Talk:Taiwan

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus; lack of significant participation. Cybercobra (talk) 08:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

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Taiwan → Taiwan Island – This move is part of the proposed moving of Republic of China to Taiwan. Follow that link to view the debate. Crispus (talk) 05:49, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose move to Taiwan Island, but I support the counter proposal, move to Taiwan (island), below. --Born2cycle 07:46, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Counter proposal

Taiwan → Taiwan (island) - The most common name of the island is just Taiwan, not "Taiwan Island", and the title should reflect this, which Taiwan (island) does.

• Support as nom of this alternative. --Born2cycle 07:46, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Multi-move

This proposal makes no sense unless you take it together with the Republic of China → Taiwan proposal, so I have bundled them together here. Kauffner (talk) 08:17, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Monsoon times

Months of Jan to March in the article, is this right? Monsoon is not during wet summer season in middle of year?Polypipe Wrangler (talk) 22:27, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

NC-TW straw poll

A straw poll has been opened on the question of whether WP:NC-TW represents current consensus and so should remain a current guideline. Opine at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)#NC-TW straw poll. Shrigley (talk) 17:16, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress which affects this page. Please participate at Talk:Taiwan (disambiguation) - Requested move and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RM bot 00:40, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Removal of Taiwan Dao

Why remove the fact "Táiwān Dǎo (台湾岛) means Taiwan Island." ???? Huayu-Huayu (talk) 21:14, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Article is about the island

The article in the intro says it is about the island. In the text sometimes the expression "Taiwan" and sometimes the expression "island of Taiwan" or "main island of Taiwan" is used. This is not logically justified. I harmonized. Huayu-Huayu (talk) 21:34, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Please understand that there is not consensus to use the term "Taiwan" to refer to only the island, even though that is what the article title currently does. See also the discussion at Talk:Republic of China and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese). Thanks, Mlm42 (talk) 22:37, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

But in this article "Taiwan" ALWAYS does refer to the island. Huayu-Huayu (talk) 22:44, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

But this could be confusing to readers, considering that most recent English language sources use "Taiwan" to refer to the country, not the island. Mlm42 (talk) 22:46, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Taiwan refers to the country, which includes the smaller islands as Mlm says, this is why "the island of Taiwan" is fine. For somebody who is a newbie Huayu you seem to be unusually well acquainted with templating and linking on here and to message veterans with "Welcome to wikipedia". I usually like to assume good faith but we have a great deal of nationalist POV pushers on here, most of them who hvve been previously blocked under different account, so one can't help but be suspicious.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:47, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't think either that the island is the primary topic, independent of where I live. I did provide evidences at Talk:Taiwan_(disambiguation)#Move_request. I only changed "island of Taiwan" to "Taiwan" within this article, an article that pretends that the island is the primary topic. But I also think the statement "Taiwan refers to the country" is not a world wide view as one can see at Talk:Taiwan_(disambiguation)#Move_request. Huayu-Huayu (talk) 23:18, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress which affects this page. Please participate at Talk:Republic of China - Requested move and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RM bot 23:40, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposed replacement for WP:NC-TW

A proposed replacement for WP:NC-TW has been made: Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Chinese)#Proposed_replacement_for_WP:NC-TW. Please comment on that page.--Jiang (talk) 02:35, 19 February 2012 (UTC)