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This template is a big red link generator. There are articles that do cover things "in" a place that are not named that way. Granted there are many uses of the template that do generate mostly blue links, and for articles that are supposed to follow a name that includes "in", I think the usage needs to be cleaned up. You can see examples of both via Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:North America in topic. I was thinking about nominating this for TfD, but I'd rather try to work something out instead. Ideas? -- Ned Scott 05:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the concerns raised above, the template does work well for several topics but it can generate a ton of red links when it is not used with care. I would say the template should only be used on topics where it does not generate many red links unless there is a concerted ongoing effort to write the missing articles and place the needed redirects. A red link may be useful to Wikipedia editors but from a users perspective a red link is a broken link. Here's a list of the topics that it appears to work reasonably well in:
And here's some that it currently works poorly in:
The template itself is fine but it's being misused. I'd suggest that a list of recommended topics be maintained for this template (perhaps in a usage section within 'noinclude' tags on the template) and it's use otherwise be discouraged. -- Dv82matt 14:17, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Warofdreams reverted my addition of this comment, presumably accidentally as he posted at about the same time.
I have reverted this template's use on all Music ofs. There are already nice footers that use ordinary musical regions, of which "North America" including Mexico, Panama and Haiti is not one. Tuf-Kat 22:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I added a second optional parameter, which if provided overrides the default name for the top level page. Example: Since there is not and probably never will be a "Flag of North America" page, on "Flag of" pages the template can be called:
. -- ScottMainwaring 23:33, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Per here, would anyone object to this template being renamed {{ North America topic}}, thereby leaving the of/in specified by its parameter (e.g. {{ North America topic|Communications in}}, {{ North America topic|Economy of}}, etc)...? Regards, David Kernow ( talk) 02:51, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Many of the countries listed in this template are not generally categorized as being in North America , but in central America ( like Panama , Nicaragua etc..)-- CltFn 05:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
"Federalism" is a bad use for this template. Only four countries listed are federations: Canada, Mexico, SKN, US. Why would there be an article on "Federalism in (insert name of unitary state here)"? It makes no sense. — Sesel 00:36, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Does Navassa Island need to come out of this template? The article on it is fine, but the idea that one day someone will be inspired to write History of Navassa Island, Economy of Navassa Island, Law of Navassa Island, etc. relating to an uninhabited rock off the coast of Haiti seems a bit improbable to me. It is like a permanent redlink. -- Legis ( talk - contributions) 18:02, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
navassa=no
to the template so that Navassa can be removed from the templates where it's inappropriate? —
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gr 11:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)OMG, I made a huge mistake. I was looking at the page Flags of North America and saw the template "Flags of North America" but it was named "North America topic", so I thought why? Let's move it to a more specific name... and I did! The bad part is that I didn't know that template is an automatic template used in several pages.
Please, some admin. move back the template to its original place. And I'm sorry, I didn't know this was going to happen. Alex C. ( Talk? ) 09:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
This template is for North American nations and territories and not for US territories, such territories can be found in their continental own template Template:Oceania topic. JC 23:10 17 July 2008 (PST)
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{{flag|France}}
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France", and in the contexts where "{{flag|France}}
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Done This looks settled, as it has attracted no further attention. - 2/0 ( cont.) 09:33, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
I know I'm being very pedantic here, but can somebody with access change the wikilink on "other territories" to Sovereign territory. This would fix technicality problems with the French overseas departments on that list, and since there aren't any territories in the subdivisional sense as the link implies (e.g. the Yukon), it's a more appropriate link. Night w ( talk) 10:21, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I have never seen the Netherlands Antilles ever shown as apart of South America - the page linked to certainly don't represent this view point. Can anyone show me where this might be, otherwise we should remove the use of a footnote in the template. Outback the koala ( talk) 00:05, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
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Remove the above footnote number in the template on the grounds above, namely that what it links to has no mention of this, I have sure never heard of this,
Netherlands Antilles says nothing about this. It is clearly and widely known to be in the Caribbean, vis-à-vis it is apart of North America. I really don't think there is a dispute over this. Also it is afixed to
Aruba, which is similarly ridiculous.
