User:DownUnder555/sandbox
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Currently trying to fix the mess that are the Taiwan/ROC and associated history articles. I welcome friendly help from anyone that is familiar with these topics. If your political POV makes this project unpalatable, I suggest you work on the actual articles themselves and not my proposed alternate versions.
The goal at the end of this reorganization and clean up is to bring the revised versions up to a vote from a large set of wikipedians (avoiding people that have strong political feelings on Taiwan) and hopefully get them accepted.
The current mess is:
- Republic of China -- pre-1949 it is the history of a government of China. post-1949 it is the history of a government of Taiwan (but claims to be the government of China for a while). We have an economic section that pre-1949 is the economy of China and post-1949 is the economy of Taiwan. This is madness. The article is also too long...
- History of the Republic of China -- same mess, only it's a history article.
- Taiwan -- is said to be an article only on Taiwan Island but in reality, it covers all sorts of stuff that is about the state of Taiwan (officially the ROC).
My plan is to fix the articles by using their common names and the :
- Taiwan - User:DownUnder555/sandbox/Taiwan - This is the common name of the state Republic of China, and we'll stick with it. I do wish to include that some people feel very strongly that Taiwan is the continuation of the ROC on China however and appropriate links should be made to the new Republican China article.
- Alternate names: Republic of China on Taiwan, Republic of China (Taiwan), Republic of China Taiwan
- Disambiguation: Republic of China will show links to both Republican China and Taiwan.
- Taiwan Island - User:DownUnder555/sandbox/Taiwan_Island - This article, unlike the current Taiwan article, will really, truly, actually, be about JUST the geographical island. Stuff that starts including things about the other islands or is about the government etc., will not be included. The focus should be on geographical info, environmental info, and migrations of different peoples. Some basic political information could be included, but not stuff that will overlap with Taiwan (state).
- History of Taiwan - User:DownUnder555/sandbox/History_of_Taiwan - the end of the article could probably be expanded a bit. But this will remain mainly about just the island of Taiwan and will be
- Republican China - User:DownUnder555/sandbox/Republican_China - this will be a Chinese Dynasty style article that covers a period after the fall of the Qing Dynasty and before the CCP took over.
- Alternate name: Someone looking for information on the Republic of China may mean just this Republican period of Chinese history or they may be looking for information that falls into the Republic of China on Taiwan/Taiwan article).
- History of the Republic of China on Taiwan - User:DownUnder555/sandbox/History_of_the_Republic of China_on_Taiwan - I'm not particularly fond of this name, but it's the best I could come up with. There's a ton of information on 1949-present Taiwan so we couldn't just stuff it in into the History of Taiwan article. Plus, this way, we can be neutral about whether it is continuous with the ROC on China.
- History of the Republic of China - Like Republic of China, this will be a disambiguation page that leads to either Republican China or History of the Republic of China on Taiwan.
