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I propose we merge two stubs about a region of Colombia into an article to be named either Magdalena Medio region, or perhaps Magdalena Medio, Colombia.

We currently have two articles on the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia:

• Magdalena Medio Province – identified as a subregion of Bolívar Department
• Magdalena Medio Antioquia – identified as a subregion of Bolívar Department

I'm not really clear what is going on here, but this appears to be a region that spans these two Colombian departments. From the map that appears in the Antioquia article, the dark red shaded area presumably identifies the Magdelena region, and it appears to extend beyond the borders of the pale yellow shaded region, which I assume is Antioquia department. So, maybe the next department towards the east is Bolivar department. (Besides a merger, the map should be clarified.)

This is a geographic region that appears to spans these two departments (and more; see below), and unless there is something very distinctive about the portion within each of the departments, they should be one article, not two.

According to Citizens' Media Against Armed Conflict], p. 150:

Magdalena Medio has no official territorial status. The territory known as Magdalena Medio comprises municipalities from four different departments—and sometimes five or six, depending on who is defining the region.

The Antioquia article is linked via wikidata to d:Q1638495#sitelinks-wikipedianine other Wikipedias; the 'Province' article is linked to one other.

This argues for a merger under one of the proposed names, likely the Antioquia one, possibly renamed as it is not confined to that department. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 20:02, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zero Gravity and Shevonsilva: pinging active users with >5% of text contributions to the article. Mathglot (talk) 20:13, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Somehow both those stubs are less informative than their respective department articles, but in general I don't think we usually merge defined administrative divisions into more vague geographic regions. We might have a separate article on the supposed geographical region though. CMD (talk) 02:35, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I had briefly considered Afd for the two of them, but there are too many sources for that, so these are basically just your simple stub-and-run effort. Tthere are tons of sources for the English term Middle Magdalena Region (see books, Scholar) so probably it/they need to be renamed in whatever new form it ends up in. Mathglot (talk) 03:04, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The most intuitive rename would be to add the department name in parentheses as a disambiguator. They're both informally provinces, so I wouldn't use that as a disambiguator as the Bolívar article currently does, and the department name isn't part of the name as the current Antioquia article title suggests. We actually do seem to have an article on the region, it's at Middle Magdalena Valley, although curiously that article seems to treat the two mentioned provinces as just west of the region. CMD (talk) 03:15, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from User talk:QwertyZ34 § Country maps replaced with ones that make the country too small to see

Hello, I recently added image switcher to the majority of African countries, some of them got reverted, because it was small countries like Rwanda, Malawi etc... But, for something, I don't understand why Burundi article still have an image switcher since it's a small country, the fact that this article got an IS is incoherent in the term of "Small Countries no Image Switcher" which is logic at first but unlogic if Burundi have it. Thank you. QwertyZ34 (talk) 11:22, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We should really not have the African Union maps at all. They are deeply misleading to readers. CMD (talk) 15:27, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's better to have ONLY African Union map for small countries because it highlight the country itself, on the globe, it's not really visible and it have to be an complet different color or surrounded to atleast see it correctly, so yes, according to my opinion, AU maps are better for small countries, and for normal and tall-sized countries then it need a switcher to have both maps : Globe (orthographic) and Africa Union Map. QwertyZ34 (talk) 17:12, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For small countries on a globe we should have insets, such as Timor-Leste. The AU maps are misappropriated in their infobox usage, as they suggest a much higher relevance of the AU than exists in reality. CMD (talk) 17:34, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are right QwertyZ34 (talk) 17:37, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: added Courtesy link above. Mathglot (talk) 03:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can we get some more eyes on the inclusion of a section about Donald Trump in this article. Talk:Greenland#Donald Trump section. Moxy🍁 22:02, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Currently most articles have something of the form Short Name, officially Full Name is a country in Region. For example China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia or Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa. This matches the way common/"short" names and "official" names are defined by (for example) the UK government, listed here.

The articles of both Austria and Sweden were changed by K1812 (talk · contribs) to use "formally" instead of "officially" (Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe and Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. This is based on how the UNGEGN defines the different names listed here (both "short" and "formal" names are "official" in this context).

Even using the UNGEGN list, there are some countries where "officially" would remain appropriate. For example Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America, the UNGEGN short name being Bolivia (Plurinational State of) as opposed to just Bolivia.

If the logic behind changing from "officially" to "formally" in the articles for Austria and Sweden is sound, then "formally" should become the norm for country lead sentences. Otherwise, the articles for Austria and Sweden should be reverted to using "officially".

MildlyLucid (talk) 11:10, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At the moment, Sweden is used as an example for WP:COUNTRYLEAD and so formally appears there. This would need to be updated too if there is agreement to change this. Mellk (talk) 11:30, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Formal is likely better as short names are often also official, although generally I suspect the meaning is conveyed. CMD (talk) 11:51, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just looking for some generic input at Talk:Australia#Reverting without explanation. Is a hard article to update. Moxy🍁 00:49, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]