Template talk:Chinese Emperor
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Recent modifications included not just extensions to the template, but incompatible changes that broke a number of pages which are using this template. Perhaps the recent changes were necessary, but as a matter of procedure, it might be good to have some discussion first.
Regarding the specifics of the current revision, I think it is too simplistic. The template seems to suggest that there is a neat correspondence between the reigning person, the name of their reign or era, dynasties, etc. This is often the case, but not always. For example: the Zhengtong Emperor and the Tianshun Emperor of the Ming Dynasty are the same person and the dates of his reign are not contiguous; before the Ming, many emperors used more than one era name, e.g. Tang Gao Zong more than a dozen; Hong Taiji ruled both the Later Jin dynasty and the Qing dynasty; etc. If the template should be applicable to all Chinese emperors (perhaps that not possible, though), some flexibility and greater generality is required. --MarkSweep 05:02, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Discussion occurred at Wikipedia talk:History standards for China-related articles. I think we will ultimately have to make one for each dynasty (clan name in Qing should be family name in Ming even if the naming conventions for Ming/Qing emperors is the same {era name} Emperor).--Jiang 21:34, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
