Commons:Categories for discussion/2007/07/Category:Flanders
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Flanders is an historic region, which overlaps Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. The category is currently used for both the Flemish Region and the Flemish Community.
The categorizations of the historic region, the region of Belgium, and the linguistic community are obviously very different.
So, I request the move of the contents Category:Flanders to Category:Flemish Region, in order to:
- recover Category:Flanders for media files which are related to the historic region
- individualize the different subjects for better understanding, to establish correct interwiki links with Wikipedia articles, and approprate categorization
- name each category according to the correct names of these subjects (references: English Wikipedia and this official page).
Notice that User:Foroa has removed the move template, though the discussion is not finished. --Juiced lemon 19:27, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
- Flanders as a historic region used to be a countship coinciding with the current provinces West-Vlaanderen and Oost-Vlaanderen, later it used to overlap parts of Belgium, France and the Netherlands. This no longer so. Currently Flanders (see this official site) is the part of Belgium, consisting of the 5 Flemish provinces. In the Netherlands the erstwhile overlap is now called Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, in France: la Flandre française (French Flanders) (which is not the same as Vlaanderen). I strongly oppose the move. Lycaon 18:36, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- Stupid Flanders. -Nard 19:05, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- In reply to the person who gave me a civility warning for this comment, "Stupid Flanders" is a Homer Simpson quote. I thought it would be funny (if off-topic). It has nothing to do with Flemish people of today. -Nard 19:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- A lesson for all of us that pop-cultural references originating in North American Anglophone culture will not always be recognised in ou multicultural and multilingual milieu! I didn't recognise the original reference, but your explanation gave me a chortle. Thanks all! Man vyi 19:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- Just put an Brit and an American thogether: there already you have a completely different sense of humor. Let alone when switching to "real" different languages. --Foroa 20:51, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- A lesson for all of us that pop-cultural references originating in North American Anglophone culture will not always be recognised in ou multicultural and multilingual milieu! I didn't recognise the original reference, but your explanation gave me a chortle. Thanks all! Man vyi 19:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- In reply to the person who gave me a civility warning for this comment, "Stupid Flanders" is a Homer Simpson quote. I thought it would be funny (if off-topic). It has nothing to do with Flemish people of today. -Nard 19:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)