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Czechia vs Czech Republic
Hi, some time ago I changed "Czech Republic" to "Czechia" in the Partnership for Peace page and you reverted these changes. I was trying to find a reason why my change was rejected but I couldn't find one. I'm not very familiar with the Wikipedia editing process, so maybe the reason is mentioned but I couldn't find it. Otherwise, I would be glad to learn from you why is the short name "Czechia" less correct than "Czech Republic" on a webpage where all other countries are listed with their short names ("Slovakia", "Germany", "France", etc.). Kind regards, cerniagigante (talk) 16:44, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
- Hi cerniagigante, I reverted because generally on Wikipedia we follow general English language usage rather than offical usage. See WP:COMMONNAME for details. France, Germany and Slovakia happen to be both these state's common name and official short names. Due to historical reasons, the Czech Republic became common, and the recent change to make Czechia the official short name has not really caught on yet in the Englsh world.
- There was extensive debate on this subject a few months ago here and the consensus was against renaming the article. Generally we should follow this usage on other pages.
- Personally I prefer Czechia and hope it catches on, just think we need to keep the encyclopedia consistent until then. TDL (talk) 14:06, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
African Continental Free Trade Area
Hi. What you don’t seem to understand is that a country may have already ratified the document but have yet to deposit it to the African Union. If you analyze well your document, you will observe that coincidentally the countries which have deposited their ratification to the African Union, and those countries only, have already been marked as having ratified it. If the document were up-to-date, you would have some countries that have ratified it but not deposited it yet. Or else, what is the point of having 3 different dates (signature, ratification, deposition) instead of only 2 dates (signature, ratification)? Morocco has yet to deposit the document to the African Union so the African Union did not update their document with Morocco's ratification date. But I am pretty sure that the document has already been signed and ratified. Here are 5 other sources saying that the document has been signed and ratified: - https://aujourdhui.ma/economie/zlecaf-lafrique-a-son-marche-commun - https://leseco.ma/adoption-du-projet-de-loi-relatif-la-creation-de-la-zone-de-libre-echange-continentale-africaine/ - https://leseco.ma/zlecaf-comment-accelerer-le-marche-commun-africain/ - https://www.le1.ma/zleca-sa-ratification-par-rabat-nest-pas-une-reconnaissance-de-la-pseudo-rasd/ - https://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/85759/pays-l-ua-redoutent-l-adhesion-maroc.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ucfberrada (talk • contribs) 12:50, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
- Sorry, you're right. I've self-reverted. We can reconcile the ratification date once Morocco deposits with the AU. TDL (talk) 12:55, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
UK Prum Convention participation
Hello. I recently changed the map of the Prum Convention page to include the UK. Although we have now left the EU, we are an active participant in the Prum Convention. Can you edit the current picture to include them in the orange colour to reflect this? I had uploaded a separate picture which I had created and uploaded which has since been removed? I am unable to edit and continue the thread containing the same image. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urbanninja88 (talk • contribs) 10:11, 6 June 2020 (UTC)