User talk:Corinthians

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Chinese Taipei
I've noticed that you have been making a lot of edits to articles about international sports competitions, changing the name Chinese Taipei with its associated flag to Republic of China with its flag. I don't know if you are aware, but in international sports events, notably the Olympics, the name and flag of the ROC are not used. The team is referred to as Chinese Taipei. There are a lot of politics behind the IOC's decision to go that way, and not everyone agrees with it, but that is the way it is right now. As our articles here need to be factual and verifiable, we can't act as though that decision never happened. If you have strong feelings that the way we present the ROC/Chinese Taipei here on Wikipedia should be changed, I suggest you raise them in a discussion on the talk page for the Chinese Taipei article. Simply changing all the references you can find from Chinese Taipei to ROC won't get you anywhere, as other editors will change them back. Eron 13:40, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to suggest again that you stop editing articles on international sports competitions to change the name Chinese Taipei to Republic of China. That is not the name used for that team at those events or by the groups organizing them. For example, you made several edits to articles about the 2006 World Baseball Classic to change TPE to ROC. However, the official web site of the 2006 WBC shows the name Chinese Taipei, and its associated flag. That is the verifiable name and flag used at that event by that team; a change to the name Taiwan and the ROC flag is not factual or verifiable. If you think there is justification for the changes, I recommend that you discuss that on the article talk pages, or here, before making more changes. Simply making the changes without obtaining consensus in support of them will probably just lead to more reversions. Thank you. Eron 04:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)