Talk:G7/Archives/2019

How does the G7 differ from the G8?
The articles for Group of Seven and Group of Eight were proposed for merger and the merger was rejected because the consensus was that they were two different entities. However neither article makes clear what the difference is, nor how the two groups are related. An expert is needed to modify both articles and explain. --Agrestis (talk) 09:17, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Check before the official site of Italy about Taormina G7 in the article.G7 has always existed as FINANCIAL forum (it can be considered the most important).It is composed by the 7 major advanced economies as IMF reports and the 7 with the highest net national wealth.Russia never attended this forum because of its small financial relevance in the world.Since 2014 the POLITICAL G8 forum that included Russia  since late '90's has become G7 as the financial one (from 8 to 7 after Russia has been suspended).Today there are G7 meetings also of other kind of ministers. Somebody tried to merge the article G7 with G8 making confusion like every year especially since 2014 in this period as chronology shows.Anioni (talk) 08:05, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * This made me think there were two separate groups: the financial G7, which has meetings, and the political G7, which has separate meetings. But both the G7 and G8 started out as a group known as the G6, which first met in 1975. It appears the same G6 was the precursor to both the G7 and the G8. 23.121.191.18 (talk) 18:01, 18 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Indeed - the list of meetings here includes both those of the G7 and the G8 as one series. This is not at all clear. -- Beardo (talk) 22:51, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

I agree this was confusing, but I've cleaned up the leads on both articles. There's less risk of these two (perhaps 3 or 4) aricles becoming WP:POVFORKs as long as the relationships are clear in the leads. I would have been strongly in favor of the merge be I guess we can try to make due.... -- Kendrick7talk 04:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)