Talk:United Nations/Archive 10

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Taiwan?

Taiwan isn't technically part of UN, as part of their 1970s resolution. Please remove it DeutschlandHelfer (talk) 23:48, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

It is regarded as part of China. CMD (talk) 02:32, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

What are you, a CCP lover? How much are you getting paid? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.188.88.62 (talk) 03:13, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

"UNited Nations" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect UNited Nations and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 July 9#UNited Nations until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:15, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

"During 1938, Britain and France tried negotiating directly with Hitler but this failed in 1939 when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia (bottom of "background" section). "

Two issues: One, the sentence itself is unclear. I'm unsure whether it refers to the German occupation of the Czechoslovakian rump state in March of 1939, or whether it's claiming that the start of WWII was due to the invasion of Czechoslovakia instead of Poland. The subject and purpose of these "negotiations" is also not clear (whether they were general negotiations, or specifically concerning the Czechoslovakian situation).

Two, this is the first mention of Hitler or Czechoslovakia in the "background" section, so it just drops information about a topic not previously covered into the space of a single sentence. The Munich conference is certainly as important to a discussion of the dissolution of the League of Nations as the invasion of Ethiopia and China. With a little more information and context, I think it would be a worthy addition to the paragraph above it.

I would say the simplest solution is just to delete the sentence, but if someone wanted to do some minor editing and add context, I think that would be fine too. 2607:EA00:107:807:657E:72DD:604A:8D31 (talk) 19:12, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

The background is poor history and not based on good secondary sources. It's not needed--the unanimous consensus at the time was a League failure. Rjensen (talk) 20:40, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

It was really that one sentence that caught my eye, but you're right. Looking at the whole section I'm seeing spelling errors, dropped words, and the language seems very stilted. I think a 1-2 paragraph primer is good background, but as it stands it needs some work. 2607:EA00:107:807:657E:72DD:604A:8D31 (talk) 20:58, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Grammar Edit Request

In the Effectiveness Section of Criticism there's a spelling mistake: "argues" should be "argue" (after scholars). Totolecoco17 (talk) 18:48, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

"occupation" of Taiwan

In the History section (Cold War Era sub-section) there's a piece of misinformation about alleged "occupation" of Taiwan by the Republic of China. The Republic of China has never invaded Taiwan, so how could it occupy it?! It's against historical facts. 193.0.73.210 (talk) 07:10, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Maybe you're a bit confused; Republic of China refers to Taiwan, as opposed to People's Republic of China. But I removed the bit anyway, it was unnecessary (and the term "occupied" carries a connotation of invasion.) --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:07, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Infobox

Note: Wikipedia:Help desk#Infobox formatting. Hildeoc (talk) 22:35, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

I have updated it.[1] PrimeHunter (talk) 23:11, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Remove chinese and russian

Use Japanese and German as official name 2405:4802:90B4:7D00:67F5:9630:40A1:5907 (talk) 12:56, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

If you're talking about the names for the UN in the infobox at the top of the article, why? The UN's official languages are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. See https://www.un.org/en/our-work/official-languages. Fork99 (talk) 19:34, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 October 2023

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Hi, please edit the un page to include "supporting terrorist groups like hamas, fatach , islamic jihad and activly working to undermine the israeli government. Links to evidence will follow when asked. Just read what the respons was to 1400 deaths 2A06:C701:74C1:FE00:9DA3:7F34:7A07:8828 (talk) 04:15, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cannolis (talk) 04:24, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

And who voted against a ceasefire?

When this article is next up-dated, will it report the latest UN vote calling on Israel to halt its' terror bombing and allow in much-needed aid and supplies? Also, as well as the UK, will the article record the other nations that shamefully voted against a ceasefire? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.166.195 (talk) 10:54, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Not that the actions of the Israeli Govt are being semi-protect, but - when directly highlighting the outrages of the IDF - my remarks were deleted and I was given a short-term BLOCK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.166.134 (talk • contribs) 10:39, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Addressing the "Bias" section

I really doubt there is anti-Israeli bias. Source (249) is from the ADL, I think they have *bias* to say bad opinions about Israel are "biased". Sources (250) to (253) are news pieces based off opinions, not really something we should be holding as truth.

However, I want to read other people's comments to see if we should change it. Eligio Budde (talk) 22:34, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Correct; that is not an unbiased source. 2603:7080:5107:2BE7:41F5:AFC5:BB19:C1A5 (talk) 03:01, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Confused and mixed messages for the United States

Could there be a section relating to the role of US in the Middle-east? For why is the US Govt willing to warm the Israeli Govt on the dangers bombing civilians in Gaza one day, then votes NO to a ceasefire the next? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.24.196.97 (talk) 21:02, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Is the UN in Ukraine 2603:800C:F0:300:2DF2:9C5F:221E:C553 (talk) 22:00, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

What does the UN even do?

I don't know, please answer NelandaFirst (talk) 19:31, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

The UN mostly act as a forum for countries to talk to each other and solve their conflicts without war. Moxy-

20:36, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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Clause 2 (Structure) --- sub-clause 2 (Security Council) --- Paragraph 2 --- Lines 2 & 3;

Information outdated, list of non-permanent members of the UN Security Council was modified on the 1st of January, 2024. Change the following extract:

" ... ten non-permanent members (currently Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway and the United Arab Emirates) ... "

to:

" ... ten non-permanent members (currently Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, the Republic of Korea and Switzerland) ..."

The list of non-permanent members of the UNSC currently presented by the article are accurate between the 1st of January 2022 & the 31st of December 2022, and have been outdated ever since the beginning of the year 2023. This modification will restore the list of the UNSC non-permanent members as it is as of the year 2024, and so the present. Jules Soualle (talk) 13:56, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Done NasssaNser_talk 06:18, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Added U.N Hymn

I added the Anthem of the U.N. Thoughts? Nurusa101 (talk) 20:45, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Nop as it is clear to there is no official anthem or hymn for the UN. And we don't do here any promotion for anything. If one day some is adopted then yeap. Nubia86 (talk) 06:56, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cannolis (talk) 19:54, 17 February 2024 (UTC)