Talk:Urban districts of Sweden

Merger and article name[edit]

I merged City Districts of Sweden and Stadsdel under the former title, as the articles discussed the same concept and "city district" seems to be a more or less official translation of what is called "stadsdel" in Gothenburg and Malmö (in general, "stadsdel" is just a generic word meaning quarter). I don't know, however, if the title of the article is optimal, for two reasons:

As "city district" isn't a proper noun in itself, maybe City districts of Sweden would be a better name.
Legally, this is the same thing as kommundelar, governed by kommundelsnämnder, in some other municipalities of Sweden, not all of which style themselves as "City" and probably not call their kommundelar "city districts" in English. The article should probably expanded to include information about these in other municipalities. If there is an official, generic English translation for either of these two Swedish words, the article should probably be moved there. This PDF document (from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare) uses "District Council" for stadsdelsnämnd and "Municipal District Board" for kommundelsnämnd. This one (from the West Sweden EU and Representation Office) uses "municipal district committee" for kommundelsnämnd. Wikipedia:Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/Terminology#Administrative subdivisions and terms uses "borough" for both, but without source (none of the glossaries linked contain the word). At sv:Talk:Kommundelsnämnd the translation was also questioned. In the worst case, if no established generic English translation can be found, a move to kommundelsnämnd might be contemplated.

//Essin (talk) 21:06, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article is really confusing in the way it mixes up terms. In Sweden there are municipalities (kommuner). A municipality can decide to subdivide itself into kommundelar ("parts of municipalities" or "municipal areas"). Some municipalities consider themselves superior to others and call themselfs stad (town) and their subdivisions stadsdelar (urban districts). In Stockholm there are 109 urban districts, many of them geographicaly defined since long before the municipal reform and/or previously parts of Bromma or Brännkyrka rural municipalities. A bit too many to be efficiently administered, so they are bundled into 14 stadsdelsområden (urban district areas) filling the same function as kommundelar in other municipalities. /Esquilo (talk) 10:42, 30 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]