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Shanghai selected as China collaboration on July 25 2011

Support

  1. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:11, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
  2. Good first article to get this going again. Should be plenty of sources available.--Danaman5 (talk) 00:41, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
  3. a good re-starting point. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:16, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
  4. Works for me. The one I'm looking to get back to GA dosen't have broad appeal or easy access to sources, so I wouldn't even suggest it. I can do a file review for this, as I already do FAC image reviews and know what's needed. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:41, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
  5. A shame that this article is so poorly referenced. —Xiaoyu: 聊天 (T) 和 贡献 (C) 14:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
  6. I think referencing has improved quite a bit since the last GA review. Zanhe (talk) 04:05, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Comments

  • Large article with broad appeal. Was unsuccessful nomination for GA status a year ago, which gives some idea of the improvements needed. Main tasks will be double check comprehensiveness, complete inline referencing and copyediting. A good example of an article needing more fine-tuning and polish rather than massive expansion but GA is reasonable target in time frame. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:11, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Plan of action

  • GA review - make sure we address all points raised there. Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Media Review

Good Article Image Criteria
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
(a) media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and
(b) media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.
Featured Article Image Criteria
3. Media. It has images and other media where appropriate, with succinct captions, and acceptable copyright status. Images included follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly.
  • Note: I have used Noommos' Media Lister as a work-aid in this task.
  • Note: There are no non-free images in the article.
Issues with individual images
  1. File:CRH380A test, 28 Sep 2010.JPG - seems mildly suspicious due to odd metadata and the fact that the file is the uploader's only contribution, but there is nothing overtly wrong with the file. The quality is also rather low.
  2. File:Colonial buildings in old Shanghai.jpg - I have serious questions about this. The photo was released under a Wikipedia compatible license, but I seriously doubt that the model being photographed is free use. Freedom of panorama does not apply because the model is indoors. (If it's the one I'm thinking about, it's inside the Pearl, but even if it's not, it's clearly indoors and clearly not old enough to have an expired copyright.
  3. File:Shanghai10.JPG - really should have an OTRS ticket.
  4. File:Shanghai montage.png - could use a do-over in larger sizes and perhaps a bit more variation in color. I'll handle this one personally.
Suggestions for images overall

There might actually be too many images. At the very least, some reorganization is needed. Some images will get dropped, some added, some moved. We'll probably lose, net, four or five images, because some sections are just too cluttered.

All of that, however, depends on how the prose changes. If sections are expanded, there is more room for images. If sections are cut and put into other pages, room for images decreases. I'll monitor how the prose goes and adjust images accordingly.

Captions

I'll check those later. I haven't done them yet.

Sven Manguard Wha? 07:03, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Good idea to delay too much deciding on images just yet, I think given we have proper historical images of Shanghai, that lessens our need for a model old-Shanghai with possible copyright issues. But agree that focussing on the text is prudent first, and then we can figure out the images. Ditto captions. Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:54, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Re: CRH380A File:CRH380A test, 28 Sep 2010.JPG is copyright Xinhua, see http://www.gov.cn/english/images/images/001e3741a4260e0c333207.jpg - I doubt that Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, will complain, but technically, the copyright is violated. I had pictures challenged which were supplied to me "free of charge for editorial use." I took them down before going through the required rigmarole of asking the company to sign a written release. I strongly doubt that it is "the own work" of the poster. Just because it's on his blog doesn't give him an exclusive and transferable license. I found the picture on a Chinese Government website. BsBsBs (talk) 14:45, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Lede

I have removed the part on population, city proper and urban agglomeration to where it belongs, to the Demographics section. The amount of demographic verbiage clearly buries the lede.

According to the Wikipedia Manual of Style, "the lead section should briefly summarize the most important points covered in an article in such a way that it can stand on its own as a concise version of the article ... In general, specialized terminology and symbols should be avoided in an introduction."

Moving the part should not be construed as me agreeing with the moved content. A paper from 2007 that interprets statistical data from 2005, which is based on a 2000 census is not a proper source for the statement "Shanghai is the largest city by population in the People's Republic of China," especially when more recent data from a new census are available. The editors of this article are aware of these data, they are mentioned in the article. The USC source is simply a summary of Chan and is redundant.

For the remaining claims, I refer to the pertinent discussion in "List of cities proper by population". I cannot help the impression that a lot of porcelain is broken due to the zeal of establishing Shanghai as the greatest city of China. Shanghai doubtless is a great city, it can stand on its own without unnecessary spin.

Nevertheless, in the name of peace and maintaining a harmonious society, I moved the part untouched. Thank you . BsBsBs (talk) 10:02, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

I did not complain about a lack of references. One does not confront the unwitting reader with three arcane statistical concepts in the first sentence. That's what Demographics are for - if you absolutely insist. If past discussions are an indicator, this will be way over the heads of most readers even in the Demographics section. Again, Wikipedia Manual of Style, says that "In general, specialized terminology and symbols should be avoided in an introduction." You want people to read that article, don't you?
Or would you rather prefer that the intro reads "Shanghai was listed as having had the largest population of all cities in China in 2005, when counting the population of urban areas only (as defined by the National Bureau of Statistics on the basis of density and related criteria), or when comparing city districts. The same study did put Shanghai second when counting the complete population" ? (You know, page 392, columns L and M, then K ...) Then we continue, because we are honest: "In the 2010 census, the National Bureau of Statistics ranks Chongqing first and Shanghai second." Shall we rather do that? BsBsBs (talk) 21:28, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Stop vandalizing this page. Opening with the sentence "Shanghai is a city" is beyond ridiculous. People don't come to Wikipedia to learn that Shanghai is a city. It's standard to open the lede of large cities with "xxx is the largest in the country". Why don't you go to New York City, London, Paris, Moscow, Mumbai, and so on, change all of them to start with "xxx is a city"? Zanhe (talk) 01:30, 8 August 2011 (UTC)


Please stop being disingenuous.

1.) Quite a while ago, I had offered you the compromise "one of China's largest cities." This would have been beyond reproach and would not have been contradicted by any sources. You elected to refuse this compromise.

2.) Instead, you embarked on a campaign to recalculate the population numbers of major Chinese cities to cover your tracks. Original research violates Wikipedia rules.

3.) The statement "Shanghai is China's largest City" flies in the face of the results of a brand new census. See above. You have used the data of this census yourself. You have referenced it. You cannot claim ignorance.

4.) My proposed edit for the lede was: "Shanghai (Chinese: 上海; Shanghainese: Zånhae [z̥ɑ̃̀hé]; Mandarin pinyin: Shànghǎi [ʂɑ̂ŋxài]) is a city located in eastern China, at the middle portion of the Chinese coast, and sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River." While not optimal, it is a serviceable first sentence of a city article. The proposed edit was not "Shanghai is a city." You are making preposterous and may I say desperate statements.

5.) Moving "Shanghai is the largest city by population in the People's Republic of China.[1][2] It is also the largest city proper[3] and the seventh largest urban agglomeration[4] in the world" to the Demographics section is far from an act of vandalism. It is an act of mercy. You cannot possibly confront the reader in the first sentence of a city article with three demographic concepts, for which scholars need whole books to explain. The Wikipedia Manual of Style, says that "In general, specialized terminology and symbols should be avoided in an introduction." Please follow these strong suggestions.

6.) If this is vandalism, then you would be a serial vandal. It is not, and you are not.

7.) Because you insist on reverting a merciful edit, we are forced to revisit your claims, as painful as that may be. Your statement "Shanghai is the largest city by population in the People's Republic of China" is not supported by the source given. Far from it. In the cited paper, Chan starts out to explain that "Confusion and contradictions surrounding the size of the population or number of inhabitants of Chinese cities abound in both the popular media and in more serious academic and official publications. In fact, frustrated observers over the last quarter of the 20th century proclaimed the Chinese urban population to be an insoluble “enigma” (Orleans and Burnham, 1982), or at the very least an “immense puzzle” (Forstall, 1989)."

8.) Chan goes on to say: "To briefly illustrate the point by citing examples from generally respected sources, the case of Chongqing deserves to be noted. Citing a population of 13.89 million, a Time magazine reporter in 2005 pronounced Chongqing, “The World’s Largest City” in the title of his article, and by default, the largest in China (Davidson, 2005). The same claim for Chongqing also has been advanced by others, such as the current U.S. Government’s trade website (U.S. Commercial Service, 2007), which confusingly refers to a far greater population of 32 million. Moreover, this assertion runs directly counter to the generally accepted understanding that Shanghai is the country’s largest city. Shanghai’s primacy is taken for granted by such widely used sources as the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia (MSN Encarta, 2007) and the databooks issued by the United Nations Population Division (UNPD, 2004, 2006). To further confound, Agence France-Presse (2007) has just issued a dispatch entitled “Beijing’s population to hit 20 million by 2020,” based on a current population of 17 million—a figure that is obviously far greater than Chongqing’s 13.89 million cited above. Is Beijing therefore also a contender for the apex of China’s city population hierarchy?" The only thing this proves is that there already is a monstrous confusion, to which you add.

9.) If you ask Chan what China's largest City is, you will not get a straight answer: "What is the actual (correct) city population of Chongqing: 13.89 million or 32 million? And is Shanghai, Beijing, or Chongqing China’s largest city? Inquiries intended to shed light onto these questions reveal a highly complex system of urban definitions used in Mainland China—a system that appears to be the world’s most complicated and confusing. The sources are multiple and multi-layered due to the presence of several meanings of “city” and, consequently, several official population statistics derived and used legitimately for different purposes—all presented under the same label of 'city.'"

10.) Following that, Chan writes a more than 400 page discourse on the topic. He presents a multitude of tables (p.p. 390, 392, 393, 397) with some 17 columns (I probably missed a few) from which the esteemed reader can pick and choose. You can use the data to "prove" that Shanghai is the largest, second largest, or whatever largest city in China - your choice.

11.) Finally, on page 394, Chan asks the all-important question again: "Which Is the Most Populous City in China?"

12,) Chan gives an evasive answer: "To revisit the question posed at the beginning of this paper, we need to choose, among all the existing and available statistics examined above, the most relevant one to represent city size. This is quite different from an ideal situation, in which one might have all the necessary tools and information to derive a set of city population counts or estimates tailored exactly to the researcher’s needs, for all the country’s 267 or more large cities. Such a task is too massive in scope to be feasible at present. In other words, we must continue for the time being to rely on published statistics that are available to us, constrained as they are by the country’s administrative geography."

13.) He does what many people do who cannot give an answer. He says it is a silly question: "Consequently, more important and useful than simply answering the question about the “largest city” (and especially from a social science perspective) is to develop a statistical indicator that can be reasonably derived from the existing and available information. Such an indicator should represent, and also facilitate comparison among, the population sizes of all of China’s large cities."

14.) Still having found no answer after nearly 400 pages, Chan decides to do it himself and to create his own data.

15.) After embarking on this new mission impossible, Chan finds himself even more confounded: "This leaves only two indicators, M and N, both based on the city districts (B in Fig. 1). At a general level, the boundary of B corresponds loosely to the “city proper” concept. In the case of China, because many city districts also include NBS-defined rural areas (and increasingly so), it is desirable to exclude those rural areas when representing the city. As a result, N (covering only NBS-defined urban areas) is a more reasonable choice than M (covering both NBS-defined urban and rural areas), although N does not necessarily represent a continuous built-up area. N, and not M, is also a component of the national urban population figure—458.44 million (or 36.22 percent of the national total) in 2000—which is widely accepted as reasonable (Chan and Hu, 2003; Zhou and Ma, 2003), although at the individual city level, especially for large cities, N is still on the high side, an issue to which I return later. At this moment, the N statistic can only be derived for the year 2000, through the data set in SC and NBS (2003). For any temporal analysis, one may have to resort to the M statistic, which is available for 1990 and 1982 as well."

16.) Now even more confused than the intrepid reader who has followed this stream of verbiage up to here, Chan in desperation does what is human and understandable, he picks what feels right and reasonable:: "Table 3 ranks the largest 20 cities in China by N, and also provides additional statistical data (some of the population categories used in Tables 1 and 2). A quick glance at the ranking suggests that it is reasonable, and consistent with the common perception. Shanghai is China’s largest city in population, not Chongqing." After 395 pages of learned analysis, Chan falls back to citing common perception.

17.) And you really, honestly, without falling off your chair laughing, or turning crimson red in your face, want to sell this as proof that "Shanghai is the largest city by population in the People's Republic of China"? If that is still the case, then please send me your resume. I need a salesman who cannot take a no for an answer, and who continues to sell damaged goods as first quality, even in the face of facts and adversity. I honestly admire your guts, and I will pay a commensurate salary plus a generous bonus.

18.) However, this is an encyclopedia and no sales call. If a noted scholar and researcher cannot unambiguously answer your question, then please do not answer for him.

19.) Chan himself warns: "It is nearly impossible to elaborate fully on the implications of misusing city population statistics in scholarly writings and presentations, given the intrinsic importance of these statistics to social and economic research and the voluminous literature involved." Please follow the advice of your hero, and do not abuse statistics.

20.) Your claim is without reference. Please do the honorable and honest thing and remove it. I reiterate the compromise offered long ago.

Thank you for your attention. BsBsBs (talk) 08:41, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Just one more thing. I honestly don’t care which city has the most people in China, or in the world. I have been in Shanghai many times and it is a beautiful city. I have never been to Chongqing, I hear it is “interesting.” I live in Beijing, and if the city ends up as the fifth largest, great, maybe that will lessen the traffic congestion.
I also have no personal grudge against Zanhe. I don’t know the guy.
What I insist on is that the correct information goes into Wikipedia, and not some propaganda. Sometimes, this information will be surprising and it will clash with what we think we know. This is why there is an Encyclopedia. If we would only read what we already know, then we would not need one.
Demographics is not an exciting field. It usually is a "my eyes glaze over" topic. I happen to have some training and experience in the field. I am used to the fact that people confuse concepts that are clear to demographers. By the same token, we should only write encyclopedic entries about something which we at least marginally understand.
Quite possibly, the solution to this dilemma is to step away from superlatives, and to write up what is really going on: There is a lot of confusion about the true population sizes, a lot of opinions, and a lot of theories. Properly documented, this could be an interesting chapter. Either for Shanghai. Or possibly for all of China.BsBsBs (talk) 16:37, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

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Currency symbols

Seeing as this is "collaboration of the month" I would like to get editors' views on this - the article currently uses a mix of "¥", "RMB" and, mostly in infoboxes, "CNY" to indicate currency units. Should this be made uniform, and if so, which is appropriate for the main body of the article? --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 08:56, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

My vote goes to ¥. Zanhe (talk) 17:29, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Street photo

Street in Shanghai. (Can anyone identify it?)

It may not be of much use, but this is a picture I took in Shanghai during a brief visit a few years ago, and it's unlike any of the photos currently in the article, so I thought I'd upload it. (I took it mainly for the contrast in architectures.) The problem is, I can't remember the name of the place. It's on the edge of a new-looking outdoors shopping district done in "traditional" style. (Our guide presented it as "traditional", so of course it looked new and touristy.) Would anyone have any idea what this street is? Aridd (talk) 15:36, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm 80% sure it's Shanghai Old Street, near Yuyuan Garden. Zanhe (talk) 17:32, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Ah yes, it does appear to be. The images I see of that street are familiar, in any case. Thanks! I'll just leave the picture here for the time being, in case anyone thinks it can be of any use. Aridd (talk) 20:16, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Yes looks like the Shanghai Old Street. The government knocked down the real old houses in this area and replaced them with these, which according to them are more authentic than the actual authentic old houses. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 03:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Demographics

The long discourse (see above, Lede) has remained unopposed for a while. Therefore, I did what other editors recommended, namely cite what sources say about which city is the largest. The chapter has become a bit long and unnecessarily convoluted for my taste, but whatever it takes to have peace on earth, in Shanghai and Chongqing. Everything is properly sourced and referenced, both camps get equal time, and the claims in this article no longer clash with official statistics and other claims in the article itself. BsBsBs (talk) 22:04, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Now Mr Shanghai, I mean Zanhe is getting mighty unreasonable. He reverts a carefully written article with a terse "this article is about Shanghai, not demographics of China's municipalities)." At the same time, he re-introduces several demographic principles and buzzwords into the lede, for which demographers need complicated books to explain. He cites those books. He does not see it necessary to participate in the discussion. He writes "this article is about Shanghai, not demographics of China's municipalities" after going into long discourses about the demographics of China's municipalities.
Zanhe, why don't you simply admit that you want Shanghai to be the largest and greatest city? I would understand.
If you would not have insisted on contrived and misunderstood amateur demographics, this would not have been necessary.
This is Wikipedia, not a tourist prospect. If there is something wrong with my edits, then I respectfully ask for a discussion. BsBsBs (talk) 23:53, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Unopposed? That's because people are sick and tired of reading your long-winded, nonsensical "arguments". You seem to enjoy wasting other people's time with your endless "debates" more than anything else (judging by your contribs you probably spend 90% of your time arguing with others or engaging in edit wars). In addition to repeatedly flooding this page with your verbose rambling, you engaged other editors in endless debates about the same topic again, again, again, and again. During the discourses the administrator John K complained:

  • "Note that BsBsBs seems to actually have no idea what he's talking about with regard to Chinese administrative divisions. [...] This article has been held hostage by BsBsBs's ignorant verbal diarrhea for way too long. Beyond the obvious content fork he's now in the process of creating (note: referring to World's largest municipalities by population created by BsBsBs as a fork of the existing article List of cities proper by population and was nominated for deletion), we ought to take a look at city proper, which he has created and filled with confirmation of his POV."
  • and "The fact that he constantly fills this talk page with screen after screen of rambling doesn't help much either - it's virtually impossible to carry on a reasonable discussion because of the absurd quantity of posting he engages in."
  • The user Jeppiz filed a complaint on the Administrators' Noticeboard titled Continued disruptive behavior and personal attacks by BsBsBs.
  • The user Criticalthinker wrote: "You, my friend, are quite literally insane and shouldn't be editing much of anything. You're sitting up here making all kinds of dubious claims and conspiracies for no reason. I will request that this page be locked so that you can't keep abusing it."

If you don't stop your persistently abusive behavior and wasting other people's time, I'll have no choice but to file a formal complaint on WP:ANI. Zanhe (talk) 00:13, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

I have heard all of this before. Please stay on topic instead of repeating other peoples' uncivilized insults. If you want to file an ANI complaint,please do so. As you have noticed, it would not be the first one. I fail to see how a balanced edit is abusive behavior. "Ignorant verbal diarrhea", "insane", "dubious claim and conspiracies" is abusive. What you are doing is not just POV pushing. It is misrepresentation, plain and simple. You can't say Shanghai is the largest city if official data contradict you. Apparently, you can't live with the offered compromise "one of China's and the world's largest cities." BsBsBs (talk) 00:31, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
This is the sixth thread you've started on this topic in a little more than a month. There has been an RfC and two more debates (here and here) which you started and lost. But your modus operandi is as soon as you lose one debate, you start a new one (like the current one), abusing the talk pages and wasting other people's time. And enough is enough. I'll be traveling for a couple of weeks, and will file the ANI complaint when I come back if you don't stop your abusive behavior. Zanhe (talk) 02:48, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

I wish you a safe and relaxing trip. Sometimes, spending a little time away from the computer makes one see things in a different light. You may want to print out some of these pages and read them on the plane, or when waiting:

  • No-edit orders: "Some no-edit orders are acceptable. For example, those that instruct others to properly follow Wikipedia guidelines are allowed. But others, which are intended to take control of pages or to threaten or intimidate other users are not."
  • Ownership of articles: "Some contributors feel possessive about material they have contributed to Wikipedia. A few editors will even defend such material against all others. ... But if this watchfulness starts to become possessiveness, then you may be overdoing it. Believing that an article has an owner of this sort is a common mistake people make on Wikipedia."
  • WikiBullying: "WikiBullying is the act of using the Wikipedia system and the power of editing to threaten or intimidate other editors. Doing so violates the civility principles of Wikipedia and is not tolerated." Asserting ownership and issuing no-edit orders are expressly named as acts of WikiBullying.
  • Civility: "Incivility consists of personal attacks, rudeness, disrespectful comments, and aggressive behaviors that disrupt the project and lead to unproductive stress and conflict ... A studied pattern of incivility is disruptive and unacceptable, and may result in blocks if it rises to the level of harassment or egregious personal attacks. A single act of incivility can also cross the line if it is severe enough: for instance, extreme verbal abuse or profanity directed at another contributor, or a threat against another person can all result in blocks without consideration of a pattern."
  • Harassment: "Harassment is defined as a pattern of repeated offensive behavior that appears to a reasonable observer to intentionally target a specific person or persons. Usually (but not always) the purpose is to make the target feel threatened or intimidated, and the outcome may be to make editing Wikipedia unpleasant for the target, to undermine them, to frighten them, or to discourage them from editing entirely."
  • Wikihounding: "Wikihounding is the singling out of one or more editors, and joining discussions on multiple pages or topics they may edit or multiple debates where they contribute, in order to repeatedly confront or inhibit their work. ... Wikihounding usually involves following the target from place to place on Wikipedia. Many users track other users' edits, although usually for collegial or administrative purposes. This should always be done carefully, and with good cause..."
  • Neutral point of view: "Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view. NPOV is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia and of other Wikimedia projects. This policy is non-negotiable and all editors and articles must follow it."

