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[edit] The CIA is not the last word

As you can see in Economy of Brazil and Economy of Panama, those two countries are richer right now, the CIA Work is derogatory and most people who use it are often ignorants! No offense but, I prefer to search for LOCAL DATA which provides full accuracy, several articles have data that has not been updated since 1997. Stick to the accurate and true data, I think the CIA World Factbook prioritizes some countries.

Cocoliras (talk) 01:38, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

About sources, these can be found in the UN Food Program inform, this is since poverty is based on food in the infoboxes, just like Mexico. To confirm it, Panama's fat population is 50% (similar to the USA) while its slim pop. is of about 25% the rest is undernourished. Eventually, if we can find a homelessness rate, we can confirm an exact number. For the moment, just place in the thumbbox that it is a CIA map and not another map and place that other maps exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cocoliras (talk • contribs) 23:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Economic inequality map update

There was a request to have your excellent economic equality map recolored so as to avoid apparent bias by making increasing inequality bad (red) and decreasing inequality good (green). I took the liberty of recoloring your map but have been unable to upload it to Wikipedia, plus I feel a little uneasy saying the content is entirely my own work (in the licensing section of the uploads) since it clearly isn't (I give you rights to claim my recoloring as your own work without citation). When you get a chance, could you upload the color-changed version or suggest what you would like me to do differently? (different color palette?) I do think we'd like to convey the information of inequality without making a judgment of whether it's necessarily bad. Let me know your thoughts and thanks for making the great picture! Bjp716 (talk) 20:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Certainly if one family has *all* the wealth, that would be a bad state of affairs; no one else would have anything! But, I do think it's easily defensible that economic inequality is not necessarily a bad thing. Egypt has a significantly lower Gini coefficient than the US, but I think it would be hard to argue that a population with one tenth American GDP is better off. If half of Egypt's population suddenly found a way to make $44k per capita without working harder, the inequality in Egypt would go way up and no one would become poorer. From an inequality standpoint, this sudden creation of wealth would be a bad thing. You may protest and say that, given a total GDP, it is best to distribute it as equally as possible. This is perhaps the case, but it is an unattainable goal. Wealth is primarily created by hard work and innovation. In a country where everyone was guaranteed the same income regardless of how hard they worked, there would be little motivation to work, so little wealth would be created. You may wish that America could maintain its GDP but distribute it more equally among its citizens, but that is not a possible choice; the choice is between a higher GDP where "all boats are lifted" but lifted unevenly, or a (much) lower GDP where everyone has about the same amount of wealth. The protest to this argument is usually that people will work just as hard under in a communistic (complete redistribution) situation because they will be satisfied that their efforts benefit others. This, however, has been proven false time and again throughout history for any group of people large enough where members do not know or interact with most other members. That being said, I think your map is excellent; I like my coloring less than your original coloring (mine looks like a collection of neon Easter eggs!) but I do agree with the person who wanted the color connotation to be more neutral. Thanks for making the map and for uploading the new version! I, and I'm sure many other Wikipedians, greatly appreciate your contributions. If there's anything I can do to help you on Wikipedia, please let me know :) Bjp716 (talk) 07:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Good work

Very good work on Polity map! I will add it some articles if you do not mind like the Polity data series articles. However, the US is not colored. Any reason for this? Otherwise, I am thinking about uploading a map including this. Also, I appreciate your work on the other maps. Ultramarine (talk) 20:03, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, go ahead and use it for whatever you want. I didn't colour America because it appears that there was no data for them on their page. http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/polity/country_reports/report.htm

Sbw01f (talk) 21:12, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

You can register for free and get all the historical data and the 2004 data (including the US) here: [1]. I see that you continue to make quality maps. Have you seen the very interesting ratings on Global Competitiveness Index, Ease of Doing Business Index, and Indices of Economic Freedom? I made some of the maps some time ago but they are now outdated.Ultramarine (talk) 18:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
For your fine efforts at creating excellent maps. Please continue your very important work --Miyokan (talk) 07:18, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] List of countries by literacy rate

Hi, is it possible for you to generate a new world-map for the UNEP data? I can send you a spread-sheet of the relevant figures, if needed. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 02:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the great work btw. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 21:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
any time Sbw01f (talk) 22:08, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 Figures

Hi

I rollback your edits in the Brazil article since 2007 figures are not yet available. Cheers. --Mhsb (talk) 10:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] minor/major edits

It seems that you check the minor checkbox too often. WP policy states: "A check to the minor edit box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the current and previous version: typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content, et cetera." For example, this [2] excellent edit is not minor. --Doopdoop (talk) 22:12, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Indeed I do seem to have a habit of automatically hitting the 'minor' box since the vast majority of my edits are grammar and vandalism reverts, but thanks for the heads up, I'll try to work on that. Sbw01f (talk) 22:23, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A little help.

Dear Sbw01f!

I think you could help me. I want to find 10 colour codes of these 4 images in List of religious populations. And could I use Paint program to colouring map?

Please help me as soon as possible. Thank you so much and best wishes to you!

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 21:53, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean, you want to find 10 colour codes for those maps? Do you mean the 10 colours those maps use? But yes, you can use paint. That's all I use. Sbw01f (talk) 22:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh yes! Sorry because my English skill was not enough good. I mean the 10 colours those maps use (0-9%, 10-19%,...90-100%). How can I find it? Please!

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 23:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, well to be honest I'm not sure. You could just open those maps in paint and use the "pick colour" tool..but I'm not sure how to find out the exact colour code. Sorry! Sbw01f (talk) 00:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem! That's OK. Thanks!

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 00:49, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Poverty map

Hi. Can you please make this map (and every other map for that matter) use a blue (better/higher) to red (worst/lower) instead of green/red which is very hard to differentiate for some people, including myself? I would be eternally grateful. Thanks. ☆ CieloEstrellado 10:50, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I could do it for the poverty maps. The education map however is supposed to be in accordance with the HDI map. Sbw01f (talk) 18:46, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
(About the image) That is a much better reason for deletion, but I doubt it qualifies as a speedy deletion. You should list the image at WP:IFD giving the same information (mostly just about how it is un-sourced information, and ignoring that it's based upon your work). MECU≈talk 19:15, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Now I SEE the difference! ☆ CieloEstrellado 03:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Check out the Central and Eastern Europe section of the IMF's Developing Countries List

IMF Developing countries list: Central and Eastern Europe 151.57.202.235 (talk) 23:18, 13 April 2008 (UTC)