Talk:Nauru

First comment

Some things that might be interesting to put somewhere in here:

The diet of Nauru(ians?) under highest standards of living were mainly canned foods, leading to high obesity rate.

They've been moving into off-shore banking, a lot of Russian mob money and other types of questionable cash has been sent there. As well as off-shore corporations.

~ender. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.86.209.250 (talk • contribs) 08:54, 15 April 2003 (UTC)

There's a lot of information in the German Wikipedia, see de:Portal:Nauru. -- CdaMVvWgS 18:52, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I'm watching a report on the Wallonian journal. When the phosphate extraction began, the Nauru got a percentage of the money and soon had about the highest gdp/capita in the world. They could afford anything: a favorite pass time was driving around the island in very expensive cars and eating unhealthy food which lead them to become just about the fattest people on the planet. When the phosphate mine ran out of phospate, they tried to get revenues from selling passports and off-shore banking untill the international community took action. It is used as an examply to demistify and punch a hole in the rhetoric that if you leave things to indigenous people - especially nature with whom they are supposed to live in harmony - things can go catastrophically wrong. SvenAERTS (talk) 02:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Nauru did not have highest GDP per capita

Removed part that stated Nauru boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is unsourced and further research such as UN data appears to show this statement is in fact false

References

Areas of districts completely pulled out of air?

So, in the administrative divisions section, in the politics section, it gives a information about areas of the districts. But the given sources have no information about them? The given information is also in conflict with Statoids, another website that gives information on subdivisions of many countries. Where is this information coming from? TryKid (talk) 19:37, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

The age of sail

The article includes this line:

"The last whaler to call during the age of sail visited in 1904."

1904 is decidedly not included in the age of sail, so what exactly does this line intend to mean? No whalers stopped at the island since 1904? The whaler that stopped in 1904 was the last sail-driven vessel to stop here? And perhaps more to the point, how exactly is this relevant to the history of the island? Parsecboy (talk) 17:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Reverts

@Epelerenon: You made a bold edit, and it's been disputed. The onus is on you to seek consensus for your proposed addition, and in the absence of such consensus, the material stays out. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:31, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for mentioning me here. Firstly, my edit wasn't bold. Other Wikipedia pages also have data about religion in the info box section. See United Kingdom, Australia and Canada etc. My edit was also well sourced.

Secondly, you also removed important data about ethnic makeup in your trim in addition to religion related data. So I think consensus should be made regarding this edit. Nauru is a small, little known country, so we should appreciate new information added in the article instead of removing it. Regards Epelerenon (talk) 06:21, 3 August 2020 (UTC)Epelerenon is a sock puppet of an indef blocked user.VR _talk 12:27, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

There is information about religion in the article body - if you felt that content should be expanded we could discuss that. That doesn't require us to include it in the infobox, regardless of what other articles may or may not do. I've removed it pending consensus for your proposed addition (which, by our definitions, was a bold addition). I see you've been adding this content across multiple pages; I would suggest that if you want to mandate its inclusion you hold that discussion somewhere central. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:13, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

The Nauru 19

Hi. I've written an article in the French Wikipedia (Dix-Neuf de Nauru) about the case of the "Nauru 19", the nineteen men and women arrested for a protest in front of Parliament in 2015 and subsequently convicted for riot and other offences. Their case, as you may know, drew attention as it was part of a more general slide to autocracy by the Waqa / Adeang government, as three of the accused were Opposition MPs, and as the judge who halted the trial in 2018 (before the Nauruan government created a brand new court of appeal to ensure the accused would be convicted) described Justice Minister David Adeang's persecution of the accused as an "affront to the rule of law". If you would like to write the English version (Nauru 19), please feel free to use my French version as a starting point. Aridd (talk) 20:23, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Nauru's driving side and dialling code

Hi everyone,

Nikkimaria feels the need to reverts on edits when all that I added is the general information for Nauru just like every other country article on Wikipedia such as the side of the road it drives which is the left in Nauru on and it's country calling code in which is +674. I do understand that Wikipedia it's NOT a guidebook however I never said it is or was. You wouldn't say it's NOT important to know that the United Kingdom for example drives on the left and has the dialling code of +44. I just don't see how Nauru's information provided can be any different from the UK for example. If any of your have and comments, please feel free to leave them below here. ;) Put a mask on mate! (talk) 11:49, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Parameter inclusion is decided on a case-by-case basis. What leads you to believe these details are important for this particular article? Nikkimaria (talk) 12:48, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Are Vatican City and Monaco really countries?

It says here they are city-states, and according to Wikipedia, a "city-state" is a city. Making Nauru (technically) the smallest country in the world. 187.175.48.172 (talk) 21:37, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

City-states are generally considered countries, by dint of the state part of the descriptor. CMD (talk) 23:15, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Flora and Fauna

In geography section “There are no native land mammals…”. This is incorrect: Humans are native to the island - I understand these are mammals ; to ignore this fact is highly anthropocentric. Robertowalton (talk) 20:47, 31 March 2023 (UTC)