Finally, Wikipedia is not about winning or losing an argument. It is about detailed, factual, well-informed, and well-referenced information, presented from a Neutral point of view.BsBsBs (talk) 11:05, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

BsBsBs, my entirely good faith advice to you is to leave this issue for a little while, take a break from Wikipedia, and come back in a month or two and see how you feel then. The consensus is against you on this article, and although Zanhe is the one who is keeping the closest watch on this article, you will have seen that no editor actually supported you when you put your issues to a discussion above - other editors were either apathetic or against you. So for your own mental and physical health, I suggest that you drop this for a little while and take a break. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 03:59, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Please cite carefully.

  • "Migrants" can be understood as a slur in some cultures. I added correct quotes. If Global Times says so, their problem. This demographic is the "temporary" (non-hukou) population. They can be anything from a foreign CEO to a migrant worker.
  • The growth of this group was not 37.53 percent. The population grew 37.53 percent. It was confusingly written. This group amounts to39 percent of the total 23 million. Their growth was 159.08 percenton top of some 3.5 million = 8.97 million total. We need to be able to rely on these data, especially when quoted from a Chinese source, which is not understood by everybody. It also illustrates the dangers of original research.
  • "New migrants accounted for the entire increase as the natural population growth rate in Shanghai has been negative since 1993 due to low fertility rate" is a non-allowed synthesis. It may be the case, but it is not in the quoted UNESCAP source. The source uses data from the 2,000 census. It can hardly tell what migrants did 10 years later. I included what the source says.

Please be careful when citing sources, and do not jump to conclusions that are not in the source. I did not check the rest. "The actual number of foreign citizens living in Shanghai is likely much higher" is speculation, and does not belong into WP. I left it for the time being.

Finally, if we deal with demographic arcana such as fertility levels, percentages of the non-hukou population, or the real and estimated size of the Korean expat population, then a small chapter on the opposing views of the total population size of the city of Shanghai should be pertinent. It definitely was pertinent during the discussion above. BsBsBs (talk) 22:35, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

"Migrants" can be understood as a slur in some cultures. - it is also an entierly legitimate and official term to refer to, well, migrants. I understand from your previous posts that you are from a US cultural background. Please do not play the racial politics of your own country and superimpose it on articles about entirely unrelated topics which do not fit your cultural paradigm. Shanghai is not wherever you come from and it does not have the same racial politics issues that you do. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 04:03, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
You misunderstand, you are misinformed, and you are jumping to conclusions. I am not from a US cultural background. I have lived around the world in many cultures and learned to respect their sensitivities. My comment was carefully worded as ""Migrants" can be understood as a slur in some cultures." We need to be aware that en.wikipedia.org is read around the world. I had to dig up a reference (Global Times) that actually supported the "migrant" statement. As a quote, it is o.k. The official data, originally given as a reference, speak of "residents from other provinces or cities." As carefully explained above, the 8,977,000 people are not all migrant workers, as we understand the term. Many are, many are not. If a Beijing-born CEO of a Chinese bank gets a new job in Shanghai, then he is counted as a "temporary resident," even if he goes on and lives there for the rest of his life. His family book, or hukou, is that of Beijing. In Wikipedia, he now turned into a migrant. These are arcana from the past. China is slowly moving away from the concept. The current census sensibly gives the true count of the population, regardless of what slot they are fitted in. The reference that supported the "migrant" statement was subsequently removed. And now I am supposed to listen to "Please do not play the racial politics of your own country?" Wrong country. Furthermore, "migrants" and "race" are unrelated terms. BsBsBs (talk) 10:26, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

More cleanup

Did some additional cleanup of the demographic data.

  • Source for Shanghai statistics is now Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau. The data appear identical, but one can't be careful enough.
  • Provided more detail to general population count.
  • Replaced age groups with current 2010 data. All data now as per 2010, if available. Note that the previous dataset was that of the registered (a.k.a. "permanent" or "hukou") population, which can be a source of confusion and distortion. Current data reflects total "resident" population. According to the new data, the aging problem is isolated to the registered population, and is more than offset by younger people moving into the city - which is beyond the scope of the article.
  • The life expectancy etc dataset still reflects the registered subset only, this should be changed when better data are available.
  • Removed the part that "the actual number of foreign citizens living in Shanghai is likely much higher." We are not here to guess. We should keep this part based on official statistics. The part with 70,000 Koreans in Shanghai fails the plausibility test. The 2010 China Population Census has 120,750 Koreans living in all of China. Let's not speculate. BsBsBs (talk) 05:41, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted the article to the last version by Zanhe. BsBsBs, your behaviour is now at the point where I think editors will agree that you will need to seek consensus here for every change that you make. I hope you realise by now that your views on the demographics sections of this article are not shared by most editors here. Please open a discussion and seek a consensus before making any demographics-related edits.
Furthermore, when making future edits, please do not edit from your own last version. You did this the last time around and so removed a number of edits which had been made to completely unrelated parts of the article, such as picture captions. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 04:09, 17 August 2011 (UTC)


Response

  • PalaceGuard008 is in no position to issue any ultimata. As outlined above no-edit orders usually are frowned upon at WP. "Some no-edit orders are acceptable. For example, those that instruct others to properly follow Wikipedia guidelines are allowed. But others, which are intended to take control of pages or to threaten or intimidate other users are not."
  • The concept that I should seek consensus before I make an edit is simply preposterous. Please give the Wikipedia consensus standard a careful read: If an "editor might claim, whether openly or implicitly, the right to review any changes before they can be added to the article" then this is seen as asserting ownership of the article. "No one, no matter how skilled, and regardless of their standing in the community, has the right to act as if they are the owner of a particular article."
  • Consensus states that "when reverting an edit you disagree with, it helps to state the actual disagreement rather than citing "no consensus" or "not discussed". This provides greater transparency for all concerned, and likewise acts as a guide so that consensus can be determined through continued editing." In that vein, please address the issues instead of hitting the revert button.
  • Giving "please obtain consensus on talk page before making changes again" as the reason for a revert flies in the face of the principles stated above.
  • I do not quite follow the second paragraph. It don't know what "the last time around" refers to. Assuming it refers to the edits made on August 16, I carefully went over the diffs and failed to find any removals of picture captions etc. If you refer to the CRH380A test picture, this was no edit. It apparently was the result of the removal of the picture from Commons due to copyright issues.

While on the topic of removals, the revert destroyed some carefully researched citations which had been added to citation-less passages. Other necessary improvements were likewise removed.

The heart of the matter seems to be that some editors absolutely insist on giving Shanghai the title "China's largest city," while some (albeit a minority) think otherwise. As official census numbers and long discussions perfectly illustrate, the statement "Shanghai is China's largest city" is ludicrous as far as the official census is concerned. At the very least, it must be conceded that the assertion is debatable. It has been debated for decades.

My position is that it does not matter which city is largest. What matters is that Wikipedia reflects true and verifiable data.

The debate on this very talk page is getting short on facts and arguments, and long on personal beliefs and simple rude behavior. I will try to be short.

One claim that has been repeatedly made is that "Shanghai is China's largest city" reflects general practice. It has been said that this was "general practice since the Shanghai article was first created 10 years ago," and that "it has been undisputed until one editor (BsBsBs) recently decided to challenge it."

This is patently false, as it will become immediately evident:

Up until 12 August 2010, the intro had read:

The intro was ranking-free. The discussion about population and which city may be larger was where it belongs, in the Demographics section.

The Demographics section did state, in pertinent part:

  • "The population of Shanghai is 19,213,200. Based on total administrative area population, Shanghai is the third largest of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the People's Republic of China, after Chongqing and Beijing. In the PRC, a direct-controlled municipality (直辖市 in pinyin: zhíxiáshì) is a city with equal status to a province."

The numbers, and the attached ranking, reflected semi-official municipality-level data available at the time. The solution had been reached via a true consensus, achieved through an intelligent, albeit occasionally spirited debate.

The matter did rest in peace until ,on 12 August 2010, the status quo was changed to:

The change was made by a knowledgeable IP, which may have not been familiar with Wikipedia rules, for instance that claims have to be referenced. The article was off my watchlist at the time, and I did not notice the error.

On 3 May 2011, the Demographics section was updated, reflecting new census data. The section stated that "based on population of total administrative area, Shanghai is the second largest of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the People's Republic of China, behind Chongqing which governs a much bigger area."

On 25 June 2011, I pointed out that the intro and the Demographics section were not in congruence, and that it might be better to state "one of the most populous cities in China." This was rudely reverted without references. Later, after repeated request for citations, papers that had been written to show the confusion about Chinese population data were used to buttress the claim that Shanghai is China's most populous city.

The remaining back and forth can be derived from the discussion transcripts above. All I can say is that several attempts to come to a compromise that does not clash with official data (some cited in the very same article) had been denied in dogged edit warfare. In lieu of arguments, the discussion degenerated to name-calling, questioning of mental sanity, suggestions to simply go away, and other assorted uncivil outbursts.

Population numbers are not derived by consensus. They are derived by counting. However, there had been some very sensible comments that did let everybody "win":

  • Rjanag said on 6 July 2011: "Why argue over whether it's the largest or not, when you could simply state things more clearly in the article. Something along the lines of "The Shanghai metropolitan area is the most populous in the PRC, although Chongqing is the largest city when the entire administrative area is counted"... There's no need to waste time boasting in the lede when you can just make things clearer and avoid the whole discussion."
  • Ohms law said on 8 July 2011: "There's absolutely no need to force a binary solution here (saying that only one article can claim some title). Follow the sources and explain the situation in the articles content. Editors making a choice in matters such as this, justified or not, constitutes Original research."
  • I said on August 8: "Quite possibly, the solution to this dilemma is to step away from superlatives, and to write up what is really going on: There is a lot of confusion about the true population sizes, a lot of opinions, and a lot of theories. Properly documented, this could be an interesting chapter."

This proposal remained unopposed. Ever since ancient Rome, the rule has been qui tacet consentire videtur, usually translated as "silence implies consent." Sometimes it is accompanied by ubi loqui debuit ac potuit, even more loosely translated, "if you don't like it, speak up." I waited for a week for any opposing voices. None forthcoming, the proposed edit was implemented on August 16. After a little edit warring, even the most outspoken proponent of "Shanghai is China's most populous city" no longer opposed the edit. A WP supplement to consensus says that "silence is the weakest form of consensus." But better weak consensus than none at all.

In closing, the assertion that "Shanghai is the largest city by population in the People's Republic of China" cannot stand while unqualified, and especially when supported by a source that itself states that "Confusion and contradictions surrounding the size of the population or number of inhabitants of Chinese cities abound in both the popular media and in more serious academic and official publications." This source uses old data and offers a virtual supermarket of tables from which one can choose what looks best.

The matter requires a more detailed approach that looks at both sides of the story. This detailed approach was given in the edits. According to my belief, it faithfully shows both sides of the coin.

These edits were reverted without specifics, along with strong edit orders and musings about my mental health.

I have done my research and laid out my points to the best of my abilities. I have restored the original carefully researched edits, while preserving subsequent unrelated edits. Please respond within the boundaries of common courtesy and refrain from rude reverts without addressing the issues raised above, or, at the very least pointing out specific errors in the edits.

Thank you. BsBsBs (talk) 00:50, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Skating Park

Does anyone want to put a bit on the Shanghai page about the new Skating Park that China is building?I heard about it on NPR, they are adding a massive skating park with ramps and stuff.. Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.35.1.172 (talk) 20:49, 25 January 2006‎ (UTC)

Sister City

In the Guayaquil page it says that Shanghai is one of its sister cities, but I coudln't find anything about it in this page. Maybe it should be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.69.164.169 (talk) 03:57, 24 November 2006‎ (UTC)

For The Wordless Reverters

The sensible compromise suggested above and implemented later still finds itself under occasional revert attack. I have nothing at all against improvements. But I am dead set against senseless revert-warring. I can't help the impression that there are people who absolutely want "Shanghai is China's largest city" in the first sentence - even if it contradicts all facts, and even if the statement has been debated for decades. I hope I am guessing wrong, but it feels like a search engine optimization exercise. As for the other points, I have made them above, and I will not repeat them. Please read before reverting.

I have checked three on-line encyclopedias, available free of charge, and here is the take:

  • Encyclopædia Britannica: "Shanghai, also spelled Shang-hai, city and province-level shi (municipality), east-central China. It is one of the world’s largest seaports and a major industrial and commercial centre of China. The city is located on the coast of the East China Sea between the mouth of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) to the north and the bay of Hangzhou to the south. The municipality’s area includes the city itself, surrounding suburbs, and an agricultural hinterland; it is China’s most populous urban area."
  • Columbia Encyclopedia (via Yahoo):) "Shanghai (shang´hi´, shäng´hi´) , city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. It is an independent unit (2,400 sq mi/6,218 sq km) administered directly by the central government. One of the world's great seaports, Shanghai is China's largest city."
  • Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (via encyclopedia.com): "Shanghai, China Shanghaizhen A municipality established in 1267, situated at the mouth of the Huangpu River in the Yangtze delta, the name means ‘By the Sea’ from shàng ‘by’ or ‘on’ and hai. The zhèn in the former name meant ‘garrison post’, although now it is usually ‘town’. Opened up to foreign trade following the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, it soon attracted adventurers and criminals."

Analysis:

  • Out of three free on-line encyclopedias, only one says "Shanghai is China's largest city." It is also the one that has a population count that is hopelessly outdated and that states that Shanghai is "administered directly by the central government" - a questionable statement.
  • The most credible source, Britannica, carefully avoids the statement "Shanghai is China's largest city." It explains correctly what is going on and says that Shanghai is "China’s most populous urban area" - a statement that undoubtedly is true, and that had been worked into the article.
  • Looking at the three encyclopedias, it becomes imminently clear that not everybody is convinced that "Shanghai is China's largest city," and that the statement needs closer analysis and reflection. This has been done in the current article - which some wish it would go away.

If random references, quoted out of context, are allowed, then someone might get the ill-advised idea that it is o.k. to say that Shanghai "attracted adventurers and criminals." After all, this had been stated in a reliable source.BsBsBs (talk) 22:25, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

BsBsBs, this is not the place to post your essay about the largest city in China. Please obtain consensus before you make any further edits. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 08:50, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
As noted above and documented, no-edit orders are frowned-upon at WP and are in violation of WP policies. I am sorry that the facts and sources presented here clash with pre-conceived notions. However, I decide what to write here. BsBsBs (talk) 07:39, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
I second PalaceGuard008's demand. No-edit orders are frowned-upon at WP only when they're issued to good-faith editors, but BsBsBs's behavior on this page matches perfectly those described in Wikipedia:Disruptive editing. Zanhe (talk) 22:46, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Different population numbers

BsBsBs, based on your past history, I can only interpret your latest edit here as a deliberate attempt to confuse readers and degrade the quality of this article. You know well that the numbers are different because they're based on different data and inclusion criteria (KW Chan paper is based on 2000 and 2005 data, Geohive uses 2010 census data but only counts core districts, as explained in the footnote in the source). If you want to explain the difference, put them in a footnote, not in the lede. Zanhe (talk) 17:32, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

If the true numbers in the sentence confuse the reader, then this leads to the suggestion that the sentence without the true numbers is written with the intent to deliberately mislead the reader. If facts degrade the quality of the article, then the quality can't be high in the first place. Please edit responsibly and use current data. BsBsBs (talk) 17:51, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Now back to the first paragraph. As we are discussing confusion of readers, won't you agree that packing three different and conflicting data from different times with three different inclusion criteria side-by-side could be mightily confusing, if not a bit dishonest? At the very least, it is horrible writing. BsBsBs (talk) 19:20, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Encyclopedia or tourist brochure?

Gentlemen, we are supposed to edit an encyclopedia here, not write ad copy for the Shanghai tourist development board. Even as ad copy, “Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world” would be cited as false advertising. You can’t possibly (without turning crimson and growing a long nose) use a source that says that Shanghai has a population of 13.46 million as proof that “Shanghai is the largest city by population in China,” and you can't, with a straight face, say in the same sentence that Shanghai is the largest city proper in the world while pointing to a source that says it has 17.8 million. And you can’t, without bursting out laughing, follow that by the statement that Shanghai has a population of “over 23 million.” Editors are expected to be truthful and honest. At the very least, they should not insult the intelligence of the reader. If someone lies to me, then I expect a certain degree of finesse. As an interim measure, I have added the numbers behind the bold claims.

