Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chinese history/Archive 1

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:42, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Peer Review
Hi all, I thought this would be a good place to ask if some here would like to add peer review comments on the article for the Song Dynasty of China, its talk page here at Talk:Song Dynasty, and its peer review page found here at Peer review/Song Dynasty/archive1. If anyone would like to critique the large amount of work I've done on the article, please do so. Also, add anything that you feel might be needed. Thanks!

--PericlesofAthens 06:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Reviewed. The request was also added to the WikiProject China Peer review department. AQu01rius (User &#149; Talk) 17:22, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Phasing out sidebar
I have proposed at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_China to phase out Template:History of China in favor of a footer timeline used EasyTimeline and adding Template:Infobox Former Country to every dynasty page. Does anyone want to comment or help?--Jiang 04:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 FAR
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Shen Kuo for FAC
Hi guys and gals, I have recently nominated the article on Shen Kuo for featured article status. Feel free to review the article and provide your objections/support/comments, etc.--PericlesofAthens 13:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Tai Shi Gong
Hi there. I have some concern over the translation of Sima Qian's title to Grand Historian. I didn't know where to turn since is no active discussion on the Sima Qian page. Since this is the group that maintains the page for Shiji, I thought this would be the most appropriate place to voice my concern.

My concern is two fold. First of all, the word Tai carries a meaning closer to "first", rather than "grand". Most of official titles, like Tang Taizong and Song Taizu, takes the meaning of "first". The same connotation applies to Sima Qian's case. So rather than the "Grand Historian" it should be the "First Historian".

Second of all, the title "Grand Historian", or even the "First Historian" is more of an epithet. It is like how we call "Richard the Lionheart", in this case, Sima Qian The Grand Historian. Tai Shi Gong is a title used to completely replace his name in order to avoid uttering it. If someone just says "The Lionheart King", it feels like an simple literary device to switch up the reference. It would be considered bad style to use "The Lionheart King" for an entire article. Similarly, because "The Grand Historian" is more of an epithet than a title, it would be impossible to write an article using only "The Grand Historian" without sounding pompous; when in fact, we use that title to sound respectful.

The solution I present is simply keeping the original title in pinyin. Tai Shi Gong will be Tai Shi Gong. Shiji will be Shiji. A completely foreign word is more suitable for stand-alone use.

That is my two bit on the subject. I really hope this can at least spark some new discussions. --64.180.11.169 08:33, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

GA nom
The Tang Dynasty article is on hold after being nominated for Good Article status. VanTucky (talk) 00:47, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

History of East Asia
Hi. I just wanted to point out this developing article, the history of east asia, for people who are passionate about Chinese history. China has had a large influence on its neighbors in the region over the years. See history of Europe for comparison. Common elements in the history of East Asia might include:


 * the arrival of Buddhism from South Asia / India
 * Taoism and Confucianism and its spread to multiple East Asian countries
 * Neo-confucianism in the "middle ages"
 * the Mandate of Heaven, and its impact on relations between countries over the years.
 * the advent of the stirrup and the arrival of the Mongols in the region.
 * the invention of gunpowder in China and its spread throughout the region.
 * the invention of the printing press in China and its spread throughout the region.
 * the arrival of the European powers, and its effect on technology, diplomacy (e.g.: the mandate of heaven), philosophy, etc.

I hope we can all work together to improve this article. 64.231.193.236 15:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

collaboration of the history projects
Hi, I'm newly appointed coordinator of the WikiProject History. I was coordinator of the WikiProject Military History before. My scope is to improve the cooperation among the different history projects andf use the synergy of a common infrastructure to improve article quality. One idea would be to merge small project into a larger wikiproject history with a common infrastructure and the small projects continuing independently as task forces of this project. What are your suggestions? Greetings Wandalstouring 15:10, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Four Great Inventions of ancient China
Hi there. I've taken it upon myself to adopt the article Four Great Inventions of ancient China, as it was being abused by euro-centric POV edits. I've cleaned it up and added from other articles as I felt was neccesary, but I would like a look over from someone in this group. Also, I'ld like to know if I can change the rating from Start-Class to B. Thanks,  lk 10:19, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Requested Move on PLA operation/invasion, Tibet
It has been proposed here that People's Liberation Army operations in Tibet (1950–1951) be renamed 1950-1951 invasion of Tibet.

