Talk:List of OECD regions by GDP (PPP) per capita

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Do not change the GDP per capita numbers unless you add a veritable source.

Insertion of figure for parts of London

There have been several attempts to insert a figure from a CNN report into this article and others, as also discussed at Talk:London#Harper9979's edits to economy figures in the infobox. There are several reasons why it should not be inserted.
1. This article is only concerned with OECD regions. The area described in the CNN report is not an OECD region.
2. The area described in the CNN piece is a selection of London boroughs that does match any formal or conventional definition of Central London or Inner London; it includes parts that are excluded from those definitions and includes parts that are not included in those definitions. The area described in the CNN piece appears to be cherry-picked from the high-GDP parts of London and the piece does not describe it as Central London or Inner London.
3. The boroughs are already included in the article as part of Greater London so the insertion duplicates coverage of those boroughs.
4. The CNN piece does not give any source at all. It only says "Data published Friday" and "European data". We don't know who published it. We don't know what the methodology was and we don't know whether it's unique to one study or comparable to other reports.
5. This article only uses OECD figures and all the figures in the GDP column have the same reference. This maximises the comparability of the figures and maintains the consistency of the article.
In these ways, the insertion damages the encyclopedic value of the article and is unhelpful to our readers. Anyone wishing to make that insertion again needs to establish consensus for it first, on this talk page. This is why the article has been protected, but consensus will still be needed if and when the article is not protected. 92.19.24.9 (talk) 20:19, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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