FYI, Geohive is, by its own admission, not a reliable source. The sole editor, Johan van der Heyden, states that “This site is my hobby.” He is doing a good job as a hobbyist, but hobby remains hobby. Hobby sites do not qualify as reliable sources. WP:SPS states that "Self-published media, such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs, Internet forum postings, and tweets, are largely not acceptable as sources." As for Chan, in the preface to the document that is (ab)used to prove the point that Shanghai is the largest city by population in China, Chan writes: “Confusion and contradictions surrounding the size of the population or number of inhabitants of Chinese cities abound in both the popular media and in more serious academic and official publications.” This has never been more evident than in the intro to this article.BsBsBs (talk) 17:26, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

I advise you to stop your disinformation campaign. Geohive is a reliable site used by more than 500 Wikipedia pages. It may have started as someone's hobby, but so has Wikipedia. We can change the source to infoplease, the publisher of Time Almanac, definitely not a hobby site, but if you read the footnote, they get their data from Geohive!
As for your out-of-context quote from Chan, the confusion and contradictions are the exact reason why he wrote the research paper that unequivocally concludes that Shanghai is China's largest city. Anyone who's read it will reach that same conclusion. You claim to know the paper very well, so the only explanation is that you're deliberately distorting the truth to advance your personal POV. Zanhe (talk) 18:00, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
If a site calls itself a hobbyist site, then it is a hobbyist site. If WP does not allow hobbyist sites as sources, then Geohive is not an allowed source. Plain and simple. A typical hobbyist mistake is to confuse the meaning of City proper, as is the case here. City proper is defined by numerous encyclopedias and the United Nations as "locality with legally fixed boundaries and an administratively recognized urban status that is usually characterized by some form of local government." Hence, the population of the city proper of Shanghai is 23 million. It looks like Mr. van der Heyden simply cribbed his wrong city proper data from List of cities proper by population which sometimes does not use the data for the proper city proper, and sometimes resorts to questionable original research. It's called circular sourcing in the trade.
WP:NOTRELIABLE expressly disallows sources "which lack meaningful editorial oversight." If Mr. van der Heyden himself states that "these pages are maintained solely by me, Johan van der Heyden", then there is no editorial oversight. If you think this is "a disinformation campaign," then I can't help you.
As for Chan, I am glad that you oppose out of context quoting. I suggest that we both stop quoting Mr. Chan out of context. Most of his gripes have been addressed in the 2010 census anyway. The non-agricultural or agricultural residents are gone,the contiguous built-up areas and resident's committees are no longer mentioned, hukou or non hukou don't count anymore, the true de-facto population is listed. Progress! Using current numbers really helps. If we would all agree to use the current census number, Shanghai would be pacified. BsBsBs (talk) 18:41, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Again you're quoting out of context in order to advance your POV. WP:NOTRELIABLE makes an explicit exception from the self-publishing rule: "Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications." As noted above, the same Geohive page quoted here is also published by Time Almanac, a publication by Time Magazine with 50+ years of history. Geohive is also quoted by 539 Wikipedia articles. If you believe it's unreliable, why don't you try and remove it from all 539 pages?
  • This article is quoting the conclusion from the Chan paper, while you're quoting things that Chan listed in order to refute. Equating the two is nothing short of deceitful.
The census numbers do not address the key point raised in the Chan paper, that they count the total population in the administrative region which include huge numbers of rural population that should be excluded when ranking city population. Don't pretend you're not aware of that. Zanhe (talk) 21:37, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
539 wrongs (I trust you on that) don't make it right. WP is full of mistakes. That's one of the reasons why WP is not allowed as a source. If WP does not accept hobbyist sites that lack editorial oversight, then that should give you reason to stop and think. Tip: Use Geohive as a handy pointer towards data, but always go to the source. You are using Geohive and you suppress official statistical data, because Geohive fits the point you are so desperately trying to make. The fact that Geohive is cited by Time should give you reason to edit even more responsibly. Please address the problem that the amateur Geohive calls something "city proper" data which clearly is not. Also, please address the atrociousness of your lede. In the first two sentences, you are assaulting the reader with three demographic concepts, some of them highly arcane, and with data taken decades apart. Once the data behind the claims are revealed, the ridiculousness of these sentences becomes so evident that you quickly remove the data. Stick to the facts and the official 23 million. BsBsBs (talk) 02:43, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
First, kindly avoid using bullets when you're not making a list.
Second, User:BsBsBs may not have been very kindly w/r/t assuming your good faith, but you haven't addressed his substantive point. Wikipedia editors can certainly be lazy; that doesn't invalidate his point about the author's statement or WP policy. Further, if the information is good and not simply pulled out of thin air as you state, surely someone else has mentioned it. So go get it.
In the meantime, unless he has his own reliable cites backing a different set of numbers, it would be against policy for BsBsBs to blank presumably valid information. — LlywelynII 13:09, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

American English

Per WP:RETAIN, the American English usage established by edit 324597 on 29 September 2002 governs. The UK template at the top of this page was both incorrect and inappropriate. Will correct article shortly. — LlywelynII 12:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

As an aside, both Britons and Americans had historic ties to the city (the verb "to Shanghai" coming from the American west coast) and Americans currently outnumber Britons in China at least 7:1. — LlywelynII 12:16, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Theories and facts

As for our friend Chan, lets not make the serious mistake amateurs are prone to make: Confuse theories for facts. There are many learned papers that say how things should be. But things are what they are. Chan, like so many others, argue that Chinese cities should have narrower boundaries. A valid point. The trouble is, those Chinese cities refuse to listen and won’t change their boundaries. As editors, we are reporters, and we are supposed to report things the way they are, not the way they should be. The population of Shanghai is 23 million, not 13.46 and not 17.8

When Chan came to the conclusion that Shanghai is the largest city of China, and not Chongqin, he did so by laboriously calculating his own numbers. For details, see above. As a scientist, he can calculate as much as he wants, however, he will not change census numbers and administrative boundaries. This is the problem with theories and facts.

If Chan would write his paper today, it would be much shorter, because all the agricultural, urban, hukou and non hukou stats are gone. What remains is the fact that many still object that the boundaries of Chinese cities are drawn too wide. This discussion will go on forever, and as honest reporters, it is not our job to massage or falsify data so that they fit a theory.

Saying that "Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a population of over 23 million as of 2010" is absolutely beyond the pale. The average reader is led to believe that these three records are all related to the 23 million - which they are not. These statements must be put in the proper time and context, and the lede definitely is not the place for this.

An honest, responsible and professional reporter and editor may write that ”Chongqing has a population of 28.8 million. However, you will be disappointed when you get there expecting a bustling metropolis like Toyko and Yokohama. The boundaries of Chongqing are drawn quite wide, and much of that city will look quite bucolic to you.” An honest, responsible and professional reporter and editor however may not write “Chongqing has a population of 4.5 million.” Honest, responsible and professional reporters being a dying breed, more and more will fall for the 4.5 million nonsense and repeat it.

As Wikipedia editors, we need to be extra careful and professional, because Wikipedia is more and more taken as gospel and not as the works of rank amateurs.

And now we come to the true heart of the matter: This edit war already has, as collateral damage, afflicted List of cities proper by population, and from there Geohive, Infoplease and who knows what else. It was started by some editors, notably Zanhe, who insist that Shanghai is the most populous city in China, gee, maybe in the world – the census be damned.

It's the same Zanhe - offense is the best defense - who is quick to claim "POV pushing" and "disinformation."

Response to false accusations by BsBsBs: Just as I thought you couldn't sink any lower, you come up with these bold-faced lies, maliciously scrambling up the sequence of events to support your false accusations. I've learned by now that reasoning with you is futile, but I need to set the record straight:
  • On 18 July 2001, the very first version of this article was created, with a single sentence that says "Shanghai is China's largest city".
  • On 30 April 2010, just before you started your first edits here, the article started with the sentence "Shanghai is the largest city in China and the largest city proper in the world".
  • On 1 May 2010, you made a series of edits including this one, changing the intro to read "Shanghai is the third largest of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the PRC", and started an edit war with another editor.
  • On 10 June 2011, Geohive already ranked Shanghai as the largest city in the world with a population of 17,836,133. This is the page saved by archive.org on 10 June 2011.
  • On 22 June 2011, I made my first ever edit on List of cities proper by population, updating Shanghai's city proper population to 17,836,133. Your allegation that Geohive somehow picked up that number from my edit is obviously false.
  • On 25 June 2011, you made this edit that changed the intro from "Shanghai is the most populous city of the PRC" to "Shanghai is one of the most populous cities of the PRC", starting another edit war which led to the RfC.
  • On 7 July 2011, during the RfC I made the comment that said "Wikipedia has always followed this general practice since the Shanghai article was first created 10 years ago. It has been undisputed until one editor (BsBsBs) recently decided to challenge it", which you now call a lie. Readers can decide for themselves who's the liar.
  • As for your allegation of my "recalculation campaign", it appears that you need to be reminded that I've already refuted it in this discussion and this one. But I'm not surprised that you're bringing it up here again, repeating the same argument over and over again is a key characteristic of tendentious editors.
Zanhe (talk) 00:51, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
The patent nonsense that Shanghai has a population of 17,836,133 is already racing through the webs. I am sure that Zanhe's namesake city is not enthused about the unintended consequences of elevating the city to the top of the world by getting rid of 5 million people. It is actions like these that give Wikipedia a bad name, and that cause irreparable harm far beyond the boundaries of Wikipedia.Once these numbers are on the loose, they are unstoppable.
(Speaking of Infoplease: Why go to the trouble with Chan if we can simply cite Infoplease? It says: "Shanghai is China's largest city." However, if we do that we also have to live with "1994 est. pop. 12,980,000." So much for reliable sources that edit the Time Almanac.)
I have no stock in Chongqing and, as stated before, I don’t care whether it is the largest city. I care about facts. I had repeatedly offered the compromise that “Shanghai is one of the largest cities” of China, even the world. True statement. Verifiable. Or as an alternative, we can drop the largest altogether. But as long as pages and books are filled with arguments about what is right and what is wrong, what is and what should be, a responsible editor cannot make the unqualified statement that Shanghai is the largest city in China. Qualifying this statement would fill the aforementioned pages and books, so we best leave it alone.BsBsBs (talk) 06:57, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
I am glad that Zanhe admits that he was wrong and that I did not recently challenge this article, as he originally claimed. He could have saved himself the research, must of it had already been | documented above. If I was wrong with Geohive, then I apologize. It definitely looked like Geohive had picked up the data from Wikipedia, the districts chosen and alleged "city proper" totals cannot be found in an official source. Zanhe studiously avoids the main point, namely that "Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a population of over 23 million as of 2010" is nonsense, dishonest, unprofessional and either inadvertently or deliberately confuses the reader. I challenge Zanhe to come up with a current, official (i.e. 2010 census based, and not from a hobbyist site, or from a site that mirrors erroneous data) source that supports the claim that Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. I'd even be happy if an official source by a Chinese statistical agency could be foud that says that as of 2010, the population of the City of Shanghai (proper or not) was 17.8 million. For the umpteenth time, I must express my wonderment that one editor cannot live with a compromise and insists on edit warring that now stretches to multiple articles. BsBsBs (talk) 15:13, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
I would have accepted your apology had it not been accompanied with more lies. Frankly I've never seen an apology as insincere as yours. So you say I was wrong about your "recently" challenging this article because you started attacking it in May 2010 instead of June 2011? Geez, can you get any more shameless? Zanhe (talk) 18:29, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Where is the official source? BsBsBs (talk) 18:47, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
I've already addressed your repeated questions about reliable sources in this discussion and this one. Again you're exhibiting tendentious behavior. Zanhe (talk) 20:25, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
I guess that means that you can't find it in an official source. Reliable sources says that "deciding which sources are appropriate depends on context." It stands to reason that the results of the most recent full census are most appropriate in the context of population. It is not plausible that Geohive is used when official census data are readily available. Geohive is a self-admitted amateur site. What's more, you cite from a list in Geohive, which is - if we accept it - a summarizing source. Reliable sources says: "Tertiary sources such as compendia, encyclopedias, textbooks, obituaries, and other summarizing sources may be used to give overviews or summaries, but should not be used in place of secondary sources for detailed discussion." The most appropriate secondary source in this case is the published official results of the 2010 census. Reliable sources says that "Each source must be carefully weighed to judge whether it is reliable for the statement being made and is the best such source for that context. In general, the more people engaged in checking facts, analyzing legal issues, and scrutinizing the writing, the more reliable the publication." The official census is the work of millions of people, has been carefully scrutinized, and is highly reliable. It definitely trumps a list compiled by a self-admitted amateur, who made a mistake. Calling it "tendentious behavior" when someone insists on correct official data in place of dubious material takes a lot of gall. BsBsBs (talk) 22:14, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Just to interrupt for a minute here: a, am I wrong in thinking neither of you want a bad article? Then kindly glance over at WP:NICE and think about whether it really gets us any farther to bicker this way.

b, Zanhe: first, great name. Second, as above, if your number is valid, surely someone else must have mentioned it. User:BsBsBs is completely correct that Geohive at least is not an appropriate source. So find one. Third, if the 30m number is a valid concept for Chongqing's city proper – the area directly under the urban municipal government – then the claim leading this article is factually incorrect and should be removed. The fact that Chongqing doesn't deserve to call itself "urban" any more than Jiuquan deserves to call itself a "city" is really irrelevant until you can find a reliable source to make your argument for you. It's just a casualty of Commieland statistics.

Thanks. There is an in-depth analysis of the population numbers of Chinese cities, the oft-mentioned Chan paper (the relevant conclusion is on pp 393-395, which unequivocally says Shanghai is China's largest city) and it's provided as a reference in the lede. It was published in a peer-reviewed journal, the gold standard of WP:reliable sources.
Secondly, I respectfully disagree with your view that Geohive isn't an appropriate source. Geohive compiles data from reliable sources and provides methodology in its rankings. Its city proper ranking is published by the Time Almanac (see here). It's used and recommended as a resource by multiple government and educational institutions (such as here, here, and here), and quoted by over 500 Wikipedia pages. WP:Reliable explicitly says that "Self-published material may be acceptable when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications." Besides, it's the only widely-used source that I know of that has updated its numbers with the 2010 census results (which were only published in May). Zanhe (talk) 18:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

c, User:BsBsBs, it makes no difference if one source gives one set of numbers based on one criteria, another a different one based on a second, a third a separate one based on a decade-old number, and you know that. If the number is consistent within its own comparison in a reliable source, that's fine. Your ad homs distract from your point. If you can establish Chongqing as an appropriate city proper (lord knows it shouldn't, but see Jiuquan above) with a valid reference of your own, fix the city proper list and then fix this one. Geohive isn't an appropriate source, but you shouldn't blank presumably reliable data until you have a good source showing it's materially incorrect. — LlywelynII 13:28, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Fwiw, the UN backs up Zanhe as of these 2007-based statistics: Sh 16m, Bj 12m, Gz 9m, Cq 7ish. Now to wait until Beijing relabels Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhongshan as "Pearl River City" and makes the whole argument moot. — LlywelynII 13:38, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

It's not just the UN. Check out the multiple rankings from a variety of sources on World's largest cities, none of them accepts Chongqing's 29 million as its city proper population, or even as its metropolitan area population. Zanhe (talk) 18:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Be that as it may, User:BsBsBs still has a point that you still need to find out some reliable source to explain why they and you are doing that. =) — LlywelynII 00:05, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
The reason is well explained in the aforementioned Chan paper: Chongqing's population is over 70% rural, spread out in an area the size of Austria. Zanhe (talk) 00:37, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Taiping Tianguo and Shanghai

A new addition to the history section states "Shanghai fell to the Taiping Rebellion in 1851 but was recovered by the Qing in February 1853. [24]" The citation is to S. W. Wells The Middle Kingdom p. 107. This is odd, since the Taipings were still in Guangxi in 1851. In fact, it was not the Taipings, but the Small Swords Society, a distinct group which apparently came from Fujian. After an earlier uprising in Fujian, the society seized the Shanghai xiancheng in September 1853 and called themselves Damingguo "the great Ming Kingdom". They quickly changed the name to Taiping Tianguo, but never joined up with the actual Taipings, maintaining control of the xiancheng (but not the western settlements) until February 1855. Not sure how or why Wells got this wrong, but there is a colorful Western account in John Scarne's Twelve years in China (Edinburgh: Constable, 1860: 187-209). If there is no further discussion over the next day or two I'll go ahead and change this.Rgr09 (talk) 15:54, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Support. It appears that Wells confused the Small Swords Society with Taiping. I asked the editor who added the statement (see here), and he/she agreed that the source might be wrong. Zanhe (talk) 17:04, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Ditto. Worth mentioning that they were affiliated with the Taiping, all the same. — LlywelynII 16:34, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Article expansion

For interested editors helping out with the Shanghai improvements, I've been working on some of the railroad pages (a start on the Songhu Railway and a future article in the Woosung Road namespace) and stumbled across this site. It's a former version of the bizarre but lovely labor of love at Astor House Hotel (Shanghai) (apparently China's first western hotel?) and its affiliate pages. There's a mass of images and information over there (>250k) about the Shanghailanders and their times. — LlywelynII 16:34, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Dajing Ge Pavilion also has some good old pictures of Shanghai. — LlywelynII 19:41, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

History of Shanghai

Speaking of which, while we're working on this article, the History of Shanghai one is in much graver need of reformatting and cleanup. — LlywelynII 19:41, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

what about the history of shanghai needs improvement.Meatsgains (talk) 19:49, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Assuming it's not obvious, see here. — LlywelynII 16:50, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Agreed. Unfortunately the vast majority of China-related articles on Wikipedia are in an even worse state (many counties and cities with millions of residents only have one-sentence stubs). There are simply not enough Chinese who write English well enough or English speakers who know China well enough to contribute here. Zanhe (talk) 20:38, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
I wouldn't say that. Stubs are better than misinformation (although the obviousness of the original POV over there probably has unintended, counterproductive effects...) — LlywelynII 16:53, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Problem with section Etymology and Names

There is a weird statement at the beginning of the section "Etymology and Names": the sections begins with "Template:Chinese I LOVE HOMESTUCK!!!" that I cannot erase even in the Edit section (it does not appear). It leads to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Chinese_I_LOVE_HOMESTUCK!!! Gaupy (talk) 16:52, 19 May 2012 (UTC) Gaupy

It appears to have been reverted.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 17:08, 19 May 2012 (UTC)


Stop mistreating Shanghai - Shanghai IS a leading world financial centre!

There have been some undoing recently on the Shanghai article, regarding topics that have been undone before aswell... When it comes to the description of Shanghai as a major financial centre, there seems to be some kind of mass hysteria among other members proclaiming that Shanghai is yet too young to be compared to the likes of New York, London, Singapore and Hong Kong. All of those mentioned cities have various descriptions in their articles calling themselves "leading world financial centres". Even though Shanghai ranks just behind these cities, everytime someone tries to edit the Shanghai article with something similar it will be deleted because it doesnt follow Wikipedias "neutral-point-of-view policy". Then, let me ask you why cities such as Chicago which rank below Shanghai are allowed to call themselves "leading world financial centres. How long do we have to wait until its acceptable to write about Shanghai as a leading world city? Why is Shanghai mistreated? I find this simply silly and I am speechless. /Jonipoon (talk) 15:59, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Here is another example of outdated stuff that needs to be updated to match Shanghai's new image of a world city. This sentece; "In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city" should be rewritten and continue into something between the lines of "and now Shanghai has again become a leading world city". Shanghai is no longer trying to become one of the best like it used to do in the early 00's. Now it is one of the best, but it seems most members do not agree with this no matter how many sources they read. Also, this sentence; "It has been described as the "showpiece" of the booming economy of mainland China" is also a very outdated sentence and should actually be deleted. Shanghai is no longer just a showpiece, it IS a leading world financial centre! /Jonipoon (talk) 16:14, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Factual error at the beginning of article

When I was in Chongqing, I was told that it was the largest city by population in China. The article states that Shanghai is. Safelton (talk) 22:36, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

See this discussion a Request for Comment at the end of Archive 1. Shanghai is the largest by metro area pop, and that is what we used as the criterion. GotR Talk 23:26, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Separate city from municipalities?

Shouldn't the province-level municipality named Shanghai have its own Wikipedia article? Casey (talk) 09:26, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Recommend (semi)-protection?

Just had a look through the article history for Shanghai and noticed that this is the 2nd or 3rd person to vandalize and/or blank the page. Could we/Should we slap a protection lock on the page to help protect against vandalism or blanking? Solardrum (talk) 03:48, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

I'm keeping an eye on the page. Elockid (Talk) 03:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Huangpu River Pig Carcass Incident

This 'incident' is currently covered on the page under the Environment section, which is fine by me. However since a separate article about this incident is currently pending delete, I am recommending that we discuss here how much detail we really need on this! AnthonyW90 (talk) 13:10, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

The incident is notable enough to deserve its own article, but not consequential enough to deserve a mention on this page. For a huge city like Shanghai, hundreds of major events have occurred in its history, many far more consequential than this one (such as the 2010 Shanghai fire). If we were to include all those events on this page, they would probably take 90% of the space. See AfD discussion. -Zanhe (talk) 00:22, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Images must be removed

Most images found under "Economy", "Architecture" and "Environment" must either be replaced or purged of.

File:Huangpu, Jing'an & Changning District (South side).jpg
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File:Huangpu, Jing'an & Changning District (North side).jpg
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File:Zhabei District (Train Station on the right).jpg
3

Please promptly answer the following:

1) What are the differences among File:Huangpu, Jing'an & Changning District (South side).jpg (1), File:Huangpu, Jing'an & Changning District (North side).jpg (2) and File:Zhabei District (Train Station on the right).jpg (3) that are found under "Architecture"?

As far as I know, there are no discernible differences among these images -- the first two only showcase two angles of the same area, and all I can make out are the numerous skyscrapers. Same goes for the third one, the caption of which reads "(Train Station on the right)" -- where the hell is train station? They DO NOT showcase the different architecture styles that are found within Shanghai.

Now look at the images that I have included under "Architecture" in my edits. File:Xintiandi gem.jpg (4), File:0352 20090626 Shanghai.jpg (5) and File:Shanghai10.JPG (6). They are all snapshots of the different architectural styles that have historically been, and currently, used in Shanghai. So far, whoever you are who keep reverting my edits, you've got no ground to stand on. NOTHING. Your images are essentially identical, and do not do justice to Shanghai's long architectural history.

2) Again, what are the distinctions among File:Inside Jing'an District, Shanghai.jpg, File:Inner Shanghai area looking from Mid-west of Shanghai.jpeg and File:Inner Shanghai area looking from Mid-west of Shanghai (closer).jpeg found under "Economy"? In case you're not aware, the latter two are the fucking same place! If all you're trying to convey is Shanghai being a financial hub, the most symbolic image to be used is File:Shanghaistockexchange.jpg, or one other snapshot of the World Trade Center or something. With a subject as large as Shanghai, you're not going to add images and images of the different areas of Shanghai, rather you should use one that sums up everything. Shanghai has the biggest port in the world, and is a financial hub, so only two images should be used.

