Talk:List of OECD countries by suicide rate
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[edit] List of countries by suicide rate
I am missing what additional information the OECD list provides compared to the one for all countries? At least the comprehensive list should be linked to.Bamse (talk) 09:26, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
- Just added List of countries by suicide rate wikilink to intro and See also section. This article was created as a way to compare rates among First World countries without using a criterion as cumbersome as List of IMF advanced economy countries by suicide rate or List of World Bank high income countries by suicide rate.
Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 05:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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- I see. That's motivated by the second paragraph in List of countries by suicide rate ? Bamse (talk) 14:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Yeah. The point of this list is to take away national poverty as a contributing factor for suicide. People may commit suicide for any of a variety of reasons, including personal financial hardship, but with OECD countries we at least know that living in a poor country was not a contributing factor. I chose OECD because it is a clearly defined, NPOV category-- unlike "rich countries." It is surprising and noteworthy that countries like South Korea and Japan have such high suicide rates despite their economic progress.
Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 22:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah. The point of this list is to take away national poverty as a contributing factor for suicide. People may commit suicide for any of a variety of reasons, including personal financial hardship, but with OECD countries we at least know that living in a poor country was not a contributing factor. I chose OECD because it is a clearly defined, NPOV category-- unlike "rich countries." It is surprising and noteworthy that countries like South Korea and Japan have such high suicide rates despite their economic progress.
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[edit] Request for Deletion
I can understand if some users think this article is a waste of space on Wikipedia's servers. Can we please have a proper RfD consensus rather than unilaterally redirecting the page to the original article? Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 22:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
