Talk:Belgium

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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 1 June 2022 (2)

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Change total nominal GDP from $609,887 billion to $609.887 billion. 2601:2C2:980:6710:912E:F3A:F57D:A00C (talk) 22:33, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Kpg jhp jm 06:11, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is not related to sources. It's a formatting issue. $609,887 billion implies a total GDP of $609887 billion which doesn't make any sense. I am pretty sure what was meant was $609.887 billion. Also look at the total PPP GDP which is written as $715.658 billion which does seem to be correct. 64.209.89.208 (talk) 13:36, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This issue has been taken care of by Aidan9382 in the section immediately below this one. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:21, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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In the “Capital and largest city” section of the infobox, can you change “Brussels” to “City of Brussels”? Brussels in the infobox is a region. 2605:8D80:404:8E9F:8132:B6DD:8428:4FCA (talk) 00:23, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done RudolfRed (talk) 03:48, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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"continued to interact with ~~the~~ their neighbours" 81.103.38.4 (talk) 09:39, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done – Thanks! Favonian (talk) 09:52, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good

Good — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.116.49.73 (talk) 00:34, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Could the "ethnic groups" section be changed from "belgians" to wallons and flemish? Belgian is not an ethnic group. Maybe include all three with flemish and wallons as subgroups of belgian. 188.148.143.116 (talk) 19:20, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]