Talk:List of islands of China

Requested move

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

The result of the move request was: Moved to List of islands of China per WP:COMMONNAME. Nathan Johnson (talk) 18:35, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

List of islands of the People's Republic of China → List of islands of China – 1) China is WP:COMMONNAME and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per Talk:List of airports in China. 2) See List of volcanoes in China, List of earthquakes in China, List of national parks of China, Geography of China, List of regions of China, etc. They just use China, not People's Republic of China. 3) Balance with List of islands of Taiwan, not List of islands of the Republic of China. Sawol (talk) 08:18, 13 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Support per wp:commonname.  China is being used for the PRC and Taiwan for the ROC in much of Wikipedia these days and I don't see the need to make an exception here.--Wikimedes (talk) 10:20, 13 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Oppose: If you sue for using the shorthand ("China"), you are suing for, as a government of Chinese (Greater China) government, inclusion of Republic of *CHINA*-controlled; otherwise, omitting them explicitly endorses the view that Taiwan is not part of China, which is in violation of NPOV. I should remind all of the wise words of Nil Einne. It is high time to place a moratorium on all of the Correct name → Shorthand but imprecise names moves to stop wasting time on these unproductive, WP:POINTy discussions. GotR Talk 16:19, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually I'm not arguing for the inclusion of ROC-controlled islands. Though you're perfectly entitled to disagree, please don't claim that I am advocating something which I am not. I (and much of the world) refer to the People's Republic of China as "China" and the Republic of China as "Taiwan" and am not bothered or confused by the fact that both countries contain the word "China" in their formal names.  (Actually, it's much easier to distinguish "China" from "Taiwan" than it is to distinguish "People's Republic of China" from "Republic of China", and the wording is much more efficient (i.e. shorter) as well.)--Wikimedes (talk) 21:11, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * "You" was used in a generic sense. If there is a stipulation that islands controlled by Taipei be included under the header "Republic of China" after the move, then I can refactor my opposition. Otherwise, it is simply part of a conspiracy-like cabal to push the "Taiwan is not and never will be part of China" POV. GotR Talk 22:29, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I understand. The islands controlled by Taipei are already  in this list (at least the major ones) and have been for about 1.5 years.  Removing them doesn't appear to be part of this move proposal.  (I expect that the heading "Islands controlled by the Republic of China (aka Taiwan)" may change to "Islands controlled by Taiwan (aka the Republic of China)", and it might be nice to have a parallel "Claims but does not control" section in the List of islands of Taiwan article, but these are separate issues from the move proposal at hand.)--Wikimedes (talk) 07:05, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support per nom, especially consistency with other articles and the complementary recent Taiwan island move. --BDD (talk) 04:31, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support per consistency with China. The current name could confuse some readers since there is no article named "People's Republic of China" on wikipedia. mge o  talk 09:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support the consensus in the similar articles says very clearly: the term "China" indicates PRC excludes the disputed area, "Taiwan" indicates ROC excludes the disputed area.Fizikanauk (talk) 11:47, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * See Sockpuppet investigations/Fizikanauk/Archive. Not that his abominable English makes his comments carry as much weight as others' comments. GotR Talk 17:30, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * As far as I can see from the linked SPI, Fizikanauk was blocked for a week as a master sock and is no longer under any sanctions. Really GotR, is all this character assassination necessary?--Wikimedes (talk) 21:01, 14 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Support per WP:COMMONNAME. If previous comments have been deleted again I should point out that User:Guerrilla of the Renmin has been deleting comments from this discussion that he doesn't agree with or doesn't like. Zarcadia (talk) 17:19, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't "like" or agree with any of the support votes, so that is patently false. GotR Talk 17:21, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Editors will be able to see from the history. It seems you want to get into an edit war that I have no interest of entering, so I will leave the comments you removed. Zarcadia (talk) 17:24, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Well I shall not enter it especially after you are not entering it. Remember "Big minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people", the last of which you are more inclined on doing. GotR Talk 17:29, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Well if I was to be as pedantic as you have been I would remove your last comment as a 'personal attack' (the WP:NPA you have quoted liberally without actually understanding). However, unlike you, I don't remove talk page posts that I don't like. Zarcadia (talk) 17:33, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Under WP:NPA#WHATIS: "Accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence. Serious accusations require serious evidence. Evidence often takes the form of diffs and links presented on wiki", especially sentence #1. And you are still claiming to the contrary? GotR Talk 17:38, 14 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Support, match the use of the country article which is at the WP:COMMONNAME China. It is vey messy to use different names on different articles when the issues ae the same each time. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:37, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, WP:COMMONNAME, China is widely used and easier to understand.Cluckwik (talk) 06:34, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, WP:COMMONNAME, China represents PRC as a whole. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcnut1996 (talk • contribs) 00:34, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

PRC vs. China in the first line
The naming discussion has just closed and already there's an edit war on how to phrase the first line. I think it should be called the People's Republic of China in the first line for clarity. I don't think mentioning China separately is necessary, as it is already in "People's Republic of China" and the article's title, but I'm not opposed to it either. How about "This is a list of islands governed or claimed by the People's Republic of China. For islands governed or claimed by the Republic of China, see List of islands of Taiwan." --Wikimedes (talk) 21:26, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I am fine either way, but using "China", unadorned and alone, begs for the inclusion of ROC-controlled islands; otherwise it is an unequivocal attempt to push the nefarious 'Taiwan is not part of China' POV. As it is, however, I agree that we should use the full name. GotR Talk 22:16, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Most of your reply appears to be a rant accusing someone of POV pushing, so it's unclear to me exactly what you are agreeing to and why. Could you rephrase and leave out the button-pushing histrionics?--Wikimedes (talk) 00:07, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * More tersely: as it is, we must use the full name; before abbreviating to "China", we must include ROC-controlled islands. I don't see what is murky about my first post. And "Most of"? Out of three, only one is a generic accusation, not directed at a specific editor, but at a group of editors who exhibit such behaviour. GotR Talk 00:41, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

"This is a list of islands under the administration of the People's Republic of China" is entirely unambiguous and neutral. "This is a list of islands of the China" and "This is a list of islands of the People's Republic of China" as both "China" and "People's Republic of China" can be read to encompass Taiwan and its associated islands and excluding them from the list would not be entirely NPOV.--Jiang (talk) 03:49, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

"Islands of China" is unambiguous and good enough for the article title so good enough for the intro. We need to stop piling up confusion and using unfamiliar across as many articles as possible just to bend all China/Taiwan matters to cross-strait relations with terms that are not the standard points of reference in the real world. That's why the main articles were moved to their current locations and many of the points seem to be seeking to refight the issue wherever possible at the expense of encyclopedic consistency. Timrollpickering (talk) 10:54, 24 June 2013 (UTC)


 * WP:UCN pertains to article titles, not article text. In article text we can afford to be more descriptive than in article titles. "This is a list of islands of China" is ambiguous because it is not clear whether the "China" here includes Taiwan - that is a matter of political dispute and we would be violating NPOV by excluding Taiwan et al from this list and implying that Taiwan is not part of "China". By describing the list as islands administered by the PRC, we are able to conveniently skirt the issue.--Jiang (talk) 12:15, 24 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Actually, the article includes a section on islands claimed but not administered by the PRC, so the first line should mention "claimed" as well. Although I'm not part of the "any single sentence that can be remotely construed to imply that Taiwan is not a part of the PRC is pushing a nefarious POV and must be extirpated from Wikipedia" crowd, it's generally good to mention official names once in an article and it is worth mentioning which China we are talking about for the few readers who might wonder.--Wikimedes (talk) 14:14, 24 June 2013 (UTC)