Talk:Communities, regions, and language areas of Belgium

message: There's an interesting image at the Walloon Wikipedia at , discussing (to the best of my knowledge) disparity of occupations (you know what I mean) in the Belgian kingdom. I think I can figure what "Eterprijhes" and "Indepindants", but am clueless as to "Estat". If anyone can figure this out (or can speak Walloon), this image should be translated and used In Regions. -- Itai 18:26, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can understand (just guessing), it seems to show parts of the population working in private companies (Eterprijhes), as civil servants (Estat) and as self-employed (Indepindants). By the way, the picture layout and colors are rather ugly, don't you think? And would need more explanation and statement of sources. --Edcolins 21:14, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Your translation seems good enough. What do you reckon the title means? (Or, alternatively, how would you phrase an appropriate English title?) Changing the colors won't be a problem once we've imported the image. As far as sources go, adjinçna fwait pa Lucyin Mahin. It would appear to be that the image is derived from data provided at , but I really can't translate it, on account on not speaking Walloon. -- Itai 00:28, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

text: An image is now available at . Truth be told, this is the first time I used The GIMP, but I think I managed rather well. -- Itai 01:21, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  For the title I would say something like "Distribution of employees by sectors (in Belgium)" (still a guess), but your title is good enough maybe. For the labels: rather than "Private sector", "Civil servants" and "Self-employed", I would say "Employees in the private sector", "Civil servants" (or "Employees in the public sector") and "Self-employed in the private sector"... but obviously when you're self-employed, you're in the private sector.. -- Edcolins 10:57, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thought about that, actually. Funny bunch, the Walloon. Probably eat their own self- but no privately-employed grandmothers out of sheer confusion. Anyway, it's going to some time (think 24 hours) before I'll have access to my trusty GIMP, in which time I fully expect you to learn Walloon. Go! -- Itai 18:02, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

text: The title (Sipårdjaedje des bouteus(es) pa cwårtî) means Distribution of working people by sector; eterprijhe is company (here it stands for private company sector), estat is state, that is public sector (paid by taxpayer money); and indepindints means independents, that is people that work as their own bosses. I don't know the usual English names for those categories. AS for the image; I think it would be better to have the graph be drawn trough html code, I just have no idea how that could be done. Srtxg 20:04, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your quick translation! Edcolins, you are no longer obliged to learn Walloon. I will consider using HTML. I've taken translating this graph as a challenge, and translate this graph I will, even if it will bring about the end of Wikipedia and all dear to me. -- Itai 15:51, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is no such language as Walloon.  The Walloons speak French.  But the text in the image is not French neither.  To me it looks as Turkish - French , some phonetic French of a foreigner.
The translations are fine, except that by eterprijhe the editoe probably meant enterprise.  14:30, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: I deleted the district and municipalities section because:
- the term district is not clear: there are different electoral districts for different types of ellections, administrative "arrondissements" and judicial "arrondissements", each with a different territorial scope;
- both of them don't really add something to this page.
MaartenVidal 19:45, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Districts and municipalities

message: Hello,
this isn't easy to find on the net : a picture that shows the linguistic borders, the regions and the provinces all together.  It might give a better view on the situation.
What do you think?
Evilbu 21:56, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added one. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A picture that says it all 

message: As I've said on the talkpage of the article Regions of Belgium, I think it would be better (at least for now) if that article is merged into this article. Regions of Belgium includes exactly the same information about the Belgian Regions as this article's section on the Regions, so in my view nothing justifies the existence of that article. What do you think about merging that article into this one?--Ganchelkas 15:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge [[Regions of Belgium]]?

message: Could the person who referred to the category on "States of the United States" during a discussion on this talkpage please edit his or her words so that this page no longer appears in the list of articles in that category. Thanks.--Ganchelkas 15:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Decategorization

message: At the beginning of this section, there is a sentence "..589 municipalities..(..municipal merger operation mainly in 1977).." Isn't the word "reform" more appropriate than "operation", which makes me think of what goes on at a hospital/medical clinic or in a "military operation". Having just gone through a municipal reform etc. from January 2007 (officialy called the "structural reform") in my native Denmark, I am convinced the word "reform" should be used here instead of "operation".Bornsommer (talk) 07:46, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country subdivisions 

message: *In the map of regions and its legend there is an error: there is no bilingual German/French area. There is a French language area (correctly marked in red) and a German speaking area (must be marked in blut, NOT in red/blue stripes; the legend must read "German", NOT "Bi-Lingual German Fr"). Both language areas together make up the Region of Wallonie.
*Furthermore, the table below (correctly) states that the Capital Region belongs to the French community, but it also belongs to the Flemish community. Hence, the table needs an additional line "Community: Flemish - Region: Capital (Brussels)"
Reilinger (talk) 11:25, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors in Map and Table 

message: This article deserves a simple Venn diagram to illustrate the partial overlapping of Brussels and Wallonia with two (ethno-)linguistic communities.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.169.40.7 (talk) 07:52, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Venn diagram