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Central North America

Should we include the three territories of North America?

Northern North America

Central North America

Southern North America

Allthough contrary to belief, The United States of America aka America is not located in Central North America as this entity is allready occupied by the City Of Winnipeg. Kind Regards, American(Can) (talk) 01:25, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

More divisions? No, we should not. Not relevant. AlexCovarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 12:30, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why the countries are unclassified is because there isn't any consensus on what countries constitute each "region", besides, those "regions" that you mention are mostly unused, I can't think of the last time I heard in the news "Earthquake strikes in Central North America" or something like that. Supaman89 (talk) 21:36, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maps for continents - proposal

Currently a number of different styles of maps are used for continents (and for the poles), for example:

Europe (current)
Asia (former)
South America (current)

I'd like to try and standardise maps across the following articles: Americas, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania (and also, ideally, Arctic and Antarctica. My preference is for the orthographic projection currently used at Europe because:

It's an SVG instead of a PNG, so can be scaled easily.
New maps can be relatively created from existing SVGs (i.e. Europe's map - or the other SVG maps visible at File:Europe (orthographic projection).svg - can be recycled).
As an orthographic projection it allows the maps to be centred on the relevant continent or territory.

Assuming there's consensus for this, I'll post a request at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop (unless, of course, anyone volunteers beforehand!) However, before doing that I do want to check that there is consensus for this at each article affected. Additionally, I'm posting this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography to increase the exposure - I'd rather find out if this is a stupid idea before I start requesting new images ;-)

Personally I think it would be good if the Arctic and Antarctic maps were consistent with the continent maps. I realise that the poles may have different requirements, however.

This proposal is quite a radical proposal, affecting many articles, and deals with areas I don't normally edit in. I'm therefore prepared to be slapped down if I'm stepping on toes!

Cheers, This flag once was red^propaganda_deeds 19:16, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those maps look good, if you could make them I'll support using them in the articles you mentioned. Supaman89 (talk) 00:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requests submitted. I'd like to reiterate that I have no intention of enforcing these new maps on articles - if there is any objection I'll understand. My intent here is to make uniformity possible, not to enforce it. Cheers, This flag once was red^propaganda_deeds 11:52, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done! Bosonic dressing (talk) 14:52, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice map! Good job. AlexCovarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 19:53, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

scope

North America surely ends at the USA's southern frontier. Below that is central America. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pauldanon (talk • contribs) 23:39, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I guess it depends on the definition. Certainly NAFTA use a different definition, one that takes in Mexico. Cheers, TFOWR^{This flag once was red} 23:43, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Definition is what we're talking about. Equally absurd is that Nunavut is America.