Wikipedia talk:Status of the porting of the CIA World Factbook

message: The CIA Factbook has recently updated their site with enries on Akrotiri, Dhekelia, and the European Union. I have already imported the maps of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. However, I am puzzled on the best way to use the new EU data. Any ideas? - Hoshie 08:16, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three new entries - Use? 

message: I disagree with the importation of the titles "Military of" and "Communications of".  Both of these words may have meanings that are clear to all speakers of American English....but the English Wikipedia is surely to consider all branches of English and aim for clarity as well as NPOV.  
With regards to military, I agree with the sentiment above, this is not a term with clear meaning, whereas something else, e.g. "armed forces" or "defense forces", or something, would be.
However, "Communication" is even more of a problem.  The wikipedia article on communication describes what the word means and the different types of communication.  What is in the ex-CIA articles is solely information on telecommunication, and therefore either the communication articles all need to be broadened to include information on non telecommunication communication matters, or else the articles are re-named to be "telecommunication of".  --JRL 09:17, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military and Communication 

message: There seem to be a number of articles or sections of articles that consist solely of copied-pasted-and-reformatted text from these CIA factbook summaries. If the originals are already available online at www.cia.gov (as the ones I've looked at seem to be) then I wonder what the point of doing this is. It seems like rather an error-prone waste of time and effort to me when a simple link would suffice, and of course there is the problem of updating them when a new version is produced. (Of course, if the editor adds value to the original, rather than just doing a verbatim copy and paste, then that's an entirely different matter.) Matt 17:31, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose of exercise? 

message: Do help avoid confusion and smooth-out the process, if you are updating the articles listed on the page, please do not simply state "updated" or "partly updated", as there are many different versions of the CIA World Factbook, and new versions come out regularly.  Please attempt to state "updated (section of article)/(whole article) to YEAR" to avoid confusion.  For example: Andora (updated Geography section to 2006) ~~~~. DanielBC 01:46, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating the Articles 

message: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/docs/contributor_copyright.html says (emphasis added by me): The Factbook is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied freely without permission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).  The official seal of the CIA, however, may NOT be copied without permission as required by the CIA Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. section 403m).  Misuse of the official seal of the CIA could result in civil and criminal penalties. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 01:36, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal threat in World Factbook copyright notice