Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Archive 4

message: You will find the mock tables below. As you can see, they are not deformed. You know as the old saying goes, where there's a will there's a way.;
As I am not an expert on Korean affairs, I will not argue with you over the most appropriate term  to define the exact relationship between the President and the prime minister of South Korea.
Canada
Flag of Canada
Canada Coat of Arms
(In Detail)
(In Detail)
National motto: A Mari Usque Ad Mare (From sea to sea)
Official languages            English and French
Political status  Former colony of the UK, Independence by the British North America Act on July 1, 1867 and Canada Act 1982
Capital                      Ottawa, Ontario
Largest City              Toronto, Ontario
 Chief of state  Queen Elizabeth II  repr.by  Gov.Gen.   Adrienne Clarkson 
 Head of government Prime minister Jean Chrétien
Area - Total  - % waterRanked 2nd 9,984,670 km²  8.62%
Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran
Image:Iran_flag_medium
Image:Iran_coa
(In Detail)
National motto: Allahu Akbar  (Arabic: "God is greater")
Official language            Persian
Capital                      Tehran
 Supreme authority  Rahbar ("leader") Ali Khamenei
Chief of state  President Mohammad Khatami Head of government President Mohammad Khatami
Area - Total  - % waterRanked 17th  1,648,000 km²  0.7%               
Karukera 19:00, 05 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I find it confusing to see Chief of state and Head of government containing the same person.  I would naturally read this as two separate roles performed by that person, rather than a single role that is both head of state and government. A bit like Tony Blair being Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party which are two distinct and independent positions.  It is only through reading this page that I would think any differently. HappyDog 18:45, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

text: Whoever the head of government and head of state are, we should list both. In no country do we list the Vice President, but in many we list the PM. In the French article, we list both the President and PM for the reasons you have mentioned. For Bermuda, we should list only the Governor and Premier, for reasons listed in /Archive3. People would get confused and start thinking that Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of Bermuda when she is acutally Queen in Bermuda. --Jiang 17:47, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Samples

message: Howdy.  I just finished editing the country and demographics articles on Kazakhstan, and had a couple thoughts while doing so.  Is is really a good idea to include lots of statistics on here?  This is an encyclopedia, not a database, and it seems like it would take a lot of work to maintain current data.  We could just link to sites like the World Bank database, the CIA Fact Book, and the US Census Bureau's International Data Base (see what I did at Demographics of Kazakhstan as an example) Also, I think it's always a good idea to cite sources for whatever statistics you use (is it always the Fact Book?)  Just my two cents.  Isomorphic 18:53, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it's a bad idea to include all these statistics that have to be updated every couple years. IMO, they should be incorporated into the text of the article. For some military articles (e.g. People's Liberation Army), they have been put into a table (which I think looks nice). I also think it's US-centric to include US embassy addresses. --Jiang 17:50, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics

message: The table at Irish Free State may be something to keep in mind when applying the template to defunct entities. --Jiang 07:51, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defunct entities