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Why does the article refer to Mandarin as Putonghua? I know that's the Mandarin name for the language, but shouldn't the article use "Mandarin" as the page is written in English? Or is there some special significance to the use of Putonghua here? 85.8.202.193 ( talk) 12:06, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
I don't think the sentence The name Dialect comes from the fact that the Mainland government refers to Cantonese as a dialect despite the fact that it is mutually unintelligible with Mandarin is tenable. Instead, the Mainland government refers to Cantonese as a 方言, or topolect. (A dialect is a regional/social variety of some language [in our case: Mandarin], whereas a topolect is just any regional linguistic variety, without reference being made to some other language or variety. That is, non-Sinitic languages of China are 方言/topolects as well, but certainly not dialects of any form of Chinese.) LiliCharlie ( talk) 21:58, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved to Ten Years (2015 film). I already closed the move at 10 Years (2011 film), which implicitly included this one, and the consensus both there and here is that Ten vs. 10 is not sufficient disambiguation, and the two films need years by which to disambiguate from each other, and indeed from all other topics at 10 years. — Amakuru ( talk) 16:32, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Ten Years (film) →
Ten Years – Only topic with this spelling.
WP:SMALLDETAILS is sufficient for disambiguation as long as readers that may be looking for other topics are guided to them with a hatnote. SST
flyer 07:52, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
A fact from Ten Years (2015 film) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 20 February 2016 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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This article is written in Hong Kong English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, travelled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Why does the article refer to Mandarin as Putonghua? I know that's the Mandarin name for the language, but shouldn't the article use "Mandarin" as the page is written in English? Or is there some special significance to the use of Putonghua here? 85.8.202.193 ( talk) 12:06, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
I don't think the sentence The name Dialect comes from the fact that the Mainland government refers to Cantonese as a dialect despite the fact that it is mutually unintelligible with Mandarin is tenable. Instead, the Mainland government refers to Cantonese as a 方言, or topolect. (A dialect is a regional/social variety of some language [in our case: Mandarin], whereas a topolect is just any regional linguistic variety, without reference being made to some other language or variety. That is, non-Sinitic languages of China are 方言/topolects as well, but certainly not dialects of any form of Chinese.) LiliCharlie ( talk) 21:58, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved to Ten Years (2015 film). I already closed the move at 10 Years (2011 film), which implicitly included this one, and the consensus both there and here is that Ten vs. 10 is not sufficient disambiguation, and the two films need years by which to disambiguate from each other, and indeed from all other topics at 10 years. — Amakuru ( talk) 16:32, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Ten Years (film) →
Ten Years – Only topic with this spelling.
WP:SMALLDETAILS is sufficient for disambiguation as long as readers that may be looking for other topics are guided to them with a hatnote. SST
flyer 07:52, 11 April 2016 (UTC)