Talk:List of countries by military expenditure share of GDP
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"Top Fifteen"? Why not "Top Ten"? Or "Top 13"? edit
The title of this page is "List of countries by military expenditure share of GDP." Compare this with an alternate title ""List of top 15 countries by military expenditure share of GDP." Do you see the difference? Look closely.
(1) Many Wikipedia articles babble on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and giving pointless details that make it hard to find the nugget of info one is looking for. Yet here, where the nature of lists would eliminate that problem, the lists are truncated. Why?? Note that the sources give long lists, not "Top 15."
(2) A top 15 list might make sense for some things, e.g. world's leading growers of brazilnuts. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE THINGS. Does anyone really think someone comes to this page to double-check Namibia's rank, with no interest in thee ranks of actual military powers.
PLEASE NOTE: I edited the page just to bring it into view, and do not claim Top 10 is an improvement over Top 15. Top 5, Top 20, Top 13 -- they'd all be equally silly. The options are:
- Copy the data from the sources to make the list complete.
- Change the name of the page to include "Top Ten" or whatever.
- Delete the page altogether.
Hope this helps. You're welcome.Jamesdowallen (talk) 15:26, 9 September 2018 (UTC)ping
- @Jamesdowallen: Welcome to Wikipedia. I would recommend you to discuss your issues here first before you edit the page. The reason it is top 15 (I know because I created the page) is that this is sourced from the IISS list which only allows us to reproduce 10% of the list without a copyright violation. So I added 15 which was maximum possible. If you have any specific issues with this, please state them here. Thanks. Adamgerber80 (talk) 18:08, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Where is North Korea? edit
Oh. By the Way. North Korea should appear neat the top of most of these lists. When your sources write "-" for N. Korea's spending, that doesn't mean 0; it means they weren't confident to publish an estimate. Google "Because the light is better here" if you don't understand why omitting North Korea is stupid.
You're welcome.Jamesdowallen (talk) 15:33, 9 September 2018 (UTC)