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 ::::::::::We seem to have drifted a bit.  Regarding the question of the name of this article, we have Norman saying that to call Wu, Mandarin, etc ""languages"" is inaccurate and misleading, and instead referring to them as dialect groups.  And indeed the usual terms for this topic in the literature are ""Mandarin dialects"" and ""Mandarin dialect group"", not ""Mandarin Chinese"".  So we should use one of the two names usually used in our sources, not a term for which the primary topic is Standard Chinese.  (I do not favour moving Standard Chinese, but rather having ""Mandarin Chinese"" redirect to it.)   "