Talk:Partition (politics)

message: Why does the edit history show this page being created in the summer of 2007?  I know a Wikipedia page with this title and approximately this same content existed in 2003.  I listed it then, or maybe in 2002, on the partition disambiguation page. Michael Hardy (talk) 01:13, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure, but I imagine that at one point the page was deleted or merged into another, then recreated again.  I think doing so deletes the edit history of the original page. --Jfruh (talk) 01:35, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Well, partition disambig dates back to 23:57, March 2, 2003, but I don't think it had 'similar' content. That is, it listed some political partitions but no definitions (see for example this archival version from 2004).-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  01:37, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing edit history? 

message: One of those things on my list, to make secession, partition, separatism a little more consistent with each other. IN the interim, here's an interesting article I just found and will read at some point that will at least shed some light on the subject. Just 355 fair use words, part of the intro. Check it out!
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cibr/WPpdffiles/MFWPpdf/w27_bol.pdf
WORDING MATTERS: PARSING PARTITION
partition n. & v.—n. 1. division into parts, esp. Polit. of a country with separate areas
of government. 2. a structure dividing a space into two parts, esp. a light interior wall.
v.tr. 1. divide into parts. 2 (foll. by off) separate (part of a room etc.) with a partition. ��
partitioned adj. partitioner n. partitionist n. [ME f. OF f. L partitio –onis (as PARTITE)]
(Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1990: 868).
partition n. (15c) 1: the action of parting: the state of being parted: DIVISION 2:
something that divides: esp. an interior dividing wall 3: one of the parts or sections of
a whole.
partition vt (1653) 1a. to divide into parts or shares b: to divide (as a country) into
two or more territorial units having separate political status 2: to separate or divide by
partition (as a wall)—often used with off partitioner n
partitionist n. (ca. 1900): an advocate of political partition.
(Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed., 2003: 904).
The standard dictionaries of English suggest that partition and division are synonyms.
Partition, in a general sense, is the division of an entity into parts. It may be
analytical: a mathematician partitioning one side of an expression to develop a proof
divides nothing in the physical world, even though the deductions may be recorded
in writing. But partition may be actual; something that exists is divided; independently
of what observers think, a unified entity is divided into parts, as when a butcher
dismembers a sheep’s body. Partition may also be subjective: one observer testifies
to the division of an entity into parts, but another may deny that it was a unified entity.
A political partition objectively divides a previously unified territorial entity into two or
more parts, which may be marked with borders, codified in new maps, and operationalized,
for example in demarcated lines, perhaps accompanied by fences, walls,
paint or barbed wire, or punctuated with official posts where passes or passports
may be demanded. Reactions to a political partition are subjective, but in a systematic
manner—there will be proponents, opponents and the indifferent, who are always
with us.
Carol Moore 03:02, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How About Researching and Sourcing the topic?

message: :
Does this mean that the partition of Czechoslovakia was not a partition? or that the partition of India, if done with more sensitivity to local preferences, might not be a partition? —Tamfang (talk) 21:21, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  too narrow? 

message: I propose that the list of examples be split into a separate page. It's extremely long and weighs down readability in my opinion. Yr Enw (talk) 15:38, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I'm gonna do this, if nobody objects in the next few days Yr Enw (talk) 07:11, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting proposal