Talk:Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium

Unreliable source
The article states the following:

The law of 1 July 1971 put both academies in linguistic equality: henceforth their own lingua franca is used (respectively the French and the Dutch) and they bear the same denomination.[4]

And this is the source:

Les archives de l'État en Belgique

And this is what I found:

L. du 01.07.1971 sur lemploi des langues à l Académie royale des Sciences, Lettres et Beaux-Arts de Belgique et à la Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België ( Monit ., 31.12.1971

Then I checked the Belgian laws.

There is a law on the usage of languages (Loi sur l'emploi des langues) but it is from 1966.

[http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/loi_a1.pl?language=fr&la=F&table_name=loi&cn=1966071831&&caller=list&fromtab=loi&tri=dd+AS+RANK 18 JUILLET 1966. - Lois sur l'emploi des langues en matière administrative.]

And article 1 of this law was changed on 26 July 1971 (W 26-07-1971, art. 87).

And there is another law from 21 July 1971 about the Cultural Councils of the two communities. LOI relative à la compétence et au fonctionnement des conseils culturels pour la Communauté culturelle française et pour la Communauté culturelle néerlandaise. This law however is about the cooperation between the communities and not specificly about the usage of languages.

And there is a third law from 3 July 1971 (Loi relative à la répartition des membres des Chambres législatives en groupes linguistiques et portant diverses dispositions relatives aux conseils culturels pour la communauté culturelle française et pour la communauté culturelle néerlandaise.)

But there is no law on the usage of languages from 1 July 1971.

So something seems to be wrong here, imo.--Cobenzl (talk) 22:47, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Law from 1 July 1971
After a long period of searching I finally found a hint that there is a law from 1 July 1971:

Loi du 1er juillet 1971 sur l'emploi des langues à l'Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique et à la "Koninklijke Academie voor wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België"

But for some reason it isn't possible to get access to the text of the law. The website of the Belgian Official Journal informs that the text is not available: La version intégrale et consolidée de ce texte n'est pas disponible.

At least it proves that the source in the wp article is correct.Cobenzl (talk) 03:33, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Listing members
How useful is it to list associate and corresponding members as "members"? Is this not a little like listing people who get honorary doctorates as "alumni"? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 22:03, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The official alphabetical puvblished index makes no difference between associate and corresponding members, why would we?--Carolus (talk) 22:05, 7 June 2017 (UTC)