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Autogenerated shortdescs for Belgian municipalities
Hi, I don't know if this is a new issue or not, I certainly didn't notice it before. The automated summaries for Belgian municipalities could do with some improvements. E.g. Lier, Belgium now has "Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium". This should either be "Municipality in the Flemish Community, Belgium" (added "the") or preferably "Municipality in Antwerp province, Belgium". Fram (talk) 09:16, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
I think this is caused by the design of Module:Settlement short description. The module directly reads whatever is in the various subdivision_name fields and uses it to create the short description with the approximate format "{settlement_type} in {subdivision_name1}, {subdivision_name}", which in most cases is correct since a "the" is generally not needed before regional names. It's a tricky issue, since if we try changing Template:Infobox Belgium municipality to display "The Flemish Community" and "The French Community", the "The" would remain capitalized in the short desc, while if we use "the Flemish Community" and "the French Community", the uncapitalized "the" wouldn't be correct in the infobox.
And getting it to show the province won't work, because the module only reads up to "subdivision_name2", and the province name is listed in "subdivision_name3". Liu1126 (talk) 16:02, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
Okay, then I guess for Belgium we'll have to use "real", manual shortdescs and not the automatic ones, pity! Fram (talk) 08:28, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
