Talk:List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office/Archive 3

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Notes from construction

Here are some of the principles I used in putting this page together. Hope they help in maintaining it.

1. Only included CURRENT heads of state.
2. Included the same heads of state as listed on the List of state leaders page. Many republics have two leaders - a formal head-of-state, such as a President, and an excecutive leader, such as a Prime Minister. Both are included. Some states have more than two leaders eg Monarch, Governor General and Prime Minister. All are included.
3. Each person should be listed only once, they can have only one current continuous period as leader. Title may change, and this is noted. They may hold more than one postion, such as Queen Elizabeth II, that is also noted.
4. The position given for the head of state is their current position, if they have held a number of positions since the date they assumed the office, the former positions are given as notes.
5. The date used is the start date of their current continuous period as a state leader, eg if a PM lost an election and won a subsequent election to commence a second term, the date is the start of the second term.
6. The date used is the date they assumed office, eg by inaguration, not the date of an election win, unless the inaguration date is not known
7. If they were considered the state leader, but were not officially holders of the office, the earlier date is used. Eg acting Prime Ministers who subsequently became PM, are listed with the date they became acting PM, eg Ehud Olmert of Israel is considered to have started on Jan 5th 2006
8. The dates come from other WP pages - individual bio pages, or the related list-of-officeholders page, but should also be verified against Rulers.org, I have not done this
9. Short interruptions, eg as the 3-day Venzeulan Coup of 2002 are not taken into account in deciding the start-date
10. For Royals, periods of regency are not counted, since there is another person, the outgoing Royal, still in the role.
11. Where there is a complication about the date given, I have used reference notes to explain the background.
12. Reference notes are used so that the list remains simple to read without too much confusing information. The list can just be date, name, country, position, with the details elsewhere. Allows for easy comparison.

Enjoy, and help keep it up to date.--Rye1967 06:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I really don't think that rules nine and ten should be used. The interruptions may be short, but they were still not in the position until the interruption was over. As for rule ten, we cannot have seven apply either then, which is also ridiculous. The actor/regent is not official until they truly take office, but if they do take office directly after the acting/regency, the date that began the acting/regency should be used. Therequiembellishere 20:20, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Serzh Sargsyan

I could not find the name of Serzh Sargsyan in the list. Why? M.Karelin (talk) 20:26, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

He went directly from the Prime Minister office to the Presidency, so he is listed at 26 March 2007 when he became Prime Minister for the most recent time. Dralwik|^{Have a Chat} 21:24, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Footnotes

The amount of space devoted to footnotes is almost equal to the rest of the article. Why not add an additional column to the main charts and call it "Previous service"? That would significantly cut down on the number of footnotes. In my opinion, it would make the charts much easier to read (by cutting down on the flipping back and forth between footnotes and the main text). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Memworking (talk • contribs) 20:54, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

HoS representatives?

IMHO, we should delete head of state representatives, such as governors-general. GoodDay (talk) 18:23, 4 February 2016 (UTC)