Talk:North America

Disruption on the long-debated-over-the-years "Mexico is Central America"

This is frankly exhausting. I also suspect sockpuppetry. We all know who might be behing this. He's the only person that has always been supporting the "Mexico is in Central America" or "Mexico is in Middle America" debate. Lots of information has been shared, debated and we reached a stable, sticked-to-the-truth version without right-wing, excluding definitions. This article has been in peace for months now, more than a year that I remember.

Mexico is not part of Central America. The "UN geoscheme" was devised purely "for statistical convinience" and the UN aknowledges that. This "new" user is trying to use that argument again, ignoring the overwhelming evidence that does not classify Mex in C. America.

Next thing we'll see is that he's going to preffer Mexico classified under "Middle America"... all to avoid the plain truth: Mexico along with Canada, US, Greenland and St. Pierre and sometimes Bermuda are part of N. America. Period. Thanks for reading this. AlexCovarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 10:27, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Ok, the new user is also obsessed with Oceania stuff, Eurasia stuff and of course, "subregion" stuff. Same edit pattern, same intention to introduce the same old POV, now "disguised" between basketball stuff. I think we need to call an administrator. The same old user has been proved to be active recently (several other sockpuppets were blocked in the past weeks). This is like WP:Duck.AlexCovarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 10:31, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Don't forget he's also obsessed with "Stuff-Stuff stuff". — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrCorrector1 (talk • contribs) 23:34, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

"North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas." that's not correct, North America is not a continent, AMERICA is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SusanaJD (talk • contribs) 04:34, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Depends on the continental model you are using. In the 7 continent model commonly used in English speaking countries, North America and South America are separate continents. --Khajidha (talk) 22:00, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Caribbean and Atlantic

Note 4 says: Since the Lucayan Archipelago is located in the Atlantic Ocean rather than Caribbean Sea
However, Caribbean Sea article has this: The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean. So, actually all Caribbean islands are also in the Atlantic Ocean. Maybe it could be put as "proper" Atlantic or something like that to make the difference clear. The Atlantic Ocean article only gives "Atlantic without its adjacent seas", not a very term for that. 82.141.67.208 (talk) 01:05, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Do we prefer miles or kilos here?

I started wondering this when I was trying to unify our measurement system. Before I got to it, the page was using both SI (non-SI) and non-SI (SI) formats for our lengths and areas. I went ahead and made them all kilometres (miles), and was wondering if anybody had any objections to this. I have no preference, and it's not a problem for me to change it to the other direction.

Anybody strongly feel we should use US units as the primary system of measurement with the others in parentheses, or that we should keep it as is?

I'm going to see if I can help out with those Spanish citations, by the way.

meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 01:00, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

From what I've seen, the system which is used by locals is used. About 60 percent of the areas population is in the USA, so the non-SI units are used by majority. However, it is only one country, and there are 22 other countries and 22 dependent territories which use the SI/metric system. So, I don't know how this is supposed to be. 82.141.67.208 (talk) 22:22, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

The usual practice is to use whatever variety of English is most appropriate to the article, and failing that to never change an article from one variety of English to another without a compelling reason (thus we keep both Orange (colour) and Silver (color) where they are, since neither mandate a particular dialect of English). The earliest version of this article used SI units [1], so I think it's probably best to keep it like that. I'd suggest it should ultimately use a consistent variety of English, which might be American English; but I see no reason to prefer one North American English over another. The article might reasonably be rendered in Canadian or Jamaican English, for instance, but this kind of thing gets peoples' nationalism up a lot, eh? WilyD 13:55, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

See also WP:NATIONAL. WilyD 13:56, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

 Closed I'm going to side with SI units, then meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 02:28, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 May 2014

On the map in the top right corner, Greenland is marked as a part of North America.

Greenland is a part of Denmark. 212.93.55.37 (talk) 13:33, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

 Not done This would require a change to File:Location North America.svg (see File talk:Location North America.svg), but although the Greenland article says "Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark," it also says it is "physiographically a part of the continent of North America". – Wbm1058 (talk) 13:59, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

The biggest cities is missing the San Francisco Bay Area

Like New York, the SF Bay Area is a combination of many cities; San Francisco: Manhattan, Oakland: Brooklyn, etc. We're real over here on the west coast!

And this is our population: 7 Mil. http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm