Talk:Du Fu
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See [1] (http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=Tu+Fu&q2=Du+Fu&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us). Tu Fu wins. --Jiang
I've added a substantial article; I haven't finished cross-linking yet, but any problems with the content are real problems, so leaping in and correcting would be nice. My first try. Markalexander100 05:53, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Naming, again
I would really, really like to move this page to Du Fu. Du is now more common in western academic writing- Stephen Owen uses it, and Burton Watson uses it in his later books. Pinyin's being adopted in Taiwan. It's phonologically more accurate. And the text of the article uses Du. (FWIW, Googlefights are now about equal- Du is slightly ahead without quote marks, Tu is slightly ahead with, but the majority is small in each case).
Would any really mind if I changed it? Markalexander100 04:17, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Done. Markalexander100 05:33, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Li Po/Li Bai
I don't know anything about Chinese names, but I was confused when I clicked on the link Li Bai, which as you can tell says "Li Bai" but links directly to the page "Li Po" without any redirect. The first few paragraphs didn't mention the name, and it wasn't until I saw "Lǐ Bái" in the infobox that I was sure I was in the right place. If you're going to link to a page where the official name is Li Po, why not use it in the text (i.e. Li Po)? - biggins | talk 03:31, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I think it is important to keep a consistency style. Either we should use the term Li Po or Li Bai and stick with it throughout. Otherwise, many readers may be confused and thought that they are two seperate persons (given many Chinese name sound/spell similarly) when it is the same person. --Hurricane111 05:32, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Changes were made to use "Li Po" instead of "Li Bai" --Hurricane111 04:47, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)