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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 Misplaced Pages articles. Names on this page are in a canonical format of
- ],
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,
- ],
or the native usage is totally different, in which case the format is
- ]
-- 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)
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:
- a concrete entity like the Province of Utrecht
- an entity-type (thus a set of entitities with known number of entries) like a Province of China
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)
Articles for the Misplaced Pages 1.0 project
Hi, I'm a member of the Misplaced Pages:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Misplaced Pages 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)
Project rename
I would like to rename Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Subnational entities to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Country subdivisions. Reasons
- the term subnational entity can infact refer to national entities in multinational countries.
- makes it clearer a descendent of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Countries
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Requests for arbitration
See Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration#Administrative divisions.