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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
– The proposed flags of Taiwan article should be moved to the Flag of Taiwan to include ROC era, Japanese colonial rule, Qing era, European rule and indigenous Taiwanese eras. This article should be focused on China's national flag from 1912 to 1949 during the mainland era. This is to avoid confusion between the 1912-1949 ROC and 1945 Taiwan under ROC. 142.113.183.163 (talk) 12:50, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It is. Taiwan has a big sovereignty problem, they're using the national flag of the defunct Republic of China, which the PRC and the international community views it a defunct state. Renaming this article to "Flag of China (1912–1949)" would be like the flag of South Africa during apartheid focusing solely on the mainland period. -142.113.183.163 (talk) 17:05, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nay. The flags on Taiwan flown the Dutch, Spanish, Tunging, Qing, Japanese and ROC banners throughout its history. It has a sovereignty problem anyway. -142.113.183.163 (talk) 17:05, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The purpose of the article name is to provide a, as far as possible, a non-confusing unique identifier for the design. As the ROC continues to exist (and in this case, perhaps used to indicate that it precedes its current reduced state of being just Taiwan), and "China" is used as the WP:COMMONNAME for the PRC, the current article name is quite satisfactory.
OP has a history of deliberately ignoring COMMONNAME or obtusely interpreting WP:NC-CN to create POV edits that - among other things - avoid/remove referring to the PRC as "China", and referring to the ROC/Taiwan as "China". Time to stop, OP. - RovingPersonalityConstruct (talk, contribs) 19:12, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
