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James Michael Liston and Vatican II

Liston did not attend the Council. He was certainly in office all through the Council period (he did not resign until 1970). But he did not attend because of age and infirmity. See Liston's biography; Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, pp. 266-267.Rick570 (talk) 21:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Chinese names

Hi, firstly as no one said it yet welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for all your contributions so far, particularly in keeping Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics up to date. It is about that page that I wish to talk to you.

As you seem to have made the majority of updates i'd like to draw your attention to the way the names of Chinese (and Korean) competitors are written in the results at the official website, where I assume you are getting the results from. I'll take the Men's 4x100m freestyle - 34 pts as an example;

• As you obviously are aware the names for the British and Australian competitors are written family name (capitalised) before the first name, thus WALKER Matt when copied into the article becomes Matt Walker.
• However, whilst the Chinese swimmers are also written with there family name first, when dealing with Chinese names they are always written first, thus WANG Xiaofu should be written Wang Xiaofu on Wikipedia. This is further evidenced by Xiaofu Wang being a redirect to the article Wang Xiaofu.

Please be aware this is not a criticism of your efforts, as you couldn't be expected to know this, but does mean that the majority (some may have been added by others) of the Chinese names on the page will need changing, mainly as it may effect the links to any articles on the swimmers. If you have any questions on anything or would like me or another editor to assist in making the necessary changes (or if you'd like me to do them all even) just leave me a message on my talk page. Cheers Basement12 (T.C) 01:24, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Here is the Wikipedia article on Chinese names probably gives a better explaination than I did :) Basement12 (T.C) 01:37, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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