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The body of the article has sourced content ranging for 20,000 to 40,000 years for the first migration, and 4,500 years for the second migration. No statement is made in the body about what is "generally regarded" by anyone.
The lede needs to agree with the body, or a citation for the discrepancy must be provided. A source is also required for the statement "The subsequent migration of the Inuit into the neoarctic around 3500 BCE completed what is generally regarded as the settlement by the indigenous peoples of the Americas." Scr★pIron IV 18:19, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
"The Americas (also collectively called America)[3][4][5]"
According to the editors OWN CITED LINKS. America is either "North America" or "South America" or "The Americas". America (singular) refers to "The United States of America". So WRONG: NOT also collectively called "America". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.223.17.95 ( talk) 21:59, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
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Just like USA. Jovito11 ( talk) 00:49, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
As has been repeatedly pointed out by other users in previous edits (see history of the page), the beginning of paragraph 3 ("In some countries of the world") clearly hints to a certain degree of exceptionalism to the notion of America as a continent. I wouldn't call this ethnocentric, and I do believe it is not bad faith. It appears, though, that that many native English-speakers are unaware that the term "America" refers to a unique continent in a large number of countries. In my opinion, this article only reinforces this view instead of educating the native English-speaking audience about the different continent models taught in different parts of the world.
Indeed, sources clearly show that in around 50-60 countries, the continent is known by its original name.
I understand that this is a Wikipedia English article. However, I believe (let me know if you disagree) that the scope of Wikipedia English is not limited to native English-speakers. Should the native English-speaking view be prioritized over what is taught in most countries in the world?
I also understand there is no right or wrong answer to this question, and that the 6/7 continent model is an issue of perspective. I only take issue with the phrasing "in some countries of the world" and I believe it should be changed to "in most countries of the world". Would anyone disagree with this edit? Globe Trotter ( talk) 07:06, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
In some countries of the world (including France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Greece, and the countries of Latin America)
Can you find a citation that "some" is more correct than "most"? One of the citations clearly explains that's the norm in Europe and Latin America. And also, can you describe since when the new continent in the western hemisphere named America became 2 or 3 continents Rduartemd5 ( talk) 04:34, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Yet not all geographical writers in the early twentieth century viewed continents as given and unproblematic divisions of the globe. In the popular Van Loon's Geography of 1937, for example, the author describes the continental scheme with a light and almost humorous touch, concluding that one might as well use the standard system so long as one remembers its arbitrary foundations. Van Loon viewed the standard arrangement as including five continents: Asia, America, Africa, Europe, and Australia. While it might seem surprising to find North and South America still joined into a single continent in a book published in the United States in 1937, such a notion remained fairly common until World War II. It cannot be coincidental that this idea served American geopolitical designs at the time, which sought both Western Hemispheric domination and disengagement from the "Old World" continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
By the 1950s, however, virtually all American geographers had come to insist that the visually distinct landmasses of North and South America deserved separate designations. This was also the period when Antarctica was added to the list, despite its lack of human inhabitants, and when Oceania as a "great division" was replaced by Australia as a continent along with a series of isolated and continentally attached islands. The resulting seven-continent system quickly gained acceptance throughout the United States. In the 1960s, during the heyday of geography's "quantitative revolution," the scheme received a new form of scientific legitimization from a scholar who set out to calculate, through rigorous mathematical equations, the exact number of the world's continents. Interestingly enough, the answer he came up with conformed almost precisely to the conventional list: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Australia plus New Zealand), Africa, and Antarctica.
(source: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lewis-myth.html)
It is also fascinating to look at the Google Ngram Viewer for the word "Americas" ( https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Americas&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CAmericas%3B%2Cc0): it clearly shows that before the two World Wars, the term "Americas" was almost never used in published books - after the spike in the 1940s, however, it became more widely used.
This must briefly be addressed in this Wikipedia article (in the Etymology and Naming section). I am including references to the work of Professors Wigen and Lewis. A more lengthy discussion of the issue will also have to be included in the article Naming of the Americas. Globe Trotter ( talk) 22:25, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
I was reviewing the value for pending change when someone else reviewed it. You have 15 million in the table and 13 million in a paragraph. They don't match. You need to figure out which one is right and correct one value. From a pending changes reviewer. dawnleelynn (talk) 02:31, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
As America is a supercontinent (I.e. a contiguous landmass of two or more continents), and listed in the article List of supercontinents as a current supercontinent (along with Afroeurasia), shall it be stated either in the lead or elsewhere in the article? If so, sources to the effect should be plentiful.
