Talk:Australia 2020 Summit

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replies: text: Centralise verifiable information, yes.  Hold discussion, no.  That's not Wikipedia's role, but would be suitable for a separate wiki site. -- Chuq (talk) 02:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: initial comment

message: Is there a list of who's attending?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.109.144.214 (talk) 14:37, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guests 

message: Why? Timeshift (talk) 09:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Signatures in the article? 

message: I see that the list of participants was taken off. Could we reinclude them but in one of those collapsible boxes? 121.220.77.145 (talk) 15:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Too much for a collapsible box. Whilst I think the list is worthy of adding, it is too big for an article. I've created a sub-article and added a link under participants. Timeshift (talk) 03:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List of participants

message: The statement "The Australia 2020 Summit was a summit held..."   is clearly not really correct.    The word "summit" links to an article which is about meetings between international head of state or heads of government.    The Australia 2020 Summit  would be better described as being actually a conference or convention.   The fact that the word Summit was part of its title,  doesn't actually make it one.  Eregli bob (talk) 06:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Linking is another issue, but it was clearly a summit. What does WP:RS tell us? It's a summit. Timeshift (talk) 06:22, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you mean "it was clearly a summit" ??  A "summit" is either the top of a mountain, or "A summit meeting (or summit) is a meeting of heads of state or government".   These are the accepted plain-english meanings of the word.   Which meaning do you think applies to the Australia 2020 event ?   It may have been called a "summit",  but the event was a convention or a conference. Eregli bob (talk) 07:41, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly. It was called a summit. We had the same debate over the term "stolen generations". Despite some argument over the term "stolen", it was the term used by politicians and the media. Per WP:RS it is a summit. Timeshift (talk) 15:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually take the point of the original poster, in that it was not a summit, but the word is so misused and abused these days by so many organisations, groups etc that while I don't think we should link the word "summit" and should describe it instead, Summit is part of the title and should be left. Convention is probably the best word to use/link. Orderinchaos 05:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wasnt a summit 

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