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It appears illogical to show Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Western Sahara separately in the template, as they are one and the same territory. I suggest that it is shown once (say, as Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) with a footnote referring to the other name. Davshul ( talk) 09:41, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
A centralised proposal regarding the use of superscript notes in navigation boxes is under discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries. The disussion will affect this template. Nightw 12:02, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
In the Template, I have split the British territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha into its three constituent island parts of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, as most articles appear to refer to these islands separately. However, it may also be preferable to format the template so that it also catches references to the complete territory. Davshul ( talk) 13:10, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
When will Southern Sudan be added to the template? It is clear it will win independence and should now at least be in the same category as dependencies, I think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.61.234.225 ( talk) 17:52, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
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change capital of libya from redirecting to tripoli to give two options: 1 for capital of TNC and one of Great Arab...
68.38.143.81 ( talk) 02:27, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
This is a minor point but I can't change it myself because of the template protection- on the Economy of Africa template under Dependencies and other territories there is a link to Economy of Ascension Island. Information on the economy can already be seen on the Ascension Island page, and given the relatively small population I would suggest that this link be changed to a section link: Ascension Island. I noticed this from the most wanted articles page, and there are also red links to climate and demographics which i am sure could be resolved in much the same way. Thanks, -- Cutiekatie ( talk) 16:16, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Just curious about the reversal of my edit. Did it result in any mus-categorization? -- 签名 sig at 12:08, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
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I can see that the Spanish and Portuguese dependencies (Canaries and Madeira etc) were removed without any discussion, I thought geographically they were still part of the African continent. I could try to put them back, but don't want to break the template... Jokulhlaup ( talk) 16:04, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
Could someone please add this article? I don't want to break the template Gbawden ( talk) 19:52, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
In Constitution of Zambia, this template links directly to the DAB page Constitutions of Libya. This is an error per WP:DABLINK, and User:DPL bot is complaining about it. A link to the DAB page should go through Constitutions of Libya (disambiguation). Narky Blert ( talk) 13:08, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
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change "|eSwatini" to "|eSwatini (Swaziland)", like "|Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)" and "|Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)" are listed on this template. Paintspot Infez ( talk) 22:03, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
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Can the wikilinks for " eSwatini" → " Eswatini" within this template please. This will allow for the standardising on the chosen spelling of "Eswatini" over "eSwatini", as per the move discussion on talk page of Eswatini article. Thanks. - Wiz9999 ( talk) 06:20, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Sahrawi republic is fully recognised by Zimbabwe — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.85.200.164 ( talk) 10:55, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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Could the redlink for the Democratic Republic of the Congo be linked to the page National Library of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thanks, Gazamp ( talk) 20:36, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
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The ungrammatically titled article Benin art (should be either Beninese art or Art of Benin), which is supposedly that of a sovereign state, is actually the art of the Kingdom of Benin, which lies within Nigeria.
Not sure where it should go in the template. Maybe in parentheses after Nigeria, maybe in a new row, subnational or historical regions. The same thing could be done with Art of ancient Egypt. — kwami ( talk) 10:20, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
{{Africa topic|Art of}}
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Greetings, Near the top, at line listclass = hlist add " wraplinks" after "hlist". To fix overflow beyond right margin. Thanks. JoeHebda ( talk) 03:42, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, Because of large number of wikilinks within this navbox, please change "state =" to be "collapsed" instead of autocoll.