3) And, what's the value of File:Yanzhonglvdi Park after rain, near Shanghai Peoples Square.jpg? Much of it is dark, and it shows a gate -- is Yanzhonglvdi Park Shanghai's biggest park, or does it have any historical significance? AFAIK, it's got no value. What about File:Fuxing Park 2226.JPG? Much of it appears to be a road, with only minimal greenery, resembling a street more than a park. One image that conveniently sums up the city's parks and resorts should be used, and that image is File:A birdview of Century Park in Huamu, Pudong (East of Shanghai), Shanghai.jpg, and we should only keep that.

Whoever you are, you appear to be an image enthusiast. But these images are clogging up the article, and sometimes they are of the same place, or are not varied or detailed enough. Get rid of them. If you, or anyone else, are not going to reply withing 24 hours, I will reinstate my changes, because frankly, I think my arguments above have much more weight and consideration. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 08:48, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

User:Goldsilverlight has repeatedly reverted multiple editors' attempts to remove the images, through multiple IP's while claiming to be different people. I've opened a sockpuppet investigation against the user. -Zanhe (talk) 11:51, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Why those images should not be removed

These images are not duplicate or even similar, as they resemble different places and ranges of camera lens. Especially the panorama images, they include and represent much bigger scopes of Shanghai, rather than focusing on the Stock Exhange building or Lujiazui (Lujiazui is a very small place in Pudong, Shanghai in terms of land size) alone, which are believed to better cover more places in Shanghai. If you look at some other wiki pages, many of them have more excessive (in your words) photos including panorama ones to facilitate describing that place or a city. Furthermore, it's not about how many users changing the more precise and correct work back to improper and incomplete ones, but about the "art and science" of illustrating one object or a place or a city with not just words but also proper images combined that can contain as much information as possible. This should have far more weight and consideration than what Zanhe or Sp33dyphil have proposed.

If you're adding images just because other articles have many of them, you might want to check out Istanbul, Hong Kong, India and Indonesia. These are the best geographic articles Wikipedia offers, and they only include enough images to get their point across, unlike what you're doing, which is to add "proper images combined that can contain as much information as possible". --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 08:55, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Moreover, none of the images in the current rivision are the same place, they have different angles or scopes which covers many square kilometers of different areas and as they are panoramas, they include far more information in just one photo each, people can compare with these images and find the connection yet they are different in terms of location and scope. Most importantly, these photos clearly are better than some of the older photos about Shanghai that are both outdated and not inclusive enough. As for the 2 images about the parks, if they are not ok, I personally don't know what is ok, they both represent 2 famous parks in Shanghai, just as important as Century Park, or the Gucun park which is larger than 4 square kilometers (434.5 hectares).

I think the issue about location and scope is overly specific. We're talking about a massive city, which has many areas among it, and here you're trying to include different locations and scopes? What? Let me remind you again, this is not Commons. And regarding the two parks, Yanzhonglvdi Park doesn't even have its own article. The panoramic photo is good enough, and the links at the bottom of the section allow the reader to find pictures about the parks. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 08:55, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

As to your "Much of it appears to be a road, with only minimal greenery, resembling a street more than a park", have you ever been to Shanghai? This is a walk path in Fuxin Park, which is a most famous and populous park in Shanghai. Don't you see those trees and green playground in the photo? Just because it was winter time and the leaves fell off or green color becomes green-grayish, doesn't mean they are not trees at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldsilverlight (talk • contribs) 22:34, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, my judgment here is off. But my point still stands. There are two many images, and only the panoramic photo should be retained. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 08:55, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Also, as to your question quote: "where the hell is train station?" unquote. It appears you haven't been to Shanghai. At least you clearly have never been to Shanghai Zhabei Train Station before. It's in the panorama image of Zhabei District, on the right side, the white color wavy-roofed architecture, that's the entire train station. If you click to enlarge the image, it can be easily identified

"If you click to enlarge the image, it can be easily identified". There's your problem, it should be easy for the reader to identify where the train station is. That section is about architecture, and the station is hard to find for a reader like me to find, let alone identify or acknowledge the architecture style. It's like using a photo of the someone's whole body, and trying to point out the colour of their eyes. It's really absurd. And nearly all the rest of the image has skyscrapers or high-rise apartments. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 08:55, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

We are looking forward to the WIKI ceo to have a look at this issue.

Also to Zanhe, please do not use 'fxxx' or 'fxxking' in your replies. This is a place for civilized communication, any misunderstanding can be solved by knowledge and understandings. This is not a place to be abused. Please be a calm wiki user.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldsilverlight (talk • contribs) 12:30, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

You must be hallucinating. When did I ever use 'fxxx', 'fxxking', or any other curse word in my replies? -Zanhe (talk) 13:48, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Goldsilverlight: I don't want to argue, please find them yourself in the text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldsilverlight (talk • contribs) 14:00, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Please don't evade the question. If you accuse someone of wrongdoing, you need to produce the evidence or retract your accusation and apologize. Otherwise you're simply a liar. -Zanhe (talk) 14:12, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Goldsilverlight: Sorry my mistake, it was Sp33dyphil who used the improper word. Correct me if I am wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldsilverlight (talk • contribs) 14:17, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

My apologies. I wasn't meaning to offend anyone, and it really shouldn't have been taken with offense. My disbelief in the usage of two photos to point out the same area took the better of me. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 08:55, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Maybe we should update information on private car licensing?

Recently, around 9000 license plates are auctioned each month[1](except for April 2013, when 11000 plates are auctioned due to an expected growth in the sale of cars during the International Workers' Day holiday[2]), and the price is 80,803 RMB on average during the May 2013 auction [3]. Also, a limit on price on how much one can bid during the first round of auction, which is known as the warning price and is equivlant to the weighted arithmetic mean of average price of the last four auctions, has been in effect since April along with a whole bunch of other regulations regarding the transfer of license plates (transfering is prohibited during the first 3 years after it is bought and 1 year after a privious transfer) [4] to control the soaring price (an average of 91,898 RMB during the March 2013 auction).

A second-hand license plate cost somewhere between 85,000 and 90,000 RMB now, few people are interested in buying or selling it now though.[5]

Here's the average price for the last 17 auctions from January 2012 to May 2013:[6] 53195, 55632, 58625, 61626, 64367, 58227, 58271, 62559, 66425, 66708, 66946, 69346, 75332, 83571, 91898, 84100， 80803--180.171.94.158 (talk) 10:31, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Shanghai buildings

There reads: Since 2008, Shanghai has boasted more free-standing buildings above 400m (3) than any other city.
However, List of cities with most skyscrapers#Cities with at least 1 skyscraper above 300m (i.e. about 75–80 floors) (under construction & construction paused inclusive) has 4 cities with 4 buildings over 400m: Doha, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai. Strangely, the previous section has New York, Shanghai and Shenzhen. It seems that Shanghai does not have these "more than any other city", but it is unclear which cities tie with Shanghai. 82.141.94.24 (talk) 18:08, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

I've removed the outdated claim. Many super-tall skyscrapers have been built in the Middle East in recent years. -Zanhe (talk) 22:03, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

China (Shanghai) Free Trade Zone

This page does not contain any information on the China (Shanghai) Free Trade Zone, a very important feature of Shanghai's history of economic development and current economy. This should be amended immediately, seeing as the FTZ has its own page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_(Shanghai)_Pilot_Free-Trade_Zone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by China Briefing (talk • contribs) 10:03, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2014

There are two errors in the second paragraph of the Culture section.

In the latest (past) 5 years Shanghai has been widely recognized as a new influence and inspiration for cyberpunk culture.[100] Futuristic buildings such as the Oriental Pearl Tower and the neon-illuminated Yan'an Elevated Road are a few examples that have helped to boast (boost) Shanghai's cyberpunk image.

Please change

In the latest 5 years Shanghai has been widely recognized as a new influence and inspiration for cyberpunk culture.[100] Futuristic buildings such as the Oriental Pearl Tower and the neon-illuminated Yan'an Elevated Road are a few examples that have helped to boast Shanghai's cyberpunk image.

to

In the past 5 years Shanghai has been widely recognized as a new influence and inspiration for cyberpunk culture.[100] Futuristic buildings such as the Oriental Pearl Tower and the neon-illuminated Yan'an Elevated Road are a few examples that have helped to boost Shanghai's cyberpunk image.

Thanks! Anarchistamy (talk) 21:03, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for pointing this out. --NeilN talk to me 21:22, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Shanghai is the World's largest city proper

describing Shanghai as China's largest city doesn't properly describe Shanghai as a dominant World city. Moreover as China becomes the most powerful country economically in the world, Shanghai will be the most powerful city in the world economically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.111.88.66 (talk) 03:03, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

The term city proper is rather complicated when it comes to Chinese cities. The article on the subject has a section titled, 'Controversy' which deals largely with Chinese cities. Shanghai is not the worlds largest city by most metrics and not even the largest by city proper according to [[7]] on Wikipedia. If you have better sources, do update those lists. Rincewind42 (talk) 15:20, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Which Demonym Is More Appropriate for Describing People of Shanghai

Just try to raise awareness of the correct form of the demonym. I doubt the word "Shanghainese" is acceptable to most Shanghai people. Various reasons as we may know. Also, using the word "Shanghaier" (kidnapper) in the wiki page of Shanghainese_people to describe Shanghai people nowadays is even more ridiculous. I suggest using "Shanghaian" which is not only grammatically correct, but also acceptable to the locals and more understandable to the foreigners. Also, there has been some talk about the name of the Shanghai language in the past years (see my recent comment in that talk section too). I think the demonym for Shanghai people deserves a good discussion here as well. --MakeItFair Hopefully (talk) 18:40, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

I think you misunderstand the purpose of Wikipedia. Wikipedia's policy is to use the most common terms of the English language, not to promote terms that are deemed more "correct". See WP:COMMONNAME. Whether we like it or not, Shanghainese is by far the most common demonym for Shanghai, and I've never seen any respectable media use the term "Shanghaian". -Zanhe (talk) 22:32, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Aside from @Zanhe:'s correct observation that Wikipedia follows WP:COMMONNAME, "Shanghaian" with its three consecutive vowels does not scan well for the average English reader. The convention of using the "-ese" suffix in Chinese demonyms is also well-established : Taiwanese, Hainanese and Fujianese to name but three. ► Philg88 ◄ talk 04:08, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Hey guys, thanks for the pointers. As all these recent demonyms for Shanghai people are arbitrarily "created" based on different understanding, it seems that only time will tell which one should prevail and become established. As mentioned in the wiki commonname policy, since there is no single obvious term based on which the editors can reach a consensus, we've got to live with a mixed use of all these, I'm afraid. However, I doubt that the evidence above can actually hold. For example, "Ghanaian" is a word with three consecutive vowels, let alone the well established "Hawaiian" with four vowels. Furthermore, as Taiwan, Hainan, Fujian are words ended with letter "n", it actually makes sense to append -ese to them, while it's not easy to justify this letter "n" showing up in "Shanghainese". So hopefully our discussion could raise awareness among concerned users. I will try to edit pages with more obvious errors like "Shanghaiers" in Shanghainese_people and Shanghainese_dialect when I have a chance. --MakeItFair Hopefully (talk) 19:23, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for @Zanhe:'s observation on the terms which I fully respect, while it is necessary to restate one point above that there is "Shanghaier" as the demonym for Shanghai after the word "Shanghai" FIRST, and then the British immigrants started to use the non-capitalized word "shanghai" as verb and "shanghaier" as noun for the meaning of "former custom of kidnapping sailors to man ships going to China" in later 1840s. It is same for Pekingese with a meaning of "a dog of a small breed developed in China, having a flat nose, a long straight coat, and a tail that curls over the back". It is quite common in English language to use a demonym to describe the local features, but no one city changes its demonym due to the above reasons, like putting the cart before the horse. English-language media did not start to use the word "Shanghainese" until late 1990s, mostly copied from then local media in Shanghai, with poor knowledge of English and created "-nese" suffix. Anyway, like "Hong Kongnese" is the most common demonym for Hong Kong, Hong Kong people still prefer to use "Hongkonger" as the demonym. Thus, both demonyms can exist to describe Hong Kong people as on the Wiki page of Hong Kong. -- Jeremyshih
WP:COMMONNAME stipulates that we use the most common term in English, regardless of its origin or "correctness". And Shanghainese is by far the most common term for describing the people and language of Shanghai. Google books returns 21,600 results for "Shanghainese", vs. only 87 for "Shanghaian", whereas almost all results for "Shanghaier" are in German. -Zanhe (talk) 20:16, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Wow.

I know the main issue was already addressed but, for future editors, it may be important to note

  • MIF: A) No, the term 'Shanghainese' is not pejorative and, in years of living here, the Shanghainese have absolutely problem with it, any more than they have a problem with 'Chinese'. Its use is a standard part of students' English education, which is mandatory at most schools. The only issues locals have with the term—apart from all the baggage over cultural chauvinism w/r/t 'outsiders' and the 'New Shanghainese'—is that they want to use it as a countable noun in a similar fashion to Shanghairen/Zaanhening: "He's a Shanghainese" instead of just "He's Shanghainese".
    B) No, I don't really know why you think the term would be offensive. I'm sure eventually some fenqing will start a campaign to use "Zhongguonese", but Shanghai isn't even an exonym. The Chinese have no problem with it, except grammatically. (There are some Western scholars who object to -ese as 'orientalizing', but it's a little foreign precisely because the first reports on East Asia came in from Italians, Spaniards, and Portuguese. No one really thinks of 'Milanese' as insulting, except when they have opposing tastes in soccer teams.)
    C) No, Shanghaian is neither more correct nor more acceptable nor more understandable. It is, in fact, much less so on all counts.
    D) While Shanghai itself has only been important to English-speakers since the Opium Wars, the use of the -ese suffix to describe the peoples of East Asia goes back to the very first English translations of the Spanish and Portuguese voyages of discovery. They are nearly as old as actual descriptions of these places (beginning with Polo), other than via Latin, where the -ensis suffix was similarly used. This is not a "new" or "alternate" thing.
    E) The addition of an -n- is a phonetic kludge (possibly via one of the Romance languages, possibly via analogy with Chinese) and has no bearing at all upon the ubiquity of "Shanghainese" versus the cacophonous "Shanghaiese". Its very existence and popularity belies the idea that such a suffix "doesn't exist", at least in this case. You also have Hangzhounese, Suzhounese...
    F) In fine, "Shanghaian" violates WP:FRINGE, WP:NEOLOGISM, and any mention of it on the page would violate WP:UNDUE WEIGHT. If you can start to get people elsewhere to use it enough to start registering on ngram or something comparable on Scholar, we'll have something we can work with. Until then, not so much.

    G) As an aside, "Shanghaier" isn't "wrong": it's just much less common and (given the kidnapping associations) infelicitous. "Shanghailander" is wrong (someone mentioned it over at Talk:Shanghainese), since it properly referred to the expatriates living in the Shanghai concessions and not to the locals themselves. Do kindly correct times when you see people (mis)using those.
  • Mr Shih: A) As far as I am (or the OED is) aware, the verb 'to shanghai' is very much an Americanism—from Portland and San Francisco's China trade—that has nothing to do with the British. (Their services were so used to kidnapping workers they simply kept on with the old 'impress' and 'dragoon'.) I don't have Lexus/Nexus to speak to periodical usage but the ngram results above show "Shanghainese" in English much earlier than "the 1990s". Granted, it was more common not to distinguish the Shanghainese, just to lump them together as "Chinese", "Chinamen", or "natives"; all the same, when distinction was needed, Google Books has Shanghaiese in 1860 and Shanghainese by 1913. (It also 'Shanghaian' as early as 1850, but every example I could find was just their machine reader misunderstanding "Shanghais", "Shanghai an", or "ought to have".)
    B) Where did you get the idea that "Hong Kongnese" was common? It isn't. You're thinking of Hongkongese, I think. Both are used on Hong Kong because they're both used elsewhere, commonly enough that mentioning them doesn't mean we're giving WP:UNDUE WEIGHT to the term.

 — LlywelynII 07:50, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Yangtze River Delta

The image is a beautiful one but, as mentioned in my edit and in the discussion on its article's talk page, it's not the "Yangtze River delta", which Hangzhou is very much not a part of. I'm not sure what the map is supposed to show or why Nanjing is a separate color. (One of the regional economic groups?) It should probably be redone with Shanghai singled out and (maybe) the actual Yangtze delta watershed shown. — LlywelynII 08:06, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

History section

Some separate issues:

  • The early sections state "Shanghai belonged..." and discuss it as if it were already existent by the Spring and Autumn Period. We probably shouldn't do that, as:
  • Personally, I'd like to see a source that the land that Shanghai is on was existent by then: the Yangtze deposits enormous amounts of silt: the entire peninsula Haimen and Qidong sit on was formed within the last few centuries.
  • It would also be good if there were a map or animated map of the formation of Shanghai's peninsula. The present downtown is landlocked but much of Pudong is relatively new.
  • It would also be good to list and cite the earliest documentary evidence that Shanghai or something like Shanghai existed. I need to dig the book out from under something but I seem to remember seeing that the earliest evidence of settlement in the area of the Old City was c. 3rd century and the evidence for Shanghai itself was after that.
  • Since the city wall didn't exist since the 16th century, we shouldn't be using a picture of it to illustrate the ancient city.
  • "From... 1292 until Shanghai officially became a city in 1927" is probably not the best way to phrase this. In English, county seats can be towns or cities; in Chinese, "city" can be county- or prefecture-level but neither are municipalities, which is what Shanghai became in 1927. Besides, didn't getting the City God(s) Temple upgrade the status of Shanghai? What is the editor trying to say that Shanghai wasn't measuring up to? (Provincial-level municipalities didn't exist at all in Old China.)
  • No need to sugarcoat the racism present but the development of the city by the international settlement should be addressed: Shanghai had China's first railroad, first (iirc) telegraph line, HSBC, &c.
  • The present phrasing makes it sound like Japan's war crimes in Shanghai occurred mainly during its withdrawal, which seems doubtful. I'm sure it was horrible, but better to give some context and detail rather than just hurl epithets as well, even if that means linking to the description in the History of Shanghai article rather than to the main Japanese war crimes one. Similarly "a railway station" seems needlessly inexact, given that Shanghai had two. Is the photo from the south one?
  • Shanghai did not "become" a center for radical leftism in the '50s and '60s. It had been one for the entirety of leftism's existence in China. It's not propaganda to mention the city's importance to the CCP or the slaughter of CCP members carried out in the '20s that filled up Longhua. Both the forced and the volunteer zhiqing should probably be addressed.
  • 'Productivity' is probably being misused, unless it's only relative to that in other areas of China.

