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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on September 20, 2007.

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Date	Process	Result
July 17, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
April 23, 2022	Featured article review	Demoted

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Chad was copied or moved into Food security in Chad with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Requested move 22 September 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. Early close due to WP:SNOW, near unanimous opposition. (non-admin closure) SnowFire (talk) 02:59, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

– These titles could refer to country or the name such as Chad (name) and Jordan (name). There doesn't appear to be a primary topic here. Interstellarity (talk) 00:49, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I would say any current country's common English name trumps any other use barring very unusual circumstances (Georgia and Macedonia being two cases and English speakers outside the US might disagree on the first and think Georgia (country) should be Georgia). In these particular cases the first thing that comes to mind with Chad or Jordan are the respective countries. I can't think of anything that comes close with Chad the country and with Jordan only the Jordan River. Erp (talk) 02:47, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Thoroughly disagree. The names of these countries are overwhelming primary topics for their names, and there are huge consistency arguments to also consider here. WP:AINTBROKE. Iskandar323 (talk) 06:50, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support I agree there isn't a clear primary topic. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:09, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Chad and Jordan are by far most commonly used for the country. ¹⁴¹ Pr {contribs} 07:25, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. While I agree that the country isn't the first thing I think of when I hear the word "Chad", I think someone typing "Chad" into the Wikipedia search box is most likely to be looking for the country. I haven't bothered to look up the page view stats, but if a different article with the same title gets a similar number of views to the country article, then I'm open to changing my mind. Rreagan007 (talk) 07:48, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not common names for people Chidgk1 (talk) 08:19, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose. Chad and Jeremy are the music group. And hanging chad has to do with paper bits; and anything else is the country, which is primary. (edit conflict) Mathglot (talk) 08:23, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Although a symptom of WP:RECENTISM with a downward trend, there is also Chad (slang). There's currently only a 3:1 pageview ratio between the country and the slang term (114,00 monthly versus 35,000 monthly). —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 17:44, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose. Makeandtoss (talk) 08:30, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose clearly the countries are the primary topics—blindlynx 14:02, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose moves. The countries are the primary topics. (Same goes for Turkey.) O.N.R. ^(talk) 19:23, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose and SNOWCLOSE - The countries are undoubtedly primary by long-term significance, at the very least. The hatnotes should resolve confusion. estar8806 (talk) ★ 20:30, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Semi-protected edit request on 2 January 2025

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The 5th lead paragraph states...

Chad ranks the 2nd lowest in the Human Development Index, with 0.394 in 2021 placed 190th...

...which is no longer true. Chad has moved up by one place while having the same score, according to the respective list. This would make them the fourth lowest nation out of 193. Also, the latest data is from 2022, not 2021.

2603:8000:CD01:B7F0:595D:AC7D:C0E2:E2D6 (talk) 10:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Ultraodan (talk) 05:16, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Flag unable to load

I noticed that the flag of Chad no longer loads; instead I see the "broken image" icon (I'm using Chrome). Maybe a technical issue? Purplneon486 (talk) 10:57, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's a technical issue, it's not related to anything on this article. CMD (talk) 13:24, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnic data - Infobox

The infobox at the right gives a very detailed breakdown of the different ethnicities in Chad. The source is given as (1): "Analyse Thematique des Resultats Definitifs Etat et Structures de la Population". Institut National de la Statistique, des Études Économiques et Démographiques du Tchad. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020." Fortunately, the document is accessible. Unfortunately, it does not contain any data about any ethnicity in Chad (nor about languages, except for the two official ones, or any other similar data which could be used to build an ethnicity breakdown). So where do the ethnicity data in the infobox come from? There must be a good source for such detailed figures. The only places I have found the same figures in internet are highly suspicious of having them copied themselves from Wikipedia... Ilyacadiz (talk) 21:07, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

More fundamentally, The infobox at the right gives a very detailed breakdown of the different ethnicities in Chad is already a problem in my view. Considered country articles generally exclude this parameter whatsoever from the infobox. Remsense ‥ 论 21:11, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]