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Omnibus basiliensis: This page (a fork from my Workspace) is devoted to articles about Basel, its history, environs, etc. It may lead to a WikiProject. We'll see.

Goals

• Make Basel a GA.
• Write History of Basel.
• Make Basel a FA.
• Establish WP:BASEL.
• Create Basel categories as needed.

Questions

Article issues

• Should Bishopric of Basel redirect to Roman Catholic Diocese of Basel? Speyer, Strassburg, and others do not.
  • Done: Now there's Prince-Bishopric of Basel
  • Should the break occur at the expulsion of the bishop from Basel to Porrentruy? Or at Napoleon's creation of the Republic of Rauracia?
    • Napoleon, I guess. That's when the bishop ceased to hold land, right?
  • Bishop of Basel should redir to the Diocese article.
    • A hatnote at the top of Roman Catholic Diocese of Basel should point to the historic Bishopric of Basel.
    • Prince-Bishop of Basel should redir to the latter, the Bishopric.

Category issues

• For categorizing, is the city of Basel always the same as the canton of Basel-City? When is it and when isn't it?
  • What does DE Wikipedia do? See Basel (Begriffserklärung)
  • For professions, I would consistently argue against continuing the half-canton dichotomy.
• According to the category page, Category:People from Basel (city) is supposed to include people from both half-cantons. Do we need "(city)" in cat name? There's confusion here.
  • Category name changed from People from Basel in Sept '07, as part of a batch.
  • Name change request in July '08 failed to achieve consensus. Only two of us commented.
  • Query at the talk page for WikiProject Switzerland got bupkes.
  • Another CfD query on 15 September resulted in name change to Category:People from Basel-City.
  • Around December 2011 the category names changed to Category:People from Basel-Stadt and Category:People from Basel-Landschaft.

Categories

There is no "Basel" category. Sort by "Basel-Stadt," "Basel-Landschaft," or for historical articles, "Canton of Basel," "Prince-Bishopric of Basel," and "History of Basel."

Stub sorting

• {{BaselCountry-geo-stub}}

Basel-Stadt[1]

• 0 Basel culture: cf. Vienna culture.
• 1 Buildings and structures in Basel[-City] [2]
  • 0 Bridges in Basel
  • 0 Cultural venues in Basel (N.B. "Cultural venues" is anomalous; only "...in Vienna" exists)
  • 0 Diplomatic missions in Basel (Are there any? UN? There's no "...in Switzerland"!)
  • 0 Fountains in Basel
  • 0 Hotels in Basel
  • 0 Museums in Basel
    • 0 Art museums and galleries in Basel
  • 0 Places of worship in Basel (subcat churches, synagogues, mosques....)
  • 0 Railway stations in Basel
• 1 Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Basel-City[3] (used only re Switz.)
• 0 Education in Basel
• 0 Healthcare in Basel
• 1 History of Basel[4]
• 0 Chief executives of Basel ("mayors," presidents, chief officials): Ralph Lewin
• 1 Municipalities of Basel-City[5]
• 1 People from Basel-City[6]:
  • 0 Athletes from Basel (put in "Athletes by city")
    • 1 FC Concordia Basel players[7]
  • 0 Artists from Basel: Arnold Böcklin, Hans Holbein the Younger, Lukas Vischer (collector)
  • 0 Bishops of Basel: Burchard of Basle
  • 0 Mathematicians from Basel (put in "Swiss mathematicians"): The Bernoullis and Euler.
  • 0 Scientists from Basel ("Swiss" also)
  • 0 Writers from Basel ("Swiss" also)
• 0 Religion in Basel
  • 0 Places of worship in Basel
• 0 Restaurants in Basel
• 1 Sport in Basel [8]: EHC Basel, St. Jakob Arena, St. Jakobshalle
  • 1 FC Basel: 2006 Basel Hooligan Incident, St. Jakob Stadium, St. Jakob-Park
    • 1 1 FC Concordia Basel players
• 0 Squares in Basel
• 0 Streets in Basel
• 0 Transport in Basel: 10 line (BLT)
• 1 Visitor attractions in Basel [9] (overlap): Basel Münster, Schaulager

