Talk:Wang Ming-Dao

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Wang Mingdao's writing was well respected among Chinese Christians. I found the article to be fairly accurate although much could be added to it.

Justification for Rating
I feel that this article of of mid importance because Wang Ming-Dao is a very important person int he house church movement. He is something of a Rosa Parks. He stood out and in the areas that he believed the government was limiting the churches he said no to the government. Furthermore we was among the first to say we do not HAVE to have western Christan aide. He appreciated them but he also said that the church in china was not the little brother of the western church but on equal par. So I think his important role in the church elevates him above trivial.

Kyle.Mullaney 16:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Duplicate Entry & Name Spelling
This entry is a duplicate of one under 'Wong Ming-Dao'. 'Wang' is the older Anglicised spelling of this Chinese name - the sound is nearer to Wong as an English-speaker would read it. A search under Google reveals more examples of Wong Ming-Dao and some instances of 'Wang Ming-Tao'.

These two articles need to be amalgamated and the name-spelling should be Wong Ming-Dao, as this is now accepted as the best rendering for an English speaker. Searches for the other possible spellings need to be redirected to this one entry.

--Renozu 17:53, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Well I agree this articles should be merged but I do not think they should be merged under the name wong.

In order to standardize the china related articles we need to use a standard romanization format. The reason being two people who have different English accents would pronounce wang and wong differently. An easy example of this would be the difference in American English and British English. For me, an American learning Chinese, wang would be more appropriate. Thus showing that we depend not on would sounds more correct as sounds are interpreted differently and thus relative, but based on the standard accepted systems used to romanize Chinese

王 as in his name means emperor or king and the pinyin, the current accepted romanization system, is in fact wang. The use of wong would thus be incorrect. Therefore I hold the current romanization used in the main article, Wang Ming-Dao, is the correct one and should be retained.

--Kyle.Mullaney 06:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I just read the naming standards for the wikichina project and it states that the hanyu pinyin should be followed so the merge to the spelling of 'wong' would infringe on those standards so it is a non-issue.

I will take the steps needed to merge any content from the article 'wong ming-dao' and set up the redirect from that article to this current article.

Kyle.Mullaney 16:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Disputed Content
The current version states, "Although Wang Ming-Dao was not a major contributor to the growth and development of the Chinese Churches (since his church was not large), nevertheless he was an outspoken preacher and advocate for the Chinese society to make reforms."

I beg to differer. It was his preaching that grew the church. You would be hard pressed to find an elderly Christian in China who, having been a believer for many years, would not know who Wang Ming-Dao is.

Impact and import is not based on numbers in his own local church but the numbers of people who have been touched encouraged and born-again under his preaching.

I will help update this article. I have done my own research in the past and when I have time, in the near future, I will turn my eye to this article.

Kyle.Mullaney 06:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Notice
As a member of the china wiki project I will be adopting this article, it needs serious work

Kyle.Mullaney 06:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

=NPOV= I do not get the feel that there is an infringement of the NPOV. No statement as to the reason for the tagging of this article there has been no discussion of it. The article definitely needs to be cleaned up and I am will to do that. I will remove the tag from the article.

Kyle.Mullaney 16:19, 7 June 2007 (UTC)