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The Panamerican gentile should be considered to refer to what is part of the Americas as mentioned by the oxford English dictionary in the main table — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.158.8.16 ( talk) 05:49, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
No consensus to move. After extended time for discussion, we remain at an impasse over the proposal. BD2412 T 19:21, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Americas →
The Americas – As per
The Californias (recently confirmed in a nearly unanimous RM),
The Carolinas, and many many similar titles.
WP:CONSISTENCY should control.
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"Americas" has no meaning at all, someone has clearly failed to notify The New York Times, The Guardian, and other news organizations. Deor ( talk) 09:17, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
In the precolumbian section the article only mentions the civilisations of central and southamerica like the Maya, Aztecs and Inca. Why it doesn´t mention the cultures of the Anasazi and Pueblos or Cahokia in North America? Greetings - Steffen AM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.173.20.234 ( talk) 06:45, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
The article cites Leif Erikson as the first European to settle the Americas, but most definitions of the Americas (such as the one shown on this article's thumbnail) include Greenland, which had already been settled by the time of Erikson. The first settlement on greenland was founded in the 980s by Erik the Red, Leif's father. -- AwaweWiki ( talk) 22:00, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
why are there redlinks in "countries and territories"? Firestar9990 ( talk) 02:39, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Americas sounds stupid why not just america or the american continent just like the same article in every other language.Then why not the europes or the asias or the africas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.22.159.229 ( talk) 23:30, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
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I feel like the section on the languages spoken in the Americas may need to be re-structured Erinius ( talk) 23:52, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
The Pan American name should be added to complete the different options.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2803:9800:a881:8eb9:fcf9:ba66:896e:84f4 ( talk) 23:58, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
The first paragraph states "The Americas is a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America." Then a few lines later, "The Americas are home to nearly a billion inhabitants". What is the correct grammatical form here? Are both accepted? The article on The Philippines uses "is" throughout. Joancharmant ( talk) 09:07, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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I, I found an error in the page. Near the beginning of the page. It sed that Christoper Columbus is Spanish but he is born in the Genoa Republic (Today Italy). So I suggest to change Spanish with Genoese or Italian (Like in its own Wikipedia page).
Excuse me if I made Grammar error, I'm not a native English speaker. Luigi97 97 ( talk) 19:20, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
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Hello. For clarity and precision, I recommend changing the first sentence in the WP article for The Americas.
Change this:
"The Americas, which are also collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America."
To This:
"The Americas is a term used to refer to the landmasses of North and South America in plural form, while the entire landmass which includes the North and South parts is called America in its singular form."
The citations currently present in the existing sentence can be reused for this.
The issue that I see with the article's current wording is that Americas is also collectively referring to the North and South parts, and the heart of the matter is referring to the landmasses(es) in plural versus singular form - and that isn't currently stated. Sch3333 ( talk) 12:35, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
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i think this article should be deleted, as the name americas is cringe to my tounge. Try saying it out loud and you know what I mean ;) 109.90.185.180 ( talk) 13:22, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia was created for educational purposes, not to satisfy whims.
America: 1 "used as a name for the United States."
America: 2 (The Americas) a land mass in the western hemisphere...
American: 1 "relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants."
American: 2 "[mass noun] the English language as it is used in the United States; American English."
It is not geography, but just plain English. 1st Duke of Wellington ( talk) 05:04, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
The last paragraph in the introduction says:
"The Americas are home to nearly a billion inhabitants, two-thirds of whom reside in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. It is home to eight megacities (metropolitan areas with ten million inhabitants or more): New York City (23.9 million), Metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico (21.2 million), São Paulo (21.2 million), Los Angeles (18.8 million), Buenos Aires (15.6 million), Rio de Janeiro (13.0 million), Bogotá (10.4 million), and Lima (10.1 million)."
