Talk:Li He/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Iazyges (talk · contribs) 16:35, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Will start soon. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 16:35, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria[edit]

GA Criteria

GA Criteria:

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1.a Y

1.b Y
2
2.a Y

2.b Y

2.c Y

2.d Y
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3.a Y

3.b Y
4
4.a Y
5
5.a Y
6
6.a Y

6.b Y

No DAB links Y
No Dead links Y
Images appropriately licensed Y
Copyright issues: When Li was 20, he attempted to take the Imperial Examination, but was forbidden from doing so because of a naming taboo: the first character (晉 jin) of his father's given name (晉肅 Jinsu) was a homonym of the first character (進) of Jinshi (進士), the name of the degree that would have been conferred on him had he passed. Ueki et al. (1999) speculate that this was a pretext devised by rivals, who were jealous of his poetic skill, to prevent him from sitting the examination. Han Yu, who admired his poetry, wrote Hui Bian (諱弁) to encourage him to take the exam, but Li was ultimately unsuccessful. He served only three years, in the low-ranking office of Fenglilang (奉禮郎) before returning to his hometown. appears to be directly copied from here. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 14:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Iazyges: First off, thank you for your work reviewing this and all those other articles I nominated. I'll thank you individually for all the others soon, but I needed to address this now. That appears to be GoodReads.com (not Rouzer and Frodsham) copy-pasting Wikipedia -- I am not sure about the copyright issues there, but I don't really mind them plagiarizing my words (it's something I kinda expect as a Wikipedianm and even if it was properly attributed to "Wikipedia" I wouldn't be getting direct credit for it anyway). I composed the English paragraph in question based on a Japanese-language source (Fukazawa), and haven't even read Frodsham (I wish I had access to it, but the Frodsham citations all predate my involvement in the article, and the content at that time was worded differently -- I rewrote it based on my sources). This is borne out by GoodReads.com having mistakenly included one of my citation numbers ("[6]") without the citation itself, and "Ueki et al. (1999)" as they cite it is nonsense, as there were surely plenty of works published by different "Ueki et al."s in 1999 and removed from the context in which I had that particular book's details included breaks the citation. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 20:18, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Prose Suggestions[edit]

He was prevented from taking the imperial examination due to a naming taboo. suggest He was prevented from taking the imperial examination due to a part of his name violating the naming taboo.
@Hijiri88: That is all my suggestions. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 14:00, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]