Talk:Sabina Shoal

Editing
This article appears to be now start class. The request at Talk:Kalayaan, Palawan seems appropriate as there has been recent reverted POV. ChaseKiwi (talk) 22:51, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

West Philippine Sea
WP:NPOV should be referred to. There has been discussion over many years in Wikipedia (see for example recently Talk:Kalayaan, Palawan) and current consensus is that South China Sea is the usual name under WP:COMMONNAME. Much of discussion in various articles relevant to the dispute is in archive so not readily apparent to casual site visitors, but may be found in for example Talk:South China Sea Arbitration. The term West Philippine Sea is rarely used in English outside the Philippines and in any case only within the Philippines officially applies to a limited area of the South China Sea. As a separate article exists on Wikipedia for West Philippine Sea I have always myself reverted any unjustified substitution but think the use of the term in articles where the area concerned is administered currently by the Philippines and the context makes clear the limited area of South China Sea the term applies to is reasonable. Any direct substitution by an editor of the geographical term South China Sea in an article by another name or emphasis of another name over South China Sea does not seem justified by my interpretation of NPOV. ChaseKiwi (talk) 07:44, 19 July 2024 (UTC)