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Quarters of centers of a district and the district itself; the confusion and how do we fix it?

What I'm trying to say is that just like provinces, almost all districts in Turkey are named after their historical, central cities. For provinces, we seperate these two (ex. Çanakkale and Çanakkale Province) but for districts, both are merged into the same page. This issue has already been discussed in various talk pages of said articles. You'd think it is easy to fix this, just create a seperate page for the central quarter. Yes, though it is hard to create a seperate page for every district. My proposal is to create such pages only for very important districts of Turkey (such as Fatih, Beyoğlu, Beşiktaş, Şişli, Üsküdar, Kadıköy, Maltepe, Beykoz, etc.). This is a very difficult mission, but if multiple people work together, I'm sure we can solve this problem. What do you think? Youprayteas ^{talk/contribs} 18:22, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, this is an interesting idea, but with some practical problems. Unlike the Çanakkale example, there is no administrative unit "Üsküdar" apart from the district and municipality "Üsküdar". You may ask yourself what you would write in an article about the city centre of Üsküdar that would not fit in an article about the municipality. There are some exceptions, for instance there is a neighbourhood (mahalle) inside Beykoz district/municipality that is called Merkez (or "Beykoz Merkez"), perhaps some of the information that is specifically about the centre of Beykoz could go there. Markussep ^Talk 08:57, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

I have some comments.

1. Going with the current example, Çanakkale is the seat of the Çanakkale Province it is not, in itself, a municipality. The municipality for the city of Çanakkale is the Çanakkale District (for metropolitan municipalities the center city is divided into many districts, in that case each rule different areas of the central city.)

2. Not every district has a central neighbourhood, a lot of them have their centre divided too, even if they do have one, it might include a bigger or smaller area than the city itself.

3. It doesn’t actually matter if there is a municipality or not for the page created, for example Moda, Kadıköy is not a province, district, municipality, village or neighborhood but the page still exists because the settlement area exists. Youprayteas ^{talk/contribs} 13:08, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Actually there is a difference between Çanakkale District and the municipality of Çanakkale, since Çanakkale Province is not a metropolitan province. Therefore we have separate articles for the district and the town/municipality. I agree with your points 2 and 3. But what would you write in an article about the locality Maltepe, that would not be duplicating information that belongs in the article about the district/municipality of Maltepe? Markussep ^Talk 08:21, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

The thing is that yes, it’s true, everything would be the same, but the district page would be mainly about the admisitrative unit and not the settlements in it, and the district articles would be cut significantly. If you say this is a loss of enclopeadic information, I say no because everything that is mentioned in the district page about settlements other than Kadıköy are already written in a more detailed manner in their seperate pages. Youprayteas ^{talk/contribs} 13:19, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Anyone like to work together on Seismic retrofit?

Merhaba,

I just added this project to Seismic retrofit and rated it high importance. I see it has not yet been translated into Turkish. Is there a native Turkish speaker who would like to work together on improving the English article and later translating it?

It seems to me that might save lives in future, but I don’t have enough Turkish or enough stamina to attempt it by myself. Chidgk1 (talk) 06:28, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Or Urban seismic risk is a much smaller article - come on guys don’t you think this is important? Chidgk1 (talk) 06:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

I may contribute to it, but will be limited until end of May with this [1]. A lot of translations into Turkish in Turkish Wikpedia seems to be done by bots, that'd be a good starting point. Bogazicili (talk) 18:35, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Ispanaklı kek

Hello everyone, is Ispanaklı kek a notable dessert in Turkey? I'm thinking of nominating the article Spinach cake for deletion, but won't if this dessert is actually notable within Turkey. Cheers! BaduFerreira (talk) 02:21, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Not really mate, you can nominate it for deletion. Youprayteas ^{talk/contribs} 06:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Aksa (company)#Requested move 2 April 2024

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Requested move at Talk:İskenderun#Requested move 22 April 2024

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The Varlık Vergisi article seems to be written in a biased tone

I came across this article and while I was reading it, it really sounded like someone who has bias against Turks wrote it. I don't know about the information, but the tone is definitely unneutral. Youprayteas ^{talk/contribs} 18:32, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Please fix it with WP:RS in line with WP:NPOV. Wikipedia does have systemic bias. See: Wikipedia:Systemic bias. Bogazicili (talk) 18:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

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Change picture request

I would like to suggest the change of the picture of Aytaç Şaşmaz as it is not a true and actual representation of his image. 176.205.44.112 (talk) 08:03, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Help/feedback with an article?

Hello, I have been working on an article that involves Turkey. However, I do not speak Turkish and don't know where to begin with Turkish-language sources. Is there someone here who would be able and willing to help me on expanding the article? Pietrus1 (talk) 18:44, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

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