Template talk:English official language clickable map

message: Bhutan and the Maldives should probably not be listed. --dab (𒁳) 09:54, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bhutan, Maldives

message: English is not an official language in Quebec, although it is an official language nationwide in Canada. Turns out, the only bilingual province in Canada is New Brunswick. KriZe ♠♦♣♥ 16:25, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Quebec

message: Can someone who knows how change the clickable area over the Solomon Islands to not point to New Guinea, as it is a separate country! Thankyou Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Solomon Is

message: As United States English redirects to American English, I've changed the link to American English. – Marco79 14:15, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: US English

message: This template gives a helpful and useful visual representation of the Anglosphere, but perhaps it's description  presents the Angloshere in terms which are too linguistically based - ie the Anglosphere seems to be more a matter of socio-cultural values, and politico-legal ideas than language. It does not seem that the Anglosphere is the same thing as the Anglophone world, although there is a lot of overlap. Arcan (talk) 11:07, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Anglosphere / Anglophone World

message: Fiji is labelled as "not widely spoken". When I was there in the 1980s, everybody on Viti Levu anyway spoke English, shopkeepers, cart vendors, bus drivers, panhandlers. At this point, I don't recall anyone who did not speak English.
Varlaam (talk) 06:06, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiji 

message: Malaysia is highlighted as light blue on the map, but English is not an Official language here. However it is correctly not listed beneath the map. 194.80.106.135 (talk) 17:48, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malaysia? 

message: English is not the official language of the USA.  The US doesn't have an official language. 68.41.208.250 (talk) 04:24, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the map legend The US is identified as a country with a significant population of native English speakers. In fact the majority of Americans are English speaking, so what is the problem? The official status or lack thereof is not a factor at all in the countries marked with dark blue. Roger (talk) 08:19, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the map legend specifies "where English is an official language" in both cases. The legend needs to be changed to either get rid of the official language bit or specify a new color to signify countries with no/different official languages but an English-speaking majority.--75.49.216.182 (talk) 19:40, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps a better legend for the dark blue would be "Countries and territories where English is an official language and/or spoken natively by a significant population" (replace "and" with "and/or"). Goustien (talk) 12:41, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States Official Language/Map problem 

message: English is an official language of Somaliland, can it please be included in the map. Outback the koala (talk) 20:40, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you please provide a link to some discussion or guideline on the " long consensus to list all states on the List of states with limited recognition along with all other states"? Can you also provde a link to the guideline that shows how "This is not a valid argument as on wikipedia we do not take sides in international conflict between states"? Otherwise I'd have to agree with Dodger's removal on this one, and remove the item again. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 06:16, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding Somaliland specifically I can point to this discussion here  however the debate continues over the next 2 archive pages (archive 2 and 3) After a mediation here I have not been challenged about this issue as of yet. There has also been discussion on the limited states talk and the Somaliland talk directly regarding this. Now, we even include it on the List of sovereign states under "other states". Would you be interested in reopening the discussion? If so I would like to be a participant. As for this page, I think a footnote would be a fair compromise to the situation where two+ editors disagree. Outback the koala (talk) 06:57, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somaliland  

message: This has been removed here by User:Dodger67 with the explanation that "it's not a UN recognised country" . This is not a valid argument as on wikipedia we do not take sides in international conflict between states and there is a long consensus to list all states on the List of states with limited recognition along with all other states. Given it's status and User:Doger67's objection to this, maybe we can put a footnote in or something? Would that be alright? Outback the koala (talk) 21:35, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you please provide a link to some discussion or guideline on the " long consensus to list all states on the List of states with limited recognition along with all other states"? Can you also provde a link to the guideline that shows how "This is not a valid argument as on wikipedia we do not take sides in international conflict between states"? Otherwise I'd have to agree with Dodger's removal on this one, and remove the item again. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 06:16, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding Somaliland specifically I can point to this discussion here  however the debate continues over the next 2 archive pages (archive 2 and 3) After a mediation here I have not been challenged about this issue as of yet. There has also been discussion on the limited states talk and the Somaliland talk directly regarding this. Now, we even include it on the List of sovereign states under "other states". Would you be interested in reopening the discussion? If so I would like to be a participant. As for this page, I think a footnote would be a fair compromise to the situation where two+ editors disagree. Outback the koala (talk) 06:57, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of Somaliland

message: English is one of the three official languages of Seychelles, so it should be included here in the "Countries and territories where English is an official language, but not the majority language" list.
Also, shouldn't the Pitcairn Islands be in the same list as Norfolk Island? They both have English as an official language and both speak the same English-based creole language.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.12.139.151 (talk) 04:48, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Pitcairn Islands and Seychelles

message: I moved Belize from the list of "official" English countries to the list of "majority" English countries. Arguably, none of the Caribbean countries where an English based Creole is the majority language should be treated as English majority countries. But drawing the line between Creole and "standard" English can be difficult, and every other Caribbean country with an English based Creole was treated as "majority". I'm not sure how to fix the map color for Belize, and I am not at all opposed to moving all the other countries (Guyana, Jamaica, various states in the Lesser Antilles) to the "official" list. It might be better to treat Creole majority countries as separate category, however.  There are also countries in Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands) where an English based creole is more widely spoken than "standard" English and has official status, but the creole is still not a majority language.Plantdrew (talk) 20:46, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belize and other Caribbean creoles 

message: Both are listed under the map in the Official language section, but are not marked in light blue! best, Sunil060902 (talk) 21:22, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethiopia and Eritrea 

message: This needs a bit of cleanup. I added quite a number of articles to this template, but this template is so complicated that I was barely able to figure out how to do it. In the process I introduced some formating errors and oddities in the code, nothing urgent or too serous, but could someone who's more experienced with templates then I am clean this up please. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 13:23, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup