Talk:Ambassadors from the United States
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According to www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/33537.htm, the US Ambassador to Sweden is Teel Bivins, not the gentleman listed in this article.
So he is. Fixed. Ddye 12:07, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] John Bolton
Sure, he was a recess appt, but pointing it out is POV and doesn't belong. --Easter Monkey 02:39, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] ambassador to the netherlands
Mister Sobel isn't Ambassador anymore, and he is to be followed up by someone else, who has several lawsuits running against him. I recommend an update of this article. Arnall seems to arrive really soon - I've put him in.
[edit] Seperate lists?
I think this page could benefit from a slight change: instead of listing ambassadors, Chargés d'affaires, and nations without an embassy seperately, how about putting them all in one list that simply says what the status is? Much less confusing I think to keep it all together. Unless anyone objects, I'll make that change in a few days. Swegner 06:57, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
- An illustration of how I think the list ought to look:
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Host country Location Type Head of Mission Afghanistan Kabul Embassy Ronald E. Neumann, Ambassador Albania Tirana Embassy Marcie Berman Ries, Ambassador Algeria Algiers Embassy Richard W. Erdman, Ambassador Angola Luanda Embassy Cynthia Grissom Efird, Ambassador Argentina Buenos Aires Embassy Lino Gutierrez, Ambassador Armenia Yerevan Embassy John Evans, Ambassador Australia Canberra Embassy William A. Stanton, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Australia Melbourne Consulate Earl Michael Irving, Consul General Australia Perth Consulate Robin McClellan, Consul General Australia Sydney Consulate Stephen T. Smith, Consul General
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- Any opinions or suggestions? Swegner 23:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
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- Good idea, but what about a way to make it so there aren't 4 separate Australia entries (or any other number depending on the particular country)? --Easter Monkey 08:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
- I can simply leave out consulates and only include embassies -I don't feel strongly either way. My thinking was that by including consulates we avoid the difficult question of whether or not to include places like Hong Kong which are clearly important missions but are still counted as consulates. Swegner 18:34, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Format of this page leads it to become out-of-date quickly
Wouldn't it be an idea to put in then ambassadors arrive and when their term would expire? Or even keep historical data.
With the valid-to date, the chance of believing in stale data goes down: it would show as being out of date.
Does Mediawiki have an option to hide data, so we can show the current ambassadors and fold out the history in the same page, or would be need to keep the history in separate documents? The latter would make it more work to maintain and would lead to many very lightweight pages ("historical ambassadors to France" - yawn).
[edit] Walter Page?
Is the Walter Page that's linked to (a musician) really the same person as the ambassador? There's no indication of such on the musician's page. Dvd Avins 05:08, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Philippines?
How come in the current ambassadors section it does't mention the Philippines.? JJ 21:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Holy See, not Vatican
I have just corrected the article to read 'Holy See' instead of Vatican City. This is because the Vatican does not send ambassadors around the world because it does not want to. The Holy See does though. The CIA Factbook explains it this way:
The term "Holy See" refers to the authority, jurisdiction, and sovereignty vested in the Pope and his advisors to direct the worldwide Catholic Church. The Holy See has a legal personality that allows it to enter into treaties as the juridical equal of a state and to send and receive diplomatic representatives. Vatican City, created in 1929 to administer properties belonging to the Holy See in Rome, is recognized under international law as a sovereign state, but it does not send or receive diplomatic representatives.
- Thanks, Hoshie 07:13, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of
Shouldn't the name of the article be changed from "Ambassadors to the United States" to "List of ambassors to the United States"? Because, it doesn't really have any information relating to the job at all, it just seems to be a list of names. So the name's not very appropriate. Daniel Montin 15:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
