Talk:List of world expositions

Name

Isn't the term 'world fair', not 'world's fair'? 84.70.18.162 22:59, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

It's a fair of the world, hence, world's fair. See World's Fair Joe I 23:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Cost

What is the default currency denoted in the 'cost' column? Bastin 00:33, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Expo 88

Shouldn't Expo 88 (Melbourne, Australia) be part of this list? --Ozzykhan 19:48, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

It's being discused to make this list comply with the on World's Fair, which includes Expo '88. Joe I 19:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Scope

Vis-a-vis Expo 88 as well, I'm concerned that this article is titled "world's expositions" but only lists "sanctioned world's expositions". Either this should be merged with List of world's fairs or it should be renamed something with BIE in the title. --Dhartung | Talk 21:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Name

It seems like World's Fair has an apostrophe, but World Exposition usually does not. Compare 9,670 Google results for World's Exposition versus 448,000 Google results for World Exposition. Note also the title for the Expo 2005 page. I won't move the article, unless someone seconds that. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 05:21, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, definitely agree here. AP and most other news outlets use "World's Fairs", but "World Expositions". I am in favor of a move. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 20:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand why there is a difference between "World's Fairs" and "World's Expositions". Why one should be apostrpied and not the other. They're both plural, both possesive. If you can give a difinitive reason why, besides "they're doing it", I wouldn't be opposed. Joe I 06:13, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, as far as I can tell, the official name is a "International Registered Exhibition (or World Exhibition)"[1]. So should we just use that? I think we ought to use what is commonly accepted. And according to the google stats provided by tariqabjotu, and the research I have done on other media sources, it's "World's Fair" ("World's Fairs") and "World Exposition" ("World Expositions"). You can see both of these uses at the "Expo Museum" here (though this is not official). Thoughts? --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 21:02, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, so what to name it?

1. List of World Expositions seems like it would have the most common goggle htis
2. List of World Exhibitions or
3. List of International Exhibitions - this is the usage on BIE site minus registered

Joe I 22:36, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Move made Joe I 20:03, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

List of world's fairs

I am not sure of the distinction between the older article List of world's fairs and this article. Should they be merged, or a clearer differentiation made for the general reader? --mervyn 07:59, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

The distinction is the smaller "specialized" fairs have been left out, other wise we would have a list half a mile long. here it was decided that the list be made to incorperate all fairs listed in World's fair. Joe I 06:15, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I take the point about length -- we just need to explain why some things aren't included, and where to look for others. I also think the first para is very muddly, so will see how I can help. --mervyn 07:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, that was the best I could seperate things. If you can imporve, please feel free. Joe I 22:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

In the list of world's fairs top explanation is written that the list includes BIE sanctioned events. In the list is included the 1922-1923 Brazil's Centennial International Exhibition. However, at the bottom of the article inside a blue box which contains a resume of events, this same exhibition is included as a non-sanctioned event. I am not sure which is the correct status of this exhibition, so I can not fix it by myself. User:Andrea — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.234.89.223 (talk) 07:41, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Atlanta?

Wasn't the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895 a world's fair? This is where Booker T. Washington made his famous Atlanta Compromise speech. Dmoon1 19:26, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Making year more prominent

Currently one can barely see the year, because it's in smaller type then the other columns, plus surrounded by months. Since the exact dates of each exposition can also be found in the detailed articles, I propose to make the year normal size, remove the month, and place the whole column in first place. Anybody disagree? Peter S. 20:47, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

• I've moved the date column to the first position and increased it to normal size. I haven't changed the months, though. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:24, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

1964 New York World's Fair

This fair was not sanactioned by the BIE; but it appears on the list. Shouldn't it be removed? Jvsett 09:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I would think so (even though it is a fond memory of my childhood). - Jmabel | Talk 06:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and removed it, as it was not an BIE fair. Jvsett (talk) 16:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Not comprehensive?

Mr. Ken Jennings himself states that this list (which he relied on to his detriment) is missing many Expos that are listed at the BIE Web Site. BuddingJournalist 16:02, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Links

Why are some of the expositions (e.g. Brussels 1910) not linked? Wouldn't any world exposition inherently be notable enough for an article? - Jmabel | Talk 06:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I tend to agree with you, but it's quite tricky to get information for some of them. There are now some stubs for

• Brussels International 1910
• Turin International (very stubby)
• Liège International (1905) (Leopold II who seems to crop up at expos a lot makes an appearance here) - and it's been interesting finding out about it, but perhaps someone more knowledgable could expand them a bit more?
• Irish International Exhibition (1907) (an interesting expo and article has been expanded a bit)

Icarusgeek (talk) 20:39, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

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Dates

OMG. The dates are barely readable. 84.0.117.5 (talk) 04:27, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Distinction!

One should really really really distinguish the world expos to the less prominent specialized expos. See link: http://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/expos/intro-to-expos.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.65.22.32 (talk) 01:13, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Grenoble

I only noticed Grenoble yesterday, but I don't think it's an exhibition. Looking at the BIE's own website it isn't listed, so it doesn't fit with the purpose of this page which is "[to list those] sanctioned by the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE), including those recognised retrospectively."

So - I'm removing it, but didn't feel the commnet section was long enough to explain why I was doing so.

Icarusgeek (talk) 17:01, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

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Expo 88 vs. Specialised Expo definition

Near the top of the article, a "Specialised Expo" is defined as "BIE-International Recognised exhibitions that take place between 2 World Expos and last up to 3 months."

Expo '88 (Brisbane) is listed as a Specialised Expo, but it was 6 months long. Either the classification of Expo 88 or the definition of a Specialised Expo must be wrong. Does anyone know how this works? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Whybird (talk • contribs) 08:02, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

I think the definitions changed. From BIE's own website: "** Prior to the 1988 amendment, first applied to Expo 2008 Zaragoza, Specialised Expos could last up to 6 months, with no limitation to the size of the site."Icarusgeek (talk) 13:17, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

One mistaken EXPO: 2021 EXPO

The EXPO will be in 2021 will be in Hatay (Antakya/Antioch the old City) in Turkey. You can research and check as "Expo 2021". This is also should be added to the planned Expo table. Bolmiyen (talk) 17:12, 20 June 2020 (UTC)