Talk:Arctic Council

Greenland
Greenland should be shaded to indicate its participation in the Arctic Council as an autonomous protectorate of Denmark. Greenland is Danish territory, and Denmark is a member of the Arctic Council.

Smithe26 (talk) 22:23, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

The map

 * Upgrade the map: Italy and China as observers... Amiens984 (talk) 22:58, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Comment
NOTE: The independent republic of taiwan is marked in the map as an observer although it isnt one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.12.143.186 (talk) 14:31, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Arctic Cup
We should probably mention the Arctic Cup which was apparently a Russian-sponsored hockey tournament that took place as part of a 2011 Arctic Council meeting in St. Petersberg. See here and here for sources. JesseW, the juggling janitor 03:53, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

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Membership
The lead paragraph says, "Only states with territory in the Arctic can be members of the Council". Makes sense but no source to check. I'm mildly baffled here. Given the nature of the intergovernmental organization, it practically makes no sense for any country not to have sovereignty over the Arctic zone to wish to be a member. Observer states are one thing, but why would say Italy or Bulgaria ever wish to join? Not being an expert on this organization, I cannot help but think the sovereign states to control the lands within the Arctic came together to create this body for their own needs and this was all. I'm in favour of rewording the lead. --Edin Balgarin (talk) 12:33, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

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Vandalism by one user - the article needs to be fixed
On 06:16, 20 November 2017‎ Chapsok deleted 23,071 bytes, reducing the article size from 30,497 bytes to 7,426 bytes. The article went from having 47 references, to none. This is the most clear evidence of vandalism. . Apparently nobody noticed and no reversion took place. This very significant deletion of content has crippled the article. This kind of edit would have warranted some explanation, but none was volunteered in either this Talk Page or in the edit summary. I invite to explain now. Although to me it seems a very clear case of vandalism, that sadly went unnoticed for months. Otherwise, I recommend that all that lost content is recovered. I may volunteer some time to that, but others's contributions would be very much appreciated.

This deletion followed a prior one of similar size made by IP 70.50.197.231, which was reverted.

The article prior to what I believe was vandalism, looked like this. After being vandalized it looked like this. (talk) user:Al83tito 17:30, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Vandalism edit reverted: I have gone ahead and made a manual revert, taking all that had been deleted, and merging it into the current version of the article, which also included multiple constructive edits (that happened between the vandalism deletion in late 2017, and now) that I have endeavored to respect. My edit is dated 14:14, 4 August 2018‎.(talk) user:Al83tito 18:30, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Ireland not yet an observer country
It appears that the Irish government officially intends to apply for observer status, but hasn't done so yet, nor is it listed as an observer by the Arctic Council. Culloty82 (talk) 15:02, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

US Opposition and Ottawa Declaration
I might have got lucky and found an article that can provide a citation for the "citation needed" tag I added a short while ago.

Not sure how to cite stuff, but I can check it out later unless somebody wants to help updating the citation here.

[1] E. T. Bloom, “Establishment of the Arctic Council,” The American journal of international law, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 712–722, 1999, doi: 10.2307/2555272. Cheers! 71.205.7.98 (talk) 01:31, 7 March 2021 (UTC)