Talk:Hong Kong at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Article name
Per WP:COMMONNAME, I suggest that Hong Kong at the 2010 Winter Olympics is a better name for the article than the current Hong Kong, China at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:52, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree - Hong Kong is the common name and the "China" disambiguation is not necessary and makes the title too long. Laurent (talk) 14:57, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I have now realised that this is a wider issue, with the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics pages for Hong Kong being similarly named, and the same being true of all of the Summer Olympics pages since 2000. Where is best to discuss this? Cordless Larry (talk) 15:52, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Agree. LarRan (talk) 16:19, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

The last move broke the name. There should be no comma after "China". Look at the categories to see the naming conventions for these articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.65.41.20 (talk) 16:57, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * With out the comma, it will look like two separate clauses: "Hong Kong" and "China at the 2010 Winter Olympics". The end comma concludes the parenthetical (the qualifier), and is needed. However, I believe that the qualification could be scrapped altogether. There is only one Hong Kong. LarRan (talk) 19:33, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Please see the centralised discussion at WikiProject Olympics. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:38, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was move with unanimous support. Non-admin closure Courcelles (talk) 07:11, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Hong Kong, China at the 2000 Summer Olympics → Hong Kong at the 2000 Summer Olympics — There is no need for the "China" in the titles of these articles because there is only one Hong Kong, and per WP:COMMONNAME. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:59, 12 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Hong Kong, China at the 2004 Summer Olympics → Hong Kong at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Hong Kong, China at the 2008 Summer Olympics → Hong Kong at the 2008 Summer Olympics
 * Hong Kong, China at the 2002 Winter Olympics → Hong Kong at the 2002 Winter Olympics
 * Hong Kong, China at the 2006 Winter Olympics → Hong Kong at the 2006 Winter Olympics
 * Hong Kong, China, at the 2010 Winter Olympics → Hong Kong at the 2010 Winter Olympics
 * Support. "Hong Kong" is the common name, and the "China" disambiguation is not necessary and makes the title too long. Laurent (talk) 23:27, 12 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Support The entity is "Hong Kong" according to the IOC, just like Taiwan is "Chinese Taipei" 76.66.192.35 (talk) 06:05, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Support as per nomination and WP:COMMONNAME. --Labattblueboy (talk) 01:20, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. "Hong Kong, China" became the IOC's official name for this NOC after the 1997 transition of power, but there is no reason to use (longer) official names for these Olympic results articles, per WP:COMMONNAME. For example, we have Russia at the 2010 Winter Olympics and not "Russian Federation", "United States" and not "United States of America", and "Macedonia" instead of any other appellation (thanks to WP:MOSMAC2).  Also note that the 2010 article is improperly named, with an extra comma after China.  As named, the flagIOC templates will not work with HKG.  Lastly, I can find no source that says that any Hong Kong participants have qualified for 2010, so that article might need to be deleted anyway (as per the premature creations of Albania at the 2010 Winter Olympics etc.)  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:04, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. No need to qualify Hong Kong, as there is only one. LarRan (talk) 16:48, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Support as per nominator. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:43, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Support there may be Two Chinas, depending on your political view, but there is only one Hong Kong. Clarifying where there is no doubt is just extra characters.  Courcelles (talk) 07:02, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Hong Kong, China, at the 2010 Winter Olympics which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RM bot 12:30, 13 December 2009 (UTC)