Category talk:Diplomatic missions by sending country

message: Based on advice from several people, I have started to rename the articles (beginning with "A") to follow Wikipedian naming conventions ("Albanian diplomatic missions" becomes "Diplomatic missions of Albania"), with the category tags written so that they are ordered according to the name of the country. Kransky 12:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming Convention

message: As per past discussions, and in other forums, I propose following the United Nations geoscheme (see map above) for determining which countries are in which regions.  Drilling down to sub-regions (Southern Africa, Micronesia etc) is unnecessary I feel, but the 'Americas' can be easily be divided into 'Northern America' and 'Latin America and the Caribbean'.
Please see these articles to check which countries are in which regions:
*Subregions of Europe (several Central Asian and Caucusus states should be moved to Asia)
*Subregions of Africa (OK)
*Subregions of Oceania (OK - should also include Papua New Guinea)
*Subregions of Asia (include all countries listed as Middle East, including Iran and Turkey, and the aforementioned Central Asian and Caucusus states)
*Subregions of the Americas (as mentioned, split between 'Northern America' and 'Latin America and the Caribbean')  Kransky (talk) 12:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you have found a great compromise and, as mentioned earlier, I am able to help with making the changes to the Diplomatic Mission's pages - if thats what we decide. ◈ ithinkhelikesit ◈ 17:03, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Other people have been working on the Diplomatic missions in X articles and should be consulted.  In these articles missions are listed by hosted cities, not continents/countries, so I don't know how the two kinds of articles can really be standardised.  Kransky (talk) 10:09, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Well Eae, there are already such articles for 162 countries, listed under Category:Diplomatic missions by host country.  They roughly follow the format you suggested.  You might want to speak to some of the people like Karrath, Aquineo, Canadianbobby etc and bring up your suggestions.  Kransky (talk) 05:33, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: UN Geoscheme

message: User:W_Tanoto has changed Diplomatic missions of Indonesia to reflect the fact that the Indonesian mission to the Holy See is located in Rome.
We have stuck to the convention of stating such missions are in the Vatican City, which is in fact incorrect (although the beseiged British Embassy was within the Papal walls during the Second World War).
I propose that as part of our revamp of the articles, to match countries to UN Geoscheme continents, we specify that missions to the Holy See (not the Vatican City) are in Rome.  Kransky (talk) 05:00, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Diplomatic missions to the Holy See

message: We have categories for the diplomatic missions of a given state.  :Category:Diplomatic missions of Italy for example is tagged for articles related to the Italian embassies in Ottawa, Prague and Washington.  This should not be confused for the article Diplomatic missions of Italy, which lists all the embassies and provides some coverage.
The original intent was that only articles would be tagged with this category, and not other categories (making them subcategories).  As long as the number of subcategories was kept manageable there was no problem.  
However recently there has been an explosion in the number of these subcategories.  In most cases there is no apparent notable for these subcategories to exist - there may only be one or two articles (often usually to only one stub-class article that gives its address in Ottawa or Washington DC).  
Now there is nothing wrong with these articles or subcategories per se, except that they crowd out links to the existing articles on the :Category:Diplomatic missions by country homepage. 
The previous structure was more logical and intuitive - a user would access articles like Embassy of Mexico in Prague from articles like Diplomatic missions of Mexico linked on :Category:Diplomatic missions by country, rather than going to the article from :Category:Diplomatic missions of Mexico listed on :Category:Diplomatic missions by country.  Kransky (talk) 11:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Subcategories 

message: Much of what appears on this talk page is inappropriate, as much of it is discussing everything but the category. All future discussion, particularly when related to article content, needs to be moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject International relations. --Россавиа Диалог 06:16, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate use of this talk page