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Switzerland was one of the Geography and places good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
October 26, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
December 6, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 6, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
May 23, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
June 20, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
June 17, 2009	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
January 26, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
July 21, 2013	Good article reassessment	Kept
January 9, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
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Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2024

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Albert Einstein is not Swiss, but he is listed in this article as being a Swiss scientist. The link to his page clearly shows that he was born in Ulm, Germany. 76.75.11.234 (talk) 03:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Einstein was a Swiss citizen from 1901, which is why he is listed as a Swiss scientist. If you still believe he shouldn't be, you may wish to attempt to form a consensus before re-opening the request. Irltoad (talk) 08:50, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 21 April 2024

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According to Council of Europe, around 30,000 Romani people live in Switzerland. Add this information to the demographics section.

Source: https://minorityrights.org/country/switzerland/ 174.243.152.88 (talk) 17:50, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Charliehdb (talk) 10:00, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hostels Rotan01 (talk) 06:52, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Official German name without 'ß'

In modern Swiss Standard German there is no 'ß', they use 'ss' instead. Please change it in the top infobox. 2A04:EE41:6:CBB2:378C:A9B1:55:DFE5 (talk) 06:09, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Right. Done. --Sapphorain (talk) 21:55, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Funnily enough, given that the "o" in "Genossenschaft" is short, there should never have been a sharp s to begin with, even in German Standard High German. Trigaranus (talk) 06:05, 26 September 2024 (UTC) -- Apparently, the guy who added the silly letter has since had his account blocked. Go figure. (And yes, it's a slow news day here.) Trigaranus (talk) 06:11, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Government infobox

I added the "with elements of direct democracy" because I think it should be noted there like it is in the Lichtenstein government infobox. ErickTheMerrick (talk) 01:52, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 16 December 2024

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Change "...most of the country's 9 million people are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts the largest cities and economic centres, including Zurich, Geneva, and Basel." to "...most of the country's 9 million people are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts the largest cities and economic centres, including Zurich, Geneva, and Lausanne." Basel does not lie on the Swiss plateau. Basel is one of the few places in Switzerland that does not lie in one of the main three geographical regions - instead, it lies, depending on how exactly you divide up the regions, on the Upper Rhine Plane (source: http://www.infos-schweiz.ch/geografie/index.html) or in the Jura (source: https://www.nccs.admin.ch/nccs/de/home/regionen/grossregionen/jura.html). The next largest city (source: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/216783/umfrage/groesste-staedte-in-der-schweiz/) that lies on the Swiss plateau is Lausanne (source: http://www.infos-schweiz.ch/geografie/index.html), so I suggest replacing Basel with Lausanne in the list of large cities and economic centers, though I can also imagine Bern as an option, since it's not much smaller than Lausanne and the de facto capital. Hhaaoonn99 (talk) 17:43, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]