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Discussion on a naming issue
editHi, and thank you for your input to the talk page of Diaoyu Islands. Many users including you and me have realized the current name of that article is improper and need to be changed according to huge numbers of reliable sources published in English language. This is not easy because of resistance from certain obstinate bias with some subtle tricks. We need to focus on the naming issue and to avoid this issue to be distracted. Otherwise, the name changing will be even more difficult. According to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines and regarding reliable sources, using single Japanese name "Senkaku" is improper as using single Chinese name "Diaoyu" in this Wikipedia article. The most NPOV choice supported by enough reliable sources right now is dual local name. If you like, you can choose "Diaoyu/Senkaku" one. I understand your points regarding the disputed territory history. We want to solve the name changing issue. We are not able to solve the disputed territory issue here and this is not the Wikipedia supposed to do. So in the discussion it is better not to relate the naming issue to the territory dispute in the real world, or in another words, it is better to mention such dispute in the real world as less as possible. Thank you. --Lvhis (talk) 20:29, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
If you take the naming history that one generated earlier should go first as a reason, without mentioning ownership dispute and other disputed territories linked with their naming (as you ever mentioned Haishenwai/Vladivostok and Liuqiu/Ryukyu), that may be useful. In this case, "Diaoyu" was generated as early as 1403, while "Senkaku" was generated around 1900.--Lvhis (talk) 01:48, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
editHi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:58, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
editHi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:08, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
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