Talk:Communes of France

message: I read : It is unclear yet where the trend is going. Will the intercommunal structures have representatives directly elected by the citizens in the future, as the Mauroy Report proposed in 2000? But then wouldn't this leave the communes like hollow administrative units? 
But de facto, most of French communes are already nothing but administrative units, the main role of the mayor being acting as a deconcentrated agent of the state, all decentralized power being given to the intercommunal structure (and tht explain Mauroy's choice to leave the seat of Mayor in Lille to become President of the intercommunality). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.161.27.52 (talk) 14:16, 12 April 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What you say is exagerated. For one, there's a very important power left in the hands of mayors: municipal police. As heads of municipal police, mayors are not acting as deconcentrated agents of the state. Also, not all matters have been transferred to the intercommunal structures. In communities of communes especially, the mayors still keep many powers. Hardouin 17:28, 12 April 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The future of communes

message: For noate I made a template :Template:French communes to Mirror the one on FR wikipedia... with a few minor changes you can take the data from the French pages and add it to the English ones...  See the template talk page for some issues or anything else about it. gren 23:36, 1 June 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template 

message: There is no list of communes of French Polynesia. French Polynesia is also not mentioned in the article Commune in France nor in the article Lists of communes of France. Do the communes in French Polynesia have some kind of special status and are not mentioned because of that?In the French-language Wikipedia, there is already a collection (although not a list) of communes in French Polynesia: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communes_de_Polyn%C3%A9sie_fran%C3%A7aise.Here is also a list (the numbers in this list coincide with the list in the French-language Wikipedia):http://www.statoids.com/ypf.html .Yet another list (with missing numbers):http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1126512541&men=gcis&lng=en&gln=xx&dat=32&srt=npan&col=aohdq&geo=-169.-- Citylover 08:17, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: French Polynesia is divided into communes, like the rest of France. These communes have the regular status of French communes. Hardouin 14:18, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If we are to nitpick, one may point that not all France is divided into communes (the TAAF aren't, for instance, and I'm unsure about Wallis and Futuna with their customary rulers). David.Monniaux 05:37, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  (list of) communes in French Polynesia 

message: I read the article, and it is very interesting. Here is a suggestion:
* Doesn't the word communism come from commune ? If so, it could be mentionned
Ze miguel 10:35, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not exactly, commune is derived from the latin word "communia" meaning a gathering of people sharing a common life- aka a community, and communism  is from the latin "communis" meaning things held in common.Xerex 12:14, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions 

message: In the 'Intercommunality' section, it says:
 There are two types of intercommunal structures:
 
 * ...
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 These three structures are given varying levels of fiscal power, ...
Could someone who knows their facts on this make this piece a little clearer please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.74.0.220 (talk) 13:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification? 

message: Maybe we could put that in somewere? --Comanche cph 08:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In commune (subnational entity). — Poulpy 10:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scandinavia also use the word Commune (Kommune) 

message: Large parts of this article sound like poorly translated French. IT could benefit from copyediting from a native english speaker. I'm gonna go ahead and tag it. Niczar ⏎ 07:13, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language style 

message: It appears that the introduction is an overly elaborate way of saying that "commune" in French means "community" in English. Unfree (talk) 19:33, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Community

message: I was surprised to find that mayors of French communes can also be politicians in the national legislature, or have other political jobs.  Where I live, this is not permitted.  Is this something common around the world?  If not, perhaps, it would be an interesting fact to add somewhere to the page?  I would like there to be a seperate section on the governance of communes on the page.  Currently, there is literally only a single paragraph about governance at the end of the "status of communes" section. --Criticalthinker (talk) 07:46, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Governing 

message: At District page there is note that "in the 20th century, districts were a type of intercommunality". But in this page there is no mention of district word at all. Could somebody clarify both articles? Grv87 (talk) 18:12, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intercommunality 

message: Hello. I have the feeling, according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals), that this article should be renamed to Commune (France). I would appreciate some feedback on that. Regards, Freewol (talk) 14:32, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title 

message: This section, in addition to lacking citations, fails to correctly communicate the concept of a median. The section starts, "The median population of metropolitan France's communes as of the 1999 census was 380 inhabitants." Later it says, "What the median population tells us is that the vast majority of the French communes only have some two hundred inhabitants; but there are also a small number of communes within much higher populations." A median number is one that has as many below as above, thus if there are 36,681 communes in France, there are about 18340 with population equal or small than 380, and about 18340 with population equal or larger. The "vast majority" of French communes cannot therefore have only some two hundred inhabitants. If this text comes from an uncited source, I don't want to change it (but perhaps a better source could be found?). If it is original content, it should be reworded to more clearly communicate what the median tells us. It could also include the average to shed further light on the fact that there are several densely-populated communes, and many more with very small populations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.219.123.169 (talk) 07:17, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population of a typical commune 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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replies: text: Communes of France →  – "Municipalities of France" is clearly a Recognisable and Natural name for English speakers. The new name also matches with Municipalities of Belgium Afgra (talk) 09:54, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 18 December 2020 

message: The unsourced section (look for the dubious tag) of this article that I have been finding references for says the Paris commune was established 14 December 1789, but in the actual Paris Commune article from that time, that date is never mentioned and it gives a different date of 11 July 1789. BhamBoi (talk) 23:01, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious history