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Suspicious information about the Acerbo law[edit]
Currently, the "Acerbo Law" subsection claims that this law "granted a two-thirds majority of the seats in Parliament to the party or group of parties that received at least 25% of the votes". This is suspicious: what if there are at least 2 alliances gaining, each, 25% of the votes? Does each of them receive a 2/3 majority of the seats? This would clearly be mathematically impossible.
Furthermore, this subsection cites the document "Italy and the Antitrust Law: an Efficient Delay?" by Federico Boffa, but I have not been able to find any mention therein of the provision of the law in the terms described above.
In light of the above, I suggest to completely delete the sentence "It also granted a two-thirds majority of the seats in Parliament to the party or group of parties that received at least 25% of the votes", since it seems to be factually wrong. 109.98.44.53 (talk) 12:40, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 21 July 2023[edit]
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In the "Foreign policy" subsection, it is currently written: "[...] ordering every Italian woman to double the number of children that they were willing to bear".
Given that the sentence is about women (in the singular), please change "they" into "she"'.
Alternatively, keep the "they" pronoun, but then please change the singular "woman" into the plural "women".
Either change is correct, but the current formulation is not. 109.98.44.53 (talk) 14:32, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Infobox[edit]
Shouldn't the image in this article's infobox be dated, as is the case with almost every other biography on Wikipedia? 147.147.205.222 (talk) 23:18, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- The date is not known. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 19:15, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 3 October 2023[edit]
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Please decapitalize "Prime Minister" for not following MOS:JOBTITLE. 112.204.199.9 (talk) 11:11, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
- Not done: It is used correctly, e.g.,
Theresa May became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2016.
Hyphenation Expert (talk) 13:22, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
Lead image again[edit]
There's been some back and forth over the lead image again, so I figured it couldn't hurt to open up a new discussion thread. This was last discussed a couple years ago (here) but no clear consensus was achieved.
For reference, here are the two images that have recently been used:
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Image 1
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Image 2
I'm not crazy about either of them, frankly, and have no strong opinion as to which is better. But I see that others do have opinions on the matter, so it would be good to try to establish a consensus if possible. Generalrelative (talk) 01:14, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- In my opinion, 1 looks more neutral, 2 looks like a piece of propaganda. ალექსანდროს (talk) 06:07, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Image 1 has an annoying background, which ruins the image; that’s the simple reason I reverted it. Articles on high-profile individuals are never allowed to have images with bad backgrounds. Trakking (talk) 08:18, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- There is nothing propagandistic about the second image, which looks like any old black-and-white photo. It would have been ”propaganda” if he was wearing a crown, standing under a banner reading «our noble Caesar». If anything, the first image is more propagandistic since it portrays him as some kind of high-ranking military commander. In reality, both Mussolini and Hitler were only corporals—one of the lowest military ranks. Their primary talent was oratorical demagoguery. Trakking (talk) 10:35, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Image 1 has an annoying background, which ruins the image; that’s the simple reason I reverted it. Articles on high-profile individuals are never allowed to have images with bad backgrounds. Trakking (talk) 08:18, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- I vote for Image 1. The second image has his profile partly shrouded by shadow.Emiya1980 (talk) 22:56, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- voting for image 2 as it looks better as portrait. Shadow4dark (talk) 10:38, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
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