Outback the koala (
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The Netherlands Antilles have been dissolved now, so Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten should be listed here separately, like is the case on Template:Americas topic. Fentener van Vlissingen ( talk) 17:15, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
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France should be added because of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which are unambiguously in North America.
93.96.6.88 ( talk) 21:54, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
As France and the Netherlands now have integral territories in North America, they should be listed in the sovereign states section. However, they are predominantly not North American, so they should probably not be wikilinked here due to it being a topic template. A solution is to just link to the integral parts. Proposed code:
Netherlands <small>([[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Bonaire{{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Bonaire]]{{·w}} [[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Saba{{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Saba]]{{·w}} [[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Saint Eustatius {{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Saint Eustatius ]])</small>{{·w}}
France <small>([[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Guadeloupe{{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Guadeloupe]]{{·w}} [[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Martinique{{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Martinique]])</small>{{·w}}
Resulting in:
Netherlands ( Bonaire · Saba · Saint Eustatius) · France ( Guadeloupe · Martinique) ·
In addition, territories should probably not be wikilinked, as it goes to a specific definition of territory not covered in this template. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 13:33, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Navassa island is uninhabited, and thus the articles that can be written on it are limited. Uninhabited territories are not included on any other topic templates, and Navassa island is not on the North American topic template. It should be removed. In addition, the map used here serves no real purpose (this is not a list of countries), and no other topic template has such a map. For consistency it should also be removed. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 12:48, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Other continental templates don't have pictures of the continents. I think this should be removed too. Alinor ( talk) 08:40, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Other continental templates don't have pictures of the continents. I think this should be removed too. Alinor ( talk) 08:41, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
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Can this entire template (Patent infringement in North America) be deleted? It contains FORTY-TWO red links and only ONE active link. There clearly isn't a purpose being served by "Patent infringement in North America" if it's really only covering one country in North America. It seems totally wasteful to have this template.
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The request is in regards to the addition of Costa RIca to the North American hemisphere, where this is completely incorrect. We costarricans are Central Americans, not north americans. it is very offensive to call us northerns, when we have made so much along the path to prove different.
A correction should be engaged, to keep a respectful sight of our people. 190.7.195.68 ( talk) 09:40, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
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Remove the icon per WP:MOSICON Gnevin ( talk) 16:42, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
The English name of the Dutch island Sint Eustatius is actually "
Saint Eustatius". According to admin
The Tom ISO has
favoured for "Saint" over "Sint" in English usage and he therefore changed the article's name. Could the island's name in this template be changed accordingly to improve consistency? (Most of the articles linked to by this template have already undergone a name change.)
