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![]() | The contents of the Directorate-General of the European Commission page were merged into Directorate-General. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. (25 January 2018) |
It is a bit typical that I will be unavailable for the next week or so now when the DGs have become the collaboration project. I will try to participate, but I cannot promise anything. As for the tasks that I had imagined, they would be something like this:
Remember that some articles might already exist and only have to be linked in on the collective articles, e.g.DG Translation
There is an old discussion about article naming etc. on the EU Wikiproject talkpage. --Drdan 10:13, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I do not think that all DGs are headed by its own Commissioner, e.g. JRC which shares Comissioner with DG Research. What is the division of responsibility between the Director General and the Commissioner in the cases where both exists? --Drdan 13:44, 14 October 2005 (UTC) (Moved from top of page to this section) --LiniShu 03:13, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I'd like to revisit the area of naming conventions, on a different topic, though, than the original discussion on EU Wikiproject talkpage. Directorate-General and Director-General are generic terms. They are also used by other political jurisdictions in addition to the European Commission. I did find a draft proposal Wikipedia:Naming conventions (government departments and ministers) described as "under consideration", that might apply.
In an attempt to be more precise, I've named the article about the DG-Agriculture, that I created today, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (European Commission). The names of the other articles created so far, are:
giving us three alternative forms, so far, thus:
I'm calling for some discussion leading to a consensus of which naming convention we should use. If we go with something different than my decision for the agriculture article, then I'll take responsibility for moving the article and fixing any links to it. Thanks, in advance, all, for your opinions! --LiniShu 04:40, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Another question with regards to the naming standard. Since there are just too many DGs to list them all and since the official website list the DGs in a hierarchical way, I decided to do the same when I created the template. I have however now realised that this probably was not a good idea. The DGs currently collected by the External Relations page are just as relevant as the DGs listed directly on the template. The Services DGs on the other hand are not particularly relevant for the broader audience. Consequently, I am considering to redo the template using the three-group structure internal/external/services. This would add another five DGs to the template. Any thoughts? --Drdan 10:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I've made a novice attempt :) at a to do list for the EU DG articles, at Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union/DG to do. For those of us who like checking off items on a list, there is an area to keep track of articles to be created/ articles already created for the DGs. Please feel free to refine it. --LiniShu 05:13, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
a previous deleted Directorate General page contained "Directorate General of the European Court of Justice". Alinor (talk) 09:40, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
This page begins with a sort-of disambiguation section, signposting to four different types of Directorate-General. It then includes an overview of the EU Commission DGs, which is also given at European Civil Service.
I'm not sure there's much value in having an article about Directorates-General as a concept in the abstract (whatever there is to say about them could probably go under Ministry (government department) or Departmentalization). So I would propose changing this article into a disambiguation page. Charlie A. (talk) 13:44, 18 July 2019 (UTC)