Talk:List of world's fairs
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This is a very nice list of international fairs. However it includes many things that were not World's Fairs of any sort. It also misses several exhibition listed on the BIE website. I propose moving this list to List of international exhibitions and replacing this one with the list from the BIE website with the addition of unsanctioned fairs that billed themselves as World's fairs. On the present list you cannot tell which ones the realy big fairs were. Rmhermen 20:11 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Of course, feel free to add any BIE fairs. But, just because the BIE endorsed/didn't endorse it, doesn't make it more or less worldly. Granted, in an effort towards completeness, this is too long and should be separated into major and minor fairs, or BIE and non-BIE fairs. But the BIE should be on the List of international exhibitions, since that is consistent with the BIE, while world's fair is colloquial. There were world's fairs of a sort before the BIE existed. dml
- The BIE website lists the pre-BIE fairs. What I think we need is a list of the major world-changing fairs. Of course the BIE fairs should stay on this list whereever it ends up. But I doubt most of the fairs on this list were considered "World's fairs". Rmhermen 04:21 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I added the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago to this list. Actually, I was surprised it wasn't on the list, as it was one of the most famous world's fairs in history, at least in my opinion. Gujuguy 19:06, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- It was, until someone went and hacked the list. I restored the previous version. dml 21:19, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
