Wikipedia:WikiProject Years/Category hierarchy anomalies

This page lists two kinds of anomalies in category hierarchies for country chronologies, as a result of which the standard category header templates are not used or do not create the required navigation links.

In the first case, the current workaround is either

  1. to subst: the templates and edit the results, or
  2. to create the page manually and only include the parent categories that exist.

In the second case, the current workaround is either

  1.  as (1.) above,
  2. use standard templates and add category redirects for navigation between old and new names, or
  3. use specifically tailored versions of the templates for the periods around the change of name, e.g. those in Category:20th-century establishments templates by country.

Chronology categories that do not have the usual full parenting

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These are small or sparsely-populated hierarchies that do not require all the usual parents, e.g. decade or "by year" categories.

Regions that are not countries:

Countries with name changes in chronology categories

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Note
Some category hierarchies have categories for both old and new names for the year/decade in which the name changed.

Africa

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Burkina Faso

  1. French Upper Volta 1919–1932, 1947–1958
  2. Upper Volta 1959–1984, see Category:20th century in Burkina Faso

Cameroon

  1. Cameroon
  2. Kamerun 1884–1916

Democratic Republic of the Congo:

  1. Congo Free State 1885–1908
  2. Belgian Congo 1908–1960
  3. Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960–70
  4. Zaire 1971–1997

Malawi:

  1. Nyasaland 1907–1964

Mali:

  1. French Sudan 1880–1960

Namibia:

  1. South-West Africa to 1883
  2. German South-West Africa 1884–1915
  3. South-West Africa again 1915–1989

Zambia:

  1. North-Eastern Rhodesia (the only part that has chronology categories, 1900–1911)
  2. Northern Rhodesia 1911–1964

Asia

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Israel:

  1. Ottoman Syria / Ottoman Palestine
  2. Mandatory Palestine 1920–48
  3. Israel 1948–

Myanmar:

  1. Burma until 1989

Palestine:

  1.  Ottoman Syria / Ottoman Palestine
  2. Mandatory Palestine 1920–48
  3. West Bank Governorate 1948–67 / All-Palestine Protectorate (Gaza) 1948–59
  4. Israeli Military Governorate 1967–81
  5. Israeli Civil Administration 1981–93
  6. Palestinian territories 1994–2012
  7. State of Palestine 2013–

Sri Lanka:

  1. Ceylon until 1971

Thailand:

  1. Siam until 1939, see 20th century in Thailand

Yemen:

  1. North Yemen 1962–1990
  2. Federation of South Arabia 1962–1967
  3. South Yemen 1967–1990

Europe

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Austria-Hungary:

  1. Habsburg Monarchy 1526–1804
  2. Austrian Empire 1804–1867
  3. Austria-Hungary 1867–1918

Belgium:

  1. Habsburg Netherlands 1482–
  2. Southern Netherlands 1701–13 maybe should be Habsburg? See Category:Establishments in the Southern Netherlands by century
  3. Austrian Netherlands 1714–1794
  4. Southern Netherlands again, annexed by France 1794–1815, ? category template continues to 1829

Moldova:

  1. Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic August 1940 – August 1991
(Note: Not Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for October 1924 – August 1940, since most of its territory is currently in Ukraine)

Netherlands:

  1. Dutch Republic 1581–1795
  2. Batavian Republic 1795–1806

Russia:

  1. Russia to 1721
  2. Russian Empire 1722–1917

United Kingdom:

  1. Great Britain 1707–1800

North America

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United States:

  1. Thirteen Colonies 1607–1776