Talk:List of countries by value

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This article was nominated for deletion on 25 February 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] Some questions/suggestions

• The columns using thousand separator and/or negative values are not (yet) sorted properly, for help on this, see: Help:Sorting
• When sorting works, the ranking columns aren’t really necessary anymore (as the sorting of the values does this). One unsorted/unassociated rank column can however help to identify an entry, like it’s done here
• I’m unsure on what the “GDPpc * Popul. Growth”-column is telling me (or I don’t know how to interpreted it), is this a generally used statistic?
• Though it is difficult to give this article a good descriptive title, “List of countries by value” doesn’t quite capture it. I’m not sure, but maybe “List of countries by GDP demographics comparison” is an improvement.

--Van helsing 12:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Maybe column [8] is trying to represent how much economic output a country would grow in each year. But there is a bigger problem. Sort is a "string sort" or "dictionary sort" as supposed to "numeric sort". --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 04:12, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Now I'm starting to think that column 8 is OR (not the values, but the concept of it). --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 04:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dog's Breakfast

Whoever is responsible for this page needs to ask themselves a question - who is this page for? I just surfed by here and it is completely confusing and unhelpful at the moment - it just looks like it is trying to cram too much information into 1 page - it needs a big streamlining because at the moment - most visitors will be scared away and won't bother to check out the no doubt interesting information contained within. 58.160.121.129 09:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)