Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hong Kong/Archive 9
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Cantonese slang
Hi! I started the article Cantonese slang. This may be an important topic for Hong Kong. Anyone have any thoughts on what to include? WhisperToMe (talk) 03:57, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I've started a discussion here; please take a look if you have time. Thanks. Kayau (talk · contribs) 09:02, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Grammar Problem
Dear members of wikiproject Hong Kong, i hereby like to put this notice for that almost all the articles of Hong Kong related, or about Hong Kong have really poor grammars. Any users, who have a high degree in grammar are free to improve the articles, an join the wikiproject thank you.
Users who like to reply this message may do so in my talk page.--✯Earth100✯ (talk✉) 11:51, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
- I* users* and* etc etc Dengero (talk) 13:50, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
- To be honest, you appear to have made quite a lot of grammatical mistakes in your comment. I'm not saying a hasty comment is an accurate reflection of your language skills, but next time, you may want to step back before denouncing the language skills of fellow HK Wikipedians (no offence). Kayau (talk · contribs) 15:32, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
- I do not see how your message improves the overall grammar standards of the articles. Nonetheless, I believe users who do not possess high standards of language skills can also provide the project with valuable information and knowledge, and should not be discouraged to contribute to this Wikiproject or Wikipedia. --Wylve (talk) 15:41, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
Okay if you users don't get it than never mind.--✯Earth100✯ (talk✉) 00:50, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
- then* Dengero (talk) 04:09, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Recent edits in MTR station pages by anonymous users
Hi all, I noticed a list of IP users who have been modifying some MTR station pages within this week, possibly as a response to the Our Future Railway public consultation schemes. However, it appears to me that these users are pushing some unrealised MTR plans as the current status, and in my opinion are presenting wrong and misleading information.
For example, in this version of Admiralty Station (MTR) one replaced the current neighbouring station box with the future one, which will only happen incrementally between 2014-2020. In this version of Tsing Yi Station one replaced a neighbouring station of the Airport Express with Tuen Mun, which is not even in any plans.
Here I could not comment on the intentions of these users, or whether these users are actually one. Yet I would still like to raise your attentions to these matters and see if anything can be done to prevent these incorrect modifications.
We seem to be missing an article on the economic history of Hong Kong, as the economy of Hong Kong article doesn't cover it, and it would seem to be important enough to be separate from the history of Hong Kong -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 14:24, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Help with an article?
I'm going around to a few places asking for help with the article Airplane olive. I was able to find some stuff that claims that it's a popular snack (meaning that it could have sources) in Hong Kong, but I can't find much in English. Can any of you that are fluent in Chinese find sources? I'm kind of at a loss here and I'd hate to delete this without at least giving it the good old Wikipedia try to get some help finding coverage in reliable sources. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 06:10, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
"Wu Dang"
The usage of Wu Dang is up for discussion, see Talk:Wu Dang (film) -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 06:18, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Faye Wong albums
A large number of Faye Wong albums have been nominated for renaming. See WP:RM -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 04:35, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
more Faye Wong albums
More Faye Wong albums are up for renaming at WP:RM -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 08:40, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Faye Wong
many albums of Faye Wong have been put up for renaming, see Talk:No Regrets (Faye Wong album) -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 19:42, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Demonym
According to the Hong Kong article, the demonym for Hong Kong is "Hong Konger." Should Category:Hong Kong people, etc., be renamed? --BDD (talk) 21:04, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
- Pretty uncommon for me to hear the words "Hong Konger" here in Hong Kong, and a Google search returns more results from "Hong Kong people" than any of "Hongkonger", "Hong Konger", "Hongkongese" or "Hong Kongese". (Sorted in descending number of results; actually the result counts from "Hong Kong people" is more than the sum of that from the 4) Therefore I don't think the change is appropriate. — Peterwhy 09:00, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
- Perhaps Hong Kong should be changed accordingly. Thanks for the answer. --BDD (talk) 16:58, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
HKeDOIcover.PNG
file:HKeDOIcover.PNG has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 23:31, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Faye Wong's Restless (Faye Wong album)
See talk:Restless (Faye Wong album) where this is again up for renaming -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 11:47, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Aberdeen Baptist Lui Ming Choi College.jpg
image:Aberdeen Baptist Lui Ming Choi College.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:14, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
GAR
History of Hong Kong (1800s–1930s), an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 17:05, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Hong Kong-Gambia immigration scheme
I found something that might be useful:
- Boehler, Patrick and Saikou Ceesay. "West Africa a shortcut for rich mainland Chinese to Hong Kong residency." South China Morning Post. Thursday 20 June 2013.
