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The state of palestine carry a non-member observer status in UN, non member observer states ARE recognized as de jure sovereign states even if many parts of it’s lands are under foreign occupation, even if the country is completely occupied another one it remains de jure, it’s recognized as such by the all the international community (138 countries) except western countries, when iraq occupied kuwait it neither made kuwait government “non de jure” nor made it lose it’s “sovereignty” title, kuwait remained a de jure state even during the occupation, countries remain “de jure” even if 100% of all it’s lands are under foreign occupation Amr.elmowaled (talk) 13:54, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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93.172.205.135 (talk) 13:18, 18 December 2022 (UTC)change first sentences, It is written Palestinian state is occupied by Israel since 1967 but actually Palestine was never a state prior to 1967 west bank was belong to Jordanian kingdom and Gaza belonged to Egypt Please clarify this on the first rows.[reply]
I reverted the edit because the info is already included in the article lead at the end of para 2. Good idea, in general, to require sourcing for edit reqs, especially from random IP editreqs. Good idea to actually read the article as well before editing it. Selfstudier (talk) 22:24, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done: Consensus for a change is needed, although note that many people would say exactly the opposite as both these words mean different things to different people. CMD (talk) 06:50, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestion: Change 'though' to 'although' or however in the intro.
Change the name to just "Palestine", so that the page uses the common name of the state like most other pages about nation states.
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I think the name of the page "State of Palestine", which is about the nation state commonly referred to as simply "Palestine". This would mean the page uses the name that most people use to refer to the state. When searching for the page, people are going to type in "Palestine" by default, and the search bar dropdown doesn't suggest "State of Palestine" as one of the things they could be looking for. Also, most pages on Wikipedia about nation states use the common name of the state as the title of the page. Just a few examples, with format "common English name (official English name)":
United Kingdom (United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland)
United States (United States of America)
China (People's Republic of China)
France (French Republic)
Brazil (Federative Republic of Brazil)
Egypt (Arab Republic of Egypt)
Israel (State of Israel)
Australia (Commonwealth of Australia)
East Timor (Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste)
Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania)
Kosovo (Republic of Kosovo)
North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus)
Armenia (Republic of Armenia)
And many more. There is also nothing that they have in common with each other that Palestine doesn't that means it should not be named the same way as them.
81.106.42.190 (talk) 21:21, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the move request was: Procedural close because the nominating editor is not ecp qualified to participate in RFC discussions. Selfstudier (talk) 22:03, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
State of Palestine → Palestine – I think the name of the page "State of Palestine", which is about the nation state commonly referred to as simply "Palestine". This would mean the page uses the name that most people use to refer to the state. When searching for the page, people are going to type in "Palestine" by default, and the search bar dropdown doesn't suggest "State of Palestine" as one of the things they could be looking for. Also, most pages on Wikipedia about nation states use the common name of the state as the title of the page. Just a few examples, with format "common English name (official English name)":
United Kingdom (United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland), United States (United States of America), China (People's Republic of China), France (French Republic), Brazil (Federative Republic of Brazil), Egypt (Arab Republic of Egypt), Israel (State of Israel), Australia (Commonwealth of Australia), East Timor (Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste), Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania), Kosovo (Republic of Kosovo), North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus), Armenia (Republic of Armenia)
And many more. There is also nothing that they have in common with each other that Palestine doesn't that means it should not be named the same way as them. 81.106.42.190 (talk) 14:41, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment In principle, I agree with the proposal. However, if you create the wikilink Palestine, or the Category:Palestine and see where you end up, it can be seen why this is not currently done. Perhaps not impossible to solve but I doubt that the will to do it exists. If one looks up the page, there were three prior attempts to do this, the last time in 2017 here, no consensusSelfstudier (talk) 15:01, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Partially recognized state
I made this edit which was reverted by @Selfstudier. I was referred to the RfC here above, but it was actually inconclusive with no consensus reached. It's already mentioned as such in the infobox, which gives me confidence in the correctness of the label.
My motivation for writing "partially recognized state" is because it reflects the situation the best. 55 states, including the US, Canada, the UK, AUS/NZ and most of the EU, do not recognize the State of Palestine. Which is where I'm pretty sure the bulk of English Wikipedia readers come from, which makes these two words worth mentioning. Synotia (talk) 20:42, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No consensus to include defaults to not included. Which you would know if you actually read the conclusion of the RFC. nableezy - 20:54, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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