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The result of the debate was Move as uncontroversial enough. All national commissions seem to have this form of name. Duja► 14:30, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Btw, I felt that lowercase is called for, as it's a term, not a proper name per se. Duja► 14:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The footnote reference to the Truth and Friendship Commission is misleading - the external link leads to a page about the Special Panels for East Timor, with no mention of Truth and Friendship Commission. So have deleted the footnote and put in correct link to Wikipedia page.

Quick Edit by donald.klopper@gmail.com: Grenada (the island) also had a truth and reconciliation commission around 2002. (Source WikiPedia itself). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.210.240.82 (talk) 06:02, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article naming: 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' as opposed to 'Truth commission'

I'm confused as to why the article is titled 'Truth commission' as opposed to 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission'. Looking at the references, I can see that many sources discuss these commissions without an explicit focus on the reconciliation aspect, but the vast majority of the commissions that have taken place are called 'Truth and Reconciliation Commissions', or at least include 'reconciliation' in their name/remit. Seems to me like the current naming of the article is slightly disingenuous to the actual nature of these commissions.

In the edit history, it seems like the justification for the move was a comparison of the frequency these two terms appeared in Google Books, which showed that the phrase 'truth commission' was used significantly more than 'truth and reconciliation commission'. However, this appears to be due to a spike of the use of the term in 2010. However, this data shows that the use of the terms is now relatively equal; additionally, I don't know that it's appropriate to use a single datapoint to determine the naming of an article. My view is that the name should be reverted to 'Truth and reconciliation commission' to reflect the more common political usage, as evidence by the multiple examples this article cites which all use this name. OliverEastwood talk 17:08, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]