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What was it before?[edit]

The history section starts at the Wuchang uprising and the overthrow of the Qing. But what about before that? Was there a Xikang during the Qing? When was it set up? What administrative divisions were there prior to it being set up? This map seems to indicate that the area of Xikang was divided between Sichuan and Tibet as of 1820, much as it is now in the PRC. Is this correct? --208.80.119.67 (talk) 05:44, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Need a separate page for Xikang, the 20K employee health IT company in China. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sprague (talk • contribs) 00:40, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 20 October 2014[edit]

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the article at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 23:40, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Xikang → Sikang – This page name is in pinyin, but it represents a historical name preceding the arrival of the PRC and hasn't been extant for a hundred years. We should stick to common usage in this situation. Ogress _smash! 10:22, 20 October 2014 (UTC) Ogress _smash! 10:22, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Survey[edit]

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.

Oppose per nom (sic), WP:NC-CHINA § Place names/WP:PINYIN and WP:COMMONNAMES. On the first rationale, Wikipedia typically does use pinyin for entities predating the PRC (e.g. Zhili, not Chihli, and Hejiang Province, not Hokiang). However, Xikang was also a province of the PRC until 1955 and Wikpedia use pinyin in these cases as well (e.g., Rehe Province, not Jehol, and Songjiang Province, not Sungkiang). Finally, Google Books Ngram says that "Xikang" is now more common in print sources (see here and here as well as here but with false positives in the third case). — AjaxSmack 01:09, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:NC-CHINA#Place names/WP:PINYIN and recent books per WP:COMMONNAMES. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:25, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - calling this historical province "Xikang" instead of "Sikang" would be like talking about the Roman Province of "Iraq" instead of "Mesopotamia". Bobby Martnen (talk) 19:40, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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