Talk:Liancourt Rocks/Archive 10

Requested Move May 2007

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the . 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. 

No consensus, article to remain Dokdo for now. It should be noted that "Dokdo" complies to WP:UE as it is a commonly used term in English, despite the existence of the term "Liancourt Rocks" which seems to be falling into disuse by the way. As for WP:NPOV, although "Liancourt Rocks" might be a more neutral term, "Dokdo" doesn't seem to violate the policy as the rocks are, as stated, under actual possession of the Republic of Korea (regardless of this being disputed by Japan).-- Hús  ö  nd  16:27, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Survey to find out which name editors think is the best one under which to place this article. --Philip Baird Shearer 16:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * This survey lays out several proposals. Please only express # Support and an explanation followed by a signature for any of the proposals. Please place any comments like Oppose opinions in the Discussion section. You may change your opinions at any time up to the close of the survey. Changing you opinion and supporting more than one option in the Survey is encouraged as it helps to build a consensus. Please add any new proposals at the bottom of the list in chronological order. --Philip Baird Shearer 16:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Can you note the rationale for your move request here? Consensus can change, but we don't need to have additional move requests unless someone believes it actually has changed. Stability has benefits, and this is a controversial topic. Dekimasu よ! 00:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * (A) There is no agreement over what to name this page. This is obvious from the talk page archives. (B) Any contriversial move can be requested at WP:RM, as it opens up the discussion to disinterested editors. (C) It is customary that if a move is requested at WP:RM, then another move is not requested for at least six months, so at the end of this process hopfully the discussions on the talk page over the naming issue will be kept to a minumum for at least the next six months.


 * I would suggest that this survey is widely advertised, as an RfC and on village pump to get as many disinterested editors as possible to express an opinion. As I said above changing ones opinion to try to reach a consensus is desirable, please don't just express an opinion and walk away, but come back after a day or so and see if the discussion has changed you opinion and also consider adding an opinions under other options to try to build a compromise and a lasting consensus. --Philip Baird Shearer 09:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I was hoping that you would refer to a reason - guideline or policy - why you are proposing a move; I know the purpose of WP:RM. Anyway, I'll have to disagree with point C. I don't know of such a custom, and there's no evidence of it in practice. It still sounds like you've opened a discussion with the knowledge that it won't lead to a consensus decision, so I'm still confused as to the purpose of the debate. Dekimasu よ! 10:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * See Talk:Orange (colour) revision 18 October 2005 as an example. I can dig out more that I know about, but I would prefer that you take it on good faith. --Philip Baird Shearer 13:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Survey
For previous surveys see: --Philip Baird Shearer 15:57, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Talk:Liancourt Rocks/Archive 3 Dokdo → Liancourt Rocks, result of the debate was move, 2 May 2005
 * 2) Talk:Liancourt Rocks/Archive 4 Liancourt Rocks → Dokdo, result of the debate was move, 1 June 2006

--Charmi99 01:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)



Keep the article at Dokdo
Please add new comments at the bottom.
 * 1) Support local name used by entity in actual possession, arguably most common in English. (No strong preference between this option and move to Liancourt Rocks). --Reuben 16:46, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support b/c it has the most hits on Google web, Google book, the major newspapers, major websites (i.e. UN.org), etc., as shown in the archived discussion. (Wikimachine 18:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC))
 * 3) Support same as above Janviermichelle 18:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Per above. John Smith&#39;s 18:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support per above, especially because it's most common. &mdash; AKADriver &#x260E; 19:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support local name used by entity in actual possession, arguably most common in English. --Kingj123 21:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. Actual possession and reasonably similar name usage provide adequate support to the status quo. -- Cjensen 23:26, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support per most common naming. Sorry, didn't read first, I misunderstood above comment which is wrong, since it is equal used, I withdraw this vote. It appears UN, etc. supports a different name, but I'll read up the huge page first, so sorry. It seems per policy local use doesn't matter, and usage is the same.  Dokdo and Takeshima is both officially local name, so we cannot use. Seoyoon 02:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support Yo peoples, I'm back after a refreshing 24 hour break from Wikipedia. Support using Dokdo as per above. Good friend100 03:12, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Per King123. Endless Google arguments here and in archives just show Dokdo and Takeshima are widely used, Liancourt Rocks is not. Dokdo is the official locally used name to break the tie. Wikiment 05:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Liancourt Rocks is outdated name as Pinnacle for Senkaku islands. Some encyclopedia may refer the islets to Liancourt rocks, but it is largely a legacy from old days (before WWII) without any meaningful contents with it. Therefore it is questionable that it is comtemporary and the most common name and these days it is actually being used less and less compared to Dokdo or even to Takeshima. Between Dokdo and Takeshima, Dokdo should be the title per many reasons above. Ginnre 07:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Goggle hits shows more Dokdo than Liancourt and it seems that the Japanese is closing one eye on their claim---unlike the Koizumi tenure whereby this was an issue of controversy...Mr Tan 10:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) SupportLiancourt Rocks is outdated and does not account for the fact that the island is controlled by ROK. The name of the article has gone back and forth enough with in the last few years and it really needs to stop. The only reason this poll is up is because of the stink some editors have made about the article being under the name "Dokdo", mainly Japanese editors. It's about time this stopped. Davidpdx 00:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC) Confirmed sockpuppet of Lions3639, see Requests for checkuser/Case/Lions3639.
 * 6) SupportUsage of Liancourt Rocks is relatively scarce, and the island is currently under Korean administration and control whether or not Japan disputes it.Cydevil38 03:10, 23 May 2007 (UTC) Confirmed sockpuppet of Lions3639, see Requests for checkuser/Case/Lions3639.
 * 7) SupportClaims of dispute is POV. Islands are under South Korean sovergnty and until this changes, title of this article should reflect current status of islands.melonbarmonster 04:03, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Supportper above. Oyo321 19:37, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support -- User: (talk • contribs • count • [ logs ] • email ) 23:48, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Support per above —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjisr (talk • contribs) 00:08, 25 May 2007
 * 11) Support This island is currently controlled by Korea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Intmotinf (talk • contribs) 01:02, 25 May 2007
 * 12) Support I strongly support to keep the article at Dokdo. Dokdo legally belongs to Korea and Koreans choose to call it Dokdo. Revy D. 03:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Support--Alf 03:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) Support For here is a territory of South Korea now, I think It should be remain in 'dokdo' now. - Ellif 08:09, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Support First, Korean people nor Japanese people cannot recognise "Liancourt Rocks" as "dokdo" or "takeshima", so it's not good for name. Second, dokdo are under Korea's sovereignty. Therefore, I support dokdo as a title.--hnc197 13:11, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support Like Senkaku Islands, they have official control of the island. Merumerume 14:14, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Support Regardless of dispute it currently belongs to R.O.K Jegal 18:35, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Support Dokdo will always belong to the Republic of Korea unless Japan does something stupid (Dokdo can be well argued as the first Korean territory to be invaded in 20th century). Also, if this move is successful, we should move Senkaku Islands to its "English/NPOV" name. The name Dokdo (or Tok to or another varient of the name Dokdo) is favoured by most map producers- the Japanese government's now lobbying for westerners to call this island "liancourt" because they know that their claims for to Dokdo (which they call Takeshima -bamboo island) have fallen on deaf ears. Keep the title as it is or change every disputed territories (e.g. Senkaku Islands, Kurile Islands, West Bank, Gaza) to its 'English' name. Enough said. --DandanxD 00:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC) Note to voter, West Bank is controlled by Israel who refers to it as Judea and Samaria; article at West Bank per common usage/status as an English name
 * 19) Support The islands are in South Korea's posession. Most references are showing as South Korean. changing to "Liancourt Rocks" which was briefly identified by passing westerners is absurd. It will be a Wikipedia travesty if a name is changed due to majority of Wiki editors supporting a possition without evaluating the real merits of the issue. --Hunfe 00:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Support Per the actual and historical ownership by Korea. Also per the consistency with other disputed territories such as Senkaku/Diaoyutai/Pinnacle Island. Sydneyphoenix 02:42, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) Support I can't even accept this discussion --Hohonn 16:45, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) Support keeping the DOKDO name and renaming FRANCE to "the country that lost every war." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Remort (talk • contribs) 03:36, 27 May 2007

Move the article back to Liancourt Rocks
Please add new comments at the bottom.
 * 1) Support This is my first option as it complies with WP:NPOV --Philip Baird Shearer 16:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Reasonably neutral name. (No strong preference between this option and Keep at Dokdo).  --Reuben 16:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Disputed territories should never be referred to by names used by any of the claimants --H27kim 17:36, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support If the slashed names (and their equivalents) are excluded, this is probably the most common English name.--Dwy 18:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support As shown recently, neither Dokdo nor Takeshima are more common in English pages. In additional, nearly all English speakers will encounter this item in the media where both will be mentioned, making siding with one name odd.  Liancourt Rocks is a modern, accepted English name for this place used by all major encyclopedias and official naming conventions of at least the American government.  I might also add that besides Dokdo not being more common, there is a sticky NPOV issue in newspapers where pundits are claiming, "In consideration of the popularity and influence of Wikipedia, the preference given to the word Dokdo demonstrates global Internet users are tilting toward us." here. --Cheers, Komdori 20:10, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support As per Naming conflict and Naming conventions (geographic names). Liancourt Rocks is the most common name among encyclopedias. Other external references suggested by recommended external references for identifying common names that supports Liancourt are "geographic name servers" (according to the NGIA GNS server, "Liancourt Rocks" is the BGN Standard and both Japanese and Korean names are variants) and "international organisations" (the United Nations Cartographic Section uses "Liancourt Rock" in List of Territories). --Kusunose 22:38, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support As per above. Parsecboy 23:46, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Support as per above Masterhatch 01:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support More NPOV name. Hermeneus (user/talk) 02:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Support pending resolution of the dispute between Japan and South Korea. This name sucks, but at least it's neutral, which makes it better than the alternatives. - Sekicho 03:16, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Support This is the title used in English in Encyclopedias and trusted sources. This is the title as used in Colombia encyclopedia, Britannica refers to it as a name, and Encarta has a map. None of these three major references uses either Dokdo or Takeshima except to explain what the island is called in Korea and Japan respectively. It is also stated as the name in the CIA world factbook and the UN. When a name is actually used in media Liancourt Rocks is sometimes used and once again Takeshima or Dokdo as names in Japan and Korea simply reported but never actually used. In recent scholarly publications, Liancourt is actually the most common name used in English as the English name. Seokwoo Lee, from Incheon’s Inha University in South Korea and an authority on territorial disputes and this one in particular says "The two tiny rocky islets are called 'Tokdo' in Korean, 'Takeshima' in Japanese, and internationally recognised as 'Liancourt Rocks'." Dokdo and Takeshima are essentially never used in trusted sources as the name of the island in English. (Although Google hits gives Dokdo and Takeshima about equal hits and more than Liancourt Rocks this is misleading, because most of those hits are simple reporting what the island is called; or are on webpages set up specifically to promote one of the names). Macgruder 03:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support NPOV.--Watermint 08:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Support per WP:NPOV, elegance, and the collective judgment of earlier Wikipedians. WP was a much lower-profile website a few years ago, and it was possible to approach issues such as this in a much calmer and more sensible way.  This article was originally created at Liancourt Rocks (in 2004) and remained there until being moved unilaterally last year.  -- Visviva 12:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) Support NPOV, and per Macgruder's summary. Neier 14:26, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Support per Kusunose, Macgruder, and Komdori's excellent Fixed-winged aircraft vs. Airplane and Aeroplane example (in the huge Archive 9). — LactoseTI T 14:31, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support per Komdori, Kusunose, and Mcgruder. Not that anything we do here will keep people from complaining about it... ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 23:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Support per WP:UE and, as an added bonus, it forces the Dokdo and Takeshima factions to fight it out by making article improvements instead of title changes. —  AjaxSmack     02:43, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Support Whether we keep the article at Dokdo, or we move it to Takeshima, Dokdo/Takeshima or Takeshima/Dokdo, we can never reach agreement and the controversy will continue for ever. In order to avoid any POV, I believe we should choose Liancourt Rocks even if it is not popularly used.--Michael Friedrich 05:07, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Support NPOV --Isorhiza 16:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Support It's the English name for the islands, and this is the English wikipedia. It's also the most neutral choice. Bnynms 02:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) Support Until Japan and Korea solve the issue, I prefer this neutral English name. Poisonotter 08:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) Support per Philip Baird Shearer and WP:NPOV. As shown below, in the "Google Book search" section, we were asked to believe that "Takeshima" has only 74 hits, out of which we can only use 12.  However, if we manually inspect the results of a Google-Book search for Takeshima Island, we have much more than that.  Because of this unfortunate result, and seeing how people have manipulated the Google results, I believe the search engine counts are totally useless, and have decided to completely discard them.  Also, regarding jurisdiction:  Jurisdiction has nothing to do with naming in English.  For example, Japan has jurisdiction over Bonin Islands, but we don't use "Ogasawara Islands", the English name used in Japan.  Macgruder has sufficiently shown "Liancourt Rocks" to be used in major English publications.  And per Philip Baird Shearer, WP:NPOV must be adhered to.--Endroit 17:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Support It is a very encyclopedic, popular, and neutral English name. Jjok 19:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Support NPOV. ―Rh-Kiriki 02:58, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 25) Support The United Nations also is using Liancourt Rocks. Dokdo is a Korean name, and KPOV. --Opp2 03:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 26) Support NPOV. Tietew 03:47, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 27) Support I think Takeshima is the best name for the article, but some people never agree, so I choose the second best.--Mochi 03:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 28) Support It must be the most NPOV title. --Nopira 09:09, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 29) Support This is English Wikipedia, isn't it?Panpulha 09:31, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 30) Support This is a name without nationalism. --Azukimonaka 10:15, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 31) Support per Opp2. It is a international neutral name. I think that it is suitable in Wikipedia. --Nightshadow28 12:49, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 32) Support "Dokdo" is clearly Korean POV. --Gettystein 12:56, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 33) Support Keep the name to the neutral one until this matter is formally resolved by both sides --Keep88 13:01, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 34) Support Wikipedia should not take a political stance. "Liancourt Rocks" is a widely used and neutral name which does not come from either country, allowing the reader to make up his own mind about the dispute. Shii (tock) formerly Ashibaka 15:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 35) Support This is the best way for NPOV.--Ræv 01:00, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 36) Support Liancourt Rocks is an academic name though Dokuto is a political name. --Necmate 11:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 37) Support per Mecca and Kiev. Then arange things so that List of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions has to be updated.Geni 14:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 38) Support NPOV. -- Galopin 19:33, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 39) Support Would help put an end to this dispute. -- Ishikawa Minoru 19:38, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 40) Support NPOV. It is unbelievable that Chosun Ilbo, the biggest Krean newspaper, appeals to the readers for vote. Their deed seems too much enthusiastic. They never know what NPOV means.--Robert Houdini 05:30, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 41) Support NPOV. -- Udzu 15:14, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 42) Support — NPOV. Besides, this is the English Wikipedia: the article should've been under its English name, Liancourt Rocks, in the first place. -- ざくら 木 16:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 43) Support as per above.Liancourt Rocks is NPOV--Forestfarmer 10:59, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Move to Takeshima
Please add new comments at the bottom.
 * 1) Support It is Japanese territory.--Michael Friedrich 08:01, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Move to Takeshima/Dokdo
Please add new comments at the bottom.
 * 1) Support This is a second option as I don't like a slash in a name (means something in a URL) and which of the two names should come first--Philip Baird Shearer 16:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support NPOV.--Michael Friedrich 08:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support --Galopin 19:33, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Move to Dokdo/Takeshima
Please add new comments at the bottom.
 * 1) Support This is a second option as I don't like a slash in a name (means something in a URL) and which of the two names should come first--Philip Baird Shearer 16:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support By far the most common English name. I don't foresee much dispute as to which name should come first. Most Japanese will be happy to have the Korean name first on the basis of the current control, and this appears to be a rather established practice.--Dwy 19:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support English speakers will invariably hit this combo. I see no reason to violate alphabetical order. I would prefer to avoid the slash, but it's far better than siding with one side.  --Cheers, Komdori 20:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support A second option. This is by far the most common name encountered (but usually as a reference) outside encyclopedias and scholarly publications. (the slash could be replaced by a | ). When an English user encounters one they usually will encounter the other especially in News, and sources that are not regarded as respected. Macgruder 03:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support This is my second choice since both names are concurrently used in almost all cases. Jjok 19:06, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Invalid Votes
Votes by those who have not edited English wikipedia for more than 50 times, those who entered English wilipedia within a month, and IP address users. These votes should not be counted because they could be sockpuppets.--Michael Friedrich 06:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Invalid Votes for "Keep the article at Dokdo"

 * 1) Support I do not like the name "Liancourt Rocks" to be the title of this article because there are already established historical names while Liancourt Rocks do not have any cultural or historical meaning. BombAFT 21:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC) — BombAFT (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 2) SupportLiancourt Rocks is outdated name as Pinnacle for Senkaku islands.John95 19:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC) — John95 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 3) Support per Melonbarmonster's comment.--210.241.95.245 06:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC) — 210.241.95.245 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 4) Supportper above. — Lions3639 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 5) Support per Reuben's comment — 131.179.40.26 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 6) Support Both Liancourt Rocks and Takeshima names are more recent names, keeping Korean name for Korea's occupied islet is more sensible. — Benonma (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 7) Support local name used by entity in actual possession, arguably most common in English.17:53, 24 May 2007 (CDT) — Nutria1007 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 8) Dokdo is part of South Korea and North Korea and because it's their property, i think they are allowed to call their land 'Dokdo'. It is impossible to call Dokdo as 'dakeshima' or 'liancourt rocks'. If you are calling dokdo as 'dakeshima' or 'liancourt rocks', you are saying that 'dakeshima' is property for Japan or it's prorperty for the French. — 82.44.53.206 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 9) Support per comments above — Lcs1004 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 10) Support per comments aboveYschung89 22:56, 24 May 2007 (UTC) — Yschung89 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 11) support. Dokdo has been part of Korea's territory for centuries.  It does not seem to make sense to change the name now.Hot77 22:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC) — Hot77 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 12) Support per above, especially because it's most common. — 203.244.221.3 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 13) Support b/c it has the most hits on Google web, Google book, the major newspapers, major websites (i.e. UN.org), etc., as shown in the archived discussion. — Merongmerong (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 14) SupportChanging its name to Liancourt Rocks seems unreasonable cause local name of this island has been kept using for a long time while Liancourt had claimed to found this island in 1849, The naming of any geographical reason should be relevant to its history and just buried long tracking histroy background using one French ships encounter with remoted island of republic of Korea User:Henry 01:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC) this edit is not actually by Henry but by Shkim4dl at 23:04, 24 May 2007 and 23:06, 24 May 2007
 * 15) Support per AKAdriver's comment — Js290 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 16) Support The island has been for a long time and is currently under South Korean administration and control. There are South Korean coast guards residing on this island, as well as facilities to accomodate them.  To replace "Dokdo" with "Liancourt Rocks" or any other name would only be to best-serve the ulterior motives of those who conjured up and initiated this territorial dispute.  Unless supported by very strong justifications, the name "dokdo" must be preserved. — Jjesquire (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 17) Support per comments above — Mw44.lee (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 18) Support per Aesis237's comment — Aesis237 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 19) Support per comments above — Parabbs (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 20) Support Dockdo is belong to Korea. Japan is very bad to steal dockdo. Let's punish Japan and keep Dokdo!! — Qkrgkd94 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 21) Support per comments above — 203.241.147.42 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 22) Support per comments aboveFri mousse 23:20, 24 May 2007 (UTC) — Fri mousse (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 23) Support WHO HAVE MOST CONCERN ABOUT THIS ISSUE? IF NAME HAS CHANGED, WHO'S GONNA HAVE MORE TERRITORY IN THE EAST SEA? WHY THERE WERE WORLD WAR 2? — Kkcho6 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.  This user may be the same person as User:Hot77--Michael Friedrich 06:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Support The island is technically an undisputed territory of the ROK, and the name should therefore reflect this. Slowvideo 23:24, 24 May 2007 (UTC) — Slowvideo (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 25) Support Using name Liancourt Rocks would be neutral but that name is not used by neither disputing nations and it seems eurocentric. It is reasonable enough to consider this island as legimate territory of Korea and thus I support the name Dokdo like now.  keinjuan 17:17, 24 May 2007 (GMT) — keinjuan (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 26) Support per comments above — Comser (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 27) Support The name Liancourt Rocks is not recognized in Korea nor in Japan although it may sound more neutral. However, Titling it as Western language name does not make sense to either country's general public simply because it has nothing to do with any Western country. The islet is in dispute between the very two countries. The proper way is using either Korean or Japanese name, that is widely used. — Motivr (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 28) Support per comments above --Jangjuseong 00:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Jangjuseong (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 29) Support per above — Cyboy7 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 30) Support The name Liancourt Rocks is not known in Korea nor in Japan. Dokdo is considered as reliable name by the documents by Portuguese map of 19th, which says the sea of Korea — Cyboy7 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.  Cyboy7 posted 2 votes.--Michael Friedrich 06:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 31) Support Per above - Korea owns it. Dprkstudies 00:36, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Dprkstudies (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.  This use has edited wikipedia only 16 times.--Michael Friedrich 06:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 32) Support Per above. Iulius36 00:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Iulius36 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 33) Support The name Liancourt Rocks is not neutral name. It is Japanese name. -RedMosQ 00:49, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — RedMosQ (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 34) Support It may be a little uncomfortable for many peoples now, but it is for future NPOV. Oceanos74 01:12, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Oceanos74 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 35) Support Why neutrality concerns? What's clear and apparent fact can't be argued. Dokdo belongs to Korea. So the very official name of it must be what Koreans call it. — Jxisml (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 36) Support There is no doubt that Dokdo has been a title for the island for centuries. The other names are made in recent 50 years --Alunar 01:30, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Alunar (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 37) Support Why? Name of dokdo is that argue some? dokdo is dokdo. — Smoka (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 38) Support It's the most common name --Charmi99 01:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Charmi99 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 39) Support Actually Dokdo is possesed by Koreans for centuries, calling Dokdo's name as Dokdo is no wonder. — Shinyoungmin (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 40) Support Dokdo is certainly territory of Korea, so there is no reason to change the name of article. Snoopy&#39;07-EN 02:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Snoopy'07-EN (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 41) Support Dokdo has been Korean territory more than 1000 years including today. No justification for changing the name.Yeoil 02:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Yeoil (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 42) Support Dokdo is korean territory — Jinmemini (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 43) Support Dokdo is an administative part of Ullung Island, North Kyongsang province, under the control of the Department of Ocean and Fisheries of Korea. mach337 Fri May 25 02:25:48 UTC 2007) — mach337 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 44) Support Dokdo is a unique name of korean island in East Sea. lakiste 08:06, 24 May 2007 (PST) — lakiste (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 45) Support The Korean territory should be called in Korean, not in Japanese nor in French. — Fsuh (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 46) Support Dokdo is definitely belonged to Korean control, and thus it should be named in Korean. — Byp1989 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 47) Support It's territory between Korea and Japan so it should not be named in French. It may cause some confusions. Also using Japanese is not right too, since it has been Korean territory for a long time(except when Japanese annexed Korea with military force) Buzzchoi 05:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Buzzchoi (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 48) Support local name used by entity in actual possession, arguably most common in English.17:53, 24 May 2007 (CDT) — Nutria1007 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 49) Support The name "Dokdo" is KPOV and the name "Takeshima" is JPOV. Luckily, a more neutral name exists. Unfortunately, I fear the vote will fail to make any changes, since major Korean newspapers are sending thousands of visitors here to enforce KPOV. (James4000 05:28, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — James4000 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 50) Support It is absolutely not reasonable to vote about Liancourt Rocks. Totally missed the point of Dokdo issue. Japan has sought this kind of situation for a long time to bring the island issue to the world community so that it can take a chance to get it. --Kimchinuk 06:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Kimchinuk (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 51) SupportVote for what? For more confusion? Please be aware that Japan seeks bringing the Dokdo issue to the world community so that it could take chance of stealing the island even 60 years after the Imperial Japan's removal from Korea. --Kimchinuk 07:26, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Kimchinuk (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 52) Support per above. Dhkkim 14:25, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Dhkkim (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 53) Support "Dokdo" is unique and common name in the world. Japanese open this tallk page to distort the name.Matzo 21:45, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Matzo (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 54) Surpport Dokdo is right. — JinJ (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 55) Support We should keep this name Dokdo as S.Korea is the current administrator of this island. The name 'Liancourt Rocks' are French term. It's not even used by neither the Koreans or Japanese.--JWC 08:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC) — JWC (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Invalid votes for "Move the article back to Liancourt Rocks"