WhisperToMe (talk) 07:16, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
- I suggest it would be of greatest relevance in the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme article. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 09:31, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Hong Kong Typhoon of 1906
Hong Kong Typhoon of 1906 may need extensive rewriting, and appears to be copied from the chinese wp.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 17:36, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Official Languages Ordinance
I just created Official Languages Ordinance. Please help improve and link to it from other articles. I also noticed that there are a number of Hong Kong ordinance articles. See Category:Hong Kong legislation. Do we have a need for a specific template or category for Hong Kong ordinances? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 22:26, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Sze Yup
See talk:Sze Yup about a Mandarin Pinyin, Mandarin Wade-Giles, Cantonese transcription issue for naming the article. -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:03, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Four Asian Tigers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 03:40, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
Bus No Phone.jpg
image:Bus No Phone.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 11:49, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
There's a discussion about a large amount of streets in Hong Kong to be AFD/PROD.—– 21:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Chinese Wikipedia is considering splitting in two
See WT:CHINA#Discussion on splitting the Chinese Wikipedia where a notice has been posted about ZH.wiki splitting into PRC-wiki and ROC-wiki -- 76.65.129.3 (talk) 06:39, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
Review on Jackie Chan has been initiated. --George Ho (talk) 22:01, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
RFC
Could use some fresh eyeballs and voices at this previously stale merge proposal, splitting the content at Opium Wars into the articles First Opium War and Second Opium War and turning the page into a dab between them, to avoid the existing content fork. — LlywelynII 13:44, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Merge WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment into WikiProject China
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I suggest that the inactive WP:WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment be merged as a taskforce into WP:WikiProject China. -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 17:28, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
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Is this Hong Kong businessman notable enough to qualify for an article in Wikipedia? Are any of his business interests that do not already have articles notable enough to have articles?
Please add your comments near the top of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Deborah Burrows, using the form
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Please place it below any similar comments but above the ---- line. Thanks. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 19:09, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Junior Writers Awards
Greetings WikiProject, the article on Junior Writers Awards falls within your scope. It's a writing competition for secondary students in Hong Kong and Macao. I could use some extra eyes over there, as some contributors seem interested in turning the article into a promo piece for the event. It's not an epidemic or anything, but extra eyes would be helpful, even if you just add the page to your watchlists and scrutinize the changes. There is also no indication in the article that the event is notable, so helping to establish notability would be appreciated as well. Thank you! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:18, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
AfC submission - 06/04
Draft:Red-white-blue bag. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 21:27, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
AfC submission - 08/04
Draft:Tiu Shau Ngam. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 01:17, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
(Transliterated to English with various spellings) An article on this subject was recently deleted. Are there sources in Cantonese? Is it a notable noodle chain? Candleabracadabra (talk) 14:33, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Promotional articles
I don't know if you guys have been checking the Deletion noticeboard lately (or this page, for that matter), but there seems to be a lot of companies putting out unusually detailed promotional articles recently (see Tsui Wah Restaurant for an example of the format, though the topic is notable in this case; and the probably-gonna-be-deleted Hulu Concept). All of them are suspiciously created by single-purpose accounts. I suspect a paid-editing PR firm could be behind the batch of Hong Kong company articles (ala Wiki-PR). Does anyone else notice something strange going on, or is it just me? _dk (talk) 04:04, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
- Tsui Wah Restaurant was created by Danielho722. It was the only page ever edited by that user and {s)he has been inactive since December 2012. Huku Concept was created by 2008255766yu09; user has been inactive since March 2010 and that was the only page {s}he ever edited. Undoubtedly those two were single purpose accountss but they've been dormant for some time. I don't see that there is an issue here but I'll certainly keep an eye out for further suspicious behavior. Philg88 ♦talk 05:40, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