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Edit: I withdraw the request per ISO's correction (see [1]) Styath ( talk) 18:45, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
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Can the map on this template be removed? None of the other topic templates have maps, and as this is a versatile navigation template the map may often be fairly irrelevant to the subject of the links. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 18:42, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
The current temaplte uses the term Rail transport in Jamaica, which itself is a redirect to the actual article at Railways of Jamaica. Can someone please change the template so that it goes directly to the article, and not the redirect? Thank You! Rgds, -- Trident13 ( talk) 16:43, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
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Remove the wikilink to Territory (administrative division). That is not the use of the word territory there, and may confuse readers. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 14:05, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
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It would be good to add on this template Îles des Saintes between Guadeloupe and Martinique. Because it would be more easy for the reader to find and consult the history or the geography of these islands.-- Moowgly ( talk) 14:29, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
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When this template is called by a "Football in ..." article, the entry for the United States links to a disambiguation page: Football in the United States. Instead it should link to Soccer in the United States. (Every other link on the template relates to this sort of football.) Bazonka ( talk) 20:03, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
I've changed all "Football in ..." links to this template to "Association football in ...". All links now work, although some of them only via redirects. Bazonka ( talk) 19:35, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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Suggestion: On the Rail Transport in North America template, someone may want to wikilink Barbados to Transport_in_Barbados#Railway. Textorus ( talk) 02:50, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Textorus ( talk) 02:50, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
There is actually an article that encompasses Christmas tree production in the United States, it should probably be titled that but it is titled Christmas tree cultivation in the United States. It should be added to the template. I doubt a lot of these places produce too many Christmas trees. IvoShandor ( talk) 08:40, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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There is a version in the sandbox that will update the "state" parameter to match that in the directions at Template:Navbox#Setup parameters. Please update this navbox, thanks. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 20:23, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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Please replace the line
|group2 = {{#if:{{{countries_only|}}} | |Dependencies and<br>other territories}}
with
|group2 = {{#if:{{{countries_only|}}} | |{{longitem|Dependencies and<br/>other territories}}}}
per Template:Americas topic and other similar templates (in Category:Configurable area-topic templates).
Thank you, 213.246.117.230 ( talk) 22:24, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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There is no article named "Cabinet of Greenland". The proper article to replace said name is "Naalakkersuisut" Kristoffer "Wiki" Winkler ( talk) 13:01, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
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This template is supposed to be about ski resorts, but instead it has a bunch of countries and territories with red links. It needs some fixes but is currently protected. I would request that either (i) it be fixed or (ii) it be unprotected so that the Wikipedia community can start to fix it. As it stands it looks screwy and gives Wikipedia a amateurish look. See its use here (bottom of page): List of ski areas and resorts in the United States
Thanks. Mdukas ( talk) 17:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC) Mdukas ( talk) 17:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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Add List of California wildfires be placed next to US in brackets. Example: ( California). Cheers - Kyle1278 ( talk) 03:12, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
{{North America topic|List of | wildfires}}
, but that gets you country-level wildfires. —
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You could use Template:United States topic for a state-level list, though that would have a lot of redlinks:
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The "Life imprisonment in North America" links section at the bottom is full of dead links. Only Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America have working links.
Bosticko ( talk) 17:08, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello there - The North America topic template is being used for Football in the various countries - intended to mean Association football, aka Soccer. Can the template be adjusted so that where it links to "Football in Canada" it links instead to Soccer in Canada, and similarly instead of linking to the disambiguation page Football in the United States it points to Soccer in the United States? Thanks in advance, PK T(alk) 20:31, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
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Add an * Iceland link following Honduras. Iceland is a Transcontinental country, owing to the fact that 50% of its land area and ≥33% of its population - including the capital Reykjavik - lie in North America. Glide08 ( talk) 10:22, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
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template. Iceland is generally considered within Europe, and so for navigation purposes (but perhaps not geographic/geologic purposes) makes sense where it is in {{
Europe topic}} and not in North America topic
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Can you please add the following article to the list of "Dependencies and other territories" in this template?
