Talk:Chinese Revolution
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The Chinese revolution almost always refers to the Xinhai revolution. I'm changing this back to a dab.--Jiang 08:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] we should vote on this
let's put it to a vote, shall we? 71.246.72.214 06:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
This is not a s=cite that should be used in the case of a history project. I have a friend who edited a page as a fist hand account of Hurrican Katrina, even though he has lived in TExas his whole life and was not there.
- first, what are your reasons? a simple search shows that the term is not being used solely to refer to 1949.--Jiang 06:36, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] the top google searches ARE for the 1949 revolution
Google lists the Chinese Revolution hits primarily as those referring to the Chinese Revolution ending in 1949 with the communist seizure of power. Some seem to include the years in the 1910s which would merge the Xinghai Revolution and Chiang Kai-Shek's republican/nationalist revolution into a single era, but in any case even that period ends with 1949 and the communist seizure of power away from Chiang's forces. This all casts the 1949 revolution as the main "Chinese Revolution." Again, I think we should have a vote on this. 71.246.93.238 09:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
This page is meant to disambiguate. Please follow the standard disambiguation format and do not write an article in its place. There is no need to create duplicate and redundant articles. --Jiang 04:59, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] other pages do things like this
Jiang, I feel I am entitled to object on the grounds that other pages with straight names -- i.e., no parentheses or qualifiers -- also have articles that immediately go into its most popular, most accepted definition, yet have disambig italics at top, which the version of the page that explains the revolution as the 1949 revolution most certainly does have. Fact being, the 1949 revolution is the most widely recognized worldwide as the "Chinese Revolution," and a lot of pages dealing with communism link Chinese Revolution on them, which if your disambig were kept as opposed to letting the 1949 explanation version stand, could very well make the process more tedious for those lefties who thought they were going to find out basic info but instead were forced to click on Chinese Civil War and read up on the whole process as opposed to the summary -- a summary which, by the way, was gleaned directly from the most essential parts of the Civil War article; it wasn't a rewrite or a paraphrasing. 24.199.91.55 11:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
- This article is redundant, as a topical overview of the 1949 revolution, with the Chinese Civil War article. The "topical disambiguation" would only work if you tried moving the content from the Chinese Civil War article over to here, which would be wholly inappropriate. Besides, topical disambiguation is only used when one of the choices overwhelmingly is favored over the others. But this isn't the case! And it isn't settled whether the communist revolution starts earlier, in 1927, or only includes the final stage of fighting. From everything Ive read, including speeches by communist leaders, the revolution refers to the former with the Long March included. The very term "Chinese Revolution" is inherently ambiguous and is not used in serious literature.
- If linking to a disambiguation page is a problem, the let's fix the links! Proper implementation of Wikipedia:Summary style would entail starting an article on the War of Liberation that is longer and more detailed than the Chinese_Civil_War#Final_stage_of_fighting_.281946.E2.80.931950.29 section.--Jiang 12:46, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] IP users
This is a disambiguation page. Please use your common sense: Chinese revolution does not specifically refer to the general War of Liberation. Any further changes without explanation will be reported. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 04:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