 * 1) Support sadly, per Kusunose and Macgruder Seoyoon 11:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC) — Seoyoon (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 2) Support What Korea or Japan refer to the islands is not the issue, the English language of Wikipedia is directed to the international community, not a certain country. The Korean language article can refer to it as Dokdo, the Japanese language article can refer to it as Takeshima, but the rest should refer to it's international name until an official decision can be made. PeterPanInJapan 01:36, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — PeterPanInJapan (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 3) Supportt Japanese territory should be called in Japanese. But in order to maintain NPOV, the article should be called Liancourt Rocks.--Robert Houdini 04:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Robert Houdini (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 4) Support the name "Liancourt Rocks" is more neurtral name than Dokdo/Takeshima. I think it is more suitable for ENGLISH version of wikipedia. --Lumi 08:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support "Takeshiama" is obviously Japanese territory,but it is a disputed territory, "Liancourt Rocks" is Second best.Jjokbari 09:23, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Jjokbari (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 6) Support Revert to the former name used by Wikipedia until this political issue is resolved (Mod_Mephisto 14:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)) — Miguknamja4 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 7) Support The name "Dokdo" represents korean side, so "Liancourt Rocks" would be more neutral. --Woozifi 12:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC) — Woozifi (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 8) Support English name: Liancourt Rocks. Korean name: Dokdo. Japanese name: Takeshima. Isn't it simple? English media don't refer to Korea as Hanguk because that is the Korean name. English media should use English names when they exist. Korean media should use Korean names. If you look in the English wiki for info about Athens, you don't type in Athina (the romanisation of its Greek name) (Actually, you can use both. If it's possible with Athens/Athina, why are we having this debate over Liancourt Rocks/Dokdo?)Cymrodor 09:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC) — Cymrodor (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic..
 * 9) Support This is the English Language Wikipedia site. To help maintain neutrality we ought not use either disputed name.  Liancourt Rocks is the most neutral name and the most easily written in Roman script.  If Japanese and Korean nationalist users disagree, perhaps we can go to the Japanese and Korean Wikipedia sites and change the names of some geographic regions into words (in their language!) that WE prefer.  Somehow I don't see them going along with that. -- User:KimSuBok — KimSuBok (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 10) Support Its problem of name is not fixed in Corea and Japan yet. I think it is not too late to decide its name after the problem solved in Corea and Japan. --Yaizawa 12:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC) s/he has not yet edited English Wikipedia for 50 times.--Michael Friedrich 14:31, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Invalid votes for "Move the article to Takeshima"

 * 1) Support I do not like the name "Liancourt Rocks" to be the title of this article because there are already established historical names while Liancourt Rocks do not have any cultural or historical meaning. I also voted for Dokdo!BombAFT 21:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC) — BombAFT (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * 2) Support Why should Japanese islands be called in Korean?--Robert Houdini 04:47, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

This poll is ruined
The poll has been corrupted by sockpuppets. The 30-40 votes that have appeared for Dokdo within the past few hours should seem to be no coincidence, especially seeing that the vast majority of them are all "first edits". Obviously sockpuppets. Then there's this, which is blatant sock-puppetry (guess he should've remembered he already voted as User:Davidpdx while he was trying to vote again as User:Shkim4dl). When I have the time to file a proper report, I will. Then there's Cyboy7 voting twice in one edit. Clearly this poll is unusable, unless someone wants to go through and remove every single one-time-use "editor" and sock-puppet. This is a bit telling though; the issue starts to go against the Dokdo side, and out roll the sock puppet brigades. Very interesting indeed. Parsecboy 01:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Many of the votes were probably cast by a popular Korean Website Naver.com user who read the Chosun Ilbo's news article.Motivr 02:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * You mean like you? Your first edit to en.wikipedia was to vote in this article, even though your account was created almost a year ago. Sounds a little fishy, if you ask me. Parsecboy 02:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * No. First of all, it is not my first edit. I've had another wikipedia account, and I re-created. And I don't usually log in wikipedia because most of the pages are editable without having to log in. Second of all, I do not think all of the votes were done by socketpuppets. Even if they were first-time users, at least they have rights to express their opinions. just like other users. You should instead blame Naver or the newspaper for the mess.Motivr 02:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Well it's lucky you had created your account far enough back (without editing anything) to be able to add your vote to the (now meaningless stage) of the poll. The page is currently semi-protected for the disruption these users caused and is going through a few spasms as those who are able to dust off pre-aged accounts come out of the woodwork.  --Cheers, Komdori 02:23, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It's obviously socks. Most of the users were created 2-3 weeks ago, to "age" them to get around a partial protection after the initial surge of sock puppets. You forget that Davidpx was negligent enough to expose himself. First time users don't make a beeline for a poll on a controversial but obscure topic. As for you, your account logs speak for themselves. You can say anything you wish, I can choose to believe or not believe you, because you have no proof. I could ask what IP you edit under regularly. You could just as easily pull a random IP or an IP from a local library or school. Parsecboy 02:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I understand that some of you are very annoyed because this page is getting too much attention then it should. I deeply apologize I didn't edit anything before editing this article.(well, under this account)Motivr 02:35, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Motivr, thanks for you comment. For many of us, the main issue is 'true' English use. In other words what encyclopedias and media actually call the islands. This is Wikipedia Naming Policy. It important to remove things like 'Takeshima is the name in Japanese, and Dokdo is the name in English' from these counts. From this reasoning some of us feel that Liancourt Rocks turns out to be the most common choice. It's actually not too difficult to check this yourself by going to encyclopedias and news websites. If after checking these out you feel Dokdo is more common in English usage, then fair enough. Macgruder 04:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation. I now understand that many of the votes were invalid not only due to they were first-time edit, but also they were unaware of the naming policy. Motivr 14:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It's not too much of a problem. All the obvious ones can be removed from the count. Most of the comments say things that are totally nothing to do with Wikipedia naming policy, are unsigned, or give no reason beyond. As above. Those can be removed too because if you are saying 'as above' then you are agreeing with the ones that are outside naming policy. This probably would not apply to the early 'as above' comments. Macgruder 04:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the votes by those who may be socupuppets. I'm tired... We should not give the voting right to those who have not editid wikipedia more than 50 times, those who entered wikipedia less than a month ago, and IP address users.--Michael Friedrich 06:51, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I have moved your vote for Takeshima to Invalid Votes as it certainly violates NPOV. I think you should first take a look at this article before anything. WP:NPOV--JWC 09:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I am moving it back. Michael Friedrich can express any opinion he wishes in the survey. The whole point of the survey is to try to reach a compromise that everyone can live with. I think it is unfortunate that people are polarising on just two options without supporting simultaneously other options which might lead to a compromise. For example as the Dokdo supporters are now in a minority, I would have thought that expressing simultaneous suport for Dokdo/Takeshima would be in their interest. --Philip Baird Shearer 10:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * If my vote were to be moved to "Invalid Votes", all of the votes for Dokdo would be moved to "Invalid Votes" because they certainly violates NPOV. I believe "Liancourt Rocks" is the most NPOV. This is English wikipedia. It does not matter whether the Koreans of the Japanese know the word "Liancourt Rocks" or not. Even CIA uses "Liancourt Rocks" in its documents. "Liancourt Rocks" is suitable for English Wikipedia. --Michael Friedrich 10:46, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Hahaha, now its the "Liancourt Rocks" side to flood the poll with sockpuppets. Good friend100 16:59, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * If I'm not mistaken, the page is still semi-protected. There hasn't really been any flood by any group of editors since that got turned on (at least, not like when that news article first hit this unprotected page).  I don't see any increase in the number of invalid/non-established editors voting for Liancourt Rocks... on what are you basing your idea? (After re-reading, I think perhaps I misunderstood your comment, maybe you were commenting on the fact that the Liancourt Rocks option hasn't experienced the same level of flooding yet as the Dokdo option, which may be due to the semi-protection.  It was extended, incidently, so don't look for a flood on any option to start for a bit).  --Cheers, Komdori 17:02, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * You are obviously POV, saying that the number of votes for "Liancourt Rocks" is ok. One user has voted twice and almost all the new editors have not been participating in Wikipedia and have made very few edits before. Good friend100 17:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Now watch the good faith. Are you saying that since a large number of established editors happened to vote for an option you don't support that it's obviously incorrect?  Please point out editors who have less than 50 edits or are duplicates.  Sorry, I didn't see a duplicate, I'll look again, though it would have just been simpler if you stated who it was rather than just make a bad faith assumption about me knowing it and not doing anything about it. --Cheers, Komdori 17:41, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Hahaha, thats the only thing you resort to is "good faith" when you make POV-like comments, whether they are unintentional or intentional. I'm sure you ran down the list of voters for Liancourt Rocks, yet you write its ok for them to vote because the article is semi-protected.

It doesn't matter now, they have been removed. Good friend100 17:44, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't see that any have been removed since you posted. You made it sound like I knew about a duplicate vote and did nothing, but I guess in reality there was no duplicate vote when you posted.  Single purpose accounts are still being moved from both sides as they trickle in.  I'm sorry I just don't see the source of the obvious bile. --Cheers, Komdori 17:51, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * You probably don't. I am ending this discussion because we cannot regard the poll to assert anything. As Mr. Parsecboy said, its ruined. Good friend100 18:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Not so, evidently the same issues had to be dealt with last time around, although they originated from some Japanese editors that time. We can also evaluate the arguments being made.  As the notice says, "This is not a majority vote, but rather a discussion to establish a consensus amongst Wikipedia editors on whether the name of this page is suitable for this encyclopedia. We have policies and guidelines to help us decide this, and decisions to move articles are made on the merits of the arguments, not by counting votes." --Cheers, Komdori 18:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Discussion
I think enough time has passed since the last WP:RM (in 1 June 2006) for another to be held. So I am going to post this to WP:RM --Philip Baird Shearer 16:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

See Archive 9: Data on reliable sources for a survey of names in carried out on "Encyclopedias", "Newspapers", "Reliable websites" and "Google Books" about a week ago. Also another earlier survey Archive 9: Data from archive --Philip Baird Shearer 17:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

The "most common name" from the Naming conventions guidlines does not trump Neutral point of view policy. As Liancourt Rocks is a neutral name in the ongoing dispute over the ownership of Dokdo/Takeshima, I think that this article should be placed under that name. The guideline Words to avoid makes a valid point under the section "Extremist, terrorist and freedom fighter" to paraphrase "Use of the name Dokdo or Takeshima implies a moral cliam to the island, if one party can successfully attach the label to the island, then it has indirectly persuaded others to adopt its viewpoint. --Philip Baird Shearer 16:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

The problem that I see with the article names of "Takeshima/Dokdo" or "Dokdo/Takeshima" is which name comes first. I can see that being as much a debate as whether it resides at Dokdo or Takeshima. Further because a "/" implies a URL hierarchy I think that names with a "/" in them should be depreciated. --Philip Baird Shearer 17:00, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I request that certain discussions (i.e. the ones containing the data of the web results, etc.) be restored from archive. That way, people who are not familiar with this dispute may have more factors to consider in making votes. (Wikimachine 17:31, 21 May 2007 (UTC))
 * The trouble is that there are 100 of kilobytes of discussion over this. It is not at all clear why we need to pull up information from the archives instead of just providing a link to the informaiton like this: Archive 9: Data from archive --Philip Baird Shearer 19:14, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

What are the parameters of the survey? How long is it to run? What breakdown of opinion is required to consider a consensus to have been reached? Are there to be qualification requirements for valid participants, such as number of edits or length of time editing? The last incarnation of this survey elicited large numbers of sock puppets and single-purpose accounts, as well as outright vandalism, and considerable confusion about the criteria for closing and evaluating the survey. Who will have the discretion to remove disruptive edits from the survey area of the talk page? Although I already registered my opinions above, I suggest that this survey should be put on hold until these questions are decided. --Reuben 17:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * See WP:RM, but the normal length for a survey is 5 days, what is a consensus etc. As to the question of sockpupets etc, I have found when I have closed a contentious WP:RM, that at the end of a survey it is usually best to ask the participants if they think there are any irregularities and then to investigate those bought to my attention. However this is really a question for the administrator who closes this request. As I have opened it I will not close it. --Philip Baird Shearer 19:14, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

All legitimate voters from the last poll (~ 30 voters) have been notified of the new poll. (Wikimachine 19:06, 21 May 2007 (UTC))
 * This survey is not a vote. It is a survey of opinions to try to reach a Consensus, the administrator who closes the poll will determin what the consensu (if any) is --Philip Baird Shearer 19:24, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Let the readers decide for themselves after reading the archive. You cannot deny that Dokdo has the most hits in English pages with the data I've put up. You also agreed that encyclopedias tend to lag on disputed issues. And I explained that the article you've linked does not say as you claim. Repeat, it's only an observational statement. It's unfair that you quote only that sentence. Readers will know by reading the rest of the article that the author doesn't mean anything POV. (Wikimachine 20:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Comment: Your data is flawed, with things like this listing all the transliterations of Dokdo and Takeshima once meaning you get 5 counts for Dokdo and 1 for Takeshima. I hope editors do read that article, it will show how the title of this article is interpretted in a POV way. --Cheers, Komdori 21:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Fine there is a risk that my search result will be seriously erroneous due to multiple variation usage (which info, by the way, the site was specifically aiming to provide... unlike most other sites). But so what? Does that help Liancourt Rocks? Never. Even if I don't include the different variations, Liancourt Rocks is outnumbered by both Dokdo & Takeshima. The fact that 80% of Takeshima results are names completely justifies that minor rounding error. Every Google page (10 results), about 8 sites use Takeshima as a name for Japanese individuals. What, maybe about 1 site per Google page could be accounted for the multiple variation use. Fine, I'll do the searches again. (Wikimachine 23:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC))

In response to Wikimachine's comment:

It is not true that Dokdo is more common in Google. A simple test as required by Wikipedia shows the names are used equally. To do a simple test, you follow the guidelines that say to include some English words, and examine the first few pages for false hits. We need to check for variations, and to ensure Takeshima is not referring to names. We can achieve this easily by phrasing our single test carefully. The following test meets all those requirements and give equal results: A careful look at the Takeshima results shows few if any uses outside this dispute. This is a tie.
 * takeshima island Japan Korea disputed -wikipedia 18200
 * Dokdo OR Tokdo island Japan Korea disputed -wikipedia 16200

Macgruder 04:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh. Seems that you forgot about the archive. I already told you that WP naming convention does not limit google test to simple tests & that would lead to an especially strong bias. I also showed you this link on why simple tests shouldn't be used because they contain similar pages that have nothing to do with the terms. Also, what's so bad about excluding similar pages? There's nothing bad about it, but there's something good about it. Why not use it? And does it matter? Liancourt Rocks have the most votes currently, but even if I were to use your faulty search method, Liancourt Rocks has only 39,800 sites while Dokdo has 466,000. (Wikimachine 04:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * The archive is a flawed test as shown in this discussion below. Stop talking in generalities and find the flaw in my test. Yes, some of those pages might be referring to another Takeshima but it is very small and not enough to change the essential result. . Macgruder 04:31, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * That's a complete lie! As you can see, if you exclude similar pages, Dokdo comes out on top, but if you don't Takeshima comes out on top. All of you liars! I just can' believe people lying straight at my face like that. (Wikimachine 04:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Once again, shouting at people and calling them liars when your 'method' of excluding similar pages is wrong is not productive. Google stops storing at around the 1000 page mark, so EVERY test with more than 1000 pages gives a similar result. Or are you telling me that of the 153,000,000 Smiths in Google only 930 of them count because of 'exclude pages'. This kind of reasoning is why I call you results flawed. I think when you make a mistake and call people liars it's time for you to consider your place in Wikipedia. Macgruder 05:04, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * "Change your attitude, and get a new suit & tie before coming back to this discussion", Macgruder. If this was the case, why not tell me? Fine. I'll base my statistical inference on your web searches & I'll prove to you that Takeshima is mostly used as names. (Wikimachine 05:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * We did. Twice. Both Komdori and I pointed this out to you before. Once again you're resorting to rude comments. It's you who is going around calling people liars. That proof needs to apply to the search that I have made btw because they have been framed in such a way already to exclude most Takeshima's as names. Macgruder 05:53, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The burden is not on me to catch all errors. Macgruder, you failed to point this out for a long time. I already acknowledged that I didn't know that Google searches limited their results to 10000 sites maximum. However, I already moved onto your method of search, so it doesn't matter any more. Dokdo still contains larger count that Takeshima. (Wikimachine 16:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * The burden of proof is on you if you decide call people liars. We did tell you. Twice. And this was in the original discussion, not not for a long time. So you call people liars and the complain it's their fault when they point it out. The problem is you regularly call people liars. This is not a one-time case. Rather than trying to shift the blame, apologizing tends to be accepted method. Macgruder 19:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ha. And I did give evidence. Burden of proof means that you have obligation to provide evidence, and that's what I did. Now, burden of accuracy is not on me but you. (Wikimachine 19:56, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * The burden of proof to catch all errors is not only on you, but despite the fact that I have shown several times now that your results for Dokdo/alliterations are terribly flawed, you still present them as perfectly fine and usable. This is highly intellectually dishonest. This type of behavior makes clear that you are a POV pusher and do not care one whit about NPOV naming conventions. Parsecboy 16:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Umm... I'm writing English, so read again. I already moved onto your method of search. Someone who accuses another of being POV pusher sure sounds like a hypocrite. (Wikimachine 16:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC))


 * The archive is not a flawed test. Spamming is part of Google test. Also, the new statistics I'm going to build will exclude spams, unlike yours. And spam applies to your searches as well. I see no net benefit. This is ridiculous.
 * Dokdo: 747
 * Takeshima: 648
 * That is your search without similar pages. (Wikimachine 04:36, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * No it's isn't. Sorry, but I think you are confused about how to use Google. Looking at the last page is meaningless for more than about 1000 results. Google doesn't store more than about a thousand pages. If you do the same search with Smith, the most common name in English, then you get the same result. It stops at around 900 even though there are 153,000,000 Smith results. This is an example of flawed reasoning. (Your 466,000 is also meaningless because it is not limited to English language as is required.). Macgruder 04:56, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Actually, we just got finished showing this is not true unless you include Korean results. Dokdo is actually in the minority if you don't use the variations (there are variations because it's not an English name, it's a transliteration--besides, there is a standard English name, see my comments undre my vote). Of course, nearly all users will see the combo together, or see the established English name. --Cheers, Komdori 20:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * all right let's stay right here. Wait.
 * First, define what you mean by Korean results.
 * Second, Dokdo is minority only if you don't use variations. Its search size is far greater if you use the different variations. (i.e. tokto, dokto)
 * Now... You haven't given reasons why not to use variations. I'll explain:
 * Because Japanese words use Latin-based pronunciation (all letters have only 1 sound designated to them) while Korean words do not, in English, Dokdo happens to have many variations. They include Dokdo, Dokto, Tokdo, Tokto, Dok-do, Dok-to, Tok-to, Tok-do, Tok Islet, and Dok Islet... while the Japanese counterpart contains only one, Takeshima.
 * Web search under Wikipedia policy seeks to measure the degree of usage of the term.
 * I already explained in the archived page that authors will not switch between different variations. That means that there should not be double, triple, quadruple, etc. tags if I were to search for all variations. Any addition can be ignored as a rounding error.
 * Third, I already proved that 80% of Takeshima is used as Japanese name, not for the name of the island.
 * Fourth, people keep saying NPOV NPOV, but they're wrong. S. Korea has 100% administrative rights over the island. Japan may dispute the claim, but the mere act of dispute doesn't put Japan on equal level of ownership of Dokdo with S. Korea. If S. Kore was to make territorial dispute on Alaska with U.S., does having Alaska as the title become POV?
 * This spills over to another WP policy.
 * The title: When a widely accepted English name, in a modern context, exists for a place, we should use it. This often will be a local name, or one of them; but not always. If the place does not exist anymore, or the article deals only with a place in a period when it held a different name, the widely accepted historical English name should be used. If neither of these apply, the modern official name, in articles dealing with the present, or the modern local historical name, in articles dealing with a specific period, should be used. All applicable names can be used in the titles of redirects.
 * Since S. Korea is the official country controlling Dokdo, Korean local name should be used.
 * Even if Liancourt Rocks is widely accepted name, Dokdo in itself has made much larger presence in the English language & can be considered as a English title as well.
 * Fifth, Wikipedia concerns only with the commonality of the title in its naming convention.
 * Sixth, final analysis: only candidate that matches Dokdo in commonality is Takeshima. Even if you were to not add the different variations for Dokdo, Dokdo still offers Liancourt Rocks no chance. I'm surprised that so many people are advocating Liancourt Rocks over Takeshima. Everything comes down to the commonality between Takeshima & Dokdo. Even if you say searching multiple variations may lead to buildup of same sites, remember that 80% of Takeshima is just names. Plus, I'm planning to do another data search with the method Komdori suggested (with all the search variations in "-"). That will clearly show that Dokdo trumps over the 2 other titles completely. And I already said in the archive that
 * Wikipedia does not recommend double or triple names.
 * Wikipedia does not recommend "/", or any other symbols that might suggest a hierarchy of articles.

