[Wikipedia-l] CIA World Factbook

[Poor, Edmund W]

Alex Bradbury wrote:
> Shouldn't facts and statistics taken from the CIA World Factbook 
> be marked as such with the year? 

Yes, excellent idea! When we copy stuff from an alamanac or fact book, let's always record the YEAR of the data. Populations get larger or smaller, leadership composition changes. We need to know WHEN this country had 12 million people suffering under this notorious dictator or that country had 22.3 million people enjoying the benevolence of that one.

Ed Poor