Wikipedia:WikiProject Years/Category hierarchy anomalies

This page lists two kinds of anomalies in category hierarchies for country chronologies, as a result of which the standard category header templates are not used or do not create the required navigation links.

In the first case, the current workaround is either
 * 1) to subst: the templates and edit the results, or
 * 2) to create the page manually and only include the parent categories that exist.

In the second case, the current workaround is either
 * 1)  as (1.) above,
 * 2) use standard templates and add category redirects for navigation between old and new names, or
 * 3) use specifically tailored versions of the templates for the periods around the change of name, e.g. those in Category:20th-century establishments templates by country.

Chronology categories that do not have the usual full parenting
These are small or sparsely-populated hierarchies that do not require all the usual parents, e.g. decade or "by year" categories.


 * Category:Establishments in the Crimean Khanate
 * Category:Establishments in the Free City of Danzig
 * Category:Establishments in Italian Somaliland
 * Category:Establishments in the Federation of South Arabia by year (1963–1967)
 * Category:Disestablishments in the Federation of South Arabia by year
 * Category:Establishments in North-Eastern Rhodesia by year (1900–1911)
 * Category:Disestablishments in North-Eastern Rhodesia by year

Regions that are not countries:
 * Category:Establishments in Rodrigues by year – island of Mauritius
 * Category:Establishments in Schleswig-Holstein (only populated with 1838)
 * Category:Establishments in Frankfurt (as a city-state; only populated with 1858, between end of HRE in 1906 and annexation by Prussia in 1866)

Countries with name changes in chronology categories

 * Note: Some category hierarchies have categories for both old and new names for the year/decade in which the name changed.

Africa
Burkina Faso
 * 1)  1919–1932, 1947–1958
 * 2) Upper Volta 1959–1984, see Category:20th century in Burkina Faso

Cameroon
 * 1) Cameroon
 * 2)  1884–1916

Democratic Republic of the Congo:
 * 1)  1885–1908
 * 2)  1908–1960
 * 3)  1960–70
 * 4)  1971–1997

Malawi:
 * 1)  1907–1964

Mali:
 * 1)  1880–1960

Namibia:
 * 1)  to 1883
 * 2)  1884–1915
 * 3)  again 1915–1989

Zambia:
 * 1)  (the only part that has chronology categories, 1900–1911)
 * 2)  1911–1964

Asia
Israel:
 * 1)  1920–48
 * 2)  1948–
 * 1)  1948–

Myanmar:
 * 1)  until 1989

Palestine:
 * 1)  1920–48
 * 2)  1948–67 /  (Gaza) 1948–59
 * 3)  1967–81
 * 4)  1981–93
 * 5)  1994–2012
 * 6)  2013–
 * 1)  2013–

Sri Lanka:
 * 1)  until 1971

Thailand:
 * 1) Siam until 1939, see

Yemen:
 * 1)  1962–1990
 * 2)  1962–1967
 * 3)  1967–1990

Europe
Austria-Hungary:
 * 1)  1526–1804
 * 2)  1804–1867
 * 3)  1867–1918

Belgium:
 * 1)  1482–
 * 2) Southern Netherlands 1701–13 maybe should be Habsburg? See Category:Establishments in the Southern Netherlands by century
 * 3)  1714–1794
 * 4) Southern Netherlands again, annexed by France 1794–1815, ? category template continues to 1829

Moldova:
 * 1)  August 1940 – August 1991
 * (Note: Not Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for October 1924 – August 1940, since most of its territory is currently in Ukraine)

Netherlands:
 * 1)  1581–1795
 * 2)  1795–1806

Russia:
 * 1) Russia to 1721
 * 2)  1722–1917

United Kingdom:
 * 1)  1707–1800

North America
United States:
 * 1)  1607–1776