Talk:South Central China

Latest comment: 5 years ago by IamNotU in topic Capitalization

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Can anyone explain the rationale for grouping these together? I don't see the connection between Henan and Hainan... Brutannica (talk) 14:48, 1 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Supposedly the term is a combination of Central China (Henan, Hubei, Hunan) and South China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan), which is the far south of the country. GotR Talk 16:07, 1 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Interesting, though: my impression is that various institutions (universities, companies etc) in Wuhan and Guangzhou, respectively, are usually called Huazhong [something] (i.e., "Central China [something]) and Huanan [something] (i.e., "South China [something]"), so I always thought that those regional designations are at least semi-official. I never realized that it is "Zhongnan" (South Central" that is an official division of sorts! OTOH, "South Central China" has pretty similar shape to the Guangzhou Military Region (although the latter also includes Henan Province and the two SARs). -- Vmenkov (talk) 06:17, 3 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Capitalization

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According to MOS:CAPS, "Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia". I did a search of Google and Google books results, and found that "south central China" is not consistently capitalized, and it seems that the majority do not capitalize it. See [1] Therefore I have changed it in this article. I also suggest that the article title be changed to "South central China". --IamNotU (talk) 12:16, 2 April 2019 (UTC)Reply