Talk:Hainan Island

Hainan Island is different from Hainan Province

Hainan Island (海南岛 Hǎinán Dǎo) is NOT the same as Hainan Province (Hǎinán Shěng). Huayu-Huayu (talk) 20:56, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

The other editors have made this distinction for many years and yet have chosen to keep the two merged. Until you obtain consensus for your changes, the status quo stands and Hainan Island cannot be a separate article; also, constant reversion is pointless and obstructs discussion. GotR ^Talk 21:09, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Disrupting which discussion? You didn't start a discussion, you removed the Hainan Island article. Huayu-Huayu (talk) 21:47, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Below I copy something I had posted in a similar manner at User talk:Anna Frodesiak:

Where is the logic in calling Hainan Province Hainan, and calling Taiwan Province, Taiwan Province. Hainan as single word means the island for many many people. ... One has no confusion if always the full names are used. Hainan Island and Hainan Province. Have you seen the funny Category:Islands of Taiwan? Are these all islands located on the Taiwan Island? The article name for the Taiwan Island is Taiwan, so the category could mean that.

plain name	disambiguation of the plain name	island article	province article(s)	clarify that it is an island article	clarify that it is a province article
Hainan	Hainan (disambiguation) - island, province and other things	Hainan Island (article removed by some user)	Hainan (ambiguous)	Hainan Island	Hainan Province
Taiwan	Taiwan (disambiguation) - country, island, island group, province	Taiwan (ambiguous)	Taiwan Province (ambiguous) Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China	Taiwan Island	Taiwan Province (ambiguous) Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China
Fujian	Fujian (disambiguation) - two provinces	none	Fujian (ambiguous) Fujian Province, Republic of China	none	Fujian Province (ambiguous) Fujian Province, Republic of China

Huayu-Huayu (talk) 21:53, 17 January 2012 (UTC)