- What gets me suspicious is the abundant use of single purpose accounts making really lengthy and detailed (but heavily promotional) articles about Hong Kong small-to-mid sized companies and businessmen. Maybe I'm seeing a pattern where none exists, I don't know, but it's pretty hard to check with so many being already deleted. I'll scour the relevant categories for more examples when I have time. _dk (talk) 06:05, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
- Cool, let me know what you find. As an aside, Hulu Concept will hopefully now be kept (see the AfD discussion). Philg88 ♦talk 06:39, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
- What gets me suspicious is the abundant use of single purpose accounts making really lengthy and detailed (but heavily promotional) articles about Hong Kong small-to-mid sized companies and businessmen. Maybe I'm seeing a pattern where none exists, I don't know, but it's pretty hard to check with so many being already deleted. I'll scour the relevant categories for more examples when I have time. _dk (talk) 06:05, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
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RFC discussion relevant to Chinese song/album titles
Please see Talk:Damaged Lady, admittedly that is a Korean song, but the RFC is intended to address songs like 月亮代表我的心 as well. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:40, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
- Correction, actually 月亮代表我的心 is a bad example because the RFC specifically doesn't address songs with decent Google Books sources. Sorry, 乐天派 would be a better example. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:04, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
See Talk:Wen Ruian, where we are discussing the proper romanization of this name; does anyone know the official romanization in HK or Malaysia? -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:10, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
- The correct pinyin orthography is Wen Rui'an, and since pinyin is the official romanisation system in HK (because it's part of China), then I guess that's the official version. I don't know about Malaysia though, I don't think they have a mandated romanisation system. Philg88 ♦talk 05:42, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
Author of White Cat Black Cat
I read that Ma Sing-yuen, author of White Cat Black Cat, is also called "Malone" but ai see two separate Chinese Wikipedia articles. Are hey the same person?
WhisperToMe (talk) 11:54, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- Appears to be the same person to me, but the two zh articles may be trying to differentiate comic nature under two different pen names. — Peterwhy 16:28, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- The articles should be merged together if it's one person. The same article can describe the activities under both pen names. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:40, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- They are the same article with a redirect: 馬星原->馬龍 (漫畫家), about a cartoonist called Malone. Philg88 ♦talk 05:52, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
- The articles should be merged together if it's one person. The same article can describe the activities under both pen names. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:40, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Pleas add information about this country to this articles--Kaiyr (talk) 13:20, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Roads and streets in Hong Kong
A large number of roads and streets in Hong Kong are currently under discussion at Articles for Deletion. While some of these are notable, others are not and will be deleted or redirected per Wikipedia notability policy. In some cases, information about these roads is available from acceptable sources but at the current time there is no provision to retain this in the case of redirects to List of streets and roads in Hong Kong. I propose that we restructure that article along the lines of List of streets and roads in Manchester, but divided into districts. This will allow for the retention of photos and with an additional "notes" column, pertinent information such as "named after x", the "only x in y" etc. can be added as well as other columns after discussion. If a particular section gets too long the article can be split. All thoughts and suggestions - particular those on what the column headings should be - welcome . Philg88 ♦talk 14:49, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- As it is easier to have an example to discuss, I have created a table for the roads of Lantau, directly in the List of streets and roads in Hong Kong article. Feel free to comment and/or make changes. Underwaterbuffalo (talk) 17:02, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've commented at your talk page. Philg88 ♦talk 21:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- Underwaterbuffalo's table looks good. I also propose some tables like these in List of numbered streets in Manhattan and Brooklyn streets, where the length, neighbourhood, and vehicular direction of the street is also listed. Epicgenius (talk) 14:44, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've commented at your talk page. Philg88 ♦talk 21:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
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Help with an article?