This article did not exist until today, and consequently was not included in this list prior to it being locked for editing. Please add this so that the name only appears as "Canal Zone". The term "Panama Canal Zone" is incorrect, and it should not be used. This is because the license plates in this article are those issued by the territorial government of the Canal Zone from 1910 - 1979, controlled by the U.S. government, and not the country of Panama. Additionally, the word "Panama" never appears on the plates. Thank you! Zcarstvnz ( talk) 16:33, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
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Please add the portal Caribbean portal to this template, maybe in the section listing portals for island nations, or island territories. many that don't have their own portal are covered by that portal. thanks. -- Sm8900 ( talk) 14:35, 20 September 2019 (UTC) Sm8900 ( talk) 14:35, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
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Archive 1 |
This template is a big red link generator. There are articles that do cover things "in" a place that are not named that way. Granted there are many uses of the template that do generate mostly blue links, and for articles that are supposed to follow a name that includes "in", I think the usage needs to be cleaned up. You can see examples of both via Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:North America in topic. I was thinking about nominating this for TfD, but I'd rather try to work something out instead. Ideas? -- Ned Scott 05:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the concerns raised above, the template does work well for several topics but it can generate a ton of red links when it is not used with care. I would say the template should only be used on topics where it does not generate many red links unless there is a concerted ongoing effort to write the missing articles and place the needed redirects. A red link may be useful to Wikipedia editors but from a users perspective a red link is a broken link. Here's a list of the topics that it appears to work reasonably well in:
And here's some that it currently works poorly in:
The template itself is fine but it's being misused. I'd suggest that a list of recommended topics be maintained for this template (perhaps in a usage section within 'noinclude' tags on the template) and it's use otherwise be discouraged. -- Dv82matt 14:17, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Warofdreams reverted my addition of this comment, presumably accidentally as he posted at about the same time.
I have reverted this template's use on all Music ofs. There are already nice footers that use ordinary musical regions, of which "North America" including Mexico, Panama and Haiti is not one. Tuf-Kat 22:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I added a second optional parameter, which if provided overrides the default name for the top level page. Example: Since there is not and probably never will be a "Flag of North America" page, on "Flag of" pages the template can be called:
. -- ScottMainwaring 23:33, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Per here, would anyone object to this template being renamed {{ North America topic}}, thereby leaving the of/in specified by its parameter (e.g. {{ North America topic|Communications in}}, {{ North America topic|Economy of}}, etc)...? Regards, David Kernow ( talk) 02:51, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Many of the countries listed in this template are not generally categorized as being in North America , but in central America ( like Panama , Nicaragua etc..)-- CltFn 05:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
"Federalism" is a bad use for this template. Only four countries listed are federations: Canada, Mexico, SKN, US. Why would there be an article on "Federalism in (insert name of unitary state here)"? It makes no sense. — Sesel 00:36, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Does Navassa Island need to come out of this template? The article on it is fine, but the idea that one day someone will be inspired to write History of Navassa Island, Economy of Navassa Island, Law of Navassa Island, etc. relating to an uninhabited rock off the coast of Haiti seems a bit improbable to me. It is like a permanent redlink. -- Legis ( talk - contributions) 18:02, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
navassa=no
to the template so that Navassa can be removed from the templates where it's inappropriate? —
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gr 11:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)OMG, I made a huge mistake. I was looking at the page Flags of North America and saw the template "Flags of North America" but it was named "North America topic", so I thought why? Let's move it to a more specific name... and I did! The bad part is that I didn't know that template is an automatic template used in several pages.
Please, some admin. move back the template to its original place. And I'm sorry, I didn't know this was going to happen. Alex C. ( Talk? ) 09:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
This template is for North American nations and territories and not for US territories, such territories can be found in their continental own template Template:Oceania topic. JC 23:10 17 July 2008 (PST)
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{{flag|France}}
" generates both an image and text "
France", and in the contexts where "{{flag|France}}
" is used (an article about Olympics winners, say), the flag provides zero useful info in addition to what the text "
France" already provides, so the image is purely decorative and should not be announced to a visually impaired reader. The situation here is similar.
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Done This looks settled, as it has attracted no further attention. - 2/0 ( cont.) 09:33, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
I know I'm being very pedantic here, but can somebody with access change the wikilink on "other territories" to Sovereign territory. This would fix technicality problems with the French overseas departments on that list, and since there aren't any territories in the subdivisional sense as the link implies (e.g. the Yukon), it's a more appropriate link. Night w ( talk) 10:21, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I have never seen the Netherlands Antilles ever shown as apart of South America - the page linked to certainly don't represent this view point. Can anyone show me where this might be, otherwise we should remove the use of a footnote in the template. Outback the koala ( talk) 00:05, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
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Remove the above footnote number in the template on the grounds above, namely that what it links to has no mention of this, I have sure never heard of this,
Netherlands Antilles says nothing about this. It is clearly and widely known to be in the Caribbean, vis-à-vis it is apart of North America. I really don't think there is a dispute over this. Also it is afixed to
Aruba, which is similarly ridiculous.