Please join our discussion expressing your viewpoints. 219.73.9.154 (talk) 08:50, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Portal:History of Imperial China
Just a heads up - I have created Portal:History of Imperial China. If anyone feels like helping out, it would be most appreciated :) -- Naerii  18:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

China and PRC articles request to be renamed
User:SmuckyTheCat is requesting that China be renamed, and replaced by the People's Republic of China article at "China". 70.55.88.176 (talk) 07:55, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

1421 hypothesis -> mergeto -> 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
1421 hypothesis has been proposed to be merged into 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (book article). 70.51.9.9 (talk) 06:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The discussion has been open since April on the appropriate article talk page --Matilda talk 06:45, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

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Urgent article assistance - Tianjing's struggle Incident
Folks, would someone please take a look at this article. It looks like it has been translated from Chinese but it needs a lot of work to get it into shape. I already took the liberty of adding to the the talk page. Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 14:26, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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Chinese imperialism → Territorial expansions in the history of China
Chinese imperialism article has just come up at WP:RM for renaming. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 12:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

History of the Han Dynasty
History of the Han Dynasty a new article I've recently created, yet it's 85 KB in size. I'd like someone here to have a look at it and provide some input on how to improve it, or what needs fixing in the article. Thanks.-- Pericles of Athens  Talk 02:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

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Three articles needing experts
Hi, may I point the members of this group to the three articles ‎Liu Chang, ‎Liu Cheng and ‎Liu Fen, which would surely benefit from the attention and work of some experts in this area. Best wishes Phoe   talk   00:35, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Comparison between Roman and Han Empires
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Nanyue -> Nam Viet
Nanyue has been requested to be renamed Nam Viet 70.51.10.4 (talk) 06:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC) Don't you think that since the historical records about Nanyue were written in Chinese, the article should be in the pronunciation of Chinese which is Nanyue instead of the Vietnamese pronunciation, Nam Viet? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mar vin kaiser (talk • contribs) 14:43, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

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Missing topics
I've updated my list of missing topics related to chinese history - Skysmith (talk) 12:59, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Battle to the Southwest of Xiakou
FYI, Battle to the Southwest of Xiakou has been prodded for deletion by someone.

70.29.208.247 (talk) 12:39, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

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novel
Does the novel Under Heaven fall under the purview of this project? 65.94.45.209 (talk) 09:47, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chinese history/Translation of Han Dynasty titles
Please look over Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chinese history/Translation of Han Dynasty titles. Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 14:01, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

I want help and collaboration fixing violation of Wikipedia's summary and article size policies
Anyone looking over History of the Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty to improve and add citations (as I was Sunday) should be disturbed; often sections are identical. Instead of the Ming article containing a briefer summary of History of the Ming Dynasty, it is copied verbatim in direct contradiction of Wikipedia's policies (please see WP:Summary_style and WP:Article_size}. Yes, it's a Featured Article, and maybe that is why I am getting no response on the relevant talk pages, but a policy violation is a policy violation; Ming Dynasty is largely a cut and paste from History of the Ming Dynasty!!  I have a ton of secondary sources on the Ming, and want to add facts and citations but feel I can't until this fundamental, underlying problem is addressed.  Can any of you collaborate and help me improve Ming content and rectify this problem that is a stain on Wikipedia's usually excellent coverage of China's important history? -- NickDupree (talk) 15:09, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Boxer Rebellion at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard
There's a dispute about using Chinese scholarship relating to the Boxer Rebellion at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard. Some third opinions from any editors who are familiar with this area, especially using non-English sources, balancing opposing/fringe POVs, or Chinese history in particular, would be very helpful. Ocaasit 21:40, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Technological history ( 1960s-present )
Media history of China has some completely unsourced speculation - no references to the computers mentioned are elsewhere on the 'net. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.29.210 (talk) 00:34, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

New User
Hello, new user here wanting to write on Chinese history as it is my area of study, I can also read Mandarin sources as well as far back to about the early Qing dynasty script. Let me know how I can help! --Shadowy Sorcerer (talk) 06:36, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Hisory
Is up for FPOC. This is one of the highest (if not the highest) visibility portal on Wikipedia, I recommend commenting on it! Cheers, Res Mar 23:14, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Chinese history will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within Chinese history. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 20:32, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Ancient Civilizations Textbook
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Dunhuang Project editing event
Hi all,

This is to let you know that I've been working with the International Dunhuang Project group at the British Library to plan a multi-day editing event in late October focused on Central Asian archaeology (details). As well as contributions from IDP staff, we're hoping to get involvement from academics and students at UCL, and planning a session for interested Wikipedians.

