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Space station

This is an article for INVENTIONS. China did not invent the space station; full stop. A simple glance at the talk page history demonstrates that there's already a history of inflated claims and puffery, and that spurious additions -- lacking well-attested reliable sources to an invention's unique provenance in China -- should be removed. To suggest that this is a unique invention because it is named "Tiangong space station" is bizarre at best; that would be rather like asserting that some nation invented the automobile just because there was some cosmetic feature not before slapped on one. Ravenswing 11:31, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Since space stations are presently such massive, bespoke things, I could almost see an argument for some claim involving Tiangong if a newly invented technology or device was used first on it. But no argument of the sort is currently being made. Remsense留 23:23, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'd certainly have raised no objection to a standalone entry for any such newly invented technology/device, and certainly were such an invention first employed on a Tiangong station, obviously such an entry would reasonably mention it. As you say, no such assertion has been made. As far as space stations go, there were nine launched and manned before the first of the Tiangong stations. Ravenswing 06:35, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]