Category talk:Districts of Afghanistan

Consistency of naming

I'm of the opinion that these should be, as far as possible, consistent. I would suggest the word district should always be included, in lower case. Thus, Gerishk district, rather than Gerishk District or Gerishk. The reason for this is:

Without "district", the vast, vast majority of these will be ambiguous with town, village or province names.
Using upper-case "District" implies that this is part of the name, which it is not.
This would be consistent with the naming adopted by Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian districts (although, some there have argued for upper case District) and more general naming conventions in Wikipedia.

There may be some instances where additional disambiguation is required. This can be done using the Province name - Abc district, Xyz Province (articles for Provinces all seem to use upper case, so that should be reflected here). --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 14:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

district is part of one translated name. (if one doesn't want to show it as part of the name, one could use "X (district)")
India is the only country I can think of, where in WP partially lowercase is used. But this is debated.
"X District, Y Province" is not necessarily needed, one could use "X District, Y"

Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:02, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fine - I don't feel strongly enough to argue, though I wish you'd waited to get consensus before starting to change stuff. I'm a little bit peeved that by changing the piped links on Nangarhar Province, without then moving the articles, you broke the link to some of these and made them orphans. I've reverted that change, but we will now have go through this category, move the rest of these to the upper case titles, and remove the "orphan article" template that's been bot-added to some in the meantime. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 10:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sorry for the orphans, I moved at least all Nangarhar districts now http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nangarhar_Province&diff=69018499&oldid=68793993

Tobias Conradi (Talk) 14:07, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've asked Kingturtle, who has an interest in Afghanistan, to move the last few, which need admin rights. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 15:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]