Another couple of juntas, which for now (unless/until someone updates the “office held by head of government”) we’re treating as period with no-one in office.
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Scoring: France
- Date of joining: 1945-10-24
- Expected count from Wikipedia (Charles de Gaulle onwards): 50
- Number in Wikidata: 24
- PositionHolderHistory warnings: 5
- Score:
87/196 = 44%230/500 = 46%
The score here is much lower than it really should be, largely because the Wikidata item for France doesn’t currently know that President of the Council was the head of government until 1958 (although there are also lots of people listed as Prime Minister prior to then).
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Scoring: El Salvador
Again, several more juntas and other oddities midway through, but as with the others, unless/until the “office held by head of government” gets updated, we’re going to have to make do with just looking at the President.
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Scoring: Brazil
Again a slightly tricky one because of the military government from the 60s-80s, so the numbers might be slightly off if there was a different Head of Government office during that time.
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Membership of Successor States
After a bit more thought, I realised that the issue with Ukraine vs the Ukrainian SSR wouldn’t be unique and would likely also be true for Russia vs the Soviet Union. It also turns out that the Byelorussian SSR was also a founding UN member, and so we’re going to hit the same issue with Belarus.
In each of these cases, the original Soviet State is listed in Wikidata as having been a member from the 1940s–90s, but each of the successor states is also listed as having been a member since the 1940s. This doesn’t seem right to me — I suspect the modern ones should start ~1991, and we should add “replaces”/”replaced by” qualifiers to tie them together, but this could be contentious so I’ve asked about it on Project Chat first.
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Scoring: Dominican Republic
This is another tricky one, due to multiple periods with a Council of State, Triumverate, Military Junta, etc.
To properly evaluate this, the Office Held by Head of State entry will need to become a lot more nuanced first, but as fixing that up isn’t really in scope here, I’m going to gloss over those for now, and only look at people who were actually President (including Interim/Acting)
(I also needed to fix up some Wikidata vandalism where Rafael Trujillo had been renamed as “benito antonio martinez”, causing me a little bit of confusion at first.)
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Scoring: Luxembourg
Another easy one!