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Renaming discussion

With the CfD discussion on renaming being filed under "no consensus", I suggest we attempt to create one here.

Obviously there is a problem with the categories "Subdivisions of Foo". As I see it, we should rename to a single term which does feel natural and is also correct. Distilling from the discussion on CFD, there are three options:

  1. Administrative divisions of Foo
  2. Political divisions of Foo
  3. Country subdivisions of Foo

Any options I've missed? The Minister of War 08:18, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

i changed your proposal to "Country subdivisions of Foo". You missed the option to use
  1. Subdivisions of Foo

since Foo is a country it might be regarded unecessary to have the word country in the lead. We furthermore need to think about:

  1. Historical ...divisions of Foo
  2. Former ...divisions of Foo
  3. ...divisions of historic countries

"..." means "Administrative" / "Political" / "Sub" / "Country Sub" Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

The qualifier doesn't have to be "sub-", but I oppose the suggested move to "administrative". Since some divisions are not administrative or political, e.g. landscapes, regions, districts, metropolitan regions, and villages, I think it shouldn't be "administrative" or "political". And since many divisions are modern and current, e.g. states, counties, provinces, boroughs, municipalities, towns, and cities, I think it shouldn't be "historical" or "former". How about
  1. "geographical" or
  2. "geographical and administrative"?
--Eddi (Talk) 16:52, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

...divisions of Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan

For these countries there exists the term "administrative" division for a specific type of subdivisions. E.g. The administrative divisions of Myanmar consist of (administrative) divisions and states. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 14:06, 16 April 2006 (UTC)