Talk:Mingde Dam

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Requested move 14 December 2018[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 07:48, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mingte Dam → Mingde Dam – We use pinyin for Chinese toponyms in Taiwan. De wafelenbak (talk) 14:26, 14 December 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. bd2412 T 23:16, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can you provide some support for the proposition that "we use pinyin for Chinese toponyms in Taiwan"? Is there a policy or guideline on this, or precedents that we can see? bd2412 T 23:17, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I can't read Chinese, but when I go to the Chinese page in Chrome, the Google auto-translator does translate it to "Mingde", so I'll take the nominator at his word in the absence of any evidence to the contrary. Rreagan007 (talk) 23:38, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support: based on the Chinese name of the subject (明德水库). The "水库" part can be translated as "Dam", likely the reason for the use here, but, without poorly translating the first part "明德", the pinyin in míng dé, and thus "Mingde Dam" should be the title IMO. A good source for this explanation, if you don't want my OR, is https://dictionary.writtenchinese.com/#sk=%E6%98%8E%E5%BE%B7%E6%B0%B4%E5%BA%93&svt=pinyin. --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Wikipedia's house style is pinyin (WP:PINYIN) and Taiwan uses pinyin at the national level[1] with the exception of the names of special municipalities and the counties (and their seats) plus Lukang and Tamsui. This should be applied to the dams of Taiwan as well. — AjaxSmack 06:21, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.