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FWL Successor States

A discussion at Talk:Regulan Fiefs#Recommendation was started last year, but no consensus was reached on the subject of how many articles to have for Free Worlds League member states that also became nations following the dissolution of the FWL. The issue is the following: a few of these provinces became nations and changed their names to reflect their growth, so does BTW have one article for each province/nation or one article for the province and one for the nation. Each nation clearly has a continuity with the province, including territorial boundaries and ruling family. Right now, I'm leaning towards having one article, but I am not yet decisive in my opinion.

I think combining the articles together make the most sense because of the continuity; in essence, the successor states are the provinces that existed before the FWL balkanized, which are themselves (at least for three of them) the nations that joined to form the FWL. For clarity, the names in question are:

• Republic of Marik -> Marik Commonwealth -> Marik-Stewart Commonwealth
• Federation of Oriente -> Duchy of Oriente -> Oriente Protectorate
• Regulan Principality -> Principality of Regulus -> Regulan Fiefs
• Duchy of Tamarind -> Duchy of Tamarind-Abbey

Another issue is that of nations that retained their names from their time as provinces. Here I am referring to the Duchy of Andurien and the Rim Commonality. They both kept their provincial names when they became independent nations. If there must be a separate article for each province and one for each nation, then these two would also need two articles, would they not?

Again, I can see difficulties and complexities arising because of this, so I am curious about other folks' thoughts on the subject. --Scaletail 18:05, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Hello. I agree in principle to keep the individual FWL-faction nations/provincial histories in single Article. About the problem of what your going to call these articles? I would lean to keep most recent name for these nations as the article's main name, have redirect for older names, such as the Regulan Fiefs would be the current name of that nation until its renamed in canon and use the Principality names as redirect. That nation's earlier history would be broken sub-section by nation's name and major events during its existence. -- Wrangler 22:00, 22 May 2011 (UTC)