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Category:Armenian screenwriters by century has been nominated for merging

Category:Armenian screenwriters by century has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. Mason (talk) 20:08, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Category:20th-century Canadian people by ethnic or national origin has been nominated for merging

Category:20th-century Canadian people by ethnic or national origin has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:55, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

John Malkovich as "winemaker"

Malkovich owns a winery, but is not a winemaker. Now, I do understand that in some parts of the world, "vintner" and "winemaker" are synonymous, but Category:Winemakers is dedicated to winemakers – the professionals actually making the wine. Malkovich is a vintner in the sense that he owns LQLC, but he is not a winemaker. Here he is talking about his winemaker, Jean Natoli: https://www.winespectator.com/articles/john-malkovich-surprising-cast-of-wines-in-provence. Chalandray (talk) 22:36, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Chalandray, sorry for the late reply and thanks for pointing out that. I've changed the category back.

Regards, Thedarkknightli (talk) 12:36, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Category:20th-century Canadian people by religion has been nominated for merging

Category:20th-century Canadian people by religion has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:12, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Category:Canadian people by religion and century has been nominated for merging

Category:Canadian people by religion and century has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Henry Golding

Please refer to the Henry Golding talk page to explain your deletions. CrookedZim (talk) 07:20, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Nicki Minaj

Go to the Nicki Minaj talk page and lets openly discuss your bias language and opinions. This is not a space for opinions, it is a space for factual biographies. Ajcalifornia (talk) 12:11, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

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Jet Li

Hello, Thedarkknightli. Thank you for the information. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I am a Japanese and a big fan of Jet Li, and I have several books on his biography published in Japan. In one of them, his birth name is clearly stated as "Li Yangzhong" (李 陽中) and it is explained that he was given the stage name "Li Lianjie" (李 連杰) when he debuted in "Shaolin Temple" (1982). It is explained that "Li Lianjie" (李 連杰) is stage name in China, and also explained that the stage name "Jet Li" was thought up as a global stage name to make it easy to remember in the Philippines and other places around the time of "Martial Arts of Shaolin" (1986). The English source says "Born Li Lian Jie on April 26, 1963," but where did you get the information that Li Yangzhong was his courtesy name?

By the way, regarding his place of birth, all the books I own state clearly that Li was born in "Shenyang". Some websites say "Beijing", but also some write "Shenyang" in Japan. ([1])

Jet Li has been to Japan many times since his first visit in 1982 (even before he made his way to the US), so I think there is probably more information about Jet Li in Japan than in the US and Europe. However, I have not checked the Chinese sources myself, which may be more accurate, and I am not very good at English, so it is difficult to improve the English version of the article in time. I am currently writing an article about my most favorite movie, "Target Blue."(The Bodyguard from Beijing)

So I would like to focus on writing the Japanese version of his article ジェット・リー and his movie articles more accurately based on his biography published in Japan. I would be grateful if you could let me know if there are any reliable Chinese sources on "Li Yangzhong" (李 陽中). Thank you. みしまるもも (talk) 01:29, 24 June 2024 (UTC) add --みしまるもも (talk) 01:49, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi @みしまるもも, sorry for the late reply. Tbh, I wasn't (and still isn't) that familiar with Li, and the reason for that reversal was partially because you had changed the year when he obtained US citizenship—which had been (and still is) well-sourced in the body—with no valid explanation. As for "Li Yangzhong", I've just found out it was the producer pseudonym (per this) Li adopted at Jin Yong's suggestion (per this—which, unfortunately, doesn't contain the full text, and the only full access I've already found isn't free) and used while owning Eastern Production in Hong Kong (per this) but I still haven't found any reliable sources which support the statement that it's Li's courtesy name (added by someone else).

Regards, Thedarkknightli (talk) 19:28, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

• Hi, Thedarkknightli. Thank you very much for your reply.

• Most Japanese sources say that Jet Li acquired US citizenship in 2000, and Record China reports it(in 2011) as such (Jet actually became a US citizen in 2000. "I've lived in America for 20 years and nobody has ever criticised me for it, so I don't understand why there's been such a fuss about me getting Singaporean citizenship," he said.). Regarding this, even websites run by Japanese maniac fans say that Jet Li officially acquired US citizenship in 2000, right after he remarried Nina in 1999 and had a baby girl, and the "Contemporary Foreigner Directory 2016" also states that he acquired US citizenship in 2000.
• According to a biography source I have owned for some time, he first began living in California, USA, around 1988 when he was married to his first wife, and he had lived in the USA before 1997. Another source I recently obtained also states that around 1988 he was struggling to obtain US citizenship. It also explains that he returned to Hong Kong to film "Once Upon a Time in China" (1991), and that he remarried his second wife Nina in 1999 and then settled in California.
• Also, he wrote that in 1997, after filming the Hong Kong movie "Hitman" (April 1998), Jet underwent surgery to remove a mole in the middle of his nose on the advice of a lama, and when he returned home that same day, he received an "international phone call" from Richard Donner inviting him to star in "Lethal Weapon 4" (1998). So, I don't think he was still living in the US at that point (it's possible that he accepted and moved to the US immediately that same year, but he probably hadn't obtained US citizenship yet).
• Regarding Jet Li's real name, the newly obtained source also states that it is 「李陽中」"Li Yangzhong." The source I had previously also states that his real name is 「李陽中」"Li Yangzhong," and explains that he started working at Eastern Production, a film production company he founded in 1992, and that he uses his real name,「李陽中」"Li Yangzhong," when producing. These sources were published by a publisher specializing in films, and the writers are experts on Hong Kong kung fu actors, so I would like to edit the Japanese version of the article to follow the source of the biography published in Japan. Thanks. --みしまるもも (talk) 02:44, 17 July 2024 (UTC) add --みしまるもも (talk) 02:53, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Category:New Zealand men by century and occupation has been nominated for merging

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Category:New Zealand men by occupation and century has been nominated for merging

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Musicians from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

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July 2024

The Somerhalder article is poorly written. Took me a while to clean it up and improve the flow. I suggest you take another look and self-revert. Yours6700 (talk) 20:14, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

@Yours6700: well, I still oppose removing these links, which are perfectly fine and not against MOS:OVERLINK cuz readers don't necessarily know what Mississippi or née is; however, I don't have a problem with the rest of your edit in the article. Thedarkknightli (talk) 11:21, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

James Blunt article

You might find it amusing that Blunt has said to interviewers that he trolls the article and changes the date of birth. So who knows.... Risker (talk) 22:49, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Risker, can you clarify that? I'm kinda confused cuz my English isn't that good, and I'm not that familiar with the western culture. Thedarkknightli (talk) 23:07, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Well, Blunt has given interviews to reporters. They will ask him about the Wikipedia article about him. He tells them that he edits it to change the date of birth, as a joke. Risker (talk) 23:15, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

OK, thanks for dropping by and letting me know, @Risker. Happy editing!

Regards, Thedarkknightli (talk) 23:20, 11 July 2024 (UTC)