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Add Photography in South Africa to the Photography of Africa template. South Africa appears as a red link at present. Amitchell125 ( talk) 05:15, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, it would make a lot of sense to expand the bracketed addition of " Eswatini (Swaziland)" to "Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). In the current version it is suggested that "Swaziland" is still a legal alternative name. But this is not the case. In the country itself, as well as internationally and under international law, "Eswatini" is the only currently official name. "Swaziland" is completely obsolete and an anachronism. The name is now only used by less educated people and is only found on badly maintained or orphaned websites. Compare also: "The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini": ( http://www.gov.sz/) / UN M49 Standard: ( https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/) / ISO 3166 Standard: ( https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:SZ) / European Union: ([ https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/at-concept/-/resource/authority/country/SWZ/)-- Bestoernesto ( talk) 02:42, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Zanzibar is missing, can someone please add it? -- Toby Mitches ( talk) 09:52, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please change the link for Seychelles from "2020 in Seychelles" to "2020 in the Seychelles." The other island country in year pages have it like this and this is the grammatically correct title. Thanks in advance. Dan the Animator 01:09, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
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In the "Architecture of Africa" navbox, could someone amend the link for "Morocco" to Moroccan architecture (the page's current name) instead of Architecture of Morocco (a redirect)? Cheers, R Prazeres ( talk) 23:29, 6 January 2021 (UTC) R Prazeres ( talk) 23:29, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
These are the only African countries not to have colors for their victory, losses, and on going conflicts. Doremon764 ( talk) 14:03, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
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When I created the page " Capital punishment in Comoros," I originally and accidentally left a word in the title. (The original title of the article, with my typo, was "Capital punishment in the Comoros.") I fixed the naming error, but now the page in the " Capital punishment in Africa" infobox still directs to my original page with the typo in it. Afddiary ( talk) 08:12, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
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replace the redirect List of ecoregions in the Gambia with List of ecoregions in Gambia. Tom Radulovich ( talk) 00:20, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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I have recently created the article "List of wars involving Equatorial Guinea". However, the link still appears red in this template, and when hovered over with the cursor, it states that the page has not been created (the link still works when clicked on). Please change the link to "List of wars involving Equatorial Guinea" to a valid link. 296cherry ( talk) 19:35, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Unlike {{ World topic}}, this template doesn't have a "noredlinks" parameter. Why is this parameter not included? Jarble ( talk) 21:46, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
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please color it saffron like other hinduism related templates Saad Ali Khan Pakistan ( talk) 11:18, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
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An application of this protected template is used for "Law enforcement in Africa". In the last group "Dependencies and other territories" there is a link to the disambiguation page Law enforcement in Western Sahara. Per WP:MOSDAB could this be formatted [[Law enforcement in Western Sahara (disambiguation)|Law enforcement in Western Sahara]] please.— Rod talk 11:06, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
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This template was considered for deletion on 2020 October 14. The result of the discussion was "keep for now". |
It appears illogical to show Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Western Sahara separately in the template, as they are one and the same territory. I suggest that it is shown once (say, as Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) with a footnote referring to the other name. Davshul ( talk) 09:41, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
A centralised proposal regarding the use of superscript notes in navigation boxes is under discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries. The disussion will affect this template. Nightw 12:02, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
In the Template, I have split the British territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha into its three constituent island parts of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, as most articles appear to refer to these islands separately. However, it may also be preferable to format the template so that it also catches references to the complete territory. Davshul ( talk) 13:10, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
When will Southern Sudan be added to the template? It is clear it will win independence and should now at least be in the same category as dependencies, I think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.61.234.225 ( talk) 17:52, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
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change capital of libya from redirecting to tripoli to give two options: 1 for capital of TNC and one of Great Arab...
68.38.143.81 ( talk) 02:27, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
This is a minor point but I can't change it myself because of the template protection- on the Economy of Africa template under Dependencies and other territories there is a link to Economy of Ascension Island. Information on the economy can already be seen on the Ascension Island page, and given the relatively small population I would suggest that this link be changed to a section link: Ascension Island. I noticed this from the most wanted articles page, and there are also red links to climate and demographics which i am sure could be resolved in much the same way. Thanks, -- Cutiekatie ( talk) 16:16, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Just curious about the reversal of my edit. Did it result in any mus-categorization? -- 签名 sig at 12:08, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
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I can see that the Spanish and Portuguese dependencies (Canaries and Madeira etc) were removed without any discussion, I thought geographically they were still part of the African continent. I could try to put them back, but don't want to break the template... Jokulhlaup ( talk) 16:04, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
Could someone please add this article? I don't want to break the template Gbawden ( talk) 19:52, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
In Constitution of Zambia, this template links directly to the DAB page Constitutions of Libya. This is an error per WP:DABLINK, and User:DPL bot is complaining about it. A link to the DAB page should go through Constitutions of Libya (disambiguation). Narky Blert ( talk) 13:08, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
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change "|eSwatini" to "|eSwatini (Swaziland)", like "|Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)" and "|Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)" are listed on this template. Paintspot Infez ( talk) 22:03, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
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Can the wikilinks for " eSwatini" → " Eswatini" within this template please. This will allow for the standardising on the chosen spelling of "Eswatini" over "eSwatini", as per the move discussion on talk page of Eswatini article. Thanks. - Wiz9999 ( talk) 06:20, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Sahrawi republic is fully recognised by Zimbabwe — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.85.200.164 ( talk) 10:55, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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Could the redlink for the Democratic Republic of the Congo be linked to the page National Library of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thanks, Gazamp ( talk) 20:36, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
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The ungrammatically titled article Benin art (should be either Beninese art or Art of Benin), which is supposedly that of a sovereign state, is actually the art of the Kingdom of Benin, which lies within Nigeria.
