Talk:List of inhabited islands of Croatia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	List of inhabited islands of Croatia is a featured list, which means it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do.
October 6, 2006 Featured list candidate Promoted

[edit] Population decline

I can't make out the meaning of this sentence: "This is due to no economic activities which causes a number of small islands to experience population decline." Does it mean the 66 islands used to be populated but now because of lack of jobs only 47 are populated. Or are some of the islands only populated part of the year? (during tourist season perhaps, when there are jobs?) Rmhermen 19:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, the answer is a bit wierd. First of all, all of the islands are experiencing population decline. Both those still populated and those which used to be populated (obviously). But, the 66 -> 47 shift has nothing to do with population decline but with the fact that 66 is a number of islands with settlements and 47 have permanent residents and Central Bureau of Statistics of Republic of Croatia recently changed the way they define populated islands (from those having settlements to those having residents). It's just that the bureaucracy is slow noticing that 9 islands have settlements but nobody lives in them anymore :-)

BTW, I reverted your rock -> islet change since "rock" is the term Bureau of Statistics uses. --Dijxtra 20:14, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

How 'bout renaming this article into List of islands of Croatia? Heck, although it lists only the inhabitated ones, it is longer than the one supposed to be "full list". I'd guess that the full list could potentially be much longer, but it's doubtful whether every crag deserves an entry; but now, the List of islands of Croatia doesn't serve any purpose and could well be overwritten with this one. Duja 08:14, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Nononono :-) See, then this list would be incomplete. Currently it is a very nice completed list and a FL candidate. Merging it into List of islands of Croatia would detoriate it far below FL status. That's why I created this list instead of editing List of islands of Croatia. Anyway, I intend to fix List of islands of Croatia too, by defining some sane inclusion criteria and then finding sources to fill it up. Don't worry, I'll make List of islands of Croatia FL too in some time. --Dijxtra 08:32, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Is Palagruža inhabitated (apart from the lighthouse)? Duja 08:14, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope. Even the lighthouse isn't permanently inhabited. There are some fishing posts which are inhabited for few days a year, but no permanent residents. A donkey lived there until a year ago but he fell of a cliff into the sea (I'm dead serious, I spent this summer on Vis with some locals who go fishing and paragliding on Palagruža so they showed me pictures of the donkey and told me the tale how he fell of the cliff). But, even if it was still alive, I don't think you count a donkey as a resident ;-) --Dijxtra 08:32, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link

Sveti Andrija (#47 in the list) leads to a disambiguation page. Please, fix.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:31, 17 October 2006 (UTC)