 — LlywelynII 09:45, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

  • Much of the land of Shanghai is actually quite ancient, although the eastern and northern parts were only formed in the last 1500 years or so. The southwestern portion (Qingpu, Songjiang, Minhang, etc.) was home to several important neolithic cultures dating to as early as 4000 BC, see Majiabang culture, Songze culture, Liangzhu culture, Maqiao culture (Songze and Maqiao are both named after their type sites in Shanghai). I'll try to add a summary of them to the section when I have time.
  • Re "becoming" a center of leftism, it's quite accurate IMO. Although Shanghai was the center of leftism in the 1920s, it wasn't as radical as later, and was quite effectively extinguished by Chiang Kai-shek's White Terror, allied with Du Yuesheng's Green Gang.
  • Japanese war crimes were mainly committed at the beginning of the war, during the fierce Battle of Shanghai, rather than the end of the war. The railway station depicted in the iconic crying baby photo is the old South Station (not the current one in Xuhui) which was completely destroyed by Japanese bombing in 1937. I've edited the caption to clarify that.
  • I've edited the article to address some of your more minor points.
-Zanhe (talk) 21:35, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Pronunciation mess

The Shanghainese IPA was already in the infobox (and dealt with better, since it should have tone numbers). Pinyin is phonetic, so IPA isn't needful and (if included) should just go in the infobox and not a (badly-formatted) version of the {{zh}} template. The English pronunciation is straightforward and therefore unnecessary (WP:NOTADICTIONARY). There will be some native speakers who pronounce it shaahng, some as shaing, and (for English) neither is "more correct". — LlywelynII 07:09, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Now, that said, tone marks could helpfully be included, since it is needful. It's already in the Chinese infobox but could also replace the title of the provincial infobox so it's readily visible. — LlywelynII 07:11, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

In standard Mandarin, 上 is pronounced shaahng. So if Mandarin is the standard language of China, then shaahng would be the correct pronunciation. -JesseW900 (talk) 14:44, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
@JesseW900: I'm afraid that you're missing the point. As I have explained to you previously, Wikipedia uses pinyin as detailed in the Chinese style guide. IPA pronunciations only clutter things up and don't help much - pinyin with tone marks is much easier to read than IPA.  Philg88 ♦talk 15:11, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
I understand what you mean. But from a practical point of view, not many people can read either pinyin or Mandarin IPA. Therefore showing the English IPA is the best way to convey the pronunciation. -JesseW900 (talk) 15:17, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
If you want China-related articles to use IPA rather than pinyin, then this is not the correct place to argue the case. You need to start a request for comments at an appropriate venue in order to change existing guideline. IMHO, such a proposal is unlikely to gain much support based on the long standing consensus to use pinyin.  Philg88 ♦talk 15:28, 4 May 2015 (UTC) .
I see. I agree pinyin should be the standard notation for China-related articles and I didn't mean to change that. However, can I just add English IPAs as "footnotes" (e.g. using [5]), to help clarify the pronunciation where necessary? -JesseW900 (talk) 17:26, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
The issue then arises of when it is "necessary". In the case of "Shanghai", it certainly isn't. You might like to raise the issue at Wikiproject China Talk to gauge how other editors feel about your suggestion.  Philg88 ♦talk 18:15, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
I think that in the case of "Shanghai", an English IPA as a footnote would be both useful and "necessary." Though the official and common Chinese pronunciation is shaahng, English speakers in the U.S. (and perhaps other places) always pronounce it as shaing. Thus, a clarification for the pronunciation of the word should be really helpful. Tony Tan · talk 19:42, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ Chan, Kam Wing (2007). "Misconceptions and Complexities in the Study of China's Cities: Definitions, Statistics, and Implications" (PDF). Eurasian Geography and Economics. 48 (4): 383–412. Retrieved 2011-08-07. p. 395
  2. ^ "What are China's largest and richest cities?". University of Southern California.
  3. ^ "Cities: largest (without surrounding suburban areas)". Geohive.
  4. ^ "Agglomerations over 750,000 (with 2010 ranking)". Geohive.
  5. ^ ...

Timeline of Shanghai

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Quality images of Shanghai?

I was surprised to see how few Quality, Valued, and/or Featured images there are of Shanghai. Does anyone know of any good images worth nominating, either here at English Wikipedia or at Commons? ---Another Believer (Talk) 04:57, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Most populous in Asia?

The very first sentence of the article: 

Shanghai is the most populous city in both China and Asia as well as the most populous city proper in the world.

Wasn't Tokyo the largest city in Asia (and the world) in terms of total (not just the city proper) population? Wishva de Silva | Talk 11:42, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Names

and not #Etymology and Names per WP:COMMON, WP:SCOPE, and WP:TERSE. There's nothing added by the longer name and needless eyesore and makework created for links. That said, the {{anchor}} links for #Etymology and #Name should be left for editors here and abroad linking to those. Also, at some point, the major alt and former names should be bolded, unless there's some strong consensus or reason against it. — LlywelynII 14:07, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Internal links removal

Recently, several IP users from Taiwan constantly reverted my edits that added some essential internal wiki links(e.g. Yu Garden, Nanjing Road) without a valid reason. These IPs are very likely to belong to the same person. --117.136.44.234 (talk) 13:14, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Can you say something about City University, Cambodia?The broken from china.--101.15.83.134 (talk) 13:22, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
The talk page is where we discuss things relevant to this article. What you say is nonsense to me.--117.136.44.234 (talk) 13:34, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
I only know that you use wikis as a lecture to promote big Chineseism, and from similar IP and account tracking you can find that you are happy to do these things, such as promoting nationalism or promoting nationalism. The specific approach is like an over-link or Avoid labels.--180.204.135.68 (talk) 13:42, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
What you "only know" doesn't and cannot serve as a valid reason for your irrational and unexplained removal. Btw, I'm,not promoting nationalism and there is no term called "Chineseism". 117.136.44.234 (talk) 13:49, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
You can see Liu Xiaobo. Your IP on there clam that he is a cheat.Don't you? And this page had over link.It is not necessary.--101.12.195.116 (talk) 13:54, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Liu Xiaobo, man, he's kicked the bucket. How could I see him as a living being. Besides, these links are definitely not "overlinked" as similar city articles (NYC, Tokyo, Paris all have links in their infobox pic caption part. 117.136.44.234 (talk) 14:00, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
If you can let me believe that is necessary.We can end this.Now I don't believe.--101.14.128.158 (talk) 14:05, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Lol, just lol. You are hilarious.117.136.44.234 (talk) 14:11, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
I found that chinese like personal attacks.Is this a Chinese custom?Do not understand the idea of different races or foreigners.--101.10.37.166 (talk) 14:17, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
You are oversensitive. Laughing at you isn't personal attacks. Btw, asserting all the Chinese to "like personal attacks" is "attacks" on the Chinese people as well, or simply racism.117.136.44.234 (talk) 14:24, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
So return to say that why you think those links are necessary.--49.216.145.104 (talk) 14:28, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
First, this is English wikipedia whose readers may know little about China's cities. That is to see, locales like Yu Garden or Nanjing Road may be unfamiliar to readers which is also why internal wiki links exists to assist readers to better understand the context. In addition, these links I added don't occcur in the following couple sentences.117.136.44.234 (talk) 14:33, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Give me 10 minutes to read those links again.--115.82.3.182 (talk) 14:42, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
The Bind also needs to be linked according to your words.This time I think your words are right. Ended the event.--117.19.225.127 (talk) 14:51, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with those links. Don't know why they were originally unwanted by the other editor. Mr. Magoo (talk) 05:37, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Robert Jacquinot de Besange image

A hefty mention of Robert Jacquinot de Besange is warranted, but someone added a huge image of him to the history section. Is that really warranted now, taking so much space? We already talk about him and have his article linked, but his image and the large textbox accompanying it that pretty much replicates what's already written next to it just take up so much room. Mr. Magoo (talk) 06:17, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Well, I changed it to a shot of the Zhabei District burning in 1937. It's better to have glimpses of the situation of the actual city. Mr. Magoo (talk) 02:26, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
I also noticed that the Bloody Saturday (photograph) file in our article is of noticiably lower resolution than the one at the primary article for it. Although the one there doesn't have its borders cropped. Worthy of switching? Mr. Magoo (talk) 07:07, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Future article expansion

Some stuff from the official website for the 2001 APEC summit

with historical and historical economic details on the city, particularly Pudong. Also really weird bits of "culture", such as the claim that comic books were invented in Shanghai, were "spiritual food for thousands of teens", and "seem to have left us without a trace". There's probably something genuine lost in translation but this is an official government source overseen by the then-ministers of foreign affairs and trade and Shanghai's mayor so... yeah. — LlywelynII 05:54, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Rise and golden age

There is no mention of golden age in the text in this section. When it started or possibly ended (if it ended).

So im not sure why Golden Age was added to the title. Seems like Chinese empire might have had a few, but when was Shanghais? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cornersss (talk • contribs) 03:43, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 April 2018

Please say something that it is the most populous city not counting the whole metropolitan area. Arose77 (talk) 15:36, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. L293D (☎ • ✎) 19:13, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 May 2018

Please change

|subdivision_name = People's Republic of China

to

|subdivision_name =  China

because MOS:INFOBOXFLAG states: Human geographic articles – for example settlements and administrative subdivisions – may have flags of the country and first-level administrative subdivision in infoboxes. This sentence has apparently justified the use of the Chinese flag. 123.161.169.67 (talk) 10:33, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

 Done L293D (☎ • ✎) 14:47, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
@CaradhrasAiguo: MOS:INFOBOXFLAG states Human geographic articles – for example settlements and administrative subdivisions – may have flags of the country and first-level administrative subdivision in infoboxes. I am going to re-add the flag. L293D (☎ • ✎) 17:09, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
@L293D: The key word is may. The vast majority of mainland Chinese place articles do not have the PRC flag, and it is better to maintain within-country consistency than satisfy the whims of a few. In fact, the flag had been absent before one single-purpose account appeared to haphazardly add it to this as well as several Zhejiang city articles. Besides, edits by socks of the banned Whaterss are to be reverted on sight. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 18:49, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 May 2018

I want to add Israel's Messenger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%27s_Messenger) to the media section under "newspapers formerly published in Shanghai". Thank you! Kelberry (talk) 23:46, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

 Done Thank you. - FlightTime (open channel) 23:52, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

The economy section needs an update

I found an excellent resource that provides facts and figures from 2017

http://china-trade-research.hktdc.com/business-news/article/Facts-and-Figures/Shanghai-Market-Profile/ff/en/1/1X000000/1X06BVOR.htm

I updated one section of Economy but other sections are overdue for an update. Peter K Burian (talk) 18:15, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Change of main image

Who changed the main image of this article? The previous one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shanghai_montage.png has been the main image for a long time, since it's very well-done and showcases the most distinct landmarks of the city. It also has a very nice blend of colors. The new one (whoever made it) is cluttered, contains way too many images and has a too much emphasis on skyscrapers (it even contains 4 images from the same location in Lujiazui!). We should change back to the previous one. /Jonipoon (talk) 12:45, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Being the main image for a long time can't be a reason it can't be removed. Whether this image is cluttered or not is very subjective. I think he did a great job in some sense, the image just needs to become more diverse by showing more locations. Dr. Hud (talk) 00:05, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Someone has reverted back to the previous one, which is perfect and doesn't need to be changed. It showcases 5 different locations, 5 locations that are very distinct and among the most popular locations in the city. Also those locations look exactly the same today. Also the quality of the photography is superb. /Jonipoon (talk) 11:40, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

the mysterious Queen of Garbage

There was a woman who "ruled" on Shangai, next to Mr. Du, in the 1930s, and she was called "The Queen of detritus" because she manages those who picked up garbage in the 1930 Shanghai. I could not find traces of her unless mentioned briefly in a biography of Henry Verne ( and no, it’s not a fictional caracter )

The quote is there: "China in 1930 was not what it should be now. Shanghai was rather a set of concessions. As in the colonies, there were natives, Chinese, and there were international and French concessions. There were playhouses, dancings. There too, you would have to write a whole book to describe that country at that time. It was led by the Shanghai police chief, Mr. Du, who was almighty, and by a woman whom I never met, and who was the "queen of detritus" since it was she who looked after everyone who picked up trash in Shanghai. She was virtually the queen of Shanghai and ran everything. " 

Extract of Bob Morane and me ... Vernes, Henri

If someone seems this, could you find me a links that would lead to information of this woman, please?

Thank you in advance. Vicvicludo (talk) 18:45, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Above the sea

I am an American who lived in China and I speak the Mandarin language, and I always understood the name Shanghai to mean "above the sea" precisely because centuries ago it was located near the Huangpu river and Suzhou creek - which are freshwater and not saltwater - and the original city was situated far away from the ocean. Obviously, the city grew and it is now adjacent to the East China Sea. Indeed, the city was written about with this exact derivation "above the sea" by late 18th century residents (sorry I lost the reference but I read them years ago). "Upon the sea" is an odd interpretation, in my opinion. It is not the most natural way to define "shang" in this context and it is not aligned with the history of Shanghai and its development. It is called "above the sea" because the city was originally far away from the sea. Someone should definitively research this topic and make sure this wikipedia entry is correct.

I have a question: Could you write : « Queen of garbage » in Mandarin, because i need to search something in mandarin in wikipedia and other websites ( if you want to know why and understand, look at the most recent discussion , the « mysterious queen of garbage )? Vicvicludo (talk) 18:49, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Shanghai for deletion

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Hey there! I'll be reviewing this article over the next few days. Please be patient, and let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I've lived in Shanghai for a number of years, so this should be fun. Bobbychan193 (talk) 23:46, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Lead

Prose  Done
  • Make sure all information in the lead is repeated and cited in the body of the article.
  • I suggest moving all citations into the body of the article and keeping the lead clean and free of citations (see MOS:LEADCITE)
    • Non-controversial ones  Done, but citations are probably needed for claims like "Shanghai is a global financial hub." (see Singapore) and numbers (see Seattle). Akira CA (talk) 14:08, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
  • "It is the most populous urban area in China, and the second most populous city proper in the world (after Chongqing)." Before this sentence, add With a population of 24.2 million {{as of|2018|lc=y}}, [...] for better context
  • Try to split up the middle paragraph; it's a little long. Maybe at "During World War II, [...]"
    •  Done, but before another sentence. Akira CA (talk) 14:08, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Expand the last paragraph. Try include a sentence (or at least part of a sentence) on each of the following topics: Shanghai cuisine, the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, Shanghainese, culture (visual arts, cinema, performing arts, etc.)
  • There are a lot of famous events held in Shanghai every year (Shanghai Fashion Week, Shanghai Art Festival, Shanghai Tour Festival, Shanghai Movie and Television Festival, Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai Masters, etc.); say something like "Shanghai hosts numerous international events, [...]" then either list 4 to 5 of the most famous ones, or say "spanning numerous industries including fashion, entertainment, and sports"
  • "As a major administrative, shipping, and trading city, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century" this seems a bit weird, since this paragraph talks about Shanghai's history. Was Shanghai "a major administrative, shipping, and trading city" in or before the 19th century? Probably not. The word "major" is also subjective. I would replace this entire phrase with a segue from early history, like "Originally a fishing village and market town, Shanghai grew [...]"
Infobox  Done
  • "Dong Yunhu[citation needed]" add citation
  • "($494 billion)(11th)" add space in between
  • Why is $494 billion in parentheses, while $20,425 isn't? Be consistent
  • "沪A-沪B, 沪D-沪H, 沪J-沪N" change hyphens to en dashes (–)

Prose

Overall reminders and comments

  • Make sure there aren't any duplicate Wikilinks throughout the body of the article; see MOS:LINK (and specifically MOS:DL)
    •  Done But there is a whole section on Shanghai FTZ, and the link to the FTZ has appeared earlier. Shall I still delete the link in this case? Akira CA (talk) 12:00, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
      • For these kinds of situations, what you can do is use the {{main}} template, then delete duplicate links.
        • Great idea,  Done Akira CA (talk) 06:36, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Use American English (per the article's talk page)
  • "10 meters (33 feet) high and 5 kilometers (3 miles)" abbreviate all units in parentheses (i.e. imperial units). Also abbreviate things like "square kilometers"
  • Try to be consistent throughout the article (i.e. "Old City", "mainland China", serial comma, etc.)
  • There's only a few citations left in the lead. Some of the information that they're citing isn't repeated in the body of the article. We should make sure we do that, then move the citations down. Bobbychan193 (talk) 05:42, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
  • If you have time, add alternative text to all of the images
  • We should expand the Economy section. For starters, we should add a section titled "Foreign trade and investment" that includes exports, imports, foreign investment, etc.

