Talk:List of districts of India

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[edit] Move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the district naming. Please do not modify it.

Just curious: why did you move the page to districts of India? User:Nichalp/sg 17:39, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

thought its not only a list , because has sme description in intro. Lots of country specific subnational entity pages are done this way. Category:Subdivisions by country , do you see problems? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:53, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

The thing is that the "List of Indian districts" is a Featured list. The data is essentially a nice list. I'm not sure if it should be renamed. User:Nichalp/sg 17:58, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

did not see this FL before. mmh. does it matter, at the and the article contains the list. Should it be splitted into articel and list? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 18:05, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

It does matter. A featured list should have an introduction to the topic. I think it should be moved back. You have any objections if I move it back? User:Nichalp/sg 18:10, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

I have no immediate problem with moving it; it can still be a featured list without having the word "list" in the title. It fits the standard, "States and territories of India", etc. However, preference is typically given to the original name in moments of conflict. (Honestly, "list of" seems redundant. One expects a list at "districts of india"...)--Golbez 18:15, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
Ah Golbez, nice to see you here ;-) It seems this time we are not head against head.
Wikipedia:What is a featured list? 4. brief intro. the intro is more than brief, its already more than a good article stub. But we can split. Than there will be good article and a FL with brief intro. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 18:18, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Whoa now, I see no reason to split this. It's good as is. Don't turn a naming dispute into an article split. --Golbez 18:20, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
and wants again, head against head.
If I could portray rolling eyes in text form, I would. --Golbez 18:30, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
Actually both articles can exist. The "list of..." contents remains as it is, but the Indian distt. article has the intro information and more stuff on special districts, trivia and that sort of stuff. User:Nichalp/sg 18:21, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
You really think so? Hm. Well ok :) --Golbez 18:30, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
Do you know more on special districts? Maybe you can also add some local terms to List of terms for subnational entities. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 18:26, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Well some districts are city districts w/o a dist headquarter. Some others like chandigarh which is a city dist is the capital of 2 states and 1 UT. Ladakh is the largest district. All that stuff. User:Nichalp/sg 18:35, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

interesting. capital of three different first level divisions. Let's split? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 18:44, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Ok I'll move the page back. User:Nichalp/sg 18:51, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian districts/Naming Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Total number of districts

According to NIC's districts site there are 602 Districts in India, but the present table tallies to 598. Not sure where the discrepancy is yet..--cjllw | TALK 02:25, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I've now corrected the totals, it seems some earlier entries were mis-aligned with their State, and there have been a couple of recent ones. The table totals (per State/UT & the grand total) now agrees with the NIC list (at least I think so, someone could double-check). For the listings of individual districts per State/UT, the ones which are presently seem to be missing are:

I also formatted the totals table so that the numbers are bolded, to distinguish them from the adjacent number codes used to identify the State in the map.--cjllw | TALK 04:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Collection of footer templates

I started collecting the footer templates, see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian districts/templates - Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:28, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Should be removed from FL

The list gives provisional figures only from Census 2001. Either update it with final tally available here or remove it from FL. Anwar saadat 19:52, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Abbrevation Codes

What is the source of the two letter abbrevation codesDoctor Bruno 16:07, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to know also what the purpose of those codes is, e.g. if they're used in any official documents. Could somebody maybe add this?--Young Pioneer 13:36, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Abbreviation codes have been created by the webmaster of statoids.com: he says clearly that these are not an official standard, sanctioned by any international body, so i think they must be removed from this list. --Lucio Di Madaura (disputationes) 21:13, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Missing districts in Northeast

Arunachal Pradesh refer to map [1] total:16 districts, 3 missing from list:

-- PlaneMad|YakYak 09:04, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Also Nagaland, refer [2] -- PlaneMad|YakYak 11:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lead

Great list that deserves its FL star, but when reading the lead, it seemed to be a description of a State or Union Territory in India, instead of districts. Only the last sentence concerns Districts. Could someone knowledgeable in the subject modify the lead to better fit the article? Thank you. CG 18:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)