is the uk multinational an editor had added the adjective 'multinational' to the description of the uk and provided supporting references this was reverted without explanation so i re added i see no reason why this material should have been removed but would be interested in other views cheers i've removed it i think it's deeply confusing to have it in the very first sentence multinational has a number of different meanings and the most common interpretation is not really the one we intend here it evokes images of a company which operates in several different countries etc we already explain the unusual one country made of several countries thing in the lead i don't think we need to put it so prominently and in such a potentially ambiguous way talk