Talk:List of FIPS region codes

message: Good luck with transforming links such as
* UKA1: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, United Kingdom
into
* UKA1: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, United Kingdom
and could we have a bit more context without need to click thru to other pages ... I've started the process. Have fun & thanks for the list. --Tagishsimon (talk)
There is something wrong with 
*UK00: Aireborough, United Kingdom
Aireborough is part of Leeds.  My guess is that it is many decades since it was a different place --Henrygb 19:36, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Context & good luck...

message: I fixed the Moscow federal city entry (probably it was mistype). Just a question - we have 89 subentities in Russia, so why there is no entry for Ingushetia in the list? MaxiMaxiMax 04:09, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russia 

message: UKH5: probably Leicestershire County, United Kingdom? -- Picapica 11:57, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  Except that "Leicestershire County, United Kingdom" is a horrible usage, as is "Barking and Dagenham London Borough".  I'd like to see this replaced by the correct usage of "County of Leicestershire", "London Borough of Barking and Dagenham" etc, except I'm scared to make this correction because of the above warnings.  Morwen - Talk 10:03, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a US coding system, so the chances of them understanding UK naming conventions is slim. In any case, isn't the correct non-tautological name "County of Leicester"? ;) Owain (talk) 10:20, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, if you look at the actual list you'll see an absence of "Georgia State" and suchforth, and Ireland has "County X".  I'm more worried about the autogeneration of the list.  Morwen - Talk 10:45, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

text: exactly because it is a US coding system - why bother too much with UK naming conventions? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing 

message: since Morwen's edit  the list is not near alphabetic as before, what might be in turn harder to read. All(?) other countries have the name (without descriptor) in front, except for Ireland, where the descriptor is constantly "county". 
The removed subsections are actually mentioned in the FIPS standard  and maybe can help the reader to understand the order of the entries.
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:04, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK list 

message: I made an error in the edit summary   -fips uses diacritics. they just didn't exist in the basic list. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:11, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Afghanistan/ diacritics in general

message: The primary source is useless with respect to New Zealand:
* The entities the list refers to are counties that were abolished in 1989.
* Counties were only a small part of the local government structure, by far the majority of the population lived outside county boundaries in boroughs and cities. Boroughs and cities were not subordinate to counties, the county stopped where the borough began. In some cases the borough or city was an enclave, surrounded by a county, but for many of the biggest cities this was not the case.
In other words, the list is ridiculous not only because it is 16 years out of date, but because the 40 or so largest places in New Zealand at the time have been left off it. Try finding Wellington (the capital) or Auckland (the largest city).
Ben Arnold 23:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Zealand 

message: i don't like splitting the list. was nice to have one central page. surveillance was easier. editing was not that difficult, because one could do it by section. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  splitting the list 

message: As this FIPS standard has been withdrawn, the article needs to be updated to refer to the standard in the past tense and the superseding standard needs to be referenced. —Danorton (talk) 18:40, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update needed 

message: On Eric Muller's site it has all the region codes from the various versions of FIPS 10-4 as well as one 10-3 revision. Does anyone have access to older versions of the standard, like e.g. 10-2, to see if there were region codes assigned in that version as well? In the codes for the Thai provinces it has one strange numbering which hints to a FIPS region code dating from nearly the beginning of the FIPS 10 standard. However there seem to be no online resources of these old standards to verify my guessing. andy (talk) 17:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Region codes in older versions of FIPS 10