Talk:Governor-General of Solomon Islands

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"Elected"?

The article says (and I have heard said elsewhere) that the G-G is "elected" by the Solomon Islands parliament. How is this reconciled with the theory that the G-G is just a representative of the Queen? In the article on the G-G of Papua New Guinea, it says that the G-G of that state is nominated by the parliament. Would it be more accurate to put it this way for the Solomon Islands? --Jfruh 19:52, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You are right. Parliament nominates the GG and arrives at that nomination by vote,but the GG is appointed by the Queen. The Queen is not obligated to accept the vote but it would take extraordinary circumstances for her not to dos so. The article now reflects this. E x nihil ^(talk) 03:15, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 December 2015

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Governor-General of Solomon Islands → Governor-General of the Solomon Islands – For consistency, as the definite article is used within the article titles of both Monarchy of the Solomon Islands and Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands. Neve-selbert 06:21, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Don't move. The official name of the country is actually Solomon Islands without the definite article and there are reasons for this. The [[Solomon Islands (archipelago) with the definite article are an archipelago in the western South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago forms much of the territory of the nation of Solomon Islands, while the northwestern islands are within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. The gazetted UN name of the country is Solomon Islands, the SI Constitution refers to Solomon Islands as does the national anthem and Queen Elizabeth is officially Queen of Solomon Islands not the Solomon islands and her letter of appointment of the Governor General describes the position as the the Governor General of Solomon Islands. The Solomon Islands as the name of the nation is avoided because it describes a colonial administrative area that doesn't actually map onto either the nation or the archipelago. This, together with explanations for the name issue is described in the articles in various places. Most of the content of the articles about both get this correctly but somebody started changing some of the page names a while back to include the definite article thinking this was more grammatical, including I believe the one ones you refer to so it has now become a bit of a mess. For consistency we probably need to change those pages to Monarchy of Solomon Islands and Prime Minister of Solomon Islands. Anything pre-1978 needs to be the Solomon Islands. It is not a small issue to those that live there. Think Cote d'Ivoire. E x nihil ^(talk) 09:07, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Agree Requesting moves of both on the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands talk page. Thanks. Neve-selbert 09:57, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I moved the page to the above proposed titled after the discussion was closed at Talk:Monarchy of the Solomon Islands#Requested move 30 December 2015. Vanjagenije (talk) 15:59, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]