Talk:List of districts in China

Pleonasms

We seem to have some redundant constructions here: 城区 is translated "Chengqu District", 矿区 is translated "Kuangqu District" and 郊区 is translated "Jiaoqu District". In all of these cases, the "qu" actually means "district". It's true that sometimes pleonastic constructions end up effectively standard in English (for example, the La Brea tar pits, or, closer to home, the Bohai Sea), but I'm not aware that any such things have happened with the names of these districts. Given their little-known status, I suspect there is little in the way of an established English for these districts. What ought to be done here? Just to take the first example, ought we to use "Cheng District", "Chengqu" or possibly even "Urban District"? Heimstern Läufer (talk) 04:09, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Back in January of last year we had agreed at WT:NC-ZH to eradicate the pleonasms for districts. Any one of "Cheng District", "Chengqu", or "Urban District" is much stronger than "Chengqu District", but we decided on "Chengqu" at the time. GotR ^Talk 19:38, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

We certainly could do that here. I don't love that it makes it inconsistent within the list, though: In all other names, the 区 is translated to "district" rather than transliterated to "qu". Then again, if we use "Cheng District", it's inconsistent with the article titles. So I guess in our current situation, we can't really be completely consistent. I would still tend to prefer internal consistency within this article by always translating 区 as "district", if it were all up to me. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 13:56, 1 June 2013 (UTC)