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Template-protected edit request on 23 February 2014
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I'm not sure that Egypt should be in this template, it's not really in Asia. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 10:36, 23 February 2014 (UTC) Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 10:36, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- A small part of it actually is. See Sinai Peninsula. SiBr4 (talk) 12:13, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the
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template. I'm deactivating the request because while most of the world believes that it isn't in Asia, a tiny piece technically may be and there will need to be some discussion about whether or not enough of it is for inclusion in this template. — {{U|Technical 13}} (t • e • c) 13:41, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 26 February 2014
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ethnic group of south asian country of Nepal is not included in this list, please include Nepal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.244.180.107 (talk • contribs) 11:02, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
- It's there, between Mongolia and Oman. It seems to work fine in ethnic group articles too. SiBr4 (talk) 11:31, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 8 March 2014
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120.28.127.95 (talk) 15:15, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
- Not done: Empty request. SiBr4 (talk) 15:19, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 13 March 2014
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Hello to admin, Can you change some non-existed information here specially to the part of the Philippines for i made an article List of wars involving The Philippines i kindly send you this request to add this newly made article , Thank you ! Dimasgag 09:03, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- I've solved it by moving List of wars involving The Philippines to List of wars involving the Philippines, leaving a redirect at the former title. Note that this is a general navbox; which articles it links to depends on the parameters used. SiBr4 (talk) 10:09, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 13 April 2014
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Change Human trafficking in the Palestinian territories to Human trafficking in Palestine.
OccultZone (Talk) 19:43, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
- That should be changed in the respective articles. This is a generic template used for hundreds of different topics; which articles it links to is defined by the parameters. SiBr4 (talk) 20:04, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
- Solved by redirecting Human trafficking in the Palestinian territories to Human trafficking in Palestine. SiBr4 (talk) 20:05, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 18 May 2014
The "List of universities in Asia" template incorrectly links to a nonexistent page for Palestine. The link for Palestine should direct readers to: List of Palestinian universities and colleges. --Comayagua99 (talk) 22:34, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
- Done CMD (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 29 May 2014
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The link for Lebanese Navy currently goes to Lebanese Armed Forces but there is a page called Lebanese Navy. 92.251.49.128 (talk) 17:39, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
- Done, regards CMD (talk) 17:50, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 3 July 2014
I suggest changing the title of the third line, in accordance with the templates of other the continents (Europe, Africa..). From "Other dependent territories" to "Dependencies and other territories". Jan CZ (talk) 13:18, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- Sensible. CMD (talk) 15:26, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- Done: Special:Diff/615454542. SiBr4 (talk) 16:51, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
RfC on Iraqi Kurdistan level of autonomy
I would like to invite editors to comment at RfC proposal on Iraqi Kurdistan's level of autonomy, essentially resolving whether Iraqi Kurdistan should or shouldn't be added to the "other Dependent territories" under Asia topic.GreyShark (dibra) 18:05, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- The discussion is here: Talk:Iraqi Kurdistan#RfC on Iraqi Kurdistan autonomy level (second proposal). Vanjagenije (talk) 20:30, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Egypt is a Asian country?How come!
It's known to all of us that Egypt is an African country,rather than an Asian country.-- パンツァー VI-II ❂Fu7ラジオ❂In the Republic of China 103rd.民國103年 07:09, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- It's actually both. See List of transcontinental countries#Africa and Asia. SiBr4 (talk) 12:13, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, that part of Egypt that is east of the Gulf of Suez - i.e. the Sinai Peninsula - is in Asia. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:28, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks.I have got it.-- パンツァー VI-II ❂Fu7ラジオ❂In the Republic of China 103rd.民國103年 15:38, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
UAE
There is no article 'Tourism in UAE', but there is an article 'Tourism in Dubai'. Perhaps this latter article could be use in this Tourism in Asia template. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.26.123.208 (talk) 08:31, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Adding Dubai to Template:Asia topic would mean adding it separately to every navbox based on this template, including {{Geography of Asia}}, {{Television in Asia}}, {{Music of Asia}} and many others. I've created Tourism in the United Arab Emirates as a redirect to the "Tourism in the United Arab Emirates" section of List of United Arab Emirates-related topics, which links to Tourism in Dubai. SiBr4 (talk) 11:46, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you for the quick response! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.26.123.208 (talk) 07:32, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Internet in Asia
In articles like Internet in Yemen, there is a navbox at the bottom whose title is Internet in Asia. It redirects to a deleted section, so it defaults to the Internet article. That isn't helping the reader, so I wanted to unlink it. But I got lost in your labyrinth of templates transcluding each other. So I don't know if the problem is just Internet in Asia or if that's just one example of a wider problem. Art LaPella (talk) 20:31, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
- You can set a custom title using the
|title=
parameter in {{Asia topic}}, as in{{Asia topic|Internet in|title=Internet in Asia}}
. Since each article transcludes Asia topic directly, a change to each separate article is necessary, either by adding the|title=Internet in Asia
parameter or replacing the direct transclusions with a new specialized {{Internet in Asia}} (I can do either quickly using AWB). SiBr4 (talk) 20:45, 22 August 2014 (UTC) - Alternatively, since {{Asia topic}} checks for existence of the title as a page and unlinks it if the page doesn't exist, deleting the Internet in Asia redirect has the same effect. SiBr4 (talk) 20:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
- WP:Help desk#Saving history Art LaPella (talk) 00:21, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- how about converting the page to an index / directory navigation page?-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:29, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- I think you're talking about rewriting the entire template somehow, so perhaps that suggestion was for SiBr4... Art LaPella (talk) 00:38, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- I moved the redirect, as suggested at the help desk. If nothing bad happens, I can fix some other continents with the same problem. Art LaPella (talk) 01:04, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- TRPoD's suggestion was to make Internet in Asia an list of links to each country's article without further content, similar to an index page. SiBr4 (talk) 10:33, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- I don't know why the reader would want that. I believe that means that the reader would see the bottom of Internet in Yemen (or any Asian country), see "Internet in Asia", click it, and get the same result he would get by clicking "show". Art LaPella (talk) 22:54, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- TRPoD's suggestion was to make Internet in Asia an list of links to each country's article without further content, similar to an index page. SiBr4 (talk) 10:33, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- how about converting the page to an index / directory navigation page?-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:29, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- WP:Help desk#Saving history Art LaPella (talk) 00:21, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 25 September 2014
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Please change Oman to Oman. A minor change I know but the page name will then bold when visited, which it doesn't do at the moment Gbawden (talk) 11:31, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
- I'm afraid this can't be accomplished. The article on Royal Navy of Oman calls the template by
{{Asia topic|Navy of|title=Navies of Asia}}
which means that Navy of is prefixed to every country in Asia. If you change the prefix, it will affect every link in the template. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:42, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
- This would be possible if country-specific parameters were added to the template, as I proposed in the previous section. SiBr4 (talk) 13:27, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
Egypt is in Africa!
