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Please change BCE to BC.

Ethiopia is a Christian country, both majority wise, as well as historically. As such, its history page should also use the Christian terminology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:810D:640:DB8:142A:697E:3468:35DA (talk) 17:06, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In the Ethiopian Encyclopedia, you could maybe do that. Wikipedia in English is not an Ethiopian encyclopedia, and we use (or should use) what sources in English do. On top of that, Ethiopia is a less of a Christian country than many, with 34% Muslim. Mathglot (talk) 00:03, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, for a country with such a strong Christian tradition, it may not be the worse idea. Mathglot, I struggled to understand parts of your explanation, such as: "Wikipedia in English is not an Ethiopian encyclopedia" —what? El_C 00:21, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I see the argument over and over again at country articles, "Please don’t say 'Foo' because that’s not the way we do it here in Slobovia." And I respond, it doesn’t matter what the official Slobovian position on this is; what matters is what the preponderance of reliable sources published in English have to say about it." This is another one of those. I should create a template for it, with params country and language to save time. If English sources use BCE then so should we. If it’s not clear, then MOS:ERA should pertain. Mathglot (talk) 00:41, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Official name in 5 major languages (collapsible list)

Native Names

 Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ 
 (yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk)

 Afar: ityoppiah federalih demokrasih ummuno

 Oromo: Rippabliikii Federaalawaa Dimokraatawaa Itiyoophiyaa

 Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiga Federaalka Itoobiya

 Tigrinya: ናይ ኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ 
 (nayi'ītiyop'iya fēdēralawī dēmokirasīyawī rīpebilīki)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.5.215.225 (talk)

192.5.215.225, Ethiopia has two official languages. We usually use official languages not regional languages in the infobox.--SharʿabSalam▼ (talk) 18:39, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Amharic is the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Other regional Ethiopian languages "shall enjoy equal state recognition" (Article 5). ^[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.5.215.225 (talk) 18:47, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Our article says that there are only two official languages. Languages that the government use for official documents.--SharʿabSalam▼ (talk) 18:51, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Read Article 5

There is only one official language at the National Level. That language is Amharic and it has always been a lingua france used for inter-ethnic communication with different groups that speak different native languages. Article 5 says that even though Amharic is the official language at the national level, sub-national regions can have their own regional languages for their respective jurisdictions. Again, Amharic is the official language at the national level, if we are going to add only official languages, Amharic should be the only one included not Affan Oromo. But the reasoning I had prior to this was to add the major languages spoken into the native name section because they are the native names of the country (if you would look at the infoboxes for other countries the same thing has been done).

But we need to set the record straight: Amharic is the only official language while other regional languages do exist.

Here is a quote from Article 5: "Article 5 Languages 1. All Ethiopian languages shall enjoy equal state recognition. 2. Amharic shall be the working language of the Federal Government. 3. Members of the Federation may by law determine their respective working languages. "^[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.5.215.225 (talk) 19:06, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Read the constitution you wrote. Amharic is not national language and not recognised in many regions. It is only language of Federal government. Anyways, Oromo was declared to be language of Federal as Abiy posted on his facebook and other media broadcasted. Maammee (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:50, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Intro

In the second paragraph:

The Ethiopian calendar, which is approximately seven years and three months behind the Gregorian calendar.

Great subject and subordinate clause (albeit without a citation), but where is the predicate? Someone please help. Thanks —PowerPCG5 (talk) 21:11, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright/plagiarism violation on WP or Amazon?

I wrote a long section highlighting the many, many overlaps between a photo book description on Amazon and the introduction section for this article, but WP ate it in a server error. I don't have the time to re-create that list here, but just made the coypypaste template live on the article, so I'm posting this quickly here to explain.

The entire intro appears to have been initially lifted completely from the book description, then expanded and slightly updated as needed. Nearly every sentence from the description on Amazon appears nearly unchanged here on Wikipedia.

One source is plagiarizing the other; I personally think it's easier to expand than summarize, so my inclination is that Wikipedia's page is the violator here.

I've tagged this article's intro section (not great, I know, but this really needs to be dealt with).

--Pinchme123 (talk) 15:55, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Other way around.--Moxy 🍁 16:26, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.africa.upenn.edu/Hornet/Ethiopian_Constitution.html

[2] ttps://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/et/et007en.pdf

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