Subsections

Etymology  Done
  • "Upon-the-Sea" delete hyphens (unless written like this in a citation) (also change this in the infobox)
  • "at which time" change to "when"
  • "There are disputes as to exactly how the name should be understood" change to "How the name should be understood has been disputed"
  • "during the Tang dynasty Shanghai" comma after dynasty
  • Resolve the "clarification needed" tag
  • There are several citations that simply provide Traditional Chinese and Shanghainese versions of Simplified Chinese characters. Try to change these into notes instead of citations. Use these codes: {{#tag:ref|Insert note here.<ref>Insert citation here.</ref>|group=note}} and {{reflist|group=note}} (See Vietnam and the World Bank and its source code as an example.)
  • "a contraction of 沪渎 (Hù Dú/Vu Doh, lit "Harpoon Ditch"),[22][23] a 4th- or 5th-century Jin name for the mouth of Suzhou Creek when it was the main conduit into the ocean.[22]" The first [22] citation can be deleted since everything is in the same sentence.
  • "This character appears on all motor vehicle license plates issued in the municipality today." I know this is "common sense", but it's best to add a citation.
  • "Sports teams and newspapers in Shanghai" change to "Shanghainese sports teams and newspapers"
  • "established by the Governor of Wu Commandery Zhao Juzhen at modern-day Songjiang" change to "established by Zhao Juzhen, the governor of Wu Commandery at modern-day Songjiang" (note that "Governor" should be lowercase)
  • "Today" this is problematic, because the reader (as well as fellow editors) don't know when the last time this was fact-checked or updated. Change to an "as of" template. Also try to find and add a more recent citation than the one from 2004.
  • "The city also has various nicknames in English" delete "also"
History  Done
Ancient / Imperial history  Done
  • "the Shanghai area" was Shanghai already a defined area during this time period? If not, change this to "the area of modern-day Shanghai"
  • Starting to see some duplicate Wikilinks, such as Lord Chunshen. Just a reminder to go through the entire article and make sure there aren't any duplicates.
  • Cite the last sentence ending with "abbreviation for the city."
  • "fifth year" change to "the fifth year"
  • "contemporary sources" vague. Say something like "contemporary scholars" if possible
    •  I reviewed the source and substituted it with "historically". Akira CA (talk) 14:34, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "The famous Song scholar and artist Mi Fu served as its mayor." famous to whom? Either clarify, or delete "famous"
  • "The port had a thriving trade" change to either "The port had a thriving trade relationship" or "The port experienced thriving trade"
  • "as well as foreign countries" add "with" before "foreign"
  • "By the end of the Song dynasty, the center of trading had moved downstream of the Wusong River to Shanghai, which was upgraded in status from a village to a market town in 1074, and in 1172 a second sea wall was built to stabilize the ocean coastline, supplementing an earlier dike." add comma after 1172. It's also a long sentence; split it up somewhere in the middle, like this: "By the end of the Song dynasty, the center of trading had moved downstream of the Wusong River to Shanghai. It was upgraded in status from a village to a market town in 1074, and in 1172, a second sea wall was built to stabilize the ocean coastline, supplementing an earlier dike."
  • "whose" not sure if this is the right word. Rephrase
  • "10 metres (33 feet) high and 5 kilometres (3 miles)" American spellings. There's a parameter in the convert template to do this
  • "important psychological boost" what does this mean? Clarify
  • "It probably reflected the town's economic importance, as opposed to its low political status." Rephrase to say "Scholars have theorized that this likely reflected the town's economic importance, as opposed to its low political status."
  • "policy changes: In 1684" lowercase i
  • "vessels – a ban" change en dash to em dash and delete spaces. Since the lead already uses em dashes, let's be consistent throughout the article and exclusively use em dashes in these kinds of situations
  • "in 1732" add comma
  • "by 1735 Shanghai had become the major trade port for all of the lower Yangtze region" change to "Shanghai became the major trade port for all of the lower Yangtze region by 1735"
Rise and golden age  Done
  • This section has only a few citations; make sure every fact and claim is cited.
  • "International attention to Shanghai grew in the 19th century" move "in the 19th century" to the beginning of the sentence
  • "The war ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanking" change to "The war ended in 1842 with the Treaty of Nanking"
  • "dictate opening the treaty ports, Shanghai included, for international trade" can we be more specific about "the treaty ports"? There were five Chinese cities opened as treaty ports right?
  • "The Treaty of the Bogue signed in 1843, and the Sino-American Treaty of Wanghia signed in 1844 forced" change to "The Treaty of the Bogue and the Sino-American Treaty of Wanghia (signed in 1843 and 1844, respectively) forced"
    •  Rephrased, but not sure if "1844 and 1844" is the right phrase to use. Akira CA (talk) 14:29, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "(under the 1844 Treaty of Whampoa)" probably not needed; delete
  • "fell to the rebels of the Small Swords Society" change to "fell to rebels from the Small Swords Society"
  • "in 1853 but" missing comma
  • "Between 1860–1862," change dash to "and"
  • En dashes to em dashes. Won't be commenting on this again; try to change it throughout the rest of the article
  • "fled the newly established Soviet Union and took up residence in Shanghai" change to "fled the newly established Soviet Union to reside in Shanghai"
  • "which were soon" change "were" to "was"
  • "Far East" either link or explain
    •  Sentence deleted Akira CA (talk) 14:29, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "Although the territory of the foreign concessions was excluded from their control" can we change this to say "Although the foreign concessions territories were excluded from their control"? Is this accurate? There were at least two separate territories right?
  • "kilometres" Amer. spelling
  • "Baoshan, Yangpu, Zhabei, Nanshi, and Pudong" if these are the first instances of appearing in the body of the article, they should be linked (and duplicate links later on should be deleted)
  • "when the plan was interrupted" change to "before being interrupted"
Wartime era / Modern history  Done
  • "The Battle of Shanghai in 1937 resulted in the occupation of the Chinese administered parts of Shanghai outside of the International Settlement and the French Concession." change to "In 1937, the Battle of Shanghai resulted in the occupation of the Chinese-administered parts of Shanghai outside of the International Settlement and the French Concession."
  • "People who stayed in the occupied city of Shanghai saw no end to their suffering. They experienced death, hunger, destruction, and oppression on daily basis." change to "People who stayed in the occupied city suffered on a daily basis, experiencing hunger, oppression, or even death."
  • "[...], during which time many war crimes were committed." change to "; many war crimes were committed during this time."
  • "People's Republic of China" first instance; link
  • "over the next decade" is used twice. I would delete the first instance, because even today, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin are still their own provinces.
  • "Shanghai underwent a series of changes in the boundaries of its subdivisions over the next decade. After 1949, most foreign firms moved their offices from Shanghai to Hong Kong, as part of a foreign divestment due to the Communist victory." both of these sentences are unsourced
    •  First sentence deleted (it overlaps with the next paragraph). Second done.
  • "divestment" link
  • "the Communist victory" change to "the PRC's victory" or "the Liberation Army's victory"
  • Some of these citations are incomplete. Specifically: "Problems and Planning in Third World Cities (Routledge Revivals), edited by Michael Pacione"; "Metropolitan Planning and Management in the Developing World: Shanghai and Guangzhou, China"; and "The Party: The Secret World of China Communist rulers". These seem like book titles, so do a quick online search and add any author names, publishers, publishing years, ISBNs, etc. you find.
  • "86,300 hectares" "591,000 hectares" use the {{convert}} template. Replace hectares with square kilometers (km2 in the template), and have either acres or square miles in parentheses.
  • Keep in mind MOS:LINK (and specifically MOS:DL)
  • "the urban districts were reduced to 10." what does this mean? There were 10 districts left? This should be clarified. Either say how many districts there were before this reduction, or clarify how many districts got removed to get to this result of 10.
  • "During the 1950s and 1960s, Shanghai became the center for radical leftism since it was the industrial center of China with most skilled industrial workers." change to "As the industrial center of China with most skilled industrial workers, Shanghai became a center for radical leftism during the 1950s and 1960s."
  • "Yet, even during the most tumultuous times of the Cultural Revolution, Shanghai was able to maintain high economic productivity and relative social stability." subjective-sounding sentences like this should be cited
  • "During most of the history of the PRC, Shanghai has been a comparatively heavy contributor of tax revenue to the central government, with Shanghai in 1983 contributing more in tax revenue to the central government than Shanghai had received in investment in the prior 33 years combined." too long; cut it down. Something like "Since 1949, Shanghai has been a comparatively heavy contributor of tax revenue to the central government; in 1983, the city's contribution in tax revenue was greater than investment received in the past 33 years combined."
  • "welfare" add "the"
  • The final few sentences are all uncited
  • "starting the massive development still seen today and the birth of Lujiazui in Pudong" change to "which started the massive development still seen today and created Lujiazui in Pudong"
Geography  Done
Beginning section  Done
  • I just noticed that "Old City" is not consistently capitalized throughout the article. I suggest making it all capitalized, unless there is a different usage for the near-identical phrase, "old city". (If so, let me know)
  • "Municipality of Shanghai" add link (even though it currently redirects to another section in the same article, it can still be useful for readers, and an article might be created for it in the future)
  • Add links: "Chongming Island", "island in mainland China" (the current link links to a redirect to List of islands of China, so might as well link that directly. It's unfortunate that the list is incomplete/not very useful, but oh well), "tributary", "sandy soil" (link to loam)
  • Also link any regions/locations that are appearing for the first time in the article, and any terms that the average reader might not understand
  • "This deep-water port was made necessary by the increasing size of container ships but also the silting of the Yangtze, which narrows to less than 20 meters (66 ft) as far out as 45 miles (70 km) from Hengsha." confusing sentence (clarify); change "ships but also" to "ships, as well as" for better flow (no pun intended)
    • ☒N Deleted, this is irrelevant to geography and already existed below
  • delete "that was"
  • "The central financial district Lujiazui" add commas before and after Lujiazui
  • "has grown up" weird phrasing. Change
    •  How about "has been created"? Akira CA (talk) 13:33, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
      • I changed it to "has been established". Bobbychan193 (talk) 02:31, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "occasioned by the creation" change to "due to the creation"
  • Move "along the peninsula's eastern shore" to the beginning of the sentence, and add a comma
  • "Shanghai's location on an alluvial plain means that" change to "Shanghai is located on an alluvial plain. As such, [...]"
  • "The few hills such as She Shan lie to the southwest and the highest point is the peak of Dajinshan Island in Hangzhou Bay" change to "Shanghai's few hills, such as Sheshan, lie to the southwest, and the city's highest point is the peak of Dajinshan Island in Hangzhou Bay"
  • "streams and lakes" missing serial comma
Climate  Done
  • "Winters are chilly and damp, with northwesterly winds from Siberia can cause nighttime temperatures to drop below freezing, although most years there are only one or two days of snowfall." change to "Winters are chilly and damp—northwesterly winds from Siberia can cause nighttime temperatures to drop below freezing, although in most years, there are only one or two days of snowfall."
  • "Summers are hot and humid, with an average of 8.7 days exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) annually; occasional downpours or freak thunderstorms can be expected." change to "Summers are hot and humid, and occasional downpours or freak thunderstorms can be expected. On average, 8.7 days exceed 35 °C (95 °F) annually."
  • "in summer and the beginning of autumn" move to beginning of sentence
  • Delete "also" in "is also susceptible"
  • "none of which in recent years has caused considerable damage" change to "which have not caused considerable damage in recent years"
  • "The most pleasant seasons are" change to "The most pleasant seasons are generally"; change second "generally" to "usually"
  • "on 21 July 2017" move this earlier to after "registered"
  • Try to spread out the five citations at the end to make it easier for readers to find the sources for each claim.
    •  Moved some, but deleted those on the same subject
  • Add links for "Xujiahui" (either to Xujiahui or Xujiahui station; probably the latter; and add Xujiahui link for next appearance) and "China Meteorological Administration"
    •  That's more likely to be a weather station, so I linked Xujiahui
Cityscape  Done
  • Add caption for first image. Say "The Pudong skyline"
  • "Panoramic view of Pudong's skyline from the Bund" change to "Panoramic view of the Pudong skyline from the Bund" (note that image captions, tables, etc. are allowed to have duplicate links)
  • "Panoramic view of the Bund" add "from Pudong" at the end
  • Unrelated to the review, but I really like Shanghai's cityscape. It's great.
    • Glad to hear that as I'm a native Shanghainese XD. Akira CA (talk) 00:23, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Architecture  Done
  • The entire first paragraph is unsourced. Add at least one or two citations in there.
  • Try to add extra sources to the rest of this section as well. The citations seem sparse.
  • Add links (especially to famous buildings and architects) where possible. Redlinks are fine when "an article should be created for the topic because the subject is notable and verifiable". Use your own judgement here, and see WP:RED for more information.
  • "art deco Sassoon House" capitalize Art Deco
  • "one of the world's largest number of Art Deco buildings" any way to make this more concise? Also add citation
    • How about simply "Shanghai has many Art Deco buildings"?  Cited Akira CA (talk) 08:04, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
      • Does the source you added support the claim? If so, what I changed it to is fine. Otherwise, delete and replace with "Shanghai has many Art Deco buildings" Bobbychan193 (talk) 05:18, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
        • Yes, so it's fine. Akira CA (talk) 05:58, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "Hungarian-Slovak architect" delete architect
  • "Mansions, and Austrian" change , to ;
  • "Capital Theatre" American spelling unless "Theatre" is part of the official name
  • "Dutch Architect" lowercase architect
  • "In recent years, a great deal of architecturally distinctive and even eccentric buildings have sprung up throughout Shanghai." cut down on flowery language and/or add a citation
  • "old city"
  • "known as a longtang" delete "a"
  • "pronounced longdang in Shanghainese" this seems like it should be in a note
  • "The whole resembles terrace houses or townhouses commonly seen in Anglo-American countries, but distinguished by the tall, heavy brick wall in front of each house." confusing sentence, rephrase and clarify
  • The entire next paragraph is uncited. Also try to make it sound more neutral/encyclopedic
  • "Less than Beijing" what does this mean?
    •  Changed to "fewer" Akira CA (talk) 08:04, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "During this decade" 1949 to 1960s seems like more than a decade, so either clarify, or change "decade" to "time period"
    •  Changed to "time period" Akira CA (talk) 08:04, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "Shanghai Exhibition Centre" it seems that the article it links to calls it "Center", so I would change the spelling (and the link) to "Center"
  • "The Pudong district of Shanghai is home to a number of skyscrapers, many of which rank among the tallest in the world." Aren't there skyscrapers outside of Pudong? Reword this sentence to something like "Shanghai—Pudong district in particular—has numerous skyscrapers, many of which are among the tallest in the world."
  • Link "tallest in the world" to List of tallest buildings and structures (and delete duplicate link later on)
    •  Rephrased so the first instance disappeared. Akira CA (talk) 08:04, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "metres" throughout this paragraph: American spelling
  • "ranks tenth in the world" change to "the tenth tallest in the world"
    • ☒N Deleted, the Shanghai Tower is explained in details instead (as it's the tallest now). Akira CA (talk) 08:04, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "[...], as well as" change to "and"
  • Also check if these rankings are still accurate. I don't know when the last time the article was updated; there might have been new skyscrapers.
  • This section overall is very long. I recommend adding subsections so that its seven paragraphs can flow better. Some potential subsection headings: "20th-century architecture", "Contemporary architecture", "Shikumen", skyscrapers, etc. Some restructuring or re-ordering of paragraphs might be needed. Make sure to move relevant images to their own sections as well.
  • Also try to expand or add a new paragraph about skyscrapers. Currently, only their heights are listed. Try to add some content about their architectural designs, as well as their functions.
Politics  Done
Structure  Done
  • For the table, try to add some references where possible. I think this is especially important for the "Assumed office" row.
  • "Like virtually all governing institutions in mainland China" try to add a link here somewhere to the article Politics of China
  • "politics in Shanghai is structured in a parallel party-government system" this sounds a little awkward. Can we change to something like "Shanghai has a parallel party-government system"
  • "party-government system" link if possible
    • Cannot find any, if there are plz let me know. Akira CA (talk) 02:07, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "policy formulation" change to "policy-formulation"
  • Add citation(s) for the latter half of the first paragraph.
  • "is widely seen" by whom? Explain and/or cite (if this is referring to all of the past examples, change to say "has frequently been a stepping stone [...]")
  • Citations seem to be missing for Xi Jinping, Yu Zhengsheng, and Han Zheng. Add if possible.
  • "corruption" link to Corruption in China
  • New paragraph break before "Officials with ties [...]"
  • "Officials with ties to the Shanghai administration form a powerful faction in the national government" reads awkwardly. Either add "collectively" before "form", or change "form" to "are part of" (whichever one seems more accurate)
  • Cite the last sentence
    •  Rephrased and cited Akira CA (talk) 02:07, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Administrative divisions  Done
  • "Area in km2" change to "Area (km2)"
  • For the "Divisions in Chinese and varieties of romanizations" table, add a row at the top explaining each of the columns: "District", "Chinese name", and "Pinyin" (I'm not sure what the last column is supposed to be)
    •  The table actually has this row, but is somehow hidden. Akira CA (talk) 02:44, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
  • If possible, add one citation for the entire table at the top (after "romanizations"). If there isn't a source for you to conveniently do this, don't worry about it.
    • cannot find one for Shanghainese romanization :( Akira CA (talk) 04:13, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "Even though" change to "Although"
  • "administration units are located in Huangpu District, which also serve" change "administration" to "administrative" and "serve" to "serves"
  • "classy" cite, reword, or delete
    • ☒N Not true, deleted Akira CA (talk) 02:34, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "Huaihai Road (previously Avenue Joffre) in Huangpu District and Xujiahui (formerly Romanized as Zikawei or Siccawei, reflecting the Shanghainese pronunciation)" change the parentheses to notes (like what we did in the Etymology section)
  • "formerly Romanized" lowercase r
    •  Rephrased to "Shanghainese romanization" Akira CA (talk) 02:34, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "residential areas of" change "of" to "in"
  • "Pudong New Area (Chuansha County until 1992, merged with Nanhui District in 2009 and with oversight of the Jiuduansha shoals)" change comma to semicolon, delete "and", change what's in the parentheses to a note, and add Chinese 浦东新区 in parentheses for consistency with the other terms
  • "further" change to "farther"
  • For this entire paragraph, change everything in parentheses into notes. (No need for Chinese terms because they're already in the table.)
  • "The islands of Changxing and Hengsha and most (but not all) of Chongming Island form Chongming District." change to "Chongming District comprises the islands of Changxing and Hengsha and most—but not all—of Chongming Island." (Leave the citation before the em dash)
  • "In 2011" add comma
  • Combine last two paragraphs
  • "109 towns, 2 townships, 99 subdistricts" add "and"
  • "At the end of the year 2017, the total population is 24.18 million." delete this sentence entirely. Population is covered in the "Demographics" section
Economy  Done
Beginning section  Done
  • First sentence: add serial comma. It also sounds very similar to the lead, so perhaps some of those citations can be moved down to this sentence/section?
    • Here it is "center of China", but in the lead is "global center". Shall I change it to "global center" and move all the citations down? (current citation is on "center of China") Akira CA (talk) 00:42, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
      • Yes, as long as it accurately reflects the citation. Bobbychan193 (talk) 01:36, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
        • Wait, actually I can't put anything here after moving down the citation for "center for finance" to Finance subsection. Akira CA (talk) 06:15, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
          • What do you mean? It seems that the citation was moved down already. Also, I have some issues with the citation that I wrote in the Citations section on the GA review page. Bobbychan193 (talk) 06:18, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
            • I mean "the citation was moved down already" XD. Sorry for my poor English. So we need to make the lead completely clear of citations? Akira CA (talk) 06:27, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
              • See WP:LEAD. What we should do is repeat all information in the lead, in the body. What’s optional is having citations or no citations in the lead. I personally prefer the latter, and since we’re almost there, let’s try to aim for that. Bobbychan193 (talk) 07:00, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "with a GDP of ¥3.27 trillions (US$494 billions) that makes up 3.63% of China's GDP,[10][108] and a GDP per capita of ¥135,212 (US$20,425) in 2018." Split this sentence off from the first part. Rephrase to say "{{As of}} 2018, Shanghai had a GDP of [...]"
  • "¥3.27 trillions (US$494 billions)" remove the "s" from both words
  • "GDP per capita" link. It will redirect to another article, but that's fine.
  • "The six pillar industries" change to "Shanghai's six largest industries" (unless that's inaccurate. Verify)
  • Missing serial comma again
  • Again, it seems similar to the lead, so maybe some of those citations can be moved down to this sentence.
  • "consist" change to "comprise"
  • "Average annual disposable income of Shanghai residents was ¥64,183 (US$9,695) per capita in 2018" change to "In 2018, the average [...]"
  • "according to the study of Economist Intelligence Unit in 2017" change to "according to a 2017 study by the Economist Intelligence Unit"
  • Table: "GDP per Capita" lowercase c
  • "In the last two decades" add comma
  • "fastest developing" add hyphen in between
  • Change : to ;
  • "double-digit growth" in what? GDP or population? Clarify, like "double-digit GDP growth"
  • "and the global recession of 2008" change to "and 2008, before the financial crisis of 2007–2008"
Finance  Done
  • Add citation for image caption
  • "Shanghai is a global financial center" seems to replicate the lead. Move the citation down? Also link "financial center"
  • "5th" to "fifth"
  • "Asia after" add comma in between
  • "worldwide stock exchanges" link to List of stock exchanges
  • "volume" change to "volumes"
  • "commodities including rubber, copper and zinc on" change to "commodities—including rubber, copper, and zinc—on"
  • "in the world" change to "globally"
  • "In September 2013" start new paragraph before this
  • "In September 2013, with the backing of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang" move comma to the end here
  • "Zone-the" change to em dash (—)
  • "free-trade zone" link
  • "The Zone" lowercase
  • "create a preferential environment for" change to "incentivize"
  • Italicize "The Banker" and "FDi magazine"
  • "Chinese Province of the Future 2014/15" add quotes around this
Manufacturing, tourism, free-trade zone  Done
  • "Shanghai is one of the main industrial centers of China, playing a key role in China's heavy industries" change to "As one of the main industrial centers of China, Shanghai plays a key role in domestic heavy industries"
  • "A large number of" change to "Several"
  • Em dashes before and after the list
  • "China's largest steelmaker Baosteel Group, China's largest shipbuilding base – Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, and the Jiangnan Shipyard, one of China's oldest shipbuilders are all located in Shanghai" change to "Shanghai is home to China's largest steelmaker Baosteel Group, China's largest shipbuilding base Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, and one of China's oldest shipbuilders, the Jiangnan Shipyard" (add links where possible)
    •  Done, do we need an em dash between "steelmaker" and "Baosteel Group"? Akira CA (talk) 06:23, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "Auto manufacture" change to "Auto manufacturing" (with direct link)
  • "Tourism in general is a major industry of the city." change to "Tourism is a major industry of Shanghai."
  • "visited Shanghai for an approximate increase of 7% from the previous year" change to "visited the city, a 7% increase from the previous year"
    •  You've done it, thanks :) Akira CA (talk) 11:12, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "RMB950 (US$153)" all currency values throughout the article should be made consistent. I suggest using the {{CNY}} and {{US$}} templates (and use the link parameter for the first instance for each)
    •  Done here Akira CA (talk) 11:12, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
    •  Done throughout the article Akira CA (talk) 12:20, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
  • Entire paragraph is uncited
  • "As of September 2013" let's try to get this updated to more a recent time, and use {{as of}}.
  • " — " remove spaces
  • Serial comma
  • "FTZ" change to "zone"
  • "Zone" lowercase z
  • "PRC" appears twice in this article, but is never spelled out. Can we replace both? "China's victory" and "Chinese territory"
    •  Done here, but probably not "China's victory" because that's on Chinese Civil War. Akira CA (talk) 11:12, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "are not subject to duty and customs clearance as would otherwise be the case" change to "are exempt from duty and customs clearance"
  • Image caption: "The Nanjing Pedestrian Street in the evening, with the he Radisson New World Hotel in the background" is there an extra "he" here?
Demographics  Done
Beginning section  Done
  • "As of 2018" convert to template
  • "Shanghai has a total population of 24,237,800, 14,551,300 (59.7%) of whom are hukou holders" change to "Shanghai had a total population of 24,237,800, including 14,551,300 (59.7%) hukou holders"
  • "are urban and 10.7％ are rural" change to "live in urban areas, and 10.7% live in rural areas"
  • "Chinese Government" lowercase g
  • "resulting in a 10,000 decline in population" change to "resulting in a population decline of 10,000 people"
  • This sentence also has "Since 2017" and "by the end of 2017" in the same sentence. Can we delete one or try to consolidate to avoid redundancy?
  • "Among all residents in Shanghai about 157,900 are foreigners, including 28,900 Japanese, 21,900 Americans and 20,800 Koreans" missing two commas: one after Shanghai and one serial comma
  • "real" change to "actual"
  • Actually this sentence should probably be restructured and split. We should add "According to ..." in the beginning. So the sentence would read something like "According to ..., about 157,900 residents in Shanghai are foreigners, including ... Koreans. However, the actual number ... higher."
  • "Shanghai is also a domestic immigration city, with 40.3% (9.8 million) of the city's residents come from other regions of China" change to "Shanghai is also a domestic immigration city—40.3% (9.8 million) of the city's residents are from other regions of China"
  • "life expectancy of 83.63" link life expectancy, add "years" after
  • "huji population" what is this? Define, link, or replace both instances with something else
  • "putting it the top in mainland China in terms of life expectancy" change to "the highest life expectancy of all cities in mainland China" tweak the current link to be around the words "all cities in mainland China"
  • "However the longevity" change to "However, this"
  • "age severely" change to "experience population aging", link "aging" to Aging of China
  • "The encompassing metropolitan area was estimated by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) to have, as of 2010, a population of 34 million." change to "In 2010, the OECD estimated Shanghai's metropolitan area to have a population of 34 million."
  • Are both sources necessary here? If so, swap the position of the lower number citation with the higher number citation.
Religion  Done
  • Comments for entire section:
    • Add more citations, especially for any subjective claims
    • Add/fix links for Buddhists, Protestants, Catholics, Jews, etc. and delete duplicate links that they appear later on, like Buddhism; try to add links for the temples that aren't currently linked (if there's no English article, check for a Chinese article)
    • Try to find at least one image of a church or temple and add it here
  • Add {{See also}} for Religion in China
  • "cosmopolitan" not sure if this is the best word to use here. Perhaps "diverse"?
    • Probably not "diverse history"; sounds weird. Akira CA (talk) 07:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "Shanghai has a blend of religious heritage as shown by the religious buildings and institutions still scattered around the city" change to "Shanghai has a blend of religious heritage; religious buildings and institutions are scattered around the city"
  • "According to a 2012 survey" add comma and move the citation to the end of the sentence
    •  You've done it. :) Akira CA (talk) 07:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "of the population of Shanghai" change to "of the city's population"
  • "There are folk religious temples" change to "Shanghai has several folk religious temples"
  • "Wenmiao" change to "Confucian Temple of Shanghai" (and link)
  • Delete "Temple of the God of Culture", and possibly "dedicated to Confucius" (seems redundant). Combine with previous sentence to say: "Shanghai is home to the Confucian Temple of Shanghai and the White Cloud Temple of Shanghai, a major Taoist center."
    •  All combined into one sentence. Akira CA (talk) 07:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "since ancient times" be more specific, add citation
  • "The Longhua Temple, the largest temple in Shanghai, and the Jing'an Temple, were first founded in the Three Kingdoms period" change to "The Longhua Temple—the largest temple in Shanghai—and the Jing'an Temple were founded in the Three Kingdoms period"
  • "Islam came into Shanghai 700 years ago and a mosque was built in 1295 in Songjiang" change to "Islam entered Shanghai over 700 years ago when a mosque was built in 1295 in Songjiang"
  • What is a "teachers' college"? Explain or link
    • ☒N Deleted, cannot find any source Akira CA (talk) 07:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "set up" change to "established"
    •  These sentences are rephrased Akira CA (talk) 07:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "Shanghai has one of the largest proportions of Catholics in China (2003)" this needs updating
    • ☒N Deleted, I introduced the paragraph with the history of Catholicism in Shanghai instead. Akira CA (talk) 23:37, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
  • Combine this paragraph with the next
  • "During World War II" add comma and link
  • "flee Hitler's regime" change to "flee Nazi Germany"
  • "The Jews lived side-by-side" with whom? If it's just themselves, delete "side-by-side"
  • "called" change to "called the"
  • "vibrant" is this in the source? If not, delete
    • The archiving website is block here in Australia , could you please check it for me? Akira CA (talk) 08:09, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "the Ohel Moishe Synagogue, which is a preserved remnant of this portion of Shanghai's complex religious past" delete link and change to "the Ohel Moishe Synagogue, which is now the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum" ("which is a preserved remnant of this portion of Shanghai's complex religious past" seems a little subjective, and "Shanghai-jews.com" might not be the best citation here, so I think we should delete this part)
  • Let's reorder this section's paragraphs in this order: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and folk religions
Language  Done
  • Add citations
  • "official language nationwide, which is Mandarin" change to "official Chinese language, Mandarin"
  • "itself completely mutually unintelligible with Wu Chinese" what does this mean? Clarify. Replace "itself" with "which is"
  • "Most Shanghai residents" change to "Most of the city's residents"
  • "The population of those regions speak different Wu Chinese dialects" change to "Those regions have different Wu Chinese dialects"
  • "From the 1990s" change to "Since the 1990s"
  • Serial comma
  • "the city of Shanghai" redundant
  • "(本地話)" seems to have a different font from the rest of the Chinese terms used in the article. Try to maintain consistency throughout the article
  • "after 1949 and before the 1990s" change to "between 1949 and the 1990s"
  • "On the other hand, however, Shanghainese started to decline and fluency amongst young speakers weakened" change to "At the same time, Shanghainese began to decline, and fluency among young speakers weakened"
  • "are being favoured and taught over the native language" change to "have been favored over Shanghainese"
  • "In recent years though, there have been movements within the city to protect and promote the local language from ever fading out" change to "However, in recent years, there have been movements within the city to protect and promote the local language from fading out"
Education  Done
  • Delete "with over 30 universities and colleges" (because literally the next sentence contradicts this)
  • Serial comma
  • Missing "and" in the list
  • "(these universities are selected as "985 universities" by the Chinese Government in order to build world-class universities)" delete parentheses, change "are" to "were", lowercase g, and split into a separate sentence
  • Split paragraph here
  • "In 2012" add comma
  • "Sino-US" change to "China–U.S."
  • "In 2013" add comma
  • "This new research university is aiming to be a first-class institution on a national and international level" this seems a little out of place. Shorten or delete
  • Add a sentence about the UM–SJTU Joint Institute somewhere in this paragraph
    • What should I add about it? The Account 1 (talk) 18:34, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
      • Since this section seems to be talking about joint institutes, add either a sentence or a phrase about the UM–SJTU Joint Institute. Something like "Shanghai Jiao Tong University has also established a joint institute with the University of Michigan." and add a source, preferably an article from a reliable source. Bobbychan193 (talk) 19:39, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
  • "The cadre school China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong is also located in Shanghai, as well as the China Europe International Business School" change to "Shanghai is also home to the cadre school China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong and the China Europe International Business School"
  • This section only talks about universities. Add content for primary and secondary schools.
Transportation  Done
Public transportation  Done
  • "based on" change to "comprising"
  • "Payment for all these public transportation tools can be made by using the Shanghai Public Transportation Card" combine with previous sentence and change to "... taxis, all of which can be accessed using a Shanghai Public Transportation Card"
  • Try to update year/citation/statistics
  • Serial comma
  • "it set a record of daily ridership of 13.3 million" first change the wording to be less awkward, like "it set a daily ridership record of 13.3 million"; clarify: what kind of record? Worldwide record, China record, Shanghai record, or internal record?
    •  Done, Shanghai record. Akira CA (talk) 07:34, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
  • "The fare depends on the length of travel distance starting from CN¥3 (US$0.48)" change to "The fare starts from CN¥3 (US$0.48) and depends on the travel distance"; add citation
  • "Shanghai maglev train" add "the" before, and capitalize
  • "high-speed maglev" link maglev
  • "daily" unneeded; delete
  • "The train connects the 30 km journey between Longyang Road Station and Pudong International Airport in 7 minutes 20 seconds, comparing to 32 minutes by Metro Line 2 and 30 minutes by car" change to "The train can complete the 30-kilometer (19 mi) journey between Longyang Road Station and Pudong International Airport in 7 minutes 20 seconds, compared to 32 minutes by Metro Line 2 and 30 minutes by car" (note the template)
  • Delete "return"
  • "(US$12.80)" add comma after
  • "Shanghai reintroduced trams in 2010" needs context before this. When was it discontinued and why? When were they first introduced?
  • "this time as a modern rubber tyred Translohr system" change to "as a modern rubber-tire Translohr system" (link Translohr)
  • "Another regular tram network" doesn't seem necessary; delete
  • "under study" what does this mean? Being researched? Under planning? Under construction? Also needs a timeframe
  • "world's oldest continuously operating trolleybus system" we don't need to make this whole thing a link; shift to "trolleybus system"
  • "by 2017" try to update; also use {{As of}} template for this and later instances
  • "a combination of companies" change to "multiple companies"
  • "Bus fare normally costs" change to "Bus fares generally cost"
  • "Taxis are plentiful in Shanghai" kind of subjective (and pointless); delete
  • "By 2017, a total number of 46,400 vehicles were in operation" try to update, and change to "As of ..., a total of 46,400 taxis were in operation in Shanghai"
  • "Taxis base fare" change to "The base fare for taxis is"
  • "(US$2.24) (including a CN¥1 fuel surcharge; CN¥18 between 11:00 pm and 5:00 am) which covers the first 3 km (2 mi)" change to "(US$2.24), which covers the first 3 km (2 mi) and includes a CN¥1 fuel surcharge. The base fare is CN¥18 between 11:00 pm and 5:00 am." (also add US$ conversions in parentheses)
  • "Additional km cost CN¥2.5 (US$0.40) each (CN¥3.3 between 11:00 pm and 5:00 am)" change to "Each additional kilometer costs CN¥2.5 (US$0.40), or CN¥3.3 between 11:00 pm and 5:00 am" (also add US$ conversion in parentheses)
  • "Ride share giants like DiDi and Uber are playing major roles in urban tranportation besides the traditional taxi system" change to "In addition to traditional taxis, ridesharing companies including DiDi and Uber play major roles in urban transportation"; directly link "ridesharing companies"
  • Expand a bit and try to find statistics (i.e. how many people use ridesharing apps annually?)
  • "Cost of shared rides are comparable to that of taxis and sometimes even lower due to subsidies from the companies" change to "Ridesharing costs are comparable to those of taxis, and are sometimes even lower due to subsidies from the companies"
  • "due to subsidies from the companies" elaborate
    • Not sure if "vouchers" is better. Akira CA (talk) 04:37, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
      • Changed to "promotional discounts". Bobbychan193 (talk) 06:27, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
  • There are too many images here. Delete the image of the yellow tram and move the bus one to the right
Roads and expressways  Done
  • "(prefixed with G) pass through or terminate in Shanghai" change to "(prefixed with the letter G) pass through or end in Shanghai"
  • Delete all the symbols/images of the highways. Unnecessary
  • Two instances of "overlapping": change to "overlaps with"
  • "In addition, ... also" redundant
    •  Should I leave "also"? Akira CA (talk) 06:41, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
  • "prefixed with S (S1, S2, S20, etc.)." change to "prefixed with the letter S"; delete everything in the parentheses
  • "has a total" add "of"
  • "across" change to "crossing"
  • "Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge" change to "The Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge" (with direct link)
  • "to the north of the city" unnecessary; delete
  • Delete symbols; add serial commas

