Talk:Xinjiang

east iranian and east indo-european!

Akocsg removed referenced stuff and replaced it with his own stuff. changed "iranian" to "indo-european" [1] . while source [2] just says: "...And not the high-nosd, bearded Iranian peoples who were then still the primary inhabitants of the Tarim, and who remain a major component of Xinjiang's historical population." 2nd quote: "...before centuries of interrmarriage with local peoples of eastern Iranian stock." i reverted his disruption and restored the text [3] his other changes seems not constructive too.94.176.89.105 (talk) 10:26, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Administrative divisions

"Xinjiang is divided into thirteen prefecture-level divisions: four prefecture-level cities, six prefectures, and five autonomous prefectures". How does that add up? Ivo (talk) 00:30, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Tacheng and Altay prefectures are subordinate to Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. Lojbanic (talk) 14:09, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Recent changes - avoiding edit wars

The best way to avoid edit wars is to make incremental changes ideally with discussion and consensus. The main reason I reverted the most recent is because it was clearly written in a manner that violated WP:NPOV (the use of terms "ironically", the reference to ideologically Islamic terrorism as though it were a simple fact rather than a highly contested argument) and the citation to the AP story a claim that did not appear in it, which is a major red flag. This main article should not be a WP:BATTLE ground for the competing views on how the Uyghur/Xinjiang issue is depicted. Make changes one at a time and open a discussion on each of them so we can examine the sources, discuss the weights which different views should be afforded, and edit together in an incremental fashion. Edit warring is very unproductive. And make sure that your sources actually say what you say they say, or else you lose credibility and frustrate everyone. Cleopatran Apocalypse (talk) 16:35, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Fake news

So can we now ban Western fake news like CNN? And promote fairer real news for once in your lifetime?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/688430344583422/permalink/2262870960472678/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/947867908642430/permalink/1868637549898790/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/688430344583422/permalink/2155365471223228/ https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/24/us-fueling-terrorism-in-china/ https://aresnews.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/foreign-diplomats-take-tour-of-xinjiang-to-dispel-western-claims-of-oppression/ https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-china-internment-camps-uighur-muslims/ https://www.wikitribune.com/article/85822/ https://twitter.com/Dogu_Perincek/status/1101118970894184449 http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1018/c90000-9281738.html

All news sources have their biases but if you're going to provide an alternative then please do better than Wordpress blogs and Facebook posts by some guy named Dennis.

Need to rephrase as Earwig Copyvio detected

Need to rephrase with help of Earwig Copyvio (Copyvio detected 91% on June 27, 2019). PoetVeches (talk) 02:19, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

• Earwig Copyvio detected that Wikpedia Xinjiang 91% coincides with a website "https://www.slideshare.net/superboinkjeni/sinkiang-or-xinjiang", so I rephrased a bit, but there was question for me because I am not sure about the copyvio who made? because if the website was first copied the text from Wikipedia then Earwig was puzzling. The website slideshareDotnet is currently not reachable (while Earwig found somehow the website so probably the website is blocked only in my country). There sometimes the cases occurred when Earwig Copyvio is puzzling with other websites which copied text from Wikipedia. I may guess the slideshareDotnet was aggregator that was also wrong for finding copyvio. But Wikipedia article Xinjiang is strange also, I don't see citation at all for section, for example, "Geology", "Rivers and lakes" (that had in Copyvio detected with two or three sentences). PoetVeches (talk) 05:09, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

• I see now the website SlideShare on Wikipedia but it blocked with LinkedIn in my country. May SlideShare have first copied from here Wikipedia Xinjiang? I am puzzled a bit. PoetVeches (talk) 05:42, 27 June 2019 (UTC)