Talk:Qianling Mausoleum

Qianling Mausoleum has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
February 26, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 15, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that traditional Chinese phoenixes in carved reliefs of the Qianling Mausoleum are modeled on ostriches?

Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on July 2, 2011, July 2, 2013, July 2, 2014, July 2, 2016, July 2, 2018, and July 2, 2023.

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Map needed

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Creation and expansion[edit]

I just created this article; shout out and much thanks to User:Nlu for improving the article, providing links, Chinese characters, citations, etc. To everyone else, be bold, edit and expand, or make it known here what you want to add. Please come armed with scholarly sources, though.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 05:37, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Is it known why those statues of the ambassadors are all headless? It seems like a deliberate act. --Delft 253 11:15, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Well done on this article.

Record of edits:

"there was found" -> "there were found" ("Tombs" section, correcting plural tense)
"halls Li Xián's" -> "halls of Li Xián's" ("Murals" section, adding missing word)
"there is only six" -> "there are only six" ("Murals" section, correcting plural tense)

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality:
"...real fully-stone doors..." I'm not quite sure what to make of that. Not having a background in Chinese Architecture, it almost seems to imply that the Chinese were using Sheetrock in the 8th century, which of course is complete nonsense. I assume it means that past tombs has been made to look like stone, but were actually wood or something, however this could probably be clarified in the article a bit.

Someone needs to watch their grammar when dealing with plural subjects - I caught a few above, but it's possible I may have missed some.

B. MoS compliance:
Lead section provides a good summary for the article.

I'm putting this here as I'm not sure where else it would fit - It seems as through there are only a bare minimum of Chinese Characters used in the article. I know there are conflicting methods of romanizing names, and inclusion of the actual name in Chinese could be helpful for one with a background in that language. This is done elsewhere for those people with articles, I know, but a few don't have them, such as General Li Jinxing in the "History" section. Likewise, other terms could benefit from the Chinese translation (i.e., peizang mu, lead section)
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources:
Nice work with the Harvard references.

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
Perhaps a few less references than there are for many GA's, but they are well used throughout. A subject such as this isn't likely to have too many sources of information anyway, I suppose.

C. No original research:
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects:

B. Focused:
Were this to be expanded, I'd recommend making "Spirit Path," "Tombs," and "Murals" all subsections of a larger "Appearance" section or something. It seems like you have plenty of information to provide descriptions and interpretations of the layout, which can be handled in more detail. To balance this, the history section could be expanded as well, perhaps with a brief overview of how tombs were used in past dynasties.
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
Well done. This passes a GA review, however I definitely think this could be expanded at least to a good A-class. Send this over to peer review for some more suggestions and keep up the good work! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 12:18, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great! I think you've given a fair assessment of the article.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 17:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Left Guard[edit]

I see the term Left Guard in this article. A bit of searching on Google Books leads me to believe that it refers to the Yü Lin Dragon Martial Guard. Is that correct? I know very little about this topic. --Slashme (talk) 09:46, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]