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Major cities of Greater China

See here, if you have any opinion on the matter. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 23:31, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

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People's Republic of China → China

See talk:People's Republic of China - there's another rename to "China" request; again.

70.29.210.242 (talk) 23:19, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

China → Chinese civilization

FYI, China has been requested to be renamed to Chinese civilziation; again.

See Talk:People's Republic of China.

70.29.210.242 (talk) 08:28, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Companies of China

FYI, there is a proposed merge for Category:Companies of the People's Republic of China to Category:Companies of China, and many other categories in this vein, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 March 23.

76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:16, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Photo request - new China Airlines headquarters

I want to submit a photo request for the new China Airlines headquarters in Dayuan Township (NO.1, HangZhan S. Rd., Dayuan Township, Taoyuan County 33758, Taiwan(R.O.C).) - It opened on March 26 WhisperToMe (talk) 16:54, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

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Chinese character redirects being speedily deleted

See Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 April 15

70.29.208.247 (talk) 05:03, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Chinese Taipei baseball team

FYI, Chinese Taipei baseball team has been requested to be renamed at WP:RM, see Talk:Chinese Taipei baseball team

70.29.208.247 (talk) 05:15, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

台湾省 , 臺灣省 , 台灣省

FYI, 台湾省 , 臺灣省 , 台灣省 have come up at WP:RFD at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 April 28

70.29.208.247 (talk) 04:56, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Zh-tw

FYI, zh-tw has come up on WP:RFD for retargetting.

70.29.208.247 (talk) 04:58, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

cursive

FYI, there is a notice on WT:CHINA about a request at WP:WikiProject Writing systems about cursive and semicursive, and grass and running styles. 70.29.208.247 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:40, 8 May 2010 (UTC).

Hirohito

FYI, the naming of Hirohito is up for debate again, see Talk:Hirohito. As Hirohito was the Sovereign of Taiwan, head of state dejure, for the period ending at VJ-day, this may be of interest to you. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 06:19, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons

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Portal:China

{{China portal}}

FYI, someone replaced the China image with the PRC flag, in all usages of Portal:China's portal template. This is a different portal from Portal:People's Republic of China.

76.66.193.224 (talk) 00:47, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

 Done someone has fixed it. 76.66.193.224 (talk) 02:39, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject East Asia

FYI, there is a proposal for a WikiProject on East Asia, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/East Asia

76.66.193.224 (talk) 04:58, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles

FYI, Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.212.131 (talk) 04:26, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Need help finding sources

Hello, I am attempting to add sources to all of the unsourced BLPs with project baseball. I cam across a bunch of Taiwanese players and am having trouble finding sources. Perhaps someone from this project would like to give it a go? The ones that I've found so far are:

• Chang Chia-yuan
• Chang Chih-chiang
• Chen Chiung-her
• Chen Chun-hui
• Chen Je-chang
• Chen Je-cheng
• Chen Kuan-jen
• Chen Lien-hung
• Chou Ssu-Chi
• Chu Hung-sen

Thanks J04n(talk page) 18:14, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Chinese Taipei at Wimbledon

Does anyone know which flag is used to identify Lu Yen-hsun? The page Chinese Taipei flag illustrates several. 76.66.195.196 (talk) 06:56, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Downloading Aviation Safety Council reports

I'm having trouble downloading Chinese language accident investigation report files from The ASC Accident Reports list - Particularly those on CI611 and SQ006 - When I try to download a file, I get a 404. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:10, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Pe̍h-ōe-jī nomination for featured article

Pe̍h-ōe-jī has been nominated for featured article status. All comments are welcome. Taiwantaffy (talk) 05:35, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Censorship in Taiwan - Censorship in the Republic of China

There's currently a requested move taking place, concerning an article of this project's interest. See here --The Taerkasten (talk) 11:14, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Taiwanese aborigines FAR

I have nominated Taiwanese aborigines for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. JJ98 (talk) 05:38, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Republic of China Army - use of flags

Would appreciate some input on a little dispute here. John Smith's (talk) 21:44, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Please help (Taiwanese aborigines)

• Need someone to get a copy of this book and verify that two images in the FA article Taiwanese aborigines are in it. If the book is in your library, please check it out and contact me:
• (Tanxian taiwan: niaoju longcang de Taiwan renleixue zhi lu 探險台灣: 鳥居龍藏的台灣人類學之旅 (Taiwan Expedition: Tori’i Ryuzo’s Travel of Anthropology in Taiwan). Translated by Yang Nanjun 楊南郡. Taipei: Yuanliu 遠流.) • Ling.Nut 00:45, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Senkaku Islands Content Split/Removal

Hi everyone. I would like to discuss the Senkaku Islands article, specifically (a) all sections i, ii, and iii that give the actual arguments used in its dispute, (b) the one section on the history of the dispute, (c) and the one section that is not about the islands themselves.

(a) Moving all of the disputable contents to a separate article would help readers better understand what information is being disputed and what is not.

(b) Although the current list of historical events is more on the factual side, it is centered on the dispute over the islands. As such, it would disproportionately distract from the islands themselves and may be better combined in a separate article with the sections mentioned in (a).

(c) The information in this section might be related to the islands outside of Wikipedia, but as far as how articles are organized, it has nothing to do with the topic--in fact, it does not even mention the islands.

Lastly, although I would love to move around or rephrase any content so that it could be agreeable to Wikipedia guidelines, I don't think it would be the best practice if questionable edits were practically to become a burden for other editors. In which case, I would think that removal--following discussion on the relevant Talk Page and Noticeboard--should be justified despite loosing the questionable contents.DXDanl (talk) 19:40, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Senkaku Islands related images up for deletion

See WP:FFD, images File:1953renminribao.GIF and File:PRCmap-senkakuislands.jpg have been nominated for deletion. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 04:32, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

File:Letter of thanks from ROC consul to Ishigakijima in 1920.jpg has also been nominated for deletion. See commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Letter of thanks from ROC consul to Ishigakijima in 1920.jpg -- 76.66.200.95 (talk) 05:48, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Chen Ying-Git singer - can you help?

The article on Taiwanese singer Chen Ying-Git(Chen Ying Jie) (陳盈潔) was been tagged as an unreferenced BLP since November 2008, which is the current focus month of the BLP Rescue Project. I have tried, and failed, to find reliable third party references to support the text of this article, so am posting here in the hope that someone with more knowledge and relevant language skills in this Project might take an interest and help rescue this article.--Plad2 (talk) 20:40, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Category:Elections in Taiwan (Republic of China)

FYI, Category:Elections in Taiwan (Republic of China) has been proposed to be renamed. 76.66.196.13 (talk) 07:56, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Meaning of 一中街路牌

Can someone look at this image and tell me what it means in English? I think it's from Taichung. If you can reply on my talk page, that will be most helpful. Thanks! ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 06:48, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

• Image is a redlink; typo, or deletion? • Ling.Nut (talk) 10:51, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
  • Looks like the file was moved on Commons to here: File:Street sign one.jpg. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 15:42, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
  • It also looks like someone added an English translation or description: Sign for Yizhong (First Central) Street in Taichung, Taiwan. Is that correct? ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 15:43, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Hirohito, rename, again

FYI, Hirohito has again been nominated for renaming, see Talk:Hirohito. As Hirohito was Sovereign of Taiwan, head of state dejure, for the period ending at VJ-day, I thought I'd let you know. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 13:28, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:37, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Non-English characters in dab page, article page, redirect page names, up for RfC

See WT:Article titles#Non-Roman characters in redirects to articles, where an RfC has been opened on the use of non-English characters in page titles for disambiguation and redirect titles (and there appears to also be discussion about article titles) 76.66.203.138 (talk) 09:33, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

