I notice a lot of pages of countries which reply on information from the CIA factsbook include information US diplomatic representation to that country and that country's diplomatic representation to the US. Two things strike me: 1. That sort of information changes very quickly, much quicker than details about who is in government, etc, because diplomatic postings are regularly changed. So it is something that can very very easily be out of date even when being put on wiki, or within a small time afterwards. 2. It hardly creates a fair and balanced article if its focuses exclusively on issues to do with that country's diplomatic relationship with the US. Is there a single article on wiki that mentions with the British ambassador is to a country and what the UK embassy address is? What about the Italian Ambassador? Brazilian ambassador? Irish ambassador? Rwandan ambassador, etc. It all adds a regrettable and unnecessary degree of americo-centrism to articles. Given this fact, and that the information is likely to change rapidly, is it not time that such unnecessary and americo-centrist information was left out? The entire world doesn't need to know who the US ambassador to Germany is, or who the Germany ambassador to the US is, do they? If it is thought worth keeping, it should all be moved to a specific article on [[United States Embassies and Ambassadors]] and [[International Ambassadors to the United States]]. There it can be easily updated and avoids making articles appear too americocentric. JT _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail