Talk:Lithuania

A suggestion on the climate section

List seasonal averages, not just the recorded extremes. Are you trying to scare people?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.5.109.34 (talk) 02:45, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

International rankings

What we should do with International rankings part? Leave it as it is or reduce it's size? M.K. (talk) 07:31, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

I would support pruning it, to copy Canada - which is still a WP:Featured article - and use the ones there: (Canada#International_rankings): State of World Liberty Index, United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Index, World Bank Ease of Doing Business, The Economist The World in 2005 – Worldwide quality-of-life index, Yale University/Columbia University Environmental Sustainability Index, Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, Institute for Economics & Peace Global Peace Index, Fund for Peace Failed States Index, World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report, The Economist Democracy Index. Since all the rankings here are referenced though, maybe we could prosify/then move them to sections inside this article? For example 'the World Economic Forum ranks its Networked Readiness Index as 35...' in the infrastructure section. Any objections? Novickas (talk) 00:31, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree about these improvements. M.K. (talk) 16:30, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation

The soundfile actually gives the usual American pronunciation (/lɪθuːˈeɪniə/, "lithooaynia," not the otherwise more usual /ˌlɪθjuːˈeɪniə/ ("lithyooaynia")). Kostaki mou (talk) 03:08, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

I have moved it accordingly. Kostaki mou (talk) 22:02, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

This article is crap

It is rife with English punctuation mistakes/omissions, factual errors, and it reads like a promotional brochure. If someone knows anything about this country, please clean up this page.

Thanks174.20.59.23 (talk) 05:48, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Have a read of WP:SOFIXIT, you presumably speak English as your native language and therefore you're as capable as anyone of fixing the punctuation. Valenciano (talk) 08:02, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Agreed - this page reads like Goebbels' propaganda - wishful thinking replaces facts that are judged as unfit to the "editors" delusional vision of history of lands only very recently under Lithuanian occupation (e.g. Wilna region) ond only by implicit permission of the previous occupants - Russians. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.28.113.137 (talk) 20:10, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Population lost

Did Lithuania really lost 400 000 people in last 10 years? Its more than 10%, is this due to migration, low birth rates or different methodology of Census? Seems too much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.0.149.169 (talk) 16:48, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

I think this phrase in the source explains the problem: "Tai sudaro apie 94 procentus pagal Gyventojų registro duomenis ir Statistikos departamento metodiką įvertinto Lietuvos gyventojų skaičiaus, kuris kovo 1 d. sudarė 3234,9 tūkst." Roughly it seems to say that the 3.054 million figure is 94% of the total in another department which uses a different methodology to arrive at a 3.234 million figure. I believe we'd be better going with the 3.234 million figure as it sounds more realistic compared to the 2001 figures. Valenciano (talk) 18:19, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Lithuanian language

At the moment it says "...the official language, Lithuanian, is only related to the other Baltic language, Latvian." Firstly Lithuanian is an Indo-European language so it's related to English and every other language in that family, and secondly that sentence implies Latvian is the only other Baltic language, forgetting Estonian. Fugyoo (talk) 21:46, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

It needs rewording yes. The editor who added that no doubt meant that Lithuanian and Latvian are the only two surviving languages in the Baltic branch of the indo-European language family. Estonian isn't an indo-European language. Valenciano (talk) 22:01, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Content Blanking in Intro, Possible SOCK

two users 2.225.32.218 and possible sock RammyJuice should explain the content-blanking they keep doing. example. Cramyourspam (talk) 02:03, 20 December 2011 (UTC)