RfC on Senkaku Islands

An RfC has been opened regarding the title of the Senkaku Islands and Senkaku Islands dispute pages. The discussion can be found at Talk:Senkaku Islands#What should the title of this article be?. As this page is of interest to this project, we invite your comments. Qwyrxian (talk) 01:18, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Standard Mandarin

FYI, Standard Mandarin has been requested to be renamed. 76.66.194.212 (talk) 05:36, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Quemoy

Category:Quemoy has been nominated to be renamed to Category:Kinmen see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 December 15 .. 65.93.13.227 (talk) 06:48, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Regional differences in the Chinese language

Regional differences in the Chinese language has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.14.196 (talk) 06:34, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Tea Studies Index

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Studies_Index icetea8 (talk) 07:01, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Special state-to-state relations

The article Special state-to-state relations has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Article does not establish the significance, and has remained essentially one sentence for six years.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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Hsiao-Lan Wang

In case anyone would like to join the discussion, an article on Taiwanese composer Hsiao-Lan Wang has been proposed for deletion. Pkeets (talk) 22:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Pan Shiji

Taiwanese composer Pan Shiji is also proposed for deletion. Pkeets (talk) 23:54, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Chen Shi-hui

Taiwanese woman composer Chen Shi-hui is also proposed for deletion. Pkeets (talk) 00:01, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Transportation in Taiwan

I've proposed a move of Transportation in Taiwan to Transport in Taiwan on the talk page. I've also nominated the corresponding category. Please comment in those places if you have an opinion on the matter.--Mike Selinker (talk) 18:27, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute

a need to verefy the article icetea8 (talk) 12:36, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Inactive sub-WikiProjects up for deletion.

See:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwanese politics, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwanese politics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwanese aborigines, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwanese aborigines

--SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:57, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Revival of the debate between using Sea of Japan and East Sea

See WT:Naming_conventions_(Korean)/Disputed_names#Change_to_the_naming_convention; someone has requested a new discussion on the use of East Sea versus Sea of Japan.

As the East China Sea is also referred to as the East Sea, I thought you'd like to know.

65.93.12.101 (talk) 17:01, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_April_5#File:Goddessofdemocracy-400x600.jpg

All opinions welcome. Thank you. ^walk victor falk ^talk 21:14, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Taiwanese TV Show

Hello, I'm not a member of this project, but I noticed a newly-created article about a TV show that needs a great amount of improvement (or maybe deletion). See Westside Story (TV series). Sincerely,--DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 17:10, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Republic of China portal is up for deletion

I have nominated Republic of China (ROC) portal for deletion at WP:MFD. Please comment here for any concerns. Thanks, JJ98 (Talk) 20:59, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

There has been a recent wave of disconnect of Republic of China articles in general. There is also a 2011 in Taiwan article which overshadows 2011 in the Republic of China even though that has been going since 2007, and we explicitly say Republic of China (Taiwan), and that is still not good enough. It is obvious most Taiwanese want nothing to do with Chinese anymore. ROC is not recognised by anyone. So why don't we make a decision on how to organise these articles altogether. Benjwong (talk) 02:32, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Question about Diaoyu and Diaoyutai naming

Dear experts of Chinese culture and language,

There is a matter about whether or not "Diaoyu", "Tiaoyu", "Diaoyutai", and "Tiaoyutai" are distinctively different names. Since this may involve some intimate knowledge of the Chinese language, I thought this will be a right place to direct the question to. Since a thread about this had already began in Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(geographic_names), I decided to mirror paste parts of it in this page (the excluded section, which is rather irrelevant, can be found in Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(geographic_names)#Further_debates_between_involved_parties):— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobthefish2 (talk • contribs)

I have removed the pasted part from here as there's a link pointing to the content in other site already. STSC (talk) 03:12, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

RM notice: China

Another move request has been filed for China to be made a disambiguation page. See Talk:China. Nightw 18:34, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Move request which you may be interested in

There is an open move request at Talk:China which affects the articles China and People's Republic of China which many of you may be interested in participating in. Please make yourself aware of the discussions on the talk page and the current contents of both of the articles affected before voicing your position at talk:China#Requested move August 2011. Please do not respond here. LK (talk) 14:09, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

This has now jumped to the portals, Portal talk:China and Portal talk:People's Republic of China. 70.24.247.61 (talk) 04:47, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Big change at high importance template Template:Infobox Chinese

For all those interested, there's a rather big change applied to this infobox (see last section talkpage) with removing and unhiding fields. --Cold Season (talk) 21:40, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Taiwan ->Taiwan Island and Republic of China -> Taiwan -- Requested move

See Talk:Republic of China where Taiwan is requested to be renamed as Taiwan Island and Republic of China is requested to be moved to Taiwan.

70.24.248.23 (talk) 09:52, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

RfC on Senkaku Islands

There is currently an RfC on Talk:Senkaku Islands, a page that is marked as being of interest to this WikiProject. We would like to invite comments from other users at Talk:Senkaku Islands#Request for comment: Article naming. Qwyrxian (talk) 04:30, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Kinmen vs. Quemoy

Kinmen was very recently moved to Quemoy and there is now a discussion to have it moved back to Kinmen. The debate is seemingly between those who have been in Taiwan and are used to Kinmen and those who have read Cold War history books or as a matter of habit prefer Quemoy. Actual usage and sources appear to be split. Please comment at Talk:Quemoy.--Jiang (talk) 02:47, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Is this location on the property of Songshan Airport

The Daily Air HQ is at 台北市敦化北路340號之10"

Is this on the property of Songshan Airport?

Also consider these addresses:

• Old address: "Home." Daily Air. "台北市松山區敦化北路340號之9（松山機場）"

And also one of another firm:

• "我國驗證服務業發展策略之研究." (Archive) Bureau of Standards, Meteorology and Inspection, MOEA, ROC (BSMI). "台北市敦化北路340號之10松山機場第二航站二樓"

If it is located at Songshan Airport, which building is it in?

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 17:05, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

NC-TW straw poll

A straw poll has been opened on the question of whether WP:NC-TW represents current consensus and so should remain a current guideline. Opine at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)#NC-TW straw poll. Shrigley (talk) 17:17, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Taiwan will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Taiwanese history, culture and society. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Scope

Are Quemoy, the Matsu Islands, Wuchiu, the Pratas and Itu Aba within the scope of this WikiProject? 218.250.159.25 (talk) 17:40, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Also, since this project states that its "scope may overlap with WikiProject Japan and WikiProject China in some areas", does this mean that WikiProject Spain and WikiProject Netherlands are also partner projects? Shrigley (talk) 17:45, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

And what about events that happened in former ROC territories, such as the Battle of Tachen Archipelago, or the articles on the Liaopeh, Antung, Hokiang, Jehol and Chekiang provinces? 218.250.159.25 (talk) 18:15, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Kinmen (Quemoy), Matsu, Wuchiu, Pratas, and Itu Abu are covered in this project, as you can tell from their talks that they are tagged. The project does overlap with Japan's and China's due to being geographically close, ongoing area disputes, current economic dependencies/trades...etc. Spain and Netherlands are only mentioned in early Taiwan's (the island's) colonial history before the ROC. The old provinces are under project China's scope as they are historical provinces of China. The outlying islands first mentioned are covered in the project because they are still under Republic of China jurisdiction. If you go watch/read Taiwan news or weather reports they are often covered. Hope this solves any confusions. - iForce= 00:55, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

In that case neither the scope[1] nor the title is accurate. 218.250.159.25 (talk) 03:55, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

• WP:DNFTT Ling.Nut3 (talk) 04:05, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

What to do with DNFTT? 202.189.108.140 (talk) 11:42, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

