Template talk:Urban rail transit in China

message: I saw what user:MetroDreams did and I second his move. Before there used to be two ways of using brackets, one is to put systems within one municipality in brackets; the other is to put systems within two or more adjacent municipalities into brackets. This is confusing and not necessary--people who are not familiar with Chinese geography will deem Guangfo as one city instead of two by inferring from the usage of brackets in other cities like Shanghai or Beijing which is with multiple systems but under only one municipality.Howchou (talk) 03:56, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please do not put systems of different municipalities in brackets.  

message: The template is getting too messy we should separate the "MRT&LRT" into a separate LRT/tram section. Also possibly a commuter rail section as shanghai metro line 22 is opening soon and I think Guangzhou–Zhuhai ICL and Chengdu–Dujiangyan ICL are very commuter/regional rail like. Steve chiu (talk) 16:08, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate LRT MRT and commuter rail 

message: So long as China equals PRC in English Wikipedia, I think calling this template "Rapid transit in China" is more preferable than "PRC."
Even though this template was renamed to "PRC," Hong Kong and Macau will be included anyway. Any move to remove both will be undone.--Howchou (talk) 08:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  China or PRC? 

message: According to Wikipedia itself, "rapid transit" means "a passenger transport system in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic," which generally equals "metro" or "subway." Whereas this article included systems other than metro, such as commuter rail and tram, which are not typically rapid transit. I suggest that we either move this page to "Urban rail transit in China" since the term urban rail transit includes all these systems, or delete those systems other than metro from this article. --Howchou (talk) 17:42, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: sounds like a good idea. Frietjes (talk) 18:04, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing name 

message: The edit I made on 11:26, 25 Dec 2015 UTC+8 categorised the metro systems in China in 4 groups, in which items from the Northeast & North and Northwest & Southwest regions are combined due to smaller number of items in said regions. While User:Jiangyu911 stated in 16:21 UTC+8 edit that all these items should be grouped in terms of regions of China or simply stacked altogether, I argue that it is not necessary to do so, since this whole categorisation stuff is used for better readability, thus it is no need to create so many groups when 4 groups is clarified enough for indexing and browsing purpose. Best regards. --SilAshkenazi (talk) 02:16, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: @User:JoeenNc I think first, the number of metro system in China is still not so huge, so no necessary to divide into 4 or 6 category at all, look at the Template:Underground rapid transit in the European Union, there are more than 40 items,and are still not divided into regions. Second, if you insist to divide into regions, it should be 6, not 4. Of course the number in N, NE, NW and SW is NOW relatively smaller, but in the future the number can expand a lot.I can argue the 6 regions of China is more accepted than 4 or less, after all it is the well accepted geographical regions, is it not better readable for readers to know if Chengdu Metro is in SW or NW. Third, if you still insist, i advice let make it West China instead of NW and SW. Jiangyu911 (talk) 07:46, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  @User:Jiangyu911, well let's talk through your argument one by one: 1. Your example of the EU template is really not convincing, its poor readability is exactly the reason why we should group them; 2. I agree that the number of metro systems might grow bigger in the said four regions, but don't forget the number grows in the other two regions too, and most likely even faster, since the bigger population and more populous cities, thus we should group them into 4 groups instead of 6, before the situation actually happened, as for the Chengdu case, it's exactly the reason why we shouldn't divide the west into SW and NW, because many people simply can't tell which region a city falls into; 3. I don't see the reason why we should not, it is totally okay for me to merge NW and SW into West China.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoeenNc (talk • contribs) 03:05, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  All six regions separated or not? 

message: So I edit it,and Haikou is planning now.章彦博 (talk) 04:45, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huai'nan is planned the monorail,not Metro or Lightmetro