Talk:COVID-19 misinformation by China

: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: Procedural close. Withdrawn by nominator. (non-admin closure) ––FormalDude talk 03:03, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

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:COVID-19 misinformation by China → {{no redirect|COVID-19 disinformation by China}} – As this article has developed, it is clear China is engaging in deliberate disinformation, rather than merely misinformation. The article title should accurately reflect this.

• Merriam-Webster defines misinformation as {{tq|incorrect or misleading information}}.
• Merriam-Webster defines disinformation as {{tq|false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth}}. ––FormalDude talk 23:04, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

:Note: WikiProject China has been notified of this discussion. — Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 23:05, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

:Note: WikiProject COVID-19 has been notified of this discussion. — Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 23:05, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

• Renaming to "disinformation" would unhelpfully reduce the scope of this. There are plenty of instances of encyclopedia-mention-worthy misinformation which is not necessarily disinformation. This would also make this title inconsistent with the other ones ("COVID-19 misinformation by governments";...) RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 12:05, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
• I agree w/ RC. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:08, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
• Maybe there should be a section dedicated to disinformation then. ––FormalDude talk 19:17, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
• :Just describe the variety in the prose. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:06, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose per RandomCanadian. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 02:33, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
• Comment. Right now we distinguish between misinformation vs disinformation. For now I weakly agree with RC that mis is a broader concept than dis, hence this article would not be helped by the move, as it would merit splitting some information. However, we could consider renaming it to COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation by China. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:58, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
• :Those articles seem a bit dubious though. See HQ dictionaries like [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/misinformation Cambridge]. I'm not convinced those should even be separate articles, and indeed the second has several cleanup tags. Anyway, I'm not convinced there's a real distinction between the words, at least not to the extent that a wordy title is warranted. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:38, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
• ::WP:CONCISE is what PR is referring to (if the link refers to the right place), so agree with that, obviously. The difference in meaning is that one is a bit broader, and of course we should use that one, as per my previous comments. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:58, 2 September 2021 (UTC)