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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]

Done Ultraodan (talk) 06:48, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

_Adam 2A00:23C6:5D06:2501:F986:9D2:8AD7:9951 (talk) 15:24, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Capital city

The infobox says the capital city is "None (de jure)". Does this means that there is a law declaring that there is no capital city, or does it mean simply that there is an absence of a law declaring a capital city? According to Wikipedia's article on Capital city, "Although many capitals are defined by constitution or legislation, many long-time capitals have no such legal designation, including Bern, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London, Paris, and Wellington." Yet the article about the UK just specifies "London" as the capital, instead of saying "London (de facto)". Similarly France and Paris, and so on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.192.197.247 (talk) 14:59, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's one of those things that gets asked (or edit warred over) every so often. The German Wikipedia has an article about it at de:Hauptstadtfrage der Schweiz. Here's a rough translation of it: "When the Swiss federal state was founded, a controversy arose as to whether Switzerland should have a capital city (instead of the ‘suburbs’, which had changed until then), and if so, which one. It ended in a compromise: on 28 November 1848, the National Council and the Council of States chose the city of Bern as the seat of the Swiss Confederation, while Lausanne, Lucerne and Zurich were to be the locations for other high-ranking federal institutions.
Bern is now designated as the seat of the Federal Council (executive branch) and the seat of the Federal Assembly (legislative branch) in the Government and Administration Organisation Act and the Parliament Act respectively. However, for reasons of federal consideration, Bern is not referred to as the "capital" or "federal capital", but as the "federal city". None of the three federal constitutions has ever stipulated a "federal city", "federal capital" or "capital city"." Nobody (talk) 15:15, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 4 April 2025

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i would like to change or remove the portion in the etymology section saying that the name for the canton: "schwyz" and the country: "schwiz" are pronounced the same "The Swiss German name of the country, Schwiiz, is homophonous to that of the canton and the settlement"

(IF the idea of changing it instead of outright removing it would be better i could write the following into the section, although im by far not an experienced editor or anything and would leave that up to more professional editors)

as to my knowledge people usually pronounce the name of the canton slightly differently as in:

the canton: schwyz, ʃʋiːts

the country: schwiz, ʃʋits

to make it more clear you could say it like this, the y sound from schwyz has a long held out vowel almost as if it being two syllables as in schwy-yz while the i in schwiz is a short and sharp vowel giving the whole word a more short, sharp or direct feeling another way to put it would be:

the y in schwyz is like the ee in see

while on the other hand the i in schwiz is like the ea in seat

i would also like to add that for the canton the z at the end is pronounced ever so slightly more softly due to the longer vowel that may be just up to personal preference tho

i dont have any actual academic sources for this the only source i can give is myself and my experiernce with the swiss german language as a native speaker that grew up in the southeastern canton of graubünden, is currently living in the northern canton of basel, has previously lived in the canton aargau and has alot of family in the canton bern so i'd say my "sample size" is decently large and diverse

i hope my use of the international phonetic alphabet is correct although it may be that i have mistakes in it as for i am new to using it Kunphenix (talk) 23:55, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. I wish to see reliable sources, not just "he said that, she said this" or it makes it unreliable! If you understand.... Valorrr (talk) 03:21, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]