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==Please don't restart revert wars on your return, please== |
==Please don't restart revert wars on your return, please== |
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Revision as of 21:46, 5 April 2007
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Hello. Enjoy the discussion.
/Archive 1 (January to March 2005, 58kb)
/Archive 2 (April to June 2005, 82kb)
/Archive 3 (July to September 2005, 73kb)
/Archive 4 (October to December 2005, 150kb)
/Archive 5 (January to March 2006, 78kb)
/Archive 6 (April to June 2006, 93kb)
/Archive 7 (July to September 2006, 51kb)
/Archive 8 (October to December 2006, 19kb)
/Archive 9 (January to March 2006, 25kb)
Please don't restart revert wars on your return, please
Can I say please again? Thanks. SchmuckyTheCat 00:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Deleted sandboxes
Given how the MFD went, it might be a better idea to request undeletion at DRV. --Coredesat 19:26, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Mainland China
The test of whether or not a consensus is achieved is by how well the decision holds in practice and over time, and I expect this subject will keep coming up as it has in the past. I'm sure if I asked the Falun Dafa practitioners down the street from me that they would disagree with my opinion, but that would be a political discussion and a politically motivated response. Conversely, I could go the other direction and ask the storekeeper that sells Mao's Little Red Book and probably get a completely different answer.
Mainland China means precisely what the words indicate: "mainland" distinguishes it from islands, which is geographical, the same way Lower Mainland is used when the speaker wishes to exclude Vancouver Island; the term is first and foremost geographical. Esoteric legal points don't remove Macau and Hong Kong from the PRC. The PRC has sovereignty over those places. That's the way the international system works and has worked since it was created in 1648. Maybe it's not the best system, but Wikipedia's not the place to change it, nor to establish an independence that these places don't have in the real world. Yes, there are lots of things that make these places different from the rest of China, besides being islands, but that's taken care of by subcategories and wikilinks to where those details are laid out. bobanny 19:46, 5 April 2007 (UTC)