Talk:Gifts and donations from outside Mainland China during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

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Better article name needed[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. This appears to be better suited to a merge as suggested below, with this page title to become a redirect or deleted. I have separated this move request from the merge discussion below it, which is linked from the articles' merge tags. (closed by a page mover)  What's in your palette? Paine  03:36, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]


International Material Gifts From Outside Mainland China During the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests → ? – This article needs a better title; "International Material Gifts From Outside Mainland China During the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests" doesn't seem to capture it. At a minimum, the case needs to be fixed, but there are probably better words for it. Any suggestions? This comment was originally posted by TJRC (talk) at 18:29, 8 April 2014 (UTC).<<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 03:41, 27 May 2016 (UTC) --Relisted. Mdann52 (talk) 20:28, 6 June 2016 (UTC) --Relisting. Omni Flames (talk) 00:07, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Agree. The "from outside mainland China" is redundant because how could you have International gifts from inside China? Also the title is confusing as I thought when first reading that it might be gifts to the Chinese government not the protesters. The title doesn't make it clear who the recipient is. May I suggest, "International assistance to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters" or even "International assistance to Tiananmen protesters". Rincewind42 (talk) 05:44, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I think shorter is better (within reason), so while those are both good suggestions, I prefer "International assistance to Tiananmen protesters". TJRC (talk) 17:51, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I only visited this page wondering what it was all about. Strange that such a long title could be so ambiguous. Shorter is necessary. How about Foreign (direct) support of Tiananmen Square Protests? Or Foreign donations to...?--XANIA - ЗAНИAWikipedia talk | Wikibooks talk 16:15, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Trim and merge – This Must Be The Most Convoluted Title Ever Seen On WikiPedia! Rather than scratching our heads to invent an appropriate title, I would advocate summarizing the contents and merging them into 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, under a section "Foreign donations" which could be tucked nicely between "Foreign media" and "International reaction". — JFG talk 11:55, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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.

Merge discussion[edit]

Upon researching JFG's suggestion about merge, I discovered a related article Finances of Student Organizations during the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. (It seems that both articles were created by throwaway accounts of the same person, so it's useless to ping the authors). In my opinion it would make more sense to merge these two articles into one, rather than into comprehensive 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests. I'm at loss at the title, though. No such user (talk) 13:03, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed and  Done Klbrain (talk) 19:01, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Tiananmen which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 05:30, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]