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Today I changed the name of this article from 'Public holidays in China' to 'Public holidays in Mainland China'. I am aware that Wikipedia has had a very long-running dispute about the correct naming of China, China-related articles in the light of the wider debate about the Political status of Taiwan and related issues. I do not want to re-open the wider debate. However, in the particular case of this article, 'Public holidays in China' is not clear enough. We need a page that lists public holidays in the Mainland, and this is it.
For example, Christmas Day is a holiday in Hong Kong. It is a public holiday in Hong Kong, which is in China. But Christmas is not mentioned anywhere on this page, because Christmas is not a public holiday in mainland China.
An analogy may be helpful. Could we change Church of England to Church of the United Kingdom? No, because it is the state church in England, but not in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. We have a page on Politics of the United Kingdom, but that does not stop us understanding that the C of E covers a different territory from the UK.
The official policy of the PRC regarding this issue is ' one country, two systems'. This is a 'two systems' topic and we need an article name that reflects that.
We may need to discuss incoming links from templates, most of which are from Template:China_topics. I would suggest that the link in that template continues to link to this article. Matt's talk 04:58, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Speedily closed as moved back. WP:RM specifically requires a move discussion to be initiated if there is any reason to believe a move would be contested. The moving editor clearly acknowledges that this is a controversial move, and the move must therefore be reverted, until a consensus is achieved to carry out such a move in the first place. bd2412 T 14:45, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
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Today I changed the name of this article from 'Public holidays in China' to 'Public holidays in Mainland China'. I am aware that Wikipedia has had a very long-running dispute about the correct naming of China, China-related articles in the light of the wider debate about the Political status of Taiwan and related issues. I do not want to re-open the wider debate. However, in the particular case of this article, 'Public holidays in China' is not clear enough. We need a page that lists public holidays in the Mainland, and this is it.
For example, Christmas Day is a holiday in Hong Kong. It is a public holiday in Hong Kong, which is in China. But Christmas is not mentioned anywhere on this page, because Christmas is not a public holiday in mainland China.
An analogy may be helpful. Could we change Church of England to Church of the United Kingdom? No, because it is the state church in England, but not in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. We have a page on Politics of the United Kingdom, but that does not stop us understanding that the C of E covers a different territory from the UK.
The official policy of the PRC regarding this issue is ' one country, two systems'. This is a 'two systems' topic and we need an article name that reflects that.
We may need to discuss incoming links from templates, most of which are from Template:China_topics. I would suggest that the link in that template continues to link to this article. Matt's talk 04:58, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Speedily closed as moved back. WP:RM specifically requires a move discussion to be initiated if there is any reason to believe a move would be contested. The moving editor clearly acknowledges that this is a controversial move, and the move must therefore be reverted, until a consensus is achieved to carry out such a move in the first place. bd2412 T 14:45, 2 January 2014 (UTC)