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Understood, I've now restored most of your edits. Sorry for the confusion; in the future, a more detailed edit summary would be helpful. Usually when I see mass, unexplained changes to featured articles like this, its hard to vet them thoroughly.
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The point I was trying to make was that a lot of the {{ill}} links weren't pointing to the proper English Knowledge link. For example, {{ill|延笃|zh|lt=Yan Du}} points to the English Knowledge article
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Thinking about this more, I've removed the portrait of emperor Zhang. It doesn't really add anything, and I can agree that no one reads image captions.
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was not compiled by Yan Du like you put in the bibliography, it was progressively expanded by many different people throughout the Eastern Han.
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The current image is a commonly used representation of Cai by modern sources, reproduced in Tsien 1985, Hunter & Hunter 1978 and Hart 2000.
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on this page is unnecessary and confusing; a casual viewer could easily (as I did initially) mistake the portrait for one of Cai Lun,
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Since all portrayals are inherently totally fictional, I don't see why using beardedness should be a deciding criteria.
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considering the similarity in appearance to the central figure in the image of “Patron Saint Cai Lun.” In fact,
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