If you're interested in taking part (online or offline), or you'd like further information when we've more details organized, please let me know or sign up here. Andrew Gray (talk) 13:19, 23 July 2012 (UTC)


 * As a quick followup, this is happening next week - anyone in London is very welcome to come by! Drop me a message if you're interested.
 * I'm currently organising some of the preparation for next week, and one of the things we're looking at is images. The IDP has a very large collection of manuscript and artefact images, as well as a lot of site photographs, historic material from expeditions, etc. We're hoping to upload a lot of this during the week, but if there's anything specific you'd like to request, please let me know and we'll bump it up the list. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:07, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

"Shunzhi Emperor" nominated for good featured article
I just nominated Shunzhi Emperor for the good article status. Anybody is welcome to open a review page by going to the article talk page and following the links from there. WP:WIAGA explains the standards an article has to reach before being considered a "Good article." Thanks a lot! Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 02:34, 7 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I have just nominated Shunzhi Emperor for featured status. The review page is here. Please come and participate! Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 04:10, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Missing topics page
I have updated Missing topics about history of China - Skysmith (talk) 10:34, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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Direct dynastic histories citations
Hi all,

There's an issue I'd like to bring up for discussion. I have noticed that a couple of editors have adopted a practice of adding information to articles (mostly on people from the Warring States and Three Kingdoms periods, but probably more) and citing as their references the dynastic histories, in particular the Shiji and the San guo zhi. This, I believe, is problematic. I strongly believe that these sources should be treated as primary sources—notwithstanding the fact that they were of course originally secondary or tertiary sources, albeit at a time many long centuries in the past—that for Wikipedia articles we should avoid using, and that we instead should stick to the modern biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias edited by Sinologists, of which there are now several of quite high quality. I would like any and all to please share their thoughts.

and have previously commented on this over at the MoS, I'll let them give their thoughts here too now that we've moved this discussion over.  White Whirlwind  咨   06:14, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * As I said previously, we should not be using primary sources of questionable reliability when more modern sources satisfying the requisite Wikipedia policies and guidelines are available. However, where we document such a guideline is a question in itself—it's not really a MOS issue. Philg88 ♦talk 06:28, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree that the practice of citing these historical records should be avoided in general. In the case where the use of these sources cannot be avoided, the English translation should always be used instead. For me this is also a matter of original research. Alex ShihTalk 11:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * This is a pervasive problem in later periods (e.g. Tang) as well. I would go further and reject all old sources, including medieval commentaries and 19th-century Europeans.  It's fine to quote them to illustrate what they thought, but it's inappropriate to cite them for statements in articles, especially when there's so much modern scholarship.  I'm a little wary of tertiary sources like biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias, but for obscure figures they may be the best thing available, and certainly to be preferred over ancient histories.  Kanguole 11:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree in principle, and I myself use modern English scholarship as much as I can (eg. Rafe de Crespigny's biographical dictionary for Three Kingdoms biographies). In practice, though, not all of the editors contributing to these topics have access to specialist literature, and Wikipedia's coverage of Chinese history is so spotty that I really don't think we should discourage them from using ancient sources if that's all they can get (as long as we are just repeating the facts from the ancient sources and not making original analysis of them). _dk (talk) 22:00, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * maybe something like the warning box that shows up for Three Kingdoms articles could work? One that reads something like: "Please avoid adding direct references to dynastic histories such as XYZ and instead use reliable modern studies."   White Whirlwind  咨   17:09, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Ah, you mean an edit notice. Good idea and its availability should be flagged at Wikiproject China - there would be a huge number of articles to create an edit notice for but if it's done as a reactive measure (i.e. after the addidtion of such a source) then it shouldn't be too onerous. Philg88 ♦talk 17:44, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree with . The principle should be to use the best sources available. There is plenty of modern scholarship for dynastic histories, famous emperors, and other high-profile topics. However, for more obscure subjects, such as minor rulers and officials, finding modern sources is often impossible (few Western historians care to write about them, while Chinese sources are usually unavailable online or in Western libraries), and using older sources is sometimes unavoidable. -Zanhe (talk) 20:50, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

