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[edit] Tawiwan

For those who list Category:Taiwan as a sub-category of Category:China, there is a guide on how to correctly name Chinese related articles. Those standards should be followed to provide a uniform title format. Please notice the political NPOV. Thanks.--61.30.127.4 06:35, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] what/where?

what should belong in this category versus what should belong in the Category:Republic of China? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hmains (talk • contribs) 04:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup is needed, but where is the plan. Right now, one editor changes the organization one way and another changes it another way--all with no WP agreed upon direction Hmains (talk) 18:23, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

There is no plan and there never will be. The Wikipedia naming convention (such as it is) exists because an editor with excessive sensitivities to the historical claims of the Republic of China was there when it was being decided, in short, an historical accident.

Every so often a new user will come along and complain that the organization makes no sense, and they are perfectly correct. Even the user responsible (who has been banned but keeps coming back with socks) never completed whatever plan he actually had in mind.

When the topic is brought up for discussion, the best thing that happens is that it gets ignored (as happened to you), the worst thing is that pages and hours are wasted in a discussion that always results in no consensus. This is an example where the Wikipedia emphasis on consensus is an absolute failure; the larger the community the more difficult it is to achieve consensus; major changes to the status quo are impossible.

Have fun in hell. --Catch you (talk) 22:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] China/Taiwan

Since there is "one China" (in both Taipei and Beijing), and the are PROC categories and ROC categories, it is very weird that Taiwan is not listed as a province of China, since there are two gov'ts but one China. Since ROC has more than one province under its nominal control, it's also weird that it's a subcategory. since ROC is a subcategory of China, it's weird that Taiwan can't be found in the same category tree. 70.55.84.13 (talk) 13:43, 27 April 2008 (UTC)