Talk:Chinese religion

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 12:19, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Chinese religion → Chinese religion (disambiguation) – It seems to me that all of the topics listed on this page are WP:DABCONCEPT to Religion in China, and that this title should therefore redirect there. bd2412 T 18:20, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:05, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

There is no clear primary topic for this. Per Religion in China, Chinese folk religion is the dominant religion, with nearly three-quarters of the pie. Indeed, on 3 August 2016, Chinese religion was boldly redirected to Chinese folk religion, and that override of the above move was left unchallenged until the 10 May 2018 retargeting back to Chinese religion (disambiguation). The lead of East Asian religions seems to describe a similar broad concept: This group includes Chinese religion overall, which further includes Ancestral Worship, Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Taoism and so-called popular salvationist organisations (such as Yiguandao and Weixinism), as well as elements drawn from Mahayana Buddhism that form the core of Chinese Buddhism and East Asian Buddhism at large, though that article's scope includes Japan and Korea as well as China. So effectively we have four competing broad-concept articles here, and I'm finding that most links to this should be piped  Chinese religion  or the links to Chinese religion should simply be removed as overlinks. – wbm1058 (talk) 10:21, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Note that Chinese religions and Chinese Religions plural are longstanding redirects to Religion in China, but that the singular form Chinese religion more often than not means Chinese folk religion – but not sufficiently to make Chinese folk religion a primary topic, in my opinion. wbm1058 (talk) 12:44, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

THIS EDIT shows why making Chinese folk religion the primary topic should be avoided. I removed the link where the term is used in a generic sense as a "Chinese" "religion" (WP:OVERLINK), and added a WP:SPECIFICLINK to the specific "Chinese religion" the statement refers to. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:11, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Another observation: in Britannica, Chinese religion is a directory page. wbm1058 (talk) 14:49, 11 May 2018 (UTC)