Talk:Jiao Yu

A fact from Jiao Yu appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 May 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the 14th century Chinese military treatise of the Huo Long Jing edited by Jiao Yu described the use of cast iron grenades, firearms, fire lance flamethrowers, cannons, land mines, naval mines, rocket launchers, and winged rockets? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/May.

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Much of the text reads as a history of gunpowder in China, with occasional references back to Jiao Yu. A lot of the material could be cut without even touching Yu's biography or details of his particular contributions to his field. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 08:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right; I was already thinking about moving much of the info into the stub article I've already created on the book

Huo Long Jing.--PericlesofAthens 15:47, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply

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I also demoted this article to start class, while raising the Huo Long Jing article to b class.--PericlesofAthens 16:24, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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