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Hi Vera!
Way back in the long-ago discussions of the Wikipedia Countries Project, we discussed whether the location of the embassies of the US, and to the US, were of sufficient interest for an international encyclopedia. It was decided that they were not. As a result, we've been slowly but systematically removing those addresses from the "Politics of..." pages. Is there a particular reason you think that information should remain? -- April 22:06 Jan 9, 2003 (UTC)
Yes, all embassies should be listed. Removing is the wrong way to do this, you should be adding.
Wikipedia is a mammoth project. I don't think thats a very good argument against doing something. Also, nobody is asking you to do the project. But why destroy the beginnings of it? We have US embassies for every country int he world noted, now add Canada or Dominca or whatever, but dont delete what we have done. Vera Cruz
Meanwhile, if we leave in only the US Embassy information - and adding all the other nations is not practical at this time - we create more of a "US bias" in Wikipedia. Since so many of the contributors here are US residents, this is already a continuing issue; better that we should crop the US embassy info unless and until we're ready to do it for the Whole World. Even if that were not the case, it's really not "encyclopedic" information; it only happens to be there because the CIA figured it'd be useful for US citizens to have in their Factbook. We have different aims, and for our aims, that information isn't really useful. -- April 22:19 Jan 9, 2003 (UTC)
No we do not create a US bias-if most of the users are from the US it stands to reason that most of them will write about what they know about. Having the US embassies will encourage others to add embassies. It most certainly is "encyclopedic". Cropping information is wasteful and destructive.
Just cut and paste them into US Embassies. Vera Cruz
The government section of the "Outline of Dominica" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.
When the country outlines were created, temporary data (that matched most of the countries but not all) was used to speed up the process. Those countries for which the temporary data does not match must be replaced with the correct information.
Please check that this country's outline is not in error.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact The Transhumanist .
Thank you.
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Hi Vera!
Way back in the long-ago discussions of the Wikipedia Countries Project, we discussed whether the location of the embassies of the US, and to the US, were of sufficient interest for an international encyclopedia. It was decided that they were not. As a result, we've been slowly but systematically removing those addresses from the "Politics of..." pages. Is there a particular reason you think that information should remain? -- April 22:06 Jan 9, 2003 (UTC)
Yes, all embassies should be listed. Removing is the wrong way to do this, you should be adding.
Wikipedia is a mammoth project. I don't think thats a very good argument against doing something. Also, nobody is asking you to do the project. But why destroy the beginnings of it? We have US embassies for every country int he world noted, now add Canada or Dominca or whatever, but dont delete what we have done. Vera Cruz
Meanwhile, if we leave in only the US Embassy information - and adding all the other nations is not practical at this time - we create more of a "US bias" in Wikipedia. Since so many of the contributors here are US residents, this is already a continuing issue; better that we should crop the US embassy info unless and until we're ready to do it for the Whole World. Even if that were not the case, it's really not "encyclopedic" information; it only happens to be there because the CIA figured it'd be useful for US citizens to have in their Factbook. We have different aims, and for our aims, that information isn't really useful. -- April 22:19 Jan 9, 2003 (UTC)
No we do not create a US bias-if most of the users are from the US it stands to reason that most of them will write about what they know about. Having the US embassies will encourage others to add embassies. It most certainly is "encyclopedic". Cropping information is wasteful and destructive.
Just cut and paste them into US Embassies. Vera Cruz
The government section of the "Outline of Dominica" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.
When the country outlines were created, temporary data (that matched most of the countries but not all) was used to speed up the process. Those countries for which the temporary data does not match must be replaced with the correct information.
Please check that this country's outline is not in error.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact The Transhumanist .
Thank you.