Why is Egypt in both the Asia topic and the Africa topic when it is clearly in Africa. Please change it. Esmost πк 09:48, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- @Esmost: It's both, see #Egypt is a Asian country?How come! above. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:50, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: Oh. Ne'ermind, sorry for being rude. Esmost πк 09:59, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Individually setting/removing entries
@Codename Lisa: Instead of using parser functions to alter the link for Macau for for a specific topic within this general template, would it be a better idea to add the functionality in {{Europe topic}} of individually changing or removing links to the other continent-topic templates as well? That way the link to Macau can be easily changed within {{Capitals in Asia}} instead of here. SiBr4 (talk) 10:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- Hi. I don't know. I am not active in this area, so I wouldn't know whether doing this is a waste of time and rendering performance or actually useful. For time being, I assume it safe to say implementing it for Macau alone would be nice. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 01:08, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- It just seems odd to me that the Europe template has several options that not all of the other continents have – the country-specific parameters, the
|image=
parameter (shared with the Asia template) and the|article=
parameter. Adding these options to all templates would make them consistent. SiBr4 (talk) 20:41, 31 August 2014 (UTC)- I think this is a good idea. If you have the time to sandbox and test these changes, I will happily deploy. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:44, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- @MSGJ: After quite a lot of testing, I have now made the change, updated transcluding articles and templates that would otherwise break and added documentation. I'll do the remaining continents later. SiBr4 (talk) 19:37, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
- I think this is a good idea. If you have the time to sandbox and test these changes, I will happily deploy. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:44, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
- It just seems odd to me that the Europe template has several options that not all of the other continents have – the country-specific parameters, the
Template-protected edit request on 12 December 2014
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Kindly remove Egypt from the list as it isn't an Asian country. Jon Jonathan (talk) 18:18, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
- Please see two previous sections on this page, which explain why it is. SiBr4 (talk) 18:59, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 17 March 2015
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Add LGBT rights in ISIL controlled territory to "states with limited recognition". The article is well sourced and covers the situation of LGBT people in a state with limited recognition. 3hunna (talk) 22:03, 17 March 2015 (UTC) 3hunna (talk) 22:03, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
- Not done, that article is not a state with limited recognition so does not belong in a list of states. — xaosflux Talk 03:06, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 31 March 2015
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Please remove "Russia" from the list of Asian countries, and leave it where it belongs in the European section. Likewise, please remove "Turkey" from the list of European countries, and leave it in the Asian section. Thank you. 209.210.220.64 (talk) 17:58, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
- Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the
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template. This change would obviously be controversial, so I'm disabling the request. Alakzi (talk) 18:21, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 18 April 2015
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Can someone add Oil and gas industry in Burma and Natural gas and petroleum in Bangladesh? Thanks
- In the Petroleum in Asia template.
Merchant of Asia (talk) 00:18, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- Not sure what you're asking for. Do you want a new navbox created? Alakzi (talk) 00:36, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not sure why a petroleum template redirects here. The one at the bottom of this page. Can't edit it.--Merchant of Asia (talk) 00:43, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- The way this navbox works is by prefixing a string of words in front of a country name. The easiest thing to do would be to create redirects from Petroleum industry in Burma and Petroleum industry in Bangladesh. Alakzi (talk) 00:50, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks again.--Merchant of Asia (talk) 01:05, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- The way this navbox works is by prefixing a string of words in front of a country name. The easiest thing to do would be to create redirects from Petroleum industry in Burma and Petroleum industry in Bangladesh. Alakzi (talk) 00:50, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not sure why a petroleum template redirects here. The one at the bottom of this page. Can't edit it.--Merchant of Asia (talk) 00:43, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Sovereign states
Can anyone change this into "UN members"? This can make sure there are less disbutes. --Owennson (talk) 07:50, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not too sure about changing the header of the first group from "sovereign states" to "UN members" in the continent-topic templates (1 2 3 4). Vatican City is now listed as a UN member in Template:Europe topic, which it isn't. SiBr4 (talk) 15:43, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
- @Owennson: I have reverted your changes to these templates. Please be sure to establish consensus before changing such widely used templates. I like your idea of reducing the disputes about which countries may be sovereign or not, but unilateral changes are probably going to cause an equal amount of drama. And there are other things that need to be considered: e.g. the status of the Vatican, or the general structure of these templates. If we have a list of UN members, how does the section of "states with limited recognition" and "dependencies" fit into it? A logical sorting would be "UN members" vs "Non-UN-members". De728631 (talk) 23:26, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 4 July 2015
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The Indonesia section should link to the article Names of Indonesia instead of Indonesia Gunkarta talk 08:43, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
- Not done: This is a meta-template;
{{Asia topic|Name of}}
correctly links to Name of Indonesia. Alakzi (talk) 11:11, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 11 July 2015
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There are a lot of wikilinks in this area without a target page to land upon. And guessing after a small talk with a host at the teahouse I am submitting this request to have these links removed since this page has been flagged for this problem in the past (2008) and I for being a regular user, cannot correct them myself. This area seems to be too old for these links to soon all have a page to target so could this please be resolved? Thank you so much for at least reading my request! CoolInu43 (talk) 22:12, 11 July 2015 (UTC) CoolInu43 (talk) 22:12, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
- This template has no facility to omit red links. You can individually hide red links by specifying a two-letter country code as blank, e.g.
|TR=
. If this must be done for a large number of links, you'd be better of wrapping the template in another template. Alakzi (talk) 22:24, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 12 July 2015
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The "Bangladesh" in this template directs to the page List of cities in Bangladesh. However, that page is merely a redirect to List of cities and towns in Bangladesh. Due to this, the template that appears in the cities and towns page does not show "Bangladesh" bold and unlinked.
