Talk:Commission (document)

message: United Kingdom (last sentence)
If Her Majesty has lost her pen.
I thought about deleting that portion of the sentence because it is disrespectful.  It would be more helpful to readers to rewrite the sentence and include a link to WP: Autopen.  Any ideas?  Respectfully,   Tiyang (talk) 05:35, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
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message: User:Leonardocognoscenti made a large number of edits on 5 September 2019 which were problematic and which I have reverted. Among the problems are:
*The new "Origins" section was pure original research.
*The edits were heavily US-centric.
*Commissions are not necessarily issued to citizens. A commonplace example in the United States are notaries public, who are commissioned in most states, but the US Supreme Court has ruled they do not have to be US citizens.
*In several places, the status of employee is conflated with the status of government official or government officer. Large numbers of government officers are volunteers and are therefore not employees. I hold one such office myself. ("Volunteer" is used in the sense of being unpaid, not in the sense of freely consenting to serve as opposed to being drafted.)
Jc3s5h (talk) 12:50, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Problematic edits by Leonardocognoscenti

message: I asked ChatGPT which countries have their military officers appointed by commissions in the form of letters patent signed by the head of state or in the head of state's name, and, in addition to the United Kingdom properly, all of them appear to be former British colonies. Specifically, ChatGPT mentioned:
1. Australia,
2. Bangladesh,
3. Canada,
4. Ghana,
5. India,
6. Ireland,
7. New Zealand,
8. Nigeria,
9. Pakistan, 
10.Singapore,
11.South Africa.
12.Sri Lanka, 
13.The United Kingdom, and
14.The United States.
The article should clarify if there is currently any other country outside the Anglosphere where the head of state issues commissions to military officers. For example, what is the practice in other western European countries like Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, or Sweden? Or in the Latin American republics? Or in the Arab monarchies, Malaysia, Thailand, or Japan? What about Russia and China?  
The article should also clarify the legal implications of being commissioned by a head of state as opposed to being hired or even permanently incorporated into an officer corps under a contract or an incorporation term. Is an officer  who is commissioned by the king or the president considered to be an officer of the state whereas an officer who is incorporated under contract or an incorporation term is merely a public servant? Or do other countries outside the Anglosphere not make a legal distinction between an officer of the state (or officer of the Crown) and a public servant or public employee?
I do not find the artice sufficiently informative in its present format.187.34.66.227 (talk) 20:13, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Lack of International Perspective