Talk:French Community of Belgium

message: What is the population of the French Community of Belgium?  That would be a helpful bit of information to include.
: Alas, no official figures exist. They're also imposible to gve as there is no official status for the 'citizenship' of the communities. regards. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rudi Dierick (talk • contribs) 22:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population? 

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: page moved. Arbitrarily0 (talk) 23:32, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. Someone really needs to update every use of the word 'French Community', both in the article and the rest of the encyclopedia. I don't have the time these days though. Oreo Priest talk 14:34, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
===POV and misleading===
The name "Wallonia-Brussels Federation" for French Community is controversial, for example this new name is not accepted by Flanders and has no legal basis. The proper name for this level is the "French Community of Belgium" as mentioned in the Belgian Constitution. On top, it is confusing, as the French Community only has cultural and educational competencies. Economic matters in Brussels for example are covered by the Brussels Region and Dutch cultural and educational competencies in Brussels belong to the Flemish Community. Morgengave (talk) 08:44, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming proposal 

message: The name "Wallonia-Brussels Federation" for French Community is controversial, for example this new name is not accepted by Flanders and has no legal basis. The proper name for this level is the "French Community of Belgium" as mentioned in the Belgian Constitution. On top, it is confusing, as the French Community only has cultural and educational competencies. Economic matters in Brussels for example are covered by the Brussels Region and Dutch cultural and educational competencies in Brussels belong to the Flemish Community. Morgengave (talk) 08:44, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: POV and misleading

message: I make a quick elementary change further to the rename, especially in the intro, but I will have a further look later.  Asavaa (talk) 06:43, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of content following the move 

message: The percentages given, 58% for the Flemish Community and 41% for the French community are not correct, as the Flemish community also includes the 1 million people in Brussel. It doesn't make a lot of sense to compare these to each other, as they will sum to more than 100%. The correct figures are 67%, 41% and 1%.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.197.12.69 (talk) 09:29, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The 80% of Brussels that is French speaking doesn't form part of the Flemish community in any meaningful way. That's how the percentages have been apportioned. Oreo Priest talk 16:54, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's pointless to include percentages of how many belong to a community since there are no official statistics and people in Brussels often use the services of both the Flemish and French Community. For the Regions it would have make sense, but not for the Communities.--Wester (talk) 20:24, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percentages of population 

message: "The Walloon Region and the Commission communautaire française (COCOF, a French-speaking institution of the Brussels-Capital Region)." As this lacks a verb, it does not appear to be a sentence, and I don't know what it is supposed to mean. Thank you. Mannanan51 (talk) 22:31, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hey can you show where the sentence is placed in the article? I will try to sort it out.--Gabriel Haute Maurienne (talk) 23:13, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: After the first sentence in Alternate Name. Mannanan51 (talk) 16:04, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Salut Mannanan51, Is it better? --Gabriel Haute Maurienne (talk) 19:17, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Oui, merci. Mannanan51 (talk) 19:19, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That changed it to a not very coherent text. I've now restored the original meaning. Several edits screwed it up along the way,  and . SPQRobin (talk) 21:57, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ??? 

message: The requested move discussion at Talk:German-speaking Community of Belgium#Requested move 19 August 2017 may have implications for the title of the present article as well.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  21:34, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move discussion 

message: This is more accurate translation is it not? Communauté française is unambiguously referring to the language because of the lack of capitalisation. To do the same in English, you'd write "French-speaking", because typically in English an adjective like "French" denominates the people / nation first. I mean there's really no concise way to prefix "French" to refer to the people / nation, so English speakers will automatically assume it refers to the people / nation when used as an adjective like this.
Granted "French Community of Belgium" is the literal translation, but in conventional English this is inferring that it is referring to a community of the French nation in Belgium. Thus it's actually  very misleading phrase given most French-speaking Belgians are not French at all.
"French-speaking Community of Belgium" returns 34,300 results.
"French Community of Belgium" returns 55,200 results.
That's not a huge discrepancy, so much so that I'm surprised the former is not bolded in the introduction here. Personally I don't know enough to feel confident in starting a move request. Just wanted to ask about this predicament, and as to why Wikipedia is siding with the literal translation. I'm guessing the issue is perhaps with official sources using the literal translation?
Rob984 (talk) 20:02, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "French-speaking Community of Belgium"