I don't know the court system in Germany, but in the USA there are courts for each county (admin_level=6), State (admin_level=4) and also Federal courts (admin_level=2). Would using the admin level also fit for some types of German courts? --Jeisenbe (talk) 01:01, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Also note that most States have 1 or more "Supreme Court(s)" which are admin_level=4 --Jeisenbe (talk) 01:03, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
district courts in Saarland Using admin_level=* is my intention too but in Germany I noticed that the area served by district courts doesn't necessarily match to administrative boundaries. For example district courts in Saarland: The area served by district courts either matches admin_level=6 (in the image: "outline is filled with only one colour") or is smaller than admin_level=6 but bigger than admin_level=8 (in the image: "outline is filled with two different colours") although some states don't have admin_level=7. I don't think that this is much of a problem but I'll definitely have to ask the German community on their opinion.
Personally, I don't think that there's a problem with having two or more courts in one state with the same admin_level=* and courthouse=* value. --Nw520 (talk) 20:53, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Religious instead of ecclesiastical
In other countries, like Indonesia, there are religious courts, but they are not "ecclesiastical" since that word means "relating to the Christian Church or its clergy." So I suggest "court=religious" instead, so that it can be used in other cultures. --Jeisenbe (talk) 01:01, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello Jeisenbe, thank you very much for your input. Currently, this proposel is just a very early draft so I was quite pleasantly suprised to already receive some constructive feedback. I agree with your suggestion to rather use "court=religious" and have changed the table accordingly. I also added that one could add religion=* and denomination=* if needed. --Nw520 (talk) 12:34, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Adjective or noun?
Some of the values are adjectives, like "administrative", "appelate", "commercial" and "supreme"
But others are nouns: "finance", "employment", etc. - Can this be standardized? --Jeisenbe (talk) 01:23, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure whether for every noun there's a fitting adjective or vice versa. The current values are just the english name minus "court" which I think is quite intuitive and easy to remember. However, if you find more fitting ones please feel free to edit the proposal as it's still an early draft. --Nw520 (talk) 12:34, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
This is not my area of expertise, I was just curious. As long as these are the standard terms it is fine. Sometimes English is not very sensible. :-) --Jeisenbe (talk) 13:06, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
