Talk:Underground City (Beijing)

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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
July 17, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
February 13, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 16, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Underground City in Beijing is a bomb shelter said to accommodate six million people?

Current status: Delisted good article

Creation of page[edit]

Hi there! I created this page on July 14, 2008, after I tried searching for the attraction and found only a blocked-up door flanked by notices proclaiming the attraction closed. The image of the entrance was taken by myself. Happy reading! -Samuel Tan 06:37, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Names and description of sources used in the article[edit]

Hultengren: http://www.hultengren.com/beiund.htm
CNN1: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/30/oly.journal1/index.html
New York Times: http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/asia/china/beijing/attraction-detail.html?vid=1154654613843
Lonely Planet Web: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/china/beijing/sights/4719?list=true
Beijingchina.ca: http://beijingchina.ca/attractions/undergroundcity.html
China.org.cn: http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/125961.htm
Chinadaily: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-12/30/content_508040.htm

Sources[edit]

I have not added all the information I have found so far; I am pasting the contents of the portions I have not added here for future updating.

Beijing Encounter, ISBN 978-1-74104-666-3: Gives the address (62 Xidamochang Jie) and a short writeup. I have a copy of the book.
Website http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/asia/china/beijing/attraction-detail.html?vid=1154654613843 ("New York Times"): Text - "Unintentional humor is provided by propaganda posters from the era, which advise citizens to cover their mouth in the event of nuclear, chemical, or biological attack. Army engineers were said to have built a secret network of tunnels connecting the residences of Party leaders at Zhong Nan Hai to the Great Hall of the People and the numerous military bases near Ba Da Chu to the west of town. Suspicions were confirmed in 1976 and 1989 when large numbers of troops emerged from the Great Hall of the People to keep the people in check. The construction boom means that this is the only remaining entrance to the non-secret tunnels; it may disappear soon."
Website http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/30/oly.journal1/index.html ("CNN1"): Text - While the Qianmen area is going through an extreme makeover -- a restoration of its Qing dynasty flavor ahead of the Olympics -- Frisch's destination is safe from the city's ubiquitous wrecking balls. Upon reaching the entrance to the Underground City, however, he was told it was closed for "renovation," just like the surrounding neighborhood.

-Samuel Tan 06:37, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lonely Planet Publications. n.d. Beijing Underground City. Retrieved July 16, 2008, from http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/china/beijing/sights/4719?list=true Done - information added on July 16, 2008: Text - By 1969, as the USA landed men on the moon, Mao had decided the future for Beijing's people lay underground. Alarmist predictions of nuclear war with Russia dispatched an army of Chinese beneath the streets to burrow a huge warren of bombproof tunnels which has now been put to use as warehouses, hotels and restaurants. There are roughly 90 entrances to the complex, all of which are hidden in shops along Qianmen's main streets. A fluorescent wall map reveals the routing of the entire tunnel system. You can visit a section of the tunnels and, although there's not much to see, you'll pass chambers labelled their original function (cinema, hospital, arsenal etc) as well as flood-proof gates. You can also make out signposts to major landmarks accessed by the tunnels (Tiananmen Sq, the Forbidden City), but these routes are inaccessible.

-Samuel Tan 07:35, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This article was promoted to GA status on 15:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC) The review can be found here: Talk:Underground City (Beijing)/GA1

GAR[edit]

Underground City (Beijing)[edit]

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Result: Delisted. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:09, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Old GAR request. Article looks outdated, with latest info from 2008. It also doesn't look broad, with only 7 sources (most of them some news pieces, and one (hultengren.com) probably self-published). Artem.G (talk) 17:33, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delist. Article content is very outdated, and hultengren.com and beijingchina.ca are self-published. Moreover, none of the other sources are that reliable. My biggest problem with the page is that it's way too small for a tunnel system that supposedly took 10 years and 300,000 people to construct. There needs to be a lot more content for the article to fulfill the broadness criterion. Mucube (talk • contribs) 05:07, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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