Talk:Fuguijiao Lighthouse

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There's some disagreement in the sources about just what happened here. The official government agencies in charge of the lighthouse's operation and its grounds/tourism differ as to whether the Japanese first built their structure in 1896 or 1897. (The Tourism and MPB sites both contract themselves, let alone each other.) IMHO we shouldn't opt for one or the other date until some fairly thorough and authoritative source breaks the deadlock. Similarly, the old MPB site seems to place the lighthouse in the wrong village. Similarly, the MPB seems to treat the current structure as a continuation of the Japanese one despite its having been destroyed in WWII. Those points probably shouldn't be indulged pending a fairly thorough and authoritative explanation for just what was and wasn't destroyed.

Several of the usual lighthouse authorities have outdated information—placing the lighthouse under the Customs Administration instead of MPB, for instance, or using Tongyong Pinyin instead of Hanyu Pinyin for the name.

"Fuguejiao Light", Lighthouse Explorer, Lighthouse Digest.

is usually a RS but here is so bad that it even misspells the Tongyong Pinyin form of the name. It shouldn't be used at all, let alone to "correct" the accurate information from the other sources. — LlywelynII 15:20, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]