That is outdated information, though. São Paulo is currently both the biggest metropolitan area and biggest city in the Americas. You can check on the wikis /info/en/?search=List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_the_Americas and /info/en/?search=Largest_cities_in_the_Americas as well as other sources outside of wikipedia.
The fact it still lists New York as the biggest metro area not only is incorrect but seems like intentional lying, since it hasn't been for many years now. We have to fix it Ultrajante ( talk) 19:31, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
In the languages section of wikipedia page, there i would like to link a small "nepali language wikipedia" page in the "site links list". the given title: ne:महाअमेरिका is not being able to be added because of some "access restictions" that i presume to be done by the admins only. so i request them to add this in the site links page of the respective wikidata. BoyHayHay ( talk) 14:08, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
It should state that America is "Almost Always" known as America not sometimes lol 80.42.207.49 ( talk) 19:47, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
America is a continent not a country — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:3981:AD01:DD80:98CE:C308:65C2 ( talk) 00:20, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
I certainly wasn't claiming that only Latin Americans have this view, but Latin Americans are generally the most aggressive about the issue, and understandably so, as they live in the Americas. I'm not sure where you get those numbers from, but they aren't accurate at all. For example, there are more than 2 English speaking countries in the Americas, and they use America to refer to the country, and American to refer to the people. In fact, most Canadians and Americans call the country the United States, while many other countries, even non-English speaking ones, generally refer to the country as "America". I personally visited a country in South America, and when I said that I was from the United States, the response was invariably something like, "Oh, America." BilCat ( talk) 19:33, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
for more information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abya_Yala 37.169.162.231 ( talk) 23:29, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
United States of America, as the name indicates, means that they are states, that are united, in America, that is, the continent, as is unambiguously known in many other languages. "America" is just an U.S.A. abbreviation that ended hijacking the name of the continent.
Nonsensical things like "there is no such thing as "American English"" are being left and discussed, while the simple fact I just mentioned, which obliterates certain delusions, is being removed. This is what happens when keyboard warriors don't have a counter argument, that's why I will keep adding it.
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Items in the lede do not generally need to be sourced, assuming they summarize statement properly sourced in the body of the article. Unfortunately, the following statement is not supported in the body of the article:
The body of the article has sourced content ranging for 20,000 to 40,000 years for the first migration, and 4,500 years for the second migration. No statement is made in the body about what is "generally regarded" by anyone.
The lede needs to agree with the body, or a citation for the discrepancy must be provided. A source is also required for the statement "The subsequent migration of the Inuit into the neoarctic around 3500 BCE completed what is generally regarded as the settlement by the indigenous peoples of the Americas." Scr★pIron IV 18:19, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
"The Americas (also collectively called America)[3][4][5]"
According to the editors OWN CITED LINKS. America is either "North America" or "South America" or "The Americas". America (singular) refers to "The United States of America". So WRONG: NOT also collectively called "America". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.223.17.95 ( talk) 21:59, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
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Just like USA. Jovito11 ( talk) 00:49, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
As has been repeatedly pointed out by other users in previous edits (see history of the page), the beginning of paragraph 3 ("In some countries of the world") clearly hints to a certain degree of exceptionalism to the notion of America as a continent. I wouldn't call this ethnocentric, and I do believe it is not bad faith. It appears, though, that that many native English-speakers are unaware that the term "America" refers to a unique continent in a large number of countries. In my opinion, this article only reinforces this view instead of educating the native English-speaking audience about the different continent models taught in different parts of the world.
Indeed, sources clearly show that in around 50-60 countries, the continent is known by its original name.
I understand that this is a Wikipedia English article. However, I believe (let me know if you disagree) that the scope of Wikipedia English is not limited to native English-speakers. Should the native English-speaking view be prioritized over what is taught in most countries in the world?