• The current scope as stated is too ambiguous. 202.189.108.245 (talk) 07:48, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
  • If you are hung up on a lack of theoretical consistency, then if it makes you happy, as a mental exercise, substitute WikiProject:Republic of China whenever you read the title. But that name is unmanageably long, and "Taiwan" is the popular usage for ROC. What works best works in practice is best, whether it fits in with a theoretical scheme or not. OTOH, if you are advocating removing things from the project scope, then WP:DNFTT is again the appropriate response. Ling.Nut3 (talk) 08:12, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

I am not referring to the title. The "Scope" section in the project page is supposed to be much less ambiguous, in a similar manner as the long title or the interpretation section of a piece of legislation. The current state of the "Scope" section is either too ambiguous on its inclusiveness of the rest of the Republic of China, or it's clear enough to exclude those places. If it's meant to include them, the section should be rewritten. 202.189.108.140 (talk) 11:21, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

If the only thing you want to do is edit that section of that page, then {{sofixit}}. Other will revert if you mess it up. ... One of the most important behaviorl guidelines for editing is WP:CYCLE...(Just be sure to use a very clear Edit summary) Ling.Nut3 (talk) 11:31, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

If this project wasn't meant to cover those places, why should that section be modified to include them? 202.189.108.140 (talk) 11:42, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

• Dear multiple IP addresses: under no circumstances can you talk your way into removing articles from the scope of this WikiProject. If the scope section of the WikiProject page does not cover all articles, then either broaden that section, or live with it. Was that clear enough? Ling.Nut3 (talk) 11:49, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

• Just a comment. That scope has been there before I joined the project. Also, recently WP:NC-TW has been rejected that it is a consensus. So before that issue is solved of whether ROC=Taiwan or what are the fates of the islands in Fukien Province, I don't think changing it would be appropriate since it might cause warring ...etc. If you have came here searching for definition and scope of "Taiwan", it is still being discussed at Talk:Republic of China or Talk:Taiwan (disambiguation). This project's scope wasn't a problem until recently when the PRC was move to China. Now editors are just wondering if that also mean the ROC can be moved to Taiwan. - iForce= 02:41, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Somehow agree. But anyhow the word "Taiwan" is inherently ambiguous to anyone who knows that Taiwan and the contemporary ROC aren't coterminous. 218.250.159.25 (talk) 22:18, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

AfD for Taiwanese archipelago

Taiwanese archipelago has been relisted at Articles for deletion, with the main dispute being whether reliable sources support the existence of a Taiwanese archipelago as a notable concept, separate from both the island of Taiwan and islands administered by the ROC. Interested editors are invited to assess the situation and comment (see also: first AfD, deletion review). wctaiwan (talk) 05:19, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposed replacement for WP:NC-TW

A proposed replacement for the Naming Conventions of Taiwan has been made here: Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Chinese)#Proposed_replacement_for_WP:NC-TW. Please comment.--Jiang (talk) 02:33, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

RM: Republic of China → Taiwan

• (Discuss) – Republic of China → Taiwan Kauffner (talk) 10:50, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Depiction of ROC administered territories in the map of China

The dispute is over the factual depiction of PRC territories on the article on China. It involves territories currently administered by the Republic of India and the Republic of Taiwan and hence I felt pertinent to post here to attract attention of those interested in contributing to the discussion on Talk:China. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 21:15, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

RFC on the use of Taiwan/Republic of China at Talk:Taipei

Due to objections, an RFC has been started at Talk:Taipei#RFC on Taiwan/Republic of China, relating to whether Taipei should be referred to as the capital of Taiwan or as the capital of the Republic of China. All editors are invited to participate in the discussion. – NULL ‹talk›
‹edits› 01:36, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Taiwan island group

Category:Taiwan island group, has been nominated for merger into Category:Islands of Taiwan. 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) 21:39, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Need help on dan dan you qing

I wonder if you can help me expand this article, as the album by Teresa Teng is totally notable per sources. I have provided sources in its talk page, but they are Chinese, so I need a translator. --George Ho (talk) 02:56, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Requested move: Itu Aba Island to Taiping Island

There is an ongoing RM discussion at Talk:Itu Aba Island#Requested move: Itu Aba Island → Taiping Island that users may wish to participate in. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 06:25, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

RfC: Use of Simplified Chinese on Chinese characters

There is an ongoing RfC at Talk:Chinese characters#RfC: Simplified Chinese within the infobox image regarding whether or not Simplified Chinese should be removed from the infobox image on that article. It would be helpful if a third opinion can be provided to assist in forming consensus. If you would like to participate in the discussion, please feel free to do so. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 10:03, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

RfC on country names

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Macclesfield Bank#RfC. CMD (talk) 00:19, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

China Airlines Flight 140

About China Airlines Flight 140 - What are the Chinese names of Wang Lo-chi and Chuang Meng-jung, the crew members of the aircraft? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:31, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Wang Lo-chi is 王樂琦 and Chuang Meng-jung is 莊孟容 (source: [2]). wctaiwan (talk) 13:32, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Ponies in Taiwan

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was supposed to première on 21 April, 2012 on ETTV Yoyo, but was delayed, and later the new première date was announced to be 5 May. I heard that was because of inappropriate localisation practices, resulting intervention from netizens in Taiwan. Can you bring me reliable sources about all these happenings? It should be news reports (both the newspapers and television news bulletins) and press releases. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 13:29, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Taiwan and ROC

For articles such as Politics of the Republic of China, National Police Agency (Republic of China), Republic of China Armed Forces and List of political parties in the Republic of China as all of them use Republic of China but currently naming conventions say use Taiwan now.C. 22468 Talk to me 11:28, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

...are you trying to say something? Do you want particular action, or what? -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 11:41, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

I think it would be better to have constancy throughout the article names as some use Taiwan and others use Republic of China which to the casual viewer could cause confusion between the two.C. 22468 Talk to me 14:08, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Current practice seems to follow that when referring to the sovereign state ("country"), island or people, Taiwan is used, whilst when specifically referring to the government, ROC is used. This was the agreed end result of a lengthy discussion some time ago on Talk:Taiwan. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 07:06, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Censorship in the Republic of China

Censorship in the Republic of China has been requested to be renamed, see Talk:Censorship in the Republic of China -- 76.65.131.160 (talk) 05:15, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Percent of Taiwanese aborigines by Counties of Taiwan

Where I get Percent of Taiwanese aborigines by Counties of Taiwan?--Kaiyr (talk) 14:33, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Divide this by this. Kanguole 10:15, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

• Thanx! What party are Taiwanese aborigines support more? Gomindan or Democratic Progressive Party? And why?--Kaiyr (talk) 19:38, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
  • Where I get Percent of Taiwanese aborigines by District (Republic of China) of Taiwan?--Kaiyr (talk) 11:34, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Assessment Request

Hello, this project includes an article for Chthonic (band) which was assessed as Start class some time ago. The article has since been upgraded significantly so please consider a new assessment. Sincerely, --DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:15, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

South China Sea naming dispute

Since we have a Sea of Japan naming dispute article, should a companion article be created for the South China Sea naming dispute ? As it is the "South Sea" (PRC/ROC), "East Sea" (Vietnam), "West Philippine Sea" (Philippines) and "South China Sea" (internationally/HK). As the Philippines and HK are English speaking localities of the region, and Vietnam uses "East Sea" internationally in English, there seems to be enough to work from. -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 03:15, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

New copyright laws in Taiwan to be reviewed March 2013 relating to aboriginal symbols and motifs

Refer to:

• Yang Chiu-ying and Jake Chung, 2012-10-21, Aboriginal copyrights to be reviewed next year, Taipei Times

In Taiwan, it is expected that in March 2013, the Indigenous Peoples Intellectual Property Act is to be reviewed, so that:

"All ownership rights connected with the items, names, symbols and other intellectual property that pass the review next year would be returned to the applicable Aboriginal tribes... Companies or people that use names or items that originally belonged to Aboriginal tribes could potentially be restricted from using that item, product or name, should the tribe’s application pass the review... Netizens should also avoid posting pictures and symbols of particular Aboriginal signs online. If such signs have to be posted on the Internet for a particular reason, permission from the relevant tribes should be obtained to prevent future problems".

