Talk:Zhenjiang vinegar

Page move

This article would be better as East Asian black, Zhenjiang vinegar, Black vinegar or Black rice vinegar. Mention of this brand (the topic) could be made within as the major national brand. As it stands now, all references for this topic will lead to commercial sites. The above suggestions will google well for good sources. Thoughts? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

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The bottle cap should be orange. Many Chinese know that bottles with the yellow ones are fake.--89.14.77.233 (talk) 19:44, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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"This article is missing information about acid content (5.5+%; should be published in some product listing/images with the ingredients); other chemistry (aromatic compounds; look for GC-O studies). Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (April 2019)"

I have a bottle of this vinegar and there is no acidity information on the label. I'll leave it to someone else to look up chemical analysis. I have uploaded a picture of the label. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

Requested move 21 December 2021

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: Not moved. No refutation to evidence presented that Zhenjiang is the more common name (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 02:50, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

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Zhenjiang vinegar → Chinkiang vinegar – Revert previous move which seems to have been motivated by misinterpreting "Chinkiang" as a brand name. (It is the classical romanization of Zhenjiang.) Due to a history of marketing such products under this name in the west, it was and still is the most common name associated with the topic in English and continues to be used in labeling. Ham Pastrami (talk) 18:29, 21 December 2021 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 21:45, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

• Some data: the two books cited in the article both use the spelling "Zhenjiang", while the third source, which seems to be an online store, uses "Chinkiang". A search on Google Scholar suggests that "Zhenjiang vinegar" (277 results) is much more common than "Chinkiang vinegar" (42 results). On the other hand Google Ngrams suggests "Chinkiang vinegar" is much more common. The relevant guideline is WP:PINYIN ("Zhenjiang" is the pinyin romanization). —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 08:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
• The very few Jstor results are split evenly between Chinkiang and Zhenjiang. Pubmed results favor Zhenjiang (85 as of this comment); a similar search for Chinkiang automatically redirects to Qian et al 2013, implying it is the sole result. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 18:53, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.