Talk:Formosa

Please open a WP:RM discussion to establish a clear consensus about this. Formosa has the substantive edit history and needs to be moved. From the edit history, most of the time it has been a redirect to Geography of Taiwan; when it has not been that redirect it has been a redirect to Taiwan. Personally, I think the latter redirect is more apt, but it appears by a strict interpretation the term only applied to Taiwan (island) rather than the to the entire entity (although I think common usage would suggest otherwise). The discussion at Talk:Taiwan#Formosa is confused and inconclusive. older ≠ wiser 13:25, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

:There is disagreement on some points at Talk:Taiwan#Formosa, but consensus that Formosa should be a disambig, not a redirect to Geography of Taiwan, which only covers one of the uses of the name. User:Bkonrad, who has four times reverted edits to the Formosa page today, has here misleadingly signed as older ≠ wiser, and did not contribute to the discussion at Talk:Taiwan. Dudley Miles (talk) 13:47, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

::As I said, the discussion at Talk:Taiwan#Formosa is confused and cannot be taken as conclusive consensus to move pages, which is what is required to avoid WP:MALPLACED. My edits were nothing more than restoring the page prior to your edits (first a cut-and-paste; then a few iterations of creating a WP:MALPLACED disambiguation page. older ≠ wiser 14:07, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

:::At 20:02, 1 August 2002 {{U|Jaknouse}} created Formosa

:::At 20:38, 1 August 2002 {{U|Brion VIBBER}} redirected Formosa to Taiwan

:::At 17:34, 9 August 2003 {{U|Menchi}} made Formosa a disambiguation page

:::At 21:27, 1 October 2003 {{U|Jiang}} redirected {{no redirect|Taiwan (island)}} to Taiwan

:::At 19:32, 17 September 2008 {{U|Robofish}} boldly moved page {{no redirect|Formosa}} to {{no redirect|Formosa (disambiguation)}} over redirect (moved so Formosa can become a redirect to Taiwan - see explanation on talk page: Talk:Formosa (disambiguation).

:::At 22:06, 12 December 2011 {{U|Rigley}} Split out {{no redirect|Taiwan (island)}} from Taiwan

:::At 22:06, 12 December 2011 {{U|Rigley}} retargeted {{no redirect|Formosa}} to {{no redirect|Taiwan (island)}} (better redirect)

:::At 06:18, 14 December 2011 {{U|虞海}} reverted {{no redirect|Taiwan (island)}} to revision of 21:27, 1 October 2003 by {{U|Jiang}}

:::At 07:19, 14 December 2011 Xqbot fixed {{no redirect|Formosa}} double redirect to Taiwan

:::At 12:04, 14 January 2012 {{U|Huayu-Huayu}} retargeted {{no redirect|Formosa}} to Formosa (disambiguation) (outdated and too many other meanings from around the world)

:::At 05:07, 16 January 2012 {{U|Paedia}} undid 12:04, 14 January 2012 by Huayu-Huayu per http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Formosa&limit=500

:::At 11:34, 22 March 2012 {{U|Aervanath}} moved page Taiwan to {{no redirect|Taiwan (island)}}: requested move at Talk:Taiwan/Archive 20)

:::At 11:35, 22 March 2012 AvicBot fixed {{no redirect|Formosa}} double redirect to Taiwan (island)

:::At 00:29, 2 April 2012 {{U|Kanguole}} retargeted {{no redirect|Formosa}} to Taiwan (which has full coverage)

:::At 04:31, 4 April 2012 {{U|Paedia}} retargeted {{no redirect|Formosa}} to Geography of Taiwan ("Formosa" was the name of the island, not the ROC.)

:::—wbm1058 (talk) 03:42, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Formosa (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 21:17, 6 August 2022 (UTC)