What I would request is that the "Bangladesh" on the template be linked to the cities and towns page directly (instead of being linked to the redirect page). I know little about editing on templates and I am quite sure you know how to get it done but I still created a sample of how I would like it on the template sandbox. My edit there is a bit of an eyesore, but I believe an eyesore is better kept in the source than in actual articles and templates. Rihaz (Talk to me • Stuff I did • Global Info) 17:15, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
- This is a general template that is used for many other topics than lists of cities. Use
|BD=List of cities and towns in Bangladesh
when using the navbox to change the link; you can do this in a wrapper template and then use that in each "List of cities in ..." article. SiBr4 (talk) 17:18, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you and sorry for the silly request. As I said, I don't really know much about how these templates worked. Your help and guidance was appreciated. Thanks again! Rihaz (Talk to me • Stuff I did • Global Info) 17:25, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 20 July 2015
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- Note: I sought to change the template showing "Land reform in Asia" which displays at Land Bank of the Philippines and elsewhere. But I clicked to edit it, I am brought to editing the "Asia topic" template. If this request should be put elsewhere, pls. do let me know. --doncram
Because a link target (Land reform in Vietnam) has been changed to a disambiguation page, this template should be updated. Change from the current Vietnam line:
to two lines, one for Land reform in North Vietnam and one for Land reform in South Vietnam.
By the way, I don't see why this template should be under edit protection since 2008. Time to take protection off. It could be restored if necessary, but there is no reason to expect rampant vandalism. --doncram 04:20, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
doncram 04:20, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- This issue cannot be solved by editing {{Asia topic}}. One solution would be to write a special-purpose navbox {{Land reform in Asia}}, which could also reduce the clutter by listing only the six countries for which there is a working link. Also I think Land reform in Vietnam is a set index article not a disambiguation page, and I have tagged it thus.
- If you look through this talk page and its archives, you'll see many rejected edit requests from editors who have misunderstood the purpose of the template or who have a political point to make. So I don't think reducing the protection would be a good idea. You could ask at WP:RFPU, of course. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:01, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you for your kind and helpful response. I obviously did not understand how template:Asia topic worked. After your response and my reading further in Asia topic's documentation, I then considered creating a separate nav template for Land reform in Asia, and taking that entirely out of the {{Asia topic}} system. But I like your solution to convert the dab page Land reform in Vietnam to a set index article, which can and should be developed a bit. It is better to have just one navlink to Vietnam and to explain the past pre-unification land reform efforts in one place where ancient plus post-reunification land reform efforts can be described, too. That's great, thank you! And your edit already has taken Land reform in Vietnam off a worklist of disambiguation pages having links that seemed especially problematic, and had not been resolved despite being identified as a problem for 2 or more months. Sincerely, --doncram 15:34, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 5 August 2015
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Can you please fix this article's wrong information Cabinet of South Korea to State Council of South Korea?
Thank you and have a good day Mailzzang+aus (talk) 03:06, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Mailzzang+aus: I've made an edit to Template:Politics of South Korea, replacing "Cabinet" with "State Council". This is displayed at the top right of many articles about South Korea. Was that the error you noticed? If not, please post again here with more details - in which article are you seeing the error, and where in the article? -- John of Reading (talk) 06:40, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Burma to Myanmar
Burma has been moved to Myanmar following an RM discussion. This template will need updating. Timrollpickering (talk) 21:07, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
Error in trivia section
Why is Eygpt on the asian list? It's nowhere near Asia. Ztyran (talk) 06:11, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- This is explained in the first paragraph of the Egypt article. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:07, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
edit request on 4 November 2015
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move Taiwan from
States with limited recognition
Too
Sovereign states
Reason: Taiwan have full authorized of it own territory, land,civilian,government(ROC).
have army to command,economy system,trading action,currency (新台幣:TWD)
with the daily report of show the evidence of it's was a independent country have ability to be call "Sovereign states" Composcompos12 (talk) 12:48, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the
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template. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:30, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 19 November 2015
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plz add List of banks in Palestine to the Template. Imad_J (talk) 20:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC) Imad_J (talk) 20:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
- I have created List of banks in the Palestinian territories as a redirect to List of banks in Palestine. Articles such as List of banks in Brunei which have a "List of banks in Asia" box will now display "Palestine" as a blue link, once the software has re-processed them all. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 23 December 2015
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Please, change [[Corruption in Georgia (country)]] to [[Corruption in Georgia]]
80.241.251.138 (talk) 10:45, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- Per the warning at the top of this page, that can't be changed in this navbox itself. I've solved it by redirecting Corruption in Georgia (country) to Corruption in Georgia; you can add
|GE=Corruption in Georgia
to the navbox invocation in the article to avoid a self-redirect. SiBr4 (talk) 11:57, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 29 February 2016
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Please update the template with the current sandbox code, thereby replacing the deprecated parameter |template=yes
by |mode=unique
, as successfully done before for Template:Europe topic.
Thanks, PanchoS (talk) 16:26, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Modification edit request
Please remove Egypt from the template. Egypt is not in Asia, last I checked. --RM (Be my friend) 20:19, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Reenem: A search in the archives finds this recent discussion. It seems that a small part of Egypt is in Asia. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:31, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- A part of it. You know as well as I do that practically the entire country is in Africa. It really should go into the Africa topic.--RM (Be my friend) 20:44, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- It's there already. Template:Africa topic Bazj (talk) 20:47, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- A part of it. You know as well as I do that practically the entire country is in Africa. It really should go into the Africa topic.--RM (Be my friend) 20:44, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Change the title
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From
| group3 = Dependencies and
other territories
Too
| group3 = Dependencies and
other territories
211.227.83.69 (talk) 14:48, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
- Not done for now. FYI, this third group's name and function has changed over the years. Special:Permalink/414126191, Special:Diff/588367549, Special:Diff/615454542. See Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 4#Template-protected edit request on 29 December 2013 and Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Template-protected edit request on 3 July 2014 for related edit requests. Expanding the link out to "other territories" when they are not "dependent territories" may be misleading. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 15:55, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 26 July 2016
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The template section "Dependencies and other territories" lists Hong Kong and Macau as they are Special administrative regions of China. Should the Autonomous regions of China (Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang and Ningxia) also be listed there?
