Talk:South West Africa

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Contents 1 Heading 2 Merge 3 Map 4 Politics

[edit] Heading

In the English edition the name should be South West Africa without the hyphen. SteveH 02:07, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Agree, outside of wikipedia, the term sometimes include the hyphen, but hyphen use is redundant. Redirecting German South West Africa, South-West Africa to move South West Africa. Electrawn 22:42, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I don't think it's proper to merge it into History of Namibia; instead, from there a link (ie: Main article: South-West Africa) to this article can be placed instead, with only a summary paragraph in the history article. SWA existed for long enough to have an involved history. Look for instance what was done in the History of South Africa article, especially in the "Legalised discrimination" subsection of "Apartheid era". dewet|™ 19:03, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree. As country-like entities, they can support much of the boilerplate and format that country articles have, while "History of X" articles are typically narratives not well suited for describing government, economy, communications (including my favorite, the postal system :-) ) of the colony. Colony articles have generally gotten short shrift in WP, no doubt because of the political incorrectness in describing them as anything other than evil aberrations along the way to glorious independence. 1/2 :-) Stan 22:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map

I added the map of Namibia to the article! If I did something wrong pleace contact me. Dr.Poison 22:22, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Well done... I've moved it up a bit, but otherwise quite fine. dewet|✉ 08:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I added it to the article about German South West Africa also ���Dr.Poison 20:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Politics

I think that both this and Union of South Africa should have Politics sections that deal with the politics of these nations during the times that they existed.