I need some help with the article Umbrella Man (Occupy Central Movement, Hong Kong). It's about a specific photograph that is related to the OCM and it needs some serious TLC. It was up for a speedy (which I've declined) but I'm thinking that a merge to the main OCM article would be best due to the limited amount of coverage that I could find. However, I did want to ask around to various WikiProjects to see if they could help out some when it comes to finding foreign language sources or sources I may have missed. Anyone interested? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:15, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
- The article seems to be about a specific photo however to my knowledge a few different version exist. I managed to find out that the photo will feature on the cover of the Asia edition of TIME magazine [1]. Tsange ☯ Talk 14:33, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Question please: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wanted-x30EA-x30A4-x30B7-x30E5/dp/B00GMZXHV6/ is this a compilation album or an original studio album? In ictu oculi (talk) 00:50, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Page move is requested; discuss there. --George Ho (talk) 21:36, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
We have someone trying to revive the abolished naming convention again. TheAvatar (discuss–?) 20:02, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
We have a discussion about renaming this article. Click above. --George Ho (talk) 00:16, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Hong Kong names
Hong Kong names are being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 06:47, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Article alerts
For those who are unfamiliar with this WikiProject, we always had a page to keep tracks of ongoing events:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Hong Kong/Article alerts
TheAvatar (discuss–?) 20:52, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
- One should note that that does not track all events related to pages concerning WPHK. It only tracks events which have a WPHK project banner attached or appear in the tracking category tree. Any page without a project banner (or outside the tree) would thus not be listed. Also, that does not track all action requests, only requested actions that are part of the repetoire of tracked actions for Article Alerts (for instance WP:CSD deletions are not tracked; and though WP:RM standard requests are tracked, WP:RMTR are not) The list is maintained by an automated process, so it is important to add the WPHK banner to every talkpage of any page that WPHK wishes to track from the processes which ArticleAlerts tracks. For those processes that it does not, one should be aware they will not be listed there; and there are many such untracked processes. -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 00:21, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
{{HKafter1997}}
Template:HKafter1997 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been listed at TFD at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_December_15#Template:HKafter1997 ; however, as it has been improperly nominated, it will not show up at Article Alerts. -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 06:45, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Should Chinese Canadians in Greater Vancouver be split from Chinese Canadians in British Columbia?
Should there be a Vancouver-centric split of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia?
Already posted to WP:China, but the Hong Kong immigration to Vancouver is a major subject, and I think attention from other uninvolved editors is needed and I strongly request it now. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:42, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
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Another move request is ongoing. Improve consensus by joining in. --George Ho (talk) 00:47, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone here help me improve this article? Thank you. --George Ho (talk) 19:35, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Which French school campus is this?
This picture File:Lycée français international, Hong Kong.JPG is the Lycée français international Victor-Segalen but I don't know which campus this is. Does anyone know which one?
Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 00:04, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Hong Kong experts. This old AfC submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. It has a lot of references, but most are not on line. I am not familiar with news sources in Hong Kong, so I can't tell if this is a notable subject. Should the page be kept and improved? —Anne Delong (talk) 01:47, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Opinion polling for the 2012 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories East nominated for deletion
This article is nominated for deletion and has been relisted thrice. --George Ho (talk) 08:09, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Hong Kong as a city state
A new editor is adding Category:City-states to some Hong Kong related articles and to Category:Hong Kong, to head of an edit war I've started a discussion at Category talk:Hong Kong.--KTo288 (talk) 11:50, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Sammi Cheng
{{Sammi Cheng}} FYI: All the Sammi Cheng subarticles were redirected to Sammi Cheng discography on 1 March 2015 by someone. Category:Sammi Cheng albums and Category:Sammi Cheng video albums are now empty, so are also likely to be speedily deleted. {{Sammi Cheng}} has now been nominated for deletion. -- 70.51.200.101 (talk) 07:13, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
How to best display Chinese in pages of overseas-Hong Kong persons?
Please see Talk:Jenny Kwan for a discussion on how best to display Chinese for overseas Hong Kong persons (Canadians of Hong Kong origin, etc.) such as Jenny Kwan, Olivia Chow, and Michael Chong? Among the issues:
- Should the Chinese be embedded in the person's infobox? (as opposed to Template:Chinese)
- Should Cantonese and Mandarin be included, or only Cantonese?
- Should Simplified Chinese be included with the Traditional characters?
