User talk:Looknarm

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May 2009

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National Assembly of Thailand

Hello

I know you are busy in real life BUT, I have changed back all your National Assembly edits. I understand that the term "Parliament" or "National Legislative Assembly" is sometimes used, mostly in the English printed Media and sometimes the Royal Thai Government, HOWEVER wikipedia is an encyclopedia and the name "National Assembly of Thailand" is used because that is what the 2007 Constitution of Thailand calls it (the official English Translation) (the link is for wikisource, but the english copy can also be found in the Senate Library website, which is exactly the same). If you wish to create old or historical Thai legislature articles like these be my guest, but the current legislature of Thailand must be used by its official name as ascribed in the Constitution only. Thank you Sodacan (talk) 17:47, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sodacan, nice knowing you. I appreciate your contributions. The reason you gave is convincing.. and cant be refused. Only I'm quite curious when we should use the Constitution (the official English Translation) and when we should use Royal Institute Thai-Eng dictionary [1]. Recently, there are few controversies on the issues, such as the term 'constitutional monarchy', and the one that we discuss --> 'parliament'. --Look-Narm (talk) 04:01, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your point, it is quite weird because the English media (The Bangkok Post and Nation) often than not uses "Parliament" and the Royal Institute is a very credible source. But again the article is encyclopedic and should really follow the official name as stipulated in law. I looked through some older constitutions and the name 'National Assembly' is consistently used in all of therm including the 1997 Charter. The constitutional monarchy issue is obviously motivated by politics (which really has no place here on wikipedia, plus in English the definitions are quite clear and there are no conflict, unlike in Thai), but it really does not apply in this case because there is absolutely no difference between Parliament and National Assembly- even in Thai. But if you want to write a little disclaimer at the bottom or in the introduction to explain the Etymology of the name that would be very good too. Because it can be confusing even the government confuses it (e.g. parliament.go.th), I really wish they would just come up with one name and be consistent about it, but oh well! Thank you for a very interesting discussion on such a forgotten topic Sodacan (talk) 14:26, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]