Talk:List of countries by Human Development Index by region

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Accessibility issue[edit]

The yellow header text likely violates MOS:Accessibility; it's quite hard to read. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:03, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sdkb Definitely there was a reason it was removed in the main article. Technically are all the colors non-compliant, but the yellow is almost unreadable with my blue light filter. The rest of the article also has a bunch of accessibility issues. --Trialpears (talk) 22:55, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merger of region articles[edit]

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To not merge the region articles, given the current structure works for readers; no consensus for alternative proposals with stale discussion. Klbrain (talk) 09:55, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm considering merging List of African countries by Human Development Index, List of sovereign states in Europe by Human Development Index, List of Latin American countries by Human Development Index and List of countries in Asia and Oceania by Human Development Index into this article, possibly spliting it in two parts with continents and other groups afterwards.

These articles have always been of varying quality with often outdated information and much repetition. By combining them all to a page with a bunch of complete lists we could make it easier for readers to look at all different groups and make maintenance significantly easier. I also have major concerns about numbers being changed and noone catching it. That was a significant problem at both HDI and List of countries by HDI before protection and I have no reason to believe that isn't the case here as well but without it being noticed. I even saw this being reported yesterday with someone having changed the Brazilian HDI by 0.100. The main benefit I see with separate articles is that it would be easier to incorporate more discussion about human development in the region. This is however not done today and if it's desired some discussion could be added here and creating a Human Development in Continent series would be more appropriate for in depth discussion anyway. --Trialpears (talk) 14:08, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think those articles are probably a bit redundant with this one existing but I am not sure. I am updating this article atm anyway. And that sort of vandalism is very problematic, it is difficult to catch and I have seen it in articles on gdp per capita. Maybe it is the same person, I am not sure Heikocvijic (talk) 19:45, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose The current content is fine with the List of countries by Human Development Index by region listing the Top 10 countries of each region and each region's own article containing the full list of countries. Otherwise, we would have a lengthy article containing more than 200 countries. Not a good idea.

New Proposal I notice that there are no articles for Northern America and the Caribbean. I reckon that we should split the List of Latin American countries by Human Development Index into List of North American countries by Human Development Index and List of South American countries by Human Development Index by adding the data of Northern American and the Caribbean countries, and also split the List of countries in Asia and Oceania by Human Development Index into List of countries in Asia by Human Development Index and List of countries in Oceania by Human Development Index, that way each inhabited continent would have its own individual article. Vic Park (talk) 02:09, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What is the benefit of this? Plenty of international orgs work on an Asia-Pacific basis and a Latin American basis (although they include the Caribbean in this). CMD (talk) 02:24, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is just a proposal. Alternatively, we could expand the List of Latin American countries by Human Development Index and List of sovereign states in Europe by Human Development Index and rename them the List of Latin American and the Caribbean countries by Human Development Index and List of countries in Europe and Northern America by Human Development Index respectively. My point is that our articles should cover all regions/countries on Earth. Vic Park (talk) 02:46, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If we are splitting, we should follow the same divisions UNDP does: Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe and North America, Asia and the Pacific. CMD (talk) 03:39, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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