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		bluetwo on June 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hidden Away for 28 Years, Tiananmen Protest Pictur... English Wikipedia still calls it the "Tiananmen Square protests of 1989" instead of the "Tiananmen Square Massacre" which is what pretty much everyone outside China calls it. Maybe someday we'll stop China from censoring Wikipedia.

boomboomsubban on June 1, 2017 [–]

The article is about the protests as a whole, they ended in the "Tiananmen Square Massacre" like the first paragraph of the article says.

arthur2e5 on June 1, 2017 | [–]

It may be a good idea to try blending some massacre (um, because WP:COMMONNAME, a.k.a. "everyone mentions the massacre"?) in and call it some "protest and massacre" though.

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