Talk:Raions of Ukraine

Raion names
I suppose it's a good idea to name rural raions withot a suffix -skyi using  format (Znamianka Raion, Boryspil Raion). But for city raions that don't have formal centers, it's better to leave its adjective form ("Zhovtnevyi Raion", "Babushkinskyi Raion"). --Serhii Riabovil (talk) 07:44, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Translation
For these: the term "raion" is translated. Why not for Ukraine: ? I think this should be in English for Ukraine too. Please advise how that can be done! Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 04:25, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Category:Districts of Belarus
 * Category:Districts of Sofia
 * Category:Districts of Latvia
 * Category:Districts of Moldova
 * Category:Districts of Russia by federal subject
 * Category:Raions of Ukraine
 * I would also prefer to translate it. Let us take it to Wikiproject:Ukraine and mark as RFC.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:49, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I also could not find any Chinese or Japanese terms untranslated. Kamikawa (Ishikari) District, Hokkaido not "Kamikawa Gun". Also elsewhere in Europe it is Districts of Austria, Districts of Switzerland, Districts of Norway....
 * The consensus in Wikipedia seems to be to use terms that are found in English language countries. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 23:28, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I oppose a translation because of the following: Happy edits, my young enthusiastic friends. Ukrained2012 (talk) 11:34, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The term "district" may be ambiguous and incomprehensive for the raions of Ukraine. For instance, they are usually too large compared to entities called "district" in English-speaking world;
 * Local word raion is world-spread enough to become an English loanword - which it already successfully did with the humble help of Wikipedia)
 * A suggested translation is hardly required (or even permitted) by WP rules, and is certainly not common here. For instance, nobody translates French Arrondissements of Paris or U.S. "counties" and "boroughs" as "districts".
 * We experience a most severe lack of editors for Ukraine-related articles. Wasting our scarce efforts on replacement of a VERY widely-used "raion" term is inaccepteable(

User:Aleksandr Krymsky - you might be interested in Category talk:Districts of Belarus. Derianus (talk) 21:33, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

For these: the term "raion" is translated as "district". It is not translated for: 77.180.152.76 (talk) 23:26, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Category:Districts of Abkhazia
 * Category:Districts of Azerbaijan
 * Category:Districts of Belarus
 * 1) Hungary: Category:Districts of Sofia
 * 2) China: Ürümqi, Karamay
 * Category:Districts of Georgia (country)
 * Category:Districts of Latvia
 * 1) Lithuania: district municipality = rajono savivaldybė Category:Municipalities of Lithuania
 * Category:Districts of Moldova
 * Category:Districts of South Ossetia
 * Category:Districts of Transnistria
 * Category:Districts of Russia by federal subject
 * Category:Urban districts of Ukraine
 * 1) the rural districts of Ukraine: Category:Raions of Ukraine

