Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Macau/Archive 1

Move of List of Macau-related topics
Hello. The article List of Macau-related topics was recently nominated for deletion here. The closing decision was to delete some lists and projectify those with corresponding WikiProjects. For that reason, I am moving the article to a subpage of this project: WikiProject Macau/List of Macau-related topics. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

About the template
For the WikiProject Macau template, can we also have the option for "importance" of the tagged articles? Josuechan (talk) 18:00, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Welcome to WikiProject Macau. Fyi, I've drop a note at the creator's talkpage for assistance on this issue. -- Aldwinteo (talk) 07:02, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * That's great. Thanks a lot. Josuechan (talk) 04:59, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Just to inform that the Template:WikiProject_Macau has been speedily enabled by Warlordjohncarter. Thanks Warlordjohncarter! -- Aldwinteo (talk) 05:39, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

School of the Nations (Bahá'í - Macau)
Just wondered if someone would want this article tagged with your project. I don't know how to do it (I'm going sideways through a number of schools and thought you'd be interested in this connection too.)--Smkolins (talk) 12:11, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Category:Chinese chess players
This category name is highly confusing, since Chinese chess is the common English name for a different board game, and one would naturally expect it to be filled with players of Chinese chess. Any suggestions on renaming it? 70.51.9.174 (talk) 07:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Macau and other parts of southern China in the Dutch Empire
Hello everyone! There is a discussion at Talk:Dutch Empire, because user Red4tribe has made a map of the Dutch Empire (Image:Dutch Empire 4.png) that includes Macau and other parts of southern China. Would you like to comment? Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 15:21, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

New Map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dutch_Empire_new.PNG http://www.colonialvoyage.com/ square=tradingpost (Red4tribe (talk) 16:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC))
 * Still OR, POV and unsourced (yours is not not a credible source). Please discuss stuff at Talk:Dutch Empire. This was just a request for comment, not a discussion. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 16:43, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

China and PRC articles request to be renamed
User:SmuckyTheCat is requesting that China be renamed, and replaced by the People's Republic of China article at "China". 70.55.88.176 (talk) 07:52, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 04:51, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Nanyue -> Nam Viet
Nanyue has been requested to be renamed Nam Viet 70.51.10.4 (talk) 06:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Edit Warring at Nanyue
Urgent attention is needed at Nanyue to prevent continual edit warring. User Webster121 suspected of vandalising article to advance pro-Vietnam views and utilising sockpuppetry to facilitate his serial policy violations. 122.109.98.117 (talk) 03:08, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics
This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist 10:12, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Macau
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Cantonese wikiproject?
Is there a WP:Canton or Cantonese WikiProject? (dealing with the people, province, diaspora, etc) 09:32, 2 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.51.8.75 (talk)

requested moves: Cantonese and Standard Cantonese
Cantonese and Standard Cantonese are both up for renaming at WP:RM 70.55.200.131 (talk) 16:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Yue Chinese
Yue Chinese is up for renaming at WP:RM 70.55.86.100 (talk) 01:14, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Public bus routes in Macau
Public bus routes in Macau needs urgent work. Thanks. --Techfast50 (talk) 22:43, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Cantonese → Yue Chinese
Cantonese is up for renamimg to Yue Chinese at WP:RM 76.66.195.159 (talk) 03:43, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Template created
Could use some help in creating and improving this template. Thanks.

Cantonese independence
Cantonese independence has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 04:24, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

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Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Mexican Flu
Could someone create maps for Macau, Taiwan and Singapore?

70.29.208.129 (talk) 15:32, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Cantonese templates
Cantonese-j and Cantonese-tsijp have been nominated for deletion. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 04:06, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Cantonese-tjp has also been nominated for deletion. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 08:59, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Macau to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject Macau/Popular pages.

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Cantonese
Cantonese was moved to Yue Chinese - no one asked for a new WP:RM, while several failed WP:RM's have not moved the article... 76.66.196.139 (talk) 11:30, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

New WP:CHINA taskforce
A task force has been proposed for WP:CHINA that would cover the Pearl River Delta, outside of HK and Macau, or including them, or instead, a TF for the whole of Guangdong. Please see WT:CHINA for the discussion. 76.66.197.30 (talk) 15:42, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Cantonese
Cantonese is up for renaming again. This time, the request is to move Canton dialect to Cantonese and move the dab page that is sitting there now to Cantonese (disambiguation). (A few months ago, the issue was the unrequested move of Cantonese to Yue, which now sits at Cantonese (Yue)... so this move would replace one kind of Cantonese (moved away earlier this year) with another kind of Cantonese (the current request), both linguistically based, and not the same concept).

