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Autodescription — Tao Te Ching (Q134425)
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The values of "has editions" is not even wrong. First, I have no idea what the objects are linked to under this category: many have so little information that it appears they are nothing more than the words "Tao Te Ching" translated into a non-English language. (Those that do not signify a printed book or ebook should simply be deleted.)
There are at least 3 subcategories of TTC worth indicating: 1) recension of the original Chinese text. These include the Wang Pi recension & the Ho shang kung. 2) Translations of the TTC. These include over 300 into English, 100 in German 70 Spanish, 60 French, & 50 Italian or Dutch. 3) editorial versions of the TTC in Chinese. A Chinese scholar would be the best authority to identify them.
And then there is the issue of Chinese commentaries on the TTC. One authority enumerates 350 surviving examples, & notes there are another 350 known but lost.
So is what we can expect from a database "anyone can edit"? -- Llywrch (talk) 19:52, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
- Yeah, and there is a bot which enforces the inverse constraint in edition or translation of (P629) and links this item to whatever version that exists in Wikidata. There are simply so many editions and translations of this book that this list of editions is only machine-readable. I would expect thousands of editions here but there is only a couple.--Midleading (talk) 10:00, 8 December 2019 (UTC)