User talk:Dr. Xeal

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Please review the page history before adding random stuff into articles[edit]

I am removing the stuff you added into Lawyer because it does not fit with the article, which is a general overview of lawyers at the international level. If we allow that section to remain, then lawyers from all over the world will begin to insert similar sections about salary and career structure in their countries until the article is 300K long with 65 sections and NO ONE will read it. If you look at the article prior to my March 2006 rewrite, it was a disorganized mess with precisely that problem. The point of the rewrite was to take a very high overview of the subject and not get into the details of any one country and to divert country-specific information to more specific articles like Attorney at law. If you believe that information should be on Wikipedia, please place it at Attorney at law, which is specific to the United States. --Coolcaesar 06:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I just remembered to add that I am trying to improve the Lawyer article to the point where it can become a featured article. One important requirement is that articles dealing with very broad subjects (that is, things that exist in one form or another in many countries) are supposed to approach the subject from an international perspective as opposed to any one country. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias. Your edit runs directly opposite to that policy, since it overemphasizes the U.S. at the expense of other countries. Although I am an American lawyer and I am proud of my country, as a Wikipedian, I have to remember that other countries have lawyers too! --Coolcaesar 07:07, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]