I also understand there is no right or wrong answer to this question, and that the 6/7 continent model is an issue of perspective. I only take issue with the phrasing "in some countries of the world" and I believe it should be changed to "in most countries of the world". Would anyone disagree with this edit? Globe Trotter ( talk) 07:06, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
In some countries of the world (including France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Greece, and the countries of Latin America)
Can you find a citation that "some" is more correct than "most"? One of the citations clearly explains that's the norm in Europe and Latin America. And also, can you describe since when the new continent in the western hemisphere named America became 2 or 3 continents Rduartemd5 ( talk) 04:34, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Yet not all geographical writers in the early twentieth century viewed continents as given and unproblematic divisions of the globe. In the popular Van Loon's Geography of 1937, for example, the author describes the continental scheme with a light and almost humorous touch, concluding that one might as well use the standard system so long as one remembers its arbitrary foundations. Van Loon viewed the standard arrangement as including five continents: Asia, America, Africa, Europe, and Australia. While it might seem surprising to find North and South America still joined into a single continent in a book published in the United States in 1937, such a notion remained fairly common until World War II. It cannot be coincidental that this idea served American geopolitical designs at the time, which sought both Western Hemispheric domination and disengagement from the "Old World" continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
By the 1950s, however, virtually all American geographers had come to insist that the visually distinct landmasses of North and South America deserved separate designations. This was also the period when Antarctica was added to the list, despite its lack of human inhabitants, and when Oceania as a "great division" was replaced by Australia as a continent along with a series of isolated and continentally attached islands. The resulting seven-continent system quickly gained acceptance throughout the United States. In the 1960s, during the heyday of geography's "quantitative revolution," the scheme received a new form of scientific legitimization from a scholar who set out to calculate, through rigorous mathematical equations, the exact number of the world's continents. Interestingly enough, the answer he came up with conformed almost precisely to the conventional list: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Australia plus New Zealand), Africa, and Antarctica.
(source: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lewis-myth.html)
It is also fascinating to look at the Google Ngram Viewer for the word "Americas" ( https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Americas&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CAmericas%3B%2Cc0): it clearly shows that before the two World Wars, the term "Americas" was almost never used in published books - after the spike in the 1940s, however, it became more widely used.
This must briefly be addressed in this Wikipedia article (in the Etymology and Naming section). I am including references to the work of Professors Wigen and Lewis. A more lengthy discussion of the issue will also have to be included in the article Naming of the Americas. Globe Trotter ( talk) 22:25, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
I was reviewing the value for pending change when someone else reviewed it. You have 15 million in the table and 13 million in a paragraph. They don't match. You need to figure out which one is right and correct one value. From a pending changes reviewer. dawnleelynn (talk) 02:31, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
As America is a supercontinent (I.e. a contiguous landmass of two or more continents), and listed in the article List of supercontinents as a current supercontinent (along with Afroeurasia), shall it be stated either in the lead or elsewhere in the article? If so, sources to the effect should be plentiful.
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The Panamerican gentile should be considered to refer to what is part of the Americas as mentioned by the oxford English dictionary in the main table — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.158.8.16 ( talk) 05:49, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
No consensus to move. After extended time for discussion, we remain at an impasse over the proposal. BD2412 T 19:21, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Americas →
The Americas – As per
The Californias (recently confirmed in a nearly unanimous RM),
The Carolinas, and many many similar titles.
WP:CONSISTENCY should control.
Red
Slash 20:36, 25 February 2020 (UTC) —Relisting.
OhKayeSierra (
talk)
21:30, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
"Americas" has no meaning at all, someone has clearly failed to notify The New York Times, The Guardian, and other news organizations. Deor ( talk) 09:17, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
In the precolumbian section the article only mentions the civilisations of central and southamerica like the Maya, Aztecs and Inca. Why it doesn´t mention the cultures of the Anasazi and Pueblos or Cahokia in North America? Greetings - Steffen AM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.173.20.234 ( talk) 06:45, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
The article cites Leif Erikson as the first European to settle the Americas, but most definitions of the Americas (such as the one shown on this article's thumbnail) include Greenland, which had already been settled by the time of Erikson. The first settlement on greenland was founded in the 980s by Erik the Red, Leif's father. -- AwaweWiki ( talk) 22:00, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
why are there redlinks in "countries and territories"? Firestar9990 ( talk) 02:39, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Americas sounds stupid why not just america or the american continent just like the same article in every other language.Then why not the europes or the asias or the africas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.22.159.229 ( talk) 23:30, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
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I feel like the section on the languages spoken in the Americas may need to be re-structured Erinius ( talk) 23:52, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
The Pan American name should be added to complete the different options.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2803:9800:a881:8eb9:fcf9:ba66:896e:84f4 ( talk) 23:58, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
The first paragraph states "The Americas is a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America." Then a few lines later, "The Americas are home to nearly a billion inhabitants". What is the correct grammatical form here? Are both accepted? The article on The Philippines uses "is" throughout. Joancharmant ( talk) 09:07, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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I, I found an error in the page. Near the beginning of the page. It sed that Christoper Columbus is Spanish but he is born in the Genoa Republic (Today Italy). So I suggest to change Spanish with Genoese or Italian (Like in its own Wikipedia page).
