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Fichier pour la Wikipedia russe

Bonjour. Pourrais-je avoir une version modifiable de ce fichier : File:Naissances ou avortement (France).png ? Je voudrais le légender en russe pour un article sur cette Wikipédia.Bien cordialement. --Daniel AC Mathieu (talk) 05:20, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@Daniel AC Mathieu: non, désolé, je n'ai plus les données d'origine (en dix ans j'ai déménagé deux fois et changé trois fois d'ordinateur...). Ceci étant il est facile d'éditer l'image dans un éditeur bitmap pour éditer la partie légende. Cordialement, Michelet-密是力 (talk) 06:15, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Merci. Je vais faire cela. Je vous souhaite une collaboration longue et paisible avec votre nouvel ordinateur. --Daniel AC Mathieu (talk) 09:31, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Bonjour/ C'est fait : Аборты во Франции. J'ai entre temps lu et compris l'histoire de ce graphique. Bravo. Bien cordialement. --Daniel AC Mathieu (talk) 10:50, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

-Daniel AC Mathieu : "Lu et compris l'histoire" (!) bigre... c'est une querelle qui s'est étendue sur des méga-octets... belle performance, en tout cas. Je crois qu'elle a fait l'objet d'une enquête et d'un .pdf à l'époque. Michelet-密是力 (talk) 17:52, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

ACC: Liushutong (LST) and "great seal"

Hi, what do we actually mean by "great seal"? It seems like editors have assumed that any character in LST is "great seal", but I don't think that's right. While some of them might be considered "great seal", many of them are not. LST is a collection of seal characters from the Qing (清) dynasty which collected seal script characters from a variety of different sources, many of which are forms used after the Qin (秦) dynasty (i.e. they could have been "backformations" based on the clerical/regular script). How can we be sure that a form in LST is legitimately "great seal"? Justinrleung (talk) 03:57, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Indeed, the "great seal" is a mix-up of various things.What is meant most of the time, is just that it has been found in the "LST" section of the Chinese etymology page, and these are obviously of different styles. Those that are chosen are those that can be used to represent the character evolution, so that Oracle > Bronze > Big seal > Small seal, and that's about all that is needed for most projects. If more details are needed, I suggest you create complementary categories that can be used to sort out that mess. And if such a category is numerous enough, alternative namings could be used to improve the time series (if needed). Michelet-密是力 (talk) 06:07, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

I don't think I know enough to make subcategories of the so-called "great seal". There aren't too many resources on the great seal script, probably because it's an ambiguous term. In a strict sense, it could be restricted to 籀文 (essentially "ancient" forms that can be found in Shuowen), but in its broad sense, it could include anything before the seal script, even oracle bone and bronze. I don't think it's a good idea to take anything from LST and call it "great seal". How can we be sure that the particular form chosen was actually an intermediate before the seal script? Since we don't have access to the annotations in LST, it involves a lot of guessing on our part, which makes the project (and the projects that make use of this project) unreliable. If we want to keep using the term "great seal", I think we need stricter criteria. What do you think? Justinrleung (talk) 06:24, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

(Actually, I just found a scanned copy of LST on ctext, but it's going to be difficult to find each character.) Justinrleung (talk) 06:29, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

So @Justinrleung: , leave the things as they are until better sources are found.... These characters are useful for the evolution series, whatever their real name should be. Michelet-密是力 (talk) 07:01, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

this site seems to make better distinctions. Michelet-密是力 (talk) 07:03, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

I just found that guoxuedashi.com has LST, so that'll make things easier to check. When I have time, I'll take a look at all the great seal forms and check them with LST. Justinrleung (talk) 23:38, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Hong Kong stroke order

Do you think we should have a new file ending for Hong Kong's stroke order, like -hbw, -hred, and -horder? This website has the newest version of the List of Graphemes of Commonly-used Chinese Characters with stroke order. There's also a free font called Free HK Kai that follows the Hong Kong standard. Justinrleung (talk) 16:42, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello, @Justinrleung: I am not aware of a HongKong specific standard. A new file ending is not a problem, go ahead, but I think it would be easier to locate these characters by also creating a specific category, especially if there are not many of them. Michelet-密是力 (talk) 04:27, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

I don't know if there's an actual stroke order "standard", but the website I pointed you to is from the HK Education Bureau. If we're going to make a category, what would you suggest for its name? Justinrleung (talk) 04:43, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: See Category:Torder.gif stroke order images and the like categories - it would be something like Category:Horder.gif stroke order images Michelet-密是力 (talk) 05:01, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Stroke order for 方

