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It seems to me that the synthesis in this article is of a trivial character, there is no original research. Andres (talk) 21:12, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I question the value of collecting all this in one article. —Tamfang (talk) 08:46, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Andres:
  1. "there is no original research": Good. Wikipedia is not a site for original research.
  2. "of a trivial character" (also @Tamfang:): Would you care to be more specific? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
--Thnidu (talk) 04:18, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I just objected to the claim that this was original research. I didn't mean to comment on the usefulness of the article. Andres (talk) 10:25, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I can imagine a reader who wants to know what languages are spoken in a given country, and its language policy; such information ought to be in that country's article (or one spun off from it). I can imagine a reader who wants to know how many speakers a given language has in each country; such information ought to be in that language's article. I have a harder time imagining why anyone would want every such list at once. This article will inevitably be uneven in quality, inconsistent in format, and awkward in size. —Tamfang (talk) 05:46, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Languages in censuses

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I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Languages in censuses's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "cia":

  • From Turkmenistan: "Turkmenistan". CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  • From List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language: "The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Population - CIA". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 2013-04-06.
  • From List of territorial entities where Chinese is an official language: "The World Factbook". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 2013-07-20.
  • From Ukraine: "Ukraine". CIA World Factbook. 13 December 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2007.
  • From Wishful thinking: "The CIA's Internal Probe of the Bay of Pigs Affair — Central Intelligence Agency". cia.gov. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  • From Portuguese language: "The World Factbook – Field Listing – Population - CIA". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 6 April 2013.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 20:37, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

United States

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I was surprised that the US was not represented here. The material I put into that section is

  1. mostly, directly quoted from the U.S. Census page referenced at the end of the section
  2. with a parenthetical note taken from another Census Bureau page ("American Community Survey site at the United States Census Bureau". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved June 18, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help))

These U.S. Government pages have no copyright notice and are evidently therefore in the public domain. --Thnidu (talk) 04:29, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese characters are using romanized in Pinyin system.

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What does this mean? There must be a mistake in that sentence. --2.245.120.30 (talk) 14:45, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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