Outback the koala (
talk) 03:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
The Netherlands Antilles have been dissolved now, so Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten should be listed here separately, like is the case on Template:Americas topic. Fentener van Vlissingen ( talk) 17:15, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
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France should be added because of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which are unambiguously in North America.
93.96.6.88 ( talk) 21:54, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
As France and the Netherlands now have integral territories in North America, they should be listed in the sovereign states section. However, they are predominantly not North American, so they should probably not be wikilinked here due to it being a topic template. A solution is to just link to the integral parts. Proposed code:
Netherlands <small>([[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Bonaire{{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Bonaire]]{{·w}} [[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Saba{{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Saba]]{{·w}} [[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Saint Eustatius {{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Saint Eustatius ]])</small>{{·w}}
France <small>([[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Guadeloupe{{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Guadeloupe]]{{·w}} [[{{{1|{{{prefix|}}}}}} Martinique{{{2| {{{suffix|}}}}}}|Martinique]])</small>{{·w}}
Resulting in:
Netherlands ( Bonaire · Saba · Saint Eustatius) · France ( Guadeloupe · Martinique) ·
In addition, territories should probably not be wikilinked, as it goes to a specific definition of territory not covered in this template. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 13:33, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Navassa island is uninhabited, and thus the articles that can be written on it are limited. Uninhabited territories are not included on any other topic templates, and Navassa island is not on the North American topic template. It should be removed. In addition, the map used here serves no real purpose (this is not a list of countries), and no other topic template has such a map. For consistency it should also be removed. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 12:48, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Other continental templates don't have pictures of the continents. I think this should be removed too. Alinor ( talk) 08:40, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Other continental templates don't have pictures of the continents. I think this should be removed too. Alinor ( talk) 08:41, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
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Can this entire template (Patent infringement in North America) be deleted? It contains FORTY-TWO red links and only ONE active link. There clearly isn't a purpose being served by "Patent infringement in North America" if it's really only covering one country in North America. It seems totally wasteful to have this template.
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The request is in regards to the addition of Costa RIca to the North American hemisphere, where this is completely incorrect. We costarricans are Central Americans, not north americans. it is very offensive to call us northerns, when we have made so much along the path to prove different.
A correction should be engaged, to keep a respectful sight of our people. 190.7.195.68 ( talk) 09:40, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
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Remove the icon per WP:MOSICON Gnevin ( talk) 16:42, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
The English name of the Dutch island Sint Eustatius is actually "
Saint Eustatius". According to admin
The Tom ISO has
favoured for "Saint" over "Sint" in English usage and he therefore changed the article's name. Could the island's name in this template be changed accordingly to improve consistency? (Most of the articles linked to by this template have already undergone a name change.)