I was hoping the conversation would go in this direction, because I think it illuminates another "pervasive" (to borrow 's term) problem we've been having in China-related topics: notability. WP:NOTABILITY describes how the lack of existence "in any language" of "independent, reliable sources" on a particular topic indicates that the topic in question "is not notable". If a person, place, or event is described in the old dynastic histories but not in any reliable, modern critical scholarship, rather than saying we should then resort to citing from the old sources, I would instead say that this indicates that the article probably shouldn't exist.  White Whirlwind  咨   04:28, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Most situations are not so clear-cut. Modern critical scholarship often only mentions the most important aspects of a person's life, leaving out details that are trivial in the big picture, but essential to an encyclopedia entry about the person (such as early life, family, etc.). Besides, it's quite unlikely that a person with a biography in the traditional histories would be completely ignored by modern scholarship, but modern sources often do not repeat uncontroversial facts already mentioned in traditional sources. And it's ludicrous to say there's a pervasive issue with non-notable Chinese historical figures. It's exactly the opposite: way too many articles missing for highly notable historical people. -Zanhe (talk) 06:05, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Regardless of your personal feelings on the issue, the policy is quite clear: if "independent, reliable sources" do not exist for a historical figure, they aren't notable as Wikipedia defines it. We have quite a slew of Spring and Autumn period figures who will probably fit that bill, I think. If this spurs us to at least find some better, more modern Chinese sources for people who are currently only cited from the dynastic histories, then I'm all the happier for it.  My only caveat there is that it does require us to watch out for sources with significant nationalistic bias (The History of Chinese Civilisation, etc.)    White Whirlwind  咨   06:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Missing topics list
My list of missing topics about chinese history is updated - Skysmith (talk) 14:05, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Zhu Hongzhang, Taiping rebellion
Any adventurous editors feel like taking on re-write of the Zhu Hongzhang article? I came by it from a requested copyedit, but it has so many problems (the english is extremely difficult to derive any meaning from in some parts) that I cannot do any kind of meaningful copyedit at this time (I have no specific knowledge of subject of this article). The good news is, the article is very short. If someone would like to do that, and then possibly either re-add the copyedit request banner at the top of the article, or leave me a note on my talk page, I (or someone else) will try again to do that copyedit. Thanks. For now, I am removing the copyedit banner with an explanation on the talk page, but the article really is in rough shape, and it seemed to me that here would be the best place to find someone who could help it. --  Despayre  tête-à-tête 23:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

--Done User_talk:pixiedaemon —Preceding undated comment added 00:48, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Classic of Mountains and Seas
Can someone please look at the edits made today. Besides some problems with the writing, I can't evaluate the sources - I can read the Google translations but they don't help me evaluate the sources. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 13:25, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Template:Infobox_folk_song
You are welcome to discuss the newly created Infobox folk song and its future here. --Tamtam90 (talk) 06:11, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Possible hoax article?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordos_Campaign this looks like an unresolved questionable article - anyone with any ideas ? JarrahTree 23:19, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * It looks fine. I've added a Google books link for the source (with preview). Check it out for yourself. -Zanhe (talk) 23:29, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks - was checking for tagging - and single source always raises doubt, as well as talk page conversation JarrahTree 23:40, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

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At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  10:54, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Yuan dynasty
More views would be welcome at Talk:Yuan dynasty. Kanguole 23:47, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Requested move
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Wu_(Ten_Kingdoms), regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, &mdash; Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 16:59, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Mandarin (bureaucrat) and Scholar-official
Do the two articles treat the same thing? Could they merge in a single article? Thanks.--R5b43 (talk) 22:21, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Links to DAB pages
I have collected a group of articles which contain links to DAB pages relating to Chinese history up to 1945. Expert help would be welcome. Search for 'disam' in main view, and for '{{d' in edit mode. If you solve one of these puzzles, remove the {{tl|dn}} tag and post {{tl|done}} here.