Polly Tunnel (talk) 14:45, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
- Have any sources listed these as dependencies? We don't list autonomous areas from other states. CMD (talk) 15:03, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 1 September 2016
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Change Israel link to List of Israeli airports. ה-זפרt@lk 20:12, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
- Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the
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template. Izno (talk) 20:20, 1 September 2016 (UTC) - This template doesn't work like that. What article is this issue coming up on? CMD (talk) 20:32, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
- I moved List of Israeli airports to List of airports in Israel for titling consistency with other Asia topic airport pages. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 20:58, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
add link
can u add List of banks in Palestine to the List of banks in Asia. thanks . --Imad_J (talk) 04:18, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 25 June 2017
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Egypt is in Africa, not Asia. Please remove it from this list. 2001:630:12:1008:4D32:95E2:632:4963 (talk) 16:39, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- Not done: See many archived threads, the most recent of which are: Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Template-protected edit request on 23 February 2014; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Egypt is a Asian country?How come!; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Egypt is in Africa!; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Template-protected edit request on 12 December 2014; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Error in trivia section; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Modification edit request. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:14, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 28 June 2017
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- Please add Non-governmental organisations in India to the template. Thank you— Look2See1 t a l k → 02:07, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
- Not done This issue cannot be fixed by editing the template; see the "Attention" box at the top of this talk page. You could change the link target for "India" by adding "IND = Non-governmental organisations in India" as an extra parameter; another workaround would be to create a redirect from List of non-governmental organizations in India to an appropriate section of Non-governmental organisations in India. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:04, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 28 June 2017
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- Please add Non-governmental organisations in Nepal. There is also Category:Non-governmental organizations of Asia you may want to add to the template's cats too. Thank you— Look2See1 t a l k → 02:22, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
- Not done similarly. The template {{Asia topic}} is general-purpose, so that category is not applicable. If you were to set up a new template using Asia topic, Template:Asia topic/doc#Creating a new template, then the category could be added there. Such a template could also hide away the use of "IND = ..." and "NP = ..." -- John of Reading (talk) 05:09, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 2 August 2017
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A ri gi bod (talk) 17:06, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Please, add within "dependencies and other territories" Tibet Thank youA ri gi bod (talk) 17:06, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
- Not done for now: Because of the nature of this navbar template, the ISO code for a country must be known in order to include it. Tibet does not yet have an ISO 3166 code and so may not be included here at this time. Thank you for your participation! Paine Ellsworth put'r there 22:27, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
China Customs
China Customs is a disambiguation page (which includes, among other things, an article about Chinese pre-wedding customs). The link to that page in this template is unhelpful (and is also against MOS:DAB). Narky Blert (talk) 12:33, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
- This template doesn't link there - Special:WhatLinksHere/China Customs. The only thing here that links to China Customs is your comment. Cabayi (talk) 12:39, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
- Sovereign Base Areas Customs has a link to that dab page via this template. The
|CN=article name
parameter can be used to change the link there, though with only three blue links, and zero in the Europe template below it, the navboxes may as well be removed from the article. SiBr4 (talk) 13:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)- 11 months later, Sovereign Base Areas Customs still links to the DAB page Chinese customs, and User:DPL bot is still reporting this WP:INTDABLINK error. This really does need to be fixed. Narky Blert (talk) 19:01, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Narky Blert: I have fixed this in the way that SiBr4 suggested. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:23, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
- 11 months later, Sovereign Base Areas Customs still links to the DAB page Chinese customs, and User:DPL bot is still reporting this WP:INTDABLINK error. This really does need to be fixed. Narky Blert (talk) 19:01, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 14 August 2017
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Since the page Poverty in Afghanistan has been created, I request that the template be edited to account for this change Anandtr2006 (talk) 09:42, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Anandtr2006: This does not need an edit to the template, as the software will sort this out when it gets round to re-processing the other "Poverty in..." articles. For example, at Poverty in Bangladesh the "Poverty in Asia" box is showing a blue link for Poverty in Afghanistan. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:48, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 16 August 2017
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Please replace Nagorno-Karabakh with Artsakh as the state officially changed its name and the main Wikipedia page already change the name to the Republic of Artsakh. Growupon (talk) 02:51, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
- Done, and thank you very much, Growupon, for the update! Paine Ellsworth put'r there 11:11, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
- Paine Ellsworth, could you please make sure that the article "the" can be present in the article titles that the templates will provide. Thank you. --Growupon (talk) 19:17, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
- The definite article "the" has been restored; however, we should note that the various subordinate articles, such as Economy of the Republic of Artsakh, as well as the main article, Republic of Artsakh do not really conform to the article naming policy at WP:CONCISE ("Republic of Artsakh" should be "Artsakh" with the full name noted in the lead in boldface type). That means that those titles should be renamed and this template edited accordingly. Paine Ellsworth put'r there 15:19, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
- To editor Andrewa: since you closed the recent RM at Talk:Republic of Artsakh, it would be helpful to hear your thoughts on this. One editor there asked about renaming to just "Artsakh", and another advised to make that a dab page (see also Artsakh (disambiguation)). At present, it appears that Artsakh is a PTopic redirect. Paine Ellsworth put'r there 16:43, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
- Since you ask, my immediate reaction is that Artsakh would be the best name for the article now at Republic of Artsakh (where I moved it according to the RM consensus I assessed). And yes, Golbez suggested this there in a comment, and it is as you say currently a redirect there anyway, so presumably as a primary redirect. But yes, I also note that AjaxSmack commented that "Artsakh"... should probably be a disambiguation page. If you wish to pursue this I guess the first thing is to see what arguments they would each advance. Andrewa (talk) 02:17, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
- I have opened a Move Request discussion regarding this at Talk:Artsakh (disambiguation). — AjaxSmack 02:44, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you both for responding! Not sure myself, now that you mention it, that there actually is a primary topic for the Artsakh title. Guess we'll see soon enough. Paine Ellsworth put'r there 07:45, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
- I have opened a Move Request discussion regarding this at Talk:Artsakh (disambiguation). — AjaxSmack 02:44, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
- Since you ask, my immediate reaction is that Artsakh would be the best name for the article now at Republic of Artsakh (where I moved it according to the RM consensus I assessed). And yes, Golbez suggested this there in a comment, and it is as you say currently a redirect there anyway, so presumably as a primary redirect. But yes, I also note that AjaxSmack commented that "Artsakh"... should probably be a disambiguation page. If you wish to pursue this I guess the first thing is to see what arguments they would each advance. Andrewa (talk) 02:17, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
- Paine Ellsworth, could you please make sure that the article "the" can be present in the article titles that the templates will provide. Thank you. --Growupon (talk) 19:17, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Palestine
I wonder under what criteria is Palestine included in states with limited recognition. Because although it's true that Palestine is such a case, same can be said about Israel and China. The three countries are recognized by most UN members, but not for all. And I have nothing against Israel or China, just in case, I just think we have to be fair and give the same treatment to all states. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 07:51, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
PD: In any case I would suggest to place Palestine up, in the same area where China and Israel are, not to put China and Israel in the unrecognized section. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 07:52, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
- The template copies the categorisation agreed for Template:Countries of Asia; I suggest raising this query on its talk page. Warofdreams talk 18:10, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you, I will. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 19:24, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 10 December 2017
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Change the Brunei wikilink from Brunei to Brunei. This is to reflect the last page move from Postal codes in Brunei to Postcodes in Brunei. Zulfadli51 (talk) 16:04, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Zulfadli51: Not done: You are requesting a change to Template:Asia topic, but that is a generic template, used as a framework for several other navbox templates. You don't specify which of these navboxes is to be amended; it certainly won't be Template:Asia topic itself. But wherever this is, you should be able to use the
|BN=
parameter, as in|BN=Postcodes in Brunei
, see Template:Asia topic#Altering the link used for a specific entity. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:13, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 6 January 2018
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Change Palestine's flag article name to "Flag of Palestine" as it just redirects. Duonaut (talk | contribs) 00:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Duonaut: Not done: See box at top of this page, the one beginning "ATTENTION This continent-topic template is transcluded on multiple navigational templates". --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:49, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 20 February 2018
Add a link to the page Marriage Traditions in Myanmar on the Marriage in Asia template. Cait.123 (talk) 14:16, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 11 May 2018
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I am requesting that in the Asia template, Palestine should be designated as 'Asian observer states' or 'sovereign states' and separate from the 'states with limited recognition category', as its a UN observer and has a far more substantial percentage of recognition (70.5%), making it mostly recognized and de jure. Please carefully consider this change and it is not attached to any political biases. Talatastan (talk) 17:18, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
- Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the
{{edit template-protected}}
template. — JJMC89 (T·C) 18:14, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 28 June 2018
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Remove landlocked Countries and those without any islands from the List of Islands of Asia.