I have some free time, so I'll continue the review below. Bobbychan193 (talk) 04:10, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

  • "The Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge is the only bridge–tunnel complex across Yangtze River in Shanghai" change to "The Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge is the city's only bridge–tunnel complex across the Yangtze River"
  • Serial comma
  • "Inner Ring Road, which is followed by ..." what does this mean? Clarify
  • "commonplace" change to "common"
  • "In recent years" add comma
  • "thanks to" change to "due to"
  • "such as" add comma before
  • Image caption: "Bicycle-sharing systems, such as ofo and Mobike (both pictured), are common in Shanghai." perhaps we could change this to "Bicycle-sharing systems, such as ofo (yellow) and Mobike (orange), are common in Shanghai." What do you think?
  • "buys a license in the monthly private car license plate auction" change to "buys a license plate in a private car license plate auction, which are held monthly"
  • "each month" add comma after
  • "the municipal regulation" is this saying "city regulations"? If so, just change it to that
  • "Shanghai registered" add hyphen in between
  • "individual incomer tax" is this supposed to say "individual income taxes"?
  • "for over 3 years in a row" is it 3 years or more than 3 years? If the latter, change to "for at least three years in a row". Either way, spell out "3" as "three" per MOS:NUMERAL
  • "to alleviate congestion" delete "to"
  • The last paragraph needs more citations. There is only one citation and it doesn't really back up any of the claims in the paragraph. Bobbychan193 (talk) 23:27, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
  • "According to city regulations in 2016, only those who are Shanghai-registered residents or have paid social insurance or individual income taxes for over three years in a row" This is a sentence fragment. "Only those who are ..." what? "Only those ..." are eligible? Bobbychan193 (talk) 23:27, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
Railway  Done
  • Change subsection heading to "Railways"
  • "The earliest railway in Shanghai was the Woosung railway built in 1876, which was also the earliest railway in operation in China" change to "Built in 1876, the Woosung railway was the first railway in Shanghai and the first railway in operation in China"
  • "had been" change to "were"
  • "Today, the two railways has been integrated into Beijing–Shanghai railway and Shanghai–Kunming railway, respectively, forming two main railways in China" change to "[As of xyz (use template)], the two railways have been integrated into two main Chinese railways: Beijing–Shanghai railway and Shanghai–Kunming railway, respectively" (also, "main Chinese railways" might be problematic; reword if possible)
  • "high-speed railways" add "(HSRs)" after
  • "overlapping" change to "overlaps with"
  • "with two high-speed rail lines" split this sentence from the previous. Say: "Two high-speed railways are under construction: ..."
  • "China Railway" add comma after
  • "Line 16" redo piped link (avoid piped redirect)
  • "Three more lines: Chongming line, Jiamin line and Shanghai Airport Link [zh] are in construction" change to "Three additional lines—Chongming line, Jiamin line, and Shanghai Airport Link [zh]—are under construction"
  • For all railways that are under construction, double check to see if they are indeed still under construction, and make changes if necessary. Then, insert {{as of}} templates. I.e. "Three additional lines—Chongming line, Jiamin line, and Shanghai Airport Link [zh]—are under construction as of November 2019"
Air and sea  Done
  • The two sections are both a bit short, so combine the two subheadings to say "Air and sea". You can keep or delete the "See also" template
  • "Shanghai is one of the leading air transportation gateways in Asia" sounds a little awkward; try to rephrase. Maybe "Shanghai is one of the largest air transportation hubs in Asia" also add a citation
  • "main international airport" change "main" to "primary"
  • "Hongqiao Airport" change to "Hongqiao International Airport"
  • "In 2018" add comma
  • "ninth busiest airports by passengers and third busiest by cargoes" change to "ninth-busiest airport by passenger volume and third-busiest airport by cargo volume"
  • "Hongqiao Airport served 43.6 million passengers, making it the nineteenth busiest airports by passengers" change to "The same year, Hongqiao International Airport served 43.6 million passengers, making it the 19th-busiest airport by passenger volume"
  • "The Port of Shanghai has grown rapidly to the largest port in China since it opened" change to "Since its opening, the Port of Shanghai has rapidly grown to become the largest port in China"
  • "Wharves are clusttered along the Huangpu River at first" what does this mean? Also fix typo ("clustered")
  • "Yangshan Port is built in 2005 because the river is not suitable for docking large container ships" change to "was built" and "was unsuitable"
  • "with the continent" what? Rephrase
  • "32km-long" use {{convert}} to produce "32-kilometer (xyz-mile) long" (beware of hyphen and American spelling)
  • "Although the port is run by Shanghai International Port Group under Shanghai government, it administratively belongs to Shengsi County, Zhejiang" change to "Although the port is run by the Shanghai International Port Group under the government of Shanghai, it administratively belongs to Shengsi County, Zhejiang"
  • "Singapore" spell out "Port of Singapore" (and make sure it doesn't pipe link to itself)
  • "42,010,000" change to "42 million"
  • "Besides cargoes, the Port of Shanghai handled 406 cruises and 2.75 millions of passengers in 2018" change to "Besides cargo, the Port of Shanghai handled 406 cruises and 2.75 million passengers in 2018"
  • Image caption: unlink "container"
Culture  Done
  • So before I begin reviewing this section, try to trim it down a bit. It's currently around 2300–2400 words, which is almost 25% of the entire article (around 9600 words). My suggestion: try to get it under 2000 words, or ideally under 1800 words, and we'll go from there. If you want to preserve some of the less important details and/or interesting facts, you can move them to other articles that might be more relevant or more focused on them. I noticed that there's no article for Culture in Shanghai; perhaps you can make one. Also, Haipai seems to be closely related to this as well, so maybe use that as a base for moving stuff. I know next to nothing about Haipai, so this is your call to make.
    •  Done
  • So, this section is around 1400 words now. (Well done!) I'm concerned about its readability given its length. Perhaps a few (like 3 or 4) subheadings would help. Reorder paragraphs if necessary.
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "The culture of Shanghai was a combination" Something about the past tense makes this read awkwardly. Change to something like "The culture of Shanghai was formed by a combination" or "The culture of Shanghai is considered to be a combination"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Examples of the Wuyue culture's influence includes Shanghainese language developed from the nearby Jiaxing, Suzhou, and Ningbo dialect, and Shanghai cuisine influenced by the Jiangsu cuisine and Zhejiang cuisine." Too lengthy. Trim to: "Wuyue culture's influence is manifested in Shanghainese—which comprises elements of dialects from nearby Jiaxing, Suzhou, and Ningbo—and Shanghai cuisine, which was influenced by Jiangsu cuisine and Zhejiang cuisine."
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "western cultures" change to "Western culture"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "and even food and beverages" change to "and cuisine"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "western" capitalize
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "In recent years" vague and problematic wording. Change to something like "in the early 21st century"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "most recently released city development plans" same thing as above. Specify the time to reduce ambiguity
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "with aims in making" change to "which aim to make"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Try to change/cut down on puffery words in this paragraph: "importance", "best", "major", etc.
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Power Station of Art" add "The" before
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "there is a variety of smaller" change to "there are numerous smaller"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "There are also many art galleries, concentrated in the M50 Art District and Tianzifang" change to "The city has many art galleries, many of which are located in the M50 Art District and Tianzifang"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • This paragraph needs more citations, especially for the latter half.
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 03:32, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "MoCA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Shanghai, is a private museum centrally located in People's Park on West Nanjing Road, and is committed to promote contemporary art and design." I would probably delete this sentence. MoCA does not have its own article, which leads me to believe that it does not meet Wikipedia's notability criteria. As such, it is probably not notable enough to include in this article. (Feel free to create an article if I am mistaken.)
  • "cooking style originated 400 years ago under profound influence of those of the surrounding provinces" change to "cooking style that originated in the 1600s, with influences from surrounding provinces"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Change to American spelling: "emphasises" and "flavours"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "and meanwhile" change to "while"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "raw ingredients materials" delete "materials"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Another characteristic is the use of a great variety of seafood and freshwater food" change to something less redundant and more informative, such as: "Benbang cuisine often uses a variety of seafood, including freshwater fish, crabs, and lobsters" (and try to find a source for this)
    •  Done, both cuisine use these so I moved the sentence to the end of the paragraph. -- Akira😼CA 23:49, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Haipai cuisine, on the other hand, is a Western-style cooking originated in Shanghai but absorbs elements from French, British, Russian, German, and Italian cuisine and adapts them to suit the local taste according to the features of local ingredients" too long. Split into two sentences: "Haipai cuisine, on the other hand, is a Western-influenced cooking style that originated in Shanghai. It absorbed elements from French, British, Russian, German, and Italian cuisines and adapted them to suit the local taste according to the features of local ingredients"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 23:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "during the Ming and the Qing Dynasty" change to "during the Ming and Qing Dynasties"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "The school was considered as a further development" awkward wording. Change to something like: "The school was considered an expansion"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "the painting" delete "the"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "western" capitalize
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • At least two missing serial commas
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "settled in Shanghai thus it gradually became the art center of China" change to "settled in Shanghai, allowing it to gradually become the art center of China"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "photography" change to "including photography"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Sanmao, one of the most well-known comics in China, was created then to dramatize the chaos brought to society by the Second Sino-Japanese War" this sentence is a bit confusing, as well as wordy. Was the comic well known at the time? Is it well known in the present day as a historical thing? Or have a lot of people today actually read it? Or a combination? Either clarify, or delete it entirely, i.e.: "Sanmao was created to dramatize the chaos created by the Second Sino-Japanese War"
    •  Done deleted -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Chinese painting academy" is this a proper noun? Capitalize if so.
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "the Guohua" change to "traditional Chinese painting"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "plays an important role in the contemporary art" again with the puffery. Change to something like: "displays contemporary art"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "has now become" delete "now"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Traditional Xiqu" change to "Traditional Chinese opera (Xiqu)"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "the main way of entertainment" weird phrasing. Change to something like "a popular source of entertainment"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "appeared in Shanghai" delete "in Shanghai"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "The Great World opened in 1912 is a significant stage at the time" change to "The Great World opened in 1912 and was a significant stage at the time"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "In 1920s" add "the"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "With the abundant commercial radio stations, Pingtan art developed rapidly to 103 programs every day by the 1930s" confusing sentence; clarify
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "At the same time, Shanghai also formed a Shanghai-style Beijing Opera led by Zhou Xinfang and Gai Jiaotian [zh], and attracted many Xiqu masters like Mei Lanfang to the city" change to "Around the same time, a Shanghai-style Beijing Opera was formed. Led by Zhou Xinfang and Gai Jiaotian [zh], it attracted many Xiqu masters, like Mei Lanfang, to the city"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "At the same time, a small troupe" delete "At the same time"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "is formed when the local folksongs collided with modern operas" change to "was formed when local folksongs were fused with modern operas"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "the well-known" change to "prominent"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Missing serial comma
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Back then" change to "At the time"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "earliest recorded" hyphenate
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "had become" change to "became"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, Shanghai Opera House and Shanghai Theatre Academy are four major institutes of theater training in Shanghai" change to "The city has several major institutes of theater training, including the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, the Shanghai Opera House, and the Shanghai Theatre Academy"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Another missing serial comma
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "went on to blossom" change to "grew"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "great" delete
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "native Shanghainese" change to "Shanghai native"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 01:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "The April session is a part of the Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival, which usually lasts for a month, while Shanghai Fashion Week lasts for seven days, and the main venue is in Fuxing Park, Shanghai, while the opening and closing ceremony is in Shanghai Fashion Center" too long. Split into two or three sentences
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 02:45, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Supported by the People's Republic Ministry of Commerce, Shanghai Fashion Week is a major business and culture event of national significance hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Government" wordy; try to trim
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 02:45, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "culture event" change to "cultural event"
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 02:45, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • "Shanghai Fashion Week is aiming to build up an international and professional platform, gathering all of the top design talents of Asia. The event features international designers but the primary purpose is to showcase Chinese designers" reads a little bit like an advertisement. Also try to trim (undue weight concerns, etc.)
    •  Done -- Akira😼CA 02:45, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Environment  Done
Parks and resorts  Done
  • First sentence: reword to make it seem more neutral and less like original research
  • "By 2017, the city had 248 parks with a total area of 19,805 hectares" use {{convert}} (recommend using km2 and acres); try to update stats
  • "offering a green public space to locals" sounds weird; try to reword
  • "became" change to "have become"
  • Serial comma
  • The second paragraph needs more citations, especially for claims such as "tallest statue"
  • "The former racetrack turned central park" don't think this level of detail is necessary; delete
  • "high end" hyphenate
  • "Built in 1914 as Jessfield Park" is this referring to Zhongshan Park? If so, split the long paragraph after "metro system"
  • "important transfer station" what does "important" mean? It sounds subjective, so I would either find a source and clarify, or just delete it
  • "newest" change to "newer"
  • "is in the Xujiahui—Xujiahui Park [zh]—built in 1999" really confusing to read; change to "is the Xujiahui Park [zh], which was built in 1999"
  • "offering a pleasant respite for Xujiahui shoppers" source or delete
    • ☒N Deleted
  • "another yet the biggest botanical garden" just change to "the largest botanical garden"
  • "well-known" change to "notable"
  • Last paragraph: try to find and add some visitor statistics, i.e. "An average of XYZ people visited per month in 2019" or something (if you've ever been there, you know there's a crapton of people who visit)
    •  Done

