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should an e-mail address be in the article as a reference? Jjjsixsix 05:52, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No. I do think responding to this five years after it's asked is slightly silly, but the answer is still no. Sven Manguard _Talk 05:22, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Much of the content is copied from http://vm.nthu.edu.tw. I'm too lazy to do anything about it, of course, but I'm posting that. 207.224.49.221 (talk) 15:00, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why not Dongsha?

Both the administrating state (ROC) and the disputing state (PRC) agree that these islands are called the Dongsha Islands. Even before this romanization, they agreed to call it Tung-sha. So, why doesn't our article treat it as normal Chinese territory to which our WP:PINYIN naming conventions apply? A google search for both "Pratas islands"[1] and "Dongsha islands"[2] (even with the former getting a boost by including pre-pinyin sources for which the opposing name Tung sha is not counted) shows the latter is 4x more common. I was kind of confused when I came about this article, because it's talked about in the context of the South China Sea, where there are non-Chinese claimants who have non-Chinese names for the islands. The current title is misleading because it implies there is some non-Chinese claimant. I don't think a move to "Dongsha" would be controversial with the reasoning I presented above, so I don't think there's a need to file a formal move request. But, I will leave some time for people to respond and discuss before I move. Shrigley (talk) 15:39, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. --Danielinblue (talk) 07:22, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you too. --2.245.105.0 (talk) 00:48, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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People's Republic of China (PRC)'s claim to these islands are illegitimate

These are islands are both officially claimed and controlled as sovereign national territories of the Republic of China (Taiwan), the People's Republic of China's attempted claim is officially and legally illegitimate and not recognized by the United Nations or any other country in the world, especially since the P.R. of China officially and effectively lost their island claims in the United Nations Hague Tribunal ruling:

1.) https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/china-loses-south-china-sea-claim-in-ruling-at-the-hague/news-story/6ac8cf62db5bd4f3be2035dbe51e4763?nk=2ce8b8dd5d2629f7c0c101cfcea06b2d-1524882713

2.) http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-south-china-sea-ruling-20160712-snap-story.html