The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
There appears to be a content dispute. The world view template/banner appears to have been in place for 6 months. Szzuk ( talk) 08:43, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
I don't know on which grounds this badge of shame (compare this to WP systemic bias which is what this is about) accusation is made so we won't speak about that but about things we call all verify. What I see is that (as of May 28 [1]): 8 of 16 pictures deal with examples from the US. If we to this add pictures from Canada and Australia there are 10 out of 16 picrtures showing examples from English speaking countries if we then pictures from Euroe (Greece, Portugal and Estonia) we have that 13 of 16 picturtures deals with these countries. Now we exclude the global map and have that 13 of 15 pictures shows images from the Anglopnone world and Europe. Of the last two remaining pictures one is a "propagation model" not linked to any specific region and the other is map of wildfires in Africa. So we conclude that Africa, Asia and Latin america are very underrepresneted and US more than enought represented. In addition boreal/temperate conifer forests are overeppresented while tropical and subtropical forests fires are not shown at all. In this sence the article reflects very poorly that wildfire is world-wide phenomena. Futher more the Global fires during the year 2008 map give hints that if any region should be given more space than other it should be the tropical and subtropical regions. Dentren | Talk 16:16, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
There appears to be a content dispute. The world view template/banner appears to have been in place for 6 months. Szzuk ( talk) 08:43, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
I don't know on which grounds this badge of shame (compare this to WP systemic bias which is what this is about) accusation is made so we won't speak about that but about things we call all verify. What I see is that (as of May 28 [1]): 8 of 16 pictures deal with examples from the US. If we to this add pictures from Canada and Australia there are 10 out of 16 picrtures showing examples from English speaking countries if we then pictures from Euroe (Greece, Portugal and Estonia) we have that 13 of 16 picturtures deals with these countries. Now we exclude the global map and have that 13 of 15 pictures shows images from the Anglopnone world and Europe. Of the last two remaining pictures one is a "propagation model" not linked to any specific region and the other is map of wildfires in Africa. So we conclude that Africa, Asia and Latin america are very underrepresneted and US more than enought represented. In addition boreal/temperate conifer forests are overeppresented while tropical and subtropical forests fires are not shown at all. In this sence the article reflects very poorly that wildfire is world-wide phenomena. Futher more the Global fires during the year 2008 map give hints that if any region should be given more space than other it should be the tropical and subtropical regions. Dentren | Talk 16:16, 28 May 2011 (UTC)