Talk:Administrative divisions of the Maldives

message: Although purporting to show the atolls of the Maldives, in fact it shows administrative divisions of the Maldivian government. Some divisions incorporate more than one atoll and many encompass only a part of an atoll. The article stubs generated from the table are even less accurate, again purporting to provide information on each "atoll", but not so, being again administrative divisions of an archipelago. The information here is useful, but mischaracterized - Marshman 01:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Mischaracterized Information

message: Suggest splitting article into two parts: geografic atolls and administrative atolls. lexa 08:32, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Splitting

message: As you can see above, there was a demand for two separate pages, so I have tried to do my best. I hope there is more clarity now that the Physical and the Administrative aspects of the country have been put under two separate headings.
Mohonu 03:48, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Demand

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The lede says there are 19 atolls and 3 cities, the table lists 19+2, and the map shows 20 divisions.  Which is correct?  --Lasunncty (talk) 01:13, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  number 

message: "The administrative definition of an "island" differs from the actual meaning of the word 'island'. While naturally, an "island" refers to a land-mass surrounded by water, an "island" in the administrative sense, refers to a specified inhabited area within an administrative atoll, which is governed over by an "island council". While the majority of "island" class constituencies are indeed natural islands. There are 189 such islands, each with its own island council."
A few questions. First, just to be sure, are administrative islands subordinate to administrative atolls? In the case that they are, they should be indented under "atolls" to show this, as a lower-level subdivision or administration. Second, this paragraph makes mention of inhabited islands, are uninhabited islands a part of an administrative islands, or are they under the administration of the administrative atoll councils? The subordination of uninhabited islands needs to be specified. Also, the third sentence doesn't appear to be a complete one? I think it can be folded into the other ones.
This just needs to be edited for flow and clarity, I think. And perhaps we should even use "administrative island/atoll" when we are talking about them in that context to avoid confusion. Criticalthinker (talk) 04:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islands are Administrative Divisions