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someone care to add? --Sumple (Talk) 12:25, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Would be useful to know if the "Cantonese" row means Standard Cantonese, Yale romanization or Jyutping... Or do we need to add own rows for them too... Monni 12:42, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I just added the row for it now. So that Cantonese goes to standard Jyutping. CAY and MAY go to the individual Yale Romanization. Benjwong 20:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Language tags

I have added language tags to this template (diff), but characters still don't display in the right font, for example the character 上 on Ants climbing a tree. Note that it works when I use {{Lang}} within a value in the individual articles (e.g. Ants climbing a tree) that use the template. What have I done wrong? Wikipeditor 03:55, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with template. Everything looks fine to me. Badagnani 03:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Funny. You mean you noticed a change? I still get the "Japanese" font even after reloading. Wikipeditor 04:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
上 looks normal in the Ants climbing a tree article. Maybe User:Ran could help? Badagnani 04:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
{{lang}} tags were around wrong parameters. Monni 06:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] S or T first

User:Benjwong said: "Traditional should come before simplified, since historically items were named using traditional first."

I don't agree with this; simplified characters are used by most Chinese speakers as well as Chinese learners around the world, and thus most people would be referring to the more familiar simplified characters first, traditional second. Further, non-Hong Kong (i.e. PRC) topics, as well as Chinese topics developed since the 1950s, should definitely have simplified first. Badagnani 21:37, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Simplified is used by only 1 nation. Traditional is used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, overseas Chinese. Everything start with traditional first. Items were named in Traditional before it was simplified. Benjwong 21:43, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Wrong. Singapore, the only other independent ethnic Chinese-majority nation on Earth, also uses Simplified Script. Also, please refrain from assuming that the majority of the Overseas Chinese population uses Traditional exclusively unless evidence could be provided.--Huaiwei 19:28, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

It's true, but more people are using the simplified and so that's the spelling they'd refer to first. Let's see what other users think. I can put the discussion on the Manual of Style for China-related articles, because we have people from many different places there. Badagnani 21:56, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I put a notice at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (China-related articles)‎. We have many good, thoughtful contributors who are active in Chinese subjects, so I'll respect whatever consensus forms there. Badagnani 22:01, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I will put my comment on that page starting now. Benjwong 22:11, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strange font

Why are {{{st}}} and {{{simplified}}} showing up in a strange font? Can we get this fixed? Badagnani 16:32, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

{{{st}}} and {{{simplified}}} are still showing up in a strange font. Can we please get this fixed????!! Badagnani 03:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mandarin/Cantonese

I believe Mandarin should link to Standard Mandarin rather than Mandarin (linguistics), and similarly for Cantonese. The Mandarin (linguistics) and Cantonese (linguistics) articles are about the dialect families, whereas Standard Mandarin and Standard Cantonese describe the most common versions in use. 99% of the time, the relevant language to an article will be the standard version. -- Hongooi 17:14, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

"When calling the template, use context=s to set the appearance for simplified Chinese characters. Otherwise it defaults to traditional Chinese characters.

  • This is not clear. Can this please be made more clear? I think we agreed that "simplified" or "traditional" should be able to be switched depending on the subject. Now it says that it will default to "traditional" unless some strange code is added. I don't believe that was the consensus. Badagnani 21:09, 6 July 2007 (UTC)