 * Timeline of the Xiongnu
 * Timeline of the Han dynasty
 * Wang Yansi
 * Shangri-La
 * Song Wo
 * Shi Hui (Three Kingdoms)
 * Wuqiao mutiny
 * House of Li
 * Chinese siege weapons
 * Kings of the Han dynasty
 * Li Jinquan
 * Toqto'a (Yuan dynasty)
 * Jianzhou Jurchens
 * Military history of the Northern and Southern dynasties
 * Military history of the Jin dynasty (266–420) and the Sixteen Kingdoms (304–439)
 * Manchuria under Yuan rule
 * Siege of Inabayama Castle
 * Book of Jin
 * Chinese influence on Japanese culture {{done}} Narky Blert (talk) 18:45, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Mount Mian
 * Organization of the Kwantung Army
 * Fortified district (Japan)
 * Order of Battle Suiyuan Campaign
 * Northern Expedition

Thanks in advance, Narky Blert (talk) 19:24, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Need help on Taoism
Hi all! Greetings from Cyprus! I am re-writing parts of history of anarchism. There is a brief section on ancient China and I 'd like your feedback. I know nothing of China's history and I got confused when I read Rapp's book on Chinese anarchism. Here is the text of the article


 * Taoism in Ancient China

Taoism, which developed in ancient China, has been embraced by some anarchists as a source of anarchistic attitudes. The Taoists sages Lao Zi (Lao Tzu) and Zhuang Zhou whose philosophy was rather based on an "anti-polity" stance and rejection of any kind of involvement in political movements or organisations and developed a philosophy of "non-rule" in the Zhuang Zhou and Tao Te Ching and many Taoists in response lived an anarchist lifestyle. There is an ongoing debate whether exhorting rulers not to rule belongs to the sphere of anarchism. A new generation of Taoist thinkers leaning to anarchism appeared during the chaotic Wei-Jin period. Taoist anarchism was more philosophical anarchism, trying to delegitimate the state and question its morality. Taosim and neo-taoism anarchism were pacifist school of thoughts, in contrast with their westerner's counterparts some centuries later.

sources

Thank you and I anticipate your comments! Cinadon36 (talk) 20:05, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Gonggong linked from astronomy naming poll, could use expansion, images
Since there's no WikiProject Chinese mythology, I'm posting here.

There's an official poll here to decide on a name for the largest unnamed object in the solar system, OR10, and the hosts link to our article Gonggong. I can't find any PD images of Gonggong, though I did add a couple that look basically similar. Anyway, if anyone here can find (or create) an image, that would be nice for people coming here because of the poll. There aren't many Chinese names of astronomical bodies, and the other two options (Holle and Vili) are German and Norse, and IMO European mythology is already represented well enough. — kwami (talk) 09:41, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

List of Chinese inventions
I have nominated List of Chinese inventions for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 22:33, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

RfC on wording in the lead of 1976 Tangshan earthquake
There is an RfC on the wording of "ceased to exist" regarding the lead of 1976 Tangshan earthquake. All editors are encouraged to participate. Thanks. — MarkH21talk 07:31, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

List of Chinese inventions
I have nominated List of Chinese inventions for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 18:41, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Discussion about organization of articles on dynasties
There is a general question about how articles about dynasties (including articles within this project) are organized, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History. Thanks! — MarkH21talk 19:28, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Jinsha Site
Hi everyone! I have been working on the article called Jinsha site so any recommendations and proof-reading would be appreciated! Thank you --Anninarose (talk) 01:11, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

I need help: Japanese settlers in Manchuria
Articel Japanese settlers in Manchuria needs to be expanded. Doncsecztalk 19:49, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Frank Dikötter
There is a discussion at the BLP Noticeboards about Frank Dikötter, a historian specialising in modern Chinese history, that members of this workgroup might like to weigh in. Morbidthoughts (talk) 22:26, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:31, 10 April 2023 (UTC)