Not sure where it should go in the template. Maybe in parentheses after Nigeria, maybe in a new row, subnational or historical regions. The same thing could be done with Art of ancient Egypt. — kwami ( talk) 10:20, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
{{Africa topic|Art of}}
, I see
Art of Benin, a redirect that I have changed to point to
Beninese art, a red link, to be consistent with the template's use of links to modern countries.{{African topic|| art}}
also points to
Beninese art, a red link.This
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Greetings, Near the top, at line listclass = hlist add " wraplinks" after "hlist". To fix overflow beyond right margin. Thanks. JoeHebda ( talk) 03:42, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, Because of large number of wikilinks within this navbox, please change "state =" to be "collapsed" instead of autocoll.
| state = {{{state<includeonly>|collapsed</includeonly>}}}
Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 17:47, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
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Add Photography in South Africa to the Photography of Africa template. South Africa appears as a red link at present. Amitchell125 ( talk) 05:15, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, it would make a lot of sense to expand the bracketed addition of " Eswatini (Swaziland)" to "Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). In the current version it is suggested that "Swaziland" is still a legal alternative name. But this is not the case. In the country itself, as well as internationally and under international law, "Eswatini" is the only currently official name. "Swaziland" is completely obsolete and an anachronism. The name is now only used by less educated people and is only found on badly maintained or orphaned websites. Compare also: "The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini": ( http://www.gov.sz/) / UN M49 Standard: ( https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/) / ISO 3166 Standard: ( https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:SZ) / European Union: ([ https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/at-concept/-/resource/authority/country/SWZ/)-- Bestoernesto ( talk) 02:42, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Zanzibar is missing, can someone please add it? -- Toby Mitches ( talk) 09:52, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please change the link for Seychelles from "2020 in Seychelles" to "2020 in the Seychelles." The other island country in year pages have it like this and this is the grammatically correct title. Thanks in advance. Dan the Animator 01:09, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
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In the "Architecture of Africa" navbox, could someone amend the link for "Morocco" to Moroccan architecture (the page's current name) instead of Architecture of Morocco (a redirect)? Cheers, R Prazeres ( talk) 23:29, 6 January 2021 (UTC) R Prazeres ( talk) 23:29, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
These are the only African countries not to have colors for their victory, losses, and on going conflicts. Doremon764 ( talk) 14:03, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
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When I created the page " Capital punishment in Comoros," I originally and accidentally left a word in the title. (The original title of the article, with my typo, was "Capital punishment in the Comoros.") I fixed the naming error, but now the page in the " Capital punishment in Africa" infobox still directs to my original page with the typo in it. Afddiary ( talk) 08:12, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
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replace the redirect List of ecoregions in the Gambia with List of ecoregions in Gambia. Tom Radulovich ( talk) 00:20, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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I have recently created the article "List of wars involving Equatorial Guinea". However, the link still appears red in this template, and when hovered over with the cursor, it states that the page has not been created (the link still works when clicked on). Please change the link to "List of wars involving Equatorial Guinea" to a valid link. 296cherry ( talk) 19:35, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Unlike {{ World topic}}, this template doesn't have a "noredlinks" parameter. Why is this parameter not included? Jarble ( talk) 21:46, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
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please color it saffron like other hinduism related templates Saad Ali Khan Pakistan ( talk) 11:18, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
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An application of this protected template is used for "Law enforcement in Africa". In the last group "Dependencies and other territories" there is a link to the disambiguation page Law enforcement in Western Sahara. Per WP:MOSDAB could this be formatted [[Law enforcement in Western Sahara (disambiguation)|Law enforcement in Western Sahara]] please.— Rod talk 11:06, 14 June 2023 (UTC)