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Two edit requests

1. This is the first time I have seen a page with no edit links and lots of "edit requests" in the Talk. I would suggest that near the top or bottom of the page some text be added explaining why it is locked and how to suggest changes.

2. To the section stating that there is no interference with religious activities other than Islam, it is worth adding something like "However, religious proselytizing is illegal in the UAE." Because, like it or not, proselytizing is part of the "religious activities" of more than one religion, and people unaware of this law have been prosecuted and/or deported. Suggested citation: https://www.osac.gov/Country/UnitedArabEmirates/Content/Detail/Report/77d2e6dc-68e6-4dcd-91ea-1828235e7695 though there are many other online sources for this fact. 伟思礼 (talk) 04:11, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is this encyclopedic?

The UAE offers businesses a strong enabling environment: stable political and macroeconomic conditions, a future-oriented Government, good general infrastructure and ICT infrastructure. Moreover, the country has made continuous and convincing improvements to its regulatory environment and is generally a top country for doing business. Is this encyclopedic? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.155.237.221 (talk) 12:02, 2 October 2019 (UTC) edited by SharabSalam (talk) 09:53, 7 October 2019 (UTC) to shorten it[reply]

It's certainly more panglossian language than we normally see in Wikipedia country articles - and the cited source seems to be a PR outfit. Can someone suggest better language? BushelCandle (talk) 23:28, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

United Arab Emirates is an Absolute Federal Monarchy.

My name is Emarat Deira, I am a Law Professor in the University of Dubai for 40+ years, please read what i type carefully: The Constitution of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as per the Arabic text, defines it as an Federal Monarchy, where the King has absolute powers that are not limited by the constitution. Therefore, the UAE is not a constitutional monarchy like Spain or the UK, but it is an absolute monarchy like Oman or Brunei, please change it to an absolute monarchy, as it pains me to see my country being called an constitutional monarchy, as it is incorrect. Wikipedia also agrees with me, as the UAE is listed as absolute monarchy here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_monarchy. Please make this change as soon as possible. Thanks, Emarat Deira, --Emarat Deira (talk) 18:51, 7 December 2019 (UTC) 40+ years Law Professor at the University of Dubai, and expert on the constitution of the UAE.[reply]

Emarat Deira, First of all I would like to welcome you in Wikipedia and I wish we benefit from your experience on improving the overall quality of articles. Now, as WikiDan61 mentioned, here in Wikipedia it's all about verifiability and citing, where personal research is not allowed and such content can be challenged and removed, even if the editor is a known researcher or expert in the field. please post any links that can back your claim, because as per my understanding the UAE is a Federal Monarchy while each individual Emirate is Absolute Monarchy, as for what mentioned is the Wikipedia page of Absolute Monarchy, HH Sheikh Khalifa isn't an absolute monarch over the federation but on the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, adding him to list of absolute monarch is an error and should be removed. Regards UA3 (talk) 23:47, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The UAE is a federal monarchy not absolute monarchy Zulu521 (talk) 23:52, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 23 December 2019

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The uae is a Absloute monarchy. You can check the other Wikipedia and non wikipedia websites. But it is showing that it is a constitutional monarchy in the uae page. This deeply effects uae government powers and desicions. As it makes chaos for the monarch who has been undermined. 2.49.24.19 (talk) 20:35, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See the above post, otherwise please point to reliable sources. – Thjarkur (talk) 20:48, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Absolute Monarchy

Please add "Absolute Monarchy" to the forme of government of the UAE (in the article), because the Map of Formes of Government painted it as Purple: Absolute Monarchy. Bot please auto sign this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.219.180.69 (talk) 23:40, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done.

However, I have removed some internal links to Constitutional monarchy. BushelCandle (talk) 23:20, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

how does an 'elective monarchy' end up with a 'president'?142.163.195.142 (talk) 11:46, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Read the article and follow the hyperlinks in blue to understand how. BushelCandle (talk) 22:02, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 15 April 2021

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This is in regards to the section on Languages, where it is said "Since the area was occupied by the British until 1971, English is the primary lingua franca in the UAE. As such, a knowledge of the language is a requirement when applying for most local jobs."

"As such" should be changed to "Consequently," "As a result," or something similar. The current text is an incorrect and unprofessional (albeit common) misapplication of the construct "as such", which means "acting or behaving as (the previously described noun)." In this case, "knowledge of the language" is not acting or behaving "as such" where such means "the primary lingua franca in the UAE." In other words, what this text is saying can be reduced to "Knowledge, acting as English, is a requirement when applying for most local jobs." While I have no doubt that knowledge of English is required for most local jobs, it's not because knowledge is itself English.

It would also be correct to leave "As such" but change the sentence to:

"As such, it is required when applying for most local jobs." Bubbleking (talk) 17:14, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:20, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

US Politicians

Can someone please explain why there are images of two US politicians (Pompeo, Trump) in an article that is supposed to be about UAE? Surely one will do. B. Fairbairn (talk) 13:17, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's the foreign relations section. There's a Putin in there too. Surely not doing anyone any harm, are they? I added in Joe Biden just to make it a bit more Democratic... Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 14:30, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ha ha ha - anything to reduce bias and simultaneously put more stars and stripes flags on other country articles B. Fairbairn (talk) 11:04, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 29 July 2021

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The statement endorsing in Wikipedia's voice of Mr Richard A. Clarke as an independently-reliable expert from US perspective on the US's war on so-called terror (WTW) across the wider WANA region in the "Foreign relations" subsection of "Government and politics" section: Ought to mention that almost immediately after the end of tenure for the 2-term Executive Administration he worked for, he went on to work for the "federal" Emirati regime for their military and surveillance development by setting up shop over there and in 2012, deepened his direct-ties with them which according to cited-statements in his 'Wikigraphy', strengthened even more and continues till date. —103.163.124.72 (talk) 16:34, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:39, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I posit to add that Wikipedia's voice also acknowledge that he went on to work for the Emirati ruling clan afterwards and the briefly-mentioned progress of their relationship till date. Nothing more, nothing less. And IntelligenceOnline appears like a pretty good independently-reliable source, at least when it comes to the favorability for Uncle Sam. If the paywall for their scoops is a trouble, as far as I know: Wikipedia doesn't discourage the citation of or instruct editors to measure reliability of a citation by its access-level. Hopefully, I've managed to clarify every reasonable query as concisely as I could. —103.163.124.72 (talk) 17:01, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: That's not really providing the actual "X to Y" prose. Per the edit request template, "Please change X" is not acceptable and will be rejected; the request must be of the form "please change X to Y". ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:03, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I want the addition after the prose which reads:

The United Arab Emirates and the United States enjoy very close strategic ties. The UAE has been described as the United States' best counter-terrorism ally in the Gulf by Richard A. Clarke, the US national security advisor and counter-terrorism expert.

and immediately before the sentence which comes up after the single inline-citation of aforementioned-sentence reading:

The US maintains three military bases in the UAE.

There! Hope that helps with every reasonable-doubt for anybody with goodwill towards the change perceivably not laudatory towards Mr Clarke. Now, if you happen to further state that I must precisely rewrite the whole prose exactly as I see fit with all of punctuation, spacing and syntax in tip-top shape, even though as a reviewer: You are supposed to edit it in a far better given your supposed experience, then I must better be exceptionally-accorded the privileges to edit this article myself, don't you think? Because the suspected "current process" sounds less like "collaborative" and how shall I put it? Let's just say, far more off-putting. —103.163.124.72 (talk)