http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_privacy
It's all US POV. It's not immediately clear how to remedy this. I know de: has templates for country-centric POV, does en:?
- d.
On 10/4/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_privacy
It's all US POV. It's not immediately clear how to remedy this. I know de: has templates for country-centric POV, does en:?
{{Globalize/USA}}
On 10/5/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_privacy
It's all US POV. It's not immediately clear how to remedy this. I know de: has templates for country-centric POV, does en:?
{{Globalize/USA}}
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Globalize for related templates.
Angela
G'day David,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_privacy
It's all US POV. It's not immediately clear how to remedy this. I know de: has templates for country-centric POV, does en:?
I believe it's {{globalize}} (ironic, no?). It seems some busy bees have gone and put together a bunch of more specific templates: "This article is too Australian", "This article is too Muslim", etc. Given that 98% of the time you'd be using the "This article is too American" template, I'm not sure that this is an entirely efficient use of resources.
What is it about Americans, seriously? I mean, Australians are arrogant (well, we are): tell us we do something differently from the rest of the world, we'll say, "Gosh, we must be weird. Still, it's probably because we're so much cooler."
Tell an American that he does something differently from the rest of the world, and it's a case of, "Gosh, the rest of the world is so weird." (Of course, that Americans are cooler than the rest of the world goes without saying; in fact, to point it out would imply the possibility that this state of affairs could change, so it's best not to.)
A relevant quotation: "Remember, in Italy they drive on the wrong side of the road."
On 10/4/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
What is it about Americans, seriously? I mean, Australians are arrogant (well, we are): tell us we do something differently from the rest of the world, we'll say, "Gosh, we must be weird. Still, it's probably because we're so much cooler."
Tell an American that he does something differently from the rest of the world, and it's a case of, "Gosh, the rest of the world is so weird." (Of course, that Americans are cooler than the rest of the world goes without saying; in fact, to point it out would imply the possibility that this state of affairs could change, so it's best not to.)
It's very simple: most Americans don't really believe that the rest of the world exists. There's a place down south of Texas where farm labor comes from, and the fifty-first state up north of the Great Lakes is a good place to shop, but that's it, really.
-- Mark [[User:Carnildo]]
tsk tsk, not all of us. I travel the world, and trust me, there are good people and idiots everywhere. In France the other day, when I was on my way to Bangalore, the woman checking me in said "Bangalore? Where's that?"
France, obviously, is quite cosmopolitan. This is not a slam against France! The point is, please don't bash Americans or anyone else. :)
Mark Wagner wrote:
On 10/4/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
What is it about Americans, seriously? I mean, Australians are arrogant (well, we are): tell us we do something differently from the rest of the world, we'll say, "Gosh, we must be weird. Still, it's probably because we're so much cooler."
Tell an American that he does something differently from the rest of the world, and it's a case of, "Gosh, the rest of the world is so weird." (Of course, that Americans are cooler than the rest of the world goes without saying; in fact, to point it out would imply the possibility that this state of affairs could change, so it's best not to.)
It's very simple: most Americans don't really believe that the rest of the world exists. There's a place down south of Texas where farm labor comes from, and the fifty-first state up north of the Great Lakes is a good place to shop, but that's it, really.
-- Mark [[User:Carnildo]] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
On 10/4/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
A relevant quotation: "Remember, in Italy they drive on the wrong side of the road."
Um, but Italy drives on the same side of the road as the US does. That statement would have to have been uttered by a resident of a nation that drives on the left.
-Matt