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Text and/or other creative content from Governmental lists of cults and sects was copied or moved into People's Republic of China list of cults. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
Taiwan is not part of China- it's a separate, sovereign state recognized by the United Nations. Organizations labeled "cult" by the government of Taiwan do not belong on this list. Mavigogun ( talk) 21:59, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
You are wrong, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758. Take Proposed second Scottish independence referendum as an example, if I am allowed to say " The Scottish people are fed-up with the Brexit bull-shit. The Scots would rather stay in the European Union than to accept the Brexit deal which is negotiated by Teresa May. Scotland is already a separate, sovereign state recognized by the United Nations", then I am going to be challenged. People will ask "Where are the supporting reliable sources? It must be in the news." If there is a second referendum, and the Scots vote "Yes", then the political climate/situation certainly can point to that direction. But if it has not happened, I would be jumping the gun. Tony85poon ( talk) 02:36, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
I propose that the content of this article be split into two different articles: People's Republic of China list of cults (we would move the present article and its edit history to this page) and List of Chinese new religious movements.
The reason for this proposed split and re-name is seeming lack of clarity on the purpose of this article. Looking at the edit history, the original focus of this article was apparently to discuss and share a list of cults produced by governmental organization(s), not merely reproduce any list of cults that happens to be Chinese in origin (see Governmental lists of cults and sects#China and wikisource links [1] at the bottom of the page -- the article intended to discuss this official designation). It was also previously briefly moved to People's Republic of China list of cults by User:Lembit Staan in 2019 in order to copy over some information from Governmental lists of cults and sects (see these diffs: [2] [3] [4]). To give an example of what this article could/should be, its purpose was originally similar to the article State Sponsors of Terrorism (U.S. list). Put another way, there is a reason that this article is not List of Chinese cults, and we should edit the article to re-clarify that original purpose.
The purpose of the split as opposed to a simple move and edit is to provide a space for an actual list of Chinese new religious movements, which the article as it stands now appears to be interested in providing. It should be List of Chinese new religious movements because "cult" is a POV term, and ought to only be included in the title of a Wikipedia article if it is discussing a discernible point of view in an NPOV way -- consensus on the topic of cults is that it is generally inappropriate for Wikipedia to designate any group a "cult" out of hand.
This would also resolve what appears to be long-standing issues about what ought to be included on this page and improve the page's quality. Discussions over the inclusion or exclusion of Taiwanese organizations has popped up from time to time and the source of a few previous back-and-forths between editors. These organizations would be correctly listed on List of Chinese new religious movements as discussion of Taiwanese culture is generally considered acceptable in articles about Chinese culture generally. As far as I know, the Republic of China does not maintain a similar official list of cults to the PRC's list -- if it does, discussion of that list would probably be most appropriate to be included on Governmental lists of cults and sects as it would likely be limited, with the potential to split it out into Republic of China list of cults if necessary at a later date. - - mathmitch7 ( talk/ contribs) 13:32, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
So as per the discussion with Lucaswilkins above, I have moved the article to Heterodox teachings (Chinese law) and have totally restructured the article per that move. This did involve removing most of the article as it existed before, though only some information has been lost (and that information was mostly the names of NRMs that I had not seen on PRC lists). You can see the old revision here in case rescuing some of that information is of interest in the future.
I also was able to add some readings in the "Further reading" and "External links" sections of the article, and I hope that those references are useful in improving the article in the future. Feel free to add more reliable sources, especially if they are about the article's general topic and not a specific NRM. Also feel free to add other sections about the use of the term before or after 2000. I am now going to go back through the "what links here" to change how this article is referenced, as the purpose has changed somewhat. Cheers - - mathmitch7 ( talk/ contribs) 16:18, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
This use of scare-quotes in this section can be construed as dismissive and therefore serve as a form of editorialization. -- Badpagenoticer ( talk) 21:39, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
I'm a bit alarmed to note that the principle source of the claim that this law was principally enacted to target the Falun Gong seems to come from a Jerusalem Post article that, in turn, is sole-sourced to faluninfo. I removed the JP citation because, no, we should not be using such a source to center Falun Gong within the context of a broader Chinese law. FLG is just one of 22 groups identified by the law and we need better sources, by far, than that to say, in wiki voice, that it was enacted to go after them. Simonm223 ( talk) 18:30, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
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Text and/or other creative content from Governmental lists of cults and sects was copied or moved into People's Republic of China list of cults. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
Taiwan is not part of China- it's a separate, sovereign state recognized by the United Nations. Organizations labeled "cult" by the government of Taiwan do not belong on this list. Mavigogun ( talk) 21:59, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
You are wrong, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758. Take Proposed second Scottish independence referendum as an example, if I am allowed to say " The Scottish people are fed-up with the Brexit bull-shit. The Scots would rather stay in the European Union than to accept the Brexit deal which is negotiated by Teresa May. Scotland is already a separate, sovereign state recognized by the United Nations", then I am going to be challenged. People will ask "Where are the supporting reliable sources? It must be in the news." If there is a second referendum, and the Scots vote "Yes", then the political climate/situation certainly can point to that direction. But if it has not happened, I would be jumping the gun. Tony85poon ( talk) 02:36, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
I propose that the content of this article be split into two different articles: People's Republic of China list of cults (we would move the present article and its edit history to this page) and List of Chinese new religious movements.
