Talk:Arrondissement

Some decisions to be made about the Paris Arrondissements. Rough outline below. -- Tarquin 07:21 Jul 26, 2002 (PDT)

Disambiguation problem

Paris is not the only city in France with Arrondissements. For that matter, is the word used in other countries for other things?

AFAIK, Lyon has them too, perhaps Lille (not sure)

I've found more uses in Canada (at least Québec) and in Belgium, where they are a subdivision of provinces. In the Netherlands, arrondissements are used in law; there are 19 arrondissements with their own court. Jeronimo

I which case, I suppose Arrondissement must become a page about the general use of the term, with a list of places that use it, and the content currently there must be moved to (say) Paris Arrondissements.

Arrondissements were created by the PLM law (Paris, Lyon, Marseilles), so they are restricted to these 3 cities Comte0

Arrondissement is also an old word describing a subdivision of a departement (sort of county or sous-prefecture). This word is very uncommonly used today, but can still be found in historical texts (not so old though). This definition might still be officially recognized in France. Not sure. - Olivier

Style for names

We need to standardize how they are referred to in text. Options are:

20th arrondissement
XX^e arrondissement (usually written like this in french)
XX^th arrondissement (a sort of mix n match)

Not the mix-and-match, please; that will look wrong to almost everyone. I'm neutral as between the other two.

I'd go for XX^e. For English-speakers it's quite normal (not particularly pretentious) to say "We stayed in a lovely hotel in the quinzième."

A page each?

Does each Arrondissement need a page to itself?

Wait and see--if they do, people can wikify them and make the articles. I wouldn't make them links yet, though. Vicki Rosenzweig

For the page names, see above.

Not necessarily need, but US counties and even neighbourhoods of NY City have their own articles here, so if there enough content for an article on the 20th arrondissement, why not? Jeronimo 07:52 Jul 26, 2002 (PDT)