User talk:Sampsa

Administrative divisions of the Republic of Karelia
The administrative division information in all those articles I wrote comes directly from OKATO (~"General Russian Classifier of Administrative and Territorial Objects"). This is a federal document, the information for which comes from the local authorities. The document is put together mostly for accounting and government usage and is updated rather frequently. The reason the official website does not mention all the finer distinctions between settlement entities is because it is generally of little or no interest to the general public. All in all, this is Russian bureaucracy at its best, but since I wanted the articles to be as accurate as possible, I included that information.

Also, if you intend to keep these articles in the Finnish Wikipedia, I would recommend that you watchlist them here as well. The changes are frequent enough for the articles to become out-of-date pretty soon. I usually try to keep up by checking OKATO for updates every few weeks and correcting Wikipedia entries accordingly.

Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have questions.&mdash;Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 16:38, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Basically, all articles that start with "Administrative divisions of...". So far I completed them for all of the Russian republics, both federal cities, and Altai Krai. I'll be adding more later, but this is not going to be quick.

The rest of the articles on Russian federal subjects contain an "Administrative divisions" section, but it's basically just a list of districts and sometimes major settlements. They may also be not entirely correct.

Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions, by the way. I'm always glad to help.&mdash;Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 17:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)