Talk:Mykolaiv Oblast

Language
An editor has questioned the need to mention that the Russian language is the most common language in the city of Nikolaev (a.k.a. Mykolaiv).

At the time of the 2001 census, the population of the oblast was about 1,269,900, of whom Russian was the language spoken at home for 29.3% - i.e. about 372,000. At that time the population of the city of Nikolaev was about 493,860. A survey in 2017, 63% of the population of the city of Nikolaev spoke Russian at home, 7% Ukrainian, and 28% spoke both Ukrainian and Russian equally. These days a lot of people in southern cities speak both Russian and Ukrainian at home. 63% of 493,860 is about 311,000. That leaves only about 61,000 people speaking the Russian language at home in the rest of the oblast. As Anne Applebaum said last year, the cities are "islands of the Russian-speakers".-- Toddy1 (talk) 07:38, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

"Nationality" in demographic data
In the English-language 2001 census documents published by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, the term "nationality" has been used. It has not been used to mean citizenship - 99.1% of people from the oblast had Ukrainian citizenship, and 81.9% had Ukrainian nationality.

Many readers of Wikipedia believe that "nationality" is the same as citizenship. In the USSR this was not the case. The State Statistics Committee of Ukraine has inherited this understanding of the term. To avoid confusion, the demographic data uses the label "ethnicity". In order to allow users to see what has been done, the table also includes the term "nationality" with a link to an article on national delimitation in the Soviet Union because this explains the concept.-- Toddy1 (talk) 07:53, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Control of territory
On the Kherson page, it is noted that this oblast is largely controlled by Russia. For consistency it would be good to add that Mykolaiv is partially controlled by Russia. CaeciliaAquila (talk) 03:44, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Maps are contradictory re border with Kherson Oblast
The map in the infobox and the map of raions as of August 2020 have different borders between the Snihurivka urban hromada of Bashtanka Raion and Kherson Oblast. Which map is correct for the current border? Nurg (talk) 07:43, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Mykolaiv Oblast
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Mykolaiv Oblast's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "ua2021estimate": From Kyiv:  From Kharkiv Oblast:  From Chernivtsi Oblast:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 12:25, 20 January 2023 (UTC)