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Sometimes I feel like I have to remind americans that other countries exist.

How incredibly self centered must it be to think that everything relates to you, your country, your awful president.

Please.

The claim is that those people are among those editing the article, and there's some of the more motivated ones. It's not that everyone else doesn't matter, in fact the problem is exactly that the wider informed opinion of everyone that matters isn't automatically reflected in wikipedia pages.

Any sufficiently intense argument anywhere in the world risks corrupting a wikipedia page.

Other countries may exist, but nobody knows or cares who their head of state is and whether they're any good.

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