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[edit] Naming of concrete entities

see: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Subnational entities/Naming

Please see List of FIPS region codes for a long list of about 3500 subnational entities, a substantial number of which are now linked to the corresponding Wikipedia articles. Names on this page are in a canonical format of

[[link|name-in-local-language entity-type-in-English, country]],

where the country name is in English, except where the entity type is untranslatable (for example, as on oblast), in which case the native word is used,

[[link|name-in-local-language entity-type-in-local-language, country]],

or the native usage is totally different, in which case the format is

[[link|name-and-in-local-language-and-style, country]]

-- The Anome 19:55, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

PS, regularizing the links for this page is likely to result in something marvellous happening... -- The Anome 14:27, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Naming of entity types

Currently except for China, all(?) pages (see: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Subnational entities/Naming) use plural like Provinces of Afghanistan. Some people say this is not in line with the wikipedia rule to use singular for article titles. China use singular like Province of China.

But this can be misleading, because "Province of Something" can mean the following:

On the other hand, pluralisation can not be done for all entity-types, because there might be a type with only one entry (member).

e.g. Shennongjia Forestry Area is the only county-level forestry area of China. Hong Kong was the only special administrative region of China from 1997 to 1999.

Alternative could be to use singular and put in brackets the governing area like "Autonomous region (China)"

Tobias Conradi 05:28, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project

Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Cheers, Shanel 22:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project rename

I would like to rename Wikipedia:WikiProject Subnational entities to Wikipedia:WikiProject Country subdivisions. Reasons

  1. the term subnational entity can infact refer to national entities in multinational countries.
  2. makes it clearer a descendent of Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries

Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requests for arbitration

See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Administrative divisions.

--William Allen Simpson 04:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Just to say I've recently become interested in the nature of country subdivision, subnational entities, etc and am presently awaiting information from a member of the NGA as regards how many orders of administrative subdivision they use, their definition and some examples. I'll add something here once I know more. Best wishes, David Kernow 14:54, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Update

Have posted a query here. David 00:46, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion and pointer

Hi all:

[edit] "Subnational entity"

Since say a company (or other organiz/sation) might be a "subnational entity", how about using "subnational division" instead...?  I realise this amendment would affect (1) article disambiguation (e.g. Amt (subnational entity)); (2) categories such as Category:Subnational entities; and (3) a number of templates using the phrase; but I'd aim to work my through these. Thanks in advance for your thoughts, David Kernow (talk) 06:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

using the word subnational at all seems bad. Some subnational entities in fact are national entities. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
What kind of "entities" do you have in mind...?  Thanks, David (talk) 23:47, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{Subnational entity}}

Suggestion re this template here; again, your thoughts welcome. Regards, David Kernow (talk) 06:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 14:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)