Minister of foreign affairs versus minister of state for foreign affairs[edit]Boutros Boutros-Ghali's Wikipedia article says he "served as Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1977 until early 1991" and "then became Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs for several months before moving to the UN." Our article Minister of Foreign Affairs (Egypt) list Boutros-Ghali as serving two times as acting foreign minister, in 1977 and then in 1978–1979, with other people occupying the post from '79 onward. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' own website has separate pages listing former ministers of foreign affairs [1] and former ministers of state for foreign affairs [2], with Boutros-Ghali serving in the latter position from 1977 to 1991. So it looks like these are two distinct positions. Boutros-Ghali held the "state" position for fourteen years and may have stepped in to the other position for brief periods in 1977 and in 1978–1979 (I'm not sure, because he isn't on the ministry's list of plain foreign ministers). In any case, our articles on Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Egypt) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Egypt) do not seem to reflect the distinction between the offices of minister for foreign affairs and the minister of state for foreign affairs. I'd appreciate someone who knows more about it trying to clarify the difference in our articles. A. Parrot (talk) Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest![edit]Greetings! The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
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RFC open at Ayyubid dynasty[edit]An RFC has been opened at Talk:Ayyubid dynasty#RFC: Inclusion of Rawādīya origins and Ayyubid-sponsored genealogies in Origins section regarding the inclusion of sourced scholarly material on Rawādīya origins in the Origins section. Input from editors familiar with this topic area would be welcome. Nobedarê Dunav (talk) 14:07, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[] Potential duplicate articles[edit]About a year ago, I came across what appeared to be two separate articles covering the same topic; Military Technical College and Military Technical College (Egypt). I pinged the creators of both articles in hopes that they could either clarify the differences between the two MTCs or sort out any duplication issues, but got no response as both were inactive and have not returned to editing since. Obviously, the disambiguation between the titles is bad even if they are two separate colleges with the same name, as they are both located in Cairo, Egypt. What's weird to me is that the content of both articles seems to describe two different histories (one was founded in 1958 as "Military College of Sciences", the other in 1968 as "Armed Forces Technical Institute"). Both articles list two different official websites that are both live (with different logos and everything); Military Technical College lists https://www.mtc.edu.eg/mtcwebsite/ (in English) while Military Technical College (Egypt) lists https://academy.mod.gov.eg/TechInstit.aspx (in Arabic). Interestingly, the Military Technical College article cites the website supposedly belonging to the other six times. I don't know what to make of this, so I'll leave it here in case anyone with more knowledge of the topic knows how to sort this out. I will likely be unavailable for the next few days, but I will check back here as soon as I'm able. - ZLEA TǀC 01:44, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[] |
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