Template talk:Administrative divisions of Ukraine

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People, I don't like both the look and the content of this table. On the look: after you renamed oblasts in 2004 (while I, the founder of the Subdivisions topic :)), was absent), the oblast names look typically ambiguous :(. Seeing the title Poltava for both the Poltava Oblast (instead of Poltavska) and the Poltava proper links, the reader simply suspects editing mistake!! So I think the links for oblasts should be named in full. I guess it would make the table larger and less editable - but not confusing.
On content: having 25 principal cities for such a non-important world country as Ukraine is boring. You'd say: that's encyclopedia! But I ask: how many Americans know 25 principal U.S. cities? Practically, I'd never call Lutsk or Kirovohrad (with all my respect) a "principal city" in a political and/or economic sense. And, BTW, who's gonna develop all those 25 city pages :)))? My suggestions are (variants):
*ten or better five biggest cities (by population)
*cities that represent typical regional subcultures:
**Donetsk and/or Kharkiv
**Kyiv
**Lviv
**Odessa
**Cherkasy or Poltava, as a kind of "large provincial city" (no offense :)
Any other thoughts?AlexPU 14:33, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that Americans might not know all of the 25 "principal" cities but they should remain here because they are important oblast adminstrative centers. We could possibly rename it main administrative cities or smthing like that. And about developing those 25 cities, I did as much as I could with the small amount of info I have, i.e adding some minor info (sometimes more info), some pictures, and the corresponding infoboxes. At least now they look more decent than they were before. But as I said, they should remain here. —DDima (talk) 15:32, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "As you said" :)? "They should" :)? Look, I find your non-cooperativeness disturbing... I'm here for three years but I don't use such wording. So I'll  just edit unilaterally if you don't compromise :((. Of course I won't reduce the number of cities if you promise to develop them. But rewording of this template is I believe really needed.AlexPU 12:36, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

message: This template was created in september 2004 by Wikipedia:WikiProject Ukrainian subdivisions. What should be done with it? It also follows a consistent pattern used by most similar templates (listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries/Templates/Navboxes). Circeus 20:28, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Template:Administrative divisions of Ukraine serves the same purpose as this template. At some point we switched from one to the other. This template is actually the one that is now used on all subdivision pages, and the other one is retired, so I can just redict the other one here. --MapLover 06:03, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Oblasti 

message: Do we really need to list them separately, as it was in the Template:Oblasti? --MapLover 06:03, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, as they are not oblasts, but different entities, although of the same level one step below the national one. --Irpen 06:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For sure, they are not oblasts. And they are not listed as oblasts in this template. They are  listed one level below national, I guess, as they should. --MapLover 06:34, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cities with special status

message: I wonder how many English-speaking people with no particular knowledge of country subdivisions will know that an "oblast" is the Ukranian/Eastern European term for something like a "region". Perhaps its use here (and elsewhere) should be "Regions (Oblasti)" or "OblastiOblasts (regions)" or something like that. Unlike "commune", for instance, I'd say "oblast" is not used nor recognized by non-specialist people with English as their primary language (and most wouldn't know that "commune" is used as a country subdivision, unless they'd visited Switzerland, etc). Sardanaphalus (talk) 14:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Oblasts"