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: No consensus there were 5 supports and 5 opposes which is too close to call. There might a case per WP:COMMONNAME but there was not enough evidence presented. To really decide this some more analysis of what these places are commonly called in reliable sources is needed. The google search was a little bit too blunt a tool decide this. Salix (talk): 18:45, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Raions of Ukraine → Districts of Ukraine – Rename to a word more common in the English language. It seems to be standard in Wikipedia. See above. See also Talk:Cherkasy Raion Relisted. BDD (talk) 20:18, 28 February 2013 (UTC) Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 23:37, 15 February 2013 (UTC) UPDATE: The proposal did not include the move of the individual articles. A proposal to move them is at: Talk:Cherkasy Raion. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 06:03, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, I can not find any previous discussions; districts of Russia are districts.--Ymblanter (talk) 23:39, 15 February 2013 (U
 * Oppose, unless there is foundation for common use in english to refer to them as districts. Also, if we do this, why not rename oblasts to provinces while we're at it?--Львівське (говорити) 00:14, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * We are not "at it". If we are, than we're done with working on more important Ukraine articles. Ukrained2012 (talk) 03:05, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * There is use of "district" documented at Talk:Cherkasy Raion. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 05:57, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * "Documented"? Would you mind elaborating it with diff links? Ukrained2012 (talk) 03:05, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * There is one google link containing the word district. I think you are able to locate it. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 05:16, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, for the sake of consistency. But please make sure that redirects with the term Raion also exist for all these articles, as:
 * 1) the word raion is often used, even in English, to refer to these districts of Russian speaking countries. I have heard this many times
 * 2) the whole thing, e.g. Cherkasy Raion, may be considered by some people a name, i.e. the "raion" bit being part of the same (something like the famous example Washington DC).
 * So, I support this, but all the redirects with Raion must also exist.
 * @Львівське: I think this discussion is not the same as the Oblast/Province discussion. Mainly for 3 reasons:
 * Just like the US has states and Canada has provinces, Ukraine has oblasts
 * I reckon this is ok for first-level divisions (province, state, oblast..), but then at second level it becomes too much, so it makes sense to unify something like a "district" across many countries.
 * If we renamed oblasts to provinces, we would have a problem for example in Russia, where some federal subjects are oblasts, but others are krais, others are republics, others are okrugs and others are federal cities. Can you imagine the mess?
 * Hope this helps. Cheers, Azylber (talk) 03:58, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, of course redirects should be kept. The proposal did not include the move of the individual articles. A proposal to move them is at: Talk:Cherkasy Raion. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 05:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Support WP:JARGON, use the English general term -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 04:54, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Being one of the few who supports WP:UKRAINE, I agree with them. Converting every single instance and moving every single page from "raion" to "district" would be a huge waste of time. Particularly since almost every article links to a "raion-named" page.. Just like mentioned above by Ukrained2012, France has articles such as Arrondissements of Paris and they are not translated into "Districts of Paris," etc. Raion is a loanword and it can be used on Wikipedia as such. It doesn't hurt anything to use the native variant versus the English-language one. If we use "oblast," we might as well use the "raion" variant as well. It has been fine for the past 8 years, why change anything right now?  Facebook like thumb.png DDima 17:16, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It has been wrong for 8 years. Contrary to what you say it is easy to move the articles. Not sure why France gets a special treatment. But that is no excuse and a valid reason either. See the following sets from Europe and Asia (ex-Soviet Union bold):
 * Districts of Albania
 * Districts of Afghanistan
 * Districts of Austria
 * Districts of Azerbaijan (rayon)
 * Districts of Bangladesh
 * Districts of Bhutan
 * Districts of Brunei
 * Districts of Burma
 * Districts of Cambodia
 * Districts of China
 * Districts of the Czech Republic (okres)
 * Districts of Georgia (country) (formerly, translation from raion)
 * Districts of Iran
 * Districts of Iraq (qadaa)
 * Districts of Israel
 * Districts of Japan
 * Districts of Kazakhstan (audan, Russ. rayon)
 * Districts of Kuwait
 * Districts of Kyrgyzstan (район/raion)
 * Districts of Latvia (formerly, translated from rajons)
 * Districts of Laos
 * Districts of Lebanon (qadaa)
 * Districts of Luxembourg
 * Districts of Malaysia
 * Districts of Moldova (raion)
 * Districts of Mongolia (set article, individual articles unnamed/not existent)
 * Districts of Nepal
 * Districts of Norway (set)
 * Districts of Pakistan
 * Districts of Portugal
 * Category:Districts of Russia by federal subject (raion)
 * Districts of Serbia (okruz)
 * Districts of Sri Lanka
 * Districts of Slovakia (okres)
 * Districts of Syria (mintaqah)
 * Districts of Switzerland
 * Districts of Tajikistan (nohiya or Russian: rayon)
 * Districts of Thailand
 * Districts of Turkey (ilçe, no district articles)
 * Districts of Turkmenistan (etrap)
 * Districts of Uzbekistan (tuman, karakalpak rayon)
 * Districts of Vietnam
 * Districts of Yemen (muderiah)


