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Jimbo's opinion

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This article was horrible. Now, thanks to my improvements, it is merely awful. :) --Jimbo Wales 09:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed your edits so that it was up to snuff (just minor stuff, fixing references, spelling errors, revising date links). I didn't do any research of my own and I know very little of this topic, so I didn't really add anything. --Cyde Weys 23:02, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was no moveMets501 (talk) 21:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move (2006)

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Censorship in TaiwanCensorship in the Republic of China — Accuracy (this isn't just about the island of Taiwan, but all islands controlled by the ROC), consistency with PRC equivalent page, etc. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 14:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move (2010)

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The result of the move request was: move to Censorship in the Republic of China Orlady (talk) 16:19, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]



Censorship in TaiwanCensorship in the Republic of China — Per previous reason, this article is about censorship in the ROC as a whole administrative unit, not restricted to the island of Taiwan. And it would be consistent with the page on censorship in the People's Republic of China. The Taerkasten (talk) 16:20, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - With all due respect, sometimes common use must be forgone. Per WP:AT, titles are expected to use names and terms that are precise, but only as precise as is necessary to identify the topic of the article unambiguously., as well as for consistency, see Censorship in the People's Republic of China. This article is not about censorship in Taiwan, but in the Republic of China, and should be titled as such. As per WP:NC-CHINA#Political NPOV, "the official political terms "People's Republic of China" or "PRC" and "Republic of China" or "ROC" should be used in political contexts (that is, to describe the existing governments or regimes) rather than the imprecise and politically charged terms "China" and "Taiwan."--The Taerkasten (talk) 16:03, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move (2012)

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The result of the proposal was moved. The common name argument is strong. --regentspark (comment) 03:02, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Censorship in the Republic of ChinaCensorship in Taiwan – Articles on Wikipedia generally use the name Taiwan except when talking about official titles in which this is not and therefore should use Taiwan.C. 22468 Talk to me 21:51, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How does mainland China belong under the title "Taiwan"? -- 76.65.131.160 (talk) 09:28, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support There is one short paragraph discussing a single book during the Second World War/Sino-Japanese War. The article is currently mostly about modern laws, and the other history paragraph discusses laws during martial law. The paragraph that does mention the mainland is probably undue anyway, as it's a single book in what appears to be just a short note in a reference, and it was a wartime act, where censorship (and other versions of information fudging) is no doubt more common. CMD (talk) 12:13, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Common Name.--Education does not equal common sense. 我不在乎 20:56, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support (see my responses to Jiang's comment) - CMD makes a good case why the one paragraph should not trump the current consensus to use the common name where appropriate. wctaiwan (talk) 02:30, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Articles that deal exclusively with the actions of the government of Taiwan should use "Republic of China". Readin (talk) 18:36, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. We have the main article, correctly and perfectly acurately, at Taiwan. If this article was "Censorship by the government of the Republic of China", the argument about actions of the government might have some weight (although I'd still argue it's not a technical enough reference to suggest an exemption). But it is of the form " Censorship in ...", which clearly refers to the geopolitical space. That is, Taiwan, as rest of the world other than one or two hold-out WP editors know it. N-HH talk/edits 20:43, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • What happens when someone does a little extra research and includes information about censorship by the Republic of China prior to 1945? Will the name "Censorship in Taiwan" still make sense? Readin (talk) 21:07, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I think it would actually - that material would simply be background to where we are now, just as the main "Taiwan" article has information about ROC history, including when it was not even limited to Taiwan. We generally name articles about things that reach into the present day by contemporary references and don't automatically have to revert to an archaic or technical name at the the first whiff of any history. Also, as noted below, if there was significantly distinct material about censorship during mainland rule that could warrant an entirely separate article, under the ROC name with dates/"History" or whatever added. N-HH talk/edits 07:04, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I see valid reasons for renaming this article, but the rationale given by CMD and wctaiwan above are insufficient and misguided. Wikipedia articles are not meant to be static. Just because this article does not currently cover "Censorship in the Republic of China" in sufficient detail does not mean it never should and never will. Give me a few hours, and I can produce enough text to make this article overwhelmingly be about "Censorship in the Republic of China" as it existed before 1949. It certainly existed in a significant manner. The question you want to discuss is whether you want one article, or two, on this topic - whether censorship before and after 1949 are sufficiently unrelated for these to be separate stand alone articles, and what you would name the "other" article once this article is renamed.--Jiang (talk) 21:03, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
My opinion is that the situation in the modern ROC is different enough from the pre-1949 ROC such that given the way the article is structured (i.e. breaking down by aspects of current censorship and not chronologically), extensive coverage of censorship in pre-1949 ROC should really be broken into a separate article. Should the article be refactored to be organised by chronology (and there's a case to be made for that), with sufficiently comprehensive description of each time period, I would probably be fine with the current title. wctaiwan (talk) 01:25, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, rereading the article, I think it isn't so much the organisation that is the issue, but rather the lack of detail in the pre-democratisation parts. As it is, I still think the move should happen, but if someone is up to the task of expanding the pre-democratisation sections, I'm okay with that too. Striking my "vote". wctaiwan (talk) 01:52, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
My rationale was based off current content. As for future articles, I think a split would be valid, as the post-1949 situation with martial law and sometimes draconian rule of the KMT on Taiwan was no doubt very different from the issues that would've affected censorship before then, which were probably maintaining control and giving the image of maintaining control over the huge mainland. CMD (talk) 06:47, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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