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The contents of the Superpower collapse page were merged into Superpower on 15 March 2024. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.
The contents of the Superpower disengagement page were merged into Superpower on 11 May 2024. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.
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On 7 June 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to Superpower (politics). The result of the discussion was no consensus.

American overseas military map graphic - Should be altered?

The graphic overstates the extend of American military hegemony. For instance, Brazil is colored - but there are only 27 military personnel stationed there, which is more of a diplomatic or training mission than a superpower projection.

I think the map should only highlight countries with at least 100, or 500, or 1000 stationed personnel.

I'm getting the numbers from this German media report which details personnel numbers across the world: https://kritisches-netzwerk.de/sites/default/files/us_department_of_defense_-_base_structure_report_fiscal_year_2015_baseline_-_as_of_30_sept_2014_-_a_summary_of_the_real_property_inventory_-_206_pages.pdf

I propose that Honduras, Brazil, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Bulgaria, Greece, Philippines, and Australia should not be colored on the map due to low personnel sizes based on the figures in the aforementioned report.

Unilateral edition

Someone edited the part about emerging superpowers and decided to delete informations about Brazil and the image showing potential superpowers was substituted without any discussion about it. Personal feelings are not determinants in Misplaced Pages, at least it shouldn’t be.

Merge proposal: Superpower Disengagement

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The result of this discussion was merge based on previous discussion and silent concensus.GeogSage 17:48, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Following up on the merge of Superpower Collapse into Superpower, the topic of merging Superpower Disengagement into Superpower had support. This is a formal proposal of that. I believe some content from this page can be merged into the sections of superpower, and then a redirect created. Pinging @Gluonz and Thenightaway: GeogSage 19:23, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

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Merge proposal: Potential superpower

Following the merge of superpower collapse and superpower disengagement, I believe the page Potential superpower could be merged into superpower. I don't believe there is enough difference to justify the two distinct pages. Merging them would improve the main superpower page significantly. The content can be put into the existing section of the same name. GeogSage 22:35, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Support. There's no reason to have two separate articles on basically the same subject. It dilutes editor efforts and results in lower quality articles. Thenightaway (talk) 23:18, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Oppose - Unless you're also suggesting large-scales reductions in detail the merged article is likely to be too long to be easily navigable. Rambling Rambler (talk) 13:15, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Comment- If the merge is accepted, I would encourage any editor to help boil down the merged section to remove redundant information and keep the page navigable. GeogSage 02:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 7 June 2024

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) BilledMammal (talk) 20:42, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Superpower → Superpower (politics) – Both the political term and the popular culture term have wide usage, so this page should be moved to specify politics, and the disambiguation page should be moved to just "Superpower" Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 22:18, 7 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari Scribe 20:40, 16 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari Scribe 20:40, 16 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari Scribe 20:40, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

  1. Support I was initially leaning oppose, but read through the Misplaced Pages: Disambiguation guidelines and agree this makes sense. Just to point out, there is also a page Superpower (horse), and Superpower (song). Looking at views for all of them, and it looks like while Superpower (politics) is the most widely viewed, the others do have fairly wide usage. Several pages link to Superpower right now, so those all would need to be fixed.
GeogSage 02:17, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
Given that all of the television show season pages were moved by a bot after that proposal, there is likely a bot that can fix all of those links. Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 01:52, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
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