Since they'll be perpetually red links anyway. Rezelc (talk) 23:58, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
- Not done: If you're referring to Lists of islands#Asia you can just edit that article directly. It is not produced using this template. If you're referring to something else, please clarify — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:35, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
A link to a DAB page
In Kuwait Army and List of armies by country, this template calls Army of Vietnam, which is a DAB page. It should call People's Army of Vietnam. Narky Blert (talk) 14:16, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
- The link can be changed using
|VI=
|VN=People's Army of Vietnam
. The template may as well be replaced with {{Military of Asia}} in those articles, though, for consistency with all other Asian army articles as well as to avoid redirects. SiBr4 (talk) 16:15, 17 July 2018 (UTC)- @SiBr4: I have precisely no interest whatsoever in fixing obscure complex templates which create problems for DABfixers like me. I know how to fix the best part of 20 cute templates which create problems which are picked up by User:DPL bot. This template still calls that DAB page. Please, fix this problem. Your template, your problem. This is not the first time I have encountered a to me insoluble problem in a "Continent topic" template which has wasted my time. It is also not the first time I have received an answer which did not address the problems created by such a template.
- It's all about the readers. Narky Blert (talk) 22:05, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
- There's no need for or even use in editing the template itself, as the big orange box at the top of this talk page points out. This is not a template about armies; it can link to any "X of country" articles and many other formats, so any problematic links should be fixed in the articles that use the template, like this. SiBr4 (talk) 10:21, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
Edit request
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The transcluded template {{i2c}} is a redirect to {{iso2country}}. Although the cost of a single redirect is trivial, in this case (and in the other "Continent topic" templates too) it occurs multiple times within a template that's itself transcluded on thousands of pages; this means that the redirect has to be followed many times whenever any of those thousands of pages is viewed. That adds up to a significant unnecessary overhead. I therefore suggest that the code is changed to invoke {{iso2country}} directly. (The same change has already been made to {{Europe topic}}). Colonies Chris (talk) 09:26, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
- Not done: Template redirects are processed when the page is saved, not when it is viewed. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:00, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
- Done Cabayi (talk) 10:01, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 29 August 2018
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Add at the bottom of this template links to Book:Asia, Category:Asia, and Portal:Asia.
The following wikicode should be added:
| belowclass = hlist
| belowstyle = font-weight:bold;
| below =
* {{icon|book}} [[Book:Asia|Book]]
* {{icon|Category}} [[:Category:Asia|Category]]
* {{icon|Portal}} [[Portal:Asia|Asia portal]]
which renders as
Eli355 (talk | contribs) 19:12, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Eli355: Not done: please make your requested changes to the template's sandbox first; see WP:TESTCASES. Please don't paste code blobs and examples into the request; the place for demonstrations is Template:Asia topic/testcases. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:35, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: The template talk page you mentioned is a redirect to this talk page —Eli355 (talk | contribs) 00:06, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry it was a typo. Fixed --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:00, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
- Done (same as request below) – BrandonXLF (t@lk) 20:11, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry it was a typo. Fixed --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:00, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: The template talk page you mentioned is a redirect to this talk page —Eli355 (talk | contribs) 00:06, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 13 September 2018
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The links to the book, category, and portal should be made bold so the stand out. Eli355 (talk | contribs) 15:01, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
- Done – BrandonXLF (t@lk) 20:10, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks —Eli355 (talk | contribs) 00:13, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
only two country?
Taiwan and HK — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.165.35.76 (talk) 15:48, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 30 September 2018
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Add a link at the bottom of the template to Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia. See the proposed change at Template:Asia topic/sandbox. —Eli355 ( talk•contribs ) 17:40, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
- Not done: per MOS:Internal links:"Do not create links to user, WikiProject, essay or draft pages in articles, except in articles about Wikipedia itself (see Self-references to avoid)." Galobtter (pingó mió) 18:44, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 10 November 2018
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Egypt is in the Asian Architecture section Lrichar (talk) 02:16, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Not done. See the archives for the answer to this perennial topic. Part of Egypt is in Asia. – Jonesey95 (talk) 08:00, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Two edit requests
- The template includes China (PRC) but not Taiwan (ROC).
- In Aadhaar and National Identity Card (Nepal), this template calls the DAB page National identity cards in China. User:DPL bot is complaining about the WP:INTDABLINK error and rightly so - the DAB page has entries for two different countries and for two different Special Administrative Regions of the PRC. Narky Blert (talk) 10:44, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- Wrong. Taiwan is in the second section, "States with limited recognition".
