Talk:Tanganyika

Tanganyika still exists

Tanganyika still exists in at least one form: if you apply for a trademark in Tanzania you have to apply separately in Tanganyika and in Zanzibar (there is no single unitary Tanzanian trademark). There may well be other aspects in which the division continues - perhaps we need an article to cover this? FOARP (talk) 14:28, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 22 March 2021

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 section.

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• Tanganyika (disambiguation) → Tanganyika
• Tanganyika → Republic of Tanganyika

– There is no primary topic for Tanganyika. The Republic only lasted for three years (1961–64). Lake Tanganyika gets consistently more views and Tanganyika (territory) gets almost half as many (see [1]). Vpab15 (talk) 15:32, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

• Support move of some sort since the article at the base name is not the primary topic but maybe Tanganyika (1961–1964) because the article covers one year when the country wasn't a republic. DrKay (talk) 17:04, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
  • I chose Republic of Tanganyika because it was a republic for most of its existence. Having said that, I wouldn't oppose Tanganyika (1961–1964) if there is consensus for that. Another option could be Tanganyika (country). Vpab15 (talk) 22:45, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

    Support move to Tanganyika (1961–1964) as per above. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 18:23, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose The state was formally known as "Tanganyika" from 1961 to 1962. The Republic of Tanganyika was a continuation of the state of Tanganyika, under a different system. More crucially, none of the other items listed in the disambiguation are commonly known simply as "Tanganyika", and thus it makes sense to keep the republic, which is, as the main topic. Builder018 (talk) 17:16, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

• Support, after realizing that Tanganyika (territory) invalidates my primary point. Builder018 (talk) 17:22, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

• Support the 1961-64 polity becomes more and more historical every year, it's hard to say it is more important than the 1916-61 territory. Furthermore, Lake Tanganyika is around. The 1961-64 polity is not the primary topic. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 17:41, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
• Support. If anything, the territory should be primary. I'm not sure why it isn't at Tanganyika Territory, given that was a very common name for it, which would avoid parenthetical disambiguation. Tanganyika (1961–1964) would probably be best for the sovereign state. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:11, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

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.

Post-move repairs

Despite sterling efforts by 2pou and others, disambiguation page Tanganyika still has over 1000 incoming links. (For comparison, only two other dabs have over 100 links.) Many of the links I've tried to fix refer to neither the British territory nor the independent state, and may need to be targeted to new redirects for:

• Tanganyika in pre-colonial days, e.g. Navy (refers to incursions c. AD 950)
• Tanganyika as a part of German East Africa Company or German East Africa (c.1884–1916), e.g. History of Kenya
• Tanganyika as a political part of modern-day Tanzania, e.g. Demographics of Tanzania
• the current geographical area, e.g. List of Ramsar wetlands of international importance

Fixing the rest of these templates should correct many bad links but some are problematic. For example, {{Country data Tanzania}} may need to be replaced by two templates.

Any other thoughts? Certes (talk) 00:38, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

I largely agree. Waziri (fictional tribe) is another page that needs a "German Tanganyika" style target. Of course "Tanganyika" wasn't used before the British Mandate, but German East Africa also included Rwanda and Burundi, and often isn't a good link target. Perhaps Tanganyika (region) (currently a redlink) can work? User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 01:12, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Should Category:1936 in Tanganyika be renamed to Category:1936 in Tanganyika Territory (or Category:1936 in Tanganyika (territory))? User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 01:24, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Good question. The latter matches the article name, but it's not ambiguous as there was only one Tanganyika in 1936, and it includes events for both the political entity and the region. Also, what would we do with 1961 in Tanganyika? I think that series can be left alone, but other categories may need attention. Certes (talk) 10:23, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

There is also the question of incoming redirects. Tanzania Mainland is unambiguous and shouldn't target the dab. Certes (talk) 10:23, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Either Tanzania Mainland or Mainland Tanzania (or Tanzania mainland) would be better than Tanganyika (region) (which doesn't seem to be used at all, and could also refer to the region around Lake Tanganyika or the province in the DRC). If I knew which name were best I'd create a new page there. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 17:20, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Google ngram seems to prefer "Tanzania Mainland". Would you create an article or a redirect (to what target)? Certes (talk) 18:35, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

I haven't found a good target (Geography of Tanzania is the best idea I've had), so I think we need a new article. There may be an ENGVAR issue with the word-order; in the US putting "Mainland" first is common in these constructions. (I have no experience with Tanzanian English) User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 18:48, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Tanzania Mainland is now a stub; I'll expand it with some content from Geography of Tanzania and History of Tanzania in a few hours. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 19:06, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Mainland Tanzania sounds more natural to me as a British English speaker too, so that could redirect to it. That article can accept links to both the current political and geographic areas, but we may still need new targets for the pre-colonial and German era links. German Tanzania German Tanganyika → German East Africa {{R from subtopic}} would be useful for now, though some links date from German East Africa Company times. We may still need a redirect for the ancient uses, though I'm not sure of the best title nor where it would redirect to: History of Tanzania#Early coastal history may be the least bad target. Certes (talk) 19:12, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

I've made a start. It will take more time than I can spend today to make it a decent article. Not sure I'll get back to it tonight, but certainly tomorrow. Hopefully it's good enough to list on the DAB page. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 20:24, 30 March 2021 (UTC)