Jump to content

Talk:List of banks in Macau

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Requested move to List of banks in Macau

[edit]
The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.


Macau has been selected as the name for that place for quite along time now after extensive discussions, so the title of this article is an adnormality.--Huaiwei 23:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The source spells Macao. - Privacy 05:59, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are no sources in the said article.--Huaiwei 06:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The source from which this list was compiled from spells Macao. - Privacy 21:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support move. "Macau" is how the region is called officially, internationally and in Wikipedia and we should be consistent. If there is an objection to the name Macau in favor of Macao, it should be brought up in the main article. --Kimontalk 23:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • As far as the spelling of the official full name of Macau is concerned, the name as printed on the passport is "Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China". You may also be interested to compare the number of pages you can get by searching on Google with "Macao/u Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China". - Privacy 21:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • I did the search and the results for Macao are 14300 and for Macau 818. I see your point but, my argument is that if the main article in Wikipedia is spelled Macau then this should be as well. Perhaps Macau should go through a WP:RM process? --Kimontalk 21:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • yes, this inconsistency is why we've developed a fairly standing consensus on WP to use the u spelling UNLESS the actual title of the article is the true and only proper name of the subject (Macao Daily News). The title of this article is not a proper name in itself, so we should stick to the u spelling convention. SchmuckyTheCat 16:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • The word "Macau" itself is a proper noun, so just where is your consistency there?--Huaiwei 17:00, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]


The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Almost everyone seems to agree that both "Macao" and "Macau" are acceptable spellings for the location, and that while proper nouns using one specific spelling of Maca[o/u] should be so spelt on Wikipedia as well, this needn't apply to other nouns (such as "list of banks in Maca[o/u]"). Given that there is no intrinsic difference in acceptability between "List of banks in Macao" and "List of banks in Macau", the tie-breaker of consistency may be applied. The vast majority of Macau-related articles on the English Wikipedia use the spelling "Macau" and no argument has been presented why that must not happen here. List of banks in Macao has been moved to list of banks in Macau as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 09:18, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Though the above discussion is closed, and the outcome was based on consistency, in any future look at this discussion to determine the consensus it should be noted that all of the 'o' spelling votes above were the same user using sockpuppets. SchmuckyTheCat 00:10, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]