Talk:Bosnia and Herzegovina
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[edit] English Spelling Irrelevancies
For some reason, Americans have been making irrelevant spelling changes to this page. If someone contributes "flavour" as opposed to "flavor" - it is not wrong, they're just using English/Canadian/Australian spelling as opposed to US spelling. Don't bother wasting time making irrelevant changes like that as both "flavor" and "flavour" are correct!
[edit] Regions
The B&H Tourism Assocation presents the country as five regions which (refreshingly) bear no resemblance to the political gerrymander of Srpska vs. Federation-B&H, but are instead fairly easy to draw on a map and seem travel-friendly:
- Herzegovina
- Sarajevo Region
- Central Bosnia
- Northwest Bosnia
- Northeast Bosnia
Any objections to taking the geographic route rather than the political/ethnic route? - Todd VerBeek 16:16, 8 June 2007 (EDT)
You could, but it is not clear to me from the article whether it is safe and unproblematic to travel from one entity to the other. Maybe you could also specify that. 88.117.112.28 06:37, 18 June 2007 (EDT)
- OK, so I stuck my hands way down the hornets nest, and tried to come up with something neutral. This proposal overlooks the Federation and Republic boundaries completely (on purpose, Per Todds comments above), and instead focuses on a mix of 3 indisputable historic regions (Bosanska Krajna, Herzegovina & Posavina) and lends the rest of the division from the official tourism agency [1]. I'd really like some comments - before implementing this, and will leave it up for 2 weeks. As for the anonymous comment above, the Inter-Entity_Boundary_Line is unguarded and crossing it pretty much resembles crossing a US state line.
- Se the proposed division on the right hand image ->
- --Stefan (sertmann) Talk 14:07, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
- It is unproblematic to go from one part to the other, as long as you keep to roads and paths (due to the risks of mines). But somehow I think its a bit too idealistic a division for wikitravel - (which in a sense is also political), as it pretends theres no such thing as political issues? Also, what do you want to achieve with a division in parts? There are not many big articles in Bosnia, and it doesnt seem to make a lot of sense to make further subdivisions, whereas many towns are actually quite empty? -- Eiland 10:00, 9 April 2009 (EDT)
- Well seeing that the Bosnian tourist organisation has gone the same route, I'd like if you could expand your thoughts on the Republic/Federation division a little? Also while I know there is not much content, we also need to have a sensible hierarchy, that would work as coverage grows - I Don't think 5 regions are too much. What if we merged Posavina and Northern Bosnia into one region (and maybe less so Sarajevo & central)? I'm willing to take sensible advice here, I've only been in Bihac and Sarajevo (and the southern parts of Herzegovina before the war). --Stefan (sertmann) Talk 10:41, 9 April 2009 (EDT)
- Its in the interest of the BiH tourism agency to play down anything related to nationalistic tensions or other scary things, but that doesnt mean there arent any. But I agree to have the RS/Federation division is abit too much going with the flow of silly politicians. But this is a non-dicussion as long as there is no content - and i dont see it growing any time soon, so i wont spend too much time on it. I am going to Mostar for the weekend :) -- Eiland 11:28, 9 April 2009 (EDT)
- bump, any other thoughts on this? --Stefan (sertmann) Talk 15:15, 18 May 2009 (EDT)
[edit] FOOD
Could you please make sure you SPELL things correctly if you plan to make edits to the FOOD section? I think this was a beautifully-written article and small edits, likely by the locals, are really messing up the spelling. If you plan to add something, by all means do, but go to a website like www.dictionary.com and make sure that the word you intend to add means what you *think* it means and assure that the spelling is correct!!! —The preceding comment was added by 216.232.195.232 (talk • contribs)