The reason for this proposed split and re-name is seeming lack of clarity on the purpose of this article. Looking at the edit history, the original focus of this article was apparently to discuss and share a list of cults produced by governmental organization(s), not merely reproduce any list of cults that happens to be Chinese in origin (see Governmental lists of cults and sects#China and wikisource links [1] at the bottom of the page -- the article intended to discuss this official designation). It was also previously briefly moved to People's Republic of China list of cults by User:Lembit Staan in 2019 in order to copy over some information from Governmental lists of cults and sects (see these diffs: [2] [3] [4]). To give an example of what this article could/should be, its purpose was originally similar to the article State Sponsors of Terrorism (U.S. list). Put another way, there is a reason that this article is not List of Chinese cults, and we should edit the article to re-clarify that original purpose.
The purpose of the split as opposed to a simple move and edit is to provide a space for an actual list of Chinese new religious movements, which the article as it stands now appears to be interested in providing. It should be List of Chinese new religious movements because "cult" is a POV term, and ought to only be included in the title of a Wikipedia article if it is discussing a discernible point of view in an NPOV way -- consensus on the topic of cults is that it is generally inappropriate for Wikipedia to designate any group a "cult" out of hand.
This would also resolve what appears to be long-standing issues about what ought to be included on this page and improve the page's quality. Discussions over the inclusion or exclusion of Taiwanese organizations has popped up from time to time and the source of a few previous back-and-forths between editors. These organizations would be correctly listed on List of Chinese new religious movements as discussion of Taiwanese culture is generally considered acceptable in articles about Chinese culture generally. As far as I know, the Republic of China does not maintain a similar official list of cults to the PRC's list -- if it does, discussion of that list would probably be most appropriate to be included on Governmental lists of cults and sects as it would likely be limited, with the potential to split it out into Republic of China list of cults if necessary at a later date. - - mathmitch7 ( talk/ contribs) 13:32, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
So as per the discussion with Lucaswilkins above, I have moved the article to Heterodox teachings (Chinese law) and have totally restructured the article per that move. This did involve removing most of the article as it existed before, though only some information has been lost (and that information was mostly the names of NRMs that I had not seen on PRC lists). You can see the old revision here in case rescuing some of that information is of interest in the future.
I also was able to add some readings in the "Further reading" and "External links" sections of the article, and I hope that those references are useful in improving the article in the future. Feel free to add more reliable sources, especially if they are about the article's general topic and not a specific NRM. Also feel free to add other sections about the use of the term before or after 2000. I am now going to go back through the "what links here" to change how this article is referenced, as the purpose has changed somewhat. Cheers - - mathmitch7 ( talk/ contribs) 16:18, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
This use of scare-quotes in this section can be construed as dismissive and therefore serve as a form of editorialization. -- Badpagenoticer ( talk) 21:39, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
I'm a bit alarmed to note that the principle source of the claim that this law was principally enacted to target the Falun Gong seems to come from a Jerusalem Post article that, in turn, is sole-sourced to faluninfo. I removed the JP citation because, no, we should not be using such a source to center Falun Gong within the context of a broader Chinese law. FLG is just one of 22 groups identified by the law and we need better sources, by far, than that to say, in wiki voice, that it was enacted to go after them. Simonm223 ( talk) 18:30, 26 April 2024 (UTC)