Talk:G8/Archive 1

message: I am not sure whether the picture was taken in 2001 or 2002. Can anybody check that? See ... -Edcolins 11:27, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
:It's definitely not the 2002 summit. -GrantNeufeld 16:17, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not sure when the picture was taken 

message: For discussion n the title of this page, and of G8 and G8 (disambiguation), please see Talk:G8 (disambiguation). sjorford →•← 12:26, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Page move

message: i was hoping that this article could have more depth, instead of merely the most basic facts. Issues like contributions of the G8 and criticisms on it could be expanded. --Plastictv 28 June 2005 07:02 (UTC)
An encyclopedia article should consist only of basic facts. This isn't an opinion piece.--Aardvark114 03:23, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Depth

message: Russia is not one of the world's leading industrialized nations, and this is why Russia is not participating in all events. The G8 is a grouping of seven of the world's leading industrialized nations: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, plus Russia
It's still a grouping of 8. And Russia is a leading industrialized nation. -- Stormscape 23:34, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  No it's not. And surely not ranked 8th. It's 7 most industrialized, plus russia which is not the 8th in any way shape or form.
Look: the g8 list is built over the national GDP of every nation in the world, the classification (that you can see at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29) reports, after the entrance of the republic of china at 4th position, Canada 8th and Russia 14th...
GDP doesn't determine all of it, if you look at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/rankorderguide.html you will see that Russia ranks high on most if not all economic and industrial listings, but I do agree China should definitely be in it. -Shogunpk 09:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russia 

message: The G7 and G8 are separate entities, and are shown as such in the press. Sources - see http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,16705958-31037,00.html versus http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,16705959-31037,00.html as an example. Steven 02:52, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Those links don't work (as I write, perhaps it is temporary). Although they are formally separate entities that doesn't necessarily mean they should have separate articles. What do you intend to write in each? What overlap would there be? Would readers need to read both articles to have an understanding of the subject? Pcb21| Pete 08:44, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good point, and to be honest I'm not sure how to answer it. I was hoping for some buy in from this group. What I would suggest is that there is a section within the G8 page that would mention the difference between G7 and G8 (which is I believe that Russia is not part of the G7). Steven 11:03, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

text: The contributors to this page should also note that there is a G10 (economic) Wikipedia page.  This section absolutely needs to be separated into applicable sections so that viable descriptions of both can be adequately organized.  Currently, the opening paragraphs of this article as well as the listing grid of conferences, need complete overhaul.  Hopefully, no children are using this page to use or quote for schoolwork.  Stevenmitchell 00:33, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to separate G7 from G8 

message: Does anyone have info on the participation of non-G8 countries in the summits. For example, Finland is sendind its President of PM (not known yet) to the 2006 G8 summit in Russia. What are the roles of these countries? Also note that Austria is the president of EU at the time of the meeting (June). --85.49.227.95 03:49, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other countries 

message: It appears to me that the references at the bottom to the  European Union and the International Monetary Fund do not belong here.  These organizations are not among the eight G8 nations, and their officials are not leaders of the Group. The EU officials at most share in a certain way in the leadership of four of the eight G8 nations.  The IMF Director is not one of the leaders, though he exercises an influence, as do others not included here.
67.21.48.122 05:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidebar -- Current G8 Leaders 

message: The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Time all prefer G-7 and G-8 to G7 and G8. This article uses both unhyphenated and hyphenated. I recommend hyphenated, but at least it should use one or the other throughout. Anomalocaris 22:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  G7 and G8 vs. G-7 and G-8 

message: User  has exceeded the 3 reverts in 24 hours rule and has, since at least April 5, been on a campaign of switching the official site for the 2006 G8 summit in Russia from http://en.g8russia.ru/ to http://www.g8stpetersburg.com/ (which is a domain squatting site pretending to be the official site). I don't know the procedure for getting an admin to block a user, so could someone take care of that, please? Thanks. —GrantNeufeld 17:29, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism / Spam 

message: "The attacks are assumed to be in retaliation for the UK's participation in military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, although terrorism has been perpetrated against western states by Islamic fundamentalists prior to those actions."
This sentence does not sound politically correct. While it may be true, it is comparing the nations of Afghanistan and Iraq to Islamic fundamentalists. It also sounds like it is justifying the invasions of the mentioned countries because of the previous attacks.
--Anon. 02:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  London Bombings 

message: (what's the point of having whole links to each leader anyway?)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.76.99.106 (talk • contribs) 
He's apparently not resigning until May 2. Then Romano Prodi is set to become Prime Minister. As to listing the leaders, since they tend to be the public focus of the G8 summit events, it makes a great deal of sense to list them in the article. —GrantNeufeld 22:21, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  silvio isn't prime minister of italy anymore 

message: Some of the external links relating to "activism" (against the G8 mostly it seems) did not include adequate or accurate descriptions and seem to be misleading and not conducive to developing a NPOV in this article.  Tried to add more desciptions of those several links edited (also edited for format).  To some readers the article may still seem rather lopsidedly opposed to the G8.--NYScholar 01:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken an axe to the external links section.  A large part of it was summit-specific and I've moved those to the relevant summit articles.  A large part was frankly low-quality/tangential, such as the USAID page for Africa development and the main page for an activist group that current seems concerned with several Latin American conferences.  Surprisingly, the "government sites" list was mainly composed of general sites, rather than G8 specific sites.  The ext links section, which had three subsections, is now so short that I've used list headers rather than section headers for dividers in an attempt to keep the TOC to a reasonable size. - BanyanTree 05:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links

message: Compare the constituents with the Eight-Nation Alliance. – Kaihsu 18:43, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Very eerie. Heilme 01:06, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: comparison with the Eight-Nation Alliance

message: Can anyone elaborate on the 1973 backrgound as to the start/foundation of the G8. its not v clear... i don't really get what happened and why... *thicko* Knowsitallnot 01:43, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's first set up to resolve the world's massive global trade imbalance problem and after the break down of Bretton-Woods system. They use the G5 (at the time) to discuss economic policy, currency appreciation arrangement of the sorts to help maintain balanced economy for all sides. But overtime, the agenda diversifies into other issues as well. Heilme 10:42, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  background and history 1973 

message: Under the Economic sub-heading the table of GDP is referred to as "BNE", what does BNE stand for?  I assume it is not any of the abbreviations in the page BNE (disambiguation) (one airport and two companies).  DanielBC [talkcontribstats] 00:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "BNE" Abbreviation