Talk:Government of Serbia/Archive 1

Ministry of Defense
Would someone please revert the latest edit concerning the alleged "sacking" of the Minister of Defense (Bratislav Gašić). The Minister is still in position and no official sacking has ever taken place despite some ambiguous statements by the Prime Minister. Source: The Government of Serbia official website — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.46.184.190 (talk) 10:00, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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Random removal of content by Buttons
I think this needs to be stopped. People worked hard to assemble this article for a user to just barge in and randomly remove things from the article. For an example he randomly removed half of the Government agencies and offices, there cannot be any explanation for removing Republic Broadcasting Agency but leaving Bankruptcy Supervision Agency (as an example of these disruptive edits). All of the agencies should be listed, simple as that. There is no reasonable explanation as to why would someone remove one and keep the other when there is no difference between the agencies. What is the next step? Remove a few ministries?

On top of that he removes images from the article, again no reason for that.

And finally he says that the expose of the Prime Minister, ie. "The key principles of the Government" should not be in the article because they are the same for any country. Yeah I am sure that the Government of Denmark is based on "Stepping up efforts to combat crime and corruption." and I am sure that "Non-acceptance of the independence of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija." is the key principle of the Canadian Government and I am absolutely certain that the "Commitment to a European future" is the number one principle of the Cabinet of Burundi /irony off.--Avala (talk) 12:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


 * My my... selective story telling now Avala?... ehh, not really surprised. Not that anyone really cares about your butthurt feelings Avala, but I'll play along. For the list of government (note: Executive branch) related agencies of Serbia please see the government webpage here, apologies to users who can't read Serbian or the Cyrillic alphabet. At this point in time I would like to remind Avala that some agencies are not under the authority of the government (again executive branch) but under the parliament (Legislative branch) or Judiciary. Keep in mind this article is exclusively the executive branch...


 * Moving along


 * The irony of your "irony" is that you hijack (my uh...keyboard?) and create a (albeit hilarious) reconstruction of my argument regarding the principles. Ruharhar! Indeed, those are rather silly conclusions of Canada and Burundi aren't they? Gee you really hit the nail on the head with that one.... only... I somewhat remember, quite possibly, ever so slightly... leaving this little totally "unimportant" fact...


 * And I quote -

As I said before its quite obvious that the role or “principles” of a government (a responsible one anyway) would be to improve the economy, combat crime, respect the law, protect its sovereignty etc. Apart from EU integration none of these "principles" set this government apart from the last or next one or any other government around the world for that matter (in theory).


 * Never put words in my mouth again, lest you look like a fool. batine/off - Buttons (talk)
 * You haven't said absolutely anything in your reply, you just lambasted me and focused on me. It would have been productive if you had addressed the issues raised but because you can't (as your edits were random and there's no explanation for them) you resort to personal insults.--Avala (talk) 12:01, 30 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Both concerns were addressed in my post above, I advise you to read it again genius... Buttons (talk)

Cabinet reshuffle
Hi – in light of the upcoming cabinet reshuffle I recommend adding the following below the list of cabinet ministers:
 * On 28 July 2013, following an announcement earlier in the month by First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić of an imminent cabinet reshuffle with a view to making macroeconomic policy a government priority, Finance Minister Mladjan Dinkic ceded his economy portfolio to the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).
 * In the interests of transparency I am declaring that the Government of Serbia is my client – I will post on the COI Noticeboard. Thanks. Vivj2012 (talk) 09:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * As there is now a new Finance Minister, I propose amending the above to read:
 * In August 2013, Lazar Krstic – a US-educated McKinsey consultant – was named as the new Finance Minister after Mladjan Dinkic ceded his portfolio to the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić had previously announced a cabinet reshuffle with a view to making macroeconomic policy a government priority. Vivj2012 (talk) 17:48, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Government agencies, offices and other
The list of external links in the Government agencies, offices and other section directly conflicts with the policy WP:NOT. WP:NOTDIRECTORY, a subsection of the policy explicitly states that Wikipedia is not a directory or list. Since this would be my first edit to the article, I'll wait for a few days before removing the list to give editors a chance to argue why the list should not be removed (please don't waste time by not backing up your arguments with pertinent policies or guidelines).  Ol Yeller21 Talktome  22:14, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić
Since Serbia recently received a new government, I moved Cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić to First cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić, and updated the Serbian parliamentary election, 2016 with the outcome. As result, there is now redlink Second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić. What to do with it? Pinging, , , , who recently worked on those pages. No such user (talk) 08:40, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Redirect it to Government of Serbia for the time being (until a new cabinet takes place or a minister gets changed). That would be a good temporary solution anyway.
 * 2) Create a new page, virtually identical to Government of Serbia (but the categories will be different)
 * 3) Something else?

