Template talk:Oceania topic

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[edit] Template name

Per here, would anyone object to this template being renamed {{Oceania topic}}, thereby leaving the of/in specified by its parameter (e.g. {{Oceania topic|Communications in}}, {{Oceania topic|Economy of}}, etc)...?  Regards, David Kernow (talk) 02:53, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

modify away... --Bob 00:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

How is it decided which countries belong to which region? It's ridiculous to place Indonesia in Melanesia and New Zealand is more often regarded as part of Australasia. Anyway, the template is different to Template:Countries and territories of Oceania. StAnselm (talk) 22:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

- Indeed. Can someone (registered, as it's semi-locked) please put New Zealand into Australasia? Someone put it in Polynesia earlier, which is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.97.214.170 (talk) 04:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Add to Polynesia

Could someone add the following list to Polynesia region (and include Hawaii list too?) with some minor but not otherwised listed airports List of airports in United States minor islands. Template looks too forbidding! NB: no pages written yet for Baker Island Airport, Jarvis Airport. Hugo999 (talk) 13:59, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I think you might misunderstand the purpose of this template. The template takes a parameter such as "List of airports in" and generates a display containing "List of airports in Australia", "List of airports in Christmas Island" etc, all with country/territory names. It can't include airports which don't match the basic format, although you can create redirects where articles don't match the given naming pattern.

Were you asking for a similar template applying to islands of Polynesia, or for a custom template? It would not be appropriate to add minor islands to this template, since there would be very few articles on those islands matching the many topics this template is already used for.-gadfium 19:59, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

For most islands of Oceania you can get to any page via the main Oceania template, and to Airfields via the Airports of Oceania template (even to the Airfield on Pitcairn when/if it is built). But Wake Island and Johnston Atoll cannot be accessed this way, though as the only population is for any bases on them there are not many articles. I just think that you should be able to access the main and airport pages via the template; either by individual name or via a "US Minor Outlying Islands" page. Plus the other odd page eg on the extinct Wake Island Rail. Hugo999 (talk) 14:36, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

• NB: Midway is part of Hawaii, and Palmyra Atoll is part of the Line Islands (but not of Kiribati), so may have some links that way.

What you seem to be suggesting is to add United States Minor Outlying Islands to the template. I think this would fit better under Micronesia than Polynesia. However, adding territories which are not countries is likely to be controversial. I notice we do not list Hawaii, for example. We do list some territories such as Christmas Island.

I believe the appropriate place to discuss this is at Template talk:Countries and territories of Oceania. At the very least, if you wish to propose this addition, you should advertise this at that talk page, and also at Talk:Oceania.-gadfium 19:36, 29 June 2008 (UTC)