Talk:Vystavka, Votlazhemsky Selsoviet, Kotlassky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Article life

When I created Battle of Vistavka, it was only natural to fill the redlink for the place . It turned out to have some minor local notability. - Altenmann >t 03:53, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

On selsoviets

I edited the part dealing with the "former" selsoviets. Selsoviets in Arkhangelsk Oblast may be on their death bed, but for now are still very much alive and kicking (as Article 39 of the 2009 Law #65-5-OZ On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Arkhangelsk Oblast would attest; note that the latest revision of that Law is from June 2013). Rural settlements (сельские поселения) are the units of municipal division and are not a replacement for administrative-territorial units (at least not until legally declared as such, which did happen in a handful of other federal subjects). Hope this clarifies the confusion.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 3, 2014; 15:04 (UTC)

I suspected something like that, but ru:wikipedia is unclear in this respect, and I was lazy to read anything else. - Altenmann >t 16:03, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

No harm done. Ru-wiki seems to ignore the whole aspect of administrative-territorial divisions altogether (except in cases where it's really in-your-face and can't be ignored) and concentrates on the municipal aspect almost exclusively. While the choice between the administrative-territorial and municipal units as the basis for naming articles is pretty much unimportant (as long as all articles conform to one scheme or another, that is), ignoring one aspect altogether seems to be an odd practice. The bottom line is that one can't really rely on ru-wiki to provide accurate administrative status information, which is sad, considering that they are usually the go-to destination where other wikis (and, increasingly, Wikidata) pick up these data...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 3, 2014; 16:49 (UTC)