 * I hate being critical, but here you're just throwing few dozen country links at us. What you should do instead is to provide us with a substantiated proof that administrative units in all those very different countries function the same way the raions do in Ukraine. Or, that Wikipedia has adopted a single guideline on districts naming worldwide. I'm afraid nobody is going to provide that proof for you. Ukrained2012 (talk) 03:14, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * But most importantly
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Brody+district%22 - 40,100 results
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Brody+raion%22 - 13,100 filled with Wikipedia.
 * and even stronger within Ukraine, filtering out many non-English languages:
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Brody+district%22+site%3Aua 2,040 results
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Brody+raion%22+site%3Aua - 11 results Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 19:13, 16 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Young man, Google search results do not indicate words usage for the purposes of applying those words in Wikipedia. Just so you know) Ukrained2012 (talk) 03:05, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose as explained in the section above. Happy edits, Ukrained2012 (talk) 03:05, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:COMMONNAME. "District" seems to be more commonly used in English sources vs .--Staberinde (talk) 17:40, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose as per arguments made by Ukrained2012. In addition to his comments on Google hits, I'd also point out that the name should be that which is used in the majority of reliable references. The terms used in the list of countries provided include disparate types of division. In some of the countries listed above (e.g. Israel), they are first level divisions, in others (e.g. Pakistan) second level. Using one English term for all loses precision. Note also that in parallel to the French arrondissements, there are many other types of division that are best not translated from the local names e.g. while Pakistan and Bangladesh are included in the list of countries that have 'districts', there is no mention of the 'tehsil' or 'taluk' subdivisions of these districts. Precision in naming is useful. Imc (talk) 13:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The administrative level does not make WP:UE inapplicable. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 05:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Why change a settled thing? LCS check (talk) 17:36, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Your question implies the untrue. The "thing" is not settled. It is jargon for years. See the list above how the English Wikipedia is doing the naming for other such sets. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 05:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Settled, I mean, as with the foundations of a house. Long done this way. LCS check (talk) 20:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Compare to the recent outcome at Talk:Districts of Kyrgyzstan (formerly Raions). In the spirit of WP:UE, I don't think "raion" is a word most readers will have encountered. If you're familiar with Eastern Europe, it may seem simple, just as I'm familiar with the Länder of Germany, and indeed know their native German names better than the English forms. Here, "Districts" is unambiguous, recognizable, and accurate. It's a great fit for WP:CRITERIA. --BDD (talk) 17:56, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Statistics for sets:
 * Rayons translated as district: 9
 * Rayons not translated: 1
 * Please go and apply WP:UE to the Ukraine set too. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 05:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Closing contested

 * 1) "LCS check" made a meaningless oppose comment ("Why change a settled thing?"). That is not a way to properly discuss. Facts for /why/ to do it have been presented.
 * 2) Other opposing user wrote: "huge waste of time" - that again is not a counter argument if WP policies have to be applied. Instead it should be said, why - based on policies - the current name should be kept.
 * 3) To the contrary, the supporters cited policies, WP:UE, WP:COMMONNAME and made an analysis of how the naming is done for other sets of subdivisions. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 01:13, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
 * True. I am a bit disappointed that this was not done, even though the people who opposed it failed to come up with strong reasons to oppose it. What can we do now? Azylber (talk) 02:03, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
 * As I tried to indicate in the closing comment. The next step is to examine reliable English language sources to find out which is the most prevalent usage. I looked at the various google results which were messy. For example in many sources used of districts in a more general sense.--Salix (talk): 07:23, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I suggest we put this naming aside and rather work on writing articles as we came here to do. A name is a name, what difference does it make? I'd rather have good content and a different name rather than poor content and the "correct name" (depending what side you are on...) I suggest you divert your efforts elsewhere rather than attempting to change a settled thing, wasting time moving articles of raion to district.  Facebook like thumb.png DDima 20:37, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

I’d like to point out that raion/rayon/rajon and oblast are English words, in use since the early 19th century. They are defined in the OED 3rd ed., and not noted as unnaturalized foreign terms. “District” is a convenient gloss to explain raion. But when raions and oblasti are discussed in a broader historical, geographic, or political context, where they may be mentioned alongside autonomous republics, krais, okrugs, selyshches, selos, SMTs, SNPs, etc., then the use of district in isolation could be too vague and potentially confusing. It is not only easily mistaken for some other of the many administrative levels, but for a non-specific area in the generic sense. —Michael Z. 2013-07-13 23:42 z 

