Talk:Ministry of foreign affairs

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political correctness?

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Is "Foreign minister" still considered being political correct since "foreign" has an negative connotation? Should be discussed in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.246.7.9 (talk) 21:40, 23 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Abkhazia is not a independent country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zolokin (talkcontribs) 12:12, 2 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Role of Parliament in foreign Policy making

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Please hight light the process 37.111.140.253 (talk) 01:29, 3 October 2022 (UTC)Reply


Requested move 16 February 2023

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved to lowercase Ministry of foreign affairs (along with the other three). While there are (disputed) arguments that this is a proper name, and that this is actually a dab page in disguise (not disputed), a majority of posters agree that the article is about the general concept. Plus, there's the precedent at Talk:Ministry_of_Defence#Requested_move_5_February_2021. No such user (talk) 11:21, 24 February 2023 (UTC)Reply



Ministry of Foreign AffairsMinistry of foreign affairs – article is about the general concept Primergrey (talk) 07:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). UtherSRG (talk) 12:19, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Oppose Proper name. – robertsky (talk) 21:16, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
This is about all ministries of foreign affairs. Surely the idea of a ministry of foreign affairs isn't a proper name. Primergrey (talk) 21:45, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
This page also functions as dab page for all similarly named organisations. I would not oppose to other names that downcases it, i.e. List of foreign ministries, etc. – robertsky (talk) 02:43, 17 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
  • Support The article title is a generic name, describing all government ministries responsible for foreign affairs, regardless of whether they use that title or not (see content). The ministries in the individual countries have a proper names. WP guidance consensus is clear at WP:NCCAPS and MOS:CAPS (specifically MOS:INSTITUTIONS) Davidships (talk) 21:52, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
  • Support per Davidships. This is obviously not referring to one unique entity, and some of the institutions identified in the article have names that are different from the described term (e.g. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade or External Action Service). This is an article about a class of institutions, not one particular institution, so it is a common noun. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 22:16, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
  • Oppose This is a proper name. The page serves as a disambiguation page of various institutions which use that proper name. It is not about "ministries of foreign affairs". If it was plural, or listed as plural, I could go for it. But in singular form, it reflects a proper name.
Also, @Primergrey, I think it is rather bad form to split each ministry into separate RMs and force commentators to discover what other pages are being proposed to move, and repeat the same arguments elsewhere, forcing discussion to be fragmented and scattered across multiple pages. It is even poorer form not to even link to the other RMs here. The RMs should have been consolidated into one multiple-move request. If possible, I'd like to request that all the individual RMs be closed and for @Primergrey reformulate his RM request as a multi-page move. Walrasiad (talk) 06:12, 17 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

To my dismay, after the move I discovered that we had parallel articles at Justice minister (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Finance minister (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Foreign minister (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), with a lot of content and list duplication. I think I will boldly perform merge and/or pageswap to Ministry of justice, Ministry of finance and Ministry of foreign affairs respectively. I moved the above RM discussion over here, for easier tracking. No such user (talk) 11:50, 24 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

"Foreign Secretaries" listed at Redirects for discussion

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  The redirect Foreign Secretaries has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 November 17 § Foreign Secretaries until a consensus is reached. Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 21:55, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply