Talk:Formosa (disambiguation)

message: Should the Formosas on those ship articles be disambiguated as Formosa or just replace Formosa  with Taiwan? Any reason not to or to do so? --Menchi 17:37, Aug 9, 2003 (UTC)
:Change it to Taiwan. --Jiang
:The ship articles tend to use contemporaneous names, and when the Japanese controlled it, it was "Formosa". It would be a bit jarring for some to read that the "US Navy shelled enemy installations on Taiwan" ("we were at war with Taiwan!?"), but aside from that moment of confusion, I think it's OK either way. Stan 05:34, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  Do Formosa. --Kaihsu 13:59, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  Stick to historical names for the sake of accuracy.  A-giau 03:50, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambig Taiwan 

message: I've deleted 'non-native name'. I do not believe there is any need to flag that this is a 'non-native' name. As usual with Chinese names, the problem seems to lie in a perception that the use of a non-Chinese name for something that is part of China is a violation of national sovereignty. Even if it is unquestionably accepted by most Chinese, it is arguably an extreme position and does not need to be unnecessarily emphasised.
Bathrobe 02:56, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  'non-native name' 

message: I have boldly moved this page to Formosa (disambiguation), and turned Formosa into a redirect to Taiwan. The reason for this is that, as I understand it, Taiwan is by some way the most common meaning for 'Formosa' - if someone uses that name, they are most probably referring to Taiwan. It also brings it into line with other old names for Asian locations on Wikipedia, which are almost always redirects to the current name rather than disambiguation pages - see, for example, Peking, Ceylon and Siam. If you disagree with this move, please discuss it below. Terraxos (talk) 19:37, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Formosa]] moved to [[Formosa (disambiguation)]]

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: not moved. per discussion consensus. This was a close one, with 4 opposed and 3 in favor of the move. However, when examined in light of the prior discussion, most participants found the status quo to be most persuasive, with arguments in favor of PTOPIC remaining as the island holding most sway. This was similar to the prior RfD, and did not overall change that consensus. It can be revisited in the future just as with any RM. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Shibbolethink (♔ ♕) 01:03, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Formosa (disambiguation) →  – Formosa is the name of several historical entities with no clear primary topic. Currently Formosa redirects to Geography of Taiwan, which is not the primary topic for what is more of a historical term than a geographical one. Note there was a recent RFD discussion where the outcome was to keep the target at the current place, but there was some support to move the dab page to the base name. Vpab15 (talk) 20:40, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Pinging ,, Vpab15 (talk) 21:47, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject Taiwan has been notified of this discussion. Vpab15 (talk) 21:49, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject Disambiguation has been notified of this discussion. Vpab15 (talk) 21:50, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 6 August 2022