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  • Scoring: Nepal

    • Date of joining: 1955-12-14
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah onwards): 48
    • Number in Wikidata: 12
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 13
    • Score: 94/480 = 20%

    The English Wikipedia page helpfully includes the periods when there was direct rule by the King, rather than a Prime Minister.

  • Scoring: Laos

    • Date of joining: 1955-12-14
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Katay Don Sasorith onwards): 17
    • Number in Wikidata: 7
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 5
    • Score: 7/17 = 5

    Some of these should possibly be moved to the Kingdom of Laos instead.

  • Scoring: Iraq

    • Date of joining: 1945-12-21
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Hamdi al-Pachachi onwards): 54
    • Number in Wikidata: 18
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 23
    • Score: 134/540 = 25%

    This should possibly be split across the Kingdom of Iraq, Iraqi Republic, and Ba’athist Iraq before the current Republic of Iraq.

  • Scoring: Saudi Arabia

    • Date of joining: 1945-10-24
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (all): 9 + ibn Saud before office was created
    • Number in Wikidata: 0
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
    • Score: 0/100 = 0%

    Currently no Wikidata items at all have a Position Held of Prime Minister (presumably because this is a position that is held by the king). I think either the “office held by head of government” should be updated to actually be the king, or if we want to maintain the separation between these, we need to also add the relevant “Position Held” statements.

  • Score: Jordan

    • Date of joining: 1955-12-14
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Hazza’ Majali onwards): 55
    • Number in Wikidata: 10
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 12
    • Score: 76/550 = 14%

  • Scoring: Myanmar

    • Date of joining: 1948-04-19

    Prime Minister (1948-01-01 to 2011-03-30)

    • Expected count from Wikipedia (all): 14
    • Number in Wikidata: 6
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 5

    President (2011-03-30 to 2016-04-06)

    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Thein Sein → Htin Kyaw): 2
    • Number in Wikidata: 2
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0

    State Counsellor (2016-04-06 onwards)

    • Expected count from Wikipedia (all): 1
    • Number in Wikidata: 1
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0

    Overall score: 80/170 = 47%

  • Scoring: Pakistan

    There are several periods of martial law not represented here.

  • Scoring: Thailand

    • Date of joining: 1946-12-16
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Thawan Thamrongnawasawat onwards): 38
    • Number in Wikidata: 20
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 18
    • Score: 164/380 = 43%

  • Scoring: Yemen

    Similarly to Venezuela, there are currently competing claims for who actually is the Prime Minister. Wikidata is capable of holding both, and indeed both do have a “position held” claim for the role, but one of them is ‘bare’, with no dates, so aren’t included here.

  • Scoring: South Africa

    • Date of joining: 1961-05-31 (replacing the Union of South Africa)
    • Expected count from Wikipedia: 3 Prime Ministers (Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd onwards) + 2 State Presidents (Pieter Willem Botha onwards) + 5 Presidents (Nelson Mandela onwards)
    • Number in Wikidata: 5
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 1
    • Score: 48/100 = 48%

    The Prime Ministers and State Presidents are not findable until the “office held by Head of Government” statement is updated to include those positions.