- That looks like a problem with the articles, not the template. Created National identity cards in Taiwan as a redir to National Identification Card (Republic of China) and redirected National identity cards in China to Resident Identity Card. Problem sorted. Cabayi (talk) 11:22, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Cabayi: You failed to see it through completely. You wiped the information on the DAB page, and left a double redirect behind. Both problems now fixed, and there is now a {{redirect}} hatnote on Resident Identity Card. Narky Blert (talk) 11:35, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- And {{Copied}} placed on both talk pages to fix the c&p move. Cabayi (talk) 12:49, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Cabayi: You failed to see it through completely. You wiped the information on the DAB page, and left a double redirect behind. Both problems now fixed, and there is now a {{redirect}} hatnote on Resident Identity Card. Narky Blert (talk) 11:35, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Links to a DAB page
In Communism in Korea, Communism in the Philippines and Communism in Vietnam, this template is calling the DAB page Communism in India. User:DPL bot is complaining about the WP:INTDABLINK errors. Narky Blert (talk) 09:17, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 8 April 2019
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I wanted to add the Kurdistan region to the States with limited relations.Thenabster126 (talk) 05:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC) Thenabster126 (talk) 05:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- It seems fairly agreed-upon that Kurdistan is not in the list of states with limited recognition. — MarkH21 (talk) 05:45, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
So what does it count as? Is it autonomous?Thenabster126 (talk) 13:27, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- If you mean Iraqi Kurdistan, then yes they are autonomous. If you mean Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) then that is functionally autonomous, but not officially and is not explicitly a Kurdish polity. CMD (talk) 13:34, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 17 January 2019
There is a rough consensus against adding Prostitution in Tibet to Template:Asia topic.
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Prostitution in Tibet (btw Tibet is NOT a sovereign state) should be in this template as well. Tony85poon (talk) 23:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
- Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the
{{edit template-protected}}
template. Like you said Tony85poon, Tibet is NOT a sovereign state. Cabayi (talk) 08:37, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
Should Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Tibet Autonomous Region both be added to the Template:Asia topic? RfC relisted by Cunard (talk) at 01:46, 11 March 2019 (UTC). Tony85poon (talk) 16:00, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose: In addition to not being sovereign states, they are not "states with limited recognition" or "dependencies and other territories", so they don't fit in any of the existing boxes in the template. There are loads of autonomous administrative divisions in the world, and I don't see a case for exception here. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 08:51, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Support There is an interesting parallel with Ukraine and Europe. Template:Europe_topic contains Ukraine. Ukraine, like Tibet, has a history as an independent country, but a portion of it has been subsumed within another political entity. This however doesn't affect its geographical location. Ukraine is still in Europe. Practically, Tibet is a known entity which is located in Asia. Yes, there is presently, like Ukraine, a disagreement about who controls it, but it's still in Asia. I think it should be included because people are going to be wanting to answer the question "Is Tibet in Asia?". Some won't know anything at all about the political situation so won't think to look up China to find the answer. Morgan Leigh | Talk 06:59, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
- What does that have to do with any of this? Ukraine is a sovereign country, not an autonomous region, a part of which is occupied by a foreign power. A comparable situation would be that this template includes Syria, even though Israel occupies the Golan. Whether an entity is an autonomous region or a sovereign country part of which is occupied is a totally different thing. Furthermore, for the question "Is Tibet in Asia?" people should read the encyclopedia article Tibet, not look for this template at say, at the bottom of Agriculture in Oman#References
- But more importantly, why are we entertaining an RFC that was started by a blocked sock without any prior discussion? – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 15:01, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose They are autonomous regions within a country and they're not currently recognized as independent states by other nations either (Tibet even has the following reference in its article:
Tibet, although enjoying independence at certain periods of its history, had never been recognised by any single foreign power as an independent state.
). So they don't fit in the first two template boxes. They're also not dependencies nor special administrative regions unlike Hong Kong and Macau which have their own executive, legislative, and judicial branches, so they don't fit into the last box. There are also several other autonomous regions that would need to be added in a new box, but it doesn't seem to be the right addition to this template. — MarkH21 (talk) 18:53, 19 March 2019 (UTC) - Oppose I'm not even sure why this is a discussion. Whether you agree with it or not, these are both part of China. Having lived in Asia for 15 years, the arguments presented in support (religious and ethnic diversity, past history as a separate state) could be applied with far greater justification to Thailand (southern provinces), Malaysia (Pennisular v Borneo), Indonesia (Aceh, Bali, Irian Jaya, Moluccas), the Philippines (Mindanao), Myanmar (Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Shan etc etc).Robinvp11 (talk) 10:03, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Template-protected edit request on 11 September 2019
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Please change the Time in Singapore to Singapore Standard Time as the latter is the actual article. Flipchip73 (talk) 02:53, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Flipchip73: Not done: please make your requested changes to the template's sandbox first; see WP:TESTCASES. Template:Asia topic has no code for timezones that I can find. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:27, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 7 February 2020
Greetings, Please change wikilink "Catholic Church in Georgia (country)" to Catholic Church in Georgia. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 20:57, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Delete Borders of Asia NavBox
Generic 'border of X' pages are really not that useful - their very nature, if taken to its logical conclusion, would mean repeated info on separate pages, and with a handful of exceptions (e.g. Borders of Israel) these Wiki pages are terrible. Most borders now have an individual page (See Category:International borders), so I would recommend deleting this (almost entirely red-linked) NavBox of pages that will never be created. Personally I'd go further and split up the few pages that do exist into their component individual binary borders.WisDom-UK (talk) 22:56, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 15 April 2020
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Template editors may want to add Category:Sex and sexuality templates. Wikipedianuhai (talk) 10:57, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- Not done for now: I don't think this template applies categories at all. Can you please link to a page where this template is used and where it should apply this category? – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:30, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Asia in topic|Sex trafficking in (Template:Sex trafficking in Asia) on Sex trafficking in China page (Wikipedianuhai) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikipedianuhai (talk • contribs) 20:40, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- When I put
{{Asia in topic|Sex trafficking in}}
into Special:ExpandTemplates, it does not apply any categories at all. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:45, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 23 April 2020
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Israel's link should refer to Knesset, and NOT to Parliament of Israel as it is now. That is for it to appear bold in the Knesset's page. Deancarmeli (talk) 07:02, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- Not done: Deancarmeli, that's not how this template works.
{{Asia topic |prefix=Parliament of}}
produces links to "Parliament of" each Asian country, and most of them are redirects, not just Israel's.
- Hope that helps, Cabayi (talk) 20:02, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 28 May 2020
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Change this Iraq
to redirect to
- This is a general template, that doesn't directly link to anything. Can you specify which article you found an issue in? CMD (talk) 08:49, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 1 July 2020
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Change the link in the Art of Asia template for Taiwan from Culture of Taiwan to Taiwanese art. Horse Eye Jack (talk) 03:39, 1 July 2020 (UTC) Horse Eye Jack (talk) 03:39, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- Links in this template are automatically generated. What page are you looking at that you think should have this change? CMD (talk) 03:46, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- The template is "Asian topic|| art” Horse Eye Jack (talk) 17:54, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- Found it, fixed the redirect. CMD (talk) 18:08, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- The template is "Asian topic|| art” Horse Eye Jack (talk) 17:54, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 4 December 2020
- Let us know what you want to see changed, in the form "change X to Y", or for larger changes, copy the template code into the sandbox and make your changes there. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:08, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Washington Lincoln: Please don't paste code blobs into talk pages, use the template's sandbox - more info at WP:TESTCASES. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:30, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 5 February 2021
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Please change the link of Rail transport in the Philippines to Rail transportation in the Philippines. Thanks. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 11:37, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
- Hi hueman, these links are automatically generated and will all use either "transport" or "transportation" depending on the code of the particular page. CMD (talk) 12:55, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Add region / continent?