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Edit: I withdraw the request per ISO's correction (see [1]) Styath ( talk) 18:45, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
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Can the map on this template be removed? None of the other topic templates have maps, and as this is a versatile navigation template the map may often be fairly irrelevant to the subject of the links. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 18:42, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
The current temaplte uses the term Rail transport in Jamaica, which itself is a redirect to the actual article at Railways of Jamaica. Can someone please change the template so that it goes directly to the article, and not the redirect? Thank You! Rgds, -- Trident13 ( talk) 16:43, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
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Remove the wikilink to Territory (administrative division). That is not the use of the word territory there, and may confuse readers. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 14:05, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
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It would be good to add on this template Îles des Saintes between Guadeloupe and Martinique. Because it would be more easy for the reader to find and consult the history or the geography of these islands.-- Moowgly ( talk) 14:29, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
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When this template is called by a "Football in ..." article, the entry for the United States links to a disambiguation page: Football in the United States. Instead it should link to Soccer in the United States. (Every other link on the template relates to this sort of football.) Bazonka ( talk) 20:03, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
I've changed all "Football in ..." links to this template to "Association football in ...". All links now work, although some of them only via redirects. Bazonka ( talk) 19:35, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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Suggestion: On the Rail Transport in North America template, someone may want to wikilink Barbados to Transport_in_Barbados#Railway. Textorus ( talk) 02:50, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
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There is actually an article that encompasses Christmas tree production in the United States, it should probably be titled that but it is titled Christmas tree cultivation in the United States. It should be added to the template. I doubt a lot of these places produce too many Christmas trees. IvoShandor ( talk) 08:40, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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There is a version in the sandbox that will update the "state" parameter to match that in the directions at Template:Navbox#Setup parameters. Please update this navbox, thanks. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 20:23, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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Please replace the line
|group2 = {{#if:{{{countries_only|}}} | |Dependencies and<br>other territories}}
with
|group2 = {{#if:{{{countries_only|}}} | |{{longitem|Dependencies and<br/>other territories}}}}
per Template:Americas topic and other similar templates (in Category:Configurable area-topic templates).
Thank you, 213.246.117.230 ( talk) 22:24, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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There is no article named "Cabinet of Greenland". The proper article to replace said name is "Naalakkersuisut" Kristoffer "Wiki" Winkler ( talk) 13:01, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
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This template is supposed to be about ski resorts, but instead it has a bunch of countries and territories with red links. It needs some fixes but is currently protected. I would request that either (i) it be fixed or (ii) it be unprotected so that the Wikipedia community can start to fix it. As it stands it looks screwy and gives Wikipedia a amateurish look. See its use here (bottom of page): List of ski areas and resorts in the United States
Thanks. Mdukas ( talk) 17:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC) Mdukas ( talk) 17:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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Add List of California wildfires be placed next to US in brackets. Example: ( California). Cheers - Kyle1278 ( talk) 03:12, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
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, but that gets you country-level wildfires. —
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You could use Template:United States topic for a state-level list, though that would have a lot of redlinks:
SiBr4 ( talk) 09:23, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
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The "Life imprisonment in North America" links section at the bottom is full of dead links. Only Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America have working links.
Bosticko ( talk) 17:08, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello there - The North America topic template is being used for Football in the various countries - intended to mean Association football, aka Soccer. Can the template be adjusted so that where it links to "Football in Canada" it links instead to Soccer in Canada, and similarly instead of linking to the disambiguation page Football in the United States it points to Soccer in the United States? Thanks in advance, PK T(alk) 20:31, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
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Add an * Iceland link following Honduras. Iceland is a Transcontinental country, owing to the fact that 50% of its land area and ≥33% of its population - including the capital Reykjavik - lie in North America. Glide08 ( talk) 10:22, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
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template. Iceland is generally considered within Europe, and so for navigation purposes (but perhaps not geographic/geologic purposes) makes sense where it is in {{
Europe topic}} and not in North America topic
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Can you please add the following article to the list of "Dependencies and other territories" in this template?
This article did not exist until today, and consequently was not included in this list prior to it being locked for editing. Please add this so that the name only appears as "Canal Zone". The term "Panama Canal Zone" is incorrect, and it should not be used. This is because the license plates in this article are those issued by the territorial government of the Canal Zone from 1910 - 1979, controlled by the U.S. government, and not the country of Panama. Additionally, the word "Panama" never appears on the plates. Thank you! Zcarstvnz ( talk) 16:33, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
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Please add the portal Caribbean portal to this template, maybe in the section listing portals for island nations, or island territories. many that don't have their own portal are covered by that portal. thanks. -- Sm8900 ( talk) 14:35, 20 September 2019 (UTC) Sm8900 ( talk) 14:35, 20 September 2019 (UTC)