I've checked all the sources for the stroke order of 方, and they all have 𠃌 before 丿, including 现代汉语通用字笔顺规范 (PRC's standard), so what is 方-order.gif should be 方-aorder.gif (which exists already) and what is 方-torder.gif should be 方-order.gif. Could you fix this? Justinrleung (talk) 01:59, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Also, this would apply to 於 as well. Justinrleung (talk) 02:01, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

file:方-torder.gif > file:方-order.gif > file:方-aorder.gif > delete  Done Michelet-密是力 (talk) 05:43, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Justinrleung (talk) 05:56, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Could you also fix file:方-bw.png and file:方-tbw.png (i.e file:方-tbw.png > file:方-bw.png > file:方-abw.png)? Justinrleung (talk) 06:01, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

 Done there is something fishy, probably a cache problem - let's wait the database updates. Michelet-密是力 (talk) 07:01, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

File:沒-bronze.svg

Hi, Richard Sears seems to have wrongly identified this as 沒. I've checked three other sources (Multi-function Chinese Character Database, Xiaoxuetang and 字源), and they all say that it is 汋 instead. File:汋-bronze.svg has the same exact glyph (but File:沒-bronze.svg has better quality). There doesn't seem to be a bronze script 沒 anywhere else. Do you think File:沒-bronze.svg should be deleted? Justinrleung (talk) 02:59, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Hello. Richard Sears follows his own sources, the identification is not his (though there is often mistakes in those identifications).

The composition is clearly 水 on the left, the right part could indeed be 勺, though it is unclear.

• 勺 alone is not to be found in bronze scripts, but can be seen in 汋 (maybe) and 礿 & 酌, where it has a different shape (see 勺 for the derivations). So, the character could be 汋, but in that case the 勺 is very atypical. Why is it so?
• Alternatively, the right part could be an archaic/alternative form of 亘, making the character a bronze form of 洹, whose meaning is quite different. But 沒 is composed of three parts, water 水, hand 又 and 囘 = 回 = 亘 circle around ; and it is not uncommon to see part of such compound characters missing in a given representation. Furthermore, there are lots of messy variants for that character, where 𠬸 is confused with 殳. So interpreting 水&亘 = 𠬸 as 沒 is also plausible.

The solution would be to find out the original bronze inscription, and check the meaning of the character according to its context. But that is far beyond my means... I'd keep both File:沒-bronze.svg and File:汋-bronze.svg (I've uploaded both of them), knowing that one of them is wrong, and possibly both.

Maybe a warning notice on both files is enough for the time being ? Michelet-密是力 (talk) 06:50, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Here is the original bronze inscription where this character is found (twice). The transcript says 汋（溺）. 溺 might be related to 沒 in meaning, but I don't know if we can say definitively that it is indeed 沒. Justinrleung (talk) 07:01, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, @Justinrleung: The transcript clearly beats my (poor) capacities in Chinese reading, so I won't debate on it. You may be aware of more detailed information, please contribute if this is the case.

• 溺 (en:), given as an equivalent, says that the character meaning (present time) is "drown / submerge in water / indulge". That seems close enough to classical meanings of 沒, whose chore meaning is "drowned under water / submerged", with the idea of something flapping (hand or wings) while being into water. So saying that the character is a variant form of 沒 makes sense for that specific transcription, as far as I can know.
• On the other hand, the same transcription excludes the meaning of 汋 (to pour).

It seems to me that the Richard Sears is essentially correct, but needs being adjusted somehow.

Michelet-密是力 (talk) 18:07, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

While in meaning it is not equivalent to 汋 (to pour), the Multi-function Chinese Character Database does say that 汋 is borrowed for 溺, and cites a similar passage in 大戴禮記．武王踐阼, which uses 溺. This makes sense with the Old Chinese reconstructions for 汋 (*bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ) and 溺 (*neːwɢ). Also 勺 is actually found independently in bronze inscriptions (in Xiaoxuetang). I've just uploaded that to File:勺-bronze.svg. (It's kind of crummy since it's inverted so feel free to improve it.) Justinrleung (talk) 19:14, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, @Justinrleung: I've smoothen the picture. Your bronze representation is clearly the kind seen with File:礿-bronze.svg & File:酌-bronze.svg (spoonlike line facing left and filled with a dot, two strokes). So you have found the correct version. Bravo.