I'd like to add also the article Climate change in South Asia to the navbox. This could be done by adding a new group called Regions, right? And later perhaps also add continents if we ever have an article "Climate change in Asia", similar to the one called "Climate change in Africa". EMsmile (talk) 01:01, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
Remove book link
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Please remove:
* {{icon|book}} [[Book:Asia|Book]]
Since book links are depreciated on articles and templates. WP:BOOKSDEP. Terasail[✉] 16:47, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
- To editor Terasail: done, and thank you, I didn't know book links had been deprecated. P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 21:05, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 12 April 2021
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For some reason, Artsakh is not linked to its corresponding article. If an editor can kindly link List of political parties in Artsakh to Artsakh, that'd be much appreciated! Cheers, Archives908 (talk) 22:51, 12 April 2021 (UTC) Archives908 (talk) 22:51, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
- Done – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:12, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Request
Hi editors, if someone can kindly add Intellectual Property Agency of Armenia to "Armenia" in the template listed below. It would be much appreciated. Regards, Archives908 (talk) 21:10, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
- I think you just need to create a redirect from Patent office in Armenia to Intellectual Property Agency of Armenia to make this work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:45, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Brand Asia
The Brand Asia template as seen on Brand Hong Kong is unnecessary and could be removed from this template. JaJaWa |hello 15:06, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
- This is a general wrapper template. If its use is inappropriate, it's best to just remove it from the page in question. CMD (talk) 15:22, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 25 June 2021
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add Bahrain 金色黎明 (talk) 07:02, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
- Bahrain is in this template, is there a specific page where you are seeing an issue? CMD (talk) 07:06, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
Alphabetize North and South Korea
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North and South Korea should be alphabetized by "N" and "S" respectively, not as "K". South Ossetia does not sort by "O", for example. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 00:31, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- I think I would support this edit on its own, however these templates currently reflect the names on List of sovereign states. The Koreas (and the Congos) represent interesting examples where parts of the name are more disambiguating adjectives rather than desired inclusions. It would be best to raise this on Talk:List of sovereign states, and see if consensus changes there. CMD (talk) 03:43, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- OK, I have done that. Thanks for the advice, Chipmunkdavis. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 04:57, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the
{{edit template-protected}}
template. Just deactivating the template per the advice given above - if and when consensus is established, feel free to reactivate it. firefly ( t · c ) 11:35, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 7 August 2021
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National symbols of Kazakhstan 2A00:23C5:8D98:E201:7C62:735A:F046:5822 (talk) 20:26, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
- Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. firefly ( t · c ) 20:37, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 11 September 2021
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Egypt should not be part of this. Lkarthik25 (talk) 16:29, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
- The current inclusion seems quite broad regarding transcontinental countries. Perhaps this could be changed, but it would be better to have a consistent reason than singling out just one. CMD (talk) 17:15, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
- @Lkarthik25 and Chipmunkdavis: This is frequently requested and always refused, see for example Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Template-protected edit request on 23 February 2014; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Egypt is a Asian country?How come!; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Egypt is in Africa!; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Template-protected edit request on 12 December 2014; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Error in trivia section; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Modification edit request; Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Template-protected edit request on 25 June 2017; and Template talk:Asia topic/Archive 5#Template-protected edit request on 10 November 2018. In short: Sinai. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:16, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 7 October 2021
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The Cinema of Palestine page exists but for some reason does not appear in the Cinema of Asia template, that points to Cinema of the State of Palestine. Could you fix this error please? Adam Harangozó (talk) 16:42, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
- Already done An editor fixed this problem by creating Cinema of the State of Palestine as a redirect. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:49, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 18 January 2022
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I request the non-written article links be removed from the template, as anyone hasn't even made an article in them. There are only few ones like Britons in China, Britons in Egypt, Britons in Japan, British people in Pakistan, Britons in Turkey, Britons in UAE and Britons in Hong Kong. Please delete the rest, or initiate to create them.
(If still not sure of which template I am talking about, then it is this one:
) Utkarsh555 (talk) 17:54, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
- Not done for now: That's not how this template works. As far as I can tell, the parameter value "Britons in" exists only in British people in Pakistan, so you could boldly remove it from that article with the rationale you have provided here and see if anyone objects. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:40, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
- Edited to add: It looks like I missed a redirect. There are at least six articles that use the navbox in this form. Six blue links is enough for a navbox, even though there are a lot of red links. If you like, you could start a larger discussion about whether this and similar topic templates should, in general, hide red links. I think that you will meet with significant resistance; see Wikipedia:Red link. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:50, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 11 February 2022
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If the page doesn't exist, then just remove it. Hypersonic man 11 (talk) 11:08, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not sure which page you refer to, but this is a default flexible template and pages sometimes don't exist for each country. CMD (talk) 11:19, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
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Please edit the topic templates to read "Names of European states and territories" and "Names of Asian states and territories" respectively. Thank you! 2001:B07:6469:3006:2833:F11F:CA16:5B66 (talk) 12:35, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
- @IAmChaos: Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the template
{{Asia topic}}
. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. The edit required at Name of Armenia#External links is to alterto{{Asia topic|Name of}} {{Europe topic|Name of}}
See Template:Asia topic#Changing the title. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:36, 2 April 2022 (UTC){{Asia topic|Name of|title=[[Name of Asia|Names of Asian states and territories]]}} {{Europe topic|Name of|title=[[Name of Europe|Names of European states and territories]]}}
Since when
Since when is Egypt part of Asia? Is it not part of Africa? Peter Horn User talk 01:01, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- It's a good thing we have the world's biggest encyclopedia to tell us where Egypt is. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:49, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- If Peter Horn is actually asking about which times in history Egypt was part of both Africa and Asia, this is not the right talk page for that thorny issue. Control/occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, which is in Asia, has changed many times over the past couple of centuries. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:58, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- The original border between Africa and Asia was the Nile, so the answer to "since when" is "since the concepts were invented". CMD (talk) 04:18, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Chipmunkdavis: How far up the Nile River? Until the same latitude as the tip of the Red Sea? Peter Horn User talk 16:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- This was the ancient Greek period, so I don't think they had that mapped. CMD (talk) 17:39, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Chipmunkdavis: How far up the Nile River? Until the same latitude as the tip of the Red Sea? Peter Horn User talk 16:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- The original border between Africa and Asia was the Nile, so the answer to "since when" is "since the concepts were invented". CMD (talk) 04:18, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- If Peter Horn is actually asking about which times in history Egypt was part of both Africa and Asia, this is not the right talk page for that thorny issue. Control/occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, which is in Asia, has changed many times over the past couple of centuries. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:58, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- There is plenty on this matter in the archives of this page. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:50, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 27 April 2022