How will this affect both Wikimedia Commons and the English Wikipedia? It seems that the use of Taiwanese aboriginal symbols, motifs and the like will require permission from aboriginal tribes, if the law is altered. I've also asked Commons here. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 02:53, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Matsusei Supermarket

How do I find a reliable source that proves the head office location of Matsusei Supermarket? I did a Google site search, and the address on the Chinese Wikipedia wasn't found on it. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:39, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

English version of Far Eastern Group template

Does anyone want to do an English version of zh:Template:遠東集團 to cover the Far Eastern Group companies? WhisperToMe (talk) 18:31, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 Chinese American infobox representatives open nomination period

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian_American#Chinese American infobox representative nominees. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:26, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Special municipality (Republic of China)

Special municipality (Republic of China) has been requested to be renamed -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 06:38, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Also Provincial city (Republic of China), see Talk:Provincial city (Republic of China) -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 06:47, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

2012 Asian American representative approval period (Now until 18 December)

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American#Representative approval. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:25, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Request for Comment: Regarding WP:NC-TW

I have opened a Request for Comment regarding WP:NC-TW, which was part of the policy regarding naming conventions related to Taiwan, and Republic of China, but since been removed and marked inactive. There is no current policy placed in place of WP:NC-TW, so the request for comment seeks a replacement for it. - Penwhale | ^{dance in the air and follow his steps} 07:01, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Category:Islands in Fujian Province, Taiwan

Category:Islands in Fujian Province, Taiwan has been nominated for renaming. -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 04:32, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

1912 in the Republic of China

1912 in the Republic of China has been proposed to be renamed 1912 in Taiwan, see talk:2011 in the Republic of China for the discussion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 22:48, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Hsu Mo

Hsu Mo is a Chinese figure in international law, and I created his page from a translation of the German Wikipedia page on him because of his involvement in international law. However, his involvement was usually as a representative of the Republic of China, including on various UN bodies before the PRC ousted the ROC. I'm not a member of this WikiProject, but Hsu Mo clearly falls within it, so I placed this project's banner on the talk page and hope some members will have a chance to review the page. IMHO (talk) 22:26, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Gambling in Taiwan

Howdy folks! I noticed that Gambling in Taiwan was a red-link at WP:RA and a quick google search suggested there was plenty out there to substantiate an article, so I created it. Would appreciate any contributions from anyone with an interest in the subject. Cheers, Stalwart111 05:01, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Hideki Tōjō

Hideki Tōjō has been proposed to be renamed, see talk:Hideki Tōjō ; as Taiwan was a Japanese possession during his premiership, I thought I'd let you know. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 00:24, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Xiaoluren

I just discovered the sadly neglected little article Xiaoluren, which had barely been touched since its creation and was in a pretty terrible state. I gave it a basic cleanup but it could really do with some love. There appears to be a better article in Chinese that could be translated and copied here. — Hex (❝?!❞) 14:38, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Economy of China

The usage of Economy of China is up for discussion, see Talk:Economy of the People's Republic of China -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 06:55, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Republic of China–United States relations

Republic of China–United States relations has been requested to be renamed, see talk:Republic of China–United States relations -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 03:44, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Republic of China and weapons of mass destruction

Republic of China and weapons of mass destruction has been requested to be renamed, see talk:Republic of China and weapons of mass destruction -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 04:12, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Ministry of Economic Affairs (Republic of China)

Ministry of Economic Affairs (Republic of China) has been requested to be renamed, see talk:Ministry of Economic Affairs (Republic of China) -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 04:17, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Toilets in the Republic of China

Toilets in the Republic of China (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:41, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

The discussion at WP:RFD has now also included Toilets in Taiwan  ; -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 19:33, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

ROC external relations categories

Category:Bilateral relations of the Republic of China and Category:Foreign relations of the Republic of China has been requested to be renamed -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:23, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_March_27#Category:Foreign_Relations_of_the_Republic_of_China -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 03:38, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

{{ROC year nav}} ; {{Taiwan year nav}} ; {{Years in Taiwan navbox}}

These are up for discussion, see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 April 5 -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 01:34, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

ROC foreign relations

Several Republic of China foreign relations articles are up for renaming, see Talk:Belize–Republic of China relations -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 05:56, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

File:SunYatSen.jpg

File:SunYatSen.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 00:43, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Changhua Great Buddha.jpg

File:Changhua Great Buddha.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 04:49, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

International relations of the Republic of China

See WP:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_May_12 where the category tree for the ROC is under discussion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 00:46, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Need help expanding Liu Chia-chang

I recently created this article as a stub. Can anyone here help me find reliable sources and expand the article? I appreciate your efforts. --George Ho (talk) 23:00, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

TaipeiCKS FIDS.jpg

image:TaipeiCKS FIDS.jpg has been nominated for deletion. The image description page also requires cleanup -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 00:02, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

This page was deleted on 9 February 2013 "(File deleted: F4: File without a source for more than 7 days (TW))" An existing Flight Information Display System (FIDS) from Taoyuan international airport can be found at File:CKS Terminal 1 FIDS.JPG

C01Clem (talk) 02:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Rod Langway

Marc87 (talk · contribs) has been repeatedly removing Rod Langway from Category:Sportspeople from Taipei without any convincing argument. (See the edit history for a record of this.) While I certainly could be wrong about this, I would like people to take a look at the situation and see if they agree with me. He's not responding to me on his talk page, either. --Nlu (talk) 20:07, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

NanKang Biotech Incubation Center.png

file:NanKang Biotech Incubation Center.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:24, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

List of political parties in the Republic of China

List of political parties in the Republic of China has been proposed to be renamed, see talk:List of political parties in the Republic of China -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 08:18, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

File:Fang Xianjue.jpg

File:Fang Xianjue.jpg was nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 01:58, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

"of China" renames

See Wikipedia:Requested_moves#July 03, 2013 where "Constitution of China", "Parliament of China" and "Politics of China" are up for renaming, reusing or overwriting. -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:18, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Also talk:Military of China where that is also up for renaming/reusing/overwriting -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 03:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

User: HongQiGong

This user likes to remove references to Taiwan and replace them with words that only reference China. They also like to promote stereotypes in the BLPs of Asian-Americans born in America by inserting Chinese names and adding unnecessary and inappropriate references to Chinese ancestry. A recent example is when they added content labeled "ethnicity" in the infoboxes of journalists when it is not standard or notable to put the ethnicity of a journalist in the infobox. They are very persistant and will constantly revert edits that try to undo their harm. Their edits are offensive and promote racism. Please feel free to tell them to stop and report them to AN/I if their behavior continues. They have been doing this for many years, and it is too difficult to stop them alone. 174.236.103.39 (talk) 21:10, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

{{Four Asian Tigers}}

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)

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)

Proposed deletion of New taipei municipal lin-kuo senior high school

The article New taipei municipal lin-kuo senior high school has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I am unable to verify the existence of this school.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 15:48, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

I've contested the deletion. wctaiwan (talk) 17:28, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

I Googled the Chinese name and found the official website. It had an English section. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:47, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Should "Chen Yu-cheng" (archer) be "Chen Yu-chen"?

Should "Chen Yu-cheng" 陳宥辰 (archer) be "Chen Yu-chen"?

