Talk:The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 January 2019 and 8 March 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Caryliu1020. Peer reviewers: Caryliu1020.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:09, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Irrelevance of information that's only specific to Manohara

To the IP user 101.182.94.33:

We do not need background information that ONLY relates to Manohara here. You need to take that information to the article Manohara. The topic of this article is "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" as you can see from the title, which means that any information about Manohara needs to be written IN RELATION to the topic. Therefore, your addition [1] is irrelevant to this article, as does not contribute any information about the article's topic. Also, your claim of consensus is false. --Cold Season (talk) 00:48, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

@Cold Season: I have included "Sri Lanka" in the section because the Manohara legend is also popular in Sri Lanka. The version you reverted it to makes it sound like it's only popular in Southeast Asia when that is not the case. Clearly the author of the book has not chosen to be specific about where the legend is popular and has collectively referred to the area as "Southeast Asia". Consequently, it makes it sound like the legend is not popular in Sri Lanka, when it is. That is why I included "Sri Lanka" to point out that the legend is popular across Mainland Southeast Asia (Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Laos) and Sri Lanka which all share a Theravada Buddhist heritage. (101.189.47.36 (talk) 02:29, 4 February 2019 (UTC))

Does the conflated version of the Manohara tale (that includes aspects of both The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and Manohara) appear in Sri Lanka? That is the information that needs to be specified. --Cold Season (talk) 16:41, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Wording Change

This is one of my favourite legends, but I have a picky, linguistic change to the wording. Vega and Altair are stars and the young people are legends. In most mythological stories, the (real) star is the symbol for the (legendary) being, not the other way around. Please feel free to revert, but only if you can explain why it would be different here. I made the same change at Qixi Festival, so if there is a good reason, you'll want to revert that change as well. Thanks & Cheers, Last1in (talk) 14:21, 3 August 2023 (UTC)