(Wikimachine 20:55, 21 May 2007 (UTC))


 * We can use the variations if we agree it is not an English name but a transliteration of a Korean one (Tokyo is an English name, Toukyou is a transliteration). There is an established, modern, English name (Liancourt Rocks).  Even if we were to ignore the English name for this place, and include the variations, it's still a statistical dead-heat. --Cheers, Komdori 21:06, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, nice double bind. Nope. An established English title can still have different transliterations. Plus, it doesn't matter really because we advocate Dokdo, the most common of all variations of the Korean name for the island, just as Wikipedia uses Tokyo instead of Toukyou. That there can be only one single established form of a name or title is non-argument. (Wikimachine 23:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Those of you supporting Dokdo based on the Google hits should probably take a look at the results listed below. Wikimachine's method (the only google test that demonstrated a dominance of Dokdo over Takeshima) is terribly flawed. Most of the results from his/her google test are unrelated to Dokdo. Parsecboy 00:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Still better than the previous tests, and in much better condition than Takeshima search results. Like I said below, I'm going to do manual count & statistical procedure so wait couple of days. (Wikimachine 02:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC))

If his edits are so flawed, they why don't you try a google test? Its not easy providing statistical data and it can get very tedious (as I have done it before). Don't simply reject his edit list simply because you don't agree with the results. Good friend100 03:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you talking to me?
 * Philip, I'm really frustrated with the fact that you archived the previous discussions because all these arguments that users like Komdori & Macgruder are bringing up I completely answered & annihilated in the previous discussions. The editors participating in the poll seem to have neglected reading the previous discussions, and, as I predicted, have voted based on their personal dogmas & experience from the previous poll. (Wikimachine 03:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * For example, even if Liancourt Rocks is used by encyclopedias, most books use Dokdo. And I already explained that encyclopedias tend to lag on current issues & territory disputes.
 * Second, commonality of the title outweighs NPOV, per WP naming convention. People seem to have forgotten that.
 * Third, Google results show clearly that Dokdo is clearly more common than Liancourt Rocks & Takeshima. I just hate these people who constantly make obvious lies (as if to confuse outside readers & win support). I'd really love it if Komdori would explain how in the world Liancourt Rocks has higher number of hits on the search results.
 * Fourth, I also see people who make links to Wikipedia naming conventions, etc., but tell obvious lies about what those policies actually say (or make leeway interpretations).

(Wikimachine 03:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC))

Answers to opinions expressed in favour of Liancourt Rocks

 * Philip Baird Shearer: Common usage of the title in English outweighs NPOV policy.
 * No it does not "common usage" comes from Naming conventions (WP:NC) and it is only a guideline, Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) is a Wikipedia content policy and to quote from that policy "Neutral point of view is a fundamental Wikipedia principle. According to Jimmy Wales, NPOV is "absolute and non-negotiable."". Now that I have explained that to you Wikimachine, I hope that you reconsider the opinion you have expressed in the survey. --Philip Baird Shearer 09:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I already know that the naming convention is derived from the NPOV policy. I was talking about NPOV within the context of how the Liancourt Rocks supporters were making the claim that Dokdo is disputed & therefore we must use a non-disputed title. However, the naming convention specifically states that common usage of the title in English outweighs all other NPOV considerations. (Wikimachine 16:34, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Wikimachine please read Policies and guidelines. Naming convention do not specifically state that common usage outweighs all other NPOV considerations. It can not because WP:NC is only a guidline while WP:NPOV is a policy. Common usage has to be weighed against WP:NPOV and if the more common name does not carry a neutral point of view when there is a very strong case to use the less common name. Further the policy WP:V means that when deciding on a name the reliablitly of the sources used should also be taken into consideration when making the decision. --Philip Baird Shearer 18:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh, I thought Wikipedia naming conventions had it all. I'll see it later, thanks. Remember that reliable sources also include reliable websites & Google Books. In both Dokdo showed larger hits than Takeshima & Liancourt Rocks in the archive data. (Wikimachine 19:05, 23 May 2007 (UTC))


 * H27kim: Wikipedia naming convention does not limit usage of names advocated by any of the claimants in the title of the article as long as it is the most comon title.
 * Dwy: This is not the most common name. See archive & current data.
 * We are all rather familiar with Wikimachine's opinions so he does not have to try to refute the other side every time we say something. I only hope he will accept that people may have different opinions.--Dwy 06:46, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Construction of "we" and the other, isn't it? Yes, we know how Dwy tries to avoid the fact that Liancourt Rocks is not the most common name. (Wikimachine 16:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Komdori: As shown recently, Liancourt Rocks can compete neither with Dokdo nor Takeshima, even if you exclude all transliteration variations. The fact that Liancourt Rocks is an accepted name is not a reason to choose the title when Dokdo is also an accepted name.
 * Kusunose: encyclopedias are not the only places to search. Google Book search results favor Dokdo more than Liancourt Rocks. See Talk:Dokdo/Archive_9. UN uses Dokdo more than any other terms.
 * Macgruder: You should, of all people, know best that only encyclopedias refer to the island as Liancourt Rocks, but most of the academic sources refer to the island either as Takeshima or Dokdo, not Liancourt Rocks. See Talk:Dokdo/Archive_9. Out of 10 major reliable news press, Liancourt Rocks receives 23 total while Dokdo receives more than 100.
 * Not so. My search of Google books for publications since 1980 threw up Liancourt Rocks being around 80% higher than Dokdo. On top of which many of these states clearly and unambiguously that Liancourt Rocks was the English name as opposed to just explaining the names in Korea and Japan. Macgruder 16:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * And why should we use results since 1980? Who defines these dates? Umm no. You failed to include all romanizations for Dokdo. Seems like Parsecboy needs to come her and accuse Macgruder of being a POVpusher. Something I don't like is how I am the one constructed as POV when I constantly make adaptations to your criticisms... but you guys still try to make lee ways out yourself. If you include all romanizations, Dokdo comes out on top. (Wikimachine 16:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Well, I think 1980 defines recent rather better than 1800, or are you suggesting that a choice like 1980 is going to be bias against one rather than the other. The problem with your assertion that Dokdo is on top is that you don't take time to read what the books actually say. For example, the UN text that talk about Aquatic Sciences doesn't actually use the name at all but the name simply appears in a bibliography reference to a book by a Korean author. Then almost every time Dokdo (or whatever) is used there is the qualifier 'which is the Korean name'. This is not a use that can be counted as English because the author is simply reporting what the islets are called in Korea. Remove all these uses and such publications produced by say the "Korean Overseas Information Service" and Liancourt Rocks which is actually stated as the English name in a number of scholarly works very probably comes out on top if we are talking about actual English name usage. Wikipedia Naming policy warns about false positives, and this is particularly a problem here. For example, BBC never uses Dokdo or Takeshima as the name but simply reports what they are called in Korea and Japan. A simple count gives Dokdo or Takeshima about a 27 - 14 advantage over Liancourt Rocks. But if we read the BBC we see that NONE of these count. So in reality in the BBC Liancourt Rocks is a 14 - 0 'winner' over Dokdo or Takeshima. Same with most trusted resources. This obsession with counts (when comparing with Liancourt) doesn't mean much because of the overwhelming number of false positives. On top of which all you really end up promoting is Dokdo/Takeshima anyway.
 * As for the POVpusher thing, when you call people liars after they point out a mistake, and state that when your first count of Takeshima vs. Dokdo in media gave an advantage to Takeshima meant that the news was biased, but when your second gave an advantage to Dokdo it became I take my previous comment about the media bias back, you'll find that people may not come running to your defense. Macgruder 18:41, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what you're talking about. It'd be helpful if you specify in which discussion I said that. I'm also confident that even if my fellow agreeing editors are lazy & unresponsive, I'm skilled enough to take on all of you at once. (Wikimachine 19:31, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Umm... those two events are not mutually exclusive.(Wikimachine 19:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * The media has a tie b/w Takeshima & Dokdo (I take my previous comment about the media bias back).. So far your 500,000 vs about 80,000 has been reduced to 21,000 vs 19000, so please continue taking us on. Macgruder 09:00, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2,000 lead. You are the one who argued in 100,000s, not me. I argued in 100's. Remember our different search methods w/ different results? I think you're taking that too far when you're trying to make a hypothetical argument that I made as my main point. (Wikimachine 19:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC))

Wikimachine's Data based on Komdori's proposals

 * (Since it's using my name, I'd like to make notes of the suggestions I had made here until you follow what I suggested. The results below are not according to my proposal, I will remove this note if/when they are) Please include "-wikipedia", and the other fixes described in the lower section. Could you please redo all of these below with English pages please?  Including the Korean and Japanese language pages is meaningless.  Go to the preferences of Google and select "in English" from the dropdown.  It would also be nice to see them with the variations in Takeshima rather than just the variations in Dokdo (getting pages like this) It might be nice to include some words to make sure its about the islands.  I just randomly hit the "Dok to" on .net, and 3 of the 4 English pages are about things like the Ukranian Arlines destinations "DOK to IEV", "DOK to KBP", "redhat-dok" to the build", etc. Also note that your "similar pages" idea is flawed since it double counts all similar pages.  --Cheers, Komdori 18:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I will do this only on web search b/c Google Book is too small to be affected. Also see Talk:Dokdo/Archive_9. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimachine (talk • contribs)


 * Interesting: you claim many of the hits for Takeshima are irrelevant because they're last names. How about hits for Tok-to that aren't relevant either. Hit the 40 button on the .com domain, and you get "tok to da hand", "doan tok to me about", dun tok to me abt", "AND FUCKING TOK TO THEM", and finally, "・・・ＴＯＫ－ＴＯ (TAKE-SIMA) とか". So we're talking 20% relevance in that one google page. So much for Dokdo and transliterations dominating other results, eh? Not to mention your objectivity in the matter, where it's apparently ok to make sure Takeshima hits actually apply to the issue at hand, but Dokdo + transliterations hits are accepted at face value. Can we say POV pusher? Parsecboy 00:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Also, lets look at #10 from .edu domain. We get "Kohji Suzuki, Department of Engineering, University of Tokto, Tokyo", "Tahashi' Tokto", apparently a last name, (here's an interesting return) "Liancourt Rocks ("Tokto" in Korea, "Takeshima" in", " Tokto Ilimbezova", a first name, " Tokto, Japan", and only two other articles that actually discuss the disputed islands. Wikimachine, your method is horribly flawed, and the only thing we can take from your test is that you're a blind POV pusher. Parsecboy 00:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Interpret as you wish, but I doubt what you say would apply to most of the searches. In my opinion, that type of spamming should apply to both searches - meaning that there is no net benefit of factoring such into the equation. Furthermore, I'm just doing as Komdori asked --> I'm open to more suggestions. If you want, I could manually count all for Takeshima, Dokdo, etc. because there aren't that much. But you'd have to wait maybe a week or two before the counting is finished. (Wikimachine 00:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Ha, read the archive before you say that. I'll do something about it. (Wikimachine 00:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC))


 * What do you mean, interpret as I wish? A slice of your Google test results show that only 20% of the .com sites examined relate in any way to the disputed islands, and only 30% on the .edu page examined. And yet you claim only Takeshima is affected by false returns. What exactly am I interpreting besides cold hard facts? Perhaps you should explain your comment a little better. By the way, I never said the Takeshima returns are 100% perfect either; but it's intellectually dishonest of you to claim the Dokdo returns are 100% acceptable, while "80% of Takeshima is just names". Parsecboy 00:20, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm just commenting on my cool stance with people who accuse me of being POV. It's just not my responsibility to catch all the errors. I noticed that Takeshima was used as names when I was searching newspaper sites, but I never saw Dokdo being used as names in those sites. So I got the impression that Takeshima was having a major problem while Dokdo wasn't. And I also think that spamming would apply to both Takeshima and Dokdo. I'm confident that I can find as many spams as you describe for Takeshima & Liancourt Rocks results as the amount for Dokdo variations. That is part of the Google search procedure. You make the assumption that all similar searches have the same technical problems, or Google search shouldn't even be used because there would be arguments over which is more accurate, which as more spams, etc. Spams are technical problems. However, people using Takeshima as names for individual is not a technical problem but one that has much larger implications (cultural) & necessitates appropriate response. (Wikimachine 00:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * I don't think the erroneous results returned from the Dokdo (or more accurately, from what I've seen, Tok-to) are any less a "technical problem" than Takeshima as a last name. I saw a couple Tokto's used as a last name or first name. I don't think it's properly classified as spam, as it doesn't appear to be an attempt to raise one side's name higher than the other. Most of the erroneous results I saw for Tokto in the .com domain were misspellings of "talk to", while many in .edu and .gov were sheer gibberish that happened to randomly have totko in it. I personally don't believe Google tests should ever be used, especially as a core portion for the justification for one side over another. Parsecboy 00:46, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I know that Koreans don't use Dokdo as a last name. That's impossible b/c Koreans have last names of only 1 syllable (i.e. Bak --> Park in English, Oh, Yang, etc.) Like I said, I'll do manual count so it doesn't matter, does it? Just wait peacefully. (Wikimachine 01:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC))


 * When did I ever say it was a Korean last name? The last name I saw as Tokto looked more Central Asian to me, but I could be wrong. The point here is, the google search results are horribly flawed. Only about a quarter of the results I checked for Dokdo's returns were actually about Dokdo/Takeshima/Liancourt Rocks. And I'm sure the results for Takeshima are just as skewed as well. Those editors basing their support on maintaining Dokdo as the article's name are basing it on erroneous data. Parsecboy 15:56, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * However, if you want a suggestion, start with removing Tok-to from the search criteria. From the results I've looked at from .edu and .gov domains, it more often than not refers to Tokto, Japan, or the Tokto National Musuem, also in Japan. Tokto county in China may also skew results. Parsecboy 00:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe, I'll just count manually. (Wikimachine 00:36, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * I'll perform statistical procedure for large search results & manual count for small search results. I already did a statistical procedure at Talk:Heaven_Lake(Wikimachine 01:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * No need for all this complication. Here is the simple statistically unbiased test that makes it clear
 * takeshima island Japan Korea disputed -wikipedia 18200
 * Dokdo OR Tokdo island Japan Korea disputed -wikipedia 16200 Macgruder 04:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * But that is still not clear. It will still contain all the spams that Parsecboy complained about. It also contains similar pages. Back to here, what does Saint Thomas University have in common with MOFA? None. You know it. But why do you insist on using similar pages?
 * It also fails to exclude individual name usage for Takeshima, as my statistics will exclude. It also fails to bring in all variations of the transliteration Dokdo. (Wikimachine 04:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Including Japan Korea disputed in the search terms also excludes pages that are about the rocks themselves, but not about the dispute over their ownership. This fairly well forces the results to be similar for the two terms, since documents about the territorial dispute will usually mention both names.  For some examples of what gets excluded with this search:, , .  --Reuben 04:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * That's non-argument. If a site contains the term Liancourt Rocks, it will show up regardless of whether the similar pages are excluded or not. Show me the Google pages that show this differnece. (Wikimachine 04:42, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Is this comment addressed to me? I don't understand what you're referring to.  --Reuben 18:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point Reuben. You can try different search terms and they all pretty much give a similar result. Such as removing dispute. The point is that all such searches give similar results, and it is not clear which is in the majority. As I have pointed out a random check of name usage for Takeshima shows very few examples and would reduce the number by only a few percent. I have included the two most common transliterations Tokdo and Dokdo. A simple Google search shows that Tok do Tok-do and other variations are used very rarely (about 1%) in comparison. This 1 or 2 percent issues don't change the basic result. As Komdori and I have pointed out before looking at the last pages of a search with more than 1000 pages is meaningless as Google never stores more than that, and anyway looking at the last page has nothing to do with similar pages. Google always has that same message at the end of their searches. This is just Wikimachine's misunderstanding of that message and ways to exclude similar pages.


 * Reuben, you can also do the search for both Dokdo and Takeshima which only gives 11200 results. This shows that about 7000 pages use only Takeshima and about 6000 use only Dokdo. Once again this is a statistical tie. (I for one and not going to take a close result and say it means anything beyond a tie).


 * And yes it does effectively remove the name Takeshima. Because the words are chosen in such a way to make a Takeshima far more likely as the island than the name. You may find 1 or 2% Takeshimas as names but it doesn't change the statistical result. This is why Zogby and other polling professionals only choose a 1000 people to get a countrywide opinion. Because a cross-section gives a more accurate and sufficient statistical result (e.g. within 5% margin of error). More parameters simply introduce more errors.  Macgruder 05:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd like to also comment that the data above is still reliable overall (except for the .COM domain) because the searches do not exceed 1000. (Wikimachine 16:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Please include "-wikipedia", and the other fixes described in the lower section. Could you please redo all of these below with English pages please? Including the Korean and Japanese language pages is meaningless.  Go to the preferences of Google and select "in English" from the dropdown.  It would also be nice to see them with the variations in Takeshima rather than just the variations in Dokdo (getting pages like this) It might be nice to include some words to make sure its about the islands.  I just randomly hit the "Dok to" on .net, and 3 of the 4 English pages are about things like the Ukranian Arlines destinations "DOK to IEV", "DOK to KBP", "redhat-dok" to the build", etc. Also note that your "similar pages" idea is flawed since it double counts all similar pages. --Cheers, Komdori 18:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikimachine's Statistical Inference based on Macgruder's web searches
Let me note that Dokdo results do not contain all transliterations (i.e. Tok Islet); however, I'm confident that Dokdo has much higher web usage than Takeshima even without the 8 other variations.


 * randInt(1, 18100, 300)--> L1
 * randInt(1, 16200, 300)--> L2


 * SortA(L1)
 * SortA(L2)


 * Repeat searches with omitted results included.


 * Takeshima
 * Accept: 4, 122, 263, 277, 376, 392, 405, 487, 513, 521, 529, 560, 631, 910,


 * Reject procedure. Google does not serve more than 1,000 results per query. Use results without similar pages to identify the percentage of the acceptable terms. This time, include all 10 transliterations for Dokdo.
 * Takeshima (fixed): 19,500
 * Dokdo: 21,500


 * Since excluding similar pages show the most relevant pages, we can infer that the slightest inclusion of non-relevant searches (i.e. spams) makes a much larger presence in the larger web.


 * randInt(1, 694, 50)--> L1
 * randInt(1, 734, 50)--> L2


 * SortA(L1)
 * SortA(L2)


 * Takeshima
 * Accept: 681, 654, 590, 582, 576, 571, 551, 550, 542, 529, 525, 522, 501, 499, 493, 492, 476, 473, 473, 429, 341, 330, 303, 298, 291, 291, 229, 222, 218, 207, 207, 197, 184, 179, 179, 160, 157, 149, 141, 141, 56, 48, 45, 31, 31, 23, 18, 10, 7
 * Reject: None.
 * Accept: 7, 10, 11, 25, 55, 92, 93, 114, 115, 115, 126, 153, 179, 217, 224, 230, 256, 259, 275, 280, 296, 329, 330, 331, 332, 356, 361, 361, 365, 368, 376, 379, 399, 439, 507, 514, 517, 517, 522, 524, 529, 556, 564, 577, 579, 595,
 * Reject: 640 [www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~kyoon/scripts/praat/praat-PDLG/cmudict.0.6.pdlg.index], 642 [www.tu-chemnitz.de/global-text/npw/bigdict]


 * Dokdo
 * Accept: 28, 47, 102, 115, 129, 147, 167, 172, 194, 223, 236, 281, 283, 288, 293, 299, 305, 311, 332, 347, 373, 387, 387, 388, 389, 422, 425, 432, 463, 481, 482, 502, 506, 513, 514, 525, 528, 533, 552, 556, 578, 588, 591, 591, 623, 637, 646, 649, 683, 734
 * Reject: None.


