Talk:Argentina

The entry must distinguish between area and number of Spanish speakers

The present entry reads "and the largest Spanish-speaking nation," which even includes a link to the list of Spanish-speaking nations by size of population. Yet the previous excerpt refers to area and could be misconstrued. A reader might understand that Argentina has the largest Spanish-speaking population, which it clearly does not. I suggest that the entry be modified to "and the largest Spanish-speaking nation in terms of area."

MESOPOTAMIA

The link to Mesopotamia, Argentina, leads to the ancient mesopotamia page

 Fixed: Noyster (talk), 09:15, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Request edit of economy section

It should be noted that the CPI used to measure corruption is under harsh critisism and that the global corruption barmeter released by the same organization (transparency international) places Argentina in the place 31 of 95 countries, with levels of bribery well below the world's average.

http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013/results

Request edit of ethnic groups

That's only one group and 10% does not equal 100%. Also, I really, really doubt that 10% of Argentina's population is made up of purely indigenous people.

Yes, I agree with this. That 10% (if true) should be broken down into smaller numbers - how many are indigenous to Argentina and how many to neighbouring countries as a result of immigration. Would an indigenous Bolivian person be considered "indigenous" or "Bolivian"? It's simply too ambiguous. The other 90% should be accounted for too and simply putting "White European" (as it was some time in the past on this page) is far too ambiguous considering the population of Argentina is made up of people from pretty much all around the world.

At the same time, I don't really think citing a newspaper for a figure like this is appropriate. These kind of statistics should come from an official source or qualified academic source.SegataSanshiro1 (talk) 22:34, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

I agree, although Argentina's government statistics are not a reliable source. [1] bobrayner (talk) 11:58, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

The Economist is not a reliable source either, I wouldn't even trust it as toilet paper for fear of paper cuts and contaminating my colon with the lunatic fantasies of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman. Their racial stereotype image of this "Argentine villain" with a cigarette in mouth (not that they would know what an Argentine looked like) is world-class Economist propaganda, they truly outdid themselves there.

I'll have a look at the census figures at some point, which I don't think even The Economist would argue there's any point in tampering with. SegataSanshiro1 (talk) 12:56, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

"Lunatic fantasies of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman"? Wow. If you're ever tempted to act on such beliefs in article-space, I'd recommend a trip to the reliable sources noticeboard first. bobrayner (talk) 16:56, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Climate

I have fixed the climate section of this article since it contains many inaccuracies such as the fact that the north and Mesopotamia have a tropical climate. Ssbbplayer (talk) 19:54, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Peron

This entry is like a love letter to Peron, and the main Peron article is not much better. Someone with real expertise in Argentine history needs to fix this.