Talk:Social structure of China

message: Who wants to read such a long article????????????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.81.126.72 (talk • contribs) 10:09, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Big country, big article. It has been neglected. It needs extensive editing and sourcing. Fred Bauder 20:20 mental health time 
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I am very buzy these days. I may have time to edit it in about 10 days.
thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chinasociology (talk • contribs) 10:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Who wants to read such a long article??

message: I have started hacking away at this. I don't know if the article can be saved, it is so full of unverified facts and definite original research (the constant use of "I..." is a major giveaway). Also, I wonder if any of this is a copyright violation? For now, I will work on making it shorter, more readable, and seeing exactly where we need citations. But this needs huge editing before someone nominates it for deletion (in its current state, it definitely deserves it). Penguinwithaspear 04:47, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I created two new articles, Modern Chinese social structure and Social structure in Imperial China, both copied from this article. Penguinwithaspear 04:55, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikification

message: i removed it because it took up 8 kilobytes.
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*Lu, Xiaobu. 2000. Cadres and Corruption : The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party. Stanford Univerity Press. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Penguinwithaspear (talk • contribs) 06:35, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: See also

message: I think I have worked the article down to a manageable size. I will continue to edit and improve it, as well as add sources. Penguinwithaspear 00:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean-up

message: I removed the claim that the article is full of original research. I think some of it still is original research, but most of the contents now I recognize from independent sources such as Spence's histories and media reports I've read in the past, so most OR has been removed. It needs some more tweaking and it needs a lot of citations, but i think it's mostly okay in terms of OR now. Penguinwithaspear 00:28, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of OR and wikification tags

message: this is such a long article. it has me falling assleep! take it oooofffffffff!!!!!! itz boring — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.107.220.213 (talk • contribs) 08:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Long article

message: I removed some of the "citation needed" tags because there are so many of them in the article that it is redundant: one per paragraph more than gets the idea across.  Also, most of these tags date from 2007.  This is an old article and it hasn't been significantly improved for at least the last 5 years.  It needs to be rewritten or else someone knowledgeable on the subject needs to go through it erasing and/or putting in in-text citations.
I tried to clean up the "references" section at the end.  Nevertheless, the format of those statistical references isn't correct.  It says nothing except the title and page number. (The page numbers are not cited in the article. I don't know if the original version had these page numbers—I looked but couldn't find it in the history.)
*Also, in the "Access to state bank loans" section, it has as a reference: (Tsai, 2002).  Yet this name doesn't appear in the reference section, nor in any other part of the article.
A lot of people have complained about the quality of this article on this page, but few have taken the time to repair it (namely the referencing).  I'm just not knowledgeable enough about the subject to fix it. Editfromwithout (talk) 23:05, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation needed

message: The heading was changed from '1949 to 1976' to '1949 to 1978' to make the timeline more cohesive as there was a 2 year gap (1976-1978) prior to this. Additionally, more information was provided on cadres and a source was added to back up this information. This was copied from my sandbox which can be found here: User:Emmazjia/Social structure of China Emmazjia (talk) 00:01, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Expanding on some information