Renaming into Districts of Ukraine
We live in the country not kraia, city not misto, district not raion! Please, rename this article into Districts of Ukraine. It's official term used by Ukrainian media and government. Raion is incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kolomiychuk (talk • contribs) 06:16, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
 * What is the point of that since they are planned to be replaced by United territorial communities? —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  16:55, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Splitting proposal
I think that it would be better to split this into two lists like in Ukrainian wiki: List of raions of Ukraine (uk:Список районів України) and List of raions of Ukraine (1966-2020) (uk:Список районів України (1966-2020)) --Atsd (talk) 13:45, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
 * This would be ok with me, as soon as the new article mentions the fact that Crimea and DNR/LNR continue to use the old divisions.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:24, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ymblanter, that is not correct de facto, and not fully correct de jure. De jure: If you read text of the Resolution (пункт 7 в конце) there it writes only about Crimea. Thus in Donbass de jure there are already new raions. De facto both Russia in Crimea and DNR/LNR changed the old divisions that were used before 2014 to the new one (Ukraine does not recognise those changes of course.) --Atsd (talk) 08:18, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, I only mean de facto. The Republic of Crimea is using exactly the same divisionsas were used by the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and I am not aware of the changes in DNR/LNR (though I could have missed these).--Ymblanter (talk) 08:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ymblanter, for the Republic of Crimea see ru:Административно-территориальное деление Республики Крым and those are not the only change which Russian did in the divisions of Crimea. For LPR see ru:Административно-территориальное деление Луганской Народной Республики and ru:Луганская Народная Республика. For DPR I can not find right now the links, but they also made some changes. --Atsd (talk) 09:02, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I am sorry but whoever has written this piece in the Russian Wikipedia apparently does not understand the difference between municipal and administrative divisions. Here, for Russian subdivisions, we use administrative divisions (and comment if there is a difference with the municipal ones). Ukraine does not have municipal divisions.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:08, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ymblanter, I checked the sources and yes, you are right about Crimea. But for Donbass it is not true both de facto and de jure. --Atsd (talk) 12:24, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * This is quite possible (indeed, some districts were split by the front line and it is not practical to continue using them). Just commenting on this should be good enough.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:29, 13 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Ymblanter, as there is no objections, I started the splitting. First I created the List of raions of Ukraine (1966-2020). --Atsd (talk) 11:42, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ymblanter, and now I finish the split. I also added a note above the actual list as you wished. Please correct whatever you want. --Atsd (talk) 09:35, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will have a look.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:50, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 23 November 2021

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The result of the move request was: Moved (closed by non-admin page mover) BegbertBiggs (talk) 14:24, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

List of raions of Ukraine → Raions of Ukraine – per Article titles. Shorter and clearer. The article is about the raions in general and not merely a list of raions. The new name also matches with Oblasts of Ukraine. I wanted to move it without discussion, because did not expect an opposition, but User:Ymblanter undid my move requested, thus maybe he has something to comment on the issue. Northumber (talk) 17:14, 23 November 2021 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:23, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * There are 1945 incoming links here, which need to be fixed first.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:15, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
 * But even after the move List of raions of Ukraine will continue to redirect to Raions of Ukraine. Therefore I see no problem for a move from that. Can the links be fixed by a bot? --Northumber (talk) 17:18, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Ymblanter, after reading the guideline I see that incoming links have to be fixed only if the old title becomes a new article or a disambiguation page. In case of ordinary move there is no such a requirement. --Northumber (talk) 17:22, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment: If the article is not about any specific raion or about a list of raions in the Ukraine but rather about the concept of a Ukrainian raion, then the naming convention should probably follow other established conventions. It seems there are two competing conventions:
 * Village (United States), Village (Taiwan), Heartland (United States), Municipal association (Germany), Nahiye (Ottoman)
 * Oblasts of the Russian Empire, Oblasts of the Soviet Union, Oblasts of Ukraine
 * To me, the scope of second style is a bit unclear. It could be about the list of things in that country just as it could be about the concept in that country. The first style on the other hand, is much more clear that the scope of the article is about the concept in that country and a "List of x" article would supplement it if needed. Gonnym (talk) 11:26, 24 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Support per nom--RicardoNixon97 (talk) 09:43, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. It's more than a list.  Ymblanter's objection about incoming links is not a thing.  Those can be fixed eventually or never. Dicklyon (talk) 08:24, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Tasks
There needs to be a section on what administrative tasks/responsibilities/competencies these raions have left. Across many articles on Ukraine, it's continually mentioned that the communities are taking over most of the administrative tasks of districts, but it's never explained what powers they have left. Also, if their councils have been abolished, this needs to be included to inform that these are no longer local governments. --Criticalthinker (talk) 08:34, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Odessa § Requested move 11 July 2022
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Odessa § Requested move 11 July 2022. Rei (talk) 00:24, 12 July 2022 (UTC)