Talk:List of members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Undiscussed removal of former members

@Governor Sheng: Hello. Just wanted to let you know that User:Killuminator has concerns regarding this edit of yours from 2020, as it was undiscussed. He has left a detailed message on my talk page but his argument can be summed up in the following paragraph:

Under the current constitution, there are 3 members from 3 ethnic groups. Under the previous constitution, there were 7 members and at one point even 10 because of a provision for an expanded presidency under wartime conditions. Someone unilaterally changed the scope of the article even though the title still implies the removed content should have stayed. … France has had five republican constitutions but the page on French presidents list ALL OF THEM. The equivalent of what [the user(s)] did here would be me removing everyone before Charles de Gaulle on that page because he's the first president under the new constitution.

Now, considering his argument and the lack of a previous discussion there’s a case for reverting your edit and adding back the names, but I thought we should inform you first cause you might have had a solid reason and a perfect explanation behind the decision you made and I didn’t want this to turn into an edit war. Let us know what you think and if you have no objections we’ll restore the deleted info. If you have objections, the names will be added back (because the initial change was undiscussed) but a more thorough discussion will need to take place to get a general consensus for deleting segments of the page. Keivan.f^Talk 06:56, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Well, I read what he wrote. :) He's wrong though. He compares the article to that about the French presidents. Yet, he fails to realise that there, the presidents are clearly separated into several sections, depending to which Republic they served (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.). Having that in mind, we could make the same changes here as well. More so because the scope of the Presidency is drastically different, the appointments were different etc. For example, currently, the members of the Presidency are directly elected to the post, while during the war they were all appointed by Izetbegović (there's a dispute on the legality of his unilateral appointments). Not only that, the country not only changed its constitution, but its name, nature, and flag. There's also a dispute is it the same country. Some jurists will say it is the same country as in 1995, others will differ. --Governor Sheng (talk) 17:27, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

@Governor Sheng: I see. It's more complicated than I imagined. Do you suggest creating a separate list, or do you think we can add them here? I think with separate sections and some footnotes they can all be covered on the same page. Regardless of where the information is put, I think it's better to have the names included somewhere as presumably it's part of the nation's political history. Please note that this is not my area of expertise as I don't posses much knowledge on Bosnia and Herzegovina, so I think the best person to actually carry out the task would be you. Let me know if I can help in any way or form. Keivan.f^Talk 06:38, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

I don't mind having a separate section. I could agree with that. I'll do so. --Governor Sheng (talk) 17:15, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

The article is supposed to list members of the presidency, which these removed people were. Whether they're listed in a continuous line or under sections accounting for changes in the system is beside the point. The analogy with the French presidents is to show how it's the office with the same name and that the list accounts for that. It's not like the five French republics had an identical political system either. But while I'm at it, the French president was elected by parliament under Article 29 of the 1946 constitution while the 1958 constitution (the current one) has him elected by universal suffrage (article 6). Right off the bat, you have an immediate and very simple difference between the same office under two constitutions and yet no one decided to delete the part with presidents of the fourth republic and change the scope of the article to list presidents under the current system. In this article meanwhile, entries were simply deleted. The appointed members, if they're controversial, could have footnotes or otherwise be marked as specific to inform the reader. As for Bosnia's situation, there's no serious dispute it's the same country. The very first article of the 1995 constitution states The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the official name of which shall henceforth be "Bosnia and Herzegovina," shall continue its legal existence under international law as a state, with its internal structure modified as provided herein and with its present internationally recognized borders. But even if it was seriously contested or anything to that effect, our role here would still be to present a certain overview of a particular institution of one country with notes if necessary. The flag is completely irrelevant to the discussion. I suggest a separate section like with the French presidents if that's an amenable proposition. ::@Governor Sheng: ::@Keivan.f: --Killuminator (talk) 10:01, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Again, I do not mind that proposal. --Governor Sheng (talk) 19:21, 26 May 2022 (UTC)