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 == Grass Mud Horse == 
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 Your assistance would be appreciated concerning ja:草泥馬, as to where exactly the interwiki links go. For me, they should logically be linked to Grass Mud Horse and zh:草泥馬, but another editor pointed out that there is some content which suggests that the JP article could have been misnamed because there are some references to the Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures. Neither of our Japanese skills are of a sufficient level to solve this one. The discussion is here. Cheers,    

 :Oh, it's the same thing. 

 :And what a bizarre article it is. I quote: 

 ::欧米では『grass－mud　horse』と呼ばれている。 [...] 『草泥馬』は英語でfuck your motherという意味がある中国語を動物の名前のように同音の漢字を当てたものである。 

 :which is something like: 

 ::In the west [literally, in Europe and (the) America(s)], it is called ""grass-mud horse"". [...] 草泥馬 uses for the animal hanzi that are homophones for Chinese that means what in English is ""fuck your mother"". 

 :(1) 草, 泥, 馬 are in Japanese very humdrum characters, used for writing not only Sino-Japanese compounds but also the regular Japanese words kusa, doro, uma, respectively the commonest terms meaning grass, mud, horse. There's no need to gloss them for Japanese readers, unless perhaps it's to reassure them that in Chinese they are no different from Japanese. (Of course plenty of Sino-Japanese kanji have acquired exclusively Japanese uses, and for all I know plenty of hanzi may be used for morphemes whose meanings have changed since their export to Korea and Japan.) 
 :(2) 欧米 covers a wide area. I'd be surprised if the term is ""grass-mud horse"" in, say, France. 
 :(3) The writers of the Japanese can't bring themselves to present 肏你妈, let alone to gloss it straightforwardly in Japanese, おかあちゃんをやれ. 
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 *Thank, Hoary. So you're saying that the interwiki link to/from Mud Grass Horse is correct and appropriate. That being the case, I shall remove the link to/from Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures. BTW, it's untranslatable in French, which is why Ive gone for fr:Cheval de l’herbe et de la boue, which  is a literal translation used in one of the sources.    
 **Um, fr:Cheval de l’herbe et de la boue indeed exists, but shouldn't it be fr:Cheval de l'herbe et de la boue [ugly apostrophe]? Not that I mind, but if somebody will object later, better fix it earlier to reduce the total amount of work. Oh, and are grass and mud separate? My own guess (unhampered by any knowledge of Chinese whatever) was that it might be grassed-over mud, or a marsh.    "