Talk:Nanjing (Liao dynasty)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Can someone please clean up the lede to match the new title? I am not competent to do so, and fear my attempts might be laughable to any chinese reader. Andrewa (talk) 09:16, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

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Liao Nanjing → Nanjing (Liao Dynasty) – The disambiguation word "Liao", denoting the name of the dynasty/empire, was added to the front of the city name, by people of later times. There's no right or wrong in this, so I'm listing it for a discussion. I think "Nanjing (Liao Dynasty)" is a lot clearer to a western reader. Timmyshin (talk) 23:01, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

• Support per nom. (When I first saw the title, I thought it was a person's name—cf. Liao Yaoxiang or Liao Zhongkai.) The current title seems to be a calque from Chinese. Although "Liao Nanjing" in English could refer to the topic of this article, "the city that the Liao called 'Nanjing'" (i.e. Peking), it could also mean "Nanjing when ruled by the Liao" (alright, that never happened but still...) like Habsburg Netherlands or Qing Taiwan. —  AjaxSmack  18:19, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

• Support. "Liao Nianning" is not "the historical name for Beijing during the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty" as the lede states, and the term does not seem to be current in modern scholarhip when referring to the Liao city of Nanning. I agree that Nanning (Liao Dynasty) is the best name for the article. BabelStone (talk) 12:57, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

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