Talk:Video games in China

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Removed "Undue Weight"

diff This tag {{Undue|date=November 2015}} give no explanation or why there is undue weight, neither on the page nor on the talk page, which is required.

If found no excessive weight in the article. Without further clarification there is no reason for this tag to be on the article.5.198.10.236 (talk)

Merger proposal

I propose to merge Online gaming in China into this article Video gaming in China. Topics share a lot of details and so there doesn't seem to be any reason to have separate articles. I would definitely have a separate top-level section related to online gaming to capture things from that article not already in this one, since the MMO approach was highly popularized in China. Masem (t) 16:27, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

• Support No reason to really keep them separate. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 19:06, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
• Support Definitely agree, can address sourcing issues of Online gaming in China during the merge --[E.3][chat2][me] 08:10, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
• Support, as that article about online gaming seems to be forked from this one and doomed to being a little more than a permastub. GaɱingFørFuɲ³⁶⁵ 08:49, 29 September 2019 (UTC).

  Y Merge completed Klbrain (talk) 11:22, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Mention that minors can only play 3 hours of video games a week in lead?

I think this is WP:DUE, but got reverted. Hundreds of millions of people living under an unusual and very restrictive law relating to video games certainly seems lead-worthy to me. In fact this may be the single most important thing about video games in China. Thoughts? –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:18, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

There's lot of other restrictions on minors related to games, and given this is about the video game industry in China, the specifics of that restriction aren't so much important as that such restrictions simply exist. --Masem (t) 13:09, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

That said, a small modification of the current last sentence of the lede can be easily made without putting too much excessive weight on this factor, which I've done. (It is discussed in depth in the body obviously). --Masem (t) 13:25, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

References

Wiki Education assignment: ESL Workshop

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 February 2024 and 18 March 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jiayi Chen Angela (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Yuanxi Wang (talk) 20:58, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: China Encounters the World

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 2 September 2024 and 18 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Danial Yang, JingchenGao, Sviatoslavgladyshev, Salwa D (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by LingerMa (talk) 08:23, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Probable AI-generated text

Hi -- I added the AI-generated template here because many student edits, such as this and this, display many signs of LLM output without proper oversight. All of it needs extensive review for factual accuracy, tone (there are already issues there, the usual AI stuff), etc. Gnomingstuff (talk) 19:04, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Both of those were added as part of the student assignment above, but given that was out of NYU Shanghai, the additions scream either LLM or translation. The first addition itself is repeating much of what's already in the article so not super helpful, and the latter, with the lede changes, was not as neutral as the original, so I've removed or reverted both. The rest of the article is stuff I recognize from either my edits or nearby ones. Masem (t) 19:11, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

I think the removal of the tag is premature. ChatGPT likes to use long and convoluted section names and always uses curly punctuation, which I noticed when condensing said section names. A lot of this article reads like ChatGPT's model being unaware of Wikipedia's prohibitions on promotional material, hence the section "Chinese companies' strategies for global expansion" containing random factoids promoting NetEase in the blog-style tone that ChatGPT uses as a consequence of ripping off company websites. Yue🌙 22:00, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

As I can vouch for the rest of the article from my editing (for the most part), I've moved those tagged concerns to two sections that did appear to come from course editing and thus could have multiple issues. Masem (t) 23:13, 31 August 2025 (UTC)