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On 8 April 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Li Rui (politician) to Li Rui. The result of the discussion was moved.

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Requested move 8 April 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – Material Works (contribs) 15:04, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Li Rui (politician) → Li Rui
Li Rui → Li Rui (disambiguation)

– There are several notable Chinese individuals named Li Rui, but the politician appears to be the primary topic. His page has consistently gotten an order of magnitude more pageviews than the others and appears to also have orders of magnitude more Google results, though obviously interpretation is tricker there. We also have a far more detailed article on the politician than on the other Li Ruis, several of which seem unlikely to ever progress beyond stubs. The politician is far more broadly covered in academic work and published books, from what I can find. We should move the politician's article to simply be titled 'Li Rui' and rename the current 'Li Rui' page to make it a clear disambiguation page per usual practice. —Ganesha811 (talk) 11:43, 8 April 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. Material Works (contribs) 13:10, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: Relisting due to minimal participation. Material Works (contribs) 13:10, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject China has been notified of this discussion. Material Works (contribs) 13:10, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Biography has been notified of this discussion. Material Works (contribs) 13:11, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Politics has been notified of this discussion. Material Works (contribs) 13:11, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support pageview analysis link is incomplete for some reason: [1]. The analysis by nom is spot-on. Additionally, this biography gotten more popular over time while the other biographies have a decline in the viewership. – robertsky (talk) 13:55, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Age

In the "Death and Funeral" section, the article claims that Li's age at his death was actually less than 90, but I don't see this discussed anywhere else in the article. The dates given for other life events (such as entering university or leading a student protest) wouldn't make sense if he had been born ten or more years later. And neither of the two sources cited for the sentence about his death dispute his birth year. Was this just a mistake? SilverStar54 (talk) 02:38, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That was an unsourced change evidently made in error. It was reverted. —Ganesha811 (talk) 13:28, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Type of English

I have changed the article to dmy date format and to British English. It is a accepted as a general practice on Wikipedia that biographies of Chinese people are written with dmy format. See i.e. Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping. Therefore, the date format seems obvious and typical for Wikipedia, but I want to acknowledge the change and invite discussion here as well as the prehaps more controversial change to British English. Marginataen (talk) 12:13, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Legal dispute regarding his diaries

'Monument to history' battle between US and China over future of Mao's secretary's diary - by Amy Hawkins, The Guardian, 18 August 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/18/monument-to-history-battle-between-us-and-china-over-future-of-maos-secretarys-diary

Maybe the Wikipedia article needs a new subsection to cover the legal fight over this. 72.14.126.22 (talk) 04:43, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've added content from the Guardian piece to this article - thanks for the suggestion! —Ganesha811 (talk) 12:16, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]