The discussion is occurring at Talk:Canton dialect

76.66.197.2 (talk) 06:17, 22 November 2009 (UTC)


 * This is obviously an issue of some interest to many involved in the Macau page. The question is, why hasn't user 76.66.197.2 been contributing to the extensive debate at that talk page? Posting "alerts" on this page are fine, but not if the purpose is to sit back until the discussion is virtually over and then go in and disrupt the final vote. Editors, even anonymous editors, should be expected to contribute a bit more to the formation of Wikipedia articles than sudden opposing votes. Bathrobe (talk) 10:20, 22 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I have been contributing, to Cantonese (Yue), which is what the title Cantonese used to contain. I paritcipated in various debates, the recent RfC, several of the renaming debates over SEVERAL YEARS on the issue. You should remember that most IP users have rotating IP addresses. 76.66.197.2 (talk) 04:45, 23 November 2009 (UTC)


 * So you have contributed in the past and are using rotating IP addresses. Your most recent comment at Canton dialect indicates that you have come in without reading recent discussions. Perhaps you should consider getting a handle. Discussion is a reciprocal process and becomes rather difficult if one participant is a shifting shape. Bathrobe (talk) 05:46, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Template:Cantonese-tiyjp
Cantonese-tiyjp has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.211.138 (talk) 05:41, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Cantonese (Yue)
Cantonese (Yue) has a new poll on what to call the article (yet again). See Talk:Cantonese (Yue). 70.29.211.138 (talk) 05:52, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

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Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:39, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Cantonese (Yue) ... again
User:Kwamikagami again unilaterally moved a Cantonese article, this time Cantonese (Yue) to Yue Chinese. Now, he's established a requested move to rename it to that name at Talk:Cantonese (Yue).

He has also been reported to ANI, see this entry

76.66.192.73 (talk) 06:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Chinese character redirects being speedily deleted
See Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 April 15

70.29.208.247 (talk) 05:03, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Macau or Macao
This seems like a ridiculously newbie question to post, but I just looked at the official online sources from the Macao government and the PRC government cited at Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, and exclusively "Macao" is used in English. In fact, the Wikipedia citation used "Macau" even though the actual source did not! I think even if there is a Wikipedia policy with good rationale to use "Macau", still a citation title should be the same as the original, so I edited it. What's the deal? Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 11:25, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Cantonese (Yue)
FYI, there is again, an RFC on the naming of the article, see Talk:Cantonese (Yue)

70.29.208.247 (talk) 08:37, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Yue Chinese / Cantonese
FYI, Yue Chinese is up for renaming, this is the article on the Cantonese language. See Talk:Yue Chinese.

76.66.193.224 (talk) 03:43, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

July 2006 in Macau
FYI, July 2006 in Macau has been prodded for deletion. This appears to be a portal page in the wrong namespace. 70.29.212.131 (talk) 03:55, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Category:Disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles
FYI, has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.212.131 (talk) 04:26, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Macau articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Non-English characters in dab page, article page, redirect page names, up for RfC
See WT:Article titles, where an RfC has been opened on the use of non-English characters in page titles for disambiguation and redirect titles (and there appears to also be discussion about article titles) 76.66.203.138 (talk) 09:37, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

User Kwami and Canton
has now started a discussion on the use of Canton, at Wikipedia talk:Article titles ... He completely disregards the usage of Canton for the province, and says that Canton for the city is the common name in English for the city. 76.66.194.212 (talk) 08:37, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Pinyin in Macao articles
See the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(use_of_Chinese_language) over the relavancy of Mandarin Pinyin in Macao articles. 184.144.166.27 (talk) 04:33, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Regional differences in the Chinese language
Regional differences in the Chinese language has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.14.196 (talk) 06:34, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Standard Chinese
Standard Mandarin has been requested to be renamed to Standard Chinese, see talk:Standard Mandarin. Doesn't Macao define a standard Chinese as Cantonese? 65.93.14.196 (talk) 06:34, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Nanyue and Nam Viet
Nanyue has been requested to be renamed again, see Talk:Nanyue. 65.95.14.96 (talk) 22:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Macau/Guangdong or Macau/Mainland border?
In connection to some recent renamings, please see the discussion Template talk:Guangdong – Hong Kong border crossings. This concerns Macau as well. -- Vmenkov (talk) 15:46, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Category "Guangdong – Macau border crossings"
Category:Guangdong – Macau border crossings has been proposed to be changed to Category:China–Macau border crossings.