 * Assumptions:
 * The samples are SRS's/completely randomized.
 * n<.1N
 * np>5, nq>5

(06:31, 22 May 2007 (UTC)) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimachine (talk • contribs)
 * Umm... No rejected sites for Takeshima. This confirms that the current search is flawless. (Wikimachine 18:53, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * 2-PropZTest: H0= p1=p2; Ha= p1=/=p2. z= -1.428571429. p-value: .1531275427.
 * At the usual 95% confidence, the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference between the two proportion of acceptable terms for Takeshima and Dokdo. However, at 80% confidence, the null hypothesis may be rejected.
 * Unfortunately you don't seem to understand statistics very well. You have shown that in a single test of the web that Takeshima and Dokdo are within 10% of each other. That means for the whole of the web they are very close but we can't say exactly how. So all you have proved is the point I made in the first place. The two names are about equal in use. A 10% difference is not sufficient for your claim 'I'm confident that Dokdo has much higher web usage than Takeshima even without the 8 other variations. You have essentially proved our point. It's up to the admins to decide whether 21500 vs 19500 represents a substantial difference as you claim. Macgruder 19:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Your null hypothesis is that they are equally common, and you have to accept it at the 95% confidence level, which basically supports the assertion that they are about equally common. But the assertion is that Dokdo is substantially more common as Wikipedia Rules require or as you say I'm confident that Dokdo has much higher web usage. Well, your own statistics have just rejected this assertion. A statistically test of say Dokdo being just 10% more common than would be totally rejected by the statistics (perhaps you'd like to add this one!). So the conclusion of the above test is from a statistical viewpoint is "The difference between the numbers is not statistically significant, and any hypothesis that one name is substantially more common than the other is totally rejected". (and this would apply with a very very very generous application of the word substantial to be 10%. If you took substantial to mean 30% or double then that hypothesis is totally totally rejected. (This is a pretty good statistical analysis; a small quibble is that Takeshima has variants like Take Islet, Takesima although these don't add much).


 * In short, the above statistics confirm that one is not used more than the other to any significant degree. Thanks. Macgruder 10:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Statistics can be interpreted openly. Remember the disclaimer I put at the top? Without similar pages, only the searches that Google deems as most relevant will show up. That may explain why only two sites at the end of the search results happened to be rejectable ones. Therefore, any trace of irrelevant results must be weighed on heavily. 10% is not lenient. I see 20% as fitting in this case. (Wikimachine 16:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Plus, even if we were to say equal percentage of sites per each search result are relevant sites, Dokdo counts outnumber Takeshima counts. Remember that most of the votes go for Liancourt Rocks. However, Liancourt Rocks has very little to offer. (Wikimachine 16:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Well, essentially you are arguing for Dokdo/Takeshima because the difference you show is not significant. (Your 20% wouldn't even be statistically significant at the 50% level let alone the 95% level on this test, let alone cyberspace.). The very fact that you have to have ten different variations on Dokdo to make a slight difference tells us that Dokdo itself is hardly standard. Liancourt Rocks does have a lot to offer. It is used in all three encyclopedias per Wikipedia policy and is the only one that BBC, UN, London Times, CIA factbook, Korean legal scholar per above STATE to be a/the English name. If you remove all the Tokdo and Takeshima results from the test above that say "Tokdo is the name in Korea, and Takeshima is the name in Japan" then the number of hits for both will diminish significantly. Then remove the results of pages that unlike the BBC and Columbia encyclopedia were simply created for the purpose of promoting one name over the other then you would find that these numbers would be much lower. A statistically insignificant result requiring ten variations hardly to scrape a slight advantage doesn't come close to trumping respected encyclopedias and news sources.


 * Your argument against Liancourt Rocks only points to a second alternative of Dokdo/Takeshima. Macgruder 16:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Wikimachine's whole procedure is flawed. This is a classic example of using samples with bias.  For example, Wikimachine includes unusual Korean romanizations such as "Tok-to" while excluding similar Japanese romanizations such as "Take-shima".  "Takejima" and "Take-jima" are excluded as well, while all sorts of Korean romanizations are included.--Endroit 16:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Fine. I'll redo Takeshima with the romanizations you've suggested. Are there any other? (Wikimachine 16:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC))


 * I cannot help but complain that some of the users here are POV pushers who accuse me of being POV. No, my whole procedure is not flawed. Only a part of it. This is a classic example of using power tags. Like I said somewhere above, it seems almost as if these users are leading a desperate battle to win over outsider readers by using these power tags, such as "completely flawed!" "That's POV!" "Wikimachine's a POV pusher"!. Let's deal with situations more intelligently. (Wikimachine 17:02, 22 May 2007 (UTC))


 * When you compare multiple "Korean names" vs. multiple "Japanese names" you're opening yourself to criticism. Where in Search engine test does it suggest it's OK to do that?  It's inherently flawed (Wikimachine's Google tests).--Endroit 17:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll change what I'm saying. It's OK to use such Google tests if you explain in plain English (where everybody can see), that your test results include "Dokdo", "Tokdo", "Tokto", etc. (in full detail)...but the Japanese test results include only "Takeshima".  Also, you need to specify in plain English, how many irrelevant data you threw out from a random sample, based on your usage of a random number generator.... and explain this procedure in plain English.  I still think you're opening yourself to criticism, but hey, the usefulness of your Google tests, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.--Endroit 18:12, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I stated somewhere above that Japanese romanizations are based on Latin pronunciations. That shows you that I assumed that Takeshima was the only alternative. And yes I already clarified many times the need to include all variations for Dokdo. And I thought I made it specific by showing 2 sites that happened to be irrelevant. (Wikimachine 18:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * You need to say each time, it's "Dokdo, Tokdo, Tokto,..." etc. (give the full list), and hope everybody agrees with you to count like that. You only mention "Dokdo" most of the time, and that's very misleading.--Endroit 18:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Adding "Take Island" as in here gives some more as well. As for similar pages, remember that if you ever do that your tolerance is +/-50% as the similar pages are counted twice for the non-similar's once. --Cheers, Komdori 18:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * In English, T is not D whatever way you cut it. Count the D's but not the T's. An article can mention alternative spellings but it doesn't mean they should be added up because they originate from the same language.


 * I'm also a little bit confused by your decision to use a null hypothesis to make your point that Dokdo is more common than Takeshima. You then get a statistically insignificant result thus in fact showing your assertion Dokdo has much higher web usage to be false (who was complaining about power tags just now). If you are doing such a statistical test to test your assertion then that should be the null hypothesis. If your null hypothesis is 'Dokdo has much higher web usage', then we can see right away that it has totally failed. If your null hypothesis is 'Dokdo has a 10% higher web usage' this too is going to fail and pretty badly. Even your 'Dokdo has a higher web usage' (and this would include the case where Dokdo has 1 more use than Takeshima) statistically fails, and this by your own analysis.


 * You continue to complain about people attacking your results but only a few days ago you were pushing the Dokdo having around 500,000 hits versus a much smaller amount for Takeshima. Now you are doing a variation of a test that I suggested days ago, and finding the similar counts that I also pointed out to you at that time. And suddenly from the 1000% or 2000% difference, suddenly it's down to 10-20% and that is only if we allow the Ds and the Ts which I dispute. Ironically, suddenly a few percent has become the new benchmark about what is 'much higher usage'. Well, if I discovered that my results had dropped from 1000% to 10% I might consider revision my opinion. Macgruder 19:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

If his results are so flawed, why don't you do the search yourself? I am curious as to what your response would be if Wikimachine's statistics showed that Takeshima was used more often. Good friend100 20:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Funny you should say that. You don't need to be curious. Because this is my test, that I suggested with the addition of Tok variations. And do you know what? When it showed a 10-20% advantage to Takeshima, I called it a dead heat. What do you have to say to that? Macgruder 05:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

It is quite unfortunate both of you are just completely rejecting everything and telling him to do everything. What level of detail are you going down to? Good friend100 20:16, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * We are not rejecting everything. We are agreeing with the tie. As I did when Takeshima had a 10-20% advantage. Macgruder 05:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It's funny how Parsecboy missed Macgruder as a POV pusher... He turns 10% advantage for Dokdo into 10~20% advantage for Takeshima by saying that only one of the two "Tok" and "Dok" variations should be used. Who gives you the right to specify that? You know you're just talking garbage. (Wikimachine 17:01, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Wrong again. Right at the beginning I said usually the words are used together. When I had a 10/20% advantage for Takeshima what did I say? It's a draw. When you have a 10% advantage for Dokto, I say exactly the same thing. It's a draw. How is this POV? The search has the following 95% both, 3% Dokto alone, 2% Takeshima alone. Macgruder 07:08, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Um... No, you just gave a POVish & faulty search (by not including all of the Dokdo variations), so your conscience hooked you with "tie". Also when all of my searches since the last poll favored Dokdo, you probably were going carefully & also feared that I'd point out that your search is flawed b/c it excludes some of the Dokdo variations. (Wikimachine 20:01, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Ha! Ha! You are now reduced to arguing your point by the ability to read my mind . I also excluded the Takeshima variations if you remember so it wasn't POVish. This 'conscience hooked your mind argument' is laughable. If you can't argue against what I actually wrote then your argument is based on the strawman fallacy . Argument by ability to read someone's mind. That's so funny. Thank you for making my day. Macgruder 07:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm... I'm not sure who's the one pretending to read the other's mind here. To call a tie between a search & a search, more accurate & inclusive of relevant ones & at the same time exclusive of irrelevant ones, is POV, in my opinion. What is strawman fallacy? (Wikimachine 17:09, 25 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Macgruder isn't POV pushing, because he/she's not saying the 10% difference between Dokdo and Takeshima is any advantage between the two. It's a statistical tie. He/she is also not deliberately presenting data in a misleading manner to support his/her own position. Recall that Macgruder supports Liancourt Rocks, not Dokdo/Takeshima. Clearly not arguing in support of his/her own position. Parsecboy 19:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Basic conclusion.

The two counts are within 10% of each other. (Didn't I say this about 3 days ago?) When it was in favour of Takeshima I called this a statistical dead head, now that it is in favour of Dokdo (plus the Tok variations which I dispute should be included), I'll draw the same conclusion.

Statistical dead heat.Macgruder 19:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Goodfriend--Takeshima was ahead by the same margin before by some search methods. I and others said it was close enough to be tied.  Everyone knows they are basically tied, but really just don't want to admit it because it would have implications for where this article wound up. --Cheers, Komdori 20:16, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't call it a tie. 10% lead for Dokdo is significant. Everyone don't know that they are basically tied, and you guys are the ones who claimed that Takeshima has the lead, not in a tie, to begin with. Cheers! (Wikimachine 17:03, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * While the results had Takeshima slightly ahead (10% or so) we always claimed that was statistically a tie. I never advocated moving this to Takeshima during the discussion. Perhaps you misread something? --Cheers, Komdori 17:09, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I haven't read all of the new edits to talk pages. I'll respond accordingly. (Wikimachine 19:07, 23 May 2007 (UTC))

Basicier Conclusion
All of you seem to have forgotten some stuffs here.
 * 1) Just because I did the tests does not mean that any possible flaws should rest on me. I think I deserve a little praise for doing all the data work here.
 * 2) Second, I reserve all right to define all possible interpretations for the statistics or any other data to test the neutrality of my fellow disputing editors.
 * 3) Third, all of you seem to misunderstand how I ran the test. I ran the test to see which search term had higher proportion of acceptable terms. That way, we can see which search term, even if it has higher search outcome (or lower), may in fact have significant number of spams or irrelevant sites. In other words, the statistics was performed to test the accuracy of the search.
 * 4) Fourth, I'm really confused why you guys would go after the test done last night, and not the latest test. It's almost as if you want to emphasize anything faulty in my test.
 * 5) Fifth, Dokdo still has significantly higher number of usage (2,000 sites more) than Takeshima. I can run additional tests to exclude less relevant sites such as forums, government sites, etc.
 * 6) Sixth, most voters went for Liancourt Rocks, not Takeshima. That means that it doesn't matter if the two results are close. Since most people advocate Dokdo & Liancourt Rocks, & Liancourt Rocks offers very little competition to Dokdo, I am performing statistics on Takeshima to make buffer zone in case voice opinions change.
 * 7) Finally, let me add, Macgruder's "our point" was that Takeshima was in greater use than Dokdo, not in equal use. And to deliver the fact that "I am confident" that Dokdo has much ider use with some POV implication is being POV pusher b/c I had based my assumptions on previous tests & previous tests had shown that Dokdo is more commonly used than Takeshima.
 * 8) Finallierly, Dokdo has higher usage in Google Books, Google Web, major news papers, and presumably reliable websites (drawn from Google search, therefore flaws must be assumed as part of Google procedure).
 * Also, we cannot just select reliable web sites manually because that would result in voluntary bias by the site gatherers. Therefore, it is crucial that when we perform reliable site tests, we just run Google search & go straight down the list. (Wikimachine 20:42, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * You should also note that almost no votes went for "Dokdo/Takeshima". I don't know if this happened because everybody was paying attention to "Dokdo" and "Liancourt Rocks", but "Dokdo/Takeshima" should not be used because of several other points other editors made. Good friend100 20:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, as for number two, you don't have a right to define all possible interpretations. We and other editors are welcome to draw our own conclusions, and no matter how much you would like Dokdo to be more often used, it's clear to anyone who looks at it objectively that it's not.
 * You are wondering why we pick on a specific test; the reason is because that one happened to be near the bottom. Nearly all of your tests are chock full of flaws, for the same old reasons.
 * As for number six on your list--try moving the article to Takeshima, then do the RFM. You'll see it the same kind of split between Takeshima and Liancourt Rocks, with few for Dokdo.  The status quo tends to get (in this case very) unearned bias in general. --Cheers, Komdori 20:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Again, why don't you make your own test? If his tests are chock full of flaws, why don't you make your own test and edit out all the flaws that you have pointed out in his tests? A number of flaws you describe are minute or you have gone into intense scrutiny and detail. No test will be perfect, especially on google. There is a margin of error, but that doesn't mean Wikimachine's tests are null. Good friend100 20:48, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Again, for me, because there is nothing to prove. Even by his faulty tests, it still shows a statistical tie. --Cheers, Komdori 20:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Fifth, Dokdo still has significantly higher number of usage. No it doesn't 10% in this one test is not statistically significant for the web as a whole, (and that statement doesn't mention the Tok variations being included which I dispute can be). The fact is you have come down from 1000% to 10% but refuse to draw the obvious conclusion. A tie.Macgruder 04:10, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * What? I conclude with 100% confidence, 10% lead for Dokdo. The statistics test was performed to show which results had considerable faultiness. None. So, the statistics proved that the tests were completley dependable (to practical degree of plain usage). (Wikimachine 19:08, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * No you still don't understand statistics. Your count is dependable. That is not disputed. 10% for this one test does not mean 10% for the web as a whole. You would need to do a number of test find the standard deviation of those tests and then test your null hypothesis about the whole web. All you showed was the counting was not flawed. But we don't need a test do we? The 10% is not significant even it is were true. As I stated when I found the opposite. Macgruder 03:57, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm... No, 2 tests is sufficient when dealing with something as simple as Google search. Multiple tries fit better with medical & scientific data gathering. If you want, you can do them. I understand statistics well enough. (Wikimachine 20:03, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * The other tests are not relevant to this discussion. This test people agree is at least an accurate count of the search in question, but your other tests don't even meet that basic criteria.
 * Others will decide that for themselves. I thought I already said that some of the data above are still reliable. Do not falsely discredit everything. (Wikimachine 19:10, 23 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Good friend, we basically agree with his result. It's his conclusion that is faulty. He has kindly shown there are few false positives (as I said days ago but it's good to get confirmation). Unfortunately for him he has simply shown a draw. As for 'why don't you make your own test'. This was my own test. Right from the beginning I stated that the name Takeshima wouldn't show up and Wikimachine confirmed that. I got a small advantage for Takeshima and concluded a tie. Wikimachine got a small advantage for Dokdo (only after adding the Tok variations which I dispute). So I'm going to conclude the same thing, and so should anyone. It's a tie. Macgruder 04:10, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, did you do another test on your own, I'll check it out. A nice Memorial day present. (Wikimachine 19:11, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Sixth, most voters went for Liancourt Rocks, not Takeshima. That means that it doesn't matter if the two results are close. Sorry, this is a circular argument. The issue is not just voting but, as is stated, a way, to get people arguments. If people in the pro-Dokdo section are arguing based on Google hits being much higher and they are shown not to be then effectively their votes are meaningless towards the overall result. Macgruder 05:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I for one am not blaming Wikimachine for the flaws in his google test. Google tests are inherently flawed. I am, however, blaming him for his biased presentation of the results. He states that most of the Takeshima returns are last names. Fine. But then he turns and presents the Dokdo/alliterations results as 100% acceptable for use. This is clearly false, as the results I examined myself clearly show only about 25% relevance. It's not about the results themselves, it's how they're being presented that indicate bias. If anything, the supposed drubbing of Liancourt Rocks in the google test is more or less irrelevant, because Liancourt Rocks will 99% only really turn up relevant articles. I doubt there are many "Liancourt Rocks" last names, or other places with that name. Dokdo and Takeshima results are both skewed by those factors (and several others, I might add). Parsecboy 01:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This is a classic example of everyone taking turn to attack me with "misunderstanding" that after I explain thoroughly, gets dismissed... but through the process, my image stained. I'm fighting a swarm of wasp, and I don't have a bug spray.
 * Parsecboy, thanks for taking advantage of confusion in chronology - I stated that most of the Takeshima returns are last names based on previous tests, which of course did contain names. However, on the new statistics, I confirmed that Macgruder's method of search is flawless. There's no skew, no 25% relevance, 100% acceptable whatever junk you're talking about. (audience claps) (Wikimachine 01:21, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Thank-you for showing that my original assertion that there wouldn't be Takeshima names was true. But your misunderstanding of statistics is that even though this one test shows a slight advantage, it does not mean that it is true of all the web. This is the nature of Statistics. If I did a telephone survey where the counting was flawless, and it showed 210 people liked strawberries and 190 liked raspberries, the fact that the counting was flawless doesn't not mean that we could extrapolate to the population as a whole which one was more popular. We would conclude that they were about the same. This is called random variation. 210-190 would not be statistically significant. And to say strawberries are much more popular than raspberries would be absurd. Macgruder 08:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * You welcome. Get a new suit and tie & change your attitude. I think I understand statistics as much as you do, sir. You don't need to tell me anything like that. And I'm sure that everybody else in this talk page are smart enough to know what we are talking about also. Assuming such risks is part of statistics procedure. (Wikimachine 19:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * You clearly don't understand statistics. A fundamental statistics concept is variance. The more tests you do the less the variance. All tests make assumptions about how well the sample correlates to the the whole population. After you do many tests you can get an idea of what this variance is. For example, Zogby know that after doing many surveys that there is an approximately 2.5% standard deviation in their results. Therefore when they interview a thousand people they state something like within a 5% confidence range. No statistician who knows what he's talking about says: 'My result has no variance when applied to the whole population'. Gallup and other organisation whose business depends on the accuracy of their results have done 1000's of tests and they still state that their results have a 4 or 5% margin of error. This is one test. Your margin of error is going to be significantly higher. Now if you had a substantial advantage then we would probably say, 'OK, fair enough'. When we had Takeshima with 10/20% advantage before we said the same thing it's a tie. This is no different. Macgruder 16:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Macgruder, get out, buy a new suit & tie, and change your attitude. You make these arrogant assumptions that you know something while the others don't. The whole point of doing statistics was to avoid manual count. Doing multiple statistics fails that purpose. (Wikimachine 20:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Ah... Macgruder. You still don't understand how I ran the test. Google search already affirms that Takeshima is 2,000 behind Dokdo. 2-Proportions Z test only aims for which of the 2 results is more accurate than the other. Now... only benefit for you to argue on this topic is if Dokdo's Google results were so inaccurate in case of Dokdo that instead of 21,000, the relevant sites are 17,000--> Takeshima would have lead. However, 2 tests already proved Dokdo is 100% accurate while 1 test for Takeshima proved that Takeshiima might have inaccurate result at 0.2 alpha. It's common procedure in statistics to assume that there is no possible way for Dokdo to have some 3,000 irrelevant sites all of a sudden & Takeshima gets the lead... that's impossible. (Wikimachine 20:14, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Puh-leeze. What, are you trying to win an Oscar for best performance? I took no advantage from this alleged "confusion in chronology". In your test results from the "komdori method", you argued that the takeshima results are badly skewed because of last names, etc. You made absolutely no mention of the Dokdo results being similarly skewed for other reasons, instead implying they were 100% acceptable. This is clearly not the case, from the slices of results I examined, which, as I demonstrated in the section above, were only about 25% relevant to the disputed islands. This is what I'm talking about. Thanks for playing the victim, it really helps the debate. Parsecboy 01:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * No, I'm not a movie actress. Look up what preterition is. You'll learn that in Latin III. It's a literary device. I wonder why you'd want to focus on the komdori method when the newest test is on macgruder method. Check the newest security update, or you'll get chronology virus. (Wikimachine 19:16, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * I was referring to it because you mentioned it in your initial "basicier conclusions" post. You said other users were attacking you for the flaws in your test. I replied that I wasn't attack you, I was attacking your presentation of the results of said test. Get your facts straight. Parsecboy 19:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Hah, it certainly feels like a personal attack if all you talk about are flaws on his tests while praising Macgruder's tests. Good friend100 20:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Here you go: This basically proves most of Wikimachines data above (approx. 20,000) are dual usages of Dokdo/Takeshima.--Endroit 20:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikimachine's Dokdo test without Takeshima: 787