Excuse me if I made Grammar error, I'm not a native English speaker. Luigi97 97 ( talk) 19:20, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
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Hello. For clarity and precision, I recommend changing the first sentence in the WP article for The Americas.
Change this:
"The Americas, which are also collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America."
To This:
"The Americas is a term used to refer to the landmasses of North and South America in plural form, while the entire landmass which includes the North and South parts is called America in its singular form."
The citations currently present in the existing sentence can be reused for this.
The issue that I see with the article's current wording is that Americas is also collectively referring to the North and South parts, and the heart of the matter is referring to the landmasses(es) in plural versus singular form - and that isn't currently stated. Sch3333 ( talk) 12:35, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
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i think this article should be deleted, as the name americas is cringe to my tounge. Try saying it out loud and you know what I mean ;) 109.90.185.180 ( talk) 13:22, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia was created for educational purposes, not to satisfy whims.
America: 1 "used as a name for the United States."
America: 2 (The Americas) a land mass in the western hemisphere...
American: 1 "relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants."
American: 2 "[mass noun] the English language as it is used in the United States; American English."
It is not geography, but just plain English. 1st Duke of Wellington ( talk) 05:04, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
The last paragraph in the introduction says:
"The Americas are home to nearly a billion inhabitants, two-thirds of whom reside in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. It is home to eight megacities (metropolitan areas with ten million inhabitants or more): New York City (23.9 million), Metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico (21.2 million), São Paulo (21.2 million), Los Angeles (18.8 million), Buenos Aires (15.6 million), Rio de Janeiro (13.0 million), Bogotá (10.4 million), and Lima (10.1 million)."
That is outdated information, though. São Paulo is currently both the biggest metropolitan area and biggest city in the Americas. You can check on the wikis /info/en/?search=List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_the_Americas and /info/en/?search=Largest_cities_in_the_Americas as well as other sources outside of wikipedia.
The fact it still lists New York as the biggest metro area not only is incorrect but seems like intentional lying, since it hasn't been for many years now. We have to fix it Ultrajante ( talk) 19:31, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
In the languages section of wikipedia page, there i would like to link a small "nepali language wikipedia" page in the "site links list". the given title: ne:महाअमेरिका is not being able to be added because of some "access restictions" that i presume to be done by the admins only. so i request them to add this in the site links page of the respective wikidata. BoyHayHay ( talk) 14:08, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
It should state that America is "Almost Always" known as America not sometimes lol 80.42.207.49 ( talk) 19:47, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
America is a continent not a country — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:3981:AD01:DD80:98CE:C308:65C2 ( talk) 00:20, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
I certainly wasn't claiming that only Latin Americans have this view, but Latin Americans are generally the most aggressive about the issue, and understandably so, as they live in the Americas. I'm not sure where you get those numbers from, but they aren't accurate at all. For example, there are more than 2 English speaking countries in the Americas, and they use America to refer to the country, and American to refer to the people. In fact, most Canadians and Americans call the country the United States, while many other countries, even non-English speaking ones, generally refer to the country as "America". I personally visited a country in South America, and when I said that I was from the United States, the response was invariably something like, "Oh, America." BilCat ( talk) 19:33, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
for more information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abya_Yala 37.169.162.231 ( talk) 23:29, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
United States of America, as the name indicates, means that they are states, that are united, in America, that is, the continent, as is unambiguously known in many other languages. "America" is just an U.S.A. abbreviation that ended hijacking the name of the continent.
Nonsensical things like "there is no such thing as "American English"" are being left and discussed, while the simple fact I just mentioned, which obliterates certain delusions, is being removed. This is what happens when keyboard warriors don't have a counter argument, that's why I will keep adding it.