Saturday, February 13, 2010

Thing 8 - Stretch

Am I really supposed to call this entry "Thing 8"?

I read about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 on Wikipedia. It is valid complete, and well-written, at least for now. It grew from a few lines in 2002 to thirty-five PDF pages as of today. It has 133 end notes from a range of sources.

The article's discussion page runs for many paragraphs and is itself a wiki. Of course, it is, but people have to watch that page too. There are about ten items of discussion since the new year. Mostly they are discussions of revisions and issues. The first paragraph has the longest discussion and has numerous citations. Since there is still no agreement on what happened in that period of Chinese history, it's going to be hard to reach consensus on how to introduce it. All in all, the article is well done.

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