What is yjypaper?

This repository is a community-compiled record of alleged academic problems found in a master's thesis submitted at Wuhan University in China. The thesis, written by a student named Yang Jingyuan, is titled an economic analysis of how fertility behaviors relate to domestic violence in China and India. The README is written in Chinese, though an English section is also included. Contributors to this repository have catalogued what they describe as fabricated legal references, invented statistics, data tables where the numbers do not add up, plagiarized paragraphs from published papers without citation, factual errors (including a year written as 1049 instead of 1949, a significant political error in the Chinese context), and a misuse of statistical models. One section argues that the thesis uses a linear regression model on a binary outcome variable, which is described as a basic error in econometrics. Another section claims that a formula was misrepresented to reverse the sign and meaning of a result from a cited paper. The repository also tracks formal complaints that community members have filed with multiple institutions, including the Ministry of Education of China, Wuhan University's Academic Committee, and international academic publishers. A checklist in the README shows which complaints have been submitted and which are still pending. The original thesis PDF is included in the repository. Supporting data files, screenshots of the alleged errors, and links to cloud storage with additional evidence are also provided. A section of demands asks the university to revoke the degree and to reverse a disciplinary decision against another student. The repository has drawn attention as an example of crowdsourced academic integrity review. The full README is longer than what was shown.