Template talk:Central America topic

message: I hope that creating a template like this, by copy and edit from the South America template is ok, done right and is useful?
kgw 23:08, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: There is a spacing problem in the footnote line; a space needs to be moved from between the superscript "2" and "Physiographically" forward to between the preceding period and the superscript "2" to give: 
...of South America. Physiographically, Mexico...
WolfmanSF (talk) 03:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: --Closedmouth (talk) 04:08, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  spacing change requested 

message: To be consistent, the list of Mexican states should be presented in alphabetical order, as: 
(Campeche
Chiapas
Quintana Roo
Tabasco
Yucatan)
WolfmanSF (talk) 03:02, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: . — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:12, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  change in list order requested 

message: How do you guys feel about adding the capital cities for CA nations? House1090 (talk) 05:33, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Other continental templates don't list capital cities; why should Central America be different? WolfmanSF (talk) 22:22, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capital Cities? 

message: First of all, the "previous" discussion was held with a sockpuppet user in the form of an anonymous IP, mutiple times blocked for 3RR, uncivility, use of pronanity and pushing POVs without caring for the other parties opinions and other disruptive stuff. Said that let's continue.
My main point here is that only physiographically and only in certain topics mostly related to fauna and flora, this small part of Mexico is sometimes categorized with the rest of Central America. Only SOME times. 
This template is GENERAL and used for TRANSCLUSSION, which means that if you do a, for example 
* Politics of Central America
* Spanish in Central America
* Exports of Central America
* HDI of Central America
* Airports of Central America (already existing!)
* Military of Central America (already existing!)
Etc... it will include those states that you included as "in Central America" which is inaccurate and false because all of Mexico is considered part of North America. There's no official or unofficial categorization of Mexico as part of both regions. All of the other sources says it so. Also those states are not considered, not officilly nor unofficially as Central Americans. See the problem it will create?
The inclussion of those states or the region east of the Tehuantepec Istmus is only SOMETIMES included, which means rarely. Also the other sockpuppet user has a long history in trying to give the false idea that Mexico is part of Central America, just because he doesn't like the idea of NA including Mexico.
I think that the best solution is to create specific templates when it is requiered such as in the fauna and flora of the region, because of the similarities of the territory. Such as in "Mammals of Central America". AlexCovarrubias ( Talk? ) 06:57, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: To help solve this issue, I've created an specific template about mammals in Central America from the physiographical point of view in Template:List of mammals in Central America which is consistent with the way the article describes the bioregion. AlexCovarrubias ( Talk? ) 07:42, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have created an alternative template, Template:Central America topic2, which includes the physiographic considerations. It should be easy to use whichever template is more appropriate in any given circumstance. I hope this solves the problem. WolfmanSF (talk) 08:17, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mexico in CA again... 

message: How do you guys feel about adding the Central American Capitals to the template? House1090 (talk) 03:21, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We've already gone over this. It doesn't seem necessary or very useful. I'm not in favor of it. WolfmanSF (talk) 05:16, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would be very useful but if no one is in favor then I'll just wait. House1090 (talk) 06:10, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there any examples at all of regional templates that list capital cities? For those who are interested, you can get from a country listing on a regional template to the capital city in 2 clicks (it's near the top of the infobox for each country). WolfmanSF (talk) 07:06, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Capitals?