Talk:Administrative divisions of Alaska

Terminology

I guess I'm confused here. While an article on the subject matter covered is long overdue, "administrative divisions" would appear to be more a matter of satisfying Wikipedia conventions than one of accurately describing the article's content. Here in Alaska, "political subdivision" is the prevalent term used in reference to municipalities. However, that term also applies to the University of Alaska System, the Alaska Railroad, etc. etc. Having a redlink to "Local government in Alaska" at the bottom is strange, mostly in that this article really has more to do with "local government" than with "administrative divisions". Then there's the matter of years worth of liberties already taken by Wikipedians in depicting local government in Alaska, but that's a bigger issue better suited for discussion elsewhere. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 09:03, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Political (sub)division" and "administrative (sub)division" are terms that describe the same thing. All variants appear to be in use in various articles on Wikipedia, but the most common format used by article titles appears to be "Administrative divisions of X". I don't think it's a bad thing to have uniform article titles for articles that all basically describe the same thing. As for the distinction between "administrative divisions" and "local government", that's something I'm still working out. The current state of the Wikipedia articles on such concepts within the United States is a bit of a hodgepodge at the moment, and I'm trying to figure out how to make things clearer. (See the current version of my sandbox for an overview of the current state of things.) —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 03:41, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I forget if I've already said this elsewhere, but the ideal title here is "Local government in Alaska". I did point out that "political subdivisions" in local usage includes municipalities but also refers to other things. I'm not sure I pointed out that "administrative divisions" can also refer to the departmental/divisional structure of the executive branch. Alaska Directory of State Officials (found on the legislature's website) may be helpful there, because Wikipedia sure hasn't gotten it right. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 11:53, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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