I would just add the number after the name of the cabinet (Cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić II, Cabinet of Vojislav Koštunica II, Cabinet of Stavča Mihailović II, etc). Adding "The second cabinet of..." to the title just makes it too long. But, do whatever you want. You made some mistakes on the "Cabinets of Serbia" template, but I've corrected them. When it comes to this particular issue you've mentioned, I'd just leave the page for now, and allow it to be redirected. (WikiNameBaks (talk) 09:21, 17 August 2016 (UTC))


 * Naming of cabinets is a separate issue. I somewhat WP:BOLDLY moved a couple of pages to First cabinet of Vojislav Koštunica etc. but stopped. For me a title such as Cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić II is a) misleading, suggesting that the prime minister's name was "Aleksandar Vučić II" and b) contrary to general naming conventions – we don't append "I, II" etc. unless the sources do. We should check out what is the common cabinet naming for other countries. Brevity is a virtue, but not at any price. But let's leave that for a second round. No such user (talk) 09:32, 17 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Here's how the Croats do it: Cabinet of Ivo Sanader II, Slovenians: Cabinet of Janez Janša II, Macedonians: Cabinet of Nikola Gruevski IV, etc. Others do it the other way. I just wanted to point out that there isn't an official way of naming the cabinets, and both ways are good. Some even do it the third way, like the Slovaks: Fico's Third Cabinet. (WikiNameBaks (talk) 09:44, 17 August 2016 (UTC))

Second cabinet of Vojislav Koštunica seems like a quite good and logical answer to your dilemma - use it as a role model, and create Second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić and add there data about ministers, etc for period after 11 August 2016. --Sundostund (talk) 13:48, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The key difference here is that the Second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić is the current Government of Serbia, so it feels kind of lame to have the same table twice in two articles. We will have to create it eventually, of course, once we get a new cabinet...
 * Ahh, now I get it: the table is located in Template:Government of Serbia transcluded into Government of Serbia. Still, what will happen once they change a minister? We'll still have to fork it... or just subst it, maybe? No such user (talk) 14:30, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Template:Government of Serbia contain data about the current composition of government (present ministers, etc). Second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić should contain data about the whole period of the cabinet (participating parties, changes of composition, former ministers, reconstructions, etc). --Sundostund (talk) 14:38, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, let's create it, starting from subst'ing the Template. No such user (talk) 14:49, 17 August 2016 (UTC) P.S. Do you mind if I tone down or, preferably, remove those jarring colors? Ministers' party affiliation is important, but not that important to visually dominate the whole table (see WP:COLOR).
 * Yes, create Second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić. We'll add more content in it as time goes by... Please, be more precise about "subst'ing the Template" - what you mean by that? As for party affiliation in the template, I have an idea how to fix it (I'll do it later today). --Sundostund (talk) 14:54, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Syntax will simply copy the whole template contents into the target page, i.e. basically the same as if you copy/paste everything from the template, except noincluded parts. Gotta run now, thanks. No such user (talk) 15:18, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification. By the way, as you can see - I changed the party color scheme at the Template:Government of Serbia. I hope you like the new version of it. --Sundostund (talk) 15:23, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, much better now. I'll try to make the cabinet page now. No such user (talk) 14:36, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you like it. The cabinet page looks fine, you did a nice job. --Sundostund (talk) 21:42, 18 August 2016 (UTC)