Talk:Hong Kong Island

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  • Clean up all MTR station pages. They are literally all over the place. Two model pages are Tsing Yi Station and Sheung Shui Station. They each describe a feature special to the station, Station layout, exit, and connections, as well as neighbouring stations and the station "box".
    • We will also need plenty of updated pictures (e.g. removing all KCR-related images except those on the KCR article). Check that all pages have basically the same language structure as Tsing Yi Station and Sheung Shui Station. Links to location maps are good too. (Should also perform these checks on Chinese Wikipedia.)
  • Clean-up pages that link with TVB, especially its series pages.

[edit] "South" Debate/RfC

I came over here from the RfC page, and as a geography student I can tell you that you're better off saying the south side of the harbor as opposed to the south of the harbor. Harbors are not points, they have an area to cover. If the point in question is in the harbor but south of center, it's appropriate to say the "south side" as opposed to just "south". If the point is beyond the harbor to the south, then you'd say "south of the harbor". It's incorrect, however, to say "the south of the harbor". --Martin Osterman 19:59, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

i agree south side is grammatically correct. but how about being more informative: "The island is also sometimes referred to as "the Island side", as opposed to the Kowloon Peninsula side of the Victoria Harbour." Appleby 06:29, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I think that would work just fine, actually. I was just stating which of the two was correct. :) --Martin Osterman 12:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Agree with the above. Call it "south side". enochlau (talk) 08:17, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
People would say "the Island side" and "the Kowloon side". — Instantnood 09:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
The island is not in the harbour (nor in the southern part of the harbour), but south of the harbour. — Instantnood 09:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Bah. "Part of the north shore of the island forms the south side of the harbour" is correct. The island lies south of the harbor, but only because it lies [very immediately!] south of its northern shore, which forms one side of the harbor. Tomertalk 06:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Data references

There is no reference for where the population, pop density, island area, etc comes from. Especially when comparing different geographic locations it is necessary to know what the source is for these details to know if the data can be trusted and to compare similar dates. I'm not saying this data is incorrect, just that I would like to see references for it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.255.116.40 (talk • contribs) 2007-07-23 01:37:00

[edit] hk island area code?

long shot here wondering if anyine knows the area code many thanks Earlyviewer (talk) 11:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Hong Kong doesn't have area codes. The country code is 852. Within all of HK, a phone number has a fixed length eight digit number consisting of two sets of four. The first set of four may roughly correspond to an area but HKI would have dozens. SchmuckyTheCat (talk)
Yes, Hong Kong simplifies the system of telphone numbers long ago. For interest only, nowadays, most of older fixed line on the island started with 25 or 28, and before the simplication, the area code of the Island is 5. — HenryLi (Talk) 00:29, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
aha thank you both for your explnations. many thanks Earlyviewer (talk) 01:00, 26 January 2008 (UTC)