Talk:United States of Belgium

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[edit] Map

The self-descriptive title of the Map is "...A Most Exact Map of Flanders of Austrian Netherlands." When one zooms in on the map the description becomes....A Map of Belgium. Not sure which to use but I would like to re-establish my original edit. OK?--Buster7 (talk) 23:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Flanders was part of the Austrian Netherlands, so a caption that says "Flanders and the Austrian Netherlands" is misleading. Jvhertum (talk) 09:29, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

The map descibes itself. ""Flanders OF Austrian Netherlands""...the title is what it is. To change it to something else is misleading. Lets give the reader a little credit.--Buster7 (talk) 03:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

If the map describes itself as "Flanders OF Austrian Netherlands", why did you change it to "Flanders AND Austrian Netherlands"? Jvhertum (talk) 08:11, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I apologize for removing comments. It was not intentional and I dont recall what they were. Please let me know so I can retrace my steps. Thank you. As for the Map...I still do not feel it is accurate. I will ask a cartographer for help--Buster7 (talk) 20:04, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

It seems as though the proper title, to me, would be "Map of Flanders of Austrian Netherlands". This would both be a derivative of the original title (having "Most Exact" seems quite strange) and an honor to the original author of the map itself. Rarelibra (talk) 21:01, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Flanders (located with-IN) (the) Austrian Netherlands...--Buster7 (talk) 21:36, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry but that makes no sense, "Flanders in Austrian Netherlands" is not even proper English! And it not a map of Flanders only but one showing the Southern Netherlands (identified by Herman Moll as the Pays-Bas Catholiques), which includes not only Flanders but also Wallonia and Luxemburg and parts of present-day France and the Netherlands. Jvhertum (talk) 21:56, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

The article is about Belgium...not Southern or Northern Netherlands, France or Luxemburg. How do we get a mediator involved? Please advise.--Buster7 (talk) 22:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 3rd Opinion intervention

Hi, an editor has asked for help at the Third opinion page. I'm happy to help if I can. Can you each give me a brief description of the dispute? Thanks! --Kevin Murray (talk) 11:03, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

The initial dispute was about the previous map and what it should be titled. Since my request was made, Jvhertum has changed the map to the one in use. I am satisfied with that change.Thanks for your time.--Buster7 (talk) 11:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Glad it worked out! A facinating article. --Kevin Murray (talk) 11:42, 16 May 2008 (UTC)