Wikipedia:The CIA World Factbook

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This Wikipedia page is currently inactive and is kept primarily for historical interest. If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you should ask for broader input, for instance at the village pump.

This is a proposal, to deal with this widely-cited source. It has not been adopted as policy.

The CIA World Factbook, as a public domain source, is widely used as a source by Wikipedia. Some of the statements in it are undisputed and can be used without further qualification. This includes:

  • Geographic data, except in the case of certain international conflicts
  • Population data
  • Communications
  • Transportation

On other matters, however, the factbook takes a non-neutral point of view. Information on those matters must thus be made NPOV-compliant, either by looking for other sources or by attributing the claim to the factbook. This includes, most importantly:

  • Area comparative, which has an USPOV
  • International Disputes
  • Economy - Overview, which includes many opinions.
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