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I haven't made any edits to any of these articles, but as per Template:Song Dynasty topics, it looks like this could be a featured topic, and one of the most important ones, should it pass. Apologies if I have messed something up. Much congratulations to PericlesofAthens for all of his work on this topic. HansHermans 22:22, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I put a lot of effort and time into all seven articles.--Pericles of AthensTalk 00:28, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Once again, thanks for all the support! It is a very intriguing era of Chinese history.--Pericles of AthensTalk 00:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'd love to bring that up to featured list, but really, there's not much I can do to spice it up besides adding pictures of the emperors' portrait paintings from the Song era. Do you have any suggestions besides that? If so, I'd love to improve it, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that besides adding their painted portraits.--Pericles of AthensTalk 16:54, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sources would be a big help. It doesn't have to be fancy, it can be simple and still be featured. Jay32183 18:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. Only one problem, though. The books I own on Chinese history, even a couple specifically about the Song Dynasty, unfortunately do not cover the naming conventions of Song rulers. I'd need to find a credible scholarly source to back the information up first, and I don't know how long something like that will take. I will look at journal articles found at JSTOR for the moment, but I have a feeling they are not going to be of much help, since I believe I've looked at most available JSTOR journal articles that focus on Song Dynasty topics.--Pericles of AthensTalk 03:30, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There's no rush. It doesn't fall into the "obvious gap" problem so it won't hurt FT status. FLs take time. Jay32183 04:06, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'd love to, I just don't have any sources, nor can I locate any sources that cover the full naming conventions of Song rulers. I've looked through JSTOR and other databases, and I cannot find them. My university library isn't helpful either, in terms of covering biographies of Song rulers or even listing all of their naming conventions (many authors covering the Song period probably thought that was too tedious). There's a lot of stuff on that list that needs citations and sources, and I'm afraid I can't do anything about it. Maybe someone else can. I created the article, but I did not create any of the material in it; it was once part of the main Song Dynasty article, located previously at the bottom of the page before I took it out and gave the list its own separate article. Maybe I can track down the wiki member who first created the material and ask him how he found those naming conventions.--Pericles of AthensTalk 21:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have located the wiki member who created the list in the first place, User:Ktsquare, and I have left a message on his talk page asking for help with the list article.--Pericles of AthensTalk 21:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(de-indent) Pericles, would the information located here be of any use?--Danaman5 22:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Danaman. This site is good in order to distinguish what some posthumous and other titles mean, translated into English. Unfortunately, it does not help us in determining or verifying which specific names belonged to each Song ruler, because it does not provide any sort of list for Song rulers and their exact naming conventions.--Pericles of AthensTalk 17:42, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, I have not heard from Ktsquare in the past 4 days since I left a message on his talk page. Looking at his contributions, he comes onto wikipedia sporadically, and I don't know how much help he will be, despite the fact that he is the original creator of all the information in the List of Song Emperors article.--Pericles of AthensTalk 00:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Still no word from Ktsquare.--Pericles of AthensTalk 10:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]