Talk:Uganda (1962–1963)

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This article is only about a single year in the history of Uganda, and if there's anything new here it only needs a small addition to the article History of Uganda (1962–71). -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:02, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In which case I will add more information. The intention here is to create an article for each of the (former) commonwealth realms, of which Uganda was one. There's an article for the dominion of India, and that was only for three years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JWULTRABLIZZARD (talk • contribs) 12:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you'd need to reference some sources for that approach, and they would need to show the existence of the "Dominion of Uganda" as a notable entity and support what the article says about it. It should also be linked from the History of Uganda (1962–71) article (just as any other "Dominion of..." articles should be sourced and linked from their relevant history articles too.) -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:50, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

-agreed. Although I'm not quite sure how to go about linking the articles, though of course I will do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JWULTRABLIZZARD (talk • contribs) 14:43, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As it happens I lived in Uganda in the late 1960s. I never heard the term "Dominion of Uganda" used to describe the country although of course it may technically have been a dominion, but the History of Uganda article implies otherwise. At best this article is misleading and confusing and of course a content fork. andy (talk) 00:20, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

-again; this was a mistake on my part. The term 'dominion of -' to describe a commonwealth realm was not used after 1948. Nevertheless, if you look at both the wikipedia article on 'commonwealth realms', the 'worldstatesmen.org' section on uganda, and the 'www.archontology.org' section on 'uganda'; it becomes VERY clear that it certainly was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JWULTRABLIZZARD (talk • contribs) 11:22, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

-also, it's not intended to be a content fork. There are thousands of articles on historical states on wikipedia; should these be taken off as well? Do we delete 'Nedic's Serbia', 'Nazi Germany', the ' French Empire', the 'Kingdom of Serbia'? With respect; I don't really see the logic here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JWULTRABLIZZARD (talk • contribs) 11:30, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

-not to mention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_headed_by_Elizabeth_II -uganda is quite clearly there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JWULTRABLIZZARD (talk • contribs) 12:38, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing

The referencing of the article is not improved by removing one source and replacing it with a worse one, see Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources#Questionable and self-published sources. DrKay (talk) 08:15, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]