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I want to redirect Anwar Mosque to Grand Anwar Mosque and I attempted to redirect page by reading Help pages despite none of them are working. The Supermind (talk) 07:26, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
I really apologize for this bizzare request. I feel I have been struggling mentally and it currently took some toll on my academic life and my physical health recently.
However, I still feel a need to finish some of my GAN and todolists and Wikipedia starts to feel like a chore (I know it shouldnt, there's essay on that). Also its been hard to finish articles and I instead accidently made some articles look worse after my clean up/expansion, in addition that doing research also became very tedious.
So, I am requesting any administrator to block me for probably a year with no compromise (not even talk pages, I feel like myself could "change" my mind latter and suddenly request unblock which current me do not want to, so its a prevention against my future self), fails all my GAN, and my DYKN that has no QPQ (iirc there's only one, the other one which is Palu should be fine).
I really apologize for my GAN reviewers that has been very thorough, but I do feel I need a "hard no-compromise enforced" Wiki break now.
If the request is not possible, may I know the closest one to what I was thinking?
Again, apologize for this weird and bizzare request. Thank you~ Nyanardsan (talk) 10:49, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
HI.
Even editing one single articles talk page has taken the better portion of my day, lol. So I really want to avoid spending too much time on this. A lot of people have entrenched positions and Ive realised even ideas that I had that I thought were unique have been discussed before. I have now one relatively harsh but straightforward solution to the problems the article I am referencing has faced since 2014. I would like to put it up to a vote the way I have seen other things voted on and basically Im content in accepting the outcome of the vote, mostly because I feel exhausted already.
The article in question is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_occupations?wprov=srpw1_0
It has faced since 2014 issues and constant discussions about what sources to use in the case of whether or not a takeover of a territory with its polity and governing structure is an occupation. (Recently theres even a conflict on whether or not to merge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_occupations_since_1907 with the above article, as it was done unilaterally by one guy).
My proposal, that would cute a significant portion of those discussions, is that an annexation (or colonization) if intended by the occupying power to be permanent transforms the entity from one currently occupied to one currently annexed (or colonized). This follows the definition found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_occupation
"Military or belligerent occupation, often simply occupation, is provisional control by a ruling power over a territory, without a claim of formal sovereignty.[1][2][3] The territory is then known as the occupied territory and the ruling power the occupant.[4] Occupation is distinguished from annexation and colonialism by its intended temporary duration.[3][5] While an occupant may set up a formal military government in the occupied territory to facilitate its administration, it is not a necessary precondition for occupation.[6]"
Meaning that the terms would be mutually exclusive and that a territory currently "annexed" (illegally or not - but always practically) would be moved to "previously occupied" list as opposed to "currently occupied".
My question is how do I start a vote on that proposal?
EDIT: Some guy told me that this is what you guys call "RFC". Would you guys recommend I do a RFC? Are there any other solutions? If my account is not 30 days or older, should I wait before making the RFC? How much can I participate in a RFC? Stuff like this. Basically any good tips you can give me on this would be helpful. If someone has some good examples of well made RFCs that would be fantastic too. 83.252.116.25 (talk) 11:35, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
I really like how wiktionary handles their list of proposals Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Votes/Timeline Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 14:05, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
A couple of days go Andorra reformed its family law to define "matrimoni" (marriage) as either the (already existing) Roman Catholic canonical marriage or a new "casament" legal instrument that is said to be open to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples, and fully equal to Roman Catholic canonical marriage. Except, as I pointed out in the discussion pages of the article, the use of a different term for religious and secular "marriage" may point to the fact that indeed what Andorra just passed is a form of civil-unions law which just happens to be extremely similar to marriage. The page is being renamed to **Same-sex marriage in Andorra**, and the Same-sex union map that is often found in LGBT and Europe related articles will probably be changed to portray Andorra.
Likewise, the Slovenian high court recently declared limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples inconsistent with the equality clause in Slovenia's constitution, and "legalized same-sex marriage". The ruling is said to be immediately executive, but then the Parliament has to pass law to amend the family code, and it's not entirely impossibile IMHO that the Parliament may chose to go the path of further making already existing same-sex civil unions closer to opposite-sex marriage, while keeping the two things separate. The same-sex unions map of Europe has already been changed to portray Slovenia as a country with same-sex marriage. All the sources for this news seem to be copied from one single source (perhaps a press-release from the consititutional court itself).
A similar case happens with Italy where the same-sex civil-union law passed in 2016 is meant to create a legal device that is 80% equivalent to marriage, but is not marriage itself. Wikipedia correctly describe this case as a civil-union case.
So we are having a bit of inconsistencies here, both because of how the laws of each country are made, and/or because we assume that still in-fieri legislation is being finalized when editing.
1. How do we define Civil Union? Is there a need to differentiate Civil Unions in two grades, one for civil unions that are "almost" like marriage but not, and another grade for civil unions that are weaker in rights given? 2. How do we define Same-sex Marriage? Only as full Marriage Equality (same law, same terms, just the code is update to remove rules or wording that requires people to be of opposite sex) or for "parallel" legislations that may be in different law than where marriage is definied, or with suspicious wording that may point to same-sex and opposite-sex marriage to be different or meant to diverge over time? 3. Likewise, how do we define lesser forms of recognition of same-sex unions? 4. What are the watersheds? 5. What do we do for Andorra and Slovenia, until it's clear the legal status of same-sex "marriage" in those two countries? Touyats (talk) 14:13, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi all, I am trying to see if there already exists any wiki code, template, etc. that can automatically create an index of article pages based on a specific category. E.g. Creating an automatic list of any page under the category "sociology" that is then presented A-Z. Jamzze (talk) 15:36, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
The discussion across at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Emana/Obituary has highlighted likely hoax activity by various accounts. It seems confined to user pages, so I'm not sure if using the Hoax template is appropriate. It's probably worth tidying up but I'm not sure of the appropriate route for this to happen? I assume just deleting the content isn't appropriate given it's on User and Talk pages? JaggedHamster (talk) 17:15, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure the latest edit to Dignitas (Swiss non-profit organisation) should be reverted, but I am not sure what guideline it breaches. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 18:42, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
I don’t know where else to put my comments. I hope someone reads this. I contribute $5 per month, that is automatically deducted from my account. I am very tired when I am reading about something that I have queried, and your notice pops up asking for a contribution. Then again, and again telling me how you have asked me for the 2nd or 3rd time. STOP! Check your files; I am already on the contribution list… 2601:646:8C00:1ED0:0:0:0:1C95 (talk) 20:44, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
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Reading a page, I came across a major fault. It's about the origin of the surname "Viljoen". In the description it says the name comes from Azerbaijan, but when you use the second reference that is given, it clearly shows the name comes from the Netherlands. It's written in Afrikaans, but it clearly says that François Viljoen left Middelburg(Zeeland, Netherlands). 2A02:A442:FB40:1:E93A:C8EB:E6AB:2346 (talk) 21:28, 27 July 2022 (UTC)