I think "Chen Yu-cheng" should redirect to Chen Yucheng, and the pinyin for the Archer is Chén​ Yòuchén. I would only use "Chen Yu-cheng" if there is proof this is the common form of his name. WhisperToMe (talk) 10:44, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

There's [3]. Chen Yu-Cheng seems to be the name he was registered to compete under. Moving the article to Chen Yu-Cheng (archer) and leaving a hatnote at Chen Yucheng would be better than using the pinyin. wctaiwan (talk) 18:44, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Merge WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment into WikiProject China

Hello, WikiProject Taiwan. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment#Merge inactive WPP Chinese-language entertainment into WPP China.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

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)

Moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment § Merge inactive WPP Chinese-language entertainment into WPP China

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox government cabinet

Template:Infobox government cabinet has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox cabinet. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Frietjes (talk) 21:11, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Renaming Su Rui?

I have requested a move on the article. Go to its talkpage, and comment there. --George Ho (talk) 23:19, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Interwiki problem for Taiwanese Mandarin

Currently on Wikidata, the English Wikipedia article Taiwanese Mandarin links to zh:中華民國國語 on the Chinese Wikipedia. However, on the Chinese Wikipedia there are multiple articles spread around various similar but distinct topics, namely zh:臺灣國語 (lit. "Taiwan national language") and zh:台灣華語 (lit. "Taiwan Mandarin"). Is the current interwiki link to zh:中華民國國語 (lit. "Republic of China national language") desirable, or should it be changed? --benlisquare_T•C•E 04:07, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Coming-of-age ceremony for 16-year-old (做16岁) in Taiwan

Dear Taiwan experts: This old Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic, and should the article be saved? If so, it would be nice to have English translations for the titles of the references. —Anne Delong (talk) 03:31, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Requested move of Kaohsiung

This move request of a major metropolis needs more attention. "My master, Annatar the Great, bids thee welcome!" 16:20, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Taiwanese or Chinese?

I'm not a regular at this project, but Wikipedia:Manual of Style/China-related articles doesn't seem to give a clear answer to this question. The article on Takeshi Kaneshiro (a Japanese actor of Okinawan and Taiwanese descent) is currently in the middle of a minor edit war between two IP-hopping editors switching the description of his mother between "Taiwanese" and "Chinese from Taiwan". The manual of style doesn't appear to favour use of "Taiwanese" over "Chinese", but all the Wikipedia articles on Taiwanese people I have looked at use "Taiwanese", and this seems like a more natural English wording. So what is the current consensus on matters like this? --DAJF (talk) 15:28, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Just use "Taiwanese". The IPs forcing "Chinese from Taiwan" are just being typical mouth-breathers. It's normal and widely accepted to use "Taiwanese" throughout Wikipedia, and some people just like to make drama out of these adjectives, it happens all the time. --benlisquare_T•C•E 17:29, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. That confirmed what I suspected, but I just needed to be sure. --DAJF (talk) 02:28, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 24/03

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Chen Da (Chinese folk singer). FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:47, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Secondary education in Taiwan. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:35, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

RfC: Is the writing of this page neutral [multiple points of views]?

Following recent political event in Taiwan and associated In The News candidacy", it have been STRONGLY asked by ITN's admin to check this article for its tone. Then, the event would be acceptable for ITN. Could one of you make a push on this article, based on sources available on the Chinese wikipedia. Yug (talk) 19:23, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Experienced editors familiar with WP:BLP needed at Sean Lien

• Sean Lien (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

The article is subject to both supporters filling the article with promotional fluff and opponents attempting to use the article to bash the subject. Experienced editors familiar with BLP and reading and identifying reliable Chinese/Taiwanese sources needed. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:43, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Mo Furu

FYI, there's a notice about this KMT general at WT:CHINA -- 65.94.171.206 (talk) 06:21, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

WP:NOTFORUM wctaiwan (talk) 09:39, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
legal system in Taiwan After living in Taiwan for the last 7 years, i realized that the legal system here in very antiquated and the judges focus on single points not the whole case, in Taiwan you can even write as many bad checks as you want without any consequences, and the judges are not properly trained to look and question evidence, making judgments on a fly- so Taiwan is Far from a civil society. Many Taiwanese people become the victims of crime of fraud, yet the courts let the fraudulent people walk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.242.155.151 (talk) 08:34, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Taiwan Academy

I've been working on Confucius Institute and came across an article about the Taiwan Academy which is supposed to be Taiwan's answer to the PRCs expanding effort to present China and Chinese language and culture in a particular way. I was disapointed that there wasn't anything about it on Wikipedia. My attempts to research it are stymied by the PRC's effort to protect me from dangerous information online, which is to say the relevant pages are blocked on my internet connection. Anybody want to start a page about Taiwan Academy? - Metal lunchbox ^(talk) 18:38, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

This sounds fun. Come play with my draft at User:Shrigley/Taiwan Academy, and we can move it, via DYK, to main article space when all the low-hanging fruit (internet, English-language) sources have been exhausted. Shrigley (talk) 22:42, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Asia may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer _(Talk) 21:13, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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) 03:58, 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) 04:03, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Redirects for Discussion notification

There are several Redirects for discussion debates happening regarding regarding Taiwan. Realizing the severely complicated nature of the redirects, I encourage volunteers here to weigh in on the issue. Hasteur (talk) 12:59, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated S.H.E for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.--Retrohead (talk) 07:49, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Hsintien River

I started the article Hsintien River. If anyone could expand it with text from the corresponding Chinese-language article or a photo, that would be helpful. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:01, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

• I created the article because I had accepted the article New Taipei Municipal Hsin Tien Senior High School which included a link to Hsin-Tien River. I'm not familiar with the geography of Taiwan, but the river sounded interesting. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:36, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
• I believe Xindian Creek covers the same subject. Maybe merge the two? wctaiwan (talk) 07:58, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses

Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 14:22, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

List of lighthouses in Taiwan

FYI. there's a notice at WT:CHINA about List of lighthouses in Taiwan -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 06:22, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Why is RoC different to Kosovo?

I've opened a discussion at Talk: Taiwan about how to describe the Republic of China consistent with how Wikipedia describes other partially recognised states like Kosovo. Participation welcomed. Frenchmalawi (talk) 19:15, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Wushantou Dam and Reservoir

Should we merge the articles Wushantou Dam and Wusanto Reservoir? All the other articles on Taiwanese dams and reservoirs, Techi Dam for example, have both covered in a single page. Transphasic (talk) 01:02, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

• Support. In the list of dams and reservoirs in Taiwan, Wushantou is the only reservoir that doesn't link directly or redirect to its "dam" article. Phlar (talk) 22:00, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention

This is a notice about Category:Taiwan articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 21:00, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Election articles

Moved from Talk:Taiwan

 – wctaiwan (talk) 09:06, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi everyone. The most recent local elections in Taiwan have been referred to as Taiwan local elections, 2014. However, all the other election articles are "Republic of China...." This is understandable as the ROC article was renamed to Taiwan only after most of the election articles had been created.

I assume that there should be some uniformity regarding the election articles, as Taiwan hasn't changed it's official name recently. Should:

a) there be historic renaming of election articles to "Taiwan...."?
b) only new election articles refer to "Taiwan"?
c) everything go to "ROC" and stay like that?

I wouldn't want to go with c), as clearly there's a preference for "Taiwan" headings at least on the 2014 local election article.

