Template talk:Map caption

message: This template causes the caption to read 'in the European Union (camel)'. I presume 'camel' is an official term for the colour used, but it's an obscure term and looks rather bizarre in this context (I initially thought it was some kind of weird vandalism). I suggest changing it to 'orange' which the average reader will understand better. Cop 633 16:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed 'camel' to 'tan' for now. Hope that's an improvement. Kaldari (talk) 16:59, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Camel?!

message: 
Please categorize this template also under :Category:Mapping templates. --Timeshifter (talk) 21:41, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done on unprotected /doc subpage.  05:43, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks! I see that the doc page has the category between  tags. I had forgotten about that possibility. Those tags oftentimes confuse me anyway. Along with  --Timeshifter (talk) 03:38, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Mapping templates 

message: In English the phrase "continental Europe" is sometimes defined as meaning Europe less its islands. Its unfortunate, therefore, that setting the region parameter to "Europe" results in a place being described as being  "on the European continent". I would suggest it would be much more straightforward to describe the place as being "in Europe" as this avoids potential ambiguity. — Blue-Haired Lawyer t 20:32, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No objections, so change made. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:29, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Continental Europe v Europe 

message: Currently, this template places regions above subregions in captions. Surely, since we're identifying a place's location within larger areas, it makes sense to go downwards with increasing area? CMD (talk) 05:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Region subregion 

message: Since Antarctica is a continent, not an island, locations there should be "in" not "on" it. "On Antarctica" simply sounds incorrect. Hairy Dude (talk) 11:46, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Since "in" is the default, I think a better edit would be to delete the two "Antarctica" lines completely. But to test this properly I would like to find an article that currently displays the wrong wording. Did either of you have one in mind? -- John of Reading (talk) 16:48, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

text: I have removed those two lines per John of Reading's suggestion. Rob984: please confirm this is working correctly now. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:32, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, working at Queen Maud Land. Thanks! Rob984 (talk) 16:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antarctica 

message: See Republic of Ireland. The caption links to Ireland. I have prevented this by adding |country=Ireland, but this is not a very elegant solution. On other articles, such as Germany it makes the name appear in bold, which again I believe is not intended. At some articles, such as Portugal, I have added |country=, which again is not very elegant. Rob984 (talk) 16:55, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Please add the required code to Template:Map caption/sandbox if you are able — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:05, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add option for argument "link=no" to not link the country name if desired 

message: I would like to see the sandbox copied into the mainspace, which includes a few changes:
* Removal of the hard coded width of 250px, which has no effect other than widening the infobox the template is placed into. The default width of an infobox is 22em, which unless the user has modified their preferences is about 250px. So this means any infobox this template is placed in is usually just widened by a few pixels.
* Removed html tags which reduced the font size of the colours to 9px, which is a violation of MOS:ACCESS: "In no case should the resulting font size drop below 85% of the page font size (or 11px)". I don't see a reason why they should be smaller anyway, they're in brackets which is sufficient.
* As with #Edit request 8 October 2016, prevented the circular link  which just causes the page title to appear as bold text for no reason, requiring editors to use Template:nobold to counteract this abnormal behaviour.
All tested at :Template:Map caption/testcases.
Rob984 (talk) 12:47, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 16:18, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Rob984 (talk) 09:48, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 23 April 2017