User talk:Pakalics

Sântioana de Mureş
First, welcome to Wikipedia. Second, I'd be happy to explain the approach we take on en.wiki to Romanian villages. Editors here who are interested in Romania (and Moldova) have concluded it makes more sense to cover all the information about a commune in a single article, rather than dividing up the article into several tiny, disparate articles and leaving it to readers to guess how the information is related. It's easier to manage (~2800 articles instead of ~13000 ones) and there's more potential for coherent, well-developed articles on communes rather than on villages. Also, the commune is the lowest administrative unit (villages have no powers of self administration), and as a general rule across countries, that's the point at which we stop creating articles.

Nothing is lost in this way: the articles are simply redirected. Anyone looking for, say, Sântioana de Mureş village simply has to type in Sântioana de Mureş and will be taken to the relevant article (Pănet). Also, every village in Transylvania has redirects for its Hungarian name, so if someone types in Csittszentiván, that works too.

Let me show you a couple of examples of how this works in practice, and hopefully you will appreciate the idea: Coronini, Bazna, Berzasca. I certainly encourage you to contribute all you can about the villages of Pănet, only the consensus is those contributions should be within one article, rather than spread around into multiple ones. I hope this makes some sense. - Biruitorul Talk 03:05, 15 October 2013 (UTC)