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Remove Artsakh redlink from the template as the article was deleted a year ago. — Golden call me maybe? 21:59, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the template
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Template-protected edit request on 4 May 2022
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Remove "British Indian Ocean Territory" as the page doesn't exist —ÐW-🇺🇦(T·C) 17:27, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- Not done: British Indian Ocean Territory certainly exists as a page. On the general point though, something being a WP:REDLINK is not a reason by itself for removal. CMD (talk) 18:17, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 15 May 2022
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Fix the obvious errors here by removing Cyprus (which, however you want to define it, is not in Asia; but in the middle of the Mediterranean...) and Egypt (which is very much in Africa) RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 16:34, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- Not done: This series of templates deliberately takes wide definitions, echoing the continent lists where such a formula was adopted to reduce disputes. CMD (talk) 16:37, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Chipmunkdavis: I know of no such "wide definition" which puts an island in the middle of the Mediterranean sea as being "in Asia"... Nor do I know of a definition of Asia which stretches beyond the Suez. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 16:47, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- Cyprus is in the East of the Mediterranean, so far that it is East of the aforementioned Suez. I'm also unsure what the overall conclusion of that statement is meant to be. As for Suez, there's nothing here which states Asia stretches past it. CMD (talk) 16:50, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- Cyprus is more due north of the Suez (which is usually considered the boundary between Africa and Asia, and then Europe/Asia is along the coast of the Mediterranean, not through the middle of it) than east of it. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 16:58, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- The idea of continents having their borders along coastlines, and of the Mediterranean being entirely "in Europe" (so to speak), do not match sources I've seen. CMD (talk) 17:03, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not sure why people bring these unsourced arguments to this template talk page instead of to the talk pages for the countries. Please see Cyprus#Geography and the sources linked from there. As for Egypt, see the discussion above, along with Egypt. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:06, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- The idea of continents having their borders along coastlines, and of the Mediterranean being entirely "in Europe" (so to speak), do not match sources I've seen. CMD (talk) 17:03, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- Cyprus is more due north of the Suez (which is usually considered the boundary between Africa and Asia, and then Europe/Asia is along the coast of the Mediterranean, not through the middle of it) than east of it. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 16:58, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- Cyprus is in the East of the Mediterranean, so far that it is East of the aforementioned Suez. I'm also unsure what the overall conclusion of that statement is meant to be. As for Suez, there's nothing here which states Asia stretches past it. CMD (talk) 16:50, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Chipmunkdavis: I know of no such "wide definition" which puts an island in the middle of the Mediterranean sea as being "in Asia"... Nor do I know of a definition of Asia which stretches beyond the Suez. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 16:47, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Add new tab
Would it be a good idea to add in a new 'tab' called "Regional". And include the existing articles -> Islam in Southeast Asia and Islam in South Asia. After rechecking, I'm not sure why the 'Islam in Asia' template suddenly redirected to this 'Asia' template? My question was for the former but I re-tried and can't reach it. Danial Bass (talk) 00:08, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- That is because this is a general wrapper template, so the "Islam in Asia" template is just all the entries here with "Islam in" automatically applied as a prefix. To add regional links would need the creation of a new dedicated template. CMD (talk) 02:03, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info CMB Danial Bass (talk) 10:21, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 19 July 2022
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Please correct the title to "Lists of hospitals in Asia", because "List of hospitals in Asia" is syntactically incorrect due to number (there are a couple of dozen lists linked through this template). Thanks. Julietdeltalima (talk) 16:38, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
- Not done for now: The documentation shows a couple of ways to work around this edge case. One is to create a template like {{List of football stadiums in Asia}} and use that in articles instead of {{Asia topic}}. Another is to edit each affected article like this. It's probably better to make the template and then put the new template in the articles; if you're going to edit the articles anyway, make it so that any changes to the new template only need to be made in one place. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:30, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 23 November 2022
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Hello, Please check the dablinks for nuclear energy in Iran as it is currently directed to a disambiguated link. Thank you! ColRad85 (talk) 09:09, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
- Not done: This is a general template, it doesn't link to specific pages for each entry. If disambiguation pages are the best item to land on, they are fine as links here. CMD (talk) 09:19, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, thank you for your reply.
- One link on the disambiguation page, Nuclear program of Iran, is a more direct source to what is shown on the template for other countries; while the other link directs users to a nuclear power plant in Iran, Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Would the nuclear program page be a better link? The page for the power plant can also be found on the nuclear program of Iran page. ColRad85 (talk) 06:34, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 29 March 2023
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Change "Famine in Russia" link to "Russian famine (disambiguation)" – this will fix inappropriate DAB requests brought up through this template Henrygg98 (talk) 04:34, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
- Not done: This is a generic template, so it doesn't have specific links for each page. What sort of DAB requests do you mean? CMD (talk) 04:51, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 13 May 2023
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Currently Nuclear Energy in Iran directs to a disambiguation page. I'd like to propose changing the link for Iran to Nuclear program of Iran Gabulousity (talk) 03:03, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
- Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the
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template. Pinging Tamzin, who tagged that page saying that it should be turned into an article, which would be the elegant resolution for this request. It sounds like Gabulousity is proposing that the primary topic for Nuclear energy in Iran is Nuclear program of Iran, which I think means that the former should redirect to the latter. That would also resolve this issue. In any event, I don't think the resolution to this issue lies within the realm of this template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:27, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 19 September 2023
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Please adjust links for Korea to Minorities in Korea (North Korea, South Korea) or such, bypassing redirects and linking both the top Korean and subarticles for NK/SK. (Creating SK right now). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:57, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
- The template is built on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes for sovereign countries and the entity of "Korea", combining north and south, is not listed there — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:53, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
- Not done: From the article: "Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia." This template lists countries and a few dependencies. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:09, 20 September 2023 (UTC)