Talk:Fort Dobbs (North Carolina)

Good grief
It seems incredible to me that a featured article in an international encyclopaedia about a place can manage to completely ignore stating the country involved. There is a mention that Fort Dobbs is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the infobox and on a template at the bottom of the page, but nowhere in the main body of the text is the US mentioned. This is an endemic problem with Wikipedia - American authors view the US as the default and rarely bother to state the country or nationality when the topic is American. The US is not the default option. It is not and should not be, and I find it incredible that a featured article is yet again following this US-centric attitude in its editing. 'Of course it's in the US, you all should know that' seems to be the attitude. 86.133.208.39 (talk) 13:11, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * IMO (speaking as someone who doesn't live in America), most English speaking people of reasonable education would recognise North Carolina as being one of the United States, though perhaps changing the opening sentence to read "...US Province of South Carolina..." might be better. An  optimist on the  run!    13:26, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with Optimist; if every single wikilink in the opening paragraph states that those locations (Province of North Carolina, Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin, Statesville, Iredell County) are in the United States -- which they do -- adding that information here is redundant. Caernarfon Castle doesn't mention anywhere in the article that it's located in the United Kingdom -- just Wales. The same is true of Windsor Castle, mentioning that it's in an "English County of...", but again, nothing about the UK.  I think it would be redundant and overkill to add location information.  There are plenty of Americans, with some education or not, who don't know Wales is in the United Kingdom.   Cdtew  (talk) 16:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, it's entirely bullshit that none of these articles indicate the places described are on the planet Earth! Why does Earth have to be the default assumption? It's either extreme chauvinism, or perhaps merely someone who requires something to bitch about incessantly.
 * As a non-US reader, I think additional locational info is unnecessary. If a reader was confused, there's no shortage of clickable links, lat and longs etc. on the page. Hchc2009 (talk) 20:42, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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