Talk:Vice President of the Republic of China

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The result of the proposal was No Move. Born2cycle (talk) 00:30, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: * But I do hear the former more often than the latter. Jeffrey (talk) 11:11, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *On Google Books, I get 22,000 results for "Vice President of the Republic of China" but only 5,360 results for "Vice President of Taiwan." A Google internet search renders 457,000 results for the former and 215,000 results for the latter. There is no conclusive evidence that the latter name is more common.--Jiang (talk) 12:34, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: * Google internet search renders 627,000 results for "Taiwanese president", 441,000 for "president of Taiwan", and 546,000 for "president of the Republic of China". Jeffrey (talk) 21:28, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *Given the magnitude of the numbers, that suggests that usage is nearly evenly split. In this case it is not. You seemed have opposed the recent move decision, so why are you going against the grain here?--Jiang (talk) 00:50, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

text: * But the nominator was right that we have articles such as President of France instead of President of the French Republic, or Chancellor of Germany instead of Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. The closing statement was clear that new move requests can be submitted for individual articles. Jeffrey (talk) 11:10, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *The difference here being that you can't call vice presidents before 1949 (or even 1971) "Vice President of Taiwan" with any objectivity and accuracy. And you can't split the article from December 1949 onwards as the position has been continuous. New move requests can be submitted for individual articles, but the recent move decision should not be used to justify the current proposal - arguments need to be made that stand on their own, regardless of how the recent move proposal was decided.--Jiang (talk) 12:21, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: * What I read from the move request was that editors and readers don't care that much about something like this. What they care is that this country is now known commonly as Taiwan as of 2012. Jeffrey (talk) 21:28, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *A Countries article is a snapshot of the present; this article is not. The article is on a official position, not a country. Taking this line of reasoning to the extreme, should we rename Red Cross Society of the Republic of China to Red Cross Society of Taiwan? Some common sense is needed here.--Jiang (talk) 21:39, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: * Red Cross is clearly an official name. But for articles on presidencies, monarchies, flags, etc., their titles tend more to be descriptive, and common names of the countries are used. I haven't even seen an exception so far, apart from Taiwan. Jeffrey (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *Have you seen an exception so far, apart from Taiwan, of a country having its common name change to something completely different over time while having its official name stay the same over this same period? This is not merely a description (e.g. Media in Taiwan) but an official title. For example we have "Premier of the Republic of China" or "President of the Executive Yuan" as the title; "Premier of the Executive Yuan" "Leader of the Cabinet" and "President of Spain" etc. would all be incorrect as titles are those reflected in official and reliable sources. Taoiseach is not at Prime Minister of Ireland. You can't simply plug POSITION+COMMON NAME OF COUNTRY into a formula to force some consistency on Wikipedia that doesn't exist in the real world. As for descriptive titles, Capital of the Republic of China (an article that exists on the zh Wikipedia), would similarly not be titled Capital of Taiwan even though it is descriptive as a term because the article would discuss the capital and its location over a period of time, rather than as acting as a snapshot of the present, as the current redirect serves to do.--Jiang (talk) 22:11, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

text: *And we have President of the Swiss Confederation not President of Switzerland. Should the article be moved? I don't think so. mgeo talk 22:16, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

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* Comment: I was away for several days. For the record I would have voted for "reluctantly oppose for the time being", after reading Jiang's and MadGeographer's comments. Jeffrey (talk) 14:36, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
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