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Myanmar is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.

Article milestones Date Process Result June 7, 2006 Featured article candidate Not promoted July 16, 2006 Peer review Reviewed July 24, 2006 Featured article candidate Not promoted Facts from this article were featured on Misplaced Pages's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 4, 2008, January 4, 2009, January 4, 2010, January 4, 2011, March 27, 2011, January 4, 2012, and January 4, 2013. Current status: Former featured article candidate

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Template:Vital article Countries This article is within the scope of WikiProject Countries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of countries on Misplaced Pages. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CountriesWikipedia:WikiProject CountriesTemplate:WikiProject Countriescountry WikiProject Countries to-do list: edit history watch purge Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Check out the article alerts; see if anything catches your fancy. Cleanup : clean-up listing for Countries Stubs : de-stub articles in Category:Stubs by region. Other : add {{WPCountries}} to talk pages of related articles, and assess. Myanmar Top‑importance Myanmar is within the scope of WikiProject Myanmar, a project to improve all Myanmar related articles on Misplaced Pages. The WikiProject is also a part of the Counteracting systemic bias group on Misplaced Pages aiming to provide a wider and more detailed coverage on countries and areas of the encyclopedia which are notably less developed than the rest. If you would like to help improve this and other Myanmar-related articles, please join the project. All interested editors are welcome.MyanmarWikipedia:WikiProject MyanmarTemplate:WikiProject MyanmarMyanmar Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. To-do list: edit history watch purge Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : offices, ministries and politicians of current cabinet, requested articles on Burmese subjects and articles on smaller towns and villages Expand : Top-importance and High-importance articles Photo : add photos of incumbent politicians Stubs : Category:Myanmar stubs Update : offices, ministries and politicians of current cabinet after 2015 election Other : If you know Burmese, go on the Myanmar Misplaced Pages and make sure each article on the English Misplaced Pages has one in Burmese also Asia Top‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Asia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Asia on Misplaced Pages. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AsiaWikipedia:WikiProject AsiaTemplate:WikiProject AsiaAsia Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. Southeast Asia Top‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Southeast Asia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Southeast Asia-related subjects on Misplaced Pages. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Southeast AsiaWikipedia:WikiProject Southeast AsiaTemplate:WikiProject Southeast AsiaSoutheast Asia Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. Template:WP1.0

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This article has been mentioned by a media organization: Maria Kruczkowska (14 January 2006). "Birma. Od Rangunu po Chaungtha". Gazeta Wyborcza. This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination. Discussions: There is more than one name for this country. Strong arguments exist for the use of both names as an article title; however, the most recent requested move discussion found that the article title should be at Myanmar. Burma redirects there. RM, Burma → Myanmar, No consensus, 12 October 2011, discussion RM, Burma → Myanmar, Not moved, 8 August 2012, discussion MRV, Burma → Myanmar, Endorsed, 26 August 2012, discussion RM, Burma → Myanmar, Moved, 7 August 2015, discussion Older discussions: RM, Myanmar → Myanmar (Burma), Not moved, 14 March 2006, discussion RM, Myanmar → Burma, Moved, 26 September 2007, discussion RM, Burma → Myanmar, Not moved, 21 January 2008, discussion 20 May 2008: Request for comment 8 June 2008: Mediation Cabal case (discussion) 3 July 2008: Request for mediation 11 July 2008: Attempt at structured mediation This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report 2 times. The weeks in which this happened: September 3 to 9, 2017 (24th) January 31 to February 6, 2021 (11th)

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Semi-protected edit request on 3 August 2022 (2)

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I do not know how to correct it. I just wanted to tell someone that the Burmese characters are not showing up. Just empty boxes. I think Burmese is in the Unicode font system, and there must be a way to code it to show properly to ALL browsers.

Here is a clip of the sentence where I see empty square boxes from "Burmese:" to "; pronounced"

All the other characters are showing properly in Chrome browser. Not sure what is broken on this page, but wanted to tell someone. Thank you.

"Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စု သမ္မတ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်; pronounced " 2601:2C6:4600:F230:C81E:99C2:3F1D:C922 (talk) 14:49, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

This appears to be an issue with your browser. I'm not seeing any issues with multiple browsers on multiple devices. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:26, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 October 2022

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Please delete the reference to Myanmar in the second sentence as the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia. Both Thailand and Vietnam are larger in terms of geographic size and population size.

The first sentence could just read: "Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia with a population of about 54 million as of 2017." Openburma (talk) 11:04, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

@Openburma: Are Thailand and Vietnam larger than Myanmar by area? The figures listed in the articles for the countries indicate that Myanmar is larger than both. Do you believe those figures are incorrect? Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 05:58, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

•  Not done Openburma is partly correct in that Vietnam and Thailand are more populous. But Myanmar is the largest by area and that's what our article says. --RegentsPark (comment) 15:07, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 March 2023

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I would like to add the following information to the Political Culture section of the Misplaced Pages page:

On February 1, 2021, military rule was seized again, returning the power to an authoritarian system and reversing the transition to democracy that Myanmar had seen since 2010. The country can be classified as either a closed autocracy or an electoral autocracy depending on the elections that the military is planning to hold in 2024. The military establishment plans to hold elections as a way to transition the country out of post-coup conflict and to consolidate their political dominance. However, the junta has enacted laws in preparation for these elections that restrict the voting power of the citizens. These laws include: requiring voting political parties to register at least 100,000 members within three months of registration and banning parties that are declared “terrorist,” by the military, which represents any of their opponents. Additionally, the military rule has extended to local levels. Officials in central-level departments and local administrations were replaced with bureaucrats appointed by the military. Additionally, officials of villages and wards, which were previously elected by citizens, are now chosen by military-appointed township councils.

The Freedom House rating for democracy scores Myanmar at 9/60 in 2022, with a score of 0/40 for political rights and 9/60 for civil liberties. This exhibits a decline from 2021, where Freedom House scored Myanmar at 13/40 for political rights and 15/60 for civil liberties. Vikkixu (talk) 01:23, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

• No citations to reliable, secondary sources have been provided to support this passage. Further, the passage is speculative to a degree. Please re-word and find reliable sources. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 01:52, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

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Lead section readability and relevance

The lead section currently has four paragraphs, none of which are short. However, approximately one-third to one-half of the material in those four paragraphs is detailed explanations of relatively distant history.

I propose to modify the lead section in the following way:

1. Keep the current first paragraph as is.

2. Move the current fourth paragraph to be directly after the first one.

3. Transfer the current second paragraph, along with approximately the first half of the current third paragraph, into the History section.

4. ... which leaves the second half of the current third paragraph as the ending of the lead section.

It's not ideal, but I think it would be an improvement. In my opinion, the current amount of detail about old history doesn't belong in the lead section. TooManyFingers (talk) 15:26, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

The history is certainly excessive and should be collapsed into one shorter paragraph, and the lead in general is a bit lengthy. Generally history is the second paragraph, and the last paragraph contains the details on the foreign relations. Perhaps the fourth paragraph can be split rather than being completely shifted. CMD (talk) 01:53, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

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