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2004

Does anyone else agree that we shoudl revert to the last edit of this page? IT seems a lot of content was removed. Was there a reason for this? And the "Welcome to hainan" line is un-encyclopaedic, IMHO.--Mishac 02:11, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. --Menchi 03:10, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Empty article

some horrible person has emptied the entire article and replaced it with a japanese flag! what is the meaning of this?

South China Sea Islands

The section on Geography notes that Hainan contains not only Hainan Island but also 200 islands of the South China Sea.

I think it needs to be made clear here that this is the claim made by the PRC, which is contested by a number of nations. I don't think that at this present stage the PRC claim is internationally recognised. --Anon

Done. I just dragged the 2nd part of the sentence ("in the PRC territory") to be the 1st part of the sentence. Is that clearer? --Menchi 04:45, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

travel-hainan.com links

I am removing all the links to travel-hainan.com, because they are links to a commercial website with absolutely no relevant information available, unless you pay $30 to download a PDF file from them.

And in fact the links appear to be inserted in odd places, as if they are trying to build keyword strength with Google; this looks like spam to me.