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Hi, I'm working with The Pulitzer Center, a non-profit journalism agency geared towards providing audience to underrepresented news stories. I'd like to link this page to a related articles on the Pulitzer site; http://www.pulitzercenter.org/showproject.cfm?id=29 concerning US and Ethiopian relations, Please let me know if I can post these links. Many thanks in advance. Blendus 20:31, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The entire text of this article is an excerpt from "Background Note: Ethiopia," published by the U.S. Department of State and available here. This is fine from a legal standpoint, as the information is in the public domain (see here). However, the resulting article lacks sufficient context.

For example, the first paragraph in this article is about Eritrean independence. Rather clumsy, IMO. While I believe Eritrean independence is relevant here, it should be placed later in the article. Further, the level of detail is more appropriate for an article about Eritrea (or perhaps History of Ethiopia). So I've trimmed some of this information, and moved it further down.

I added a little more from the State Dept. source so as to provide some background context.

That's just for starters, there's more work to be done... Gyrofrog 07:30, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

First I was irritated about U.S. centric viewpoint (about U.S. relations, when wikipedia is international), but then noted that, as you say, this article is wholly copied from elsewhere. Just note to make the article comply with internatinal viewpoint. - Tatu Portin

Hi Tatu, feel free to make improvements as you see fit. The article certainly could use some more improvement. Alternately, you can discuss your ideas here on the talk page. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:05, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Important notice[edit]

The government section of the "Outline of Ethiopia" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.

When the country outlines were created, temporary data (that matched most of the countries but not all) was used to speed up the process. Those countries for which the temporary data does not match must be replaced with the correct information.

Please check that this country's outline is not in error.

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