Basel-Landschaft[10]

• 1 Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Basel-Landschaft[11]
• 1 Districts of Basel-Landschaft[12]
• 0 Geography of Basel-Landschaft
• 1 Municipalities of Basel-Country[13]
• 1 People from Basel-Country[14]: Emil Frey
• 0 Transport in Basel-Landschaft
• 1 Basel-Landschaft geography stubs[15] {{BaselLand-geo-stub}}

Containers for Basel categories

• 1 Books
  • 0 Books about Switzerland
    • 0 Books about Basel
• 1 Holy Roman Empire
  • 1 Upper Rhenish Circle[16] should point to Bishopric of Basel, not modern Diocese.
• 1 Museums in Switzerland[17]
  • 1 Art museums and galleries in Switzerland[18]
    • 0 Art museums and galleries in Basel
• 1 Prince-Bishops of Switzerland[19]
  • 0 Prince-Bishops of Basel
• 1 Economy of Switzerland
  • 1 Tourism in Switzerland
    • 0 Tourism in Basel: Tourism TriRhena
      • Visitor attractions in Basel
• 1 Transport in Switzerland

History

• Timeline of Bishopric of Basel [20]

Middle Ages

• Bishopric of Basel needs historical work

Geography

Location

Rhine. Regio TriRhena or Dreiländereck.

Basel-Stadt

The canton's official name is Basel-Stadt (Bâle-Ville). It's often rendered "Basel-City" in English, but the cantonal government refers to itself in English as "Canton of Basel-Stadt."

Towns in BS

• Bettingen
• Riehen

Basel-Landschaft

The official English name of the canton is (or was) Basel-Country (Basel-Landschaft, Bâle-Campagne, Basilea-Campagna). It's often shortened to Basel-Land and its abbreviation is BL. In English it was (as of 2008) the "Canton of Basel-Country."

Historically this area was a dependency or fiefdom of feudal lords, especially the Bishop of Basel; then it became subject to the city as the Regio basiliensis or Baselbiet. It's German-speaking.

Castles

• Schloss Ebenrain
• Wildenstein Castle (Bubendorf)

Culture

Language

• Basel German

Politics

Institutions

• State Archives of Basel (correct EN name?)

Tourism

Landmarks

• Reichensteiner Hof, the Blue House

Notable people

Listed

• Karl Barth (1886-1968), Reformed Protestant theologian
• Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) mathematician
• James Bernoulli (1654-1705), mathematician
• Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748), mathematician
• Peter Birkhäuser (1911-1976), painter
• Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), professor in history, theology, philosophy
• Arthur Cohn (1927- ), film producer
• Erasmus (c1466-1536), biblical scholar, humanist, theologian
• Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), mathematician
• Roger Federer (1981- ), tennis player
• Katy French (1983-2007), model and socialite
• Jakob Emanuel Handmann (1718-1781), painter
• Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826), poet & author
• Albert Hoffman (1906-2008), chemist, inventor of LSD
• Ana Ivanovic (1987), female tennis player, winner of the 2008 French Open
• Lucius Munatius Plancus (c.87 BC - c.15 BC), city founder
• Joachim Meyer (c. 1537?-1571), fencer and author
• Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998), religious philosopher

Needing attention

• Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887), anthropologist, sociologist
• Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901), painter
• Erasmus (1466/69-1536), philosopher, etc.
• Isaak Iselin (1728-1782)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), philosopher, philologist
• Peter Ochs (needs article & dab)
• Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531), Protestant reformer
• Franz Overbeck (1837-1905), theologian
• Peter Vischer the Elder
• Lukas Vischer (collector)

Other articles for project

Currency of Basel

• Basel thaler
• Basel frank
• Swiss franc
• Batzen, Kreuzer, Rappen

History of Basel

• Augusta Raurica
• Basel Convention (Hazardous Waste, 1989)
• Basel massacre
• Basel Münster
• Baselard
• Canton of Basel
• Council of Basel
• First Zionist Congress
• Helvetic Republic
• La Tène Culture
• Peace of Basel
• Republic of Rauracia
• Treaty of Basel (1499)