Talk:Mexico–United States border wall

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Length discrepancy

How can the intro state that it is 1954 miles and then the table in section 2 give a total of 1933.4 miles. We need consistency when somebody adds data involving numbers they need to check against the other sections of the article that already contain numbers to make sure there’s only one set given. But when people haphazardly add data without doing proper checking then we wind up with bad discrepancies that confuse the reader and add distrust in the article as we don’t know which one is accurate.

Requested move 22 July 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ❯❯❯ Raydann^(Talk) 10:48, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

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Mexico–United States barrier → Mexico–United States border wall – The term "border wall" has been used much more often than the term "barrier" when referring to this structure. Usage of "border wall" overtook "barrier" sometime in ~15 years ago. Move per WP:COMMONNAME. – Treetoes023 (talk) 03:29, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

• Support Rreagan007 (talk) 21:30, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
• I fully support this name change. Makes sense to use the common name.Historyday01 (talk) 22:04, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support-ish, but prefer United States–Mexico border wall, since it's a US-built wall, against Mexico. Get the names in a sensible order.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  04:10, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
  • @SMcCandlish: I never thought of it like that. The reason the name proposal is "Mexico–United States border wall" instead of "United States–Mexico border wall" is to match this article's parent article, "Mexico–United States border", and the reason the name order is like that in the parent article is because border articles put the country names in alphabetical order. I hope this helps :) – Treetoes023 (talk) 05:16, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
    • Guess I can live with that. Kind of a consistency vs. recognizability tug-of-war. Anyway, I agree with the "barrier" → "border wall" change.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:18, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

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2024 Texas Border Crisis

So this seems to be ramping up and doesn’t seem to be close to ending and maybe we should add a section about it? Biglad14 (talk) 15:33, 26 January 2024 (UTC)