Talk:Wadelai

1963 survey
I have removed the assertion that "A survey was made in 1963." and what I assume was the reference, "BRATHAY EXPLORATION GROUP EXPEDITION TO UGANDA 1963 RGS-IBG Expeditions Database".

I found two relevant points: jnestorius(talk) 01:06, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Brathay Exploration Group visited the area in 1962; descriptions in this short film and this journal article do not mention Wadelai.
 * The Uganda Museum's Baker Centenary Expedition did survey the Albert Basin in summer 1963, taking in two area:
 * "The area to the south of Lake Albert and east of the Semliki River between the Kisegi and Wasa Rivers"
 * "The Murchison Falls area to the north of Lake Albert on both banks of the Victoria Nile"


 * All's well; I found online sources and re-added with proper cites. jnestorius(talk) 03:54, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Co-ordinates
The co-ordinates  from the 1911 (11th) edition are unreliable; they appear to be a long way north-east of the actual site of the station; they were removed from the article by the 1929 (14th) edition. OTOH there are GeoNames co-ordinates for the modern settlement and sub-county; I'm not sure how reliable they are or what existence the settlement has on the ground as opposed to in a GIS database. Since the article is really about the fort rather than the putative modern settlement I don't think the latter's co-ordinates should be promoted from their present location in the running text. jnestorius(talk) 03:54, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Here are the four relevant places from GeoNames; all in Northern Region, Uganda: jnestorius(talk) 16:08, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Amuru District > Kilak County > Amuru subcounty > (?Atiti village >) Wadelai Hill  (? location of British "Wadelai" base)
 * Pakwach District > Jonam County >
 * Wadelai subcounty >
 * Wadelai village populated place [not a "village" — see next section jnestorius(talk) 16:31, 5 November 2021 (UTC)]
 * Pakwinyo village > Emin Pasha Camp

Villages
From the Nebbi District website is the following 2015 list of the parishes and villages in Wadelai sub-county....

Since 2015:
 * 1) Wadelai sub-county has been moved to Pakwach District
 * 2) the parishes of Ragem Lower and Ragem Upper have been erected into a new sub-county of Ragem
 * 3) two new parishes of Ongwelle and Ojigo have been created in the reduced Wadelai sub-county, presumably taking some of the villages previously in Mutir, Pakwinyo, and/or Pumit parishes. (Probably Ongwelle parish at a minimum includes Ongwele East and Ongwelle West villages, and Ojigo parish includes Ojigu Central, Ojigu East, and Ojigu West villages.)

OpenStreetMap has the most detailed map of the area; its "Wadelai" node has metadata properties "GNS:dsg_string" and "place" with values "populated place" and "village" respectively. The nodes neighbouring Wadelai mostly correspond to village names:

My surmises are as follows:
 * the nodes on OpenStreetMap do not correspond to "village" in the sense of "officially defined local government subdivision of a parish", but rather
 * EITHER "village" the vague sense of "settlement of small population"
 * OR "populated place" in the sense of "small administrative unit", which may be a parish (as with name Pakwinyo, Mutir, and Pumit, all names on the map) or subcounty (as with Wadelai)
 * In which case, it is wrong for GeoNames to have separate entries (and co-ordinates) for Wadelai subcounty and Wadelai populated place. They are one and the same.

jnestorius(talk) 16:31, 5 November 2021 (UTC)