Template talk:Middle East

message: Hm. I don't think this is a good Mediawiki page - "Middle East" is an extremely ambiguous term. WhisperToMe 04:52, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition of Middle East

message: I've reinstated the Palestinian Territories as they were in this template for a long time. Their situation is quite dissimilar from Iraqi Kurdistan, which is internationally recognised as part of a sovereign state and claimed by that state as its territory. The Palestinian Territories are not internationally recognised as part of any sovereign state and with the exception of East Jerusalem are not claimed by any sovereign state. Any arguments regarding the inclusion of Iraqi Kurdistan are not necessarily applicable to the OPT. Palmiro | Talk 23:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palestinian territories 

message: : It has been suggested that this page ... be merged with Southwest Asia
Seems a good idea to me, given the large overlap in content... Would  suffice as the merged template's name...?  Regards, David Kernow (talk) 07:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge suggestion 

message: A suggestion for a standard approach to the naming, titling and sections of this and similar templates has been made here – please visit and share your thoughts!  Thanks, David Kernow (talk) 03:27, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standardization suggestion - please contribute! 

message: There seems to be a slow editwar going on with Pakistan being added and reverted as occasionally considered to be part of the middle east.  I have never heard this apart from in this template.  Does any one agree with Effer? GB 03:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Kurdistan doesn't claim to be a country nor is it recognized to be one. So I do not see any reason why we should claim it is. -- Cat chi? 14:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pakistan

message: Why was Greece listed? As far as I know, Greece has never been considered part of the Middle East.Hajji Piruz 05:39, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Greece

message: Well I've taken the bull by the horns and deleted the Sometime Included section. No way are Morrocco, Libya etc. in the Middle East by any definition. Yes, it is a common misconception to think they are, but we should not list common misconception as fact. Anjouli (talk) 08:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good for you. It needed doing.Halfmast (talk) 08:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sometimes included 

message: 
Hi. Please remove the category "Navigational templates by region" form the template code, as it is now deprecated. Sardanaphalus (talk) 13:47, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that seems to be correct. It looks like :Category:Region templates is the correct tree, and this template is already in a subcategory of that tree. I've removed the category. Cool Hand Luke 15:33, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

text: * Thanks. Sardanaphalus (talk) 18:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: As a region unrecognised by the U.N., why should the TRNC be included on a template with fully recognised states? Placing it here would be the same as putting one of the break-away regions in Georgia on an Asia or European template because they are recognised by Russia. I think it should be removed in order to keep the template as a fair representation of what the UN considers to be recognised, legal states. 82.45.225.4 (talk) 16:25, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: TRNC

message: This is unnecessary. Middle East is a controversial, ambiguous term. There should be Southwest/West Asian countries template separate from North African ones which in turn should be separated from Horn of Africa etc -- Mttll (talk) 05:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and this template is original research, request deletion. Izzedine (talk) 03:42, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion 

message: A discussion is taking place here on how best to incorporate unrecognised states into a navigation template listing sovereign states and other entities. Some editors have suggested that including such states at all is pushing an imbalanced point of view. Others have made the same argument for not including them. Various conciliatory methods have been proposed, but have not acheived consensus. Editors should note that the outcome of this discussion will most likely have implications on this template aswell. For more information, please have a look at this casefile, or see the before-mentioned discussion page. Night w (talk) 04:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Centralised discussion 

message: You are welcome to participate in discussion over merger of this template into template:Middle East topic; the reason is obviously dublicity.Greyshark09 (talk) 17:07, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger into template:Middle East topic

message: per WP:LISTGAP, the countries should be in a single list, with no arbitrary divisions into subgroups.  thank you. Frietjes (talk) 23:08, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that this template might soon be deleted per deletion of template:Countries in Western Asia.Greyshark09 (talk) 18:23, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

text: Yes, we should use one list here.  Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:20, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  listgap