Talk:Great Firewall

"Not to be confused with Golden Shield Project."

I don't understand the meaning of this hatnote:

Not to be confused with Golden Shield Project.

According to Golden Shield Project, these terms do in fact refer to the same thing. If the intent is to indicate that we have separate articles for the term "Great Firewall" and for the Great Firewall itself, it would be better to write something like:

This article is about the term "Great Firewall" itself. For the project most often known by that name, see Golden Shield Project.

(or, better wording to that effect).

—Ruakh_TALK 19:04, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Golden Shield Project includes many sub-projects (e.g. security management information system, exit and entry administration information system, etc), and GFW is just only one of its sub-projects. -- Yejianfei (talk) 08:00, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Questionable

I think this article is questionable. It uses words like "suspicion" and "purportedly". All of its sources seem at least 10 years old.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:57, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

The problem is that this article is about a form of censorship. Those who are censored are less able to find sources, those who are not are less motivated to find sources. It's the purpose of censorship, isn't it. :) --Ahyangyi (talk) 14:02, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Here's an archive of selected research papers in the field of Internet censorship: https://censorbib.nymity.ch/ A few of them are about the Great Firewall. It could be useful as a resource to bring this article up to date. The archive's maintainer has said that "at this point, [researchers] have a pretty good understanding" of what the GFW blocks, how the GFW blocks what it blocks, and where the GFW is topologically.[1] --Dodi 8238 (talk) 16:12, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

This needs more exploration and explanation. When I was in China in 2012, I was able to find information (in English) on the Dalai Lama, including from Wikipedia.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:16, 29 December 2015 (UTC)