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Contents 1 Official Languages 2 Mayotte/Mahoré 3 20, December 2003 agreement 4 New Developments 5 Coat of Arms 6 Defacement 7 Languages 8 Proposed WikiProject 9 GA review 10 Automatic addition of "class=GA" 11 Island names

[edit] Official Languages

Both the CIA World Factbook 2008 and the Ethnologue report for Comoros list Arabic and French as the only official languages for Comoros. Both this page and the page for the comorian language add comorian as an official language. Please provide a citation for this.--The Jacobin (talk) 18:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Deleted comorian after no response--The Jacobin (talk)

[edit] Mayotte/Mahoré

The parts of this article still refer to the island of Mayotte/Mahoré as if it were a de facto part of the Comoros. Also the section of the introduction regarding the sovereignty of Mayotte/Mahoré is not clear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.135.221.194 (talk) 00:57, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

yes I too wonder how Mayotte can be officially part of the Comoros when they voted against becoming part of the Comoros and stayed part of France. This should be changed to reflect the politcal reality of the situation, rather then an iridentalist dream. Thecrystalcicero (talk) 21:49, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 20, December 2003 agreement

Reuters reports that the main union government and the three semi-autonomous islands singed an agreement, which set up a customs authority, including international experts to solve disputes over collection and ensure fair distribution of revenues, and gives control of the local police to the island authorities, while the army will be under the command of the federal government. [1]

I don't know where is appropriate places this adds to. Politics or History?

[edit] New Developments

This entire article needs updating. The IMF currently has a Staff Monitored Program (SMP) in place and the World Bank has a Social Fund credit which became effective in August 2004. A Donors Round Table is due to be held in Mauritius (chaired by President Mbeki) around December 8, 2005.

[edit] Coat of Arms

The coat of arms seems to be dated, as it gives the former long name of the country. Ybgursey 05:15, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Defacement

Someone put a picture of a prince albert piercing into the page, somehow. It wasn't in the source of the page, so a quick re-save removed it. - APF

[edit] Languages

There are two contradictory sections regarding the language distribution, one under demographics and the other under Media and Culture. If I knew which one was correct I'd fix it, does anyone have a source to back either of these claims up? --Cdills 18:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

See french version.

I think that mentioning very similar information in both of those sections is unnecessary. The information on the dialects seems useful, but could it not be put in the Languages section? Besides, it looks like someone simply copied the first paragraph of Comorian language. --Xeṭrov 19:09, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed WikiProject

In my ongoing efforts to try to include every country on the planet included in the scope of a WikiProject, I have proposed a new project on Eastern Africa at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Eastern Africa whose scope would include Comoros. Any interested parties are more than welcome to add their names there, so we can see if there is enough interest to start such a project. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:23, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA review

I've just been through the article, and notwithstanding the few minor typo and punctuation errors, fulfills all GA criteria with bravour.

Formal criteria:

• The article is well written, verifiable, tells me all I want to know (and more), keeps all (potentially anti-French) bias well in check, and appears to be reasonably stable.
• I do wish there were were more pictures of the place, but considering that it is so small, and there may not be very many wikipedians coming from there, I think the "if possible" clause of the GA requirement applies.

GA review summary: pass

To-do issues:

• As noted above, the article has a few minor typo and punctuation errors. The former should be resolvable with any spell checker, and the latter could be partially resolved by checking that references come after the punctuation mark (not "... island[5],") and that there is only one of them ("... collectivity.[31]. Comoros ...").
• Further, I strongly recommend switching to a citation format that supports proper footnotes and explicit page numbers. For an example, see Rabindranath Tagore. This article needs (and can support) both. It will take some effort, but the results will pay off.

Well done, folks! -- Fullstop 01:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

As a second note, this article is very, very [dangerously] close to the GA minimum standards with respect to criterion 3 (broad in coverage/completeness). There's nothing in the article regarding the climate (should be added to the geography section), education, or infrastructure (transportation, electricity, water, utilities, etc). I won't delist this now, but this should be added or the article could be delisted at some future point. Dr. Cash 05:54, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Nothing at all, or not enough? You will find information on the climate in the geography section, the first paragraph especially; literacy and education is discussed in the last paragraph of the demographics section, and the first paragraph of "Media and culture." The problem is that these are hard topics to cover in any depth on the the basis of the sources available for a poverty-stricken, politically-unstable, island nation in southeast Africa with less than a million inhabitants. It will take some time. Dmcdevit·t 06:37, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

perhaps the fact that Dr. Cash didn't find that information immediately is an indication that the Geography section could do with subsections (e.g. Political geography, Physical geography, and Climate). And while the Comoros is not Luxembourg, and with only one two-lane metaled road in the whole country not exactly a paragon of good infrastructure, there are a few sentences on infrastructure in the Economy of Comoros article that could be integrated here. -- Fullstop 09:24, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automatic addition of "class=GA"

A bot has added class=GA to the WikiProject banners on this page, as it's listed as a good article. If you see a mistake, please revert, and leave a note on the bot's talk page. Thanks, _BOT Giggabot (talk) 05:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Island names

I notice that this article is somewhat inconsistent with the island names. In the intro, it states that the Comoron names are preferred, and says so again in the Geography section. But the rest of the article seems to use the French names. Should these all be switched to the Comoron names?

71.212.4.53 (talk) 14:24, 29 March 2008 (UTC)