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Hanyu Pinyin vs. Tongyong Pinyin

Please do not change the Hanyu Pinyin after the Chinese characters to Tongyong Pinyin. The claim that Taiwan "does not use Hanyu Pinyin" is false, as it has been the official romanization in Taiwan since 2009 (see Tongyong Pinyin).

Furthermore, the purpose of adding a romanization after the Chinese characters is to help readers who don't know how to read the characters. I believe that far more readers of English Wikipedia understand Hanyu Pinyin than understand Tongyong Pinyin, regardless of what some Tongyong proponents might wish.

To put my actions in context, I was reverting unilateral edits, many of which violated NPOV, to over a dozen pages by this user, who proceeded to edit war with multiple editors, refusing all attempts at discussion. See his/her talk and Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

臺 vs. 台 and Tongyong Pinyin vs. Hanyu Pinyin

Please do not pretend that the character 台 is not used in Taiwan, and do not replace every instance of 台 with 臺. 台 developed as a "Traditional Chinese" character centuries ago and is widely used in Taiwan today. This blog describes the background:

The character 湾 much like 台 has actually been in use since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and [both] are part of a Simplified character group known as the 宋元以來俗字, a group of nonstandard characters, or a demotic writing system used by the common people of the time.

In the Chinese infobox (the section that begins with {{Chinese|):

• The "s=" parameter is specifically for Simplified Chinese. Do not change the value to Traditional. For example:

|s=台北市|

• The "kanji=" parameter is specifically for Japanese text. Japan doesn't use 臺, so please leave 台 as is:

|kanji=台北市|kana=たいほくし|romaji=Taihoku shi

• The "p=" parameter is specifically for Hanyu Pinyin. Please do not change it to Tongyong Pinyin. Note that the "tp=" parameter is specifically for Tongyong Pinyin. See the template usage instructions. For example:

|p=Táiběi Shì|tp=Táiběi Shìh|

Domain	台灣 hit count	臺灣 hit count	Ratio
.tw (all Taiwan)	30.4 million	25.8 million	6:5
.gov.tw (Taiwan gov't sites)	7.8 million	7.3 million	1:1

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Spelling

Word	British occurrences	US occurrences	Comments
behaviour/behavior	1	0
colour/color	1	0
centre/center	3	5	"center" appears another 9 times in non-Taiwanese proper names and citations
defence/defense	9	4	"defense" appears another 9 times in non-Taiwanese proper names and citations
kilometre/kilometer	1	0
labour/labor	2	3
labourer/laborer	1	1
neighbour/neighbor	2	3
programme/program	0	9	"programme" appears once in reference to a non-Taiwanese proper name: Programme for International Student Assessment
Total	20	25

Xinpi Township

Not to be confused with Xinpi village in Taibao city.

Xinpi Township in Pingtung County

Xinpi Township

Xinpi Township (also spelled Sinpi; Chinese: 新埤鄉; Hanyu Pinyin: Xīnpí Xiāng; Tongyong Pinyin: Sinpí Siang; Wade–Giles: Hsin¹-p'i² Hsiang¹; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sin-pi-hiong; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Sîn-phî-hiông) is a rural township in Pingtung County, Taiwan.

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Chinese	新埤鄉
Hanyu Pinyin	Xīnpí Xiāng
Wade–Giles	Hsin1-p'i2 Hsiang1
Tongyong Pinyin	Sinpí Siang
Romanization	Sîn-phî-hiông
Hokkien POJ	Sin-pi-hiong

Chinese nameChinese新埤鄉Wade–GilesHsin¹-p'i² Hsiang¹Tongyong PinyinSinpí SiangPha̍k-fa-sṳSîn-phî-hiôngHokkien POJSin-pi-hiong Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Sîn-phî-hiông