Talk:Government of the Republic of China

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The result of the move request was: moved reverted back to original title, and page protected to prevent further disruption without an accompanying discussion at

Since it's already listed (in addition to the fact that it's possibly controversial), I'm not going to relist it as a technical move. But feel free to ask an admin to take a look if you think it would help. wctaiwan (talk) 11:05, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is not about using the technical move to avoid a discussion on a controversial issue. The move that was made was controversial, and under the procedures should be reverted as a technical move (which would be the normal procedure anyway if an administrator wasn't required to revert). The move can then be proposed to the new title under the Requested move process. Skinsmoke (talk) 12:16, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy
  WP:BRD since this article is not about Taiwan, it's about China, anything pre-1950 is about China, not Taiwan. What the person who moved it should have done was to split this page in two, since the thing residing at "Government of ROC" is entirely lacking in the information found here. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 11:38, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply
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The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 02:16, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Government of the Republic of China → Government of Taiwan – "Taiwan" is the common name. The use of "Taiwan" instead of "Republic of China" has increased over the years to the point that the phrase "Republic of China" is confusing to an average reader. It has been objected that "Taiwan" is not the official name of the country, but Wikipedia:Article_titles#Common_names is clear that the common name should take precedence over the official name where they differ and the official name does not approach the common name in wider usage. Coco977 (talk) 13:18, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Since this article contains content about the mainland era, I suggest to move those content to Beiyang government and Nationalist government, because the current Government of the Republic of China was not formally established until 1948, after the Constitution of the Republic of China.Coco977 (talk) 13:24, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose as proposed. The current article contains substantial info on the ROC government when it controlled the mainland. The current government of Taiwan is a subset of that. I also don't think removal of content is the answer.--Cúchullain ^t/c 13:43, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The current Government of the Republic of China was not established until 1948. It was called the Nationalist government before this, so those content when it controlled the mainland should be at the article Nationalist government.Coco977 (talk) 13:52, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree on this one. The mainland Republic of China was called, well, the "Republic of China". It makes sense that an article on its government would be called "Government of the Republic of China". We don't really have a better location for this material. Perhaps the better solution is to spin out "Government of Taiwan" into a separate article.--Cúchullain ^t/c 13:58, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I agree on spinning out "Government of Taiwan" into a separate article.Coco977 (talk) 14:05, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose per all previous In ictu oculi (talk) 14:25, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose – the island which the government resides is called Taiwan, the official name of the sovereign identity is called the Republic of China; oppose per comments above. CookieMonster755 𝚨-𝛀 22:18, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose as per above, Plus: the government itself sees and claims continuity. It is not correct to say that it was "not established until 1948" (even if you accepted this argument, the date would have to be 1945, with the surrender of Japan, which is another can of worms). The article in the link above --
  Nationalist Government-- says " officially the National Government of the Republic of China."ch (talk) 07:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose The government is a political entity. There is no such "Government of Taiwan" - we only have a "Government of ROC" which claims to be the government for entire China although it has defacto control only over Taiwan and a few islands. Unless ROC actually stops claiming to be the government of China, the article should remain as it is. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose as per all the above arguments. RGloucester — ☎ 16:26, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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