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any information on the languages spoken and how it differed from states further north? How would they have pronounced the name of their state? — Preceding
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2.100.102.65 (
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00:35, 25 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Although this question has been here for a long time, but...I just added a language section. The Chu language shows a predominantly Tai-Kadai influence. The rulers of Chu probably spoke a variety of Old Chinese being on its way to merge with non-Sinitic languages, which are believed to be chiefly Tai-Kadai.
Gustmeister (
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10:09, 28 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I don't see how this would merge with the Chu page, unless the state literally has no history, in which case a mention of it's annexation would just occur on the Chu page.
I check pages listed in
Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for
orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of
Chu (state)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "map":
From
Wulipu:
"沙洋县行政区划图". 沙洋县人民政府门户网站 www.shayang.gov.cn (in Simplified Chinese). 湖北中大空间地理信息数据中心. November 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2018. from west to east: X020{...}白虎村{...}火龙村{...}草场村{...}陶场村{...}安全村{...}联合村{...}两河村{...}十岭村{...}焦柳铁路{...}杨集村{...}白岭村{...}G207{...}团林铺镇{...}十里铺镇{...}许场村{...}严店村{...}五里社区居民委会{...}G55{...}五里铺镇{...}金台村{...}左冢村{...}赵集村{...}枣店村{...}显灵村{...}刘集村{...}合心村{...}陈池村{{
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From
G55 Erenhot–Guangzhou Expressway:
"沙洋县行政区划图". 沙洋县人民政府门户网站 www.shayang.gov.cn (in Simplified Chinese). 湖北中大空间地理信息数据中心. November 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2018. {...}G55{...{{
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not.
AnomieBOT⚡09:49, 1 April 2018 (UTC)reply
The inclusion of the states of Wu, Yue and Tai-Kadai in the see also links
@
Thomasettaei:User Thomasettaei have continuously deleted links to the states of Wu, Yue and Tai-Kadai in the see also section. This user claims that:
Quality articles at most usually include one or two links
See also is not a mandatory section
Where are the regulations that these silly words based on ?
If there are, then I wouldn't proceed in undoing this user's edit. Otherwise, I would have to put the links to the states of Wu, Yue and Tai-Kadai in the see also section.
Here are some featured articles with more than six links in the see also[1],
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[3],
[4].
For what it's worth
Gustmeister you were right and they were wrong. Aside from WP:IAR,
Zanhe—despite being a great editor for Chinese articles generally—grossly overstates the MOS:SEEALSO policy. It's to avoid unhelpful WP:OVERLINKing but in this case it's helpful for WP:READERS to be able to quickly get to the southern quasi-Chinese Zhou state Yue and Wu articles in relation to Chu. Instead, the policy would activate and be correctly applied to remove mostly unhelpful links to other random Zhou polities like Qin or Lu. Something like that—listing all of the Zhou states—would be better handled by an infobox at the bottom of the page instead.
If there already is one that does include Yue and Wu already (like there is now) that is the reason Yue and Wu don't also need to be in the #See also section. The links are already clearly available in the same area of the article for the curious. (The current Zhou state template seems like it could be better organized—in particular to separate those southern not-quite-Chinese-yet ones—but that's a separate issue to be handled on the template's talk page.) —
LlywelynII02:30, 2 September 2023 (UTC)reply
It is illustrated in the sources provided that these three states were frequently called "barbarian" by those in the Central Plains. Whether this view is caused by genuine difference in ethnic identity or just snobbery should be addressed. Why are they removed or toned down without any discussion?
42.61.172.8 (
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15:14, 9 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Sources for future article expansion
Especially for the known info on Shang-era relations to Chu,