Template talk:Asia topic

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With the recent move of East Timor to Timor-Leste, could someone please update this template accordingly? Supporting articles are in the process of being moved. Cheers, Turnagra (talk) 03:56, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We can't change {{Iso2country/data}} yet; we have to wait for the page moves to be complete, including category moves. If we change it before the page moves are done, we will cause red links in the templates. For example, if you go to Capital punishment in Cyprus and look at the navbox, the link to Capital punishment in East Timor works, but Capital punishment in Timor-Leste would be a red link. Once the page moves are done, come back here, or go directly to the talk page for {{Iso2country/data}}, and add an edit request. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:28, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also see this discussion for a list of pages that still need to be moved. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:25, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And now this discussion about whether the page should have been moved. Page moves are on hold until that discussion is resolved. The ISO data template still can't be updated. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:32, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95 thanks for the replies - just letting you know that the move request has again been closed as moved, and after a week-long delay in case anyone opposed has been carried out. The other pages will still need to get moved, but just flagging that it's back underway now. Turnagra (talk) 22:37, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK. After the lists at this discussion, and any other necessary pages, have been processed, {{Iso2country/data}} can be updated, which will in turn update this template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:16, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done now, after moving Capital punishment in Timor-Leste, which appeared to be the last move needed to eliminate uses of "East Timor" in this template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:57, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Description of suggested change:

Please fix the broken link caused for Palestine pages. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Languages_of_Asia_(category) links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Languages_of_the_State_of_Palestine but the info there says the category has moved to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Languages_of_Palestine

Diff: It displays as Palestine already, but it causes a broken link for some topics, e.g. above. I don't know how to fix it sorry, but somebody more experienced probably knows how. I looked at the code and that also just says Palestine, but here is a token attempt at showing the change:

2405:6E00:62B:DB6:34DB:A38C:D05C:B6C7 (talk) 08:40, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Both the Palestine page and the relevant categories were recently mass moved. Agree that the template should be updated to default to "X of Palestine". CMD (talk) 12:58, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We can't do this yet. This is the same situation as Timor-Leste above. Please link to a discussion showing that any needed article page moves or redirects have been discussed and completed or created. I'm seeing articles like List of lighthouses in the State of Palestine that do not have corresponding redirects, e.g. List of lighthouses in Palestine. If we make this change to {{Iso2country/data}}, the link to that article will turn red in this template. I found the following red links, some of which will be affected.

• List of churches in Palestine
• List of hospitals in Palestine
• List of lakes of Palestine
• List of lighthouses in Palestine
• List of museums in Palestine
• List of radio stations in Palestine
• Lists of cities in Palestine
• Torture in Palestine

This is not necessarily a complete list. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:21, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that these page moves have been completed now, and {{Iso2country/data}} has been adjusted. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:00, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

as a bunch of articles for the individual regions (North Asia, East Asia, [[South Asia], West Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia) exist (e.g. History of East Asia, History of Central Asia, Template:History_of_South_Asia, ...) would it somehow be possible to add a section "regions" to this template?

That way not just this but also all deriving templates would also benefit from this. Agowa (talk) 19:20, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For most cases that would lead to a number of pointless red links. If expansion would help one particular topic, it is better to create a custom template. CMD (talk) 01:44, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe a related template that is subregions only? awkwafaba (📥) 02:46, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is it time to add Bougaineville to this template yet? Perhaps in the Limited recognition section? awkwafaba (📥) 03:00, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bougainville remains part of Papua New Guinea. The Bougainville government expects independence in late 2027. CMD (talk) 03:56, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Jeong seolah (talk) 06:25, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We have to change Bangali to Bengali Hindu wedding, Hindu marriage in Bengali culture, Bengali Muslim wedding, Muslim marriage in Bengali culture

@Jeong seolah:  Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 08:47, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Add LGBTQ rights in Kurdistan per regional classification.  Zemen  (talk) 22:01, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: This is a standard template with only countries and dependencies. CMD (talk) 01:24, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Chipmunkdavis Would it be possible to add a section within the template for regions such as the Kurdistan Region and Catalonia?  Zemen  (talk) 15:27, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not without some very clear inclusion criteria, and I doubt that's possible. CMD (talk) 16:08, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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In the Prehistory of Asia template, right now there is an entry for "Saudi Arabia" which just takes someone to History of Saudi Arabia. There is no entry for Arabia or the Arabian Peninsula wholly, which is much more than the geography of just Saudi Arabia. And this page is not even specifically about Saudi's prehistory, which is almost not covered at all.

I would like the entry to Saudi Arabia to be removed, and replaced with an entry called "Arabia" which links to Prehistory of Arabia. Right now Prehistory of Arabia is a redirect to Pre-Islamic Arabia, which is already an improvement for a Prehistory of Asia template, but also, I am currently working on turning this redirect into its own full page that will properly cover the prehistory of Arabia. Pogenplain (talk) 04:25, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: This is a generic template that links to articles written about each country. If it does not fit prehistory (seems like it wouldn't) a dedicated template should be created. CMD (talk) 04:53, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Please remove the category and portal links as these seem to default to the general "Asia" links rather than the topic specific ones. Note that the navboxes for other continents do not have these links. Also, per WP:OVERLINK, the group headers should not be linked. --woodensuperman 12:08, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit template-protected}} template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:51, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's already well established that we do not link to general portals from navboxes. No issue if these were set to match the topic exactly, but we can't go round spamming portals and categories for "Asia" on every article the navboxes are transcluded on. As for the WP:OVERLINK issue, this is a clear breach of WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. We should also consider MOS:SPECIFICLINK and WP:EGG (i.e. a user may be looking for an article on Foo in sovereign states of Asia for example). --woodensuperman 14:36, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note also that this should be consistent with {{North America topic}}, {{Africa topic}}, and {{Europe topic}}. --woodensuperman 14:43, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not persuaded. I'd rather see links added to the headers at North America and the others, since the headers use technical terms that readers may not know. If another template editor wants to work on this, I have no objections. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:27, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Woodensuperman:  Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit template-protected}} template. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 17:07, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]