User:Donald Trung/English Wikipedia user page (for import)

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This is my English Wikipedia user page of which I am planning on importing several paragraphs to my main Wikimedia Commons user page, however as copying non-selectable text as I am currently blocked on the English Wikipedia with my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL requires me to click for 15 minutes before I can only select a sentence a piece I have pasted this here to start importing some more Commons-compatible texts to my main Wikimedia Commonsuserpage. I will start importing stuff when I have the time, as I am a busy person don't expect it to go overnight. The redlinks are deliberate as I'll correctly format those when I’ll migrate them to my Wikimedia Commons user page. --Donald Trung (Talk 💬) ("The Chinese Coin Troll" 👿) (Articles 📚) 09:35, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
徵國單
Born Trung Quoc Don
(age 50)
Hải Phòng, North Vietnam
Residence Australia
Nationality Đường-Chinese
Other names Donny Trung / Donald Trung / Don Trung
Citizenship North-Vietnamese (until 1976), Vietnamese (from 1976), Australian (from 1996)
Education Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội)
Occupation Restaurant owner
Height 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m)
Spouse(s) Francine Elizabeth "Fran" Trung
Children 3
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I am Donald Trung (chữ Hán: 徵國單, Korean: Ch'i Kuk-Sŏn, Japanese: Chō Kokutan) and I created this account solely to create the article Ryukyuan mon but as you can see below I have added a few others to that list 😅. I contribute using a Microsoft Lumia 950 XL device 🤙🏻📱, and usually draft any new article I’m writing or major expansion to existing articles in Microsoft Outlook 📧. In general I tend to venture numismatic articles from the Far-East, while only reading other articles, but I make minor edits elsewhere as well though I’m not always signed in while doing so.

By the way, my name is pronounced like “Chüüng”, not “Trŏng”, I have to explain that every time I meet a person who has read my name before hearing it, and to my great annoyance my children go around introducing themselves as “Trŏng” even though I warned them that they’re throwing away their Chinese heritage when they do that, but like many overseas Orientals born abroad they refuse to learn the correct pronunciation of their names. 😒 Usually they retort me by saying “we live in Australia, not Vietnam”, or “that’s easier for English-speaking people to pronounce”.

Donald Trung (that's me) at a glance.

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A Tenpō Tsūhō coin.

I also made this article. 💴📝

Yuan coinage

I am very well interested in East-Asian & Vietnamese currencies, and I've greatly enjoying reading the well-detailed and well-sourced works on Ancient Chinese coinage here on Wikipedia, but for some reason this wonderful detail stops at the Song Dynasty, skips the Yuan Dynasty, and goes straight to the Ming Dynasty, and the skips the Qing Dynasty. Personally I couldn't let this stand so I had to fill the Song-Ming gap in monetary history. Up until I created that page Wikipedia had detailed information about coinage from every period in Chinese history... "unless you're the Mongols" (Crash Course history fans will get it.) 💴📝

Ancient Chinese coinage 🌉 Yuan dynasty coinage

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A Liao dynasty coin with its inscription written in Khitan script on display at the National Museum of Chinese Writing.
A Nagasaki trade coin that I personally own. 🤑🤑🤑

Well, did the best with the limited information I could find. I hope 🤞🏻 that by the time you're reading this that others have greatly expanded it. 😓

My favourite coins

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保大通寶 - 十文。
My favourite coin, a perfect combination between West & East, this coin is truly global. 🌏

My favourite coins are actually Ruan dynasty-era 10 文 coins made by Emperor 保大, well, actually second favourite after the 2 Sapèque (二文).

And I'd like to thank Sema (Pyvanet) for his awesome website, Art-Hanoi, I discovered the website through Wikipedia, and I've visited it almost daily ever since, whenever I browse eBay I go there, note that this is not a promotion of their work, more of an acknowledgment of the usefulness of the information they provided. 🌐

A Xuān Tǒng Tōng Bǎo (宣統通寶) coin that I had bought in Hanoi, Vietnam. 😍🀄💴 It cost me merely Ð 30.000,- 🤑

💴 Now this article was on the bottom of my to-do list, "why?" One might ask, well it's simply too much work, 😅 but I made the Qing's coinage article nonetheless, it was hard work 🏢 and I'll be improving it, but if any readers learn more about numismatics, and Chinese history from it it'll be worth it. 😉

What the Asian 文 articles have meant for me prior to me improving them, and why I expanded them.

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Explaining my reasoning, and the processes behind individual expansions.

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Me on Wikipedia

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I see that you've made it this far reading my page. 😱

I've actually been an editor for around 10 years, I've made my first account around that time to edit West Frisian Wikipedia (Frysk), though I only made 1 article back then and mostly edit sparse content here, and there. Over time I made another account, I was happy editing as an IP user, but as everyone kept commenting more about how my IP address kept changing and accusing me of sock-puppeteering I made another account, at first I only made templates and articles about software but then I got addicted to Wikipedia and I wrote thousands of pages (THAT'S NOT EVEN AN EXAGGERATION), I've had dozens of accounts and wrote in the fields of history, historical countries, information technology, computers, economy, businesses, consumer products, etc. So writing about coins is quite new for me as I prefer reading about them. 🤓 Over the years I've had dozens of accounts (that never edited in the same fields as I feel that would seem like a conflict of interest) and I've lost access to them by forgetting my password way too often 😵, sometimes because I changed cell.-phones, other times because I cleared my browser cache without realising that I didn't note my password anywhere. 🔏 I prefer not to name any of my earlier accounts or acknowledge them at the top of my page because those accounts have no relation with the edits I do in the fields of numismatics. Also I've made so many accounts over the years that I was forced to make one with my real name because I ran out of ideas 💡, and I'm a very creative person. 😅 I hope that you're enjoying Wikipedia, have fun. 😉

I see that you've made it to the bottom of my talk page and now you're reading my (not so) secret message, if you're a fun 🎉 person type "I've read your user page, and now I'm a Don-expert." on my talk page, I won't reply or anything, it's more of a social experiment. 😋

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Me on non-English Wikipedia's

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Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱. --Donald Trung (Talk 💬) ("The Chinese Coin Troll" 👿) (Articles 📚) 09:35, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

How it looked as of --Donald Trung (Talk 💬) ("The Chinese Coin Troll" 👿) (Articles 📚) 09:35, 21 December 2017 (UTC) (MINUS THE SOCKNASTER BOX, which I have kept out so this won't become another No_INDEX user page, which seem unnecessarily punitive, but I do want to use my search engine 🚂 to easily find my user page if I can remember bits of it, or just find it by coincidence.)