Talk:Confederal entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina

::That said, as I said above, this article was for many years titled "Political divisions of BiH" and I honestly don't see what the problem with that was, especially if we give an overview of the second-level divisions. I think "divisions" (small d) is a easy-to-understand generic term that covers not just the Entities but the Brcko District (which as noted is a ''de facto'' top level division if in theory its a condominium between the two entities) plus the cantons, municipalities, etc. As noted similar names are in use across English-language Wikipedia and elsewhere. My objection to "Confederal entities" was that the phrase implied a specific constitutional structure that was not reality. If we use "Entities" in the title it should ideally be by itself, but I don't think it's entirely necessary to use Entities in the title. [[User:Jfruh|Jfruh]] ([[User talk:Jfruh|talk]]) 14:44, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

::That said, as I said above, this article was for many years titled "Political divisions of BiH" and I honestly don't see what the problem with that was, especially if we give an overview of the second-level divisions. I think "divisions" (small d) is a easy-to-understand generic term that covers not just the Entities but the Brcko District (which as noted is a ''de facto'' top level division if in theory its a condominium between the two entities) plus the cantons, municipalities, etc. As noted similar names are in use across English-language Wikipedia and elsewhere. My objection to "Confederal entities" was that the phrase implied a specific constitutional structure that was not reality. If we use "Entities" in the title it should ideally be by itself, but I don't think it's entirely necessary to use Entities in the title. [[User:Jfruh|Jfruh]] ([[User talk:Jfruh|talk]]) 14:44, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

:::I don't have an objection to simply "entities". My issue with Political divisions is that that includes the cantons and municipalities, which are only very briefly mentioned if at all. [[User:FloblinTheGoblin|𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷]] ([[User talk:FloblinTheGoblin|Talk to me!]] · [[Special:Contributions/FloblinTheGoblin|My contribs]]) 15:07, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

:::I don't have an objection to simply "entities". My issue with Political divisions is that that includes the cantons and municipalities, which are only very briefly mentioned if at all. [[User:FloblinTheGoblin|𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷]] ([[User talk:FloblinTheGoblin|Talk to me!]] · [[Special:Contributions/FloblinTheGoblin|My contribs]]) 15:07, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

::::: You can't depend on the context of other sites as a crutch. This comes up in searches without context. The title has to stand alone and convey the content.

::::: "Political divisions" has a very different meaning - i.e. political quarrels, party stuff, etc.

::::: I don't know why you insist "entities" has to be in the title. This is about helping people find the article they're looking for, and I'm going to guess most people have no idea what the subdivisions are officially called. "Entities" is just rather unfortunate term, very open-ended, and not typically used for territorial subdivisions, and so not very informative of its content. People searching for this topic might skip over that title, not knowing this is what the article is about.

::::: That said, I think adding "Territorial" might fix some of the ambiguities, e.g. "Territorial-administrative entities of BH". A bit longish, but at least doesn't sound like a ministries list. [[User:Walrasiad|Walrasiad]] ([[User talk:Walrasiad|talk]]) 21:52, 20 April 2026 (UTC)