Talk:Districts of Bhutan

message: What is the function of the zones?  Is it worth coloring the map to match the colors in the tables?  --Lasunncty (talk) 06:02, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  zones 

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replies: text: I found updated URLs for the first and third ones.  No luck with the second one.  --Lasunncty (talk) 08:27, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: In the 2017 census, zones aren't even mentioned. I don't see any sources for the zone stats but it may be the 2005 census, which I haven't read. Also, since this page is listed as a "list" on a template (?) in Dzongkhag (only appears on desktop mode), I'll move it to List of dzongkhags of Bhutan.
Edit: some corrections to what I previously wrote and now have removed. So, from my "research", the word "Dzongkhag" is written always in italics, unless part of a name — like "Dzongkhag Series" report or "Thimphu Dzongkhag". In the Constitution, the word is always capitalised, but I think that makes sense, since in the Constitution, all political divisions are always capitalised. In Bhutanese documents, they never use the word "district", they just say dzongkhag, always italicized. Also, unlike this page says, the word dzongkhag isn't both singular and plural. I've seen "dzongkhags" written many times.
TryKid (talk) 08:42, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I forgot to mention the most important thing. I'm going to completely replace this article with content from User:TryKid/sandbox (1 June 2019). As I couldn't find anything about zones, it doesn't say anything about zones.  TryKid (talk) 11:06, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

text: One more thing! There is LITERALLY NOTHING about capitals of dzongkhags. Nowhere. I couldn't find anything about capitals of dzongkhags and this page mentions them but without any sources. So my replacement doesn't have anything about capitals too. TryKid (talk) 11:08, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

text: Also, the Dzongkha spelling of dzongkhags feel like random trivia that'll be more suitable in their respective pages. TryKid (talk) 11:09, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

text: Also, I've modelled my article after FA List of states and territories of the United States and therefore don't include information about number of gewogs and stuff. TryKid (talk) 11:13, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Little to no information on Zones and page move 

message: In https://www.ecb.bt/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ElectionActEnglish.pdf (cited in the article) it says
 A Delimitation Commission shall, for the purposes of section 4, allocate to each Dzongkhag a number of seats in the National Assembly, so far as practicable, in proportion to its registered voter population.
According to the article, Thimphu, with 138,763 people, has 2 representatives; while Trashigang, with less than a third as may people, has five. I'm not saying that the article is wrong, but I think some explanation is needed. Maproom (talk) 08:56, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: . In his book, The Royal Semi-Authoritarian Democracy of Bhutan, Dhurba Rizal talks about this along with some other criticism of Bhutan. Delimitation Commission was criticized for this by some people, saying how Gasa and Thimphu both have two constituencies even though they are the least and most populated dzongkhags respectively. The only explanation is that Delimitation Commission didn't do a good job. You can try to add that and cite Rizal's book but it's very hard to access it. I could only gather a few pages of the book from Google Books preview. I'm pretty lost on this topic though. Another issue you might have noticed is that dzongkhag areas add up to more than Bhutan's total area, by like 2-3 thousand square kilometres. There isn't an explanation for that other than that the official PHCB is wrong. Some websites outside Wikipedia do mention the issue of different sources having different area measurements for same dzongkhag. Sometimes it differs by a small margin but sometimes it's more than 50%. The previous source (NSB too from 2010) for area data mentioned probably more correct measurements but adding that would mean that population density data wouldn't make sense. I chose to just go with PHCB. All in all, I don't know if I should mention all this in the article. It would be great if you could fix all that, but I don't think there's a way to fix it. Regards, TryKid (talk) 15:44, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

text: Some stuff I missed in previous message: 1. I meant criticism of Bhutan's political system, not Bhutan itself. 2. About the area thing: I've already added a note saying all data from PHCB, at least that'll count for something once someone notices how areas don't add up. 3. About the delimitation: this type of stuff happens everywhere, some provinces get more, some get less. Should be fixed in next delimitation. really sucks for Thimphu though. Also, do you think this article even stands a chance for Featured List? I want to nominate but I'm not really sure. It'll be great if you help. Regards, TryKid (talk) 16:00, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

text: One more thing! So, I'm checking a draft Delimitation and noticed that Thimphu's registered voter population is just 13,000! It is much lower than some dzongkhags with lower populations. For example, Samtse (4 representatives) has 40,000 registered voter population. Each Constituency has roughly 10,000 registered voter population more or less (some exceptions are where dzongkhag population is too low to have two constituencies with 10k — like Gasa with ~1k voter population each and Thimphu is ~5k each. So it looks like Delimitation Commission did a good job and I misremembered what I read in that book. I'm trying to find the link to the document again but mysteriously the download isn't appearing in the downloads page on Chrome. If you want it, I can upload it somewhere and send a link. It's a draft but it doesn't look like the final Delimitation was changed from the draft. Pinging once more, . Regards, TryKid (talk) 17:30, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "in proportion" 

message: In response to the author's request posted at the Teahouse, I contributed some edits in a bid to help improve the article. The changes made primarily concerned the lead. I deleted the entry involving Bhutan's geographical location. I hope to make it more concise. Feel free to do a revert or further improvements. Thanks. Darwin Naz (talk) 03:06, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey ! Thank you so much for edits. I really love when others help me. I liked Orville's version though, it looked cleaner. I still appreciate you edits. Keep being awesome! Helping newbies is probably the best thing someone could do on Wikipedia. I really appreciate everyone helping other on Teahouse. I'll also try to be on Teahouse, helping others where I can. Regards, TryKid (talk) 13:13, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead edit 

message: I'll try to find about Dzongdags and incorporate information about them. But I think that'll be more appropriate for main dzongkhag page. TryKid (talk) 15:17, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dzondags