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Hi Danlaycock, Well spotted! Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 21:14, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Commonwealth of Independent States observers

Hi i'm very sorry for all of this. But Mongolia and Afghanistan are CIS observers https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2 here is Russian Wiki page of CIS and here you can see it. Today i updated GDP (PPP) to 2016. and population on 2016. For this i used Wikipedia. I was using calculator. Again i'm very sorry for my stubbornness. Pls can you update "Economic data" beacuse i have just updated template. Have a nice day ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boban457 (talk • contribs) 20:15, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for joining the discussion.

Unfortunately Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a reliable source (because any anonymous person can edit it) so it can't be used to verify this.

That being said, looking at the text/sources it says that Afghanistan is an observer of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly (which is supported by https://iacis.ru/eng/parliaments/) not the CIS itself. Membership of the two is not synonymous (ie Uzbekistan is a member of CIS but not the IPA). Likewise, Mongolia is listed as an observer of some CIS structures, not the CIS itself.

This is much like the situation of Iceland, which is an observer of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control [1], for example, but not of the European Union as a whole. TDL (talk) 02:26, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Ok. I added up population of all CIS members (including Ukraine and Turkmenistan) from Wikipedia and that numbers are correct. Pages like Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine... are protected and they can't be edited by anonymus person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boban457 (talk • contribs) 07:53, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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You reverted my edit, I didn't redirect Gulf Cooperation Council! this was distinguish template please revert your revert you misunderstood. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vorpzn (talk • contribs) 11:36, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Yes I understood that. But Gulf Cooperation Council is not ambiguous. No reasonable person would type that in and expect to land at GNU Compiler Collection. I presume that your concern is that they both share an acronym, but GCC does not redirect to Gulf Cooperation Council hence a distinguish hatnote is not appropriate. See WP:HAT for further details on proper hatnote usage. TDL (talk) 11:46, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

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This is the edit that requires a source. The EU was created in 1992 and therefore cannot have entered this treaty. The EEC did this and that existed alongside the EU for many years while the latter replaced all of the institutions of the former. Turkey's candidacy for EU membership is based on a more recent application. The term "expired" refers to the EEC. Now if you know for a fact that a treaty of some kind continues to exist for the EU based on what Turkey did with the EEC years earlier then it may be helpful if you add this information to the article. I don't claim to be an expert but I couldn't find anything on the page that dealt with the European Union and the modern day. As such it looks to me like a dated contract. The category you inserted may yet have to go. Even so, the category appears on more than 100 articles and there is no way it belongs on every single one of them. Any treaty that the EU has entered, the EU is party to. Anything it has inherited from the EEC (or EC) needs to be sourced and declared on every article where it is the case. --OJ (talk) 02:04, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Agreed that the EU didn't enter into the treaty, but it succeeded the EEC. I've added some sources to the article which shows that the EU considers the AA to be between it and Turkey now. TDL (talk) 22:43, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Yes that's fine. So long as the two constituents (EU & Turkey) recognise the validity of the Ankara Agreement then there is no problem with the category, even if it lies dormant indefinitely. Cheers. --OJ (talk) 19:28, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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The article you quoted for undoing the edit clearly states with common sense and some exceptions. Does it make sense to have an article about Greek embassies to indicate a name that is in dispute? This is where common sense must pervail. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.72.148.54 (talk) 03:59, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Czech Recognition of Israel

Why did you revoke my edit, when Czech Republic no longer recognizes Palestinian's statehood. It voted against Palestinian upgrade to non-member observer status and revoked it's recognition of Palestine after the fall of communism and hasn't to my knowledge ever re-accepted Palestinian statehood 46.135.73.3 (talk) 10:32, 12 August 2017 (UTC)Adamgerd

Do you have any sources that the Czech Republic has withdrawn their recognition?

As mentioned in my edit summary, voting against a resolution which contained 7 paragraphs (only 1 of which related to their observer status) does not imply recognition has been withdrawn. They could have objected for a number of other reasons. This is a clear example of WP:SYNTHESIS to draw new conclusions. Conversely, a number of states which don't recognize voted in favour. That does not imply that they now recogize.

