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as unnecessary and because the rationale given is a non-sequitur. "Territorial entities" is more concise than "countries and territories", and there's no reason not to understand being a country to be mutually exclusive with being a territorial entity.
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Territorial entities includes Sovereign states, Dependent entities, Partially recognized and unrecognized territories, Former territories or whatever possible. No need to add country and then struggle to define what a country
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in the proposed titles would have a much broader scope. Its meaning can vary among readers who are likely to have different points of view regarding the status of the territories that are mentioned in those articles.
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of anything. We're using "entites" here to mean "some donkey or other that we can't quite pin its tail on" but that is not good enough. "Places" would perhaps serve better as at least being Latin, not Greek.
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regarding the first entry only: It should be "Afrikaans or Dutch" rather than "Afrikaans and Dutch", since there does not appear to be any one place where both are official languages.
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Dutch used to be an official language in the former colony of Belgian Congo untill it’s indepedance. This isn’t shown on the map in light Blue color as it’s suposed to.
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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If we want a more natural and more concise title we should move the page to the much more natural and more concise
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after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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The result of the move request was: No consensus on what the name should be.
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Support the change from awkward "territorial entities" but
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