Talk:Hong Kong/Archive 3

message: The first sentence in "Demographics" states that "...reaching about 7.1 million by 2000.". The figure of population is different from that in the table, which shows "Population - Total (2005) 6,898,686". Samuel 13:08, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be 6.8M, I think. Deryck C. 14:12, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on data 

message: An anonymous editor added the line "Many Hong Kong people were executed by the Japanese army during the war".  This is absolutely true, but I don't see how such a vague statement can belong in an encyclopedia.  Does anyone have any data on this?  It would read a lot better if it said "XXXXX people died in the war, of which XXXXX were executed by the Japanese army".
Without the data, I think the sentence is better removed, as after all there's already a link to (excellent) main article on the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.--Mintchocicecream 09:16, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many Hong Kong people were executed by the Japanese army during the war? 

message: IMHO, as an ignorant observer, it is totally redundant to say "The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China....is a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (PRC)" - that's the sentence once you strip the chinese characters etc out.
The opening sentence being painful to parse, might I suggest you just change it to "Hong Kong is a SAR of the PRC", proceed with the intro, then immediately afterwards have a "names" section where you detail all the other names in the various languages etc?  It's really a bit over the top atm.  I'm not at all qualified to make changes here (not speaking Chinese or knowing anything about Hong Kong), but there's my $0.02. Stevage 00:26, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your suggestion. The same matter is actually brought up from time to time. It's like a dilenma. Almost all country articles begins with the full names of the countries, such as "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and "Commonwealth of Australia". "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China" is its official full name. — Instantnood 07:43, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions for intro 

message: Could someone create a map for this article showing Hong Kong's location in relation to the Guangdong province, as in the Shanwei article?  Badagnani 06:51, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hong Kong is not part of Guangdong, while Shanwei is. — Instantnood 07:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map request 

message: This section needs to be culled of current events from 2005.  These events are notable, but need to be moved to the more relevant dedicated articles. SchmuckyTheCat 01:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  It feels more and more like a hack job as the year goes on.  See whether anyone's willing to do it though :P  --Mintchocicecream 16:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Politics and government, end of year cleanup

message: I think the external links are in a mess. I removed the links to mondophoto (because they weren't free) and one backpacker's photo (if (s)he can put his/her pictures, why can't everyone else?)..  Left Flickr but moved it down because at least that's an aggregate of different people's photos.  Then, many links appear to be mildly related to Hong Kong (e.g. the private Yahoo Group??  or the many Expat sites??  Wikipedia isn't meant to be a link farm/web directory; we should be more forceful about what links stay and what doesn't.  E.g. why isn't there even DiscoverHK the official tourism site?  I'd like to see what the general feeling is here before I edit it, though.  --Mintchocicecream 16:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: Caution!
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:Can you list some objective reasons to support your views?  You might also like to know this article is a featured article in Wikipedia.  --Mintchocicecream 05:58, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not objective 

message: The article quite rightly mentions the extremely liberal economy and the success of this formula. However, mentioning it just as such might be slightly one-sided.
Many sectors of the economy are completely cornered by big companies running duopolies etc. Supermarkets is a famous example. Another is of course the real estate developers. Former Governer Chris Patten tried to undo this one, but failed miserably --Prudentia 08:07, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy 

message: Someone has put the old colonial flag of Hong Kong in the history section. There must certainly be better images to cover the history of Hong Kong, and the flag image is pretty irrelevant to the area in discussion. Any other opinions? Páll (Die pienk olifant) 16:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, but Canada's history sectionis much larger and has space for more images. If we only chose two images, is the former flag of Hong Kong really the best? 24.29.137.148 18:18, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I didn't actually remove any images to place the flag image there. You could probably get at least pictures on the section anyway. Personally I think the historic colonial flag is a good representation for the fact that only 9 years ago, HK was a British colony. Astrotrain 18:30, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: While i think the colonial flag image is not inappropriate, I would like to see the images of an old fishing village painting of Hong Kong contrasted with the ultra modern vista of Victoria Harbour. That will definitely shows what history of Hong kong is all about. --Kvasir 19:34, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag image 

message: This is free to use locally and doesn't cost anything to have in your home, compared to the crap Aussie phones this is great. Enlil Ninlil 05:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Land Phone systems 

message: Someone forgot the Important minibusses, these are just as important and numerous and other forms of transport.Enlil Ninlil 02:47, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Minibuses are mentioned there -- as "Public light buses".  --Mintchocicecream 02:49, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Transport

message: The text reads
'On 24 September 2005, twenty-five Hong Kong pro-democracy Legco members, some of whom were previously labelled as traitors by Beijing after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and barred from entering the mainland, crossed the border into the southern province of Guangdong, following an unprecedented invitation by the PRC [11]. The invitation was generally regarded as one of the greatest goodwill gestures from the PRC to the Hong Kong democrats since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.'
It seems to me that that the last sentence here is poorly worded, making it sound as if the Tiananmen Square massacre was the previous good will gesture (and therefore, sounds kind of sarcastic).
--210.228.17.68 02:16, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision in Politics section 

message: you may be interested to know the article Hong Kong action cinema is currently preparing to go for featured article status. at the moment, there is a peer review going on at Wikipedia:Peer review/Hong Kong action cinema/archive1. as the editors of this article already have experience in creating an FA, your input is highly valued. thx! Zzzzz 21:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great job. — Instantnood 11:56, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hong Kong action cinema

message: The old infobox template was deleted in Templates for Deletion.  The infobox edit history and it's talk page were archived here:
*Talk:Hong Kong/Hong Kong infobox
*Talk:Hong Kong/Hong Kong infobox/talk
SchmuckyTheCat 10:03, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. — Instantnood 21:12, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old infobox

message: How can there possibly be more people per square mile than square kilometer? The latter is smaller than the former. Probably just needs reversing, but I'm not sure. --Raj Fra 02:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Population Density