Talk:Taiwanese indigenous peoples/Archive 2015

Two questions
1) What is up with the reference formatting? 2) Are we in UK English or US English?

Seems a bit scrappy for a Featured article! --John (talk) 20:25, 27 June 2014 (UTC)


 * 1) Formatting, as everyone who is well-versed in Wikipedia style issues knows, is not limited to those damned ref cite tags. Formatting must be consistent; that's the only real rule. The style used is LSA.
 * 2) It should be in US English. It was originally written ( or massively extended and revised) in that style,  since maowang and I are both US speakers etc. • Serviceable†Villain 03:59, 8 July 2014 (UTC)


 * The reference formatting is inconsistent. Examples:


 * Lin, Shu-hui; Lin, Hsiao-yun; Hsieh, Wen-hua (2011-03-05). "Statistics show Aboriginal population increased by 33 percent in past 10 years". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
 * "Gov't officially recognizes two more aboriginal tribes". The China Post. CNA. June 27, 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
 * Covell, Ralph R. (1998). Pentecost of the Hills in Taiwan: The Christian Faith Among the Original Inhabitants (illustrated ed.). Hope Publishing House. pp. 96–97. ISBN 0932727905. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
 * Cheng, Zoe (2007, Apr 1). The Secret's Out. Taiwan Review 57.4. Accessed April 22, 2007.
 * Ching, Leo T.S. (2001). Becoming "Japanese" Colonial Taiwan and The Politics of Identity Formation. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22551-1.
 * Low, Y.F. (2005, Nov 09). DPP encourages aborigines to adopt traditional names. Central News Agency — Taiwan.
 * Gao, Pat (2007, April 4). The Revitalized Vote. Taiwan review. Accessed August 22, 2010.
 * Ho Hi Yan Hits the Airwaves. (2005,May 5). Taipei City Government. Accessed March 17, 2007.
 * Bird, Michael I, Hope, Geoffrey & Taylor, David (2004). Populating PEP II: the dispersal of humans and agriculture through Austral-Asia and Oceania. Quaternary International 118–19:145–63. Accessed March 31, 2007.
 * Premier apologizes to Tao tribe. (2002, May 24). Taipei Times. Pg. 3. Accessed March 17, 2007.
 * Phillips, Steven (2003). Between Assimilation and Independence: The Taiwanese Encounter Nationalist China, 1945–1950. Stanford California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804744577.
 * Shepherd, John Robert (1995). Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th Century Siraya. Arlington VA: The American Anthropological Association.
 * Duara, Presenjit (1995). Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press.
 * Lamley, Harry J (1981). "Subethnic Rivalry in the Ch'ing Period" in Emily Martin Ahern and Hill Gates (Eds.) The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society (pp. 283–88). CA: Stanford University Press.
 * Cohen, Marc J. (1988). Taiwan At The Crossroads: Human Rights, Political Development and Social Change on the Beautiful Island. Washington D.C.: Asia Resource Center.
 * Chen, Henry C. L. & Hay, Peter (2004). "Dissenting Island Voices: Environmental Campaigns in Tasmania and Taiwan" in Changing Islands – Changing Worlds: Proceedings of the Islands of the world VIII International Conference (pp. 1110–31), 1–7 November 2004, Kinmen Island (Quemoy), Taiwan.


 * Just in those few citations listed, the following inconsistencies exist:
 * Date formats: YYYY-MM-DD; DD MMMMMM YYYY; MMMMMM DD, YYYY; YYYY, MMM DD (short month name, with and without zero-padding of single digits); YYYY,MMM DD (no space between year and month); YYYY, MMMMMM DD (full month name)
 * Name formats: full first names; first and middle initials separated by periods and a space; first and middle initials separated by periods and no space; first name and initials with a period and no space; full names separated with commas and an ampersand; full names separated with semicolons; sometimes there is a period after a middle initial, sometimes not
 * Pages: listed after issue number and a colon; listed using "Pg."; listed in parentheses with "pp."
 * Access dates: listed after "Retrieved"; listed after "Accessed"
 * Location: Names of states sometimes listed in full, sometimes abbreviated in different ways ("California", "VA", "Il")


 * If this is all LSA style, LSA style must not be very prescriptive. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:33, 18 March 2015 (UTC)