Wikipedia:The CIA World Factbook

This is a proposal, to deal with this widely-cited source. It has not been adopted as policy.

The CIA World Factbook, as a public domain source, is widely used as a source by Wikipedia. Some of the statements in it are undisputed and can be used without further qualification. This includes:
 * Geographic data, except in the case of certain international conflicts
 * Population data
 * Communications
 * Transportation

On other matters, however, the factbook takes a non-neutral point of view. Information on those matters must thus be made NPOV-compliant, either by looking for other sources or by attributing the claim to the factbook. This includes, most importantly:
 * Area comparative, which has an USPOV
 * International Disputes
 * Economy - Overview, which includes many opinions.