Talk:Mongolian People's Republic

message: Did the Soviet Union and Japan square off, or was it still Russia. It was 1911, after all. enjoymoreradio (talk) 23:49, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was the Russian Empire in 1911. Gantuya eng (talk) 11:19, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1911 Soviet Union? 

message: The article 1932 armed uprising (Mongolia) needs to be looked over.  The article was made on November 25, 2007 has has barely been touched since and could use more eyes to look at it.  There are also few wikilinks to it.  The article cites only two sources, neither of which are online. Jon513 (talk) 02:07, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, printed sources are usually considered more reliable than online ones. So what exactly is your problem? (Apart from the fact that, like most articles, it could be expanded, of course). --Latebird (talk) 05:42, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  related article need attenstion 

message: This article needs a lot of work. Cleaned up the section on Mongolia and the Cold War a bit. Radchenk (talk) 08:52, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  problematic 

message: The designation "satellite state" at the top of the article is a bit ridiculous. Mongolia was a state recognized by the United Nations as a sovereign and independent country. Its close connection to the Soviet Union can be outlined in the article; it should not be in the heading of the article, and certainly should not categorize Mongolia for fear of oversimplifying an exceptionally complex phenomenon. Radchenk (talk) 20:18, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. As the documentation for Template:Infobox former country makes clear, the field is intended for a formally-defined legal status, not for subjective opinions based around terms used in cold-war propaganda. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This doesn't make sense considering in the article it explicitly calls the Mongolian People's Republic a satellite state. Also, what about the Byelorussian and Ukrainian SSRs? Weren't they puppet states of the USSR with their own seats at the UN? Kiko4564 (talk) 16:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: We don't use article content as a source to justify infobox fields, for the same reason we don't use infobox fields as a source to justify article content. As for the lede, it shouldn't be there anyway - the lede is supposed to summarise material covered in more detail in the article body (see MOS:LEDE: "Significant information should not appear in the lead if it is not covered in the remainder of the article".) - and there is no further mention of the term 'satellite state' whatsoever. On that basis, I am going to rewrite the relevant sentence. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:13, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with Andy.  TFD (talk) 17:46, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

text: If it had been 'well sourced' this might have been the case. It isn't. The source cited appears not even to be about Mongolia: instead it is about Owen Lattimore, one of Joseph McCarthy's victims, who apparently accused Lattimore of being "the top Russian espionage agent in the United States" - rather proving my point about cold-war propaganda. Furthermore, even more tellingly, the source doesn't say that Mongolia was a satellite state, it says that Lattimore described it as such.  It isn't a  'source' for the assertion at all. Given that Darkness Shines is quibbling about WP:3RR (see User_talk:AndyTheGrump#3RR), I'll leave fixing this obvious misuse of a source to someone else. AndyTheGrump (talk) 19:41, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Never accuse me of source misrepresentation again, "In scholarship as much as in politics Mongolia has behaved as the most loyal and consistent of all the satellites" That is not about Lattimore, nor does it say he described it as such. Darkness Shines (talk) 20:13, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Really? Under the heading "Feudalism and the State in the Marxist View of the Nomads", we read "Given Lattimore's interest in Soviet and Mongol scholarship, and his criticism of some of the assumptions thereof, it is necessary to offer a brief account of the context of that scholarship. As has long been shown Lattimore was long of the view that the Mongolian People's Republic was ther first satellite state of the Soviet Union. In scholarship as much as in politics Mongolia has behaved as the most loyal and consistent of all the satellites, and thus the Marxist premises (and their transmutations as a result of political exigencies) that provide the foundation for scholarly enquiry in the Soviet Union fulfil the same function in Mongolia". However you read it, this can be about nothing other than Lattimore. (And incidentally, your quote dropped the bit about 'Marxist premises' - you are supposed to indicate an incomplete sentence with ellipsis '...' I assume this was an accidental omission on your part). AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:36, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  satellite state? 

message: This particular paragraph is very problematic:
"With Soviet encouragement, Mongolia increased its participation in communist-sponsored conferences and international organizations. This was not done without some difficulty as Mongolia was widely seen in the international community as a Soviet appendage rather than an independent country. In 1955, Mongolia attempted to join the United Nations, but the request was vetoed by the Republic of China, which maintained their renewed claim over Mongolia. Mongolia became a member of the UN in 1961 after the Soviet Union threatened to veto the admission of all of the newly decolonized states of Africa if the Republic of China again used its veto. Diplomatic relations with the United States were not established until the end of the Cold War. Mongolia became a bone of contention between the Soviet Union and China following the Sino-Soviet split because of the presence of Soviet nuclear arms."
It uses the term "Republic of China" while at the time it was stationed at Taiwan, thus it should state that Taiwan (as a member of the United Nations) vetoed Mongolia from entering the United Nations as per Wikipedia policy we should not say "China" after 1949 but "Taiwan" for this government's territory thus Mongolia was claimed to be a Taiwanese province and not a Chinese province. --Cookie Nguyen (talk) 18:59, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Republic of China is the official name, and also the name used in the United Nations (until it left the UN in the 1970s), not Taiwan, although ROC is based on Taiwan since 1949. Both names can be used in Wikipedia, and there is certainly no WP policy stating that only "Taiwan" can be used to refer to post-1949 ROC, although the text should mention it was then based on Taiwan. -Cartakes (talk) 19:21, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Republic of China'' 

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message: There seems to be some confusion as to the name of the country from 1931 to 1941. According to this paper, the Mongolian Latin alphabet was used only sparingly in a non-official context from 1932, followed by a full return to the traditional script in the mid-1930s, then by a second officially-sanctioned (though not officially adopted) push for Latinisation under a different alphabet in 1940, until the country officially adopted Cyrillic in 1941. In that page's talk page, however, Danzan Bagsh references a "Latin character law" from 1931 (though with no source), implying official use. 
I'm inclined towards the former, as this constitution uses both the 1940 state emblem and the traditional script alone, implying that the Latin script was only used in non-official contexts, though both scripts would have been used simultaneously, as had occurred with Mongolian Cyrillic in its early years. I would still expect some Latin though, indicating that the two were coequal.
Regardless, I cannot find any source that uses a pre-Cyrillic Latinised name for the Mongolian PR; the two Latin-script names that have been used on this page (Bygede Nairamdaka Mongol Arad Ulas, added by Heepman1997 on 6 April 2019, and Bügede Nairamdaqa Mongol Arad Ulus, added by 202.9.40.24 on 16 July 2021) are only attested on websites that have copied from Wikipedia. Following the rules laid out on the Latin alphabet page (presuming that those unsourced rules are correct and that the script was official from 1931–1941) the correct Latin-script form for ᠪᠦᠭᠦᠳᠡ ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠᠮᠳᠠᠬᠤ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ would have been Bygyde Najiramdaku Monggol Arad Ulus from 1931–1939 and Bügüde Nayiramdaxu Monggol Arad Ulus from 1939–1941, notwithstanding possible deletion of silent letters (e.g., aji/ayi to ai; ngg to ng) or changes to reflect modern Khalkha pronunciation.
Does anyone have any insight into whether the Latin alphabet was officially adopted, and if so, what its rules were and what the official Latin-script name of the Mongolian PR was? If anyone has access to them, the archives of the newspaper Mongoliin Ünen should be able to answer all three questions.
Stars&Stuff553 (talk) 11:02, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name in the Mongolian Latin alphabet