Talk:Economy of the United States Virgin Islands

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Gentlemen,

I am generally full of praise for Wikipedia articles. For once, it seems you could improve your page on economics of the Virgin Islands by detailing the fiscal situation: Does the Us fiscal laws apply, how, etc Thanks for considering my request — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.193.180.26 (talk) 18:17, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

2012 November cleanup
Hi, here are the reasons behind the cleanup:
 * 1) I don't mean to censor the history regarding slavery, but this content is more about the history of the islands in general, rather than their economy specifically.
 * 2) Similarly, other historical events have been trimmed back to aspects affecting the economy.
 * 3) Removing outdated info (which is also unreferenced) from "economic overview"
 * 4) Job market: please link to specific pages and provide inline references to support text
 * 5) Removed WP:peacock terms, such as "a leading newspaper", "a revolutionary program".
 * 6) Removed content with WP:advert tone from YouthNet section
 * 7) References are used to support specific statements, therefore the previous "References" section was actually a list of External Links, so it has been renamed to this.
 * 8) Repetition of tourism being major source of employment has been removed
 * 9) "A large number of job vacancies are posted by the small scale businesses" is not a meaningful statement. Reporting the percentage of employment which is by small-business, would be useful if this info could be found
 * 10) The number of job vacancies at a particular time is also not very meaningful. And is this info current? Sorry to be skeptical but all the references to career.vi smell like WP:spam. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 07:33, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes, and four years later, the article needed even more work (in 2017). I have made the changes, including major updates, and more recent specifics, all with citations to valid sources. See the next Talk topic; a chart of data would also be useful. Peter K Burian (talk) 19:52, 15 February 2017 (UTC)


 * @Peter K Burian Great work. The referencing, and overall quality of the article, is now looking much better, thanks to your efforts. 1292simon (talk) 08:41, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks @1292simon; I appreciate a challenge. It was tough to find information until I eventually found the May 2016 report. Of course, the current financial crisis is in the news every day down in the Caribbean. Cheers! Peter K Burian (talk) 20:35, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

2017 Cleanup AND Updated chart re: the economy
'''I have done a cleanup/update with the most important info in the text of the article. I deleted data that had no citations '''and/or was badly out of date. '''

I also added recent info about the economy with quotes from highly reliable sources. Unfortunately, the really reliable sources seem to have data only for 2012 and 2013 with a bit about 2014. Still, that is better than newer data without citations to reliable sources.

There is no value in outdated info in a chart, especially without specifics as to the year of the data, and especially if there are no citations to valid sources that confirm the accuracy.

I don't have time to build a chart of the format usually used on Wikipedia, but I did add a brief one. A great deal more data for 2012 and 2013 is available at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vq.html Central America and Caribbean :: VIRGIN ISLANDS Peter K Burian (talk) 20:54, 15 February 2017 (UTC)


 * More statistics re: tourism, 2015, are available at https://www.wttc.org/-/media/files/reports/economic%20impact%20research/countries%202015/usvirginislands2015.pdf Peter K Burian (talk) 20:58, 15 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I also added some stats from this May 2016 report but it has other useful info too. http://www.usviber.org/Economic%20Review%20May%202016.pdf Peter K Burian (talk) 23:17, 15 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I also updated the United States Virgin Islands article with economic aspects.Peter K Burian (talk) 20:09, 16 February 2017 (UTC)