The right part of File:沒-bronze.svg is unclear. If seen as "two strokes" it could indeed be a 勺, but the separation in Sears' picture could as well be a misprint, making it a one-line spiraling character like file:以-bronze.svg (see Category:1-stroke ancient Chinese characters). That 以 character etymologically represents a whirlpool, a waterspout or a tornado. The composition would then basically be that of 泤, but that character apparently does not exist in my classical Chinese dictionary (and is given as an alternative variant to 洍, which is probably irrelevant here).

An equivalence between 泤 (representing something swirling in water) and 沒 (evocation of somebody struggling in water) makes sense, though, being the same general idea as 溺 (two wings flapping in water). "汋 being (in that case) borrowed for 溺" could then mean the bronze character is also a misrepresentation of 洹 (泤) taken as an abbreviation of 沒. Such things happen with bronze compositions. My guess is that the composition is clearly not that of 沒, but since the meaning is said to be something like 沒 in the bronze text, leaving it as it is is OK.

Michelet-密是力 (talk) 06:17, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

I don't think the right part is unclear. In all the other sources, it's clearly 勺 and it has been interpreted as such. But since there is some semantic relation between 沒 and 溺, and whichever source Richard Sears used (hopefully not his own interpretation) interpreted the character as 沒, I guess we could keep it there. We should probably have a note on the page, though. Justinrleung (talk) 20:15, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, @Justinrleung: It's OK to me to leave a notice.

"In all the other sources" : be aware, though, that Chinese studies tend to copy one another, so that the mere number is not necessarily an argument. I've often seen obviously mistaken translations of classical Chinese been reproduced in all available "classical" versions... You must always be very cautious with that kind of data, that has had thousand(s?) of years of misinterpretation. So if the unusual graphic is "clearly 勺" and the meaning is clearly different, there is something fishy ... which should be noted, indeed.

Yours, Michelet-密是力 (talk) 17:13, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

I do agree that much of the study of Chinese characters is referencing each other, but I don't think this is exclusive to Chinese studies. Anyway, thanks for the discussion and helping to clear things out. Justinrleung (talk) 21:27, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

File:骨-order.gif and File:骨-aorder.gif

Hi, I don't think the names of these are right. The PRC standard is actually File:骨-aorder.gif, and the Japanese standard is File:骨-order.gif. Could you rename them like this: File:骨-aorder.gif > File:骨-order.gif > File:骨-jorder.gif? Justinrleung (talk) 21:13, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

File:鮑-bronze.svg

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Proteger les fichiers importants

Cher Micheletb !
C'est tout naturellement que je me suis tournée vers Magog the Ogre pour demander de supprimer l'ancienne version du fichier en raison des renseignements personnels. Ainsi, il va supprimer tous les quatre mes fichiers. Lisez, s'il vous plaît, ici :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_uploaded_by_V2016#Be_kind_enough_to_undo_the_deletion
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Magog_the_Ogre#To_remove_the_file
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éric _Laborey
Je vous serai reconnaissante si vous pouviez m'aider à proteger ces documents importants.--V2016 (talk) 15:37, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

File:要-oracle.svg and File:無-oracle.svg

• According to Graphic etymology, Chinese text project and sinica Database, File:要-oracle.svg isn't the oracle bone script of "要". Graphic etymology has this one, but it's a bronze script of "要". All of sites don't have oracle bone script of "要".
  •  Done (deleted) Michelet-密是力 (talk) 07:00, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
• File:無-oracle.svg has the same problem. File:舞-oracle.svg should be the oracle bone script for "無", because back then "無" wasn't borrowed for "nothing" and it only means "dance" in oracle bone script. In bronze script, the character was borrowed, so "舛" was added to the character "無" for preserving its original meaning. File:無-oracle.svg can not be found in Graphic etymology, Chinese text project or sinica Database.

Could you please move File:要-oracle.svg and File:舞-oracle.svg to a proper name and delete File:無-oracle.svg? Thank you. --Wargaz (talk) 22:42, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

@Wargaz:

The File:無-oracle.svg I used is actually in the bronze series, though it was used as a placeholder for an oracle character.