Here you go: This basically proves that Endroit is playing with words & trying to confuse outside readers as to shift votes toward Takeshima/Liancourt Rocks. (Wikimachine 20:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Takeshima without all variations for Dokdo: 472
 * So? You haven't proven that Dokdo is used more than "Dokdo/Takeshima".--Endroit 21:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * "Dokdo/Takeshima" bests "Dokdo" by a factor of 25 to 1, according to your data, Wikimachine.--Endroit 21:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm, I'm not even going there. That because Dokdo & Takeshima are used in pairs & therefore must not be counted as usage is....childplay. Wikipedia policy requires usage in itself, nothing more. I suggest that you look in the archive on this debate because I crushed it by placing 2-level double bind on Macgruder. This proves that Takeshima is extremely dependent on the Dokdo-Takeshima pair while Dokdo is less dependent on it. But, I really don't care about it. This is non-argument. (Wikimachine 01:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * As in your 500,000 Dokdo hits that we no longer talk about, or your multisearch analysis that other users on this page showed was completely flawed(this is the archive you keep insisting we refer to), or the test that I constructed days ago that I said days ago that would not throw up wrong Takeshima and you said it would, but now we see it doesn't. Or the result where I said the counts would be similar and after adding Tok(which I dispute) it still has a similar count as I said days ago. Is this the kind of 'crushing' we are talking about? The fact is we are essentially using my test and it is essentially throwing up the results I stated days ago (a tie). I suggest you (1) look up crush, (2)stop referring to past discussions which were in the middle of the now 'crushed' 500,000 Dokdo count that you were so keen on. Besides you are wrong about the pair argument. If Dokdo and Takeshima are almost always used in a pair it means that most sites are reporting foreign usage which therefore leads back to Liancourt Rocks. Macgruder 08:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm.. Please don't use hyperbole & preterition. And I only claimed some 6,000 total hits across the web (.GOV, .EDU, .COM, etc.) using my previous method, not 500,000. However, You're the one who claimed some 500,000 for Takeshima.
 * If you can't look it up in the archive, I'll copy and paste for you. Further embellishment on this issue is below, so check the newer issue out. (Wikimachine 19:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * This is what you said: MacGruder, look at the archives. The archives contain a more accurate Google search data than what you've just posted. You ignore the fact that those numbers account for similar pages more than the individual sites. With no link. Well, in those archives in your discussion there was the number 500,000 and you didn't correct it. You yourself said the archives were more accurate. Ergo you are promoting 500,000. Then we have this quote: 'but even if I were to use your faulty(sic) method, [we have] Liancourt Rocks has only 39,800 sites while Dokdo has 466,000.'?Macgruder 17:36, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm... archive is hands-off, and WP already assumes that discussion goes chronologically down the page. There's no need for me to correct anything. However, you can post "comment: this is indeed not true", etc. I don't understand why you're trying to argue with me on every front... even though that brings you no benefit for the entire debate. Is the number "500,000" that important to you? (Wikimachine 20:18, 24 May 2007 (UTC))


 * This is from the archive
 * Double bind 2: Either we must consider how the terms are used, & Dokdo & Takeshima have nearly 0% presence in the media while Liancourt Rocks has nearly 100%, and Liancourt Rocks & Takeshima suck in web results & Google Books, etc., and Dokdo dominates (b/c you'd have to count all the variations. Remember, we must consider on how the terms are used.); or we must not consider how the terms are used, & Dokdo & Takeshima have nearly 50-50% presence in the media while Liancourt Rocks has nearly 0%, & Dokdo shouldn't include its variations for web & book searches - still much greater usage than Liancourt Rocks, and a near tie with Takeshima.
 * (Wikimachine 19:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Simple. Liancourt Rocks doesn't suck in Google Books when we consider how the words are used as is required in the first bind. Dokdo does not dominate in search results. 10% in one sample = dominate??? Unbound. (Unbinding was a lot easier than deciphering the English - do I get a smartie?). Also your statement requires the assumption of Dokdo dominating web results within a discussion about Dokdo's web results. This is known as a circular argument. The irony is delicious as is the smartie.Macgruder 17:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Um... You can't unbind a double bind unless you lose the entire debate. It's either you gain access to half of your arguments while losing half of your arguments & therefore you lose.... or you gain the other half while losing the first half and you lose. Good job. (Wikimachine 20:21, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * "You can't unbind my statement because my statement is a double-bind." This circular argument is positively gourmet. Forget the smartie, give me the whole pack. Macgruder 03:26, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ahh, I'm not being a smartie. It's quite a common term in policy debate. (Wikimachine 17:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Exactly. The fact that everytime I do a stat or data analysis, there are so many POV pushers who try to stain my user name that it's a must for me to test their neutrality by preemptively reserving buffer zone interpretations against their POVish counterinterpretations.
 * For example, I think Macgruder above said that adding "Take Island" adds significant amount of sites. That's (I'd love to say "lie") false. Look, and.
 * Umm... I don't know what you mean by your last sentence. RFM?
 * I understand statistics perfectly well. It is common procedure that you adapt your interpretation of the z test according to various observations you make. And I make the assumption that most of the irrelevant sites do not appear since the similar pages are excluded. That means that any hint that there are more rejectable sites for either candidate means a significantly higher percentage of rejectable sites in the rest of the search. (Wikimachine 20:52, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Yes, but the flaw is drawing a small margin of difference in one test to make a conclusion about the web as a whole. Your test is not flawed. Your conclusion is flawed. Macgruder 05:05, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * My conclusion is not flawed. (Wikimachine 17:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * So you are saying that a single sample has a zero percent S.D. when compared with the population? Well, this is never true. And to quote what you said: Third, all Google searches have flaws no matter what. Macgruder 18:17, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't run the test to prove that Dokdo is more common than Takeshima. I only proved that both tests are very reliable & accurate.... and that your method does not include many irrelevant sites and wrong usage (i.e. individual names). That is my conclusion, and that is not flawed. It is statistically impossible for Dokdo to suddenly appear with 3,000 irrelevant sites & turn the lead to Takeshima. You should know that yourself. (Wikimachine 20:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Wikimachine:  Macgruder above said that adding "Take Island" adds significant amount of sites is false/lie.
 * Macgruder's actual words:a small quibble is that Takeshima has variants like Take Islet, Takesima although these don't add much 
 * So Wikimachine what do you have to say about yourself here. You throw around liar again, and guess what. It's your mistake again. Stop complaining about other users if you have to resort to misquoting and straw to call them liars. Macgruder 03:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm... no. That's not what I said. For example, I think Macgruder above said that adding "Take Island" adds significant amount of sites. That's (I'd love to say "lie") false. Look [69], and [70].
 * BUT what Macgruder actually said was: 'Takeshima has variants like Take Islet although these do NOT add much'. How is 'DO NOT ADD MUCH ' = 'adds significant amount '. This you said was false, and you'd 'love to say a lie'. Macgruder 16:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok. But I was talking about Komdori. Does it really matter who I was talking about? I think that once I clarify that I was talking about Komdori, you're out of my concern and so am I out of yours. ?!* (Wikimachine 20:25, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * In fact, it was Komdori who said Adding "Take Island" as in here gives some more as well. As for similar pages, remember that if you ever do that your tolerance is +/-50% as the similar pages are counted twice for the non-similar's once.
 * And I showed my Google search, which actually decreased number of total sites from 19500 to 19400 when adding Take variations. (Wikimachine 19:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC))


 * "Take island" added 100 to the search you had before. Try to assume good faith rather than calling people liars.  Read Endroit's proof above in order to heighten your understanding of google searches. --Cheers, Komdori 20:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Guess it still does add 100... and you're arguing about this when the difference is now ~1000. That's 10% of the tiny difference gone.  Rather than preach how much you know about z and mu and statistics in general, try reading about them.  That tiny of a difference is statistically insignificant. --Cheers, Komdori 20:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Cheers! I better count backwards. 19400 - 19300 = 100! guess what. The search reduced by 100. (Wikimachine 20:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC))
 * I'm sorry, you aren't being clear... when I add "Take Island OR" to the search that doesn't have it, you get an extra 100 results... In any case, see Endroit's reasoning below. --Cheers, Komdori 22:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikimachine's Google counts are misleading, because the usages of "Dokdo" (& variations) DON'T have the highest Google count, when compared to "Dokdo/Takeshima" combinations. When you put it into perspective, Wikimachine's Dokdo test without Takeshima gets only 787 Google hits. Therefore it appears that choosing "Dokdo" (over the other choices) based solely on Google counts seems ill-guided.

See Talk:Dokdo/Archive 9 for further discussions on other criteria, such as NPOV, etc. Since it's a very difficult choice, please be sure to look at all the criteria and past the Google counts.--Endroit 21:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok. I'll explain this to all other users. This is a really stupid argument. Endroit, and Macgruder are arguing that most of Dokdo & Takeshima counts should not be considered because they are always used in pair with each other & so the authors are just mentioning them for outside reference, not actually giving favor to one of them.
 * But, do you really expect reliable sources to voluntarily not mention one or the other in its entire article? That's like requiring Wikipedia to either use Dokdo or Takeshima only. That's very unlikely. Also, Wikipedia policy requires only usage in itself, without the consideration of how or in what context the terms are used. (Wikimachine 01:30, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Let me add, I offered a 2-level double bind to Macgruder on this topic, and he couldn't answer it. So, look in the archive. (Wikimachine 01:31, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * No, here is Wikipedia Policy:
 * False positives
 * Search engine tests should be used with care: in testing whether a name is widely accepted English usage, we are interested in hits which are in English, represent English usage, and mean the place in question. Search engine results can fail on all of these.
 * "Search engines will find hits when a paper in English is quoting foreign text, which may well include foreign placenames." etc.
 * You sure do love the word double-bind. I think I was probably too busy telling you that your 500,000 google Dokdo hits was wrong. Macgruder 04:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, let's analyze is quoting foreign text, which may well include foreign placenames. What does the word quoting mean? Basically copy-paste/translation of a foreign text (i.e. government site: "according to the Japanese government"...; news: "according to Joon-ang Ilbo newspaper"). Is there any quoting going on in any of these sites? (Well, most) No. These words are written by the authors themselves.
 * Don't make ridiculous claims. You can't possibly expect newspaper editors to only use one name and voluntarily exclude the other. It's like "know about their culture" thing. You tell the readers what the name of the place is in their own language. (Wikimachine 19:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * But you didn't read the next line did you?
 * "Hits which are of the form "X [Korean Y]" attest to English usage of X, and Korean usage of Y. The latter matters to the Korean Wikipedia, not to us. " (replaced foolandish for clarity) Macgruder 18:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Is this a Wikipedia guideline, I'd really love to know. (Wikimachine 20:27, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * A simple search test for "english sites only" shows that Dokdo has 121,000 hits vs. Dokdo/Takeshima, which has 12,100 / Good friend100 22:12, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I also think these google tests are flawed. This is because they count statements like "known as Dokdo in Korea" or "the Japanese call it Takeshima". Those hits should not be counted because they just assert local usages and not English usage. --Kusunose 02:41, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm... Ask admin such as Visviva. He'll definitely disagree. WP naming convention specifically aims for usage in itself. Then let me ask you this. Shouldn't the articles mention Liancourt Rocks along with the quotation of foreign text because it would be appropriate for many reasons that I'm not going to mention right now? (Wikimachine 19:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC))

It was you Wikimachine who created a section specifically to deal with my test. That test has a basic tie. But you keep on referring to the other tests when your conclusion is challenged. The basic fact remains, the one test that has had a reasonably amount of support as an effective count is a tie (withstanding the objections to using Google in the first place). I think your checking for one type of false positive was useful (although I disagree that you can use the 'Tok' variations but this doesn't change the conclusion anyway). It's you who is saying the result of this test is flawless, and therefore you need to draw the conclusions that this test shows. You cannot in this section refer to other tests that are not under discussion and as other users have pointed out in those sections are flawing.
 * Umm... no. I only confirmed that Dokdo has 2,000 site lead over Takeshima in the web. Other data such as Google Books, reliable sites, and the media data still confirm that Dokdo is used more than Takeshima. Other than that, I'm not confirming anything like that. (Wikimachine 19:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC))

So we go back to the conclusion of this test:
 * Usage of Takeshima and Dokdo is basically a tie
 * This test supports the use of the Dokdo/Takeshima or Takeshima/Dokdo variant

Points to remember
 * Google hits don't necessarily measure actual English use
 * Test will return results asserting to local usage which probably should not be counted in the context of a Liancourt Rocks comparison
 * A single test is a snapshot of overall web usage so will have a margin of error. This confirms the statistical tie more than anything

Final Conclusion

If we accept that Google tests are an issue to be considered in the naming debate then we discover they do not lend support for either the Takeshima choice or the Dokdo choice, but to the slashed choice. Thus the choice can be reduced to Dokdo/Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks depending on the outcome of other arguments and the validity of such tests. Macgruder 04:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * So we go back to the conclusion of this test:
 * Dokdo has 2,000 sites lead over Takeshima, and that's significant.
 * This supports only Dokdo, not the "/" variants because Endroit's tests revealed that Takeshima is more dependent on the pair usage (which I don't agree in the first place, but hypothetically) than Dokdo.


 * Points to remember
 * We have nothing to base our debate on if we can't trust Google. Assuming practical flaws is part of the Google procedure.
 * As for the dual usage:
 * WP naming convention seeks for usage in it itself, and does not consider how it is used.
 * WP naming convention specifies an exception, false positive - but that's only when a foreign text is quoted (none of the sites that were used in the data quote foreign texts)
 * You can't possibly expect websites and articles to voluntarily use one name over another. If the authors want, they can mention both names.
 * The authors should mention Liancourt Rocks as the main name and then "quote foreign texts", but they don't. They use Dokdo & Takeshima as the primary names. Newspapers have around ~10 total usage for Liancourt Rocks while over 100 usage for Dokdo & Takeshima.
 * There were two tests. The first test confirmed that Takeshima brings more irrelevant sites than Dokdo. (Wikimachine 19:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC))


 * It should also be noted that searching Takeshima on google gives you many unrelated "Takeshimas", including several names and a "Takeshima restaurant". Good friend100 20:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * This is already noted. It should also be noted that the alliterations for Dokdo with which Wikimachine is so in love create mostly unrelated hits, as I demonstrated in the section above, relating to Komdori's method. Wikimachine, the reason I am bringing this test up is because these alliterations were not used in Macgruder's test, so don't worry, I have no "chronology virus". Parsecboy 21:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Then you should have no problem. (Wikimachine 20:30, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Of course indiscriminant searchs for Takeshima might give some unrelated results, but look at Macgruder's results below--they are carefully crafted to avoid this kind of interference. --Cheers, Komdori 21:57, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

You are clearly a POV-pusher. Wikimachine's tests, you say are flawed and changed. Yet Macgruder's tests are accepted and they are the correct tests. It certainly isn't fair. Your attitude is so biased. Oh wow look at Macgruder's test, they are carefully crafted. But Wikimachine's tests are so flawed and full of crap.

Using an incredibly long search "island Japan Korea disputed "Take-shima" OR Takejima OR "Take-jima" OR Takeshima -wikipedia", you can certainly see how the text was manipulated to get the maximum google searches for "Takeshima". Do people searching the dispute type in all that?

Seeing this, I think the google searches are altogether pointless when you get down to that kind of level. It isn't accurate either. You can still see irrevelent links. Again, google searches can't be used like that to justify things. Good friend100 00:17, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * "Using an incredibly long search "island Japan Korea disputed "Take-shima" OR Takejima OR "Take-jima" OR Takeshima -wikipedia". What??? This was because of Wikimachine's insistence he wanted to add all variations of Tok Island, Tok Islet, Tokdo, Dokdo. This was his idea not ours. Of course, if you do for one you must do for the other. But if you wish you can just do Dokdo and Takeshima. Please go ahead.


 * You are wrong when you keep repeating "Oh wow look at Macgruder's test, they are carefully crafted. But Wikimachine's tests are so flawed and full of crap." We are saying exactly the opposite. Macgruder's test gave a 10/20% advantage to Takeshima and BEFORE we said basically said that means it is a tie. Wikimachine's result gives a 10% advantage to Dokdo, and we are saying the same thing "it's a tie". We are not saying his counting is flawed, we are saying his conclusion is wrong. We've been totally fair. In both cases we said 10-20% means a tie.


 * You make a very good point about all the variations. This is why we call it a tie. No test can be exact because there is a statistical problems with choices of words, names and counting methods (google vs. yahoo). Because of these unavoidable errors when a result is close it's called a tie. We said that with my test, and we are saying it with his test. The result of the test is a tie. Macgruder 05:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * And Macgruder that's exactly where you go wrong. I don't understand how a search with only 2 variations for Dokdo and a search with all variations for Takeshima & Dokdo make a tie. Simply, my search is more accurate because it adds more terms while yours don't. It's called biased sample (eh hem, somebody brought that up above.) (Wikimachine 20:34, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Umm actually, what I'm really confused about is how when I make use of Macgruder's tests to perform statistics I get criticized but Macgruder doesn't.... when he's original designer of the test. I'm really corn-fused. (Wikimachine 20:32, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Good Friend, I've been arguing that Google tests are too flawed to be used for something like this the whole time. We're all well aware that Takeshima and Dokdo return erroneous results, probably more than relevant results. This whole process here should be discarded. In doing so, let's establish some facts. The vast majority of media does not use Dokdo or Takeshima by themselves. Therefore, leaving the page at Dokdo or moving to Takeshima is unacceptable. Wikipedia guidelines advise against split names such as Dokdo/Takeshima, for problems with url, etc. Wikipedia naming rules also state that when an English name is present, it should be the name used. Therefore, Liancourt Rocks, while perhaps not as widely used as Dokdo/Takeshima, is the best choice. It is also the least POV, as the other two names are the local names used by the two disputing powers. This is not to say that the local names cannot be used in the article. By all means, they should be mentioned in the first sentence of the introduction. But the title of the article should be NPOV, and Liancourt Rocks fits that role best. Parsecboy 00:43, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Parsecboy, then what are we going to argue with? See archive. The discussion has matured much more than you think. We already did reliable sites test, Google book, and major media tests. (Wikimachine 20:37, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * We already went through that one. I pointed out how Liancourt Rocks was not widely used in english newspapers. Good friend100 02:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * That may be because the issue never comes up in English newspapers. Parsecboy 11:25, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Then it's not used. Usage in itself matters. (Wikimachine 20:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC))


 * But Tokdo and Takeshima are essentially NEVER used in English newspapers. Only to attest what Japan and Korea call themMacgruder 05:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * This is why Liancourt Rocks should be used as the title. Parsecboy 11:25, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Tokdo is NEVER used in english newspapers??? I didn't know that! Good friend100 20:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, go ahead find some English newspapers which by Wikipedia naming convention rules is English usage. In other words, you must exclude all newspapers that say 'Dokdo is the name in Korea, and Takeshima is the name in Japan' Macgruder 03:26, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, you failed to answer my dual usage arguments.
 * WP naming convention seeks for usage in it itself, and does not consider how it is used.
 * WP naming convention specifies an exception, false positive - but that's only when a foreign text is quoted (none of the sites that were used in the data quote foreign texts)
 * You can't possibly expect websites and articles to voluntarily use one name over another. If the authors want, they can mention both names.
 * The authors should mention Liancourt Rocks as the main name and then "quote foreign texts", but they don't. They use Dokdo & Takeshima as the primary names. Newspapers have around ~10 total usage for Liancourt Rocks while over 100 usage for Dokdo & Takeshima.
 * Now, in order to win this dual usage argument, you have to prove:
 * How "Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese" is quoting a foreign text like Chosun Ilbo.
 * If you fail to prove 1st point, where WP naming convention specifies what type of usage are qualified to be counted web usage tests, (other than obvious spamming, which it already assumes as part of Google procedure & also the media test in archive were done manually--> 100% accuracy)
 * Why can't writers & newspaper editors write "Liancourt Rocks, which is also called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese".... like as if they were adding an interesting fact or making some sort of connection to foreign cultures, history, language, etc. I mean, it is common procedure for writers to refer to & use foreign names when dealing with foreign places & events.
 * Also, if the authors were using Dokdo & Takeshima to "quote foreign texts", why didn't they mention Liancourt Rocks somewhere in the article? I mean, to "quote a foreign text" and fail to mention what it's called in your native language fails the entire purpose of the quoting, right? (Wikimachine 17:18, 25 May 2007 (UTC))
 * They do, see his quote for false positives down below. --Cheers, Komdori 17:19, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Question
When is this vote closed? The previous vote lasted only for 5 days and ignored lots of "opposes". This time, are we gonna continue the vote until "Keep the article at Dokdo" wins? Like Byron Moreno did In September 2002?--Michael Friedrich 18:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, none of the polls from the date this started are closed (see the requested move page), there is nothing strange going on. Don't be too concerned, the actual procedure by Wikipedia people in control has been pretty decent this time (the semi-protection helped a lot to stop the mammoth interference).  The main point of this exercise is to get an idea of what people think of the policies involved, how this is addressed, etc.  I'm sure everyone is kind of wondering when/how it will end. --Cheers, Komdori 18:36, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the . 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.

Discussion about changing name of Dokdo Article
I have some serious concerns about the timing and method of which this poll was put up. While I have not been a regular contributor for the last year or so, I still am around occasionally to see what's going on. The main reason I don't use Wikipedia anymore is BECAUSE of the POV fights, which I frankly get sick of because they are counter productive to this project.

As was mentioned above, the poll most likely will have problems with sockpuppets voting multiple times. The person who posted the poll is depending upon the arbitrary decision of whichever admin closes this. Frankly it leaves much to be said that it leaves it open to the possiblity of abuse on both sides.

Also as someone who has participated in other discussions about changing articles (ie deletion) I find people often try to jab at other's comments by putting degrading comments in an attempt to counteract a person's vote. Just some things to think about. Davidpdx 01:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * 1) Requests for checkuser/Case/Goguryeo
 * 2) Requests for checkuser/Case/Room218
 * 3) Requests for checkuser/Case/NekoNekoTeacher
 * 4) Requests for checkuser/Case/Appleby
 * 5) Requests for checkuser/Case/Kamosuke
 * I hope Appleby is not operating sock fleet anymore. Jjok 06:08, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It's my sincere hope that weren't not just targeting Korean users, but also checking Japanese users as well. Certainly someone needs to make sure neither side is pulling crap. Davidpdx 08:46, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * These aren't on-going checkuser cases, as I understand, but ones from over a year ago. The NekoNekoTeacher case is a "Japanese side", Jjok and Komdori are included there, but were determined to be unrelated users. Parsecboy 11:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Google Test Results [Macgruder]
Here are the results of the Google test results that I proposed before with slight changes due to Wikimachines analysis. To date this seems to be the only test done that people don't dispute the counts themselves and the methodology of the way they are counted. All choices are counted with variations in spelling and naming (Dokdo, Dok Islets etc.) There are as indicated above disagreement about the validity of doing such a search, the choice of words and the conclusions that can be drawn from the results :


 * Takeshima 19400
 * Dokdo 13400
 * Dokto or Tokto 21500
 * Takeshima without T/Dokdo 420
 * T/Dokdo without Takeshima 652


 * Both the Dokdo/Tokdo and Takeshima on the same page . 95% (Approx 20850 ,21500 - 652)
 * Dokdo/Tokdo only: 3% (652 )
 * Takeshima only: 2% ( 420)

Do not discuss these results here (unless there is a significant problem with the count itself). This is simply a place so people can easily see the results. Go above to do that. I'm aware that the last result seems to contradict the first result, but it is approximately correct. It is probably due to adding up different Google results and missed false positives and negatives giving some slight adding error. The test seems to indicate that the two are usually used together in the vast majority of uses. Macgruder 05:57, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Small note: just because I have printed these numbers it doesn't mean that I agree that Google is a valid way to address this discussion. These numbers are just for those who think Google is valid in this discussion. So if you think these results are useless and/or irrelevant to the outcome and many do then that's fine! Macgruder 04:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Alternative Results
Goodfriend 100 voiced a concern that we shouldn't include variations of Takeshima. In order to address this concern I have repeated the results without these Takeshima variations. Of course, this has meant removing the Dokdo/Tokdo variants as well. (Removing Tokdo from the search gives a decisive results towards Takeshima so I have included it).