Need some help with article structure. I've introduced a lot of new stuff about the abuses controversy and the Amnesty reports. I don't think that we should maintain the existing rather "clinical" and legalistic sections and would welcome some input as to how this article can be rendered more "practical" and "down to earth". -- Ohc ¡digame! 04:10, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Move discussion is ongoing; improve consensus by commenting there. --George Ho (talk) 23:07, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
- ✓—Resolved: closed as No move.
Requested move of Chinese language to Chinese languages
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Tao-liang Tan listed at Requested moves
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Help with a draft article
Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you would be willing to help work on a draft at AfC, Draft:2015 Hong Kong protests. When I'd come across the draft it'd only had a handful of sources and covered about 2 protests, both of which had a pretty low attendance in contrast to what was expected. I was (and still am) worried that if I'd accepted it to the mainspace it'd likely be merged into the articles for the Umbrella Movement or the 2014 protests. There's been a third protest that's been better attended, but I'm still somewhat worried that it'd just get nominated for AfD or be merge/redirected, which would make it harder for it to be accepted later on. Anyone willing to help flesh out the article and add more sources? I do think that as the year progresses there will be more coverage and it'll warrant more coverage later on, but I'm just worried that it might be considered to be too soon since in its current state this article could probably be summed up in a paragraph here. I'd posted this at the talk pages of both of the above pages, but I wanted to post this here just to make sure that it gets enough eyes and potential help coming in. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:37, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
- The third protest is part of the annual July 1 marches and would be better covered there. As one of the people who motioned to delete the last 2015 Hong Kong protests article, I oppose making the draft pass. _dk (talk) 05:02, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Category:Tseuk Luk Street
Category:Tseuk Luk Street, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.RevelationDirect (talk) 02:00, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Picture of a postal box needed for commons:Category:Post of Hong Kong
As described in [2] and a number of other articles, Hong Kong post may remove the royal insignia from the green boxes. I thought we would have a good collection of the boxes already, but I cannot find a single one in the Commons. Can someone take a picture of at least one, before it is covered up? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:47, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
- Update: false alarm, we do have some hidden in the commons:Category:Colonial-era post boxes in Hong Kong category, few levels down. But still, a number is missing, so if anyone lives near some that are not yet photographed, that's an opportunity. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:50, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Controversial edits
User:Abdefgh is currently mass editing HK related articles. In several cases, like Kwun Tong District (see infobox), Hong Kong ends up being portrayed as a "country". This is not a new behavior on Wikipedia and the purpose of this newly registered user account might be to push an agenda, or attract attention, or generate a heated debate, or just to create a mess and enjoy the firework of reactions. I do not have time to handle the matter now, but if someone who has seen this before could post something on the user's talk page, that would be useful. By experience and without judgement at this stage, next steps could be a revert of all the user's edits and eventually, possibly a user block. Olivier (talk) 13:18, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Olivier: I just read your post. I was reverting some of them but I found some cases not entirely straightforward. For example, in list of the world's busiest airports by cargo traffic, it is of course a must to write "Hong Kong, China". However, regarding the flagicon, there is a degree of sense, as in some of the other articles (of which some have been reverted). I will skip these for the moment, but I will also need some help as there are quite a lot of articles that need to be fixed. Perhaps you could help get the attention of more editors. Thank you. The Average Wikipedian (talk) 13:48, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
- There are about 11,000 articles assessed under WPHK and most of these simply refer to the city as "Hong Kong" for brevity and per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names), just as many articles on London subjects (i.e. Battersea Power Station) do not explicitly spell out that London is in England. Anyway, I would suggest User:Abdefgh cease his/her controversial editing but I don't think the naming convention of simply "Central, Hong Kong" implies Hong Kong is a country. Citobun (talk) 15:51, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
