Template talk:Oceania topic

message: Per here, would anyone object to this template being renamed , thereby leaving the of/in specified by its parameter (e.g. , , etc)...?  Regards, David Kernow (talk) 02:53, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template name 

message: How is it decided which countries belong to which region? It's ridiculous to place Indonesia in Melanesia and New Zealand is more often regarded as part of Australasia. Anyway, the template is different to Template:Countries and territories of Oceania. StAnselm (talk) 22:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Categories

message: Why is Indonesia no longer included on this navbox when a prefix is used? Articles like List of airlines of Indonesia should be linked from this navbox when corresponding prefixes are added. Neelix (talk) 21:14, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indonesia 

message: I do believe the link to Christmas Island ist wrong (Indian Ocean Australian Territory). Please link to Kiritimati.
--Awilms (talk) 10:27, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The template isn't supposed to be linking to individual islands within an Oceanic country, so a link to Kiritimati is not correct. However, I do not understand why it links to Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which are Australian territories in the Indian Ocean. They appear to be well to the west of the Wallace Line which is one method of differentiating Melanesia from South East Asia.-gadfium 18:18, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kiritimati / Christmas Island 

message: Why the template includes The Cocos (Keeling) Islands??? -- Seulimeung (talk) 18:00, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Cocos (Keeling) Islands 

message: A centralised proposal regarding the use of superscript notes in navigation boxes is under discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries. The disussion will affect this template. Nightw 12:05, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for topic templates 

message: I want to edit the Temaplate which is named Football in Oceania, because I have some new referenced information ta add.(94.71.30.240 (talk) 12:51, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Information should be added somewhere in Oceania#Sports. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 12:56, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from , 18 November 2011 

message: I noticed on the Politics of Oceania box that the link to Politics of The Cook Islands was broken. I tried to fix it myself but couldn't.
Sapient Homo (talk) 15:17, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Link? Couldn't find broken link, but maybe I looked in a different template. Japinderum (talk) 07:38, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cook Islands 

message: Most of these nations probably do have pages on football. For instance, Football in Palau, which clearly exists. Not all the links need to be 'Football (soccer) in......'. This needs un-americanising. 
KHarber- GBR 12:19, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Create redirects as needed.-gadfium 21:00, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Football in New Zealand is currently a disambiguation page.  There are several articles such as Association football in American Samoa which use the template .  Is there a way to disambiguate the New Zealand link to Association football in New Zealand in these cases? Nick Number (talk) 19:53, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Change the template to /. CMD (talk) 21:12, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

text:  In November,  changed  so the links for each country can be individually specified. AFAIK, such changes haven't been made to the other "Continent topic" templates yet. SiBr4 ("CyberFour") (talk) 21:18, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  I would suggest changing all instances of the template to , and then either moving any articles titled "Football in Foonation" to "Association football in Foonation", or redirecting "Association football in Foonation" to "Football in Foonation" (presuming, that is, that the "Football in Foonation" articles are in fact about association football; if not, then there's no point in having a template that lists, e.g., some nations having soccer, and some nations having American football or rugby, or whatever else uses the name. bd2412 T 21:30, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Association football in X and Soccer in X should exist for all countries as redirects at any rate. Create them if you find one that isn't. CMD (talk) 21:34, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done, and fixed. Cheers! bd2412 T 21:42, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Must be changed. 

message: Hawaii is not a (dependent) territory but a federated state.  I see that moving it was discussed in 2011 but this was not carried out.  Is there a problem with moving it under sovereign states as part of the United States? — Is this thing working? (talk) 04:16, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Sovereign states is at the moment only made up of countries centrally located in the Oceania region. Hawaii is an "other territory" at the moment. This is in line with other templates like :Template:North America topic, where Guadeloupe is in the dependent territory section. Changing should take into account all templates. CMD (talk) 09:58, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hawaii 

message: Add a link to :Category:Oceania, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania, and Portal:Oceania at the bottom of the template. See the proposed changes at Template:Oceania topic/sandbox —Eli355 ( talk•contribs ) 18:43, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I saw your comment, links should be added here just to :Category:Oceania and Portal:Oceania. (proposed changes at Template:Oceania topic/sandbox) —Eli355 ( talk•contribs ) 19:54, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: , the version in the sandbox and the version at  appear significantly different beyond adding links Galobtter (pingó mió) 11:24, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  The version in the sandbox just adds the following at the bottom of the template:
Which just contains icons and links. —Eli355 ( talk • contribs ) 14:29, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

text: Thanks for fixing it here, but I noticed opposition to a similar edit in Template_talk:Europe_topic#Template-protected_edit_request_on_30_September_2018, so it looks like this change would be controversial/need discussion to estabilish a consensus. Galobtter (pingó mió) 14:34, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 30 September 2018 

message: Solomon Islands link is broken. 
Vehicle registration plates of the Solomon Islands instead of "Vehicle registration plates of Solomon Islands" Audi1merc2 (talk) 15:34, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The usual way to fix this is to use a redirect, which I have now done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:49, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 18 February 2020 

message: Add West Papua to Dependencies and other territories section, as it is a territory in Melanesia, a part of Oceania, and is currently administered as the Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia. Grnrchst (talk) 20:57, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. This is at one level a very sensible request, however, at another level it is very complex.  It is clear that the island of New Guinea is part of Oceania, so the parts of that island should be included in this template. However, "West Papua" is the name of one of the Indonesian provinces in the Western half of the island (the other being Papua province). Western New Guinea, as far as I know, has status neither as dependency nor territory, the term is simply geographic, which would make it a different category to all the others in that row.  It would possibly make more sense to add the two provinces, however, the first thing should be developing a consensus on how the western part of New Guinea should be included.  Goldsztajn (talk) 11:16, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 20 September 2020 

message: Hi, e.g. Cook Islands, Niue - links are to "List of islands of Cook Islands", etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Facts707 (talk • contribs) 08:52, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a wrapper template, meant to generate specific links for each entry. List of islands of Cook Islands does not currently exist as an article. CMD (talk) 06:57, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see. I can create redirects for such for consistency. Thanks and sorry I didn't sign my first post, I wasn't quite done with it. Cheers, Facts707 (talk) 07:04, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Please consider not creating redirects where the target article isn't in the same scope. WP:Red links are useful in that they indicate a potential article creation possibility. CMD (talk) 07:08, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  several red-linked entries have articles 

message: Just a heads up, for whatever reason, the cuisine version of the template is rending the links for the country's cuisines as "Cuisines of [COUNTRY]" instead of "[DENOMYN] cuisines" (which is what most country's cuisines are titled) like the other continents' templates. 98.191.191.155 (talk) 02:27, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi IP, if you want a denomyn name you need to use Template:Oceanian topic. CMD (talk) 06:57, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. 98.191.191.155 (talk) 22:24, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cuisines of Oceania 

message: Could someone remove Hawaii from this template?  It's one of the 50 states, so it's not a country. 47.36.25.163 (talk) 16:57, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This template is lists more than just countries. CMD (talk) 17:09, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 11 December 2021 

message: This edit today by  now causes all versions of the template to display a link to FSM National Police rather then the relevant Federated States of Micronesia topic. See the usage at Politics of Guam as an example. I don't have the access rights to revert or correct the edit, can somebody with the necessary rights please do so? Calistemon (talk) 01:47, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Done-gadfium 04:19, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent FSM National Police edit 

message: Add Clipperton Island HelpfulHens (talk) 15:41, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: – some do say it's part of Oceania, so we'll see if it flies. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'r there 13:13, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 11 January 2023