Firstly the issue is complicated.
I do want to point out few things:
- "Kurdistan" and "Iraqi Kurdistan" are completely different entities, we should not confuse the two. Iraqi Kurdistan is indeed a state in the Iraqi federal system. Much like how Michigan is a part of the United States. I am focusing on "Kurdistan" and not "Iraqi Kurdistan" - There is no entity that claims Kurdistan to be a country. It is not a political entity in any sense. - We do not know the exact borders of Kurdistan and there is no single authority to make such a claim. There are numerous contradictory maps on the internet defining "Kurdistan" and some of those maps occupy a very vast area while others aren't as impressive. Basically the borders of Kurdistan is defined by the last person drawing them.
If you disagree with any of those three points feel free to say so.
I do not believe tagging cities towns and other human settlements under "Kurdistan" is wise. That the [[Category:Cities by country]] scheme, something incompatible with geographic regions.
If we are going to treat Kurdistan as a geographic region, we should not tag cities and other settlements at all with Kurdistan since we categorize cities by country not geographic region. We do not even categorize cities by continent let alone a controversial and tiny (in comparison to continents) geographic region like Kurdistan.
A list would be better than a category [[List of cities allegedly in Kurdistan]] or something along the line (name I chose is probably not perfect). I am not certain if we have something like [[List of cities in Europe]] however.
The scheme proposed by Neil Harris is fine for countries but Kurdistan is not a country as I stated above.
Any disagreements so far?
- Cool Cat
On 2/3/07, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Cool Cat wrote:
Do you have a scheme in mind?
- Cool CatOn 2/2/07, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/2/07, Cool Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'd like to invite everybody here to get involved with the
discussion in
[[:Category talk:Kurdistan]]. There currently is a confusion on what
the
inclusion criteria supposed to be.
At the moment unrelated articles such as airline companies, rivers, mountains, towns, cities, city squares, long dissolved countries,
among
other things are categorized under the same category.
Instituting subcategories would probably quell many objections.
Presumably something like this, following the pattern of similar sub-categories for many other countries:
[[Category:Cities in Kurdistan]] [[Category:Communications in Kurdistan]] [[Category:Economy of Kurdistan]] [[Category:Education in Kurdistan]] [[Category:Environment of Kurdistan]] [[Category:Geography of Kurdistan]] [[Category:Government of Kurdistan]] [[Category:Health in Kurdistan]] [[Category:History of Kurdistan]] [[Category:Images of Kurdistan]] [[Category:Kurdistan stubs]] [[Category:Kurdistan-related lists]] [[Category:Kurdistani culture]] [[Category:Kurdistani law]] [[Category:Kurdistani media]] [[Category:Kurdistani people]] [[Category:Kurdistani portals]] [[Category:Kurdistani society]] [[Category:Military of Kurdistan]] [[Category:Organizations based in Kurdistan]] [[Category:Politics of Kurdistan]] [[Category:Provinces and territories of Kurdistan]] [[Category:Religion in Kurdistan]] [[Category:Science and technology in Kurdistan]] [[Category:Sport in Kurdistan]] [[Category:Tourism in Kurdistan]] [[Category:Transportation in Kurdistan]]
-- Neil
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