Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/August/23

Republic of Macedonia-geo-stub

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The result of the debate was rename to RMacedonia

Surprise, surprise, someone decided to unilaterally move Macedonia-geo-stub to a new title, without first checking the naming guidelines or proposing the rename. unfortunately, they chose a non-compliant name. Now, while I can understand the name "Macedonia" creates some problems with one neighbouring country, this new name is not a good one, for the reasons stated. In order not to create a diplomatic incident, may I suggest the solution used by the UN with the renaming of this to FYROMacedonia-geo-stub. It's probably worth checking the other Macedonian stubs to see whether similar botching has been made of them, too. Grutness...wha?  07:19, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The material relating to the Rep. of Macedonia / FYROM / Slavic Macedonia / (whatever) uses the form "Macedonia-" If we do a rename, how about "RepMacedonia- ..." or "MacedoniaRep-...". The main article is called Republic of Macedonia and the corresponding permcat is . On the other hand, the bio per country category uses category names like . "RepMacedonia" would be my first choice, but on the other hand, we have template names like BlackSeaTR-geo-stub and LimburgNL-geo-stub so MacedoniaRep-geo-stub might be the most consistent solution. We also have a RCongo-stub around (Republic of Congo). Valentinian T / C 16:31, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Purely on aesthetic grounds, absolutely reject anything reeking of FYROM . RMacedonia-geo-stub by analogy with RCongo-stub is fine with me if needed to assuage the tender feelings of the Greeks and/or provide additional disambiguation from CentralMacedonia-geo-stub and WestMacedonia-geo-stub. (BTW, shouldn't there be at least templates for all 13 Peripheries of Greece?) Caerwine Caer’s whines  18:37, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It would seem sensible if the remaining peripheries were templatised, yes. Alai 23:58, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * RMacedonia-geo-stub works for me. The BlackSeaTR analogy's a bit of a strectch, since it's for regions within countries, rathert than the countries themselves (and even if it was used that would make it MacedoniaMK-geo-stub). Grutness...wha?  00:05, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
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reversal of redirect BiH-geo-stub / BosniaHerzegovina-geo-stub

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The result of the debate was reverse redirect

Just a minor bit of housekeeping. At the moment BosniaHerzegovina-geo-stub redirects to the poorly-named BiH-geo-stub. I've not too much objection to the BiH name being kept, though it is a bit kludgy, but since we're now adding -bio-, -politician- etc stubs, it would be as well to use a better "main name". Grutness...wha?  07:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. AFAIK, the more recent templates all use "BosniaHerzegovina- ..." Btw, if anybody wondered, BiH means "Bosna i Hercegovina", i.e. "Bosnia & Herzegovina". Valentinian T / C 16:19, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
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