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Shang Dynasty

The finds at Anyang are well known, and there is a source listed, Keightley's Sources of Shang History which talks about the finds and inscriptions found on the oracle bones there. The nine rulers, principly Wuding to DiXin are found in the inscriptions by various ritualised names for the deceased rulers. In the inscriptions, the Shang warred with numerous opponents, took slaves for sacrifice and other mundane things. Shang inscriptions also mention the Zhou, a peoples which then took over Shang. Before the 1899 finds at Anyang, all we knew about the Shang mainly came from Shiji, the Historical Records, some of which are plainly mythical in origin (e.g. the time of Huangdi etc). The Shang royal house after conquest wasn't destroyed utterly, but during the beginning of the Zhou dynasty, the lands of the Shang were given over to Weizi Qi, the brother of the last Shang King, and made the State of Song. The state continued in existence until 286 BC when it was conquered by its neighbours. Other sources of information include some of the oldest Chinese literature including Shijing, The Books of Poetry, in which some of the poems/songs praise the ancestors of the Shang.

If you are editing an area with which you are unfamiliar, you may wish to use the 'citation needed' boilerplate, before cutting away huge swathes of text. Otherwise, your use of 'original research' as justification for cutting away stuff may be taken as vandalism. Dylanwhs 07:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Guqin

Absolutely the information you added back into the guqin article is very relevant, and should be there. I don't know how or why it got removed in the first place. Badagnani 01:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

template:country

Why do you keep adding and removing an empty line to template:country? , , , , , . This causes all transcluding pages to be cache-purged. --Ligulem 19:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Self-reversed edits to Golden Gate Bridge

Please refrain from making test edits in Misplaced Pages articles even if your ultimate intention is to revert them. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Ronbo76 01:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Editorial assistance

I apologize for not recognizing you earlier. I am just getting familiar with this type of userbox. You may want to place the following on your user page:

This user helped promote List of recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry to featured list status.

TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 21:10, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

WHS Template

I believe the name of the sites should be listed as given in the UNESCO WHS website. Linking it to the correct pages is not an issue (I'd already done it in the change). Using different names creates ambiguity and I feel is simply not correct. I suggest we change it back to the 'full name' format. Your thoughts... --Natrajdr 10:05, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Etiquette

It probably wasn't necessary to append the comment "Show some demonstration of academic knowledge" when removing previously-added material from the List of monarchs of Korea article, per Misplaced Pages:Etiquette. Omnedon 17:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

This user was adding materials that has never appeared on the article before and if you look at the contents he added, most likely you won't find it on any reference works. I probably should've just said the contents wasn't academic material though.--TheLeopard 18:42, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Kim Hambo

I have indeed read the article before. However, I've been too busy to do anything about it. I'm going to ask that members of Misplaced Pages:Wikiproject China take a look it it. I'm sure they will find it interesting. --Ghostexorcist 07:50, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Zhou Tong (archer)

You seem to be interested in Chinese history. Although you may have seen it on the main page this past Sunday, I thought you would like to read an article I wrote on the military teacher of famous Song Dynasty General Yue Fei. --Ghostexorcist 22:05, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Reply

In fact, User:TheLeopard, I would be glad next time if you at least attempt a discussion with me before calling for the complete revert of my "massive new edits." I happened on this post only by chance and I percieve it as bad faith. I wrote the original "mainland China", and I agreed with the change to "China proper" by another user, so I don't see the dispute here. I don't see why "newly added materials" seem to equal to "unreliable materials" in your mind, but I'm pretty sure they are well-explained and referenced themselves, and if you really need further explanation, you could put it on my user talk page. Aran|heru|nar 09:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)