User:Donald Trung/Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies Vs. Chinese banknotes (on Wikimedia Commons)
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This page 📃 is an essay which explores my work uploading media files 📁 related to Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies Vs. Chinese banknotes on Wikimedia Commons.
Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies Vs. Chinese banknotes (on Wikimedia Commons)[edit]
I had a choice when spending my time uploading media files 📁 to Wikimedia Commons between Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins and bamboo tallies or Chinese banknotes and I chose Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins and bamboo tallies, this was purely due to the simple availability of sources online that write about their history and the sheer number of articles I could create and/or expand with the information ℹ I could find. Comparatively if I had focused on Chinese banknotes I probably wouldn't have been able to create as much information on Wikimedia websites relating to them.
The subjects of Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies are all very intricate with information ℹ on them being spread out, Chinese banknotes are generally either 1 (one) or 2 (two ✌🏻) topics (dividing between “Imperial” and “Post-Imperial” banknotes). By focusing so much on Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies I’ve been able to create an expansive catalogue which covers not only the superficial details but tries to tell the whole stories of each and every subject at hand, only rarely have I not been able to go very deep and the account of “XXX Dynasty Coinage” and “XXX Tongbao” articles is evident of the fact that where I’ve not been able to write ✍🏻 about “individual cash coins” I’ve been able to cover 📔 even more obscure and short-lived dynasties in Chinese history. In contrast I’ve only found 2 (two ✌🏻) websites which covers information about Chinese banknotes in detail and both of these cover Chinese coinages as well. Now this doesn’t mean that focusing that time I spent on Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies on Chinese banknotes that I would've “wasted” that time ⌚, no, in fact I would’ve been able to build an expansive catalogue of Chinese paper money 💴 that would be useful to many future 🔮 generations of content creators both on- and off-wiki.
Advantages Vs. Disadvantages of my choices[edit]
- Advantages
- Because Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies are such a diverse range of topics the amount of research spent into these would have probably only been addressed in a singular manner by another contributor. If I had invested that same amount of time into Chinese banknotes I may have been able to create “the most complete catalogue of Chinese banknotes on the internet”, but it would've only told the more recent history of Chinese numismatics.
- The amount of content both on Wikimedia Commons and on Wikipedia's about Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies is huge thanks to all the content I imported from David Hartill's Cast Chinese Coins, Gary Ashkenazy's ( גארי אשכנזי) Primaltrek / Primal Trek, Vladimir Belyaev’s Chinese Coinage Website (Charm.ru), John Ferguson's Sportstune.com, Dr. Luke Roberts’ East Asian Cash Coins (University of California at Santa Barbara), &c. The full inclusion of all these many works now leads to Wikimedia being the global #2 (number two ✌🏻) website on Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies behind only Vladimir Belyaev’s Zeno Oriental Coins Database (Zeno.ru), the amount of articles + Wikimedia Commons categories have made this website into a de facto gratis Chinese numismatic catalogue 📇 that rivals David Hartill's Cast Chinese Coins. Comparably the standard works for Chinese banknotes are the Shanghai Encyclopediæ which isn’t available online (legally) which would’ve severely limited my ability to write ✍🏻 about Chinese banknotes, and while a great deal of information about Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies is only available offline, I’ve written a full 🌕 collection of articles about them capable of “telling the full story” to the extend that most “missing information ℹ” is “minor”. With Chinese banknotes I wouldn’t have been able to write ✍🏻 as much.
- Disadvantages
- While I did manage to get a lot of images of Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies, a fairly large number of these are on Gary Ashkenazy's ( גארי אשכנזי) Primaltrek / Primal Trek, Vladimir Belyaev’s Chinese Coinage Website (Charm.ru) & the Zeno Oriental Coins Database (Zeno.ru) to which I have no permission to upload here, meanwhile images of Chinese banknotes older than 1949 are always “{{PD-Scan}}” which automatically makes them compatible with Wikimedia Commons. Focusing so long on information from Gary Ashkenazy's ( גארי אשכנזי) Primaltrek / Primal Trek, Vladimir Belyaev’s Chinese Coinage Website (Charm.ru) as well as images of Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies from a large number of sources could’ve been time ⌚ I invested in Chinese banknotes.
Banknotes are a completely “different beast”[edit]
It’s also important to note 📝 that accumulating banknotes for Wikimedia Commons is a completely different beast from coins and other 3D numismatic and exonumismatic objects, this is because a photograph of a scanned banknote doesn't require any extra permission or other types of privileges to upload them here, only the scan itself (as long as it's in the public domain). While I’ve been able to find a lot less websites dedicated to Chinese banknotes, simply importing a scan would suffice and I wouldn't have to ask the site’s owner for permission to use the images I wish 🌠 to upload to Wikimedia Commons. Someone interested in paper money and other form of banknotes need not to go out of their way to collect OTRS tickets 🎟 as I have for Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies, and though the end result for the latter categories of numismatic and exonumismatic subjects on Wikimedia Commons is now wholly inclusive, a comparable amount of effort placed into banknotes would've actually nearly completed their coverage here on Wikimedia Commons.
As I’m about to retire all I can do is regret the time ⌚ not spent on uploading more images of banknotes to Wikimedia Commons, if you’re reading 📖 this and wish 🌠 to do so, then please do it, all it takes is one (1) very passionate person who wants to create a catalogue, don't be shy in creating categories, and most importantly… don't postpone it for later, many thousands of images of banknotes would've been on Wikimedia Commons if I didn't focus on “finish THE COMPLETE COVERAGE of Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, and Chinese emergency token coins & bamboo tallies first” which ended up in me creating an expansive catalogue of all except for bamboo tallies and banknotes. There may only be 1 (one) Bert Lijnema, but there’s also only one chance to save images of banknotes and there information ℹ here before the websites will “go dark” and if they’re not archived the educational information ℹ behind them will be lost from the internet for who knows how long. So please, if you’re interested in banknotes and other forms of scrip, upload them.
Original publication 📤[edit]
Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:54, 20 March 2019 (UTC) (Microsoft Outlook e-mail 📧 draft title for future 🔮 reference: Banknotes 6. DONEZZZBEHINDZAPLUZZZVEENSTROA IN MA DUMB-DUMB CAR 🚗 “”.).