Talk:China Cables

Merge with Xinjiang papers
the 2 pages Xinjiang papers China Cables should be merged ? P5EE5Eec5 (talk) 10:14, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for pointing this out. I am not sure. I understand, that the 2 terms, though both referring to confidential Chinese government documents, definitely do not refer to the same documents, but two different troves of documents, i.e. the 2 terms cannot be used interchangeably. That is why I removed "or Xinjiang Papers" from the lede, which an editor had inserted, to avoid misunderstanding. The New York Times published the Xinjiang Papers on Nov 16 and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ published the China Cables on Nov 24. The latter seems to provide more detail and be of larger scale. I am interested what others think--Wuerzele (talk) 19:49, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 * No,P5EE5Eec5. The 2 terms, though both referring to confidential Chinese government documents, do not refer to the same, but to two different publications, i.e. the 2 terms cannot be used interchangeably. The New York Times had published the Xinjiang Papers on Nov 16, 2019 and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ and with it some 17 other associated largely European news agencies/ newspapers published the China Cables on Nov 24. The two entities do not even refer to each other´s publications. I have not seen the terms being used interchangeably. I recommend to remove the merge sign from the page, if there are no further opinions.--Wuerzele (talk) 06:45, 4 December 2019 (UTC)