Talk:Serbia and Montenegro

Proposal to change article name

I think it would make more sense to name this article, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia' or FR Yugoslavia, instead of Serbia and Montenegro. The name Serbia and Montenegro was only used for the last three years of the country's existence, and indeed the Serbian Wikipedia version of this article uses Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as its name, and has a separate article for the brief existence of Serbia and Montenegro. Kurt Hartman 15:18, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

It was commonly known in English sources as "Serbia and Montenegro" during all of its existence. See the 1993 CIA World Factbook [1]. It is listed as "Serbia and Montenegro". Same in the 2000 edition. Vanjagenije (talk) 22:25, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

That's not the official name though. Also, NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, not NATO bombings of Serbia and Montenegro. Kurt Hartman 17:57, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia uses most common names, not official names. See WP:COMMONNAME. Vanjagenije (talk) 20:00, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Okay, thank you. Kurt Hartman 16:26, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Montenegro as a Serb majority republic?

Under the heading entitled "History" in this article, the first sentence in the first paragraph says the following:

"After the collapse of SFR Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the two Serb majority republics, Serbia and Montenegro, agreed to remain as Yugoslavia, and established a new constitution in 1992, which established the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia essentially as a rump state, with a population consisting of a majority of Serbs."

Now, I was surprised to read this, as I assumed that Montenegro is ethnically different or otherwise it would not have seceded from the union with Serbia. However, reading the Wikipedia article on that country, it turned out that Serbs is not a majority in Montenegro. Furthermore, there is in fact a separate and distinct Montenegrin culture and people, who constitutes the largest ethnic group (about 45% of the total population) in this country today according to the article on that country, with Serbs being the next largest ethnic group. Nowhere did the article on Montenegrin ethnic group say that it is a branch of Serb ethnic group or something like that.

That then leads to the question as to why the quoted sentence from this article says that both countries are "two Serb majority republics", which implies that Montenegro is or had been Serb majority. It is well possible that the Serbs were formerly a majority. However, I cannot find any information on such demographic change in Montenegro between the establishment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) or State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, nor can I find any information that suggested that Serbs were once a majority in that country at any point during the existence of FRY. Moreover, it does raise the question as to why a separate state existed/exists in Montenegro if their majority is or were ethnically same as the country literally next door that it had peacefully joined as part of a new federation at the breakup of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY, before it seceded later.

All of that being said, I recommend either correction or clarification of this particular sentence to avoid the confusion and misunderstanding. Legion (talk) 00:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Footnotes in infobox

Some of the footnotes in the info box either lead to the wrong thing or nothing at all. I'm not very experienced with infobox editing so I don't want to accidentally worsen it, plus I'm not sure where some of them are supposed to lead. I would be grateful if someone more experienced could help. Vp4411 (talk) 06:03, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Legal succession 2006

Legal succession after this country needs to be mentioned in the article but I am unable to find good sources for it. This UN source mentions legal succession but it is a bit unclear and contradictory:

There are four possible options of what happened regarding the legal succession in 2006: 1) no legal successor(s), 2) Serbia as the sole legal successor, 3) Montenegro as the sole legal successor, 4) Montenegro and Serbia as legal successors.

Seems this country ceased to exit in 2006 with its sole legal successor being Serbia – is that so? I need to find sources for this. Please help me.92.63.48.182 (talk) 05:07, 31 August 2022 (UTC)