 * Takeshima 18300
 * Dokdo/Tokdo 16200
 * Takeshima without T/Dokdo 759
 * T/Dokdo without Takeshima 568


 * Both the Dokdo/Tokdo and Takeshima on the same page . 93% (Approx 17500 ,18300 - 769)
 * Takeshima only: 4% ( 759)
 * Dokdo/Tokdo only: 3% (568 )

This gives a similar result to before. Variations of searches do not always add up totals (i.e. 100%) consistently. This probably indicates small issues with how Google counts results. Macgruder 15:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Comments Initial
Macgruder, why did you not include "Tok Islets", "Dok Islets", "Tok Island", "Dok Island" variations? (Wikimachine 19:56, 23 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Sorry. I thought I just copied and pasted your link. I've redone it to make sure it is correct. It now has 21500 (another 200) Macgruder 16:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

When I googled Takeshima, there were many articles that did not have any connections to these islets. From this analysis, I believe thatTakashima can also refer to many other things in Japan while Dokdo has no other meanings. So google counts may bring a false result.

Kingj123 20:08, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * That's why we make sure to not search for Takeshima alone. See the discussions of Google below, where we've made sure to eliminate those issues. --Cheers, Komdori 20:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Comments Alternative
I'm still trying to catch up to current discussion but this google search results still doesn't resolve problem raised by Kingj123 above.melonbarmonster 19:29, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, it does. Wikimachine himself did checked about 50 random pages for each and none of them had those false positives. Macgruder 03:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, it seems some of us are obsessed with google counts. You should note that google counts are not very accurate. Good friend100 20:41, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, you are right :-) I totally agree with you.
 * Therefore we can say statistically it's a tie, precisely because it isn't a perfect test.
 * I'm not interested in the Google test because I know it doesn't mean anything for either side, but some editors are insisting one side is more commonly used. But as you correctly pointed out our tests are not perfectly accurate. Please say that to the other editors :-)Macgruder 03:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Google Book search
These are manual counts.


 * 2
 * 2
 * 4
 * 0
 * 1
 * 1
 * 2
 * 0


 * Takeshima total: 12
 * Dokdo total: 88

(Wikimachine 01:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC))


 * I don't know why but searching with Takeshima islands increases the number to 257 and most of the books seems relevant to the topic. --Kusunose 03:08, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Clearly we need a closer look. Because Dokdo and Takeshima gives 20 results alone which is more than the above 12. I doubt that any of these Takeshimas would not be the island.
 * Also we need to remove any non English books. Further we need to check how these are being used. For example, Wikipedia policy states to by careful not to include books that by definition give local usage such as maps and guide books.
 * Then we need to remove from both the books that are simply attesting to each countries usage. Such as 'Takeshima is the name in Japan, and Dokdo is the name in Korea'.
 * Also, we need to consider modern usage. A book from 1907 would hardly be relevant. I suspect that from this we'll find that Liancourt Rocks is the one that is used most as the actual name.
 * I'm concerned too about who publishes the books: I wouldn't consider a book published by the Japanese fishing agency to reflect English usage.
 * Once again counts can be misleading, and need to be considered in context.

When you remove all these you are going to be left with nothing in Encyclopedias, media, and perhaps books too for both Takeshima and Dokdo. Macgruder 03:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm... I don't know what's happening either, but I'll do manual count on both Dokdo & Takeshima.
 * Using "islands" gives searches with the terms "islands". That makes it irrelevant. (Wikimachine 22:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Actually, it's 17, not 20. Hmm.. what you're saying is quite interesting. I'll do this. I'll search for all combinations of Takeshima & Dokdo. And then divide the total result into Takeshima, Dokdo, and irrelevant. Good? (Wikimachine 22:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * That won't work, actually. Search can't show Dokdo & Takeshima simultaneously (they may be on different pages)--> I can't identify which uses both Takeshima and Dokdo. (Wikimachine 22:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Couldn't you just search the books? --Cheers, Komdori 23:43, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Second Google Book Search

 * Dokdo: 877
 * Takeshima: 495
 * Liancourt Rocks 290

Dokdo Manual counts

 * 7312204200002252001001131001101201133010
 * 211011101110

Takeshima Manual counts

 * 31220021221

Liancourt Rocks Manual counts

 * 1010967712243100000000000000

Total manual counts

 * Dokdo: 63
 * Takeshima: 16
 * Liancourt Rocks: 62

Conclusion
(23:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Dokdo had mostly foreign documents.
 * Takeshima had mostly foreign names.
 * Liancourt was either from the early 20th century describing the Russo-Japanese War & foreign documents.
 * While you're at it, don't forget Liancourt Rocks, which might be more pertinent than Takeshima in many minds. --Cheers, Komdori 23:32, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok. (Wikimachine 23:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC))

Don't forget to remove all the non-English uses. In other words books that are saying 'The name in Korean is Dokdo, and the name in Japanese is Takeshima'. Note: Remove non English Uses So far it looks an interesting result. Perhaps it would save you time if we searched after a more modern date, and it would make more sense in this context. Before I decided 1980 (any choice is somewhat arbitrary but it's certainly better than 1800!). Thanks. Macgruder 03:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * we are interested in hits which are in English, represent English usage
 * Hits which are of the form "X (Japanese Takeshima)" attest to English usage of X, and Japanese usage of Takeshima. The latter matters to the Japanese Wikipedia, not to us.
 * Hits which are of the form "X (Korean Dokdo)" attest to English usage of X, and Korean usage of Dokdo. The latter matters to the Korean Wikipedia, not to us.
 * The search already excludes non-English results. (Wikimachine 16:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC))
 * I think you missed the point. If an English source says, "This place is known as Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo in Korean)," and so on, it does not count as a hit for Dokdo, per policy and common sense. --Cheers, Komdori 17:15, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I think you missed my explanation for why dual usage =/= false positive. (Wikimachine 18:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Nope, I saw it. Apparently you didn't see the quote immediately above this from the False Positive guideline where they explicitly say that if the occurence of "Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo in Korean)" is a false positive for Dokdo (or Takeshima). --Cheers, Komdori 18:45, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Total Counts

 * Dokdo: 689
 * Takeshima: 577
 * Liancourt Rocks: 77


 * Could you please get some terms in there to at least try to get relevant, English results (use the same ones we used elsewhere). On the very first page of Dokdo we have:


 * "Upon leaving C, it sets tok to a nondeterministic value in [l..n]. The skeleton"
 * "... := rec,,, + 1 end; send ( tok ) to fat herr end Algorithm 6.5 THE ECHO ALGORITHM.
 * "i bi dokto < Peter he is a doctor) et na Pita bi dokto < it's Peter that is a ..."
 * "information that " Dokto Kayen " and his men had gone south, and that the brig ...


 * As I doubt any of the "Liancourt Rocks" are invalid, I guess we've managed to prove again that it is an accepted English name. --Cheers, Komdori 19:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Wikimachine forgot to manually count them this time.--Endroit 19:37, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll manually count them so it won't matter. I'll see myself what's relevant and what's not.
 * Yes, I didn't have time to perform it yesterday. I'll do it sometime soon. (Wikimachine 15:03, 26 May 2007 (UTC))
 * So are hanging or dimpled chads going to be counted (am I the only American who was reminded of that ordeal)? If you come up with results, I'm sure you'll no doubt post them, but you are aware that Google doesn't index all information, right?  The whole point of Google tests at all is to see if its immediately obvious by a simple test that one has a clear majority over the other.  It's painfully clear that it is not at all obvious which one is more widely used by a any simple google test.  This will probably come out to be another tie of some sorts.  Even if you bother to go through Endroit's newer posted search where it shows Takeshima far more counted in books it really doesn't matter.  It's all about the same when you take all things considered.  I'm sure you won't agree to scrap these searches, though, since it's the only thing even vaguely resembling anything to be take into consideration by policy.  Even though a slim lead like you've suggested would surely be overriden by the other concerns (official sources, national governments, the UN, NPOV concerns, even Korean experts on the field saying it's internationally recognized as Liancourt Rocks, etc.). Ah well. --Cheers, Komdori 18:02, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Hidden Google Books results for "Takeshima"
Here's a Google-Book search for Takeshima Island (234) with OVER 100 hits actually about the islands. Go manually count them, everyone.

This seems to prove "Takeshima" to be ahead of Wikimachine's manual counting for Dokdo (only 63), with respect to Google Books.--Endroit 19:24, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Then explain to me why my search, which includes the term "Takeshima", should fail to include all those terms. (Wikimachine 15:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC))
 * It seems to me that adding "island" to the variations would help. Then it was a good thing that I delayed by 3rd google count. (Wikimachine 15:07, 26 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Whatever the reasons, it just goes to show you how unreliable Google is. Perhaps somebody over there manipulated the "Takeshima" searches.  Now that the hidden search results for "Takeshima" are found, you'll either have to acknowledge it or throw out Google altogether.--Endroit 15:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * "Vincit     qui se vincit." Why, does "Hidden" imply that I'm hiding something? Are you trying to somehow relate my character with the fact that I'm advocating for an unreliable method?
 * Look, Endroit. It is part of Wikipedia naming procedure to check Google Books, etc., despite their flaws. And guess what? We've come very far in correcting those flaws. Most of your "hidden" searches were "Takeshima Island". Then, I'll add all combinations of Takeshima variations and Island (Islets, etc.). You've got no problem with that. (Wikimachine 16:04, 26 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Plus, most of your results are from 1920s & 1950s. Macgruder & I already agreed to search terms from 1980 to 2007. (Wikimachine 16:10, 26 May 2007 (UTC))

Front page news on Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's largest newspaper
The RM made the front page of the Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's largest newspaper (here). Read all about it here. I was wondering what caused all the single-edit editors/recent activities to explode. Kind of neat to see my name show up in the media, sure was a surprise, almost choked on my coffee. --Cheers, Komdori 00:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I am having a feeling that many Koreans are excited (angry) while reading this article, the support for Dokdo is rising even higher. I may be wrong on that. Kingj123 01:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * And Wikimachine thinks there's no POV issue here. Makes me want to laugh. Or maybe cry. I can't decide which. Parsecboy 01:56, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It's sad that the poll was going somewhat smoothly and a consensus was emerging until that article came out. (Side note, my favourite reason for not moving to Liancourt Rocks so far is "WHY THERE WERE WORLD WAR 2?" I guess I missed that part of the naming policy). --Cheers, Komdori 02:11, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I like that one too. Because yelling is how civilized people have a debate :) I find it interesting that Wikimachine was silent when the first 20 or so socks began flooding the article. Surely if there were irregularities in the pro-Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks voting he/she would've been all over it. Maybe he/she just didn't notice those 20 some edits :) Parsecboy 02:19, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Does anyone think it's strange that the user who more or less kicked off the surge of socks has the same handle as the writer at Chosun.com? Yup, both lions3639. And there's no POV problem with this issue, is there Wikimachine? Parsecboy 02:36, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you should stop bad mouthing others simply because you dont agree with them. You have said nothing here besides attacking Wikimachine and his tests or little supporting statements to Komdori or Macgruder. Just be quiet, will you? Wikimachine has yet to answer you about what is POV. If all you do is make fun of others leave Wikipedia and email Mr. Lions3639 and tell him he's stupid.

As for the chosun article, I'm not too surprised (although posting the talk page onto the article is funny). The only thing the article will do is cause anger towards Wikipedia and Japan. Good friend100


 * Conflict of interests and allowing bias to interfere with NPOV editing are serious issues in controversial topics such as this. This is all I'll say in reply, Good friend. Parsecboy 02:48, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Could you please watch the civility Good Friend? Parsecboy shares everyones (should be yours, too) frustration.  Obviously the poll data before the news was posted will have to be scrutinized, and this isn't the best situation.  I think Parsec's point is that we at least got a very vivid description of why the POV issue is obviously large.  Someone posts a link saying "Wikipedia is on the verge of switching to Liancourt Rocks," and a flood of (mostly ineligible) users come and disrupt the poll, duplicating users comments (I don't think John Smith's voted twice, though it says he did), etc. --Cheers, Komdori 02:50, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Me? I was uncivil? No, really! Since Parsecboy shares everyone's frustration, its ok for him to attack Wikimachine, and you are telling me to watch the civililty? Did I read that right? Me, watch civility? You know, I wear glasses. The synchronized approach both of you share just leaves me speechless. Both of you are obvious POV pushers. Parsecboy is doing fine because he is simply making "vivid descriptions". A euphemism for "insulting Wikimachine". And I'm supposed to be frustated? No, just laughing at the ridiculous google tests where you guys are starting to nitpick at one or two links. Good friend100 02:56, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * When did I ever support any Google test? That's one thing you and I agree on, Goodfriend. We both don't think they're any good. I never attacked Wikimachine for his/her tests. You and Wiki continually mischaracterize my comments. So for the nth time, I do not fault Wiki for the test flaws, I fault him/her for the presentation of said tests, as though Takeshima is rife with erroneous returns but Dokdo returns are 100% relevant, which we know to be false. This is what you call POV pushing. You cannot say that I have ever been uncivil in my criticisms. When did I ever insult Wikimachine? If anyone here is throwing ad hominems around, it's you. First, you say that I make no actual arguments and that I just attack Wikimachine. Now I'm a POV pusher? Which one is it? If you want me to blindly accept Wikimachine's arguments, sorry, I cannot do that. As for the synchronized approach, what on Earth are you talking about? Parsecboy 03:22, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Komdori your admonishing Goodfriend for uncivility is ridiculous and I find it to be disingenuous and good evidence for your anti-Korean bias. Parsecboy and and you have been much more "uncivil" in your reaction to this internet article on Chosun.com with kooky conspiracy theories and slanders against other editors and sarcastic comments, unfounded accusation of editors being socks, etc.. What alien logic allows you think that Goodfriend's response warrants warning for uncivility while you and Parsec's comments are "civil"???


 * It's obvious to me that you are a Japanese editor pretending to be Korean I wish you'd be upfront about your interests in being a rabidly pro-Japanese.melonbarmonster 03:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * And you're accusing US of conspiracy theories? I ask you, too, Melonbarmonster. When have I EVER been uncivil with anyone here? As for our "overreactions" with the poll issue, there is at least one verifiable case of sockpuppetry. Parsecboy 03:22, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Guess I never knew sarcasm was verboten on Wikipedia. My apologies, Melonbarmonster. What about puns? Are those kosher? Parsecboy 03:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Parsec, I don't think you were being uncivil. But I do think Goodfriend's comments were even less barbed than you and Komdori's comments in beginning of this section.  I was just responding Komdori's warning Goodfriend for uncivility which I find to be disingenuous and of ill-faith.melonbarmonster 03:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

In my opinion, you should not have brought Wikiamchine's name in this section because his view on the issue and this event is unrelated. There's many point of view here but if it is resolved reasonably there's no POV issue and survey was indeed running smoothly. And even if you are frustrated, talk pages are not the place to express your feelings. As to 'interesting that Wikimachine was silent when the first 20 or so socks began flooding the article', he was concentrating on google tests so I won't be surprised if he did not noticed what's going on in other sections. --Kusunose 03:29, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Generally, Kusonose, when one is making large scale edits, and 30 edits happen while you're doing so, you'll hit an edit conflict or two. Hell, I got 5 of them trying to reply to Goodfriend and Melonbarmonster just now. Parsecboy 03:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I remember correctly, edit conflicts do not happen if edits are made with section editing and to different sections. I can't find relevant documentation though. --Kusunose 06:36, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * As for my "admonishing" Good Friend for incivility, I was mainly referring to the comment, "Just be quiet, will you?" Everyone might be frustrated at the moment, but try to stay on topic and at least make comments or questions hoping for a relevant response. Telling another editor to "be quiet" or to "shut up" is not conducive to getting anything resolved.  Just take a deep breath and relax.


 * I suppose Wikimachine was mentioned explicitly mainly because he was one of the most talkative people here, and seemed to think "Dokdo" had no POV issues associated with it. I, too, am a bit curious if he (or to spread it out, anyone else) will change their mind about that particular aspect of it.  (But please, everyone, relax... and try to stay on topic.) --Cheers, Komdori 03:35, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * "Just be quiet, will you" is uncivil but accusing editors of being socks, mocking other editors and making sarcastic comments about people who are engaged in this debate is fine? I don't see how you can make any genuine distinctions there and it seems to me that your warning had more to do with POV posturing than anything else.  Plese heed your own advice and try to stick to discussing the topic at hand rather than pointing fingers at each other.melonbarmonster 03:52, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Goodfriend, could you stop repeating this: 'You have said nothing here besides attacking Wikimachine and his tests or little supporting statements to Komdori or Macgruder.' The clear sequence of events was that I proposed a test (which actually at first was scoffed at by Wikimachine and irrelevant due to Dokdo having 466,000 hits anyway according to him). When I did that test, keeping it simple by not including every variant of Takeshima and Dokdo/Tokdo except the main ones, he complained that I needed to add these variants. My test gave 10-20% advantage to Takeshima. Essentially me and Komdori agreed it was a draw because 10-20% is close. Wikimachine decided to adapt the test and include many variants. Ironically, you complained to me about that although it was not my idea and not in my original test. He also confirmed my original assertion that there were no false Takeshima results.

His result. The two names within 10% of each other - this time with an advantage to Dokdo. Myself and Komdori and everyone else said the same thing as we said before. It's a tie. This is a good example of NPOV. We never said his test was worse. We effectively said it was fine (but with the same problems as Macgruders original test - not perfect), and because before we said 10-20% was a tie. We repeated this same conclusion.
 * Advantage 10-20% Takeshima: we said Tie.
 * Advantage 10% Dokdo: we said Tie.

Wikimachine insists that the test is essentially perfectly accurate, and you are complaining that the test is not perfectly accurate. In that case, you should agree with the tie. In a close result in a test which is not perfect, it's a tie. If you are insisting that the test is not accurate and it shows a decisive result to Dokdo then you are by definition being POV because you cannot have it both ways. Which is it? Is the test perfectly accurate? Or is it a tie? (Hint: no test is perfectly accurate). Of course, you can do your own test instead if you wish.

An irony is that all along Wikimachine insisted how flawed my test was because it would have many erroneous Takeshima counts, and his other tests were much better. The only change he made was to add all the variations (which you yourself later complained about). He got a close result like I did and now suddenly the test is in his words 'perfect'.

What I do not remember him saying at the time was "Hey, Macgruder. Your test is not a draw, but a decisive result for Takeshima. However, you should add other variations". Instead it was 'totally flawed'.

All along since about 55B.C., myself and Komdori have always said the Google test proves nothing either way. When Takeshima had an slight advantage we said that, when Dokdo had a slight advantage we said that. This is called NPOV. Conclusion: test is a tie. Can we move on to something more productive? Macgruder 06:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Last time RM was voted in 2006, right after the vote was close, there flooded Support votes for Liancourt Rocks from pro Japan editors. Why was that so? Because somebody posted what was going on in this page on a forum in 2ch.net, where they discuss how to demote Korean presence or any allegedly Korea favorable edits in english WP regarding Japan/Korea issues. The forum is still going on, for example, here. They once analysed most of edits here, they divided who's for Korea and whos for Japan and how to demote so called Korea favored edits with their chauvinistic criteria. Of course, those articles in Korean media were instantly interpreted, shown and made fun of in the thread.

Anyway from the beginning I was concerned about that kind of flooding Support coming again from that kind of sources. Unfortunately it looks like it began from Korean side this time and let's wait and see what will come from 2ch.net. For example, I strongly suspect that Opp2's vote for Liancourt Rocks is after the editor read that thread from the forum. Opp2 didn't log in once since 2/19/07. He/she just logged in to vote here on 5/25.