If you want to write that they have withdrawn recognition, you need a source that says that, not implications you've drawn of other facts. TDL (talk) 02:13, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks, I will keep an eye on the case page. TDL (talk) 21:36, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hi there. So it says the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League starts in February-May 2018, so that will be part of TFC's 2018 season then I guess? So in the Seasons section of List of Toronto FC seasons should the "Qualified" block under CL go for the 2018 season and left blank for the 2017 season, because I mean they did qualify in the 2017 season, but will be played under the 2018 season? Regards, Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 23:59, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

I'd say that yes that's a sensible approach. The 2018 tournament is functionally part of the 2018 season, and leave the 2017 CCL cell empty, because they effectively skipped the tournament this year. Eventually the "qualified" will be replaced by the stage they advanced to, so it won't seem so strange to have in 2018. TDL (talk) 00:10, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

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Numrec/Kosovo

In the template Template:Numrec/Kosovo, N stands for countries that are currently recognizing Kosovo as an independent, and W for withdrawals. Your logic to look at it at historical highest number is wrong.--AirWolf ^talk 16:01, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Forgot to respond to this, but the template was built and has always been used with the number of states that have ever recognized, an the number of those which have withdrawn recognition. TDL (talk) 17:27, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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Relations of SADR and Chad

Hallo Dan. I want ask you on our assessment of relations of SADR and Chad International recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. I was going through our sources again and reading the discussion on this cause. I think our assessment of the situation is wrong, is based on a wrong translation. I quote the most eloquent comment about:

• What the Chadians are upset about, if I get it right, is that the newspaper Alwihda has published a story saying that a deal was signed at the meeting between the SADR Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chad's Prime Minister.

"Aucun Acte de rétablissement des relations diplomatiques entre le Tchad et la RASD n’a été signé au cours de l’audience", writes the Prime's cabinet in their sharp communique.

In English that means that no form of agreement of reestablishing the diplomatic ties between Chad and RASD was signed at the meeting.

Fair enough. No deal was signed.

In the press release however from the Chadian Prime Minster's office, after the meeting with the Saharawi Minister for Foreign Affairs, it says:

"A cet effet, les deux parties ont décidé d’élever leurs relations diplomatiques au niveau des Ambassadeurs dans les meilleurs délais".

This means that the two parties agreed to raising their diplomatic relations to ambassador levels, as soon as possible.

Now they haven't done this yet, but they will as soon as it's possible. And that is also what SPS writes:

"The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and the Republic of Chad decided on Tuesday in N’Djamena to raise their diplomatic relations to ambassadorial level as soon as possible".

What SPS published is merely a re-write of the press release from the Prime's cabinet. So, what is the lie from SPS here? Someone please enlighten me?

See discussion on this cause here: [3].

I think we should edit the text from:

• diplomatic relations at the level of ambassador reportedly launched 17 July 2007, but this was denied by the Prime Minister of Chad 20 July 2007.

to:

• 17 July both countries agreed to raising their diplomatic relations to ambassador levels, as soon as possible.

We do not know, however, if realization of this subsequently occurred. Maybe Chad continues as nonrecognizer. Thanks! Jan CZ (talk) 21:31, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

If states NOW agree that in future to raise diplomatic relations, I think it means, that they NOW recognise each other?

From text is certainly does not seem that Chad did not recognize the SADR at the time of the Oulek visit (10 July 2007) and press release (17 July 2007). Greetings! Jan CZ (talk) 22:18, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Just looking at the sources now. The title of this is a bit misleading, but I think we can write that off. But otherwise, it seems the Chadian objection is to the fr:Alwihda news organization, not to the SADR. So I agree that there is really no diplomatic dispute.

Here Chad denies the "the signature of an agreement of recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic". So I'd say they didn't recognize in 2007.

Therefore, I'd drop the sentence on 2007 all together. TDL (talk) 22:38, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Chad denied the signature (on July 2007) of an agreement of recognition, but did not deny the recognition as such. On the contrary, if two parties agreed to raising their diplomatic relations, I think its proof of existence of recognition? Jan CZ (talk) 23:20, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Yeah I understand your point, just not comfortable that committing to future diplomatic relations implies current recognition. It probably does, but I think we really need a source to confirm that to avoid WP:OR. TDL (talk) 23:52, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes, you are right. But here is not written (as in other cases like Panama, Mauritius, Burundi and many others) reestablish relations, but raise (dipl.relations) to ambassadorial level. It is written in official Chadian press release. This implies that dipl. relations exist?

