Talk:List of bays in Hong Kong

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Does the list in this page appears odd to anyone? I think it is important to distinguish between two concepts, instances of both of which have been listed here:

a bay in the sense of an enclave along the seashore, which refers to the enclave over the sea itself; for instance, Deep Bay is the proper name and description of the sea surrounded by Lau Fau Shan, Mai Po and Shekou of Shenzhen;
a district on the land which is named after a bay in the first sense nearby, eg Chai Wan.

Without this distinction being established clearly, I think this list would remain ambiguous and its meaning diminished. In my opinion this page, if it is to retain any meaning at all, should and only should refer to bays in the first sense, and districts named after bays in the stricter sense should follow as footnote or see-also at most.

Furthermore, with the above distinction clarified, we may then find a proper place to list these two types of bays under a section:

bays which exist in history but have now disappeared due to reclamation or other reasons (thus including the likes of Sha Tin Hoi); and
bays which are also the name of a beach (thus resolving happily the duplication with Beaches in Hong Kong).

I am new to the Hong Kong series so I may have overlooked some important design decision already made; anyway the above is my observation as a newbie here and I welcome any discussion on the above.

--Pkchan 09:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]