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I've extended the article. Now it is not only a list but also a introduction and description of Chinese weibo services. So renaming to Weibo seems much more proper. --Tomchen1989 (talk) 18:24, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. If this article refers to the Chinese microblogging, then its title should be something like Chinese microblogging, not weibo, because Weibo in English sources is not a generic term for all Chinese microblogging services, but usually a specific term referring to specific websites like Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, etc.. And there is no primary use between the different XXX Weibo websites. You can write this article introducing Chinese mircroblogging websites. But Weibo should be an disambiguation page including the Weibo town and different Weibo websites. --Pengyanan (talk) 02:21, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
So you do agree "Weibo" in English is usually something about the Chinese microblogging site. If so, Weibo to be a disambiguation page is not anyway very proper.
You thought it refers to a specific microblog, it's not categorically true, we can also find plenty of sources used "Weibo" to generically refer to Chinese microblogs ([1], [2], [3]), they even applied a plural term "Weibos".
In your three references, the second of them only specifically refers to the Sina Weibo. In your third reference, most of Weibo also specifically refers to Sina Weibo. This article consistently uses "microblogs", not "weibo", to refer to the general microblogging service in China. It only explains that microblogging in Chinese is called weibo when the word weibo appears for the first time. Therefore we cannot argue that the primary use of Weibo is the generic term for the microblogging in Mainland China. --Pengyanan (talk) 05:19, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think I mis-cited the second one, but the third one is still a good one where "weibo" refers to the generic "Chinese microblogs", in that article the author never directly and independently (without adding "Sina" or "Sina's") used "Weibo" to refer to Sina Weibo, there's also a sentence "..Sina Weibo and other Weibos..".
Ummm, I think obviously, in that way people for the Chinese microblogs can find it slower, not quicker. In that way:
If a user (large numbers) searchs "weibo" for generic "Chinese microblogs", he will arrive his entry via one more click.
If a user (large numbers) searchs "weibo" for Sina Weibo (as User:Pengyanan agreed, "weibo" refers to a specific Chinese microblogs like Sina Weibo), he will arrive his entry via two more clicks.
If a user (very few) searchs "weibo" for Weibo (town), he will still arrive his entry via one click.
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The updated paragraph is as below:
According to the China Internet Network Information Center, in 2013, the number of Chinese weibo/microblog users is 281 million. As of December 2013, 45.5% Chinese Internet users and 39.3% Chinese mobile Internet users used weibo/microblogs.
I would like to suggest on the replacement of "Weibo" by "Microblog" for non-Sina weibo services. The reason is that Sina registered the domain name weibo.com, weibo.cn, weibo.com.cn. All other weibo/microblog services provided by other companies (such as Tencent, Sohu, People, Phoenix, etc) are actually microblog service. Only Sina Corp is in the right position to use weibo as its mainstream service. Please help verify on this and if accepted, update those non-Sina weibo service to microblog.
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