I was wondering if anyone had any views or how this issue might get resolved if there's deadlock? Are there any policies that would help decide how the articles should be titled? John Smith's (talk) 08:56, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

My impression was that we used ROC for articles strictly related to the state / government and not just the place (which is also what I'd support doing), so maybe the election article should be moved. On the other hand, you're definitely right in that there seems to be a trend towards just using Taiwan in all titles, so let's see what other people think. (Shouldn't this discussion take place at WT:TAIWAN instead?) wctaiwan (talk) 00:26, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes, the closing consensus at the move discussion went towards "Taiwan" being used for the place, however "Republic of China" remaining in use for government topics, hence President of the Republic of China is an article, but President of Taiwan is not. Consensus can change, but we will need a proper discussion for that first. Also, I too think that this is better suited for discussion at WT:TAIWAN, this talk page is specifically for improving the Taiwan article. --benlisquare_T•C•E 05:49, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Ok, I have repost my first comment there. I didn't post there at first because I wasn't sure how many people would be watching the page. John Smith's (talk) 08:57, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and moved the discussion here so it'd remain centralised. A link is left at Talk:Taiwan. wctaiwan (talk) 09:10, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Given that it's been a few days and there haven't been new comments, I've moved the article to make it consistent with the other ones. We can still discuss whether we want to go the other way and rename all post-1949 (or whatever bar it is that people want to set) election articles. wctaiwan (talk) 17:59, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

... and got reverted with no new comment at the talk page; sigh. (The edit summary was same as the central election commision website http://engweb.cec.gov.tw/files/11-1030-5692.php, which is fine, but we need discussion to gauge consensus.) wctaiwan (talk) 04:37, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I sort of agree with him though. I'm all in favour of using article names that people recognise and are most common. It is easier to rename the article to confirm with the rest than rename the rest to line up with this one, but I think the best solution is to rename the other articles to use the word "Taiwan" rather than ROC. John Smith's (talk) 17:36, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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Category:Taipei Underground Streets

Category:Taipei Underground Streets, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for upmerging to Category:Shopping malls in Taipei. 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) 03:18, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Portia Li

Are there any Chinese speakers who could help in sourcing this article about a reporter for the World Journal, Chinese-language American newspaper owned by the same group that runs the United Daily News in Taiwan? It's quite possible that there are articles in the Chinese-language press, but they're hard to find and interpret without a knowledge of the language. The article is being discussed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Portia Li. – Voceditenore (talk) 06:31, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Jay Chou

Jay Chou has been nominated for Wikipedia:Featured article review at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Jay Chou/archive1. Please comment on the article or assist in bringing it back to featured article status. DrKiernan 08:36, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Chia-Hui Lu

Can anyone help with the article Chia-Hui Lu? I recently declined a speedy since there does seem to be an assertion of notability but I think that the coverage will be predominantly in another language. There's a new user there (Godzillarampage) that is interested in improving the page. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:28, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

@Tokyogirl79: I don't think the subject satisfies GNG. The only significant, independent coverage outside of blogs I could find from the first few pages of Google was this interview. Furthermore, the claims in the article don't seem to meet WP:BAND, and I don't see additional information in the zhwiki article that would establish notability. Unless the new user can come up with sources, I'd suggest sending it to AfD. wctaiwan (talk) 17:26, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Sinitic languages, Varieties of Chinese, Chinese languages, Spoken Chinese, and other titles

Your discussion is welcomed at Talk: Varieties of Chinese. Thanks. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 14:33, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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Geography of Taiwan

According to WP:ENREQ, Taiwan (Island) is on the top of the list with the most interwiki links. The apparent problem is that the current article on "Taiwan" is more of a summary of the sovereign state, rather than regarding the island itself. However, Geography of Taiwan does not seem like a good redirect as it focuses solely on the geography, rather than the geopolitical status. Meanwhile, Republic of China also redirects to Taiwan. The only way to remedy this seems to be to move Taiwan to Republic of China, then create Taiwan (Island) as a separate article. This is a major change and I am definitely not intending to do this myself, but I would like to hear what the participants of this WikiProject think about the problem. The Average Wikipedian (talk) 15:21, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

• Talking about Taiwan/ROC is really a never-ending dispute. Even most (I can say "99%") of the edits is always only about reverting between Taiwan or Republic of China names and vice versa. Seriously, everyone is just interested in doing that name changes, without really having the interest to create new articles regarding other aspects of Taiwan/ROC or improving (making longer) any existing articles about Taiwan/ROC. So yeah, I guess we just have to add more geographical info of ROC to Geography of Taiwan and geopolitical status info of ROC to Taiwan. Chongkian (talk) 02:23, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
• I like the idea of relegating the governmental and sovereignty issues into an article called "Republic of China" or "Taiwan (government)" or some such name, and putting everything else in a separate "Taiwan (island)" article. The status quo is an imperfect compromise, as can be seen from the discussions that sprout every few months on Talk:Taiwan. If a "Taiwan (island)" article can withstand the test of time in 84 other languages, it should be able to exist in English, too. I would be willing to participate in creating the new article, after a consensus has been established around the change. Phlar (talk) 17:05, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

"File:China Flag.png"

File:China Flag.png

File:China Flag.png

File:China Flag.png has been nominated for deletion. Is this of any use? -- 70.51.202.113 (talk) 04:18, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

To me, it seems purely imaginary and user-invented. --benlisquare_T•C•E 11:11, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Taipei 101 GAR

Taipei 101, 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. sst✈ 14:47, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Should Native Taiwanese article be a disambig or not?

Please see Talk:Native_Taiwanese#Disambig_or_not.3F. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:01, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

February 28 Incident article title

Would appreciate some input at Talk:February 28 Incident#Requested move 23 September 2015. Thanks. wctaiwan (talk) 00:20, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Comments about Show Luo

Hi, I'm editing the page of Show Luo. He is a famous Taiwanese singer. Is anyone has some comments or feedback? It would be greatly appreciated. Thisislily (talk) 02:55, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Tai Ke

This new article, written by a student, may need a copyedit, and a check for neutrality and such, since it's supposed to about a derogatory term for Taiwanese people. It does seem to me that this term is also used in a non-derogatory fashion, too. Also, I wonder which spelling is more common: "tai ke" or "taike"? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 16:30, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

It should be noted that the article is a translation of zh:台客, an article that has several cleanup tags. "Taike" looks more common to me, but that is based on a somewhat cursory Google search. —Kusma (t·c) 19:46, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Why the welcome box?

What purpose does it serve, and why should this WikiProject in particular have such a notice at the top of the page? (Additionally, the ROC flag is probably not the most appropriate illustration in this context, but I see someone else removed it.) I'd rather we just kept ourselves to the standard page contents. (Pinging Lee788 since you added it.) wctaiwan (talk) 18:01, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

@Lee788: I don't understand the welcome box that you have added at the top of Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwan:

Welcome to WikiProject Taiwan! Please see the project's talk page for related discussions. Click here to start a new discussion

The welcome message is nice, but the instruction to "see the project's talk page for related discussions" seems misleading to me.

• This talk page (where I am writing now) is intended for discussion of the content of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwan page, is it not?
• If I understand the way these project pages work, the "ideal" page for posting new topics/projects is the notice board, and the page for discussing these projects is the discussion board (actually the "notice board's" talk page).
• Am I wrong here? I am new to WikiProjects, so please bring me up to speed.

