Talk:Stung Treng province

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I'm looking for the best picture or any informations about the KAF's U-6 (Beaver). It seem that the KAF had 3 aircrafts. But in 1971, during the viet cong's sapper attack at the Pochentong Air Base,at least 1 Beaver was destroyed.In 1972 at leat 1 Beaver was refurbished with a new engine. http://www.khmerairforce.com/AAK-KAF/AVNK-AAK-KAF/Cambodia-Beaver-KAF.JPG

Thankfull for this info. [Unsigned]

Possible resources[edit]

These links are all to Amazon.com, which is the source of the descriptions.*

*Un village en forêt: l'essartage chez les Brou du Cambodge. Jacqueline Matras-Troubetzkoy. Peeters Publishers, 1983 - Social Science - 429 pages
*The NVA and Viet Cong. Osprey Publishing, 1991 - History - 64 pages
*Before the Killing Fields: Witness to Cambodia and the Vietnam War. Leslie Fielding. I.B.Tauris, 2008 - History - 261 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=CHjao4mjMTAC
http://books.google.com/books?id=PSCoD-gc4_cC
http://books.google.com/books?id=6HeOtcR7iHAC
http://books.google.com/books?id=Yd4JsAhzUOQC
http://books.google.com/books?id=SdbwzF4k-msC
http://books.google.com/books?id=RomJxg75MZMC
http://books.google.com/books?id=CtXYNtLJYOoC
http://books.google.com/books?id=KSGbAwBb4eQC
http://books.google.com/books?id=-83fB4bbzuwC
http://books.google.com/books?id=tp5j33zX5bwC
http://books.google.com/books?id=S4Ci1E4ydgoC
http://books.google.com/books?id=4Mc_UXCTNQcC
http://books.google.com/books?id=iSE3S-nJzMoC
http://books.google.com/books?id=tfa4xlX4NBIC
http://books.google.com/books?id=P3DjdPS8w1MC
http://books.google.com/books?id=KoaKt8a_7ngC
http://books.google.com/books?id=RVqHYRHFJ1QC
http://books.google.com/books?id=XW24koscGMkC
http://books.google.com/books?id=8YBujWXwkakC
http://books.google.com/books?id=mZa57ilh9RkC
http://www.tourismcambodia.com/TravelGuides/detail.asp?ProvinceID=23&ItemN=5
http://www.moc.gov.kh/national_data_resource/Provincial%20Resources/Steung%20Treng/Index.htm

Spelling[edit]

The page uses two different spellings, about 50/50:

Steung Treng
Stung Treng

Is there a standard to guide us in which one to use? --Thnidu (talk) 21:52, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Most Khmer vowels and many consonants have no equivalent in English and, unfortunately, there is no universal standard for transliteration. There are a few systems in use, but none faithfully represent the sounds of Khmer. I prefer the romanization used by Huffman and Proum in Cambodian System of Writing (1970) as it is the most clear and least ambiguous but it requires a few non-standard latin characters such as "ə", for example. The Khmer vowel sound in question here is Khmer pronunciation: [ɨ], which is usually transliterated as "eu" because "u" is used for Khmer pronunciation: [u]. But steung is a common place name element (meaning "river") and is haphazardly spelled however the author feels like in the moment. Even government sources aren't consistent.--William Thweatt ^Talk^Contribs 01:35, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Numbers?[edit]

What's the meaning of the numbers 1901 – 1905 before the names of the districts? There is no explanation. I have commented them out in the HTML. -- Thnidu (talk) 22:05, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See ISO 3166-2:KH. They are the international standard numbers. The ISO number for Stung Treng Province is 19 and the districts of a province are assigned 4-digit codes beginning with the province code: 1901, 1902, etc.--William Thweatt ^Talk^Contribs 22:20, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@WilliamThweatt: Thank you for your prompt reply. However, there is still no explanation on the page, nor, I suspect, on the pages of the other provinces. I suggest a hatnote to transclude into the corresponding sections of all such articles with a brief explanation and link. --Thnidu (talk) 22:27, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, an explanation would be helpful. What you suggest would work, or we could format the data as a table and link to ISO 3166-2:KH in the column title as was done in the Provinces of Cambodia article.--William Thweatt ^Talk^Contribs 22:32, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@WilliamThweatt: A hatnote or something similar could be implemented once with a simple template and applied to all the province pages. A table would be a lot more work and would need to be done separately for every province. I vote for ease of implementation.

What's more, the country prefix "KH" could be a parameter, allowing the template to be used for other countries whose comparable administrative subdivision pages show ISO 3166-*-* numbers. --Thnidu (talk) 02:35, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also annotating the "possible sources" § above. Should that also be transcluded, to the other province talk pages? --Thnidu (talk) 02:49, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]