User talk:Draco argenteus

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Not sure what to do with this
On Talk:Reiwa period you attributed the suggestion of the name to Nakanishi Susumu; while IMO he probably should have been the first person consulted on the creation of a new era name based on the MYS (I do agree with the assessment I cited to Levy in our article on Nakanishi) a bit of digging indicated that he was sought for comment and said either that he had nothing to do with it or had no comment (ja.wiki cites this paywalled article). Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 15:11, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I see. Thanks for your vigilance. xD Yeah, I only saw the paywalled article on Nikkei, which I wasn't even going to read, so it's pretty much something I said on a talk page with the weasel word "credited" (I would believe it, though). I did not try to put that into the encyclopedia, so we're safe. Draco argenteus (talk) 15:28, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Meh. I don't think it's much of an issue here, but technically since BLP applies to talk pages you also need to be careful what you say about that kinda stuff there too, regardless of whether you're putting it into the article. But yeah, "he is credited with it" is pretty well true, and therefore uncontroversial -- the accreditation is apparently just a rumour though, and if we had anything more than "I had nothing to do with it" (like, say, "... and I wish people would stop saying I did") I would be saying otherwise. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 15:35, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Got it; and I agree. I will be more careful in the future. Draco argenteus (talk) 15:38, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Reply
I see. 諫 is a special type of writting only used when a court official is trying to advice his emperor， 疏 is a letter from a court official to an emperor. The title omitted a verb 為 which is not uncommon in Classical Chinese. 仗內 means imperial guards and 射生 is refering to hunters. The author of this short piece of advice was not happy with the fact that 蕃官（i would translate this word simply as "foreigners"） are participating a hunt with the emperor, he thinks that they are not qualified to go hunt with the emperor of China due to the fact that they are barbarians(that was the way Chinese view foreigners during all the dynasties, it's racist but that's just how they viewed the world back then, but the emperor was not viewing them that way though, it is interesting).

so, 諫蕃官(為)仗內射生疏 means "the letter which advises against permitting foreiners to participate the royal hunt as imperial guards".

The author comes from Xue clan of Hedong. That means he is a very high rank noble of Tang dynasty. That kinda explains his worries.Sunzhai (talk) 12:53, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Oh, No need to thank me. that's something I can offer easily. My pleasure to help.Sunzhai (talk) 13:25, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

More latin
If you have anything to add here Reference_desk/Humanities, please do. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:38, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I am glad to help and to be trusted with it. I offered on the page some feedback with my intermediate Latin. Draco argenteus (talk) 06:33, 16 July 2021 (UTC)