Talk:Open Letter asking Xi Jinping to Resign

Xiao Qiang
Aside from being from China, why is Xiao Qiang considered to be a reliable or knowledgeable source on elite Chinese politics? DOR (HK) (talk) 09:33, 25 October 2017 (UTC)


 * That was my question too. Also, I wanted to look for more reliable sources on what is Canyu, this website for Overseas Chinese on which this letter was originally published. Literally cannot find any information on it (like, is it notable; do people actually read it) except this RFA report relating to this "Open Letter". It doesn't even say the country where Canyu is hosted, although a WHOIS says it's registered in Denver, Colorado. I'm not convinced that this subject should be on the Xi Jinping template, much less its own article. Rigley (talk) 19:09, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't personally know anything about Xiao Qiang; he was cited by the New York Times, and I'm happy to defer to their judgement that his view that the tone is more insider than outsider-dissident is reasonable. I can't find anything significant non-open-letter-related in the first few pages of english Google Search about Canyu ("Participation") except a brief mention regarding a journalist named "Chen Shuqing". Canyu does indeed seem to be permanently down; we will probably never know what country it was hosted in, aside the fact that it claimed to be hosted outside China to avoid censorship, since there's obviously no international legal requirement to disclose what country the physical server disks are in. From the history, User:Xi Mingze added it to the Xi Jinping template; I don't personally know what the criteria are for inclusion. As far as the Open Letter not meriting its own article, it's extremely well-sourced so the content should remain on Wikipedia, although if you have a suggestion for where it should be logically merged into then go ahead. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 23:04, 2 December 2017 (UTC)