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Partial revert of conflicting parties

@ZimZalaBim: I manually partially reverted this edit (which itself ras a reversal), which was a technical violation of my 1RR philosophy (see WP:Revert only when necessary for similar points of view). My rationale is that I believe that your revert more aimed at restoring the improved description of the earlier conflict (the so-called Sepoy Mutiny, following the bad old British habit of considering any opposition to any kind of British rule anywhere as 'insurrections'), and that you simply missed that the same edit misrepressented the conflicts at the time of independence from the British as a conflict between the "Hindu-Muslim" side and the "Muslim-Sikh" side (if you just read the text without applying any fore-knowledge as to what the main conflicts were in the Indian subcontinent at that time).

I thus believe that you have no opposition to my resolution of the (seeming) "compounds" Hindu-Muslim and Muslim-Sikh. If I'm wrong, then please revert my edit, but also consider whether you ypurself would like to add some other clarification. Regards, JoergenB (talk) 18:02, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

British English

Majority of the world uses British English or English influenced by it, so this page should be in British English except for American sections Yikes2004 (talk) 05:34, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh goodness, no matter what we never switch varieties of English within an article. Please see WP:ENGVAR, which explains the actual criteria by which we determine these things. Remsense ‥ 论 05:36, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is the lead image implying that HK & Macau are “colonies” of China?

And if so, why? SinoDevonian (talk) 16:05, 8 July 2025 (UTC) SinoDevonian (talk) 16:05, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Turkey

The color of Turkey in the first map is apparently missing. You may want to paint it in dark blue — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.230.131.236 (talk) 08:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Naturally, for some bizarre reason the map is actually "Age of Government", that is "Countries by date of independence or current constitution (whichever is more recent)". Remsense 🌈 论 09:22, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Decolonizing curriculum in Britain

I fail to see how none of this [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] is relevant to the topic of decolonization. 89.241.55.201 (talk) 13:45, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]