Talk:Yue Lao
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As originally written, this article badly tangled the mythological being Yue-Laou with a little-known fictional character based on him. The mythological Yue-Laou, having a few thousand years' precedence, should be the main subject of the article. I separated the two aspects as best I could and added some references to the mythological part.
I left the second section intact, but do we really need all this detail about Yue-Laou's appearance as a fictional character in a single obscure late-Victorian short story? As far as space goes, we still seem to be putting the cart far ahead of the horse.
I propose editing the second paragraph to read:
"Yue-Laou appears as a character in "The Maker of Moons" an 1896 short story by pioneer horror-fantasy author Robert W. Chambers. He is represented as the leader of a sect of Chinese sorcerers who had corrupted the Xin, the good genies of China."
"Maker of Moons" may be a well-written story, but it is not a significant influence on Western thought or literature, and Chambers is hardly Jane Austen or even Sir Walter Scott. Wikipedia isn't really the place to detail and promote every piece of odd fiction that somebody happens to like.
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