Talk:Basel-Stadt

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Politics section[edit]

'Currently (2006)...' - probably needs updating. Jackiespeel (talk) 11:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 14 January 2021[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. While there was some discussion over the proposal, there did not appear to be any outright objections. Number 5 7 22:52, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Canton of Basel-Stadt → Basel-Stadt – revert undiscussed move, seems to be against wp:commonname. Zach (Talk) 15:41, 14 January 2021 (UTC) —Relisting. (t · c) buidhe 20:25, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Zacharie Grossen and TheAafi: queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This move happened two years ago. See this revision per a request at the RMT. Are you sure that it fits this category? Perhaps RM seems the best option. ─ The Aafī ^{^(talk)} 15:47, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Technically "Basel-Stadt" is more common ("population of Basel-Stadt": 23 results, "population of the canton of Basel-Stadt": 12 results; "area of Basel-Stadt": 24 results, "area of the canton of Base-Stadt": 10 results). This essentially applies to all cantons that are not named after their capital city (like Nidwalden instead of Canton of Nidwalden, Valais instead of Canton of Valais). Please also see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Switzerland#"Canton of" vs no "Canton of". Zach (Talk) 16:53, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment So if we're removing "Canton of" here, does that mean that we should be renaming others too, for consistency? Like, say, Canton of Zürich to Zürich (canton)? 162.208.168.92 (talk) 04:47, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No, why should we? Canton of Zürich does not depend on this page and presumably follows wp:commonname, or wp:natural disambiguation for reasons that concern only that particular page and not this one, unless I'm mistaken. But if there is any proposal to rename other cantons then I'll be happy to give a look. In any case "canton of" is piped out in virtually every list, see for instance List of prominent mountains of Switzerland (which can be seen as an argument for Zürich (canton)). Zach (Talk) 16:44, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support WP:CONCISE, WP:PRECISE, WP:COMMONNAME (t · c) buidhe 06:23, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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