There can be a solution. We can check every editor who casted a vote and exclude voted from newly registered editors, say, after 5/25 when the article was written. Ginnre 06:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not such a problem. Remember it's not a straight vote. It's a consensus. Any vote that is outside Wikipedia policy (or obviously so) is going to be discarded anyway Macgruder 06:34, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. I have not been participating in the google tests, and this discussion is not bringing anything as long as we are arguing over google tests that are not even accurate. And saying that google tests prove nothing but continuesly making more google tests and making sarcastic comments and then adding links from chosun.com (which, ironically, is a POV link here) that do nothing but cause more fighting. What's the point of that link? To tell everybody the Koreans are gonna flood this talk page and make socks? I see it as that, and this thread is doing nothing in our consensus. Good friend100 14:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I still don't get how your own comments are ok while others need admonishing and warnings. Parsecboy's comments are just "vivid descriptions". And I am accusing of you POV pushing? What is it that you are doing then? "Oh, I'm just disagreeing with Wikimachine's tests and not him". Read your previous comments on Wikimachine and see how sarcastic and incivil they are. To Wikimachine you attack his tests while to Macgruder you call his tests fine. I call that POV. And I am not talking about sequence of events. I don't care who started it first because thats not the problem. Good friend100 14:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, Goodfriend, I never commented on Macgruder's tests specifically. I stopped commenting on the google tests other than to say that they're all inherently flawed and should not be used for this type of debate. I never said anyone's google test was fine.
 * Again, when have I ever been incivil with anyone? Please post a diff where I said someone was an idiot or something similarly insulting. Otherwise, I can only assume you're resorting to ad hominems for lack of real points. And since when is sarcasm outlawed on wikipedia?
 * As for the links from Korean news sites, I think it's just a little notable that they're paying attention to this talk page, especially since I believe Komdori raised a similar issue in what is now archived, and Wikimachine dismissed it as irrelevant. Parsecboy 14:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Potential for Mediation?
(Posted on behalf of Armedblowfish) We heard that it might be helpful to resolve this dispute before resolving the Goguryeo mediation, so we just want you all to know that if you would like help resolving this dispute, the Mediation Committee is here should you choose to file a Request for Mediation. Regards, ^ demon [omg plz] <em style="font-size:10px;">03:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC) /Armedblowfish

comments
Although I'm still trying to catch up with recent occurances on this naming convention issue, it seems recent discussions have focused only on google searches. I'd like to hear and participate in more discussion beyond google searches before entering mediation process.melonbarmonster 03:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we can enter mediation if there are still issues after the poll. Removing the users that clearly were canvassed and removing the users with low edit counts, a fairly clear consensus was emerging.  I agree if it ends at that point it's slightly shorter than normal, but we can still draw some conclusions using the % votes as well as the rationale (whether or not people were voting per policy or not). --Cheers, Komdori 04:28, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Melonbarmonster. I totally agree with you. Most of us looked at the Google result and went it's a tie because the result was close. We want to be done with it. One editor however is insisting that the 10% is a decisive result. If more people simply say "it's a tie, or Google is not useful" we can move on. Macgruder 04:57, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I guess I'm that guy. There's not only Google result but also major media tests, Google Book, reliable site tests that all prove Dokdo is used more than Takeshima and Liancourt Rocks.
 * Look, your interpretation is misleading. In some tests, Dokdo & Takeshima have near ties while having definite lead over Liancourt Rocks. In other tests, Dokdo & Liancourt Rocks have near ties while having definite lead over Takeshima. Then.... Dokdo should have lead overall. Right? But a mistake with you is that you try to lead the discussion to focus on the tests that favor Takeshima & Dokdo only... and then call that a tie. That's quite stupid. (Wikimachine 17:33, 25 May 2007 (UTC))

To clarify a possible misunderstanding, the Mediation Committee aims to promote such discussion as you describe in cases we mediate. You can read Mediation if you want to. If you have any further questions about the nature of mediation, feel free to ask! Please do not interpret this message as pressure to have a mediation, we fully respect the voluntary nature of mediation, and are only trying to clarify what mediation is.
 * For the Mediation Committee,  Daniel  and Armed Blowfish (mail), 07:51, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks guys, it's nice to hear a calm voice in this noisy room sometimes. --Cheers, Komdori 16:21, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Statistics 101 [aka why it's a tie]
To help people understand a bit about statistics here is a very basic primer. When you decide to test something called a hypothesis one common way is to get a sample. A sample is a cross-section of the population. For example, leading up to the U.S. elections Gallup would ask 1000 people how they were going to vote. From this sample they would then publish a number like 48% Bush, 46% Kerry.

However, a sample may not represent the actual population. The most common problem is that the sample is not exactly the same as the population itself. In other words, how do you choose who to ask? Phone everyone at home at 3pm and you are going to get people who are at home at 3pm and thus bias the sample! Gallup and other organisations are very carefully to reduce these problems but they are still aware that the result is not perfect. So they always say 'with a margin of error of 5%' or something like that. It doesn't matter if they counted perfectly because the problem is with the sample not the count. (Why not just ask 10000 people? Interestingly it doesn't help much because sampling error depends on the square root of the sample size.)

This means a single sample is NEVER a perfect representation of the population. How does that apply to our Google test?

Well, the latest test we have done has 2 basic issues:
 * We chose the words 'dispute' - this will introduce an unknown bias
 * We are using Google - we cannot be sure Google has trawled every page on the web, and done so equally.

This means our test has a margin of error like all tests. How much is it? Well, that is the question. We don't know because we only did one test. So we know our test is not perfect whoever does it and however we count the results. If our test had produced a decisive result than we could probably agree that it was a good indication of the web on the whole. Unfortunately, our test gave a close result within about 10%. With all the inherent problems of any sample it doesn't tell us much one way or the other. '''Remember Zogby and Gallup after doing thousands of tests and being experts in their field still have a margin of error of 5% on a carefully constructed sample. We will not get close to that kind of accuracy'''.

One decisive result the test did produce was that about 95% of pages had both names. This should tell us something. Macgruder 04:23, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Statistics 102
Before I say anything, let me emphasize this. When I performed manual sample gathering on the Google sites designated by the RandInt function on the Ti-84 plus, well, I had to go through lots of pages and sites that were not in the samples specified... however I still got to look through them. And you know what? I saw that very close to all of them were relevant. Actually, there was only one irrelevant site that I remember and it was somewhere around the second to the last page of Takeshima search. But that was the only one. That's why I am quite confident in deciding that the Google search is flawless & might have a rounding error of 1~2 irrelevant sites.

Second, Google search shows the most relevant in the front, and the least relevant to the back. When even the last pages of Google search for both terms showed relevant results overall (except that one Takeshima hit), I'm quite sure that there's no way that 3,000 sites for Dokdo are irrelevant in the real population. It's impossible statistically & the statistics should show some sign of that. I myself saw 0... let me repeat. 0 irrelevant sites for Dokdo while navigating through Google.

Now, only use for Macgruder in making this statistics 101 argument is if Dokdo indeed has some 3,000 irrelvant sites in the real population & therefore through further testing Takeshima gains the lead (it's currently behind by 2,000). But when it is statistically impossible, and I myself have seen many of the results myself while gathering the SRS, arguing this is a waste of time. (Wikimachine 17:30, 25 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Where are you getting this 3,000? We're not arguing about whether Takeshima is ahead or not.  We're arguing that statistically speaking it's relatively close to being a tie, being about the same.  How close do Google's estimates (based on their own sampling) have to be for you to call it a tie?  Within 10% of each other?  No?  Then what?  --Cheers, Komdori 17:36, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Statistics 2-Proportions Z test was performed to ascertain the accuracy of the Google tests. The Google search itself already affirms which has more results than the other. (Wikimachine 18:28, 25 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Which just confirms you don't know much about stats. The Z-stats confirm the accuracy of the sample not the relationship between sample and population - read 101 again. Parroting words that you don't understand is not helpful. EVERY test has a margin of error.Macgruder 17:02, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure it affirms the basica fact that neither have more statistically speaking. Are you going to say that Dokdo overwhelmingly outnumbers Takeshima based on a 10% dubious margin?  Try adding "Take Islands," you get another 100 more results added. --Cheers, Komdori 18:44, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Leaving Nasty Comments on People's Talk Page About the Dokdo Poll
Really certain individuals who leave nasty comments on people's talk page about alledged sockpuppetry should get their facts straight. Accusing people of sockpuppetry without proof is a faliure to show goodfaith. It's clear someone was trying hard to discredit my vote and it almost worked. It's amazing how willing people are to attack someone who has been a Wikipedia contributor for over two years. Davidpdx 12:52, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * You are not the only one. Good friend100 15:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

this is too malignant. It is evidence that cannot be deceived.--Opp2 17:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Opp, I don't know what the hell your trying to say, but you need to get a grip on yourself. You might want to look at the comments here where it has been acknowledge that accusing me of sockpuppetry was at best jumping to conclusions. Davidpdx 00:29, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Davidpdx has been cofirmed to be a sockpuppet of Lions3639. See Requests for checkuser/Case/Lions3639.--Endroit 06:07, 29 May 2007 (UTC) RFCU case says it's "unlikely" now.--Endroit 05:07, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Organized attack on KPOV (POV used out of convenience)
Long time ago, there was a forum discussion at 2nch.net about Dokdo naming dispute that a Wikipedian part of WP:KOREA detected. It's here. (I copied and pasted that into my user page, but deleted it later) It was a thorough systemic analysis of each Dokdo advocates. I'm quite confident that some of the editors here advocating Liancourt Rocks or Takeshima are from 2nch.net.
 * First of all, the strategy of the Takeshima/Liancourt Rocks advocates is very clearly defined & simultaneous. There was no clear strat for Dokdo advocates until I did a careful analysis on the discussion & outlined them at my Handy Dandy guide. What I observed is that what the Takeshima/Liancourt Rocks advocates had to do to achieve their objective... all of them were doing it.
 * Second, there is this almost unified/universal repetition of attacks on Dokdo advocates (1 by 1) like me... Parecboy, Komdori, Macgruder, Endroit, etc... they all gang up on one Dokdo advocate after another. And then, when they fail or get tired, they start acting all too nicely again. The emphasis should be on the fact that they do it on one editor at a time, and simultaneously. I've never seen any one of them defend a Dokdo advocate.

(Wikimachine 16:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC))

''It was a thorough systemic analysis of each Dokdo advocates. I'm quite confident that some of the editors here advocating Liancourt Rocks or Takeshima are from 2nch.net etc.'''Man, oh man. JFK was shot by the pope. Barking.

I've never seen any one of them defend a Dokdo advocate. Really. So you didn't see that I put a POV tag on Japanese wikipedia when they suggested that the law proved the islets belonged to Japan. Or my removal of Japanese POV from Rusk. Was that part of a Japanese conspiracy? What have you done? These kind of tirades are a waste of everyone's time. Macgruder 19:54, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you suggesting we're all part of a massive conspiracy purpetrated by some Japanese website? I for one am not from there, I can't speak Japanese.  I don't know the other editors you mention in person so I can't speak for them, I met them here on Wikipedia.  I might mention that you really can't expect people to help defend your ideas when they are busy showing why they are wrong.  If you think I and the other editors promoting the English name on English Wikipedia are all part of a massive plan, then what about all the edits all of us have done over the past years to the hundreds or thousands of articles unrelated to this one?  Or was that one more massive step in the "Japanese imperialist plan"?  I personally would suggest you delete this bunk from the page considering that it is in no way trying to reach toward a consensus (nor does it have anything to do with the issue at hand).  But go ahead and leave it if you want, as a testament to paranoia.  --Cheers, Komdori 16:53, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Same goes for you. Certainly, Dokdo advocates are mostly sock puppets & extremely POV & nationalist editors. Think of this post as a defense mechanism to outside intruders. (Wikimachine 16:58, 26 May 2007 (UTC))


 * And yes, I can forgive you for not defending me if the debate was on the argument. But you guys attacked my dependability, my character, and my POV/NPOV status. (Wikimachine 17:00, 26 May 2007 (UTC))
 * I'm wondering if you are so concerned about stains on character. What do you call people who misquote to call people liars, and refuse to acknowledge it. When you step over that line you lose the right to complain about other. There's a word for people who complain about what others do to them while practicing the same themselves. Now what was it? Macgruder 20:23, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I can only say this sounds like the delusional rantings of someone who has realized they cannot win the debate, so they result to ad hominems in a pathetic attempt to discredit their opponents. Dude, I came here as part of the RfC, that you posted, no less. I disagree with you, so I must be some part of a conspiracy, that for some unknown reason, waited for an RfC to be posted before it engaged in debate. The reason I called you a biased POV pusher is because you consistently molded the results of any google test to fit your ideology. Takeshima results are flawed by last names, etc. But Dokdo results are beyond reproach. 10% lead for Dokdo in Macgruder's test is a crushing defeat for Takeshima. And then you call us liars and say we have a "chronology virus" when we call you out on it. I understand the effects of indoctrinated nationalism, but just like the refusal of most Americans to admit that they don't live in a shining city on the top of a hill, it has no place in Wikipedia. Parsecboy 17:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * You reaffirm my point. I never molded searches, Macgruder did. Macgruder was the one who failed to put all variations of Dokdo romanization. He advocated for only Dokdo, not Tokdo etc. He then advocated for using either T or D for Dokdo. What kind of argument is that?
 * Wrong again. I put NO variations of Takeshima in my original test. I put TWO variations: Tokdo and Dokdo in my original test. So I put more Tokto variations in my original test than Takeshima variations. It gave a 10/15% advantage to Takeshima. I called it a draw. You added every possible variation, and still only got 10% the other way. It's still a draw. The T/D thing is a red herring. If you look at my PUBLISHED results I put both in to let people decide for themselves.  It's your delusional paranoia that makes this 'molding the results'. Obviously, it wasn't molding the results because you got essentially the same, and I called both a draw. Strange coincidence isn't it. You spend days complaining how bad that result was and when you did it you got something very close. When you were doing your own Google searches you have Dokdo double or triple. So -10% --> +10% is 'molding the results'. So what do you call your 200% reduced to 10%. That's what the rest of us see. Your huge Dokdo advantage from your own test being reduced to a similar result to mine. Which test would a neutral observer state was more moulded? On top of which, when all the variations were added Goodfriend 100 complained about them. So Goodfriend complains about the variations. You complain without the variations. Which one is it?


 * But you know what the winner was, don't you? Takeshima and Dokdo on both pages with a staggering 95%. Dokdo and its variations look a little sad with their 3%. As do Takeshima. My favorite was your argument in hindsight, that the reason that I called 10% a draw was that you read my mind which told you my conscience really knew it to be the opposite. Ha! I'm still laughing about that one. The logical argument by mind reading. When Wikipedians are reduced to that kind of argument, they are no longer worthy to be part of the discussion to be honest.Macgruder 19:46, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Read archive first, Parsecboy. I did as I was told to by Komdori, Macgruder, and others from the previous dispute. Realize that this dispute is much more developed & matured than you think. And whatever flaws you point out, I fixed them, and nobody can say they were there intentionally - they can only be part of the flaws assumed in Google test procedure. (Wikimachine 17:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Ah, I can't win this debate? I've been winning it all along, and so have the search results supported my assertions. Read the Handy Dandy guide because that's how I see this debate. I'm a policy debater, and I know I can't lose a debate like this. As for polls, well, people should start reading instead of sticking to their personal dogmas. (Wikimachine 17:30, 26 May 2007 (UTC))
 * "I'm a policy debater". Really. Then remove all the results that are not English usage, but simply assert non-English language usage. Takeshima and Dokdo will disappear basically to be replaced by Liancourt Rocks. Macgruder 20:03, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Winning in your mind only, then. Parsecboy 19:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Um, I don't think "winning" is the correct definition to use here. Good friend100 17:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * This is getting a little tiresome. You either misunderstand my argument, or you're deliberately mischaracterizing it. I do not fault you for the tests, or for the faulty results. I fault you for your biased presentation of the results of said tests. I am well aware that the tests were proposed by Komdori and Macgruder. They, however, do not take a 10% lead for Takeshima and call it a victory for Takeshima. They call it a tie. And they do not dispute the fact that Takeshima results are skewed by last names, etc. You however, dispute the Dokdo alliterations cause any kind of false returns, even though I clearly demonstrated them. The reason for not including Tok to, Tok islet, etc., is because they include many more false returns than actually relevant ones. This is what I demonstrated in what is now archived. Perhaps you should be reading the archives yourself. Parsecboy 17:33, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikimachine's Handy Dandy Guide to the dispute
Seems that most of you don't understand how the dispute is running & are too lazy to read all of the archives, etc. I'll explain everything.


 * Four candidates: Dokdo, Takeshima, Liancourt Rocks, and the combinations.
 * Dokdo has number advantage in poll votes & search results but is KPOV... WP naming convention's usage-outweighs-POV (also derived from the NPOV policy) favors Dokdo. Takeshima does not have number advantage in both search & poll votes & is JPOV. Liancourt Rocks is NPOV, & has the most votes, but does not have number advantage.


 * This is how the discussion is shaped.
 * Combinations cannot win no matter what because "A Wikipedia article must have one definitive name" according to WP:NAME.
 * Dokdo can win as long as it outnumbers the other 2 candidates.
 * Takeshima can't win, but will serve as support for Liancourt Rocks.
 * Liancourt Rocks can win in 2 scenarios:
 * Dokdo and Takeshima has a tie. Then, when we can't choose over one candidate or the other, Liancourt Rocks, the NPOV title, should be the title.
 * Liancourt Rocks outnumbers both of the candidates.


 * This are the facts about each candidates.
 * Dokdo outnumbers Takeshima slightly in Google Web, greatly in Google Books, moderately in major news media outlets, and slightly in reliable site tests. As for Liancourt Rocks over Dokdo (in same order), outnumbered greatly in Web; outnumbered slightly (but will be moderately if from 1980s & beyond); outnumbered greatly in news media outlets and outnumbered greatly in reliable site tests.
 * Takeshima outnumbers Liancourt Rocks greatly in Google Web, is outnumbered greatly in Google Books, outnumbers greatly in major news media outlets, and outnumbersgreatly in reliable site tests.
 * Liancourt Rocks outnumbers only Takeshima in Google Books.


 * This is the current strategy of the JPOV disputants (Macgruder et al):
 * make tie b/w Takeshima & Dokdo by emphasizing that dual usage = "quoting foreign text" and therefore reflect false positive--> must not be counted. However, supposing that this assertion must be considered, there is tie only for Google web. Takeshima still fails in major media, Google Book, and reliable site tests.
 * Constantly emphasize tests that Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks are successful in. People seem to forget that there are other tests.
 * Emphasize that Dokdo & Takeshima are foreign names.
 * Some tests make tie b/w Takeshima & Dokdo while others make tie b/w Liancourt Rocks & Dokdo. Try to emphasize that these ties don't mean actual ties b/c you have other ties that support Dokdo and either Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks. There are 2 ties favoring Dokdo while 1 tie each favors Takeshima or Liancourt Rocks --> Dokdo has more favor overall.
 * WP naming convention states that when there are more than 1 local names, the official names should be used. JPOV advocates claim that Japan owns Dokdo as much as S. Korea. Then, both Takeshima & Dokdo are official.


 * This is what Dokdo advocates should be doing (but fail to do so):
 * Constantly emphasize Dokdo dominance in Google Book, Google Web, major media, and major site tests.
 * Constantly emphasize that dual usage does not mean false positive (I explained why somewhere above).
 * WP naming convention calls for the most common name to be used as the title. Remember, "Wikipedia should describe, not prescribe."
 * Dokdo & Takeshima are not foreign names now, and certainly established in the English language. (i.e. Samurai, Sushi)
 * When Japan has only administrative status over Dokdo, and no jurisdictional rights, S. Korean title of the island should be the official title. Act of dispute does not give equal status of ownership (i.e. If Russia were to dispute Alaska, they don't own it at equal level w/ US)

Make comments below, do not touch above (Wikimachine 18:14, 25 May 2007 (UTC))
 * You keep pulling out this tortured Alaska example. If the world didn't know Alaska outside of the dispute (if the dispute was so overwhelmingly well known that it basically dominated all mention of Alaska alone), then yes, Alaska would be a POV term.  These islands are basically never mentioned outside of this dispute.  Incidently, when they are, they are called Liancourt Rocks.  --Cheers, Komdori 18:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Since when did the very first fundamental Wikipedia principle of NPOV not override the mere policy of the naming convention? --Cheers, Komdori 17:48, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not that naming "convention" outweighs NPOV principle, but that the convention is derived from the NPOV principle & tries to maintain NPOV in sustainable manner.
 * "Wikipedians should not seek to determine who is "right" or "wrong"". And therefore, whether editors think something is POV or NPOV, Wikipedia should only reflect on the rest of the world. And that includes Google web & book searches, reliable web sites counts, media counts, etc. (Wikimachine 17:57, 25 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Wikipedia is not a slave to Google counts. Simple Google counts are used in very specific situations.  You yourself admit that both Takeshima and Dokdo are POV terms (if you didn't think so before today, did you happen to see the result of what happened when the media reported this issue?) I might also add to your list that:
 * Yes, that's why we have multiple tests. I'd like to add that Wikipedia is not a place to make a social statement or begin a revolution. (Wikimachine 18:24, 25 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Liancourt Rocks can win if it satisfies NPOV and is a widely accepted English name used for the location, regardless of the number counts of Dokdo or Takeshima, since they are both a) foreign language names and b) POV-based. (although coincidentally are they are about tied) --Cheers, Komdori 17:59, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * In case you haven't been following along, if a name is widely accepted it might be used by encyclopedias like Columbia, Britannica, and Encarta (the three recommended by Wikipedia policy), as well as be recognized by the UN official List of Territories or used as the standardized US name NGIA GNS server. (Incidently, if you don't feel like clicking, all of these are Liancourt Rocks.) --Cheers, Komdori 18:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Something I don't like about you guys is how you constantly emphasize certain things that we already had discussions over. I'll say it again (you agreed). Encyclopedias do not update frequently, especially on disputed matters that might change from day to day. Also, there's Google Book that shows complete favor for Dokdo .... and Liancourt Rocks (But most were from 1920s, and I'm going to prove that using a revised Google Book manual count that). (Wikimachine 18:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Taken individually I might agree with you. The UN official list of territories (which lists it as Liancourt Rocks) was updated in the past couple of years.  If it wasn't widely accepted, you might imagine they'd change their usage.  The US government official name can also be updated frequently and uses this name.  While it's only representative of the US, that is a big part of the English speaking world.  Perhaps for reasons like this, all three of those major encyclopedias wouldn't want to change, since when the name of this place comes up in discussion it is both accepted and neutral. --Cheers, Komdori 18:40, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Agree with Wikimachine in the fact that we are going in a circle. "Liancourt Rocks" is NOT the most common name, if I should say for the 10th time. I don't want to list a number of english newspapers that don't even mention "Liancourt Rocks". The press doesn't use "Liancourt Rocks" simply because its not widely used, similiar to why almost no newspapers mention "Pinnacle" either (for Senkaku).

