Talk:List of leaders of dependent territories

message: There's nothing special about British Overseas Territories and non-British Overseas territories as they are *correctly* called.  These two should be merged on this page. Also "Commonwealth" are independent countries...  Not territories... The Commonwealth
CaribDigita (talk) 20:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  These titles read very badly.  "Commonwealth" and "non Commonwealth" should be unified 

message: Dear fellow editors,
This article is looks like a complete mess. According to the header text this is meant to list completely disparate entities like Chechnya, Karakalpakstan, Bavaria and Guernsey. There is a basic division which might serve well as a guideline as to what to include in the list and what not is: dependent territories versus subnational entities. The basic difference being that autonomous (subnational) territories are counted towards the national territory of the state and are autonomous 'within' the state, while dependent territories are like possessions that often become independent over time (or integrate fully into the 'mother country'. And of course neither of the above territories have anything to do with such contested territories as Kosovo (or Somaliland, or Western Sahara, etc)!!! So I propose to keep this list to dependent territories. Including all the autonomous territories within all the states would make this list impractically long (and basically inconsistent). Among the French overseas territories there are significant differences with regards to their constitutional status, so the basic divide there is whether a territory is 'overseas territory' or 'overseas department', the first group in are dependent territories and the latter are part of France proper. Furthermore I also don't see any sense in separating Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth entities - this seems completely arbitrary. Please add your thoughts! ZBukov (talk) 10:15, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message:  218.250.159.25 (talk) 19:14, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Pretty much the same list, with only layout and formatting differences. --Nevé–selbert 01:15, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 07:53, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[List of current dependent territory leaders]] 

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message: Ytpks896, Pakistan has never incorporated Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan into the country, and the following Wikipedia articles describe Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan as "dependent territories."  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Azad_Kashmir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunza_District
50.111.110.138 (talk) 06:00, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dependent territories of Pakistan 

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