Talk:Government of Croatia

message: Predrag Matić and Orsat Miljenić are non-party members of the Government, and it's listed they belong to SDP.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.2.86.179 (talk • contribs) 21 January 2012
:Good catch, thanks.--Tomobe03 (talk) 19:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interdependent (non-party) members of the Government 

message: Hi. The article is somewhat inconsistent regarding capitalization for "Prime Minister" or "prime minister". Currently, I'm thinking of going with singular being capitalized but plural ("eight prime ministers") not. Any thoughts? How does the English-language press normally handle it, and is "premier" capitalized in normal usage in Croatian? Thanks! Allens (talk) 16:41, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi! Croatian press regularly uses lowercase "premijer" both for Croatian and foreign PMs. As far as I can tell, English language media uses uppercase title when the title is accompanied by a name and lowercase title elsewhere as evidenced in this BBC article.--Tomobe03 (talk) 16:47, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I'll use the customary one for English language media; I agree with your analysis, and it's closer to the Croatian than my original thinking. There are some titles that get capitalized no matter whether there's a person's name behind them or not (for instance, "the President", at least when speaking of the US President), but I suspect this may be due to their being heads of state whereas the PM is the head of government. Thanks for the quick reply! Allens (talk) 17:28, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem, I'm happy to provide any assistance. I'll tackle maintenance tags (clarification/citation needed) as soon as possible but I'll wait a bit to avoid edit conflicts.--Tomobe03 (talk) 17:47, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prime Minister capitalization? 

message: * The Offices of the Croatian Government are supporting offices (service) of the cabinet and each is headed by a Head of the Office.
* The Central State Offices support the central government as a whole in terms of strategy coordination and infrastructure (e-Croatia) and each is headed by a State Secretary.
* The State Administration Bodies and the Public Sector Bodies are specialized bodies, the former being tasked with supervision of operation of other public services, including the Public Sector Bodies. The latter are, in that sense, tasked with execution of various tasks, and that is supervised by the State Administration Bodies. The distinction is made by the 22 Dec 2011 State Administration System Act. Why are the Central Bureau of Statistics and the Meteorological and Hydrological Service among the SABs is beyond me, but the government places them in that group. Each of these bodies is headed by a director.
* Office for Protocol is called that by the government and their task is declared to be performance of professional, organisational and technical protocol tasks for the government and the PM
* Co-signature of the speaker of the parliament does not actually represent an approval of PM's nomination of members of the government by Sabor - they still have to be approved by a majority vote in the parliament. This co-signature appears to make the nomination official and no more.--Tomobe03 (talk) 23:31, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *The additions seem fine and I tweaked the citation a bit. I checked those four references tagged as dead and I ran checklinks once again - in short, all links were ok, so I removed the tags. Perhaps the websites were down at one point, but they seem to be working now.--Tomobe03 (talk) 10:21, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification of government offices/state bodies etc 

message: After a bit more clarification regarding the deputy prime ministers, I think my copyediting will be about done. I've been asked to look over some of the potential Featured Articles needing copyediting]]; after I do one or two of those (and finish helping with another article I've been peer reviewing), I'll take a look at the Croatian European Union membership referendum, 2012 article. Congrats, Tomobe03, BTW, on the GA for Parliament of Croatia! Good to work with you... Allens (talk) 21:12, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Once again, thanks for taking time and effort to copyedit this article. I really appreciate it and I honestly believe that quality of the article improves significantly through this type of cooperation. It is really great to have this much constructive feedback and I'm looking forward to the improving the referendum article. Thanks!--Tomobe03 (talk) 21:23, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

text: On a further note about the number of deputy prime ministers. Legislation ("Zakon o Vladi Republike Hrvatske [Government of the Republic of Croatia Act]") requires that at least one deputy prime minister is appointed, but it does not specify a maximum number - i.e. 1 deputy PM at the minimum and no upper limit on their number. The legislation also allows the deputy PMs to hold a ministerial position as well but it does not require that. The deputy PMs are assigned responsibility for a field normally encompassed by their ministry (if any) and several others in addition for the purposes of functioning of the inner cabinet but also, by extension, during cabinet meetings.--Tomobe03 (talk) 21:47, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

text: I just realized what's missing: Neven Mimica is a deputy PM, but he is not a government minister unlike all other deputy PMs (including the 1st deputy PM) whose portfolios correspond to their respective ministries. Mr. Mimica's potfolio does not represent any single ministry and therefore overlaps with responsibilities of other ministers (interior and foreign relations).--Tomobe03 (talk) 21:55, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Got it. I've noted that the number of deputy PMs is simply currently four (and the number of those who are ministers three). Portfolio (government) currently redirects to Ministry (government department), so I've clarified that in this case "portfolio" means "area of responsibility". I understand fully about wanting feedback - I've listed one article myself under requests for copyediting for just that reason! There's also the Wikipedia:peer review process, incidentally, although to what degree that gets into also editing the article (as well as making suggestions) varies greatly depending on the peer reviewer (I sometimes do close to the same as I do for copyediting; others may do less). You are quite welcome; I'm likewise looking forward to working with you again. I believe I'll declare this officially finished, although I'll keep a watchlist eye on it still... Allens (talk) 23:16, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Close to being done with copyedit 

message: I've described it as a "common version of the official name": it's neither too formal (Government of the Republic of Croatia), nor it is colloquial or generically descriptive (Croatian Government). Also cf. :Category:European governments, where "Government of Foobar" is the norm, and there is no particular reason to deviate from it in this instance. GregorB (talk) 14:47, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move from Croatian Government to Government of Croatia 

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