Talk:East Turkestan independence movement: Difference between revisions

A news item involving East Turkestan independence movement was featured on Wikipedia’s Main Page in the In the news section on 6 July 2009.

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The article’s previous running text read

…and by emphasizing the relatively late “westward migration” of the [[Huigu]] (equated with “Uyghur” by the PRC government) people from Mongolia the 9th century…

I have no idea why we are being so precious and obnoxious with that parenthetical when “Huigu” currently redirects to an article called “Uyghur Khaganate“, presumably because of the copious scholarly English citations on that page and not because of a nefarious PRC plot. If there’s some actual distinction to be made between the Tang 回鶻 and the Uyghurs, every direct and transcribed mention of the 回鶻 here and at Wiktionary needs to be corrected or emended.

Beyond which, if there’s some need to use 回鶻 in some contexts, you’ll run into the problem that both our article and Wiktionary’s think the pinyin should be Huihu instead. If Huigu is right instead or if both are equally correct, the other two articles need to be corrected with cites.

[Apparently identical phrasing at History of Xinjiang. Same issue.] — LlywelynII 20:57, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]