Talk:Dong Huling

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Requested move 19 June 2023 edit

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) SilverLocust (talk) 20:27, 27 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Tung Hu Ling → Dong Huling – Jōkepedia suggested that this page be moved to keep consistency with Dong Yingjie, which was recently moved. After some research it's unclear to me which version of the name is preferred. Many older tai chi works simply use Wade-Giles throughout. Few recent works mention Dong, and those that do are mixed in which romanization of his name they use ([1], [2]). Looking through a google search is even less helpful, because the online tai chi community doesn't seem to follow any of the generally accepted conventions for Wade-Giles or pinyin.

In the face of this confusion, I agree with Jokepedia that this page should be moved to the pinyin form. WP:NCZH says to use pinyin unless a clear majority of secondary sources use a different romanization. SilverStar54 (talk) 02:10, 19 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. Older works give his name in Wade-Giles, but often with nonstandard spacing, while newer works seem to be trending towards Hanyu Pinyin. (The second book you linked to is a collection of works by the publisher of the now-defunct T'ai Chi magazine. That article was published in 1988, and I cited it on the Dong Yingjie page.)

After this page is moved, based on my previous research I will convert it to Pinyin while preserving mention of historic versions of his name as well as the legal names of descendants using the "Tung" spelling. About half his descendants teaching outside of China today use "Tung" and the other half "Dong". Jōkepedia (talk) 02:48, 19 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

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