Talk:Major power/Archive 1

message: Shouldn't China and India be here?  I know that they are on the Superpower page as 'Emerging Superpowers' but they surely qualify to be included here.  
Xdamr 00:30, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, then atleast the article should provide a link to those "specific articles". We have a section on India, but we do need to mention People's Republic of China too. Without mentioning PRC, this article is incomplete. Thanks --Spartian 15:49, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: China & India

message: Searching Major Power redirects to Power (International) although it should redirect to this page.203.214.107.127 06:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirecting

message: What is discussed in this article is not Major Powers. The topic of discussion in the section of "superpower" that you have taken upon yourself to place here is "possible superpowers", or "emerging superpowers". 
A "Major Powers" article would not only include the countries discussed here, but also Israel (major power of the Middle East), South Africa, and tonnes more. 
Also what would need to be discussed is major powers from history; Roman Empire, Greek Empire, Egypt, Spain, Republic of China, Macedonia etc; etc;. 
The only way of keeping this article short would be to turn it into a list. This has nothing to do with possible superpowers.
You never should have moved this without consulting anyone. I'm going to make some huge changes.  Trip: The Light Fantastic 16:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: This is wrong

message: Where in the hell did this come from?? Who said that the U.K. is a declining major power, we are a declining or already passed the "Superpower" sell by date, British influence in the world is still a big thing.
:No one said that the UK is no longer a major power, and no one said that it could not remain one. However in demographic, economic and military terms the UK is falling behind. For instance: its population is graying and will shrink, while world population grows fast. Its relative part of world economy output and trade is gradually shrinking also. Etc. RoLeoVers 18:35, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The United Kingdom is not a declining major power 

message: Fortunately, these two countries are mentioned as potential superpowers in the Superpower article. Suprised to see that India and China aren't mentioned as major powers. --Deepak|वार्ता 22:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No India and China?! 

message: I removed "to such an extent that as of 2004, the British Armed Forces were planning for an immediate future where any large overseas operation would be undertaken as part of a coalition with the United States."
"large" is subjective and the policy is more complicated than what is written above. Mark83 16:27, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  rmvd section

message: The work on Brazil has really changed that section, we now must focus on Germany, which is by far the shortest section in this article.
:Absolutely, perhaps those with expertise can add a bit more to France and India as well?
:Xdamr 13:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany 

message: We simply cannot go into representing all the Potential Major Powers on this page, then other pages will follow suit and we'll end up having Potential Regional Powers: Papua New Guinea etc.
There are other powers that are in a similar state to Brazil, for example, Australia has Cultural, Geographic, Military, Economic and Political Power. It has these powers to an extent which rivals Brazil, it also has around 50% of the world's uranium which could be very helpful in the future. So I propose Brazil be deleted from this page and never appear again. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 05:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Xdamr 11:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Comment. I agree with Xdamr: concept major power should be central. Furthermore, it's only easy to define "past" major powers, so I suggest that most (3/4?) of this page should be about the concept major power and about the past major powers. Sijo Ripa 16:55, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vote: Delete Brazil 

message: By the way, every comment in the Brazil section is unsourced and could be taken as POV or OR. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 05:54, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Comments 

message: *Delete - WAS 4.250 17:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Xdamr 11:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Comment. I agree with Xdamr: concept major power should be central. Furthermore, it's only easy to define "past" major powers, so I suggest that most (3/4?) of this page should be about the concept major power and about the past major powers. Sijo Ripa 16:55, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voting 

message: These are the only nations that are keeping this article from some sort of sense of completeness. So please concentrate your efforts on these sections now, fill in at least three criteria factors and then we can concentrate on another project related to this article. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 00:14, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany and France