Some additional follow-up comments:

  • "There is an extensive public park system in Shanghai which offers green space for locals. By 2018, the city had 300 parks and 281 among them were free to visit." shorten this to "Shanghai has an extensive public park system; by 2018, the city had 300 parks, of which 281 had free admission." (also update stat if possible)
  • "The per capita park area has reached 8.2 m2 (88 sq ft) square meters" first of all, "m2" and "square meters" are redundant. Also, it's unclear when this statistic was released and what the per-capita unit is (i.e. per person? Per 1000 people?). Change to something like "In 2019, Shanghai's per-capita park area was 8.2 m2 (88 sq ft) per person"
    •  Done for the first part. The statistics was in 2018. "per person" seems to be implied in "per capita"[1] so it might be redundant to include. Akira CA (talk) 01:00, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
  • "today, it is known for its 150-year-old platanus, extensive sakura and peony gardens, and as an interchange hub in the metro system" this sentence reads a bit awkwardly. Change to something like "the park features sakura and peony gardens and a 150-year-old platanus, and it also serves as an interchange hub in the metro system"
  • "One of the newer parks" change to "One of Shanghai's newer parks"
  • "2009," delete comma
  • "in the first year of its operation" change to "in its first year of operation"
Environmental protection / Air pollution  Done
  • "city-center" I don't think a hyphen here is needed. Correct me if I am wrong.
  • "has been removed" change to "were removed"
  • "From 1 July 2019, Shanghai adopt a new garbage classification which sorts out waste into residual waste, kitchen waste, recyclable waste, and hazardous waste" change to "On 1 July 2019, Shanghai adopted a new garbage-classification system that sorts out waste into residual waste, kitchen waste, recyclable waste, and hazardous waste"
  • "The wastes will then be collected by different vehicles" change to "The wastes are collected by separate vehicles"
  • "hazardous waste disposal facilities separately" change to "hazardous-waste-disposal facilities, respectively"
  • For this section, add {{Main}} or {{See also}} template and link to the Pollution in China article
  • "Chinese cities" not sure why this is linked. Delete link
  • "but still substantial by world standards" change to "but is still considered substantial by world standards"
  • "a mass of construction work" change to "much construction work"
  • "Most of inbound flights" change to "Most inbound flights"
  • "more than 50 flights were diverted at Pudong International Airport" I assume this means that the flights were at or heading to Pudong but diverted? If so, change to "more than 50 flights at Pudong International Airport were diverted"
  • "Yang Xiong, the mayor of Shanghai municipality announced" change to "Yang Xiong, the mayor of Shanghai, announced"
  • Missing serial comma
  • "The measures involved delivery of the 2013 air cleaning program, linkage mechanism with the three surrounding provinces and improvement of the ability of early warning of emergency situation" awkward wording; change to "The measures involved implementing the 2013 air-cleaning program, establishing a linkage mechanism with the three surrounding provinces, and improving the city's early-warning systems"
  • "to help companies to meet new" change to "to help companies meet the new"
  • "The effect of the policy is significant" change "is" to "was"
  • "has decreased" delete "has"
Media / International relations  Done
  • This quote is interesting, but I'm confused why it's the first and only sentence in the entire section. There should at least be one or two sentences talking broadly about media in Shanghai that go before this.
  • "Newspapers publishing in Shanghai" add an {{as of}} template before this. A simple year or year + month would be fine.
  • There's one redlink and several no-link entries. First try to find if any of them have corresponding articles on the Chinese Wikipedia, and link them using the template. Then, for consistency, just make everything else either redlinked or not linked.
  • "Broadcasters:" since there's only one item in this list, just change it to "The city's main broadcaster is Shanghai Media Group."
  • For this section, feel free to expand the first paragraph a little bit. There has to be more to Shanghai's international relations than the SCO and a list of twin cities.
  • "Shanghai is twinned with:" change to "Shanghai is twinned with the following cities:"
 Done - 祝好，Josephua(聊天) 00:38, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
  • I'm going to assume every entry has a corresponding citation, but feel free to double-check if you have free time.
 Done, updated Akira CA (talk) 09:59, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Is there a reason why all the city names are bolded? If not, I would remove all bold font in this section. (See MOS:BOLD)
 Done - 祝好，Josephua(聊天) 00:34, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Citations

  • Copyright violation status: seems mostly OK.
  • A lot of the citations need updating.
  • Some citations are dead, which is fine if they have archived versions, but ideally, they should be replaced with live citations.
  • {{cite web |url = http://www.zyen.com/PDF/LCGFC.pdf |title = The Competitive Position of London as a Global Financial Centre |access-date = 25 February 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131110224826/http://www.zyen.com/PDF/LCGFC.pdf |archive-date = 10 November 2013 |url-status=dead |df = dmy-all}} This source is dead, kind of old, and most importantly, does not reflect the statement it was citing. It says Shanghai is "likely" to become a global financial center.
    • Aha, you changed it before I found the same source as yours. Akira CA (talk) 11:57, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
  • Any citations that are PDFs, books, or otherwise long documents should have specific page numbers in the citations because this makes it easier for readers and other editors to verify claims. I.e. fill out the |page= or |pages= parameter
  • This source seems rather useful for expanding the economy section. We should talk about the Port of Shanghai somewhere in the Economy section.
    • Thanks for the source!  Done for mentioning the port. Akira CA (talk)

Discussion

  • @Akira CA: I've begun reviewing the article. Since it's quite long, we can both take our time reviewing and improving the article, respectively. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Bobbychan193 (talk) 00:15, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
    • @Bobbychan193: Got it. I've just fixed the dmy and the AM English issues, please let me know if I missed anything. Akira CA (talk) 08:40, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
      • @Akira CA: Glad to see you're still active. I'll continue the review sometime later today or tomorrow. In the meantime, can you try to address the citations in the lead? Also, try to use the {{done}} template under each feedback bulletpoint to let me know your status. Bobbychan193 (talk) 16:01, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Can you briefly explain what you did in this edit? In the future, try to have edit summaries to tell other editors what you changed. Bobbychan193 (talk) 19:14, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
    • Oof, sorry for that. I moved some citations from the lead to the body, and deleted overly detailed information (since it's the lead). Akira CA (talk) 11:05, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Ideally, every single claim in the article should be cited (with at least one reliable source), but for the purposes of this GAN, I'd be happy to pass this article if I feel that it's most of the way there. (I.e. most things are cited, and you address all of my comments to make improvements to the prose.) So, don't stress out too much about this. (If you're planning to take this to FAC in the future, which I highly encourage you to do, then it will be a lot more important.) Bobbychan193 (talk) 01:21, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
  • @Akira CA: I've finished reviewing several large sections that might take you a few days to work through. Just {{ping}} me when you're done or almost done with everything, and I'll continue reviewing. Also, given the length of the article, I probably won't be doing a second review or a detailed review of your changes. I trust your editing. As always, let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Bobbychan193 (talk) 03:07, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
    • @Bobbychan193: Thanks for the hard works! I'm busy these days, but will inform you when I'm done with all these suggestions. Akira CA (talk) 05:58, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
  • @Bobbychan193: Could you please tell me the difference between the {{Further}} template and the {{See also}} one? I saw both of them being used in the article. Akira CA (talk) 14:46, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
    • @Akira CA: From my understanding, {{further}} is for any article(s) providing further information on a topic. {{See also}} is for linking any article(s) related to (but not necessarily expanding upon) a topic. See the two template pages I linked for more information. Bobbychan193 (talk) 16:31, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
  • Since I have some free time right now (and probably won't have much free time again until next Wednesday), I'll be continuing the review. Great work so far; keep it up. Bobbychan193 (talk) 02:41, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
  • @Akira CA: I've simplified the wiki-syntax for the notes. Use the template I used going forward. See WP:EXPLNOTE and {{efn}} for more information. Bobbychan193 (talk) 00:12, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
  • @The Account 1: Hey, I've noticed that you've made some improvements to the article. Any help is definitely appreciated. Are you an alt-account of Akira CA? Bobbychan193 (talk) 18:10, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
    • @Bobbychan193: I'm not. I just saw this article is currently nominated for Good Article status so I decided that I can help in this process. The Account 1 (talk) 18:12, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
      • @The Account 1: Sounds good, and I figured as much. Thanks for your help. I will continue the review later today. Bobbychan193 (talk) 18:19, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
      • @The Account 1 and Bobbychan193: Thank you both! I'm a little bit busy these days because my exam is coming, but will continue improving the article as soon as I have leisures. Akira CA (talk) 23:52, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
  • @Akira CA: Just a reminder that there's one last unresolved suggestion in the Religion subsection. I'm going to be busy for the next two or three days, but I'll try to resume the review sometime next week. If you want to get a head start in copy editing, adding citations, and refining the prose in the unreviewed sections, go for it :) Bobbychan193 (talk) 20:32, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
    •  Resolved, thanks for the work done so far :D Akira CA (talk) 06:30, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
  • @Josephua: Hey, I saw you made some improvements to the article; it's much appreciated. If you have time, feel free to go through this GA review and the article's history to get a feel for the kinds of improvements that have already been made. You'll notice that there are certain recurring things, like American spelling, serial commas, and {{as of}} and {{convert}} templates. Consistency throughout the article is key. Let me know if you have any questions. Bobbychan193 (talk) 05:14, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
    • @Bobbychan193: I can take care of the grammar errors in the article. I was hoping when this article passes GA status, that it could be a base model for Shenzhen, which I am working on currently. - Josephua (talk) 05:17, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
      • @Josephua: Sounds good; best of luck with that article. A lot of the China-related articles are in pretty poor shape, so any help is much appreciated. Bobbychan193 (talk) 05:19, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
  • @Bobbychan193: The source [187] for "The system is operated by multiple companies" under public transportation is a permanent dead link. - Josephua (talk) 19:23, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
  • @Akira CA: There is a citation needed template in the lead of the Culture section, which can be off-putting for GA reviewers. - Josephua (聊天) 17:58, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
    • @Josephua: Thank you. I've already noticed that, but haven't found any useful sources yet. Since I'm busy these days I'll deal with it in the next couple of weeks :) Akira CA (talk) 03:04, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
      • Take your time. There are several unresolved comments as well, and I'll resume the review once you finish them. Bobbychan193 (talk) 05:48, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
  • @Akira CA: So I've just finished another round of comments; take your time. Seeing as this review has been continuing for almost two months now, I'll try to wrap things up. I'll be mostly focusing on the prose/MOS, as well as big, glaring issues like neutrality or original research. Everything else will be eventually be caught at the FAC level anyway. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Bobbychan193 (talk) 04:59, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
  • @Akira CA and Bobbychan193: I'm putting "not done" templates to help you guys identify which comments are not done. It makes it easier for these comments to be assessed. If these comments are re-assessed, feel free to change it to the "done" template and end it with your signature. ;) - 祝好，Josephua (聊天) 22:23, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
  • @Bobbychan193: Since the review has not been touched for a month already, I think it is time to start reviewing the Shanghai Culture section the way that it is right now. The review has been going on a bit too long already without a response. - 祝好，Josephua(聊天) 16:06, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
    • I'm currently pretty busy with IRL stuff; will continue the review when I get a chance. @Akira CA: Do you have time to work on the Culture section? Bobbychan193 (talk) 19:30, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
      • OK. You can skip to the last few sections (Environment, Media, etc) while I'm working on it. Akira CA (talk) 05:45, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
  • @The Account 1: If you have time, can you do the parks and resorts section? Thanks. - 祝好，Josephua(聊天) 21:28, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
  • @Bobbychan193: Parks and resorts are done, courtesy of @The Account 1:. Can you start 'Environmental protection' and 'Media / International relations?' I think it would be better if you reviewed both sections instead of one at a time. Thanks. - 祝好，Josephua(聊天) 21:24, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
    • I'll review those sections when I have time. Bobbychan193 (talk) 03:16, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
  • @Bobbychan193: Reminding you 'environmental protection' is done, courtesy of @Akira CA:, so you can start 'Media / International relations' when you have time. - 祝好，Josephua(聊天) 04:30, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
  • @Bobbychan193: Hi! I think we can finally set a start on the culture section, sorry for having kept you waiting so long. Akira CA (talk) 09:27, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
    • No problem. I will review it when I find the time. Bobbychan193 (talk) 04:33, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
      • Sorry for taking so long. Currently don't have a whole lot of free time due to the coronavirus pandemic. Bobbychan193 (talk) 16:09, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
        • that's ok, take your time, be safe! :) -- Akira😼CA 04:53, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @Akira CA: I've found a bit more free time recently; excited to resume the review and finally get this article passed. However, it's going to take me a few days to go through all the edits people have made in the past few months. Bobbychan193 (talk) 14:35, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
    • @Bobbychan193: Glad to hear that. I'm still on so if you have free time just review it. I'll follow your comments when I'm free :D -- Akira😼CA 03:56, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
      • Hey, just a little bit of an update: free time is scarce once again, and I'll try to resume the review when I'm less busy. Bobbychan193 (talk) 18:27, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
        • @Bobbychan193: Sure, take your time! If you have free time, just review it don't wait for me, since our free time may not match :D I will catch up when I'm free. -- Akira😼CA 05:41, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Nothing added for over five months

Bobbychan193, Akira_CA, this review has not been added to for over five months, and has been open for over ten. That's far too long. I can understand that this is a difficult time, but there are other reviewers out there who could take over, since it's clear that Bobbychan193 simply cannot continue the review. It's past time to start this moving forward again. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:44, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

I'm definitely open to someone else taking over the review. If I recall correctly, there's only one section left to review. Bobbychan193 (talk) 08:31, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
What is that one section? I would want a chance to review that section. -iaspostb□x+ 12:18, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Oh, I just thought it was "Sports" all along! Silly me who gets confused. -iaspostb□x+ 12:20, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
There's a couple unsourced paragraphs in the Sports section, I'll try to find the necessary references. -iaspostb□x+ 12:21, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
I found all the references I needed for the section. -iaspostb□x+ 12:45, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Now it's all there and done, so I am now passing this article. -iaspostb□x+ 12:48, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
@I'm Aya Syameimaru!: It was actually the entire Culture section. It's fine that you went ahead and passed it—the article was 95% of the way there anyway—but try to review/improve that section if you have time. Bobbychan193 (talk) 17:35, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
I'm very sorry, but a 25 minute review is simply not adequate under the circumstances, especially of such a large article. The new reviewer is responsible for the totality of the article as it is now—I can't believe that there was time to read the whole thing, much less consider the entire article against the GA criteria. (For example, the opening does not meet MOS:LEADLENGTH at five paragraphs, and MOS:LEAD is one part of the manual of style that is required in the GA criteria.) I have reverted the approval, and while I appreciate I'm Aya Syameimaru!|'s enthusiasm, under the circumstances, I wonder if a more experienced reviewer would be a better choice here given the length and complexity of the review. We need to get to 100% of the GA criteria, not a less than that. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:43, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
@BlueMoonset: Thanks for pointing out the lead. A few days ago I looked through all of the article's changes in the past several months to make sure there weren't any dramatic changes that would require a re-review, and that was the one thing I missed. Fixing now. Bobbychan193 (talk) 21:40, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Actually, I'll resume the review now and hopefully wrap it up by today. Bobbychan193 (talk) 21:47, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
@BlueMoonset and Akira CA: I've finished the review. Please {{Ping}} me if I've missed any sections, or if anything else needs to be done. Thanks. Bobbychan193 (talk) 00:53, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
@Bobbychan193: I've finished following the comments. Thank you so much for your efforts and patience throughout :D @BlueMoonset: If anything else needs to be done please let us know. -- Akira😼CA 03:32, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Akira_CA, I don't know of anything else that needs to be done review-wise; right now it's up to Bobbychan193 to decide whether the article meets the GA criteria or if more work is needed on any of the points raised so far (or something new that needs doing catches the eye). BlueMoonset (talk) 04:19, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
@BlueMoonset and Akira CA: Thank you both for bearing with me. I'm happy to pass the article now; congratulations Akira, and great work. I hope to see the article nominated for FAC at some point in the future. Bobbychan193 (talk) 08:46, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()
3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()
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The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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