Talk:Panhandle

message: Doesn't Texas have 3 panhandles? Aren't the western and southern extensions of the Texas also panhandles, and not only the northern extension?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.164.11.237 (talk) 18:38, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Texas 

message: I placed an "original research" warning on the "Panhandles outside the United States" section because the section's text gave me the impression that someone looked at a map and arbitrarily identified some areas as "panhandles".  References identifying these regions as "panhandles" are needed.  Dr. Submillimeter 21:55, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then how prey do people find out about panhandles without consulting a map?  I doubt somebody has written a thesis on panhandles.  Kransky 12:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research problem 

message: As long as no research is avaible for the origin I dont see why it should list Texas as the "possible origin for the term".  At this point it seems any state could be the possible orgin for the term. Pollox87 21:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the term 

message: I grew up in the Mississippi panhandle.  According to this erroneous article, the Mississippi panhandle does not exist, nor the Alabama panhandle.  But they exist, trust me.
24.75.109.129 (talk) 01:31, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grew Up in the Mississippi Panhandle 

message: The title reflects US usage only.  The article should be moved to the internationally used "salient".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.12.193.155 (talk) 10:02, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the published references to the Okavango Panhandle (Namibia), Laotian Panhandle, Galilee Panhandle, and Karpas Panhandle (Cyprus), the term seems less U.S.-specific than characterized by some and also seems to be a natural disambiguation from salient and its various other meanings. Doremo (talk) 04:58, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Article should be moved

message: I am contemplating adding the Mafraq governorate of Jordan. Feedback?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.86.236.222 (talk) 22:24, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Mafraq Governorate, Jordan

message: Can we find any external source to decide how elongated the protrusion has to be, in order to be called a panhandle? Or is it original research here? The Nebraska "panhandle" is almost hilarious: it is quite unelongated, in fact it is wider than it is long. If we call that a panhandle, we might as well include, say, southeast Mississippi, northwest Utah, eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. Stretching the limits we could probably find one or more "panhandles" from every U.S. state (except Colorado and Utah). --Jmk (talk) 10:06, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How elongated? 

message: Would the top of Michigan be considered a panhandle?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.176.45 (talk) 00:23, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not? As I pondered above, if Nebraska has a "panhandle", then basically anything goes. Surely also Louisiana has two panhandles (one east, one north). Florida consists of nothing but two panhandles (one west, one south). --Jmk (talk) 13:13, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Northern New Hampshire is another obvious one.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.225.109.50 (talk) 23:25, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

text: No, it's a peninsula - it's surrounded by water and not other land areas. 108.254.160.23 (talk) 16:38, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Michigan Panhandle

message: Kingston panhandle? As a local, I've never seen it referred to as such. Unless someone can find a source for this, I'm going to remove it as WP:OR. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:00, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right, Kingston is not a panhandle. However, a part of it can be seen as a panhandle, protrubing to the southwest both from the main part of the borough and from Greater London as a whole. I think whoever added it to the list here, meant to add it as an example of what might be seen as a geographical panhandle, regardless of wether it is usually called a panhandle or not. Arms Jones (talk) 17:52, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames 

message: One seems to be a copy-paste of the other. jnestorius(talk) 12:43, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Panhandle with Salient (geography) 

message: The lead of Coös County, New Hampshire talks about a NH panhandle being the narrower top part of the state. Is this officially a panhandle, and should it be included in this article? Yes, in terms of land area it's pretty small, but relative to the size of the whole state I'd say it counts, almost like the Idaho one. Rcsprinter (gossip) @ 14:18, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there any "official" panhandles? I think this is a term used mostly colloqually. Arms Jones (talk) 17:58, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Hampshire panhandle 

message: I once thought that was where the trend started. What's the deal here? Dustin (talk) 21:58, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The only state where one of the extensions really looks like the handle of a pan is Oklahoma.