Talk:Tiangou

The information is so lame

I notice that this article only have one source and it's not chinese origin, but japanese. The japanese Tengu may have the same name as Tiangou, but they both are different creatures. For example, the "meteor" thing is only applied to Tengu and not to Tiangou, while Tiangou is responsible to Moon Ecclipse and NOT sun ecclipse. I'll fix the Indonesian article but still have no time to fix the English. Okkisafire (talk) 09:08, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Not lame, but a stub, and here's what to keep in mind

Thank you for your multi-language efforts. This is a stub, which by its very nature is lame. It is only the beginning of an article, not even rated Start class. You might not be familiar with stubs, just as I am ignorant of whether or not the Indonesian Wikipedia uses stubs at all.

Your edits to the to caption, by the way, broke the link to the correct article and left it a red link, that is, a broken link. I will correct this. You didn't leave an edit summary, so I don't know what concerns you had that made you make that change. (Update: But while editing the article, now I do. The god's name's first character is Zhang, but he is not the Zhang of the Eight Immortals. I think the confusion is that Zhang Xian's second character Xian means immortal, so someone mistook him for the Immortal Zhang. I created the Zhang Xian (deity) stub, so now there's no red link. Good catch, but you see why it's good to leave an edit summary? --Geekdiva (talk) 20:56, 22 January 2016 (UTC))

The article says the Tengu comes from the Tiangou, not that they are the same thing. As for the meteor/sun/moon question you raise, it will be good for future editors of this article to keep your question in mind and find out how the Tiangou is described and where and when (also what creatures are thought to influenced its creation and which creatures come from it).

"China" means different areas over thousands of years, so the Tiangou might have been considered a sun-and-moon-eclipsing dog-meteor at some point in Chinese history that you simply happen not to be aware of.

Thanks for your efforts. Don't worry; your explanation remains here, so it will help other editors refine their research, and I replaced the dispute tag with the more appropriate Clarify tag. --Geekdiva (talk) 20:33, 22 January 2016 (UTC)