I also agree that "Dokdo" and "Takeshima" are both english names (I'm sure I mentioned this several times in the old poll). Good friend100 23:35, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * They don't mention it because people don't care about this place, they care about the dispute. In virtually all of those cases both the names are mentioned (Dokdo/Takeshima).  The fact is the dispute is much more well known than the place itself, inherently making both names extremely POV.  --Cheers, Komdori 10:37, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * POV itself is your assertion. WP must only reflect upon the world, it's not a place for you to make a change. There's another opposite POV assertion to that - it doesn't matter Japan disputes a territory - it's still S. Korean. Your interpretation of POV applies only when the 2 parties have equal amount to offer. Japan doesn't. (Wikimachine 16:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC))
 * I've been watching off and on this whole thing happen. I'm sorry Wikimachine, I may be missing something, but are you saying that some established editors might not admit it's a POV term by the Korean standard?  You don't appear to be one (you've stated on multiple occasions that it is, such as when you just said "Dokdo has number advantage in poll votes & search results but is KPOV," in your summary).  I personally believe Japan has more to "offer" than Korea in its claim, and have no doubt it would win if given a chance in an independent court (something Korea insists on avoiding for this very reason).  There, we've proved it, you have one point of view, me another.  I think we can tell by the above invalid votes that it's not just the two of us who have different points of view, but many people in general.  Why do you insist on denying everything?  You even tried to say for awhile that there was no dispute going on when multiple editors disagreed with you.
 * Even if there was a slim few percent or so lead of one name over the other in Google and there was no neutral alternative (thank goodness there is an accepted English alternative we can move to) due weight is not really shown by naming the article totally with one name. Or would you support a move to Takeshima if another few percent happened to be published with that name?  And a move back when the other name "got ahead"?  In that case, you'd probably have to find some other compromise.  I'm glad we won't need to, we can use just the neutral and widely accepted English term Liancourt Rocks. — LactoseTI T 16:39, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Liancourt Rocks is not widely accepted, we already discussed that. Liancourt Rocks is not widely accepted! Liancourt Rocks is not widely acccepted!!!!! How many more times do we have to go through this!!!! Good friend100 16:52, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * LactoseTI, you have to agree that what Komdori says is completely ridiculous. It's so debatable. Then, it's up to me to show how vague & debatable Komdori's assertion is by going into the most detailed yet trivial forensic analysis to prove Komdori's trivial assertion wrong. In other words, if Liancourt Rocks is outnumbered in the media, Komdori says "Still Dokdo & Takeshima are outnumbered by Liancourt Rocks because they are used together, which means that they are referring to foreign text." What kind of argument is that? It's Komdori who's forcing me to go into all these trivial details, not me. (Wikimachine 16:56, 26 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Not accepted as in not being used in encyclopedias like Columbia, Britannica, and Encarta (the three recommended by Wikipedia policy), as well as be recognized by the UN official List of Territories or used as the standardized US name NGIA GNS server. Oh wait, it is... perhaps you missed this from above.  How are you suggesting such widespread international usage doesn't imply widespread acceptance?
 * You're the ones arguing to allow variations in spelling because Dokdo and Takeshima aren't really standardized English names (where Liancourt Rocks is) --Cheers, Komdori 17:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Did I ever reject the encyclopedias? The press does not mention Liancourt Rocks at all. That shows how Liancourt Rocks is NOT widely used. Good friend100 17:14, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Goodfriend, why do you think Liancourt Rocks doesn't come up in Western media? Probably because the issue itself doesn't come up either. The rest of the world probably isn't very enamored with some barely-habited islands that are the subject of a national pride dispute between South Korea and Japan. Parsecboy 17:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Is that supposed to be an excuse? That the dispute is not important? The number of articles on the dispute does not matter. What matters is if those articles mention Liancourt Rocks at all. Good friend100 17:31, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * We've been through all this before. Read the archive.  The British news (BBC for example), American news (Washington Post, for example), do mention the English name.  Media only occasionally mentions this place at all.  Usually it's a short blurb where they mention the dispute, often with the two competing foreign language names (emphasizing the dispute), and whatever the newest development or spat was.  A reader cares about the words Japan and Korea.  So it's not mentioned much, but it's there.  What's more, it's generally used in phrases like "known as Liancort Rocks in English" (London Times I think?)  --Cheers, Komdori 17:46, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

It's simple. Uses in English that assert non-English use DO NOT COUNT AT ALL. This is Wikipedia Naming Policy.

BBC scores 19 Liancourt Rocks, 0 Takeshima, 0 Dokdo. You must remove EVERY result that says 'The islands are known as Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan.' These are not English uses. This is clear and unambiguous in Wikipedia Policy.

|Avoid False Positives
 * "<font color=#900>Hits which are of the form "X (Korean Y)" attest to English usage of X, and Korean usage of Y. The latter matters to the Korean Wikipedia, not to us. "
 * "<font color=#900>Hits which are of the form "X (Japan Y)" attest to English usage of X, and Japan usage of Y. The latter matters to the Japan Wikipedia, not to us. "
 * <font color=#900>Always look at search results, don't just count them. (bolding theirs not mine)

[This is a verbatim quote from Wikipedia Policy - of course replacing the generic Foolander for Japan and Korea.]

This applies to Google books and media. So far this gives us:

Media. Liancourt Rocks: many; Dokdo: 1 or 2; Takeshima: 1 or 2.

Macgruder 19:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Quoted from Wikimachine's initial post in this section:


 * Liancourt Rocks can win in 2 scenarios: 
 * Dokdo and Takeshima has a tie. Then, when we can't choose over one candidate or the other, Liancourt Rocks, the NPOV title, should be the title.  (bold text my emphasis)
 * Liancourt Rocks outnumbers both of the candidates.
 * Wikimachine, are you admitting that Dokdo and Takeshima are both POV titles? Parsecboy 23:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I was going to take a break, but I just read a bit now, and... no. Somewhere above, I stated that I'm using "POV" out of convenience. (Wikimachine 04:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC))

Binding this RM
I know it's far from the votes by now in terms of distance, but hopefully someone will still see--unfortunatgely there seem to be a lot of bad votes for Dokdo where the idea that "who controls" it determines the common name. There is no such policy, and binding this article and another together (eg Senkaku) would essentially make it impossible to move either back alone if they were both erroneously placed per this non-policy (if you tried to move that one, they'd point here, and if you try to move this one, they point there). In fact, that idea of physical control is not the guiding principle. If you strongly believe that other aticles are where they are because of control issues, then I sincerely hope you go there and start a discussion to move them. --Cheers, Komdori 10:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * For a great example, look at an erroneous vote for Dokdo--West Bank is controlled by Israel who calls it Judea and Samaria. It is where it is per common usage and its status as an English name.  --Cheers, Komdori 11:21, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Should I add to my handy dandy guide the JPOV editors (I'm writer JPOV & KPOV out of convenience) try to incriminate KPOV editors & invalidate their votes? I really don't like it. You guys already tried to incriminate me (probably more reliable than most here), Davidpdx, and few others. (Wikimachine 16:33, 26 May 2007 (UTC))
 * I think the JPOV section would be small. There are hardly any people promoting the Japanese name.  Perhaps EPOV for English point of view? — LactoseTI T 16:40, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

The JPOV editors wouldn't be bold enough to propose "Takeshima" for the title of this article unless they are sockpuppets or newly registered or just ultra nationalist. Good friend100 16:50, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Many media already agree that Japan's main goal is not to change the island's name into Takeshima but emphasize only Liancourt Rocks to suggest a disputed status over the island. (Wikimachine 16:51, 26 May 2007 (UTC))


 * Wikimachine, you do have a good point. Certainly Parceboy was quick to jump on my back and accused me of being having sockpuppets and then turn around and defend what he said, claiming he wasn't uncivil with me. The funny thing is he ran to Komdori to tell him that I had a bunch of socks and Komdori defended him both on a talk page AND in a complaint I filed with the admins. To me, that is suspicuous in itself. Davidpdx 10:32, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Reason as to why Dokdo/Takeshima should not be used
Hardly anybody voted for "Dokdo/Takeshima". However, I am sure that this name will be proposed more seriously or ask an admin to do it for them.

I'll list why "Dokdo/Takeshima" should not be used. This can be found at WP:NCGN.


 * Dokdo is used more in articles. Although articles usually mention "Takeshima", "Dokdo" is used throughout the article itself. Articles do this because of the fact that South Korea controls "Dokdo" currently and they want to acknowledge that or they use the name according to what country controls it. I'm sure this has had effect on the previous poll here and the poll for Senkaku Islands.


 * Wikipedia does not recommend using slashed names.


 * There is going to be another heated debate over which name should come first. I am guessing that then some of you will say "This name is great, we'll just let the word Dokdo come first because South Korea controls it". This will contradict your previous arguments saying that who controls the islands does not matter.


 * We cannot rely on google searches alone.

Good friend100 18:03, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Although articles usually mention "Takeshima", "Dokdo" is used throughout the article itself.
 * Can you give us a few links then from a respected source?
 * You have made an elegant argument for Liancourt Rocks. Because you'll find many more Liancourt Rocks uses 'throughout the article itself'. Columbia Encyclopedia is a good example. Renowned Korean legal expert Seokwoo Lee is another. Perhaps you know something he doesn't. Macgruder 19:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

What are the relevant policies here?
Aside from WP:NCGN, which doesn't actually mention a rule about using the name used by the controlling country, what are the relevant naming guidelines and policies that could be applied to this and other articles like this with a naming dispute? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 18:10, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * That's a main one; I suppose naming conventions in general might have some nice basic points as well, as of course would the fundamental Wikipedia principle of NPOV. If for no other reason, I think that NPOV at least deserves some strong consideration when virtually all mentions everywhere of this place are about the dispute, and it's clear that the article is mostly a discussion of the talk points of the two sides in the debate and a discussion of the dispute itself.  Another more minor issue would be to consider whether or not there is a modern, standardised English name for this place (something that has been debated at great length here), whether either of the foreign language names should also be considered as English names, and whether either of the are clearly the widely used variant (these points also debated past death here). --Cheers, Komdori 18:14, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Good question, HongQiGong. Komdori is correct. I know your are thinking about apart from WP:NCGN but it's important to look carefully at what it says. Especially note that English usage is the real deciding factor. This is not just a straight count but looking at how the names are used. 'X is the name in Fooland' is not an English usage for example, but a Fooland usage. Replace Fooland at will :-)
 * Controlling country is actually irrelevant. On the other hand, official name is only relevant when there is little concensus amongst English speakers, and there are 2 official names by the [single] local authority. This usually only applies in situations such as bilingual communities like Switzerland.
 * As you say: [Wikipedia] doesn't actually mention a rule about using the name used by the controlling country . There's a good reason. It's not important!

Macgruder 20:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I haven't read the entire discussion here, so excuse me if I'm repeating things that have already been said, but a couple of points:
 * The naming issues that are discussed here are almost the exact same issues that would be relevant to Senkaku Islands. So please keep in mind that the arguments presented here could be used in a discussion about the naming at that other article.
 * Google searches to test for common usage is highly likely to be inaccurate because there are inherently many biased sources out there. The same can be said of Google Book searches as well.  Just because it's published, does not mean it's neutral.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 04:40, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes I agree that these arguments could apply to other articles, such as Senkaku Islands. They should apply to all Wikipedia articles, in fact. I haven't gone through all the details there myself, but if someone has a strong belief that the name Senkaku does not represent common usage in English, by all means they should start this process over there, too.  Just like here, if anyone tries to argue that it should be at one name or another because of physical control, their vote or opinion should be summarily tossed out.  --Cheers, Komdori 12:39, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Don't be a hypocrite. You opposed that the arguments here could apply to Senkaku Islands. Good friend100 14:37, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Again, watch the civility Good Friend. You again must have misunderstood or misread.  The only thing I said was that as far as I knew that decision should be based on Wikipedia policies as well.  As I don't have the same expertise on the subject, I suggested you start a discussion there with editors that might know more about it than I. --Cheers, Komdori 17:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

A number of editors that voted for Senkaku Islands pointed out how it should be consistent with what is happening here. That is why they voted for Senkaku Islands instead of Pinnacle. Good friend100 14:39, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * If you don't think the decision is based on policy there, I yet again encourage you to go there and start a discussion to build a consensus. It's not a good idea to simply throw up our hands and say, "Well, there are multiple articles that are incorrect, so let's not fix any of them." --Cheers, Komdori 17:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Gando is a bigger problem than Senkaku Islands.--Opp2 23:03, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

At the moment I have absolutely no desire to initiate another naming discussion over at Senkaku Islands. That's entirely too time-consuming. But if Dokdo gets moved to the Liancourt name, I might consider starting a new discussion over there. Really, I do think both sides of the argument presents some pretty convincing points. The reason I mentioned Senkaku as a similar issue is because both of these articles have a "neutral" name that is not advanced by either governments in the island dispute. However, articles like Gando and Sea of Japan differ in that they do not have "neutral" names that I'm aware of. Also, the Gando issue differs even more in that both North and South Koreas recognise PRC sovereignty over the island. But I'm not aware there's a naming dispute, but I'll ask about it at the Gando article. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 04:28, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * You should recall the reason changed to dokdo. It was a reason to use the name of the country that occupied it. Validity to change the name to Dokdo has already been lost. The example of Gando is very malignant. Only fanatical South Korean nationalists are insisting the territorial title of Gando. Even South Korea government has not formally insisted the territorial title of Gando. Peaceful effective control by China has been approved now. There is no reason to use a Korean name. By the way, the list of the United Nations and CIA fhe World Factbook use the name of Senkaku. --Opp2 10:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Senkaku and Liancourt Rocks are being recognized by official and neutral organizations as a general English name. Why will a Chinese territory that doesn't become even a dispute be a South Korea name?--Opp2 12:46, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The question to ask is if sources like Columbia Encyclopedia, Encarta, or the CIA can really be considered neutral sources when it comes to their naming. I'm not so sure that they're established sources automatically makes them neutral sources.  For example, even BBC News, a source that's widely considered to be very neutral, continues to use the name "Burma" for Myanmmar, even though the name "Myanmar" is officially recognised by the Myanmar/Burma government.  I'm assuming this discrepancy comes from the BBC's love of Aung San Suu Kyi - the woman rightly deserves respect, but it's not very neutral of BBC to keep using "Burma".  On the other hand, names like Liancourt Rocks and Pinnacle Islands are not advanced by either governments in the dispute.  For that very fact, even if an argument is made that such names are still taking a "side", we know that they are the least bias of the names available.  However, I admit that common usage is an issue to consider as well.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 17:09, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Why do you exclude the United Nations? Isn't the United Nations a neutrality for you?--Opp2 22:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, just simply because I missed the UN listing in the chart. My reasoning would apply to the UN as well.  Can we truly say that the UN is neutral on the naming?  It looks like the UN considers the islands to be Japanese territory, while it considers Dokdo to be "Sovereignity Unsettled".  How do we know the "Senkaku" name is not used just because the UN recognises Japanese sovereignty over the islands?  That would violate the same POV issue that's being discussed here, making the UN a bias source.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 22:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Isn't it neutrality because it is inconvenient in your insistence? Then, please present the opinion of the organization that is neutrality for you. --Opp2 04:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't want to get too drawn into this already-long dispute, but basically my opinion is that the most neutral names are Liancourt and Pinnacle, because neither of these names are advanced by the governments in the island disputes. If we are to consider NPOV as the most important issue, then those names are the most appropriate.  However, like I said before, common usage is also a good point that should be considered, even if that is difficult to establish.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 05:18, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

To those for Liancourt Rocks
To all editors for Liancourt Rocks, you keep talking about respected sources, but according to your edits they are just some english or american encyclopedias who use Liancourt Rocks for those islets. When did they set the term Liancourt Rocks for those islets and in terms of what did they do so? Do they reflect contemporary trends at all? One thing to make clear is, english WP is not for the American, the English, or the Australian only. It should reflect english spoken or written world, which is practically everywhere in the world. Then what is the most common and comtemporary term for those islets in English? You might have known it already, but generally english names for islands and some regions in Asia in general were given when the English (or European) expanded their imperial territories in the 18, 19th centuries.

Do you think the term is still widely used in english spoken or written world? It depends on what is english spoken or written world. Most of those english names from the era are not used anymore now that they receded and began to respect what those objects were locally called. Liancourt Rocks is just one of many those legacy terms. One more thing to mention is, nobody in America, UK, or Australia does care about or have right to how the islets should be called. As a result and as a matter of fact, the term Liancourts Rocks is being used less and less, only to find in those 'respected' english encyclopedia where they just continued to use what they used from those old days. If you accept that english WP is not for only UK, America, or Australia, you need to consider that english journals or materials in Asia, especially in Japan and Korea generally call those islets Dokdo or Takeshima only as they reflect more compemporary names for those islets. They don't bother to include Liancourt Rocks as they don't need to explain the legacy of imperialistic history ragarding those islets. If they do include Liancourt Rocks, it is just a redundancy or at best a courtesy for some western people who might happen to have interst for those islets for whatever reason. For western media, normally they don't have any reason to deal with those islets unless they get some news from english written journals from Asia. As a result, you end up with Dokdo or Takeshima in english written materials more and more as those are main sources for english name for those islets in the modern world, not in those old fashioned encyclopedia.

So your apparently simple and obvious insistence for Liancourt Rocks is not obvious at all and the name cannot be used for the title. By the way, it is kind of insult for those local people still to have Liancourt Rocks as the english name for those islets considering all those histories of the names and considering most of other objects in the similar situation don't have those english names from those old days. If you still think that Liancourt Rocks is the most common and comtemporary english term for those islets, it is not a fact, but due to your ignorance. Those days are gone long time ago. Ginnre 05:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Not to be repetitive, but it's not just American or British encyclopedias, but also things like the UN official list of territories (updated in the last few years) as well as many contemporary English language articles throughout the English speaking world. I agree we perhaps shouldn't base a decision solely on US and UK usage, but surely you aren't suggesting that the US and UK don't represent a large portion of the English speaking world? --Cheers, Komdori 12:44, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * What he means is that there are many english speakers not just in the US or UK. Of course the majority of english speakers would probably be in USA, UK or Australia. Good friend100 14:34, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * UN is just one thing.Kingj123 22:28, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Things about Dokdo:

 * There is a difference between loyalty and POV.


 * there is a difference between truth and POV.

Kingj123 06:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Japanese users have nothing to say beyond international laws, but is that everything about Dokdo? Is it ethical?


 * Is that a moral perspective to justify the honest ownership of Dokdo?
 * Is UN's way the only right way, to judge the the ownership and sovereignity of Dokdo islets?
 * Is it right to just focus on international law for Dokdo Article?
 * And neutrally speaking, which country would gain free benifit?
 * Any proof of UN's immediate response to Korean sovereignity, any effort from UN to stop SK patrols?
 * Do you think UN is internatiolan law? The United Nations is not a lawmaking organ of International Law. A one-sided occupation in which another country protests can't become grounds. You should study critical date and territorial title of real International Law.--Opp2 02:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Do you think UN is not connected to international law at all at any means? Think again.

Let me emphasize this again, Opp2, since you do not understand what I am saying.

Japan has nothing to say beyond international laws.

 True or False?

You still didn't answer my questions, but commenting on them.


 * Is that a moral perspective to justify the honest ownership of Dokdo?
 * Is UN's way the only right way, to judge the the ownership and sovereignity of Dokdo islets?
 * Is it right to just focus on international law for Dokdo Article?
 * And neutrally speaking, which country would gain free benifit?
 * Any proof of UN's immediate response to Korean sovereignity, any effort from UN to stop SK patrols?

Answer these questions clearly. Kingj123 22:10, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It is meaningless if you emphasizes. Because these questions are unrelated to real International Law and show that you don't know international law at all.--Opp2 22:24, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Summary of survey, May 2007
The result of the discussion was No consensus, article to remain Dokdo for now.

There are two almost exclusive groups who support Dokdo and Liancourt Rocks. There are also Dokdo/Takeshima and Takeshima/Dokdo supporters from neutral point of view and the concurrent appearance as a subgroup of Liancourt Rocks supporters.

Major opinions from Keep the article at Dokdo supporters:
 * Actual possession
 * Most common in English
 * Liancourt Rocks is outdated

Major opinions from Move the article back to Liancourt Rocks supporters:
 * Neutral name for disputed islets
 * Encyclopedic, official
 * Modern and popular English name

Jjok 03:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * "Dokdo" doesn't seem to violate the policy as the rocks are, as stated, under actual possession of the Republic of Korea (regardless of this being disputed by Japan).--Húsönd 16:27, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

We are not asking your pov there. If you wanted to add your opinion, you should have put it in Keep the article at Dokdo section. Jjok 03:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * By "exclusive" do you mean "mutually exclusive?" There's a nonzero overlap between the two groups (I'm one, maybe the only one).  --Reuben 03:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know, but from past experiences, I thought Jjok was ~ POV. Or was it somebody else?
 * I'll take a break from this discussion, so sorry I'm not going to finish the Google Book search soon. (Wikimachine 04:38, 29 May 2007 (UTC))

Sorry Reuben, I was not aware. Do you think some consensus can be made between two groups? No, I am jjoking. Wikimachine, I admit that I am a believer that Usando is not Dokdo and also not eager to push KPOV, such as Japan extinguished Japanese Sea lions while Japan is responsible for that. Jjok 05:15, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

supports for liancourt rocks because it is a popular english name and stuff is not reasonable.
This is English Wikepedia. Very true.

But half the world s using this thing.

I don't know who created the name, but Dokdo was approved by US as a Korean Territory nowadays.

Why don't they change that damn name???

Japan can say they made progress but Koreans say oh no!

We'd not like other countries, especially US, to engage in our fairs and rename stuff we own. We're not part of US!!!

I'm not a great writer. I can't express my opinions clearly.

But I really want to say Liancourt Rocks decision is a bad one. Nobody can decide other countries' matters! "Peace"? "International whatever"? That's all hogwash!!!

Well, President Bush may be aware of what Koreans are doing now... And if he does not change this name, I don't think he can ever visit Korea now.

Remember everyone, Korea, Japan, Dokdo, they're not part of US, not part of your collections you can do whatever you want with.

I'm expecting many negative responses,, don't put on Wikepedia. I don't pay visits often. Rather email me and swear at me. angel2067@naver.com and I'll email everyone what Koreans are thinking at all!

Sorry, didn't mean to be impolite, but I felt desperately that i must say something.