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Category:Flag template shorthands has an RFC

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Requested move at Talk:List of sovereign states by employment rate#Requested move 25 October 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of sovereign states by employment rate#Requested move 25 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 15:21, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

North Macedonia has an RfC

North Macedonia has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Outside viewpoints would be highly appreciated! Thank you. --Local hero ^talk 17:02, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Template talk:Countries and territories of Oceania#Requested move 8 November 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Template talk:Countries and territories of Oceania#Requested move 8 November 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 01:12, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FAR for Madagascar

I have nominated Madagascar for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Kowal2701 (talk) 15:19, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

government_type parameter

See WP:VPI#Make it mandatory to fill basic information within the government_type= of an infobox when writing about countries Kowal2701 (talk) 12:05, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move at Talk:Communist state#Requested move 23 December 2025

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Requested move at Talk:Communist state#Requested move 23 December 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Communist state#Requested move 23 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 04:04, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Estonia, Lativa, Lithuania

Well @Glebushko0703, ExRat, Sbaio, CoolCuteBear, Neptuunium, and HKLionel:, I tried to create peace, concerning "short description", via consistency at Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. But one of you reverted me at Estonia & another at Lithuania. I don't know why anybody would want inconsistency in the area, on those three articles, so I'll start the discussion here & let you all come up with a solution. Recommending that @Callanecc: monitor. GoodDay (talk) 05:31, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I’m concerned, you removed useful information from a short description in the name of consistency, which holds no weight against SD guidelines. If you want consistency, then I’d change Latvia and Lithuania to Baltic country in Northern Europe as well, as all three are Baltic states in Northern Europe, while mentioning Baltic region would make the SD too long. In your revert, you cited Sweden and Finland, which after review, I would change to Nordic country in Northern Europe as well. Imparting helpful information to the reader takes precedence above all other concerns in the field of short descriptions. HKLionel TALK 05:41, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Change them to whatever you & the others can come to a conesnsus on. GoodDay (talk) 05:44, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's time to get opinons from outsiders, on this issue. I'll be opening up a RFC here, soon. GoodDay (talk) 00:02, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

See RFC discussion. GoodDay (talk) 02:17, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The primary topic of the RfC is the short desc used on three articles. That is not clear from the above post; therefore, it should be worded as such, like this:  You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Estonia § RFC: Short description of Baltic states. Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 13:23, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Native name

Republic of Panama República de Panamá (Spanish)
ISO 3166 code	PA

Republic of Panama República de Panamá
ISO 3166 code	PA

@Absolutiva: Why is this being done all over without a talk? Why are we removing the language tag? How the hell are our readers to know what language is being displayed? Why are you bypassing the parameter setup by the community ? Are you also removing portals all over as seen here?Moxy🍁 13:05, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This edit will not have notified Absolutiva (talk · contribs), see WP:MENTION. --Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 14:43, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It is redundant to have parenthesis in some major countries like Germany, Brazil, India, etc. are most examples of countries do not need parenthesis which is generally omitted for most spoken languages, like German or Portuguese, see this example. Absolutiva 14:51, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree ...we are here to help readers understand what information is being presented before them ...why would we make it hard for them to understand ? ..are they to guess? Moxy🍁 15:57, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look an example, which a {{Native name}} parameter suppress the appearance of the native language's name in a parenthesis to reduce redundancy for that purpose. A minimal infobox example of a France, which a French language is suppressed from the native language's name in a parenthesis after the native name. Absolutiva 22:32, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Well—the information being presented to them is that it's the native name, no? If someone asks me my name, do they also want to know what language it's from? (Well, some people will ask outright if the name seems to be from what they consider to be an "exotic" culture and they're trying to figure out where in the social hierarchy of the world, as they see it, to place you, but let's not talk about those people.) If there are multiple names in different languages (Switzerland, for example), then of course we need to be explicit about the context behind each name. (I have no strong opinion on this, there just seemed to be a place for a little devilish advocacy.) Largoplazo (talk) 23:09, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

At least, one language is used for infobox like Austria, see this edit, according to Template:Infobox country. Absolutiva 23:20, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what point you meant to make—all you did was give an example that's the reverse of the edit of yours that Moxy gave as an example—but it doesn't address what I said. Largoplazo (talk) 00:48, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]