Talk:Northwestern Europe

message: Why isn't Greenland represented in light green on the map? Sure, it's not geographically in Europe, but as part of Denmark, I would think it would qualify in a lot of people's minds. It's also farther northeast than all the green regions on the map.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.215.209.37 (talk) 20:25, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greenland 

message: I amended the article to the following based on the reasoning in my edit summary: , however a well known trouble maker has since decided to revert the edit with the spurious claim that "Revert to geographical links; Northern Germany is not a polity". Rather than engage in a petty edit-war which this editor would love I've brought it to talk.
Personally the revert is ridiculous and only continues to mix geographical landmasses (i.e. Ireland and GB) with geo-political entities such as Netherlands and Denmark. Also no-one is saying northern Germany is a polity and clearly refers to the north half of the state, not some geographical landmass that once contained Prussia or anything.
Unless a proper reason is giving by Gob Lofa, and no other editors have any objections, I will reinsert the changes based on common sense.
Mabuska (talk) 15:20, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the Fascist source used to source the statement states "Britain" not "Great Britain" and in the following pages makes pretty clear it is on about Britain in the sense of the UK and Ireland in the sense of the Republic, or due to the era the source is on about "Irish Free State", which the source clearly uses on page 61 when discussing fascism in Ireland. I'll make the change. Mabuska (talk) 18:13, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographic definitions 

message: There is a long paragraph in this article that makes absolutely no sense. It's also unsourced and most likely OR.
The original paragraph went like this:
"The definition of Northwestern Europe as correlating with Protestant Germanic Europe leads to somewhat the same definition as the geographical one above, but would tend to exclude northern France, Wallonia, Southern Netherlands, Catholic Belgium, southern Germany, Austria, and Ireland. This is because France and Wallonia, despite their historical Huguenot populations, are considered Catholic Romance language countries, while Belgium, Southern Germany, Austria and Ireland, though largely containing Germanic language speakers, are historically Catholic. Measured by the attribute of Protestantism and Germanic culture, Northwestern Europe would therefore be equivalent to the area known as Northern Europe combined with the Low Countries, much of Switzerland and Northern Germany, and minus the Baltic regions, Belgium and Ireland." - First of all this is someone's own creation and is unsourced. Second, the conclusion and theory is wrong because Estonia and Latvia are also Protestant and have a Germanic culture background. 
I tried fixing the paragraph by adding that fact:
"The definition of Northwestern Europe as correlating with Protestant Germanic Europe leads to somewhat the same definition as the geographical one above, but would tend to exclude northern France, Wallonia, Southern Netherlands, Catholic Belgium, southern Germany, Austria, and Ireland. This is because France and Wallonia, despite their historical Huguenot populations, are considered Catholic Romance language countries, while Belgium, Southern Germany, Austria and Ireland, though largely containing Germanic language speakers, are historically Catholic. The definition would also exclude the majority protestant Estonia and Latvia, which also have a history of germanic culture. Measured by the attribute of Protestantism and Germanic culture, Northwestern Europe would therefore be equivalent to the area known as Northern Europe combined with the Low Countries, much of Switzerland and Northern Germany, and minus the Baltic regions, Belgium and Ireland." 
But now it makes even less sense. I would just remove the entire paragraph or rewrite it in a factual way that would make sense. Clearly trying to define "Northwestern Europe" by Protestantism will not work.  Blomsterhagens (talk) 12:11, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protestantism? 

message: Why are Sweden and Finnland considered as northwestern european, as they are racially blonde as baltics people and even geographically closer to Eastern Europe such as Estonia/Russia than to the Northwestern European countries like UK? 89.166.236.254 (talk) 13:12, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finnland and Eastern Scandinavia