Talk:BASIC countries

Based in IBSA?
The BASIC grouping may have been based on IBSA, but the below suggested text (by me) needs more evidence to support that hypothesis. Anyone?

Earthlyreason (talk) 16:32, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * In 2008, the India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum, a tri-partite grouping of India, Brazil and South Africa, was urged by a South African economist to join with China as an economic bloc.

"G4 Bloc" article and this one
This article is based on cited references to the formation of this grouping directly prior to the Copenhagen summit in December 2009.

At the time I created it, I also proposed the "G4 Bloc" article for deletion. It referred to the same four countries but I don't believe it is a valid term. After four years in existence the article had no references. Moreover, I can find no mention of 'G4 Bloc' in any major publication (eg. The Times, the New York Times, The Economist). And a web search just throws up mirrors of the Wikipedia article. (I explained this reasoning on that article's Talk page.)

So when a well-meaning user merged that article and this, 27 Jan 10, the old problem was compounded.

Therefore I have (manually) reverted those two edits, without recreating the former 'G4 Bloc' article.

If anyone can justify an article on 'G4 Bloc', whether for the "core leadership of the G20" or anything else, or possibly link it to the BASIC grouping, please either do so with references, or discuss here, or both. Thanks everyone. Earthlyreason (talk) 15:39, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I cannot find any reliable source that uses the term G4 for this group, so I have removed it from the article. If someone wants to add it back, please provide a RS. 87.113.37.75 (talk) 12:19, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

resource
India Says Basic Countries Are ‘Not Major Polluters’ by Alessandro Vitelli Bloomberg.com Dec 6, 2011 7:44 AM ET 99.190.82.160 (talk) 07:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course, the major polluters would never admit it, like criminals never blame oneself in court. This is no resource, this is just a lame excuse. --93.135.54.194 (talk) 19:00, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

BrASIC?
Obviously this acronym is based on the initial characters. And obviously someone doesn't like the correct acronym BRASIC for BrAzil, South Africa, India and China and preferred the wrong spelling for a little double entendre with the word basic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.135.54.194 (talk) 18:56, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Why should one country get more letters than the others..? CapnZapp (talk) 13:19, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

the A of BASIC
Do we have a ref spelling out the acronym?

I could understand if there was five countries and,say, Argentina was the second... CapnZapp (talk) 13:17, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

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