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Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei

 * ... that a female monarch existed in Northern Wei before Wu Zetian in China?

Created by HYH.124 (talk). Self nominated at 06:06, 11 November 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Overall an interesting and well written article. A few places need citations, which I tagged in the article. I've copyedited the article a bit, removing a chunk of Chinese quotation. Feel free to revert if you disagree. -Zanhe (talk) 02:19, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Also, as most readers of the English wikipedia are probably not familiar with Wu Zetian, I recommend a different hook:
 * ALT1: ... that the infant daughter of Emperor Xiaoming was emperor of Northern Wei for a single day? -Zanhe (talk) 02:22, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Referencing issue has been fixed, and the article is fine overall. Needs a new reviewer to review ALT1 that I proposed. -Zanhe (talk) 07:30, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know that it's much of a hindrance that they don't know Wu Zetian. The gist is easily gotten and it leads them into the existing article on her as well. That said, yours is fine and more immediately intriguing. It'd be better if he could find an English version of that passage in the Zizhi Tongjian (or at least translate the Chinese footnotes), but it's sourced well enough for an opening day article.


 * Unrelated comment: If we don't know her personal name, why not just use her era name? I know it's not standard until you get to the Ming, but why is it better to call her "anonymous daughter of Emperor Disyllable of Trisyllable" instead of just "the Wutai Empress of Northern Wei"? — Llywelyn II   21:27, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, the title is cumbersome, but "Wutai Empress" would be incorrect as Wutai was actually the era name of her father. Her reign was too short to have its own era name. -Zanhe (talk) 20:30, 30 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg ALT1 approved, AGF on foreign-language sources. DoctorKubla (talk) 09:27, 3 December 2013 (UTC)