Talk:British Overseas Territories

message: Regarding the Police and Enforcement part of section 5	Government Currently there is nothing about uniforms and equipment those police forces use. There was something about that in previous versions of the Police uniforms and equipment in the United Kingdom article. That could be added to this article. --Dreddmoto (talk) 22:05, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Uniforms aren't something I generally work on. As far as the article goes, it's probably better to cover it in the UK police article. I don't see the main article on a topic like BOT as suitable for such details, other than a brief, cited mention. BilCat (talk) 01:19, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

text: If you have enough cited material to make a decent article, sure. BilCat (talk) 01:45, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Police and Enforcement 

message: Does the motto really deserve its high-profile place in this table? I suggest that the currency in use is more valuable to the general reader. Any objections to my moving the motto to a new column at the end of each row and using the current column for currency? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 12:15, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: We probably shouldn't have either. Neither feels a key attribute of each territory, or helpful to a reader in understanding the topic of BOTs. CMD (talk) 12:36, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: TBH, I can't see the value of mottoes either but hesitated to go trampling in. But I suggest that the currency is interesting in that it shows which have decoupled from Sterling despite being still nominally British territories. Obviously if it just says e.g. "Bermudan Dollar", that is not useful but that it is pegged to USD certainly is. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 13:16, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Currency instead of motto? 

message: "Although the British Government is the national government, much of governance within the territories has been delegated to local government, with all of those that have permanent populations having some degree of representative government (which was not the case for British Hong Kong) which have been delegated responsibility for local legislation (although the inhabitants of the first colony established, Virginia (including Bermuda from 1612), were in 1606 (a century before the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain)), irrevocably guaranteed the same rights and representation they would have if born in England, representation in the national Parliament of the United Kingdom has yet to be extended to any overseas territory."
This sentence is overly long, with way too many parentheses; confusing; and possibly self-contradictory - Do inhabitants have the same representation as people in England, or not? I can't tell if this sentence is saying that a) they do; b) they don't; c) legally they should but in practice they don't; d) the 17th century charter should give that right to Bermuda but now they don't have it.
I'm surprised by the 17th century charter aspect, too, because the *lack* of representation of the Thirteen Colonies, including Virginia, in Parliament was a major grievance leading to the American Revolution (taxation without representation) so it would be very odd to find that Virginia did have that right.
I am also not sure why the dates of founding of the Virginia colony and Bermuda belong in this paragraph, which is about current government, not history. Vultur~enwiki (talk) 14:49, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  confusing, possibly contradictory sentence 

message: There is a problem of which requires professional handling for Syntax error, can someone please help me. Thanks. The problem seems to be when I place the following command British Overseas Territories, instead of explaining about the place, it shows Error: Missing Redirect Perimeter 180.129.33.96 (talk) 11:30, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: redirects are for automatically sending someone to a different article. They are not used at the top of an article. Please leave the header templates alone if you are unfamiliar with them. Cambial — foliar❧ 11:42, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syntax error