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This page has been protected against moves for 1 month. Admins, please do not remove this protection until a cleanup of all the moves and cut and pasting has been completed. — xaosflux Talk 04:07, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Enough. User Depoyster.dick is stubbornly pushing a POV and seems to want to start an edit war by pushing/forcing the wrong idea that in Spanish the term América Septentrional refers to the English term Northern America. There's simply no equivalent region in Spanish and besides the literal translation would be América Norteña. I, as a native speaker of Spanish, know that the term "septentrional" means "north" not "northern". América Septentrional is synonymous with América del Norte or Norteamérica, in the same way that América Meridional is synonymous with América del Sur or Sudamérica.
This POV fork has gone as far that he created the same account in Wikipedia in Spanish, and created the article América Septentrional, and when people told him Septentrional means América del Norte, he went on and created América Septentrional (región), which is now being deleted.
His reverts should stop because now they are in the line of purely disruptive. Alex Covarrubias ( Talk? ) 20:06, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
PRo Tip; Mexico City is larger than New York.Toronto is Larger than Miami.)
For example: http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zAMINPO.htm includes mexico 93.96.148.42 ( talk) 03:47, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Can we add a descriptive distinction between NORTH America and NORTHERN America in the first paragraph of the Article page? We have had entirely too many students using this page as evidence Mexico is not part of North America. It surely would not hurt the Article itself and would clear up all confusion in one short sentence.-- 75.17.193.238 ( talk) 13:55, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Lol! Northern America is NOT only 2 countries. Mexico IS apart of Northern America as well. Northern America is 1 of 3 Regions that IS apart of North America. The map of Northern America has to include Mexico *(in this case Mexico has to be highlighted in dark green along with Greenland, Canada and United States). Greenland to Panama (including the Caribbean countries) is the whole continent of North America.
If I was allowed to give out the details of what each group of countries are apart of in all 8 Americas (aka. North America, South America, Anglo America, Latin America, Northern America, Central America, Middle America and Caribbean America), then I would do so in this talk page. But at this point I don’t believe I can. - Craig Lungren ( talk) 05:55, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Really, North America is only “a continent in the 7-Continents model” and “a subcontinent in Latin America’s 6-Continents model”.
Wouldn't the COMMONNAME be "the US and Canada"? Lojbanist remove cattle from stage 23:23, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
While its on the Mid Atlantic Ridge and could be considered Europe, there is a good enough chance that it should be counted as North America (For Example: the proposed Canadian provinces and territories features Iceland as a possible province). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.123.224.212 ( talk) 22:37, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect
United States of Canada. The discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 27#United States of Canada until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.
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12:51, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
In Central America, the map shows Mexico highlighted in light green but the problem is the CIA (another government entity) disagrees with the U.N. and would consider Mexico in Northern America so my question is are we following the U.N.'s definition of Northern and Central America? If so, is it at least worth mentioning the CIA disagrees with them and considers Mexico to be part of Northern America? LostKlaus ( talk) 02:16, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
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This page has been protected against moves for 1 month. Admins, please do not remove this protection until a cleanup of all the moves and cut and pasting has been completed. — xaosflux Talk 04:07, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Enough. User Depoyster.dick is stubbornly pushing a POV and seems to want to start an edit war by pushing/forcing the wrong idea that in Spanish the term América Septentrional refers to the English term Northern America. There's simply no equivalent region in Spanish and besides the literal translation would be América Norteña. I, as a native speaker of Spanish, know that the term "septentrional" means "north" not "northern". América Septentrional is synonymous with América del Norte or Norteamérica, in the same way that América Meridional is synonymous with América del Sur or Sudamérica.
This POV fork has gone as far that he created the same account in Wikipedia in Spanish, and created the article América Septentrional, and when people told him Septentrional means América del Norte, he went on and created América Septentrional (región), which is now being deleted.
His reverts should stop because now they are in the line of purely disruptive. Alex Covarrubias ( Talk? ) 20:06, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
PRo Tip; Mexico City is larger than New York.Toronto is Larger than Miami.)
For example: http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zAMINPO.htm includes mexico 93.96.148.42 ( talk) 03:47, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Can we add a descriptive distinction between NORTH America and NORTHERN America in the first paragraph of the Article page? We have had entirely too many students using this page as evidence Mexico is not part of North America. It surely would not hurt the Article itself and would clear up all confusion in one short sentence.-- 75.17.193.238 ( talk) 13:55, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Lol! Northern America is NOT only 2 countries. Mexico IS apart of Northern America as well. Northern America is 1 of 3 Regions that IS apart of North America. The map of Northern America has to include Mexico *(in this case Mexico has to be highlighted in dark green along with Greenland, Canada and United States). Greenland to Panama (including the Caribbean countries) is the whole continent of North America.
If I was allowed to give out the details of what each group of countries are apart of in all 8 Americas (aka. North America, South America, Anglo America, Latin America, Northern America, Central America, Middle America and Caribbean America), then I would do so in this talk page. But at this point I don’t believe I can. - Craig Lungren ( talk) 05:55, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Really, North America is only “a continent in the 7-Continents model” and “a subcontinent in Latin America’s 6-Continents model”.
Wouldn't the COMMONNAME be "the US and Canada"? Lojbanist remove cattle from stage 23:23, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
While its on the Mid Atlantic Ridge and could be considered Europe, there is a good enough chance that it should be counted as North America (For Example: the proposed Canadian provinces and territories features Iceland as a possible province). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.123.224.212 ( talk) 22:37, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect
United States of Canada. The discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 27#United States of Canada until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.
Shhhnotsoloud (
talk)
12:51, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
In Central America, the map shows Mexico highlighted in light green but the problem is the CIA (another government entity) disagrees with the U.N. and would consider Mexico in Northern America so my question is are we following the U.N.'s definition of Northern and Central America? If so, is it at least worth mentioning the CIA disagrees with them and considers Mexico to be part of Northern America? LostKlaus ( talk) 02:16, 24 December 2022 (UTC)