Also, the "external" link to WikiProject Council seems totally inappropriate. What does it have to do with this Taiwan project?
Phlar (talk) 18:16, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

To be honest, I didn't realise the noticeboard existed until you pointed it out, heh. I've now added it to my watchlist. But I think people have sort of been using this talk page also for general queries related to Taiwan. I'd assume the WikiProject Council link is just a typo from a truncated link. wctaiwan (talk) 18:25, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Photo request

The ship TS Taipei ran aground off Shimen, Taiwan earlier this month and has now broken in two. As the ship is only just offshore, is should be easy to get photographs of her to illustrate the entry in the List of shipwrecks in 2016. Mjroots (talk) 09:40, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Lanshuei River

It looks to me that "Lanshuei River" (Tainan) is a local variant (or transliteration mistake) of "Yanshui River" (Tainan) — their stated lengths are the same, and there are only few rivers of this size, none of them has a name that comes closer in pronounciation. Perhaps "鹽" is pronounced "lan" is some local dialect? If so, the former (unreferenced orphan) should be redirected to the latter, but maybe somebody with local knowledge can confirm this? Micromesistius (talk) 17:00, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

I would suspect it's a mistake, as I can't find any potential matches looking at lists of rivers in Taiwan. Unless Dr. Blofeld can recall the circumstances for the creation of the article, I think we should just delete it (not redirect, since it's not a plausible misspelling and would only serve to mislead). wctaiwan (talk) 18:07, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

OK, lets then ping @Dr. Blofeld. Since the Yanshui article was created later than the Lanshuei one, it is plausible that the latter was intended to be the main article. Micromesistius (talk) 19:16, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Rui En

Template:Rui En has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. 70.51.46.195 (talk) 07:04, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Two stadiums

Dear Taiwan experts: Here are two articles: Taoyuan Arena and Taoyuan County Stadium. Neither is well referenced. The first was redirected by an editor who believed that these are the same building. Another editor undid the redirect. Are these really two arenas? Is either a notable topic?—Anne Delong (talk) 04:13, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Googling in Chinese, it seems that the former refers to the arena in a complex that also includes a track and field stadium, whereas the latter might also refer to the arena, or the complex as a whole. (Sorry, piecing information together here, so I don't have a source I can point to.) They probably shouldn't be separate articles, and notability appears borderline at best--it seems to generally be mentioned in the context of events being held there. I found one Chinese-language news article discussing how it's underused, but there doesn't seem to be significant independent coverage. wctaiwan (talk) 05:17, 25 November 2015 (UTC) [4] has a description from the agency that owns the venue. wctaiwan (talk) 05:19, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

wctaiwan, I must apologize. I went on to other projects and didn't remember to check for a reply here. It occurred to me that if neither of these articles has enough references for a stand alone page, they could be redirected and content merged with the article about the municipality. I know how to do this. Would Taoyuan, Taiwan, Taoyuan County or Taoyuan District be most suitable?—Anne Delong (talk) 03:12, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Anne Delong: Taoyuan, Taiwan is probably the most suitable, as the venue is a city facility. (I notice that the link I previously provided is now dead; [5] seems to be the new location.) wctaiwan (talk) 04:39, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Okay, wctaiwan, I am going to put merge notices on the two articles to see if anyone objects. If not I will carry out the merges. Thanks.—Anne Delong (talk) 08:51, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

The two mergers are done. Perhaps someone can check the result at Taoyuan, Taiwan.—Anne Delong (talk) 20:36, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

A discussion...

...that may be of interest to the members of this project can be found here. BMK (talk) 23:58, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Kumai River

Hello, this article, supposedly a tributary of the Gaoping River, does not provide any sources, and I have trouble matching it with any sizeable tributary of the Gaoping River (or any river in Taiwan). Chinese WP does not list anything resembling this among the tributaries. I am inclined to think there is no such river in Taiwan, but without knowing the real Chinese name it is difficult to be sure. Can @Dr. Blofeld or somebody else help? Micromesistius (talk) 10:47, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Resolved, it seems. wctaiwan (talk) 16:20, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Another strange river: Lotsao River

Does @Dr. Blofeld or anybody else know this river? "Luodong River" (羅東溪) in Yilan is the only one that comes close but does not look right... Micromesistius (talk) 11:48, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Um, Dr. Blofeld, I think it might be a good idea to go over your geography stubs. This would be the third if it turns out to be unverifiable like the other two before it. I'm concerned we're propagating incorrect information. Have all these been created in a similar fashion or from a single source? If that's the case, it would at least be worthwhile to take a look at the others in the series. wctaiwan (talk) 18:53, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

I used an existing list on wikipedia when I created them. If you're spotting a few duds you should look into who created List of rivers of Taiwan! Remove the Lotsao from being a tributary of Yilan then. I suspect it's a mispelling of something.♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:37, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

A User:WilliamDParker created the list in 2007 from Zh: wiki. Look at the history. Perhaps you'll find the river listed on Chinese wiki and spot a mistranslation?♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:40, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll see if I can dig around a bit this weekend. wctaiwan (talk) 04:17, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Southern Ming and Tungning

More views would be welcome at a discussion at Talk:Ming dynasty#Southern Ming and Tungning on whether the Kingdom of Tungning should be treated as part of the Southern Ming. Kanguole 15:35, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Rachel Liang

Can anyone copyedit Rachel Liang? I cannot make head nor tail of the thing. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 15:00, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

I appears to be a Google Translate rendering of the Chinese article 梁文音. Requires a complete rewrite. Phlar (talk) 22:17, 1 August 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)

new articles

I would like to ask for your help on cleanup of these new articles Chung-Shin Chen, Shieh You-Hwa and Yen Chia-lin! I used the nihongo template because I had the Chinese characters and knew it would give both natural and western name order. But I know there's a better way to do it.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 03:41, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Done! Taiwantaffy (talk) 08:10, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Red's special November activities

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name reading?

File:Test image only Taiwan Chinese name for Taffy.PNG

Can someone please give me the name reading for these characters? Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 07:55, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

That's former Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui (Chinese: 李登輝; pinyin: Lǐ Dēnghuī) Taiwantaffy (talk) 11:10, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much! He won a big Japanese Scout award!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 17:06, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Edit War for Chinese Schools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_language_schools_in_Taiwan has an edit war. Someone from has been editing this wiki page for years to have two Taiwan Mandarin Institute on the page. Even deleted very useful information about the Huayu Scholarship a long time ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.171.43.85 (talk) 05:43, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

This has been an intermittent problem since a long time. I think I will ask for page protection. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:48, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

OK, semi protected for 3 months. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:30, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal at Talk:Dust of Angels (soundtrack)

The proposal to merge the soundtrack into Dust of Angels is discussed. I invite you to improve consensus. --George Ho (talk) 21:04, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Update I have opened an RFC at Talk:Dust of Angels#RFC: Merging Dust of Angels (soundtrack) into this article. please participate here. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:03, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

streamlined provinces

In several articles I see the phrase "streamlined province", and sometimes a mention that province —— was streamlined at date ——, but I haven't yet found a clue to what this might mean. —Tamfang (talk) 21:26, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Categorization

What are the official guidelines about categorization of Taiwanese categories: Should the category related to Taiwan (e.g. companies of Taiwan) be included also as a subcategory in the relevant Chines category (e.g. companies of China)? It seems that the practice is inconsistent and relevant Chinese categories have been added to different categories and removed by different editors in different times. The question was triggered by the question if Category:Nuclear power stations in Taiwan should be included also as a subcategory in Category:Nuclear power stations in China or not. Thank you for your replies. Beagel (talk) 20:46, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes. Given the sensitive nature of the China Taiwan relations I was frankly surprised to see Wikipedia making the nuclear power of Taiwan subordinate to that of China. In the interest of WP:NPOV I think this non-trivial issue needs a discussion with a consensus in order for us to undertake such categorization. To kick it off I will add that in making categories of Taiwan subordinate to those of China we would open up for a discussion of whether the categories of one of the two Koreas should be subordinate to those of the other. (None of these two countries currently have their nuclear power stations subordinate to the others'). Thanks. Lklundin (talk) 08:55, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Proposed changes to WP:NC-ZH

I invite you to the recent discussion about proposing a change to WP:NC-ZH. --George Ho (talk) 13:41, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Discussion invite

Hello. I invite you to join a centralized discussion about naming issues related to China and Taiwan. Szqecs (talk) 04:50, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. WikiProject Taiwan participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Taiwan. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:31, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Is it OK to ask for attention to a dysfunctional Commons template (namely Cultural Heritage Taiwan) here?

