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Welcome to WikiProject Taiwan! This is a WikiProject open to anyone interested in editing, expanding and refining Wikipedia's coverage of articles concerning Taiwan (officially the Republic of China). Our scope may overlap with WikiProject Japan and WikiProject China in some areas, but will be separate most of the time. This WikiProject strives for neutrality on topics of a geopolitical and ethnic nature.

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Scope

Articles relating to the following topics: History of Taiwan, Culture of Taiwan, Taiwanese people, Republic of China Armed Forces, Geography of Taiwan, Sports in Taiwan, Energy in Taiwan, Politics of Taiwan, Religion in Taiwan

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to Taiwan, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Taiwan in a fair and accurate manner.

Goals

• To create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Taiwan and the Taiwanese people.
• Expand the number of articles regarding Taiwan and Taiwanese subjects.
• Highlight the situation of post-1949 Taiwan without running into POV issues.
• Add more English sources to existing Taiwan-related articles, using the <ref> element.

Collaboration

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Guidelines

These are for discussion on proper usage of spelling for Chinese related pages.

• WP:CHINESE Chinese Naming Conventions.
• MOS:CHINESE Manual of Style.

Departments

The four departments are used to coordinate with other participants in improving articles.

• Assessment: To assess the quality of articles in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program. Ratings are attributed to articles via the {{WPTAIWAN}} project banner.
• Peer review: Request peer review to examine articles and obtain ideas for further improvement.
• Photography: Request and supply photos needed in articles.
• Translation: Request and assist in the translation of high-quality non-English material.

Task Forces

• WP:TWTOWNS: Taiwanese townships task force.
• WP:TWMIL: Chinese military history task force.
• WP:TWBALL: Taiwanese Baseball task force.

Article alerts

Article alerts

Did you know

• 12 Feb 2025 – Lyle Lin (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 15 Feb 2025 – Monica Lin (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Edwardx (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 15 Jan 2025 – Kang Chu Sports Park (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by JMWt (t · c) was closed as keep by Benison (t · c) on 22 Jan 2025; see discussion (5 participants)
• 14 Jan 2025 – List of Hindu empires and dynasties (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mr.Hanes (t · c) was closed as no consensus by Vanderwaalforces (t · c) on 05 Feb 2025; see discussion (20 participants; relisted)

Categories for discussion

• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after universities and colleges in Taiwan (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after populated places in Taiwan (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after organizations based in Taiwan (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after companies of Taiwan (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after buildings and structures in Taiwan (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after Taiwanese musical groups (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after Taiwanese musicians (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after Taiwanese people (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after Taiwanese awards (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 31 Jan 2025 – Category:Chen family of Kaohsiung (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Mike Selinker (t · c) was closed; see discussion

(5 more...)

Templates for discussion

• 15 Feb 2025 – Template:Conservatism in China (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Guotaian (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 15 Feb 2025 – Typhoon Kong-rey (2024) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by HurricaneEdgar (t · c); start discussion
• 27 Dec 2024 – Typhoon Krathon (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by HurricaneEdgar (t · c); start discussion
• 20 Jan 2025 – Goodnight Chicken (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Jolielover (t · c) was promoted by LunaEatsTuna (t · c), see discussion

Requested moves

• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei national under-23 football team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan national under-23 football team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei women's national under-18 ice hockey team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan women's national under-18 ice hockey team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei Billie Jean King Cup team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan Billie Jean King Cup team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei Davis Cup team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan Davis Cup team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei men's national volleyball team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan men's national volleyball team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei women's national volleyball team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan women's national volleyball team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei men's national ice hockey team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan men's national ice hockey team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei women's national field hockey team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan women's national field hockey team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei national futsal team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan national futsal team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Feb 2025 – Chinese Taipei men's national field hockey team (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan men's national field hockey team by Butterdiplomat (t · c); see discussion

(35 more...)

Articles to be merged

• 05 Feb 2025 – Settler state (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Settler colonialism by Викидим (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Feb 2025 – Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Taiwanese Resistance to the Japanese Invasion (1895) by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 31 Jan 2025 – Taiwanese Resistance to the Japanese Invasion (1895) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) by 特磨 (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Jan 2025 – Jinguashi Mine (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Jinguashi by Cagliost (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 25 Dec 2020 – Silicon Integrated Systems (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Danikayser84 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 12 Feb 2025 – Draft:Taiwanese Army on Phú Quốc Island (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by WorldPeaceIsNotFarAway (t · c)
• 23 Jan 2025 – Draft:Big Cat Studio (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Leopapayon (t · c)

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Statistics

As of 18 February 2025, there are 12,870 articles within the scope of WikiProject Taiwan, of which 3 are featured and 30 are good articles. This makes up 0.19% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.03% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.07% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are 25,740 pages in the project. For a more detailed overview see Taiwan article statistics in the sidebar.

Taiwan articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FL			2	1			3
GA	2	4	9	15			30
B	20	59	63	88		2	232
C	24	87	199	716		3	1,029
Start	6	110	558	3,411		146	4,231
Stub		45	560	5,917		139	6,661
List	4	9	125	397		1	536
Category					5,951		5,951
Disambig					50		50
File					113		113
Portal					55		55
Project					62		62
Redirect		2	16	105	198		321
Template					558		558
NA					2		2
Other					24		24
Assessed	56	316	1,532	10,650	7,013	291	19,858
Unassessed		1	2	4		141	148
Total	56	317	1,534	10,654	7,013	432	20,006
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 65,993			Ω = 5.42

96 edits	2025 Taichung Shin Kong Mitsukoshi gas explosion
58 edits	Lyle Lin
44 edits	Overseas Chinese
41 edits	Chinese New Year
36 edits	Barbie Hsu
36 edits	Taiwanese Americans
29 edits	Peng Chi-ming
26 edits	2024–25 East Asia Super League
19 edits	Lantern Festival
17 edits	Chen Lan-bo

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 18 February 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

Templates

• To add a page to the project, please add one of the following templates to the top of the talk page of the article: {{WikiProject Taiwan}} or {{WPTAIWAN}}.
• To invite a user to participate in this project, add {{subst:WPTAIWAN-invite}} to their talk page.

Awards

There is now a barnstar which can be awarded to people in thanks for contributions to Taiwan-related articles. For details on how to use it, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwan/Barnstar.

		Taiwan Barnstar of Merit
		Awarded to Some Contributor by A User for contributions to WikiProject Taiwan, specifically for great work in getting the articles on X, Y, and Z to Good Article status. 18 February 2025