Category talk:World War I by country

Countries -v- Empires
An editor has removed category:French Colonial Empire and World War I from this category on the grounds that an empire is not a country. The same would be true of: the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the British Empire, the German Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire. My view is that this is an empire is merely a group of countries and this is therefore an ideal place for them. Comments? Roger 10:06, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I would agree with the others, but not the French colonial empire. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire was actually countries, while the British Empire had countires in it like Canada, Australia and South Africa. This is not true of the French Colonial Empire, it was simple the colonial possessions of France, nothing more. Carl Logan 10:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Even if that were true (which it isn't, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, French Indo-China, and most of equatorial Africa can't simply be dismissed as "nothing more than colonial possessions") it was still - after Britain - the second biggest empire in the world and one of the biggest players in World War I. How does excluding it help anyone? And what is gained by doing so? Roger 11:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Algeria was a part of France, Morocco and Tunisia was French protectorates, French Indochina consisted of a federation of protectorates and one directly ruled colony, French West Africa and Equatorial Africa was federations of colonies. No of them had any independence, because of that I thought it would be more logical to sort the category under Category:France and World War I. Carl Logan 11:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I fully appreciate your good intentions. I was just wondering how the complexities of colonial administration really helps with a quick and dirty sorting system. I'm not sure that the independence issue helps much either. The British Empire, famously, declared war on behalf of its dominions, without bothering to ask what they felt about it. Ditto Imperial Germany. Those were the days :)))) Roger 12:06, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

No Category:World War II by country
Surprisingly enough, there is no Category:World War II by country... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:55, 23 December 2007 (UTC)