Talk:American Samoa

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Is there a reason why the currency says USD and points to the Lek (Albanian currency)? I am changing it to the dollar in the mean time. --Dori 01:07, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

The legal status is not very clear (the link to "territory" is not of very much help)

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Of all the pages concerning insular areas of the United States, this is the only one without a table of contents and current geographical, demographic, political, economic etc. info. It'd be nice if it were edited to match. --Geenius at Wrok 04:34, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

The American Samoa and the Independent State of Samoa

Is there any movement for a unification of the two areas? Everton 10:20, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

"See also" section

Since this page has a lot of CIA Factbook links and not a lot of original information, I sorted the links under a See Also section. Once we get more text for the article, we can sort it into the headings that most U.S. Territories have - Politics, Geography, &c. Lovelac7 02:51, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Photo

Come on. You make it hard to believe you are sincere in wanting to add information to this article when you insist on messing it up. Maybe put the photo under "History of Samoa" (I moved it to Manua, Samoa) or start a separate article, but it really is not appropriate here, especially formatted that way - Marshman 04:15, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Buildings?

Mike is certainly correct about the locations of the government. I'm unclear if Fagatogo is the capital in law (he says it is, so I'm going to accept that). His explanation is very satisfactory from my experience in American Samoa. To call Fagatogo and Utulei "buildings" demonstrates a lack of knowledge of the place. - Marshman 18:36, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Proof that Fagatogo is American Samoa's Capital

Many thanks to Marshman for the assist.

Mr. Covington: I'm curious as to why you attempted to revert my edit. What is your proof that Fagatogo and Utulei are simply buildings? If you check Article 5, Section 9, of American Samoa's constitution (http://www.house.gov/faleomavaega/samoan-constitution.shtml), you will see that Fagatogo is the constitutionally designated seat of government. Additionally, if Fagatogo and Utulei are just buildings, they are pretty darn big according to the US Government's Census Bureau map (http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/cong_dist/cd108_gen/ind_pdf/American_Samoa/AS_CD01.pdf). Lastly, please reference the Encyclopedia Britannica and (if I'm not mistaken) the Europa World Year Book; you will see that these respected sources also list Fagatogo as the capital.

Please see the Wikipedia entry on Pago Pago, where is states: "Pago Pago is actually but one of several villages along the shore of the harbor and is located at the very back (inside) of the embayment. However, because the name Pago Pago is associated with the harbor itself—the only significant port of call in American Samoa—Pago Pago is now generally applied to the harbor area and the capital. Thus, both the port itself and the legislature of American Samoa—known as the Fono—are located in Fagatogo, a village that is adjacent to (and for all practical purposes indistinguishable from) Pago Pago." Mike Beidler 06:39, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

All of that is factual. I've been there many times, the last visit in October 2005. - Marshman 02:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Marshman, if you know how to change the capital toward the very bottom of the entry, I'd be greatly appreciative! Mike Beidler 06:39, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Done - Marshman 19:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

How did you do that? I've been wracking my keyboard trying to figure it out. Mike Beidler 14:36, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

In "edit" mode you will find a listing of the templates used in the article near the bottom of the page. When you click on the one you want to edit, it will bring it up as it appears on that page. You then go into edit mode on that template page to make changes. - Marshman 17:09, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Excellent! Thanks, Marshman. Mike Beidler 19:52, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Infomancy's Edit

Infomancy, your edit was a complete obliteration of previous user's contributions. Thus, I have reverted it back to what it was prior to your involvment. Feel free to add your sports trivia back in, but do not make your edits appear to be all that was involved. When you are editing to the degree you did, we would prefer your discuss your proposed edits here.

Mike Beidler 17:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Mike, thank you for correcting what was a silly mistake I made. I had not realized that when "editing" from a history comparison page it edits an old version of the page. I was following a link to the page from another source and wasn't accessing the article directly. I see now that my changes were indeed not good and I appreciate your correcting the errors. Thank you also for limiting your ruder comments to my user page. You may have noticed, however, that it wasn't sports triva I was adding but rather a citation to a random fact tossed off in the article's Trivia section "It has been estimated that a Samoan male (either an American Samoan, or a Samoan living in the 50 United States) is 40 times more likely to play in the NFL than a non-Samoan American." One of the major concerns with Wikipedia is the lack of attribution for quotes exactly like this. That concern is heightened when quotes like this are picked up in Reuter's news articles. So after this public discussion, I would like to propose that attribution to a 2002 article from ESPN found online at http://espn.go.com/gen/s/2002/0527/1387626.html be added back in to this article as per the directions found just under this edit box dictating that "content must not violate any copyright and must be verifiable." Again, I apologize for my failure to realize that editing from the comparison page I was intially led to would result in the editing of an older version of the page. Infomancy 18:25, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Infomancy: No problem on adding the trivia attribution. You are certainly welcome to add to the fun! Apologies if my "ruder comments" left on your Talk page sounded somewhat, um, rude. I had just gotten back from 11 time zones and 27 hours' worth of international travel, so I was probably pretty loopy at that point and full of irritation at the airlines for losing my luggage. Of course, no excuse for leaving a nasty-gram in your mailbox.  ;-) --Mike Beidler 18:15, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Edit made for citation. I don't spend a lot of time editing here, so am always learning. I do, however, enjoy the benefits of everyone's work and try to be a strong advocate for Wikipedia in the school library world where the site sometimes takes quite a beating. Infomancy 18:25, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Missing

There is no general data here on the demographics or population of this area.