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Talk:Western Sahara

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For future reference the Wikitravel:CIA World Factbook 2002 import can be found at Talk:Western Sahara/CIA World Factbook 2002 import. -- Huttite 06:51, 28 Mar 2005 (EST)

[edit] Countries vs. Sovereign States

Moved from Wikitravel:Travellers' pub by Evan

I'm not quite sure where this comment should be posted, so bear with me. I've just noticed that WikiTravel has a seperate country article on the Western Sahara, a disputed chunk of land that is being fought over by Morocco and Mauritania. Although the sovereignty of this land is still unclear--which is why the CIA factbook gives it its own listing--it is currently administered by Morocco, and for the purposes of travel (currency, border formalities, language, etc) can be considered part of that country. I would suggest subsuming the Western Sahara article into the Morocco section, but have no idea how to go about it. Cheers. -- Allyak 13:40, Jul 30, 2004 (EDT)

Essentially political questions like this are difficult for a travel guide to answer: see also Palestine and a few other tough nuts to crack. I would suggest that, in general, we stick to the CIA World Factbook's divisions since at least we can claim that those are unbiased (or at least biased by somebody other than Wikitravel!). Jpatokal 22:50, 30 Jul 2004 (EDT)

Yes, because claiming that the CIA is unbiased... ;o)

These are controversial subjects, and I think it better to have separate articles for disputed pieces of land, and to mention that the sovereignity of these is not settled in the article. Yann 04:06, 31 Jul 2004 (EDT)