Talk:List of leaders of dependent territories

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This is a list of current local leaders: colonial governors (ex.: British governors or French prefects), local heads of government (ex.: Prime Minister of Greenland), autonomous republics or territories leaders (Åland or Karakalpkstan), contested states (Abkhazia, North Cyprus, Somaliland) or important or symbolic administratives divisions (Bavaria, California, Scotland), or all in one like Chechnya. This page has been created this summer (by "86.129.243.203" user), but retired from "Current state leaders".

These titles read very badly. "Commonwealth" and "non Commonwealth" should be unified
There's nothing special about British Overseas Territories and non-British Overseas territories as they are *correctly* called. These two should be merged on this page. Also "Commonwealth" are independent countries... Not territories... The Commonwealth

CaribDigita (talk) 20:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup
Dear fellow editors,

This article is looks like a complete mess. According to the header text this is meant to list completely disparate entities like Chechnya, Karakalpakstan, Bavaria and Guernsey. There is a basic division which might serve well as a guideline as to what to include in the list and what not is: dependent territories versus subnational entities. The basic difference being that autonomous (subnational) territories are counted towards the national territory of the state and are autonomous 'within' the state, while dependent territories are like possessions that often become independent over time (or integrate fully into the 'mother country'. And of course neither of the above territories have anything to do with such contested territories as Kosovo (or Somaliland, or Western Sahara, etc)!!! So I propose to keep this list to dependent territories. Including all the autonomous territories within all the states would make this list impractically long (and basically inconsistent). Among the French overseas territories there are significant differences with regards to their constitutional status, so the basic divide there is whether a territory is 'overseas territory' or 'overseas department', the first group in are dependent territories and the latter are part of France proper. Furthermore I also don't see any sense in separating Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth entities - this seems completely arbitrary. Please add your thoughts! ZBukov (talk) 10:15, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Merge
218.250.159.25 (talk) 19:14, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose -- These are dependent territories, not independent states. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:59, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: Moved to List of leaders of dependent territories, but this one needs a lot of work and may well be an AfD candidate Mike Cline (talk) 19:31, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

List of current local leaders → List of current heads of state and government by dependency or List of current heads of state and government by dependent territory – 218.250.159.25 (talk) 19:14, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose; no reason given. Powers T 19:49, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * "Local" is way too ambiguous. Its scope is dependencies. 218.250.159.25 (talk) 18:10, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * To be frank, I can't even tell what the scope of this article is supposed to be. Powers T 01:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Dependencies, aka dependent territories. 218.250.159.25 (talk) 13:10, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree with LtPowers and I'll go further: The lead doesn't currently establish that this article has any use or purpose whatsoever. The article scope badly needs clarification, and this proposed move doesn't seem to help. At least link to dependent territory in the lead if that's an important part of the scope. And if the scope can't be usefully defined, AfD. Andrewa (talk) 17:28, 15 February 2012 (UTC)


 * REanme to List of leaders of dependencies or List of leaders of dependent territories. This is much more about who the head of goivernment is than who the monarch is, that that also appears.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


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Proposed merge with List of current dependent territory leaders
Pretty much the same list, with only layout and formatting differences. --Nev&eacute;–selbert 01:15, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

I agree Bogdan Uleia 18 December 2016

Support They're the same thing. One is just more expansive. Combining is desirable- Veryproicelandic (talk) 12:06, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Support per policies at WP:FORK, etc. tahc chat 21:11, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 07:53, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

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Dependent territories of Pakistan
Ytpks896, Pakistan has never incorporated Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan into the country, and the following Wikipedia articles describe Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan as "dependent territories."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Azad_Kashmir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunza_District

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