If there are relationships, there must be recognition. Jan CZ (talk) 00:57, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

No I disagree. For example, many states which have informal relations with Palestine do not recognize it, ie Austria: [4]. Generally these are described as something below ambassadorial level. In the linked article, the mission to Palestine is called a "VERTRETUNG" (REPRESENTATION), while to Afghanistan a "BOTSCHAFT" (EMBASSY). It is only diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level which imply recognition as I understand it. TDL (talk) 03:18, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

No, this is a different situation. Dan, here are the relations between the PLO and Austria, not between SoP and Austria (as SoP and Afghanistan). Diplomatic relations every time means recognition. Diplomatic relations with state means a state recognition, relations with PLO means recognition of PLO as a national liberation movement. In sources is nothing about the relations of Chad and Polisario Front, but here is relations of Chad and SADR. Jan CZ (talk) 08:34, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hi. Tough loss to Guadalajara, it always stings to go out in penalties but Delgado really should’ve finished it off right there before it ended. Anyway, so I saw you changed the attendance for the final game in Guadalajara from 60,000 to 36,977. At the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League Finals page references this https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbymcmahon/2018/04/26/after-remarkable-comeback-toronto-fc-falls-short-after-penalty-kick-decider-in-champions-league/ for the 60,000 figure. I also questioned it because the stadium doesn’t say it even holds that much. Do you have a source for your attendance figure? Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 03:06, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I got that from the MLS MatchTracker boxscore which is linked from the article: [6]. TDL (talk) 03:30, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

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Hallo Dan, disc about your made template is here: Template talk:Numrec#Withdrawn Recognition Currently not Subtracting from the Number of Recognitions. What do you thihng about? Thanks, Jan Jan CZ (talk) 07:05, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

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Sorry, can you point we to what you are talking about? Not following. TDL (talk) 03:01, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hi there, Czechia is the official short according to the EU list of countries, I do not see any reason to convert it back to the Czech Republic. Helveticus96 (talk) 06:21, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes I'm aware, but Czechia has not yet become the WP:COMMONNAME of the country in English. I don't see any reason that the list shouldn't follow the title of the article. TDL (talk) 10:19, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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https://rmx.news/czech-republic/czechia-joins-fiscal-pact-last-eu-member

https://rmx.news/czech-republic/czechia-joins-fiscal-pact-last-eu-member

Happy now?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:130E:811B:7DF8:C992:E3C6:99AB (talk) 20:22, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

@Dominiqueque: The source doesn't say what you purport it does. Agreed that Zeman signed it, but the source says "The agreement is to be counter-signed by PM Andrej Babiš as well." Has that happend yet? Can you provide evidece? Has the Czech Republic depositited their instrument of accession with the Secretariat, as required by the treaty to enter into force? Can you provide evidece? If not, we should't be reporting things that are not (yet) true. Please self-revert until you can find evidence to support the claim, or I will go ahead and do it for you. TDL (talk) 20:28, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

I am happy that you edited my edit on the Zeman signing piece. I am however skeptical that Babis who was more enthusiastic about the Treaty hasn't signed it yet. On a related note, someone who edited about the Czech accession mentioned that it was already deposited and that's what threw me off. Regards! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dominiqueque (talk • contribs) 02:05, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

I see a very confusing statement by the website: "Czechia - 03/04/2018 - Adhésion/Accession"

Must be a mistake because Czechia has not signed it until 2019.

And where do you find a source for it depositing the document? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dominiqueque (talk • contribs) 01:25, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

EFTA

Thank you for your copyedit of EFTA. I have given it a thorough spring clean and wholesale restructure so there may have been some unintended collateral damage. I would appreciate you giving it a thorough read to ensure that it hangs together (and correct any errors of course!).--John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:15, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Sure, will do when I get a chance. Keep up the good work! TDL (talk) 22:01, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Greenland should be blue, too

Topic: MNNA Thank you for adding NATO members to the map. BUT Greenland is a part of Denmark, so Greenland should be blue, too.

Member states of the Council of Europe

Dear Danlaycock,

I kindly ask that we expend the below page with an accurate history of evolution of membership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Council_of_Europe

The Council of Europe (CoE) invited shortly after its inauguration countries like Greece and Turkey to join as "founders". As I mentioned earlier, if it was the case that the CoE later on switched such countries from "founder" to "member" category due to various reasons such as the Greek junta, then we ought to further expand with the relevant factual information of the reason and date. Hence, we ought to state either these countries as "founder" or "ex-founder currently member" countries.

On page 378 of the book "Council of Europe" as well as the websites of German state broadcaster, the Italian nonprofit think-thank and Turkish government's official website are four sample independent sources that collaborate this information.

References: https://www.decitre.fr/livres/the-council-of-europe-9780199672523.html http://www.internationaldemocracywatch.org/index.php/council-of-europe- https://www.dw.com/en/council-of-europe-accuses-turkey-of-violating-human-rights/a-37567024 http://www.mfa.gov.tr/council-of-europe.en.mfa

If you think that these three websites and the book to be falsifying the historical records of the year 1949, I would be grateful if you could kindly elucidate the matter.

