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Generally, if a term has a native translation, I heavily prefer using it (esp for one-character or many-character terms), as someone who speaks a bit of Chinese, it can be easy to forget how unhelpful plain pinyin terms can be for people not knowing the language, trying to learn about adjacent
637:"is often translated as "immortal," but, strictly speaking, the texts promised neither a once-and-for-all immortality nor an escape from time and change into an eternal stasis, as can immediately be seen from the fact that there were distinct degrees or levels of 823:. There's a lot of overlap between Taoism & Chinese folk religions in general; logic of this nom would suggest that quite a lot of Taoism topics be disentangled from Taoism, but I'm not sure that's really the most helpful or expected by readers. 416:
and there's no such thing as "a Chinese folk religion" or "Chinese mythology" that doesn't fall under Taoism at present, although there are a few minor and very specific sects that have a separate theology apart from general Taoism. The page is
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With all due appreciation for Keah's desire for thoroughness, this page is a mess. If the best we can do is a laundry-list translation-dictionary introduction and a list of pages-long blockquote citations, we should port this over to a
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originated with and is almost always associated with Daoism. The present title is more specific than "Xian (Chinese mythology)". "Immortal" is an outright misnomer. Many
514: 31: 485: 852: 583: 554: 518: 894: 558: 398:, all considering that it's not solely specific to Daoism but may as well apply to various folk religions etcetera. But I agree, it should be moved. -- 328: 35: 334: 702:, in that case, it's certainly not apropos to invent one (though I'd love to try), so yes, I suppose the current title is the best available. 470:
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That can work. There was also a proprosal for it to be "Immortal (Chinese mythology)", but I prefer keeping the Chinese name.
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Six years on this has only become more of a mess than it already was. Pace Cold Season, our page is still at
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846: 766: 728: 629:) give an age when he/she died. In normal English usage, an "immortal" never dies. Campany's 471: 403: 169: 490: 436: 380: 219: 193: 379:, although whether that is immortal, Taoist immortal, &c. would need some research.Β β€” 362: 8: 690: 654: 435:
if we're going to dab xian at all because people can't learn to spell Xi'an correctly.Β β€”
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if you weren't sure, that's on me to make my comment more sufficiently clear!Β :)
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By "the current title", do you mean "Xian (Taoism)" or "Xian (mythology)"? β€”β β€Šβ 
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Your comment was sufficiently clear; I just wasn't sure. β€”β β€Šβ 
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On 20 October 2023, it was proposed that this article be
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nonsensically dabbed using Taoism, but should be at its
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