- I've reverted any mention of Hong Kong as a "country" or "Hongkongese" as an "ethnicity". But I agree it is usually unnecessary to affix ", China" anytime Hong Kong is mentioned in a Wikipedia article; those edits I have left alone. Cobblet (talk) 07:03, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
- The user's at it again. I started a discussion on user talk. Cobblet (talk) 10:38, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Cobblet: Oh boy now he's even been editing Normandy (French region) claiming that there is an independence movement without citing sources. He seems quite obsessed with making regions lose sovereignty despite your discussion. The Average Wikipedian (talk) 13:49, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- I have warned the user on his/her talk page. Next time will trigger a block. Olivier (talk) 09:29, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Violet Hill (song) In ictu oculi (talk) 23:28, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Street article titles
I've been editing some articles on some streets in Hong Kong, and I discovered some differences between article titles. Some articles, like Amoy Street (Hong Kong), have parentheses to disambiguate locations. There are also some, like Jordan Road, Hong Kong, have commas to disambiguate. I want to ask the project how titles of streets should be title, since it is inconsistent with WP:PLACEDAB. This discussion could be a precedent for how street article titles (especially within Hong Kong) should be treated.—CycloneIsaac (Talk) 05:28, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- Here's a good list of roads in Hong Kong with different styles in naming conventions.—CycloneIsaac (Talk) 05:30, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- For reference, Canada-related articles (of which I am most familiar) generally follow the Road (City) format. Examples include Queens Quay (Toronto), Front Street (Toronto), King Street (Toronto). I am sure that some would be able to be found that don't follow this format, however they would be few and far between, and would typically be moved to this format without much fanfare. --kelapstick(bainuu) 05:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- I prefer the Road, City format but it really depends on the editor him/herself. Standardizing them seems to me a good idea, it can certainly make this project a little more organized. However, we and others editing Hong Kong Roads should agree upon the naming convention to use. Wishds (talk) 05:55, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Wishds: It don't think it should be the editor's choice. Since most pages in HKRD are tied to WPHK, it sounds better to put the main discussion here instead. Also, I found out that most streets in the UK have the same issues as us with the title.—CycloneIsaac (Talk) 05:54, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
- @CycloneIsaac: Why not designate one particular format for Hong Kong roads (eg Road (City)) and not to bother much about other WikiProjects, because of course we alone couldn't have such sufficient time and energy to standardize those from other parts of the world. Why not we discuss upon the format right now? Which do you prefer?
- @Wishva de Silva: I prefer x Road (City), but we could always get more input from here.—CycloneIsaac (Talk) 03:47, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- @CycloneIsaac: Why not designate one particular format for Hong Kong roads (eg Road (City)) and not to bother much about other WikiProjects, because of course we alone couldn't have such sufficient time and energy to standardize those from other parts of the world. Why not we discuss upon the format right now? Which do you prefer?
- @Wishds: It don't think it should be the editor's choice. Since most pages in HKRD are tied to WPHK, it sounds better to put the main discussion here instead. Also, I found out that most streets in the UK have the same issues as us with the title.—CycloneIsaac (Talk) 05:54, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Medalist?
I was wondering which way HK English spells this word, "medalist" (1-L) or "medallist" (2-L's) ; I noticed that Category:Olympic medalists for Hong Kong uses one, while Category:Olympic medallists for Great Britain uses two. -- 65.94.171.217 (talk) 23:09, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Martial arts
Hi guys!
Here is an article about the state of martial arts in Hong Kong:
- Yang, Charlotte. "Exit the Dragon? Kung Fu, Once Central to Hong Kong Life, Is Waning." The New York Times. August 23, 2016. Page A4.
If anybody wants to use it, feel free!
Dean Harrington
Has anybody here heard of an actor named Dean Harrington and if so what name he might be called in Chinese? Apparently he was an American expat who was an actor and voice dub in Hong Kong during the golden age. Later he went to Japan, where he currently resides, and did a lot of video game voice work. Anyways if you want to save or delete the article see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dean Harrington.--Prisencolin (talk) 03:15, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
RfC: Should we change the titles of those election articles from "Republic of China xxx elections" to "Taiwanese xxx elections"?
Related RFC here: Talk:Republic_of_China_general_election,_2016#Should_we_change_the_titles_of_those_election_articles_from_.22Republic_of_China_xxx_elections.22_to_.22Taiwanese_xxx_elections.22.3F --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:16, 4 September 2016 (UTC)