Talk:1959 FIBA World Championship

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Why did Soviet Union and Bulgaria refuse to meet Formosa in the final round?

Who is James Chen? What is his name in Chinese? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.41.138.219 (talk • contribs) August 6, 2010 (UTC)

Formosa is not a good name for the team of ROC
I do have good reasons to change Formosa to ROC. First, it really needs reliable source to say ROC or Taiwan team used Formosa in this championship. Second, a similar situation in 1960 Olympics could be a reference. During this Olympics, ROC was forced to use the name of Formosa by IOC, which was protested by the team. Actually, the KMT government of Taiwan in the period still claimed their representation of China, and refused the name like Formosa or Taiwan in international organizations including sports until the acceptable name Chinese Taipei from 1980s.

To be honest, it is confusing and even a bit offensive to put the name Formosa under the national flag of ROC because Formosa is one of the symbolic names of Taiwan independence movement, while Republic of China is definitely more relating to China and Chinese unification. My suggestion, which is common used in Olympics Articles and also in Chinese Wikipedia, is that using ROC directly before the official use of Chinese Taipei, regardless the name used or forced to use in the game, an explanation could be added in the paragraph or put in the note part. Taiwan could be a secondary choice.

Please take these reasons into your consideration. However, if you still think Formosa is a good name here, I insist that removing the flag of ROC or using other flag at least.Welcome further discussions. Thanks. - Kezpe ※talk 21:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)


 * FIBA itself used the name "Formosa". This is the most reliable source that you can get. We'd use the name that they were using, and whatever flag they were using at the time of the tournament. If this was the current ROC flag, there's nothing that can be done with that. Howard the Duck (talk) 00:41, 9 October 2018 (UTC)