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Provincial infoboxes

I'd like to implement some decluttering in the infoboxes for Chinese provinces, possibly integrating the {{Infobox Chinese}} into it and removing most of the redundant parameters. Am I getting out ahead of my skis here? Remsense ‥ 论 19:02, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I'm curious if we can start phasing out the SVGs of characters, which I assume is there in case there wasn't any font support? Remsense ‥ 论 19:06, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

White whirlwind introduced many of the character images to {{Infobox Chinese}}. We had a discussion about it several years ago (I was against), but I can't find it now. Kanguole 19:31, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the context! I may go looking later. Remsense ‥ 论 19:48, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The SVGs had dual rationales: One, I thought them aesthetically pleasing; two, they fix the problem of the huge discrepancies in how Chinese fonts are displayed across different browsers, operating systems, and devices. In all likelihood, they are best used only on articles whose titles are Chinese names or words. Kanguole is correct that he objected to them (here, I think) back when I first added them, but nobody joined him. White Whirlwind 19:28, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am only trying to weigh the pros and cons given my experience with the articles in question here, thank you for the further explanation. Remsense ‥ 论 19:30, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semiconductor companies considered State-owned enterprises?

I've been making quite few articles on publicly listed Chinese semiconductor companies recently. I noticed many of them have China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund investing in them. Or they are supported by government related entities like Chinese Academy of Sciences because they were originally projects that commercialized into full companies. Since they are now listed, government ownership for many of them is in the minority region.

So the question is do I just say these companies types are Public? Or do I have to also say they are also State-owned enterprises? Technically speaking many China publicly listed companies you will find some government related entity having a small ownership. But I don't know does that mean we have to go around putting the SOE label for almost everyone one of them. Imcdc Contact 03:12, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Even private corporations can have national or public entities as investors. I wouldn't consider them to be state-owned solely on that basis. CurryCity (talk) 12:14, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, a minority government stake doesn't make a company state-owned. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 13:30, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Noodles

There is a discussion which may be of interests to members of this project. SerialNumber54129 13:02, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party category

In light of the ongoing anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping, many articles in the then-very large Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party category have recently been diffused to yearly categories. However, there are a number of articles that could not be "dated" because there is no information on when they were expelled: they need information on when they were expelled, with reliable sources whenever possible. Also, some older expulsions may need to be combined into a category called "People expelled from the Chinese Communist Party before 1990" or something but I have trouble making {{Category series navigation}} detect the "cut-off" category. --Minoa (talk) 19:25, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Talk:EVE Energy § Article title

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:EVE Energy § Article title. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:35, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

EVE Energy is a newly created article that needs to be assessed. Perhaps someone from this WikiProject could take a look at it, and also assess whether the article's title should be "EVE" or "Eve". It's possible that EVE is a translation of the company's Chinese name,but it's also possible that capitalization is just for stylistic reasons. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:40, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese Buddhist history

Hi I am wanting to make contact with another editor that has a good understanding of Chinese Buddhism.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Foristslow (talk) 02:38, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Featured lists that need work to avoid removal nominations

Hello. I'm not a regular participant in this project, but I am a delegate at WP:FLC. I wanted to note that a couple featured lists I stumbled across don't meet our modern day requirements.

To be more specific, neither one is accessible (row and column scopes are a requirement at FLC now). I don't want to nominate these for featured list removal, as they're both part of featured topics, so I thought I'd bring it up here first as an opportunity for interested editors to make the relevant improvements. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:07, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that's the intersection I'm the most qualified editor for. Will fix this up ASAP, thanks! Remsense ‥ 论 15:10, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hey man im josh how do they look at present? I feel like I tackled major points but if there's anything else you're noticing LMK Remsense ‥ 论 04:04, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Much better @Remsense. Improved enough I'm not going to be looking through them with a fine toothed comb :P Thank you for your work on these!

Though I do think the specifications for column lengths could be improved (in List of emperors of the Han dynasty), I'm not bothered enough by it to force the issue or anything. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:05, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Tajiks of Xinjiang#Requested move 28 October 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Tajiks of Xinjiang#Requested move 28 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Alpha3031 (t • c) 21:06, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Xpost: image of characters in Infobox Chinese

Xposting discussion at Template talk:Infobox Chinese#Image of characters. This would affect a significant number of China-related articles, would appreciate input. seefooddiet (talk) 07:04, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can Controversy_over_Baidu be rescued or should it be deleted?

Since speedies/DRV don't registser well in the deletion discussion alerts, I'll link this discussion here. This is an article translated from zh wiki, speedied as an attack page and now being discussed at DRV (effectively a deletion discussion). _{Piotrus at Hanyang| reply here} 03:03, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese numbers for Prisoners of war in World War II

I am writing this; the source I am using, while recent and reliable, states that the number of Chinese POWs who died in WW2 are unknown. I assume this is a sad example of Western bias, as surely there should be some estimates for that from Chinese scholars?

If someone is interested in this topic area, note that we still do not have any article about Japanese war crimes against the POWs. I just finished one for the Germans, which also was missing... see the linked article for list of what we have. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:54, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I have now created Allied prisoners of war in Japan. The best estimate for Chinese POW I have is "tens of thousands every year", with an unknown fatality rate outside the somewhat shocking statistics that only 56 Chinese POWs were released after Japan surrendered. Can anyone find anything better? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:50, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Edu-Aid in YongNing

The article Edu-Aid in YongNing has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced and unimproved for 15 years. No articles in Mandarin or other Chinese languages to expand. Run of the mill, very small charity. Not enough information to merge.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 02:26, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed split of Landlord deity

I have proposed a split of the Landlord deity article which may be of interest to this project. I would appreciate your thoughts in the discussion on the talk page. Erynamrod (talk) 11:09, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]