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Remarks on the Signing of NAFTA (December 8, 1993) Bill Clinton
The North American Free Trade Agreement was signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. It resulted in the current largest trade bloc in the world by combined nominal purchasing power parity GDP of its members. This file adds significantly to the following articles:
 * Bill Clinton
 * North American Free Trade Agreement
 * Presidency of Bill Clinton


 * Nominate and support. TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:31, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. More than 20 minutes, and the first huge tract is thanking everyone on the planet including the dog: it goes on and on and on. Part of the process of creating featured content is to edit, select, trim back, speeches, I think, so they have more EV. Much of this is plain boring; some of it isn't. (The link to the full speech vid is on the SDP, which should, BTW, state that the transcript is at that location too). Can vids be edited easily? Why, for example, can't it start part-way in with "This whole issue", or better "I believe we have made a decision"? As an aside, it's amusing that they used voice recognition to produce the transcript, and no one bothered to correct horrors such as "I'd also like to web come here the representatives from Mexico and Canada." Tony   (talk)  08:25, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I am new to FS and am unsure what is proper protocol. It seems to me that presenting part of a speach might be like doing a panorama of a notable skyline and saying "Well I only like the buildings in the middle of this notable skyline so I will just present those when the entire skyline is a more encyclopedic contribution."  In prior successful FSCs, have people chopped out portions of speeches?  Choosing part of a speech like this just seems POV.  Additional seeing all the preliminary thanks provides a window into the character of the man.  Compare the preamble here with that of the Obama video that is currently a nominee where he sends a shoutout to his wife.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:56, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * In general editing of speeches is frowned upon at FS. Zginder 2011-04-21T19:01Z (UTC)

Promoted Remarks on the Signing of NAFTA (December 8, 1993) Bill Clinton.ogv — James (Talk • Contribs) • 12:18pm • 02:18, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Support, presuming the audio quality is as high as possible. Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:57, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Question what version from the Miller Center was used for the conversion? Zginder 2011-04-21T19:01Z (UTC)
 * I can only find 320 by 240 versions. Is the 640 by 480 somewhere else or was it up-converted? Zginder 2011-04-21T19:07Z (UTC)
 * I used the .rm. Did I upconvert it? Should I redo?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:33, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I think you probably did up-convert it. I would be more comfortable with an original resolution version. Zginder 2011-04-23T22:00Z (UTC)
 * Now saved at original screensize over original upload.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:32, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Thank you. Zginder 2011-04-24T01:59Z (UTC)

