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The article says the capital was relocated several times, but not to where. Elcalebo (talk) 23:02, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Nationalist government moved to Chungking. Traumnovelle (talk) 09:30, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In the section called 'Matsui's reaction to the massacre', I request for where it says "On December 1937, as General Iwane Matsui began to comprehend the full extent of the rape, murder, and looting in the city, he grew increasingly dismayed" to "On December 1937, as General Iwane Matsui began to comprehend the full extent of the rape, torture, murder, and looting in the city, he grew increasingly dismayed" please. 95.147.145.134 (talk) 13:44, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 14:14, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I request for where It says "Rape and looting was widespread" to "Rape, torture, and looting was widespread". 95.147.145.134 (talk) 21:11, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a source that states that torture was widespread? I see sources for widespread rape and looting in the article but not torture. Traumnovelle (talk) 21:21, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. --Ferien (talk) 22:06, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there everyone! I want to argue that the image of the person stabed in their genitals is unnecessary and does not enough for the article to warrent such an extreme image. I guess its purpose is to depict the extremes of the massacre. As much as I get that I though want to ask if that is necessary? (similarly with some other close images of single corpses, mostly children) Nsae Comp (talk) 22:25, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:NOTCENSORED and WP:PROFANE, no they should not be removed. The images have captions which tie them into the article in an encyclopaedic fashion. Traumnovelle (talk) 22:30, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am not disputing that thei caption is encyclopaedic. I am questioning if they are necessary. As above WP:PROFANE and WP:Manual of Style/Images states:"Material that would be considered vulgar or obscene by typical Wikipedia readers should be used if and only if its omission would cause the article to be less informative, [...]" ... so once again: is it a necessary image to warrent the offensive- and disrepectfulness of the image? Is the article less informative if only the caption remains as normal text or does the reader get more knowledgable by seeing this image? Nsae Comp (talk) 23:14, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The captions make little sense without the image itself, furthermore without images it's easy to say 'okay X wrote about but is there proof'. Traumnovelle (talk) 23:37, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]