Template talk:Types of administrative division

message: I would prefer this version
because here it is more clear that the names in the lower right cell are a mixture of low-left and up-right. Easier to see which terms are in which section. The content centered looks nicer, (for marketing) , but is less usefull IMO Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:19, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  (June 2005) 

message: is hamlet a subnational entity? It's really difficult. I do not know the answer. Has any administrative meaning? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:39, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What is a subnational entity

message: But where to? Adam78 02:10, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: there are too much: List of terms for subnational entities Tobias Conradi (Talk) 19:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Krai]], [[kraj]], [[okres]], [[raion]] and [[oblast]] should be included, too

message: Shouldn't Federal be moved to federal/national, since many nations/countries have capitals (and/or capital districts) even if they aren't federations? --Dpr 20:48, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would prefer correct names, i.e. names that the articles use in WP. Some federal districts/territories are never referred to as national districts/territories or there even may be both in one country. Of course these two lines in the template are very close. I thought about having them one follow the other. ... at the end, it is the easiest to only go by alphabet and decide nothing by what the entities might represent. Or shall federal be represented as a sub of national? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 19:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Federal

message: This template is loaded with links to disambiguation pages, including Banner (not labeled as a dab, but should be); Council; Department, and probably some others.  This leads me to question the whole concept of this template.  There are so many different systems of government around the world, each one of which has its own sui generis system of subnational entities, that a template trying to summarize all of them is pretty much useless.  --Russ Blau (talk) 09:40, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 3 of 50 is loaded. maybe lessen your bias. Furthermore you can also help and start new articles. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:53, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to disambiguation pages 

message: where can rural and local councils as SE (subnational entity) be found? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:55, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Council 

message: ...Dominion (colony) was removed. I think it was in because a dominion is not fully sovereign? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:13, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, for one thing, the Dominions weren't "country subdivisions", they were components of the BE; which wasn't a country, but an empire comprised of countries.  The "(colony)" dab is and was always incorrect and by rights shouldn't even exist (who would search for that??).  That is now a redirect to Dominion, which I also just amended to remove the false description of the Dominions of the former Empire as "colonies", which they were not.Skookum1 (talk) 08:09, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dominion 

message: In converting the template to the  format being used in country/territory articles, I've:
# Removed Constituent country, City council and Local council as the first is not a country subdivision and the latter two not used as subdivisions in terms of areas (so far as I understand);
# Removed Concelho and Freguesia as they have standard English equivalents (municipality, parish).
There are more terms to add, per here and probably elsewhere; I'll start work on the former anon. The emboldened terms on the template should correspond with the most popular terms appearing here. Regards, David Kernow (talk) 13:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hoping my merged article on Capital districts and territories hasn't bollixed things up to much. on the linkto page for the new article, I notice the old template still seems to be linking through to the many merged articles separately. Don'tknow if time will take care of that or not... Anyway, please revise the template as you see fit; I have no agenda on the template beyond simplifying the unnecessarily complicated and redundant entries the new one replaces.--Natcase 07:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion to [[Template:Navigation|Navigation]] format 

message: I can't believe we missed such a key one.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  13:21, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Quarter (administrative)]

message: Shouldn't riding be included here too somewhere (a subdivision of county). Jameboy 17:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess so... Is it a current or historical term, though...?  (I'm not sure after a quick scan through the article...)  Thanks, David Kernow (talk) 02:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Mainly historical, certainly in terms of Yorkshire, but it is still used. For example East Yorkshire is more properly known as the East Riding of Yorkshire. Jameboy 18:04, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Riding? 

message: Should the redlinked List of terms for contemporary administrative country subdivisions on the template page instead point to Table of administrative country subdivisions by country, or something else? --Quiddity 19:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template explanation link 

message: May I suggest adding a Hide (unit). Also a Tithing is missing (being 1/10th of a Hundred (country subdivision) which you do list}. Exit2DOS2000•T•C• 23:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Historical units of measure 

message: Anyone else wonder if this template might be better named "Country subdivision types" (per its category)? Sardanaphalus (talk) 12:54, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template name 

message: What about Deelgemeente? Voxii (talk) 23:17, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deelgemeente 

message: Is there some reason why Arrondissement is in capitals? Lozleader (talk) 20:55, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation of Arrondissement 

message: this showed up on the Indian reserve page; when displayed, it shows Reserve as if the two were equivalent; it has no useful purpose on pages, covers too many languages and countries, jumbles contexts; another bad pipe is for "Land District" which only goes to the Tasmanian ones.  This is clutter; especially if it's on all the pages it links to, random and unrelated other than being "country subdivisions"....in multiple languages.  Should be TfD'd.  I've removed it from the Indian reserve page, and will do so also on other pages where it has no role other than template-clutter.  Bulky and poorly arranged, and bloated, is all I see, with no useful purpose.Skookum1 (talk) 15:55, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  bloated and useless and full of errors 

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Terms_for_types_of_country_subdivisions&diff=808466871&oldid=808465621
* removal of items (e.g. the Service districts, School district, National capital region, National capital territory)
* mislinking items (e.g. Land district changed to Lands administrative divisions of Australia)
* addition of country specific items on top of the general term (e.g. County municipality plus County municipality (Norway), County municipality (Nova Scotia))
* missorting of items (e.g. Mountain resort municipality not below Resort municipality)
* missorting of top-level items : Canton before Borough
* turning general item into country-specific item (e.g. Special district into Special district (United States))
* removing part of the name from the label (e.g. Non-metropolitan county changed to Non-metropolitan)
Can someone intervene? 85.182.83.131 (talk) 18:32, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism on content in section Common English terms 

message: # Federal city - 77.179.168.102 (talk) 23:39, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing terms 

message: # Zone - the link to Zone (territorial entity) was removed by Funandtrvl 2017-09-05  The page itself deleted 4 March 2014 by DragonflySixtyseven 80.171.160.223 (talk) 19:28, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing links 

message: # City state - since English nouns are normally head-final and the template sorts by head, it should be under state not city. 77.179.168.102 (talk) 23:46, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misplaced terms 

message: 2014-09-05 Funandtrvl added six non-English language specific templates 
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Later two more have been added:
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On the individual pages, e.g. Muhafazah, these are used standalone. So one cannot navigate to the foreign language term pages and use the footer navigation to navigate back. Footer navigation in general is used for navigation between all items mentioned in that navigation box. To stick to that concept there are two options
# the non-English language templates should be removed or 
# the full template added to all articles involved
Adding the full template to all makes the language specific navigation less usefull, since items are harder to find between the items of the other languages. Even more so, since the templates are collapsed twice. 80.171.160.223 (talk) 19:50, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed as requested. They didn't work properly.William Allen Simpson (talk) 00:58, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terms by language - usage of footer navigation in Wikipedia 

message: It has been a long time since User:Tobias Conradi was banned, and the main article was formally renamed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Country subdivision. There are an awful lot of redlinks in this template. The categories also need considerable cleanup.William Allen Simpson (talk) 00:43, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup