Talk:Directorate-General

message: It is a bit typical that I will be unavailable for the next week or so now when the DGs have become the collaboration project.  I will try to participate, but I cannot promise anything.
As for the tasks that I had imagined, they would be something like this:
#Create stubs for all the DGs in line with Directorate-General of the Joint Research Centre, i.e.
#*Mission
#*Structure - including staff and management (commissioner and Director General).
#*Resources
#Create and expand the collective articles for EU General Services, Internal Services, and External Relations.  This is a bit troublesome since their structure and purpose are not clear.  The naming standard for these articles is not set either (as opposed to the DGs).
#Expand the individual DG articles. I do not think that we have to be very detailed when writing the individual DG articles. The DGs change from year to year and, for instance, structure on a Directorate level change quite frequently and thus probably does not need to be listed as in the DG Infso article.  Heads of Unit are obviously not of interest either and Jesús Villasante should probably be deleted.
Remember that some articles might already exist and only have to be linked in on the collective articles, e.g.DG Translation
There is an old discussion about article naming etc. on the EU Wikiproject talkpage.
--Drdan 10:13, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration suggestions 

message: I'd like to revisit the area of naming conventions, on a different topic, though, than the original discussion on EU Wikiproject talkpage.  Directorate-General and Director-General are generic terms.  They are also used by other political jurisdictions in addition to the European Commission.  I did find a draft proposal Wikipedia:Naming conventions (government departments and ministers) described as "under consideration", that might apply. 
In an attempt to be more precise, I've named the article about the DG-Agriculture, that I created today, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (European Commission).
The names of the other articles created so far, are:
*Directorate-General
*Directorate-General for Information Society and Media
*Directorate-General of the Joint Research Centre
*Directorate-General for Research
*Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission
giving us three alternative forms, so far, thus:
*<Name of DG>, no jurisdiction specified
*<Name of DG> of the European Commission
*<Name of DG> (European Commission)
I'm calling for some discussion leading to a consensus of which naming convention we should use.  If we go with something different than my decision for the agriculture article, then I'll take responsibility for moving the article and fixing any links to it.  Thanks, in advance, all, for your opinions! --LiniShu 04:40, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ooops!  I just created a couple of articles without first checking your post here.  I think that the suggestion to add (European Commission) is good.  Before reading this I renamed the articles for General Services from EU General Services to General Services in the European Commission, and the eqvivalent for the Internal Services.  I suppose that that is in line with your suggestion.  The (European Commission) still has to be added to the existing articles.  --Drdan 10:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

text: That proposal to pre-disambiguate by putting (European Commission) in brackets makes a good argument. I agree that we should follow the suggestions it makes. I suggest we don't disambiguate anything with "Euro" in it, however. Talrias (t | e | c) 12:44, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming Conventions

message: Another question with regards to the naming standard.  Since there are just too many DGs to list them all and since the official website list the DGs in a hierarchical way, I decided to do the same when I created the template.  I have however now realised that this probably was not a good idea.  The DGs currently collected by the External Relations page are just as relevant as the DGs listed directly on the template.  The Services DGs on the other hand are not particularly relevant for the broader audience. Consequently, I am considering to redo the template using the three-group structure internal/external/services. This would add another five DGs to the template.  Any thoughts?  --Drdan 10:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Structure in template

message: I've made a novice attempt :) at a to do list for the EU DG articles, at Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union/DG to do.  For those of us who like checking off items on a list, there is an area to keep track of articles to be created/ articles already created for the DGs.  Please feel free to refine it.  --LiniShu 05:13, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: To do list created

message: a previous deleted Directorate General page contained "Directorate General of the European Court of Justice". Alinor (talk) 09:40, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Directorate General of the European Court of Justice 

message: This page begins with a sort-of disambiguation section, signposting to four different types of Directorate-General. It then includes an overview of the EU Commission DGs, which is also given at European Civil Service.
I'm not sure there's much value in having an article about Directorates-General as a concept in the abstract (whatever there is to say about them could probably go under Ministry (government department) or Departmentalization). So I would propose changing this article into a disambiguation page. Charlie A. (talk) 13:44, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to disambiguation page?