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editHan Chinese
editSee MOS:CHINESE.
| “ | The article title itself is normally the pinyin representation with the tone marks omitted: "Mao Zedong", not "Máo Zédōng", unless another spelling is common (see below). | ” |
The common spelling is Han Chinese (without the tone mark).
In general, DO NOT MOVE ARTICLES HERE without discussing the move and obtaining consensus on the associated Talk page. There are more than 4500 articles here that link to Han Chinese, and unless you are prepared to edit them all to link to the moved article, leave it alone. General Ization Talk 16:39, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Edits to Shang dynasty monarchs
editHi Morikat! I'd like to thank you for adding tone marks to the names of Shang dynasty monarchs and royals. Pinyin without the tone marks just does not convey enough information to the reader. I wish our Manual of Style permitted tone marks in article titles, so we didn't have silly things like Jin dynasty (266–420), but I understand the opposing perspective.
I've made some changes to the language you added to several Shang monarch articles. Shang monarchs were kings, emperor being used in English-language Chinese historiography beginning only with Qin Shihuang. I've also changed the term "real name", which you used, to "personal name". The names are equally real, but used in different contexts. I say this as a person who comes from a culture where we have two names for different contexts, each one as "real" as the other.
I came across your edits from King Zhou of Shang, which I've long watched. I'm afraid I don't find your changes to that article to be constructive: removing IPA transcription, removing the fact that the historical name of the article subject is a pejorative granted by his conquerors, and adding the personal name to a lead sentence already crowded by three names by which the article subject is already referred. I've mostly undone this change.
Additionally, I should note I've undone your move of Bu Bing to Waibing. Wai Bing may have been an acceptable move, although it's clear from archaeological evidence that Bu Bing was the correct name, but Waibing is not the correct format for an individual's name. I also reverted your language in Wu Ding which referred to his reign length as woopinh
, which is unencyclopaedic in tone and contains roughly 50% misspelling. Please take more care when editing. Thanks for your contributions. Folly Mox (talk) 19:23, 25 September 2020 (UTC)