184.144.163.181 (talk) 04:15, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Gongbei Port of Entry
Gongbei Port of Entry has been requested to be renamed. 184.144.163.181 (talk) 03:50, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

About listing Macao as a 'country'
The word 'country' does not only refer to sovereign states. It can also refer to non-soverign political entities, e.g. British overseas territories. Although, Macao has its own laws, its own political system and its own border control; these make Macao a political entity under Chinese sovereignty and thus, a non-sovereign political entity. So I think it is not inappropriate to list Macao as a 'country'. In fact, it has always been a customary practice to list non-sovereign political entities as countries.

An overseas territory of a country is a non-sovereign political entity which, technically, is also regarded as an administrative division of a country. Yet, we do not add ', [Sovereign state]' after the name of the territory.

I do not think that people can be misled to think that Macao is an independent country just because it appears in the field 'country'. There is always a link to the article for Macao and people can read more about it and have the idea that Macao is a Chinese special administrative region. If people want to make the idea of Macao being under Chinese sovereignty clearer, they can always use phrases like 'the Chinese special administrative region of Macao'.

If people do not like 'Macao', 'Macao SAR' can be an alternative.

By the way, 'Macao, China' is only a name used by the Macao team or the Macao delegation when participainge in international sports events or conferences.

Douglas the Comeback Kid (talk) 15:49, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Move request which you may be interested in
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WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Macau will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Macau's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:34, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Categorisation of Macau and Hong Kong
From what I observed, many Macau (and Hong Kong) categories are subcats of the corresponding by-country parent categories (by their status of dependencies), and are subcats of the corresponding China or PRC categories with a Macau or Hong Kong catsort (in some cases an asterisk is used instead in place of the tho). When I apply it to other categories, undid them en masse. Can anyone help look into the problem? Please response at WP talk:Categorisation. 218.250.159.25 (talk) 08:05, 13 February 2012 (UTC) Blocked as sock

Category:Macanese people by occupation
Category:Macanese people by occupation, and 9 related categories which are also within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

From CCTV, the Olympics on TDM
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of 2012 Summer Olympics broadcasters. JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 14:54, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

2012 Chinese American infobox representatives open nomination period
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian_American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:25, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 Asian American representative approval period (Now until 18 December)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:24, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Sze Yup
See talk:Sze Yup about a Mandarin Pinyin, Mandarin Wade-Giles, Cantonese transcription issue for naming the article. -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:03, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Community of Portuguese Language Countries
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 09:35, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Chinese Wikipedia is considering splitting in two
See WT:CHINA where a notice has been posted about ZH.wiki splitting into PRC-wiki and ROC-wiki -- 76.65.129.3 (talk) 06:39, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Merge WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment into WikiProject China
I suggest that the inactive WP:WikiProject Chinese-language entertainment be merged as a taskforce into WP:WikiProject China. -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 17:29, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update
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Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 14:22, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Special administrative region listed at Requested moves
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I have to say some work has to be done to virtually all Macau articles
Being such a historically and internationally significant city/region, the quality of Macau-related articles does not meet the standard achieved by the Macau itself. Some articles are really outdated and others are not well covered. Wishva de Silva (talk) 13:57, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Cantonese listed at Requested moves
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RfC: Should we change the titles of those election articles from "Republic of China xxx elections" to "Taiwanese xxx elections"?
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Roman Catholicism in China listed at Requested moves
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Han Chinese listed at Requested moves
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Template:Infobox Chinese listed at Requested moves
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:46, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikimedia User Group rename proposal
Dear Hong Kong and Macau Wikimedians,

The meta:Wikimedia User Group Hong Kong needs to choose a new English name to fit the guidelines for user groups established by meta:Affcom. Please select your choices at meta:Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Hong_Kong.

Thank you, 多謝 do1 ze6, WhisperToMe (talk) 18:14, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Char siu listed at Requested moves
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Should Template:Chinese always display both Traditional or Simplified Chinese, or should it only display the relevant written forms based on territory
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/China_and_Chinese-related_articles WhisperToMe (talk) 17:05, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge listed at Requested moves
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A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
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Template:Infobox Chinese listed at Requested moves
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Module:Zh listed at Requested moves
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RFC on whether Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters count as the same name
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/China_and_Chinese-related_articles WhisperToMe (talk) 07:21, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

2019–20 outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) listed at Requested moves
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2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak listed at Requested moves
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2019-20 novel coronavirus outbreak (2019-nCoV) listed at Requested moves
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Including native scripts of author names in citation templates?
In Help_talk:Citation_Style_1 I inquired about the ability to include native scripts of titles of works and of authors. It turns out the citation template does allow input of native scripts of titles, but it does not have this capability for authors yet. In Chinese studies it is useful to know the hanzi of an author for a Chinese language works, so I suggested allowing the ability for native scripts of authors too. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:46, 15 April 2020 (UTC)