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Original Research / Breach of WP:SYNTH

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This section is OR (and the total numbers are unsourced): "The country is populated by a Flemish majority of about 6,010,000 people speaking Dutch, a French-speaking minority of 5,480,000 people (Walloons and French-speakers in Brussels and in Flanders (400.000) (...), as well as 73,000 German speaking people in Wallonia, near the German border." This section is WP:SYNTH. Someone has brought together multiple numbers to advance one position (summed up in two numbers). So, in Flanders French-speaking families are counted, but not the Dutch-speaking families in Wallonia. So this is home language counting, but only for Flanders. In Brussels however the street language is used (what you used outside of home), rather than the home language to count French-speakers. This is synthesizing to advance a position. What we should do here, is not our own research, but what credible sources are saying directly. UlyssorZebra (talk) 06:57, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]