• Indeed, the first meaning of 無 is "dance", specifically a dance with veils accessories which are pictured in the primitive character (a dancer holding two veils). Then the character has diverged.
• 無 took the (disappeared but logical) meaning of some kind of strip-tease, and then the figurative meaning "stripped" , hence "disappear", "non existent", "void" and "negation - it is an error to say it has been "borrowed", the intermediate meaning simply has been lost.
• On its side, 舞 has taken the specific meaning of a "contradanse" (collective dance with figures), hence the addition of "舛" in the scene, representing 夊 (a man in front of an obstacle) versus 㐄 (same character mirrored).

Given these etymologies, File:無-oracle.svg was a not so bad primitive for an oracle 舞, and File:舞-oracle.svg a good representation for an oracle 無.

...that was ten years ago. In the meanwhile, the site http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/yanbian has opened and gives much more informations. There is a good series of oracle characters on [1] at the 舞 entry, and the same oracle series is given at 無. I'll just upload a more correct version for File:無-oracle.svg, taken after http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/yanbian.

Michelet-密是力 (talk) 07:00, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for helping me! I check Justinrleung's char-summary. I want to report my statistics to you, because I can't delete files:

These oracle bone scripts for these characters are mostly their bronze scripts, and their oracle bone scripts are not found yet: 國, 到, 道, 手, 金, 音, 器, 付, 危, 舍, 滅, 厲, 喬, 佩, 丐, 垂, 敘.

These's oracle bone scripts made up: 織, 時.

The character 飛 doesn't have a oracle bone script or a bronze script:

The oracle bone script and bronze script of the character 包 is actually 孕.

The character 格's oracle bone script in Graphic etymology is 各.

The character 彈's oracle bone script is 發.

The character 筋's oracle bone script is its Qin Bamboo Slip Script.

I really appreciate what you did! --Wargaz (talk) 08:08, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

@Wargaz:

• I went through the files you signaled, but I don't find systematically a problem (I've corrected the obvious ones). Some of your remarks could be explained out below, some I could'nt understand.
• Please note that the sources used are multiple : http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en ; http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/yanbian ; http://internationalscientific.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?characterInput=%E8%BB%8A&submitButton1=Etymology. Furthermore the ancient characters may be found not on the character itself, but on one of its variants (that may be identified as such on ctext.org, but not always). And none of these sites are really error-prone. When the sources do not agree, an educated choice must be made. And if the choice is arguable, a trace of the discussion is best left on the page, so do not hesitate to ask for more information.
• The problem of these ACC character series is NOT to be exhaustive, not necessarily to be correct, but to indicate how the character has evolved from a given iconic picture to its present state. This is the logic that governs the picking of intermediary states, and if some distortion is needed for the evolution to be better understood, a little approximation may be excusable to understand a structural truth. Remember, furthermore, that the naming of the ACC refer to the substrate they were found on, not on their dating.
• When the character choice is not straightforward (especially when it was taken from a variant, or erroneously classified on internationalscientific.org) an additional note would be needed to recover the source that has been used. If such source is missing, and is not straightforward, please add the information, or signal that more information is needed.

This is a collective work, and I appreciate all contributions toward a better understanding of ancient Chinese characters. Michelet-密是力 (talk) 16:57, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Stroke order exceptions

Dear Micheletb, after coming across your Chinese_characters_decomposition page, I wondered if you could help with the following issue: it would be great to create a dabase/list of characters whose stroke order is different from the one to be expected according to the standard guidelines 现代汉语通用字笔顺规范 (for example, Prof. Yin mentions in the "Routledge's Encyclopedia of Chinese" 女 as a simple example). Eventually, the characters that do not follow the standard guidelines should be arranged into groups according to the "type of irregularity", which would be very useful both for lexicographic and learning purposes. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:07, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

@Backinstadiums: I am but a very weak student in Chinese, my knowledge (if any) being limited to etymological and some calligraphic aspects. I have but a faint idea what the "standard guidelines" should be, and prefer to look up every single character whose stroke order I describe. If you feel such a classification may be useful, feel free to propose some kind of organizing scheme. Michelet-密是力 (talk) 17:57, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

file:能-oracle.svg and file:能-bronze.svg

Hi, Micheletb. I just found that file:能-oracle.svg is actually a bronze script from Western Zhou, and file:能-bronze.svg is bronze from Spring and Autumn period according to Xiaoxuetang and Graphic etymology. Moreover, according to these sites and Chinese text project, there is no oracle for 能. Can you help me to fix them? Thanks! --Wargaz (talk) 18:19, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

