72:; this article was raised to GA status a while back, and although it failed its FAC review, after many improvements to the article I am renominating it for FA status. The main issue with the last review was copyright issues for a few of the article's images, which have since been solved with those images replaced with stable GNU licensed and public domain images from Commons. It is well sourced, stable (no edit-warring), has no startling POV statements, and is now well-written with many recent copyedits. There are a total of six related sub-articles created for this main article, including
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Maybe it's just me but I don't see the military as part of 'society', but rather I think it should have its own section on the main Song
Dynasty page. It's certainly important enough to warrant its own section and subpage. You already have a lot of information scattered around various sections of the
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As you have requested, I have delinked all years that have no relevant additional information associated with this article. I have also deleted AD throughout the article except for its first mentioning in the dates of the first lead paragraph. In the sentence you have shown above I have also delinked
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One more thing though, about the "scrunching" of text with the infobox, is there some sort of wikipedia standard that says I should not "scrunch" with pics and an infobox, or is this a personal preference of yours? In any case I have remedied the situation by moving the infobox up a bit and one of
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In addressing another one of your claims, Sandy, I have made many general improvements to the article in rewording some sentences and delinking many words that are not high value or informative links for this article. I hope you find the new improvements
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I want to make it absolutely clear that I did not move that picture back to the top where it was scrunching the text, that was an edit by another wiki editor. I have moved it back down so that the text is not scrunched, and provided my rationale in the
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Hi Миборовский, I have addressed your concern by adding a big-ole whopping paragraph in the
Society section on the Song military, and adding a new picture to aid the new text. I hope Mikey likes it. Lol. :)
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Wow! You're quick! Lol. Nice to see you around again, Sandy, it's been a while. Sure thing, I'll fix all this stuff, didn't know there were problems with any of the things you've listed, but I will fix them
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Mattisse and I have fixed the problem by creating new sub-headings and a new over-heading. The military now has its own sub-section under society, not culture, which makes no sense.--
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And as for the infobox years still being linked, I tried delinking them all, but the links won't go away! Your guess is probably as good as mine in understanding why the infobox is fussy like that.--
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puppeteers, acrobats, prostitutes, restaurants, and banquets, but kept the others with disambiguation to other articles with relevant info on China, such as
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