Talk:Matsu Islands

message: So there are 2 Lianjiang counties: one under the PRC and the other under the ROC control: y dont we rename both?
Lianjiang County, People's Republic of China and 
Lianjiang County, Republic of China
Hanyu Pinyin is now the legal standard in the ROC, the same as in the PRC...
Mazu is not an official name, its just the common name... 
We have Taiwan Province (ROC) and Taiwan Province PRC 
Just now i watched: wiki this: "Taoyuan County": it shows 2 taoyuan counties: both reflect a geographical differentiator in their name (Taiwan and Hunan, shouldnt we follow that?  Gumuhua (talk) 18:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This suggestion was unwarranted at the time (2009) and is still unwarranted today (2020). The local government website calls the county Lienchiang County.  Geographyinitiative (talk) 01:27, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Call to rename, include a geographical diferentiator 

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thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: Hi,
I just checked power stations of taiwan, and since in Nangan is one 15.4 MW Diesel, and I did not find any other in the "Matsu Islands" (only the largest are shown seperated by fuel source),  15.4 MW is not much, but now "low" too... However, than I saw this map since I thought it would be a place with not so many citizen and no real towns or even cities, 15,400 kW is a lot for private use to a small population, especially if you use modern energy efficient things, but there is also a massive 2,000 MW fuel oil-fired power station, and 2,000 MW is really large, this station is one of the largest consumer of fuel oil for power stations in the world if it is not just a standby-powerplant, but I do not think so... Taiwan gets now since oil price crash 2014 a discount from OPEC members to the anyway alrready low prices, the discount was/is(?) up to 5% to hold/win market share, since Russia could offer to supply, or Malaysia, Brunei... China could re-export but I think because of the difficult diplomatic status this is no real option. 
For example ~10% of the whole US electricity consumption is done by refrigerators, I think the very large and big for warehouses, stores etc... and I think it is quite warm there?!
combined with the Home refrigerator... I just checked the European Energy-Efficiency standards from A+++ down to B (could only find 2 "B Models"), A and A+ are the cheapest mass-produced, however in the US it is heavy, but I do not know the clima there, in South US and Hawaii of course there is a large need... a refrigerator with a room temperature of 17° Celsius is using of course less energy for cooling than one which is staying right in the sunlight and where the temperatures are above 30° Celsius (which would be 86° Fahrenheit), and in the South there are often temperatures above 30° Celsius... 35° Celsius is already 95° Fahrenheit but possible in Florida, Texas, California etc for more than only 1 or 2 days a year...
but back to the card:
How far is the smallest distance between Taiwan Islands and "Peoples Republic China" Mainland or their Islands?! Greetings Kilon22 (talk) 12:29, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  wow, really so close to Mainland China?! 

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message: Should we move this article to Mazu Islands? Pinyin is the government standard now. Placenames in the ROC are now always in pinyin, unless they are on this list. Matsu Islands is not (as it is not the name of a county). So why would we keep the old spelling, instead of moving this page to Mazu Islands? De wafelenbak (talk) 11:13, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The Matsu Islands local governments call their location by the name Matsu in English:     and not by the name "Mazu". The central government does too: "The Republic of China (Taiwan) is situated in the West Pacific between Japan and the Philippines. Its jurisdiction extends to the archipelagoes of Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu, as well as numerous other islets."  . The position expressed above is more pro-Hanyu Pinyin than is the position of China Daily  and Xinhua News Agency , mainland China media outlets that call the main island Matsu and the island group the Matsu Islands. The main airport is Matsu Nangan Airport (see signage in the photograph). This proposal is seemingly just an overextension of the Hanyu Pinyin-only viewpoint that ignores the conditions on the ground in terms of actual English language usage (journalism, etc) and the Taiwan government's apparent policies as seen on the central and local government websites. It's just too insensitive to the actual situation to make the change proposed- not even English language mainland China media outlets ignore what the English language name of the island and island group is. Geographyinitiative (talk) 01:23, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Also: Google results for "Matsu Islands"- 83,200. Google results for "Mazu Islands"- 2,540, and the first result is this talk page conversation. Geographyinitiative (talk) 23:33, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to Mazu Islands 

message: Re
 Earlier in the debate, then-Vice President Nixon mentioned:  In the Truman Administration 600 million people went ...
UNDUE.
Let us remove them. Zezen (talk) 14:49, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The quotes added here are an important part of the history of the islands. They were quoted widely at the time and are still being quoted today- see the citations. Geographyinitiative (talk) 01:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excessive quotes 

message: Not sure how this image could be used here, but it seems like it could be.  Geographyinitiative (talk) 23:45, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
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