Thanks in advance for your kind input,

Yours sincerely, — Preceding unsigned comment added by MisterGorilla (talk • contribs) 10:15, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

As explained, these don't reconcile with authoratative sources. For example, the COE states:

[7]: Greece became the 11th member State of the Council of Europe on 9 August 1949.

[8]: Turkey became the 13th member State of the Council of Europe on 13 April 1950.

Notably, Turkey joined after Iceland:

[9]: Iceland became the 12th member State of the Council of Europe on 7 March 1950.

So are you arguing that Turkey is a Founder but Iceland isn't?

Conversely, for France the COE lists them as a founding member:

[10]: France became member of the Council of Europe on 5 May 1949. It is a founder member of the Organisation.

Other sources:

[11]: 10 founder members of the future Council of Europe, as well as Germany, Austria, Greece, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Turkey.

[12]: The Council of Europe was founded on May 5, 1949, by 10 western European countries—Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

TDL (talk) 00:01, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Dear Danlaycock,

Thanks for kindly reverting back, appreciate it.

":So are you arguing that Turkey is a Founder but Iceland isn't?"

In regards to your question quoted above, I never mentioned Iceland before, I only stated Greece and Turkey as examples of countries which were technically invited, yet were accepted as founding members. Based on the fact that the four sample references I provided show Greece and Turkey as founding members.

Having said that, if it turns out Iceland is or was back in the day a founding member, needlessly to say, that information ought to be included on the Wikipedia the same way it should be for Greece and Turkey.

In regards to your argument that your references are the authoritative ones and therefore you disagree with the opposing view my references provide is I believe your main point. I beg to differ on this point, not because your references are any less authoritative than what I provided, to the contrary, the CoE website and Brittanica cooperation websites you provided are credible as much as the four sample references I provided.

The book I quoted is by Professor Stefanie Schmahl from the University of Würzburg and Professor Marten Breuer from the University of Konstanz. And the two of the three websites I listed belong to the German and Turkish state and the last one is an Italian nonprofit think-thank. In other words, all references are from reputable sources and I don't think they would maliciously distort the historical facts. But if you think that these three websites and the book to be falsifying the historical records of the year 1949, I would be grateful if you could kindly elucidate the matter.

And as I mentioned before,I don't disagree for a second if it is the case that CoE switched "Greece and Turkey from "founder" to "member" state at some point in its long history. The point I am making is that these two countries started as "founder" status initially and the Wikipedia website ought to reflect history accurately. Hence I kindly suggest these countries should either be listed as "founder" or "ex-founder now member" states. And if it was the case that CoE later on switched their category, the Wikipedia community ought to expand this part with the reasons and dates why they switched from "founder" to "member" status.

Thanks again for kindly taking the time and effort to discuss the matter with me, I do appreciate it.

Kind regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by MisterGorilla (talk • contribs) 12:23, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Dear Danlaycock,

I trust all is well.

I kindly like to ask if you have seen my response from 4 days ago concerning our discussion.

I pasted the full text below.

I look forward to your input.

Kind regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by MisterGorilla (talk • contribs) 11:01, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

And I would be grateful if you could elucidate why you belive that the COE is "maliciously distort the historical facts" and "falsifying the historical records" on their own website? If they were founders, why would the COE not list that on their website?

Your suggestion that the COE somehow recognized them as founders, but retroactivly revoked their "founder" status to explain away the inconsistencies in your argument with the authoratative sources, strikes me as just adding epicycles to your theory. Do you have any evidence to support this hypothosis? If so, I would be certainly agree that this should be added to the article.

I don't dispute that DW is reliable, but you are reling on a passing mention of this in DW versus the authoratative source explicitly refuting the claim. And the Turkish state website here isn't really neutral on the matter, given that they have an obvious self-interest to inflating their status. Finally, this does not appear to be WP:RELIABLE. Additionally, it is riddled with errors and inconsistencies. For example, where it claims Turkey is a founder it gives the incorrect date for it's joining. Also, it claims that there are only 10 founders (thus excluding Greece/Turkey) and later that Greece/Turkey "joined the CoE founder members". TDL (talk) 01:19, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Dear Danlaycock,

I'm terribly sorry to trouble you again, but I kindly await for your thoughts on the matter below.

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by MisterGorilla (talk • contribs) 13:35, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I've already responded above. It's hard to follow when you copy and past the thread again, so I've merged it all into a single thread. TDL (talk) 22:34, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

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