymologies, except Taiwanese etymologies, which I Googled.
  - Ed. Interjection: + Phonetics
  - Ed. Cedilla, a diacritic
  - Ed. palindrome: + 6 Chinese examples [1] (http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Palindrome&oldid=836789) (had since been replaced in mid-June 2003)
  - Ed. eh, an interjection
  - Ed. Punctuation
  - Ed. Handwriting foreign accent: + numerals and alphabets in Chinese
- Geography
  - Marginal sea
- Biology
  - Emperor Penguin
  - Chiton, shelled slow sea-animal
  - Seagrass
  - Pollination
  - Baleen whale, toothless sea mammal
  - Baleen, the "tooth" of some whales
  - Ed. Weed control: intro, Wikipedize
  - Ed. Fertilisation: + 2 paragraphs on animal and plant methods.
  - Ed. Carnation, a flower
  - Ed. Quetzal, a bird
- Misc. science
  - Ed. Burn, original layperson's intros
  - Leaving group, molecule in reactions
- Arts
  - Ed. Paint Shop Pro, a digital graphics program
  - International art?
- Politics
  - Ed. United Nations: + a short paragraph on languages
- Culture
  - International student
  - Given name: de-stub
  - Acculturation: obtaining cultures

Participated and had fun in the following Discussions/Talks:
- Talk:Transcription of Chinese: Summary of "Library of Congress Romanization (Pinyinization) Guidelines"
- Talk:Dao De Jing: Comparison btwn e, ê, eh in pinyin and Wade-Giles
- Talk:Glagolitic alphabet: + Hebrew origin

I've also added Chinese characters (and when possible, their literal meaning), hanja, kanji, pinyin and tones to several pages.

Feel free to edit/correct the mistakes, including errors on info, typos and grammatical errors, that I made.

Image I worked on:

Image:Greenland small.png & Image:Greenland_big.png
Image:Blood circulation (human).png
Image:Pyramid.png, simple b/w diagram
Ed. Image:Hawaii_map.png: label the islands
Ed. Image:Whiptonguegraft.png & Image:Budgraft.png: delete caption (convert them to text)

Abbreviations:

- "Ed." = I did not start those articles anew or completely rewrite them, but just edited them more than typographical copyedits.

- "(new feat.)" = articles that came to my attention that have been listed on the Main Page for a day or two. They are deemed fun-to-be-looked-at by somebody else not myself and simply shows that they could use a hand or two, and it's not like the representative articles.

- "(de-stub)" = Make a cute stubbie a few paragraphs longer

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A lack of perfection

If I happen to have the time and the references, I try to improve and improve, then improve again the articles I started (such as the endless copyedits I had made to Hangul). Sometimes I unfortunately lack one or both elements in my cyberspace life. So, some, perhaps all, of the above articles don't live up the standards of some other Wikipedians or visitors. I do what I can to share what I know to be true in the areas that I describe. I also make mistakes, but never intentionally.

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