With regards to the "Cultural Heritage Taiwan" template currently being completely dysfunctional, see:

• The template's discussion page, starting from 5 April 2017.
• User Reke's talk page, starting from 3 April 2017.

After I had notified this problem in the beginning of April 2017 via Commons' IRC chat, and through Wikimedia Taiwan and others, some people have clearly taken interest (see the links above), but is unclear if somebody will solve this problem. (Verheyen Vincent (talk) 14:54, 12 April 2017 (UTC))

• Looks like the template was created by User:Romaine who is still active on Wikipedia. I suggest leaving a message on the user's Talk page and see what can be done about it. — Czgsq (talk) 15:31, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

• I think I fixed it. Used new base URL. Just need to look up the new Page ID and replace in each photos. — Czgsq (talk) 17:16, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

An important thing I need to mention is that this template serves a role in the monuments database and is part of the Wiki Loves Monuments system, that is what this template is created for. This means that the identifiers on the file pages match with monuments in the monument database and with the monuments lists on Wikipedia. So if you say that this template is "currently being completely dysfunctional", this is not right and you do not understand the role of this template. The role of this template is not to link to an external database (if such link is possible, it is certainly welcome, but it is not the core goal), but to identify the individual monuments on the photos. So the core goal is identification. Please be aware of that.

I will inform my colleagues from the Wiki Loves Monuments international team and Monuments Database, they should be able to help out in this situation. Romaine (talk) 02:31, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

PS: The problem of databases that change there system is a known problem. I think it may be better to have all monuments in Wikidata and use the Wikidata Q... identifiers instead, which can retrieve the official monument IDs and URLs more easily without future problems. Romaine (talk) 02:31, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

• Yes, the template at the time you first messaged here was non-functional due to the revamping of the government website. The pages were no longer accessible by the existing ID and replaced by a plain database. Zeke has already contacted the Taiwan (ROC) government and is awaiting their response regarding issuance/usage of monument ID with worries about possible future change again so I think your idea for a listing in wikidata is worth considering. Czgsq (talk) 11:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

WP:CHINESE and MOS:CHINESE

Do these projects cover Taiwan? The talk pages are tagged with this project, but neither projects are clearly written with regards to Taiwan, particularly the leads and the title of MOS:CHINESE. Szqecs (talk) 13:07, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Oppose: I am a Hanyu Pinyin user and would like it if Taiwan used it too but the reality is Taiwan's still very disorganized and uses a mixture of Hanyu Pinyin, Tongyong Pinyin (politically motivated), and Wade-Giles systems. So we should reflect what the Taiwan (ROC) government is using as much as possible. Then there is also the problem of Personal Names. This is a funny one, Ma Ying-jeou himself who advocates usage of Pinyin does not change his name to Ma Yingjiu and there is the advantage that the different spelling easily distinguishes between PRC and ROC citizens. So Taiwan is a mess. I think WP:CHINESE and MOS:CHINESE do not apply to Taiwan but can be used as reference. Otherwise, editors not familiar with Taiwan will be confused and make the mistake of assuming everything is in Hanyu Pinyin. — Czgsq (talk) 11:48, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

@Czgsq: What are you opposing? This is not a proposal lol. Szqecs (talk) 13:40, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Hey, @Czgsq: Do you know which policies and guidelines cover the Taiwan/RoC and China/PRoC naming issue? The whole issue is centrally discussed at WT:Naming conventions (Chinese), which I invite you there. --George Ho (talk) 18:28, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

OK, I think it's not a bad idea to have a place for discussion as long as there is understanding that Taiwan's spelling situation is a disaster. I started a new topic to discuss regarding the spelling convention for Kaohsiung City subdivisions, Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)#Kaohsiung Subdivisions — Czgsq (talk) 23:23, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

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Another RM at Talk:List of political parties in the Republic of China

Hello. I invite you to comment at Talk:List of political parties in the Republic of China#Requested move 24 May 2017. --George Ho (talk) 05:06, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Tony Chang for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tony Chang is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tony Chang until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sagecandor (talk) 17:47, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

RfC: Proposal to remove CJK from lead in parentheses

There is an RfC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section‎‎ proposing to remove CJK in parentheses from the lead (as well as IPA pronunciations). Please do come participate in the discussion. Thanks! TheInfernoX (talk) 15:25, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Rump state question

Because the ROC is considered a rump state, did the Kuomintang held on to the small parts of the islands of Quemoy and Lienchiang that was once part of the Fujian province as well some parts of the mainland? They only have Taiwan and Penghu after Japan surrendered in 1945. Supreme Dragon (talk) 18:43, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Not sure what your question is. To answer the first part, yes, Kuomintang have always held on to both Quemoy and Lienchiang, which were both re-captured from the Japanese during and in the immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War. I am not sure what you mean by "they only have Taiwan and Penghu" after 1945, as these two are part of the Taiwan province and is completely separate from the discussion. Alex Shih^Talk 19:22, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Which parts of the mainland are you referring to? Kanguole 20:25, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Fujian province Kanguole which is Kinmen and Matsu. Supreme Dragon (talk) 21:18, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

You said "the islands of Quemoy and Lienchiang that was once part of the Fujian province as well some parts of the mainland". Which parts of the mainland are you referring to? Kanguole 21:52, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Election article titles

Currently the title format for election articles of Taiwan is not consistent in that some start with "Taiwan" and some "Taiwanese". I think "Taiwanese" is more of an a term for people whereas "Taiwan" should be used for the place. Szqecs (talk) 04:19, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hatnote

Hey there folks, I just created the Template:Taiwan-note based on the Template:Kosovo-note just for accurate sake. This note below should be implemented on all pages related to Taiwan. Wrestlingring (talk) 00:48, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Example

ROC

Notes

Using this would bloat lots of articles with repeated boilerplate text, and also runs counter to the first point in WP:TG, which counsels against putting article text in templates. Kanguole 01:16, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Help identifying diplomats/politicians < Taiwanese and Solomon Islands politicians and diplomats posing for a photo with a delegation led by Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare (26 September 2017) in Taipei, Taiwan

Anyone who could help me identifying the persons in this Public Domain picture please? Many thanks, (Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen (talk) 04:13, 3 November 2017 (UTC))

Input needed on Quanzhang/Hokkien/Southern Min/Minnan Proper mess

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Talk:Hokkien#Quanzhang confusion.
 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  10:18, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Outlawed terror groups in Taiwan

So far, ISIL is the only listed terror group banned in ROC, does the Taiwanese Government have the list of banned terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, Taliban, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and others? I sent an email to the ROC National Security Bureau and the Ministry of Interior today just to confirm it. Can anyone of you also help me find it on the net in both Chinese and English? Supreme Dragon (talk) 21:17, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

If I recall Taiwan manages such things differently, as do many countries. Most countries outlaw acts of terrorism, not groups themselves. Most so-called "terror groups" are very loosely affiliated alliances with no real head governing body. Banning groups is very difficult, and impedes grossly on free speech, while banning certain actions as well as the planning and funding of said actions is quite easy and generally accepted as good law enforcement practice. Since most terrorist groups associate with other groups of similar motives, treating them as a network of connections is generally a much more effective plan. The advocation of illegal action by said groups is enough to monitor said groups, and because of the interconnection this makes it easier to monitor them if you don't keep a list of specific groups to target as enemies of the State. The heavy focus on individuals in most international terrorism allows easier target of money launderers who have a less direct connection to said groups but process money coming in and out of them. Hence it's surprisingly effective. You can read all about this in the various articles on counter-terrorism strategies. --Robert Wm "Ruedii" (talk) 09:13, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

No, from what I understand, Taiwan has quite a positive relationship with Hezbollah. In 2006, Taiwan's foreign minister James C. F. Huang came under fire for meeting with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a visit to Lebanon [6].--Certified Gangsta (talk) 11:53, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

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