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Q1: Why does this article describe Aung San Suu Kyi as a former state counsellor? Is she not still the duly elected leader of Myanmar?
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 March 2020 and 4 May 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Tsutton1. Peer reviewers: Asia.ngresham, Bnevis.
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 1 December 2021edit
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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.
Please could you remove the line next to source 151 which reads "Some of the money she received as part of the award helps fund London-based charity Prospect Burma, which provides higher education grants to Burmese students" as this is not true. Source 151, Prospect Burma's website, confirms what that charity does but there is no evidence to support the statement that ASSK's money supports their work - which I am aware is not the case. Do check with information@prospectburma.org if you need to. Thank you so much for your help. Inferena (talk) 14:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit extended-protected}} template. Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She appeals below for others to join her in supporting Prospect Burma. This appears to support that. There's also Aung San Suu Kyi became a vocal supporter of our work, and her health and education trust partly funds our scholarships programme. visible here. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:42, 1 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for spotting the errant link at the foot of https://prospectburma.org/popup/pb-faq/ This has been amended to read "her health and education trust partly funded some of our early scholarships". While there is no direct accounting link from the Nobel prize money through the trust to Prospect Burma, the trust did provide some past funding so it is probably easiest to resolve by just changing the line next to source 151 to past tense and reversing the sentence, thus it would read "Some of the money she received as part of the award helped fund higher education grants to Burmese students through the London-based charity Prospect Burma." COI declaration, I am a paid employee of Prospect Burma.Inferena (talk) 16:30, 16 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
I have changed the request template to the template used for WP:COI edit requests. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:52, 17 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 March 2020 and 4 May 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Tsutton1. Peer reviewers: Asia.ngresham, Bnevis.
Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the 
Done ---CX Zoom(he/him) (let's talk|contribs) 07:09, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
