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The Republic of Madawaska is not within the contemporary boundary of the United States. It is in New Brunswick, Canada. Jeff in CA ( talk) 23:53, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
While I think this template is a great addition to Wikipedia, I think there's way too many links in it, and that many of them don't belong in a single template. In particular, the stuff in the "Former sovereign or unrecognized states within the contemporary United States" section is a jumble of disparate entities, none of which constitutes a "territory" in the sense meant by the parent article of this template.
I also think the distinction between the main block of territories at the top and the "unincorporated territories" section isn't consistent. The idea that some territory might be fully incorported into the U.S. and some not only entered US constitutional law with the Insular Cases in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, so it isn't correct to put territories from before that time into that category. I also think uninhabited islets should probably not be grouped together with populated territories, just for readability/navigation purposes.
Finally, I don't think it makes sense to separate separate phases in one territory's development (i.e., District vs. Territory of Alaska) far apart from each other in the template by date.
Here's my recommended version of this template in my sandbox. I've combined different phases the same territory with links and dates noted (e.g. different govt's of Alaska; I also combined Louisiana and Missouri territory because this was a single territory that just changed its name). I eliminated "former sovereign or unrecognized states" section entirely. And I broke out the Guano Island stuff from the rest. Let me know what you think. -- Jfruh ( talk) 19:24, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
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The Republic of Madawaska is not within the contemporary boundary of the United States. It is in New Brunswick, Canada. Jeff in CA ( talk) 23:53, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
While I think this template is a great addition to Wikipedia, I think there's way too many links in it, and that many of them don't belong in a single template. In particular, the stuff in the "Former sovereign or unrecognized states within the contemporary United States" section is a jumble of disparate entities, none of which constitutes a "territory" in the sense meant by the parent article of this template.
I also think the distinction between the main block of territories at the top and the "unincorporated territories" section isn't consistent. The idea that some territory might be fully incorported into the U.S. and some not only entered US constitutional law with the Insular Cases in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, so it isn't correct to put territories from before that time into that category. I also think uninhabited islets should probably not be grouped together with populated territories, just for readability/navigation purposes.
Finally, I don't think it makes sense to separate separate phases in one territory's development (i.e., District vs. Territory of Alaska) far apart from each other in the template by date.
Here's my recommended version of this template in my sandbox. I've combined different phases the same territory with links and dates noted (e.g. different govt's of Alaska; I also combined Louisiana and Missouri territory because this was a single territory that just changed its name). I eliminated "former sovereign or unrecognized states" section entirely. And I broke out the Guano Island stuff from the rest. Let me know what you think. -- Jfruh ( talk) 19:24, 18 May 2020 (UTC)