User talk:Chrisliu
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Chris, there's a vote going on at the moment about moving Duanwu back to Dragon Boat Festival. Since you've shown an interest in this matter, you might like to go over and joint the discussion. I'm going to refrain because I'm really quite torn on the issue. As an English-speaker, I prefer the natural-sounding and familiar "Dragon Boat Festival". But Dragon Boat Festival sounds weird when you apply it to places like Beijing, where they celebrate the festival but have no dragon boats. Plus the Chinese government has now made it an official holiday. To complicate things, I don't quite see why the Mainland transliteration should be made de rigueur and the Cantonese pronunciation relegated to an "also-mentioned". So I'm going to abstain. Bathrobe (talk) 01:58, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
You previously voted against a move back to Dragon Boat Festival from "Duanwu Festival" because "the festival offers more activities than a simple dragon boat competition". Given WP:ENGLISH & WP:COMMONNAMES, I am curious if you would consider changing your vote given that (in addition to general English usage) "Dragon Boat Festival" is in fact the official translation used by the PRC in English documents and media publications and broadcasts.
Links and discussion here. — LlywelynII 10:35, 3 November 2013 (UTC)