Talk:Basel-Stadt

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Number 57 in topic Requested move 14 January 2021

Politics section edit

'Currently (2006)...' - probably needs updating. Jackiespeel (talk) 11:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 14 January 2021 edit

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. While there was some discussion over the proposal, there did not appear to be any outright objections. Number 57 22:52, 22 February 2021 (UTC)Reply


Canton of Basel-StadtBasel-Stadt – revert undiscussed move, seems to be against wp:commonname. Zach (Talk) 15:41, 14 January 2021 (UTC) Relisting. (t · c) buidhe 20:25, 11 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
Technically "Basel-Stadt" is more common ("population of Basel-Stadt": 23 results, "population of the canton of Basel-Stadt": 12 results; "area of Basel-Stadt": 24 results, "area of the canton of Base-Stadt": 10 results). This essentially applies to all cantons that are not named after their capital city (like Nidwalden instead of Canton of Nidwalden, Valais instead of Canton of Valais). Please also see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Switzerland#"Canton of" vs no "Canton of". Zach (Talk) 16:53, 14 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Comment So if we're removing "Canton of" here, does that mean that we should be renaming others too, for consistency? Like, say, Canton of Zürich to Zürich (canton)? 162.208.168.92 (talk) 04:47, 12 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

No, why should we? Canton of Zürich does not depend on this page and presumably follows wp:commonname, or wp:natural disambiguation for reasons that concern only that particular page and not this one, unless I'm mistaken. But if there is any proposal to rename other cantons then I'll be happy to give a look. In any case "canton of" is piped out in virtually every list, see for instance List of prominent mountains of Switzerland (which can be seen as an argument for Zürich (canton)). Zach (Talk) 16:44, 12 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.