Talk:Provinces of Belgium

message: I modified the intro because it said that the division into provinces is governed by the Regions, which isn't true. It is true that the Regions are responsible for the provinces, but the division into provinces is governed by Article 5 and 6 of the Belgian Constitution, which state:
Art. 5The Walloon region is made up of the following provinces: The Walloon Brabant, Hainaut, Liege, Luxemburg and Namur. The Flemish region is made up of the following provinces: Antwerp, the Flemish Brabant, West Flanders, East Flanders and Limburg.It lies with the law to divide the territory into a greater number of provinces, if need be.A law can shield certain territories whose limits it fixes, from division into provinces, make them depend directly on the federal executive power, and make them subject to a statute of their own. This law must be adopted by majority vote as provided for in Article 4, last paragraph.Art. 6The provincial sub-divisions can only be established by law.
This means that the Constitution fixes the division into provinces, but that a law can make changes to the division into provinces. "A law", not "a decree". Hence, it would be incorrect to say the division into provinces is governed by the Regions.--Ganchelkas 13:28, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Division into provinces

message: Erreur - Error  --> Flag province luxembourg.png
Image:Flag province luxembourg.png|PAS Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ou Belge ! C'est celui des Pays-bas - NOT Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or Belgium ! It is the Netherlands
Image:Erreur Blason de la Province Luxembourg de Belgique.jpg|Une des Erreurs .... Voila le mot " Queux "
 
Voici une " Preuve " , le site du Gouverneur de la province du Luxembourg de Belgique
Image:Article 45 – Province de Luxembourg – Adoption d’un drapeau officiel - 1955.jpg
Image:Article 45 Province de Luxembourg - Couleur idem.jpg
Image:Flag Drapeau ou Echarpe - Province de Luxembourg de Belgique.jpg
Image:Repository - Respresentant.jpg|Les Echarpes ( de couleur Nationale pour le Gouverneur et de couleur Provinciale pour les représentants )
Image:Photo de notre Drapeau de la Province de Belgique - Auteur de Mr Edmée Garant.JPG|Le Drapeau - De enige die we zien in de provincie ...
Image:B-Arlon09.JPG|Il y a les Drapeau 1) Europe 2) Belgique 3) Wallonnie 4) et enfin la Province de Luxembourg 
Image:Entete de la Province de Luxembourg en Belgique.jpg|Le courier officiel ou sur la photo du drapeau ( par transparence )
Image:Coat of arms of the province of Luxembourg.svg|Le Blason
Image:Armorial - Belgique - Province Luxembourg - Ardeur d'avance.jpg|Logo
- --Bernard Piette (talk) 13:53, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error - Belge - Provinece du Luxembourg ( B ) 

message: I propose that Provinces of Flanders be merged into this page. It seems to be an unnecessary duplication of content and entirely within the scope of this page. Oreo Priest talk 09:40, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully endorse this merger.  This article is of top importance, so it makes sense to beef it up as much as possible.  ConorBrady.ie (caint) 14:59, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

text: Endorse as well, no sense in having a separate subpage for Flanders. Fram (talk) 15:12, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: It appears that the interactive map on this page causes all the text after it to shrink. I have noticed the same problem in the Belgium article. Tad Lincoln (talk) 18:21, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I got it. Tad Lincoln (talk) 18:32, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small text 

message: PDF output using Google Chrome's built-in distiller produces poor results with this page. (Use the Ctrl P command in Chrome to preview). Issue may be with the template used or (more likely) the the way content was entered (coded) into the template and saved by the contributor. For example, when printing this article with Google's HTML to PDF converter, the font size is scaled down too much. Note that the font size should not dynamically scale up or down to fit a page; font size of the main-body text content should be about 12 points on outputted PDF page(s); it is the images and table cells that should dynamically scale up or down to fit the info box and template in order to maintain the two-column Wikipedia layout. The offending element appears to be the table. Refer to this Wikipedia article for a proper printer-friendly layout using tables and images -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_German_Navy_ships  Printchecker (talk) 02:31, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template produces poor PDF (print) output 

message: Most articles on the subdivisions of a country have a clearly labeled map showing such subdivisions. This article has a historical map with regions/provinces/areas labeled, and it also has a modern (2017) population map without provinces labeled. The most important map, one with modern provinces labeled, is noticeably absent. I assume this is merely an oversight. Surely a non-copyrighted, public domain, labeled map of modern Belgium exists somewhere online. Might someone please address this and edit the article accordingly? Thank you. 66.91.36.8 (talk) 01:51, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why No Labeled Map?