I double checked characters that I mentioned previously, 厲, 滅, 丐, 織, 筋 still do not have any oracle on Graphic etymology, Chinese text project or Xiaoxuetang and 乖 do not have any bronze on Graphic etymology, Chinese text project or Xiaoxuetang, but they have fake one on Wikimedia. I suggest those files should be deleted. Furthermore, File:筋-silk.svg is not a Bamboo and silk script but a Bamboo and slip according to Xiaoxuetang which is the only source of File:筋-silk.svg. --Wargaz (talk) 18:41, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

2018 wishes and ACC project

Hello Micheletb, happy to see you here :) I'am doing a light push to gather the ACC community on the ACC project, I think we have the critical mass to do so. You are surely more aware than me of the last years innovations and changes, your presence will be highly welcome. I noticed some post 2010-"newbies" which I hardly can call so since they are more active than me , but I may have missed some of them. Feel free to ping me or them about this intent to gather back the community. Also, feel free to point me out elements if I miss some new guidelines or initiatives. Happy to chat again and best wishes for 2018, Yug (talk) 10:08, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

File:乖-bronze.svg

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Wargaz (talk) 05:33, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Category:ACC containing 冫

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Wargaz (talk) 02:45, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

File:前-oracle.svg

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Wargaz (talk) 23:54, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wargaz (talk) 02:44, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wargaz (talk) 02:50, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

File:奏-bronze.svg

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Wargaz (talk) 02:37, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

File:奏-bronze.svg

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Thibaut120094 (talk) 07:34, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Wanted categories

Bonjour Micheletb, maybe you know and can help. As a consequence of many other works, e.g. by Wargaz, e.g. with ACClicense, many categories are used which are not yet defined. Definition is easy - but how to find these wanted categories? Do you know (or can somehow get the knowledge) how to get a list of "wanted categories" in the range of U+4E00 (Category:一) to U+9FFF (Category:龠)? Cdlt -- sarang♥사랑 10:32, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

@Sarang: Hello. If the undefined categories are called by ACClicense (or any such template) the easiest way to catch them is to test for the existence of the desired category in the template, and categorize the page as category:Page using an undefined category (or whatever) if not. See mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##ifexist. Michelet-密是力 (talk) 13:28, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Merci. If there is no easier way than to violate the template, I'll do it. It makes not one entry for each category but much more, one for each occurrence. I know, existence checks are hamster-killing; so I will make it easy to switch-off. Cdlt -- sarang♥사랑 13:38, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

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Incnis Mrsi (talk) 13:56, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

File:主-bronze.svg

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Wargaz (talk) 12:19, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

File:囪-oracle.svg

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Wargaz (talk) 04:58, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Image without license

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Zhuang Sawndip files

Hello, I was wondering if you as admin with an interest in languages and knowing Wargaz might have time to look at two vague and IMHO dubious deletion requests, one for File:Universal Declaration of Human Rights Zhuang Sawndip.png and another File:Universal Declaration of Human Rights Zhuang Sawndip Traditional variant.jpg made on Jan 8th. I have contacted Wargaz who made to Jan 8th, but despite making other edits he has not replied. In each case the reason given is 'This one contains errors, and its function has been replaced by ...', but this is not correct. The only error in File:Universal Declaration of Human Rights Zhuang Sawndip.png was a missing comma, which I have fixed and at the same straighten out the characters. The only error in File:Universal Declaration of Human Rights Zhuang Sawndip Traditional variant.jpg was 傳 which I have changed to 伝. The so called replacements are are in fact alternatives, so having both is suitable. The suggested replacement for File:Universal Declaration of Human Rights Zhuang Sawndip.png is a file I produced is for a different purpose, and are clearly different in that the former is in simmplified characters and the latter is in traditional characters. The suggested replacement for File:Universal Declaration of Human Rights Zhuang Sawndip Traditional variant.jpg has already been renamed from File:Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights_Zhuang_Sawndip_in_a_more_plausible_orthograph.png to File:Universal Declaration of Human Rights Zhuang Sawndip in an alternative orthograph.png. The uploader of the renamed file, who does not have a talk page, made 5 changes and in Chinese claimed these to be correcting errors, however only one character was in fact in error. Whilst it would be nic if Wargaz agreed to the deletion request be closed, there is sufffcient grounds to close it. Please come back to me if you have further questions.Johnkn63 (talk) 02:55, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Shuowen Jiezi, by Xu Xuan.png

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Castillo blanco (talk) 12:13, 3 July 2019 (UTC)