Talk:Belgium

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Date	Process	Result
May 8, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
June 22, 2005	Featured article review	Demoted
August 16, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
August 26, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 21, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
November 12, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
June 21, 2007	Featured article review	Kept
August 10, 2007	Featured article review	Kept
August 2, 2011	Featured article review	Demoted
Current status: Former featured article

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Folklore

Your affirmation "A major non-official holiday is the Saint-Nicolas (Sint Nicholas in English) Day, a festivity for children in Belgium and also for students" is not correct. Saint Nicholas Day is also celebrated for students in all University towns in Belgium. Many drivers stuck in the traffic would confirm it was because of the Sint Nicholas students's procession in Brussels. Eva. 23March2010

PS: ridiculous comments about Belgium once again among other stupid comments from French and other Wikipedians about other items and articles!

Is it the outcome of Wikipedia's idealistic project about which I wasted my time attending a MOOC course on the French platform FUN early this year ?? See at https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/WMFr/86001/session01/info.

Now I am telling you frankly after +/- 6 months personal experience: I found out all those VAIN, FUTILE 'guerres d'édition'/ 'edit warring' (such nice words!!): the black side of Wikipedia!

Matter of EGOS only !

HOW DISAPPOINTING!

Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring & https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Guerre_d%27%C3%A9dition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars & https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Guerres_d%27%C3%A9dition_les_plus_futiles.

Actually most of them are completely VAIN (EN) / FUTILES (FR)! Just a matter of common sense ~~

Karel Van Noppen and not Karen Van Noppen

Just a tiny typo in the name Karel Van Noppen (in the section "Independent Belgium"). I'd correct it myself but the page is protected. The name links to a page with the correct name, Karel.

Semi-protected edit request on 11 November 2021

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I would like to change the armed forces part because the interpuntcion. this is my suggestion:

The Belgian Armed Forces have about 47,000 active troops. In 2019, Belgium's defense budget totaled €4.303 billion ($4.921 billion) representing .93% of its GDP.[102] They are organized into one unified structure which consists of four main components: Land Component or the Army, Air Component or the Air Force, Marine Component or the Navy and the Medical Component. The operational commands of the four components are subordinate to the Staff Department for Operations and Training of the Ministry of Defense, which is headed by the Assistant Chief of Staff Operations and Training, and to the Chief of Defense.[103] Pimme04 (talk) 22:51, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done SSSB (talk) 10:37, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Religion

What is biggest Religion in Belgium? 112.215.242.24 (talk) 02:06, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This page is for discussing improvements to the article rather than asking trivia questions, but see Belgium#Religion. If you have other questions of this type, you could ask them at Wikipedia:Reference desk. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:34, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress

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Semi-protected edit request on 17 March 2022

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Can you add English and Luxembourgish to the “Official languages” list? Belgium has many official languages. 70.71.87.75 (talk) 21:47, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cannolis (talk) 21:50, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Misspelling of Belgium as 'Belguim'

The sentence "Between 1885 and 1908, the Congo Free State, which was privately owned by King Leopold II of Belgium, was characterized by widespread atrocities and a population decline of millions, leading Belguim to takeover the territory as a colony." in the introductory section contains a misspelling of Belgium as 'Belguim'. 2A02:3035:C17:9E23:1:0:1C58:6B1F (talk) 07:10, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]