Talk:Self-governance

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In computer science

In computer science, "self-governing objects" refers to objects that are only modified through the use of their own methods for more encapsulation and weaker coupling. -Ich (talk) 20:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not applicable here, unless we are talking about converting this to a dab page, which I support. Viriditas (talk) 11:46, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Outstanding issues

Currently, the article attempts to sidestep the actual topic of self-government by focusing on everything but self-government. It may be necessary to disambiguate in order to get back to the subject, or at least the primary definition which is entirely missing. Viriditas (talk) 11:43, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Scope of this article

Apparently, "Self-governance is an abstract concept that refers to several scales of organization... " such as nation states, autonomous regions within states, etc. However, it is not until several paragraphs into the article that we learn that in fact "This article focuses on the self-governance of professions".

As such, this article seems somewhat confused as to what it is actually about. I would recomend either renaming it "Self governing organizations" (for example) and removing all the stuff about states and cities, or else expand it to properly summarize all forms of self-governance without favouritism. (Especially as in my experience (I know - anecdotal) "self governing" tends to be used for things with governments (e.g. states, regions, cities, etc), while professions etc are described as "self regulating".) Wardog (talk) 14:03, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm trying to write about self-regulation in Portuguese and both self-policing and self-governance came up as terms that would help me define the term. So I ask, isn't self-policing a kind of self-governance? From what Wardog metioned, the article is quite confusing. How could I draw a line between both terms? Would it be helpful to merge self-policing and self-governance into one article? Dysprosio (talk) 16:10, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]