Talk:Jang Yeong-sil

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[edit] Finish Up

wikimachine, i think we're almost there for the korea portal featured article (i don't think the fac template is supposed to be used for the korea portal, it's for the main wikipedia page). i found a couple nice korean sources (added to "external links" section in article), & here are some english sources that you may want to integrate & cite in the article, because right now, it almost looks like a summary of just one korean book. even though some of these only briefly mention jang, it would be good to have more sources for the article. [1] [2] [3] [4] thanks for the hard work! Appleby 01:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Appleby for your participation! These are pretty nice sources that I couldn't find before. (Wikimachine 03:33, 22 June 2006 (UTC))

• See Wikipedia:Citing sources. Personally I prefer using the ref-element as that automatically sorts references in the correct order they appear in. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questionable claims

How can you claim that Jang Yeong-sil invented the first water level gauge, when the Nilometer had already been around for thousands of years? --Reuben 05:57, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

The claim about the rain gauge is questionable at best. Clearly, there had been other devices for collected and measuring the amount of rain before this one. If there's some particular characteristic that Jang Yeong-sil's rain gauges had that no other device previously had, the article should say what it is that makes these stand out. --Reuben 06:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Water gauge is different from nilometer. Water gauge measures the amount of water that is stored in a reservoir of water. Nilometer just measures the height of the Nile river. (Wikimachine 22:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)) If you want to make this more neutral, I recommend that you add ref about the nilometer in the article. Something like "although nilometer was first..." P.S. Discuss the rain gauge issue at rain gauge. (Wikimachine 22:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC))