Talk:Tank Man

message: http://i.imgur.com/yY9Ullg.jpg --144.122.250.186 (talk) 15:58, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image 

message: Is the person that appears on a bicycle on 2:50 the same Tank Man? The reporter says he is. But I can't find anywhere else that he tried to stop the tanks as well on a bike?
http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/videozone/nieuws/buitenland/2.33381/MV_140514_TIE_2_feiten%2B%2B  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.4.154.85 (talk) 14:46, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this Tank Man too? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: User Stuartfranklin was convinced that the photo was shot on 4th June, not on 5th as currently stated in the article, and we can quote a recent book http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2016/april/05/how-stuart-franklin-took-his-tank-man-photograph/ for that. According to the People's Liberation Army at Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 article's timeline, that means the tank man was blocking the tanks while they are entering the square instead of leaving it. --Skyfiler (talk) 21:38, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of the event? 

message: Currently, the article states "The incident took place at the north edge of Tiananmen Square," which isn't quite true. The incident took place almost a block away from Tiananmen square, which is important because the tank column had actually left the Square, not heading towards it or along it as many public discussions and articles elsewhere misrepresent (or at least leave unclear). I realize it is somewhat implied, but should it be stated more clearly here that the tanks had left the square and are heading away when this confrontation occurred? Since we don't know what they had just done, where they were going, or what they were about to do, it seems to me that being as specific as possible based on what we do know is important. To anyone that has actually been to the site, the actual location and direction is clear in the wider photos and vids of the event. Vespid (talk) 21:59, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Should the location and direction be clarified?

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Unfortunately, since all of the (known) images that we have of the incident are from in front of the tanks, Tank Man's back is to us, and he never turns around so his face is hidden. But would it be feasible to use modern photo-enhancement technology to resolve the logos on the shopping bags? CFLeon (talk) 20:27, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: yeah, can't we just say ENHANCE and then *whooosh* *the picture zooms in all pixelated* and then *WOAHHH the picture got clearer, it's like a 16k image of some chineese student's face BLASTING out the light from all the pixels all over the screen*  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.93.135.56 (talk) 23:18, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Modern Technology?

message: :also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel
Do these terms have any currency? If not, they shouldn't be in the lead. Viriditas (talk) 22:02, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: In the West, this individual is almost exclusively known as Tank Man, as that is how our media came to refer to him.  However, within China and elsewhere in Asia, he may very well be known by other names.  I wouldn't be too hasty to remove the alternative names (which may be translated from a language other than English) before I removed them. See the section Tank Man#International notability and censorship. General Ization Talk   22:19, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

text: Also, TIME seems to have thought the name "Unknown Rebel" was sufficiently attached to this individual (or should be) that they used it to refer to him in their 1998 retrospective "Time 100: The Most Influential Images of the Century".  Though they later came to refer to him as Tank Man in "Time 100: The Most Influential Images of All Time", that should be sufficient to cement that alternative name in the  lead.  Both are mentioned in the article. General Ization Talk   22:39, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead 

message: The article seems to imply that he may have been run over.  The video makes it 100% certain that he was not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk
--Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 20:31, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. The tanks appear to not merely try to go around him. But repeatedly stopping to avoid running him over. The article doesn't really make that clear at least in the very first few sentences where they said he stood in front of tanks and then stood in the tanks path, but omit what happened after. 49.186.80.74 (talk) 05:49, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

text: @Scottandrewhutchins I fixed it. Added in a short but key 'half' sentence that the tanks had halted to avoid running him over instead of driving over him when he instructed their path. (which is true according to your video.) 49.186.80.74 (talk) 05:56, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: He was not run over

message: I archived a snapshot of the Google search results page prominently showing a fake, AI generated selfie of Tank Man:  https://web.archive.org/web/20230920115006/https://www.google.com/web/20230920115006/https://www.google.com/search?q=tank+man&hl=en
https://web.archive.org/web/20230920115006/https://www.google.com/web/20230920115006/https://www.google.com/search?q=tank+man&hl=en 2804:388:C2B7:E015:794D:B9A2:B457:AC8F (talk) 12:10, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  AI generated photo 

message: The one-sentence paragraph  is disputed.
This seems to be a very creative interpretation of the sentence  from the Sunday Times source.
I see no reason to keep this paragraph. Walt Yoder (talk) 22:45, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: well to me this whole article itself sounds a little creative Huaxiazidi (talk) 16:01, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
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