An effort was made to remove countries in the central american region from the template and instead place them in a Central American Template. I have replaced them on the basis that they are still considered part of the North American Continent despite also being labeled as existing in the central american region. I will also include both templates in the pages of the central american countries since I have seen that on the pages of other countries (middle eastern), efforts are made to include templates of all the geographical regions said countries are considered part of.
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua are part of North America.This is in terms of *geography*. North america is a contininent. Central america is considered a part of that continent. See Continent. If you do not belirve the countries are in North America, make a case that they should be in South America. Ravedave
Wrong. America is the continent, and it is divided in North, Central and South America. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central America. Trust me, I live in Costa Rica. Copperchair 07:04, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
From the Spanish Wikipedia article on Central America:
I think that in groupping nations your opinion on the matter reflects a more social and cultural point of view than that a regular English reader of Wikipedia would possess. As an example I point to your exclusion of Belize, which is geographically located in the Central American istmus (and would cause a reader to associate it with that region), from the Central American Template. I believe that you have neglected it because culturally and economically speaking it is (by Costa Rican standards) considered a Caribbean nation and more a part of the Caribbean than of central america. The problem is that making that sort of distinction (geographical from cultural/economic/social) is not easy, heck I know of people that consider everything south of the united states Mexico. Furthermore, here in the United Stated (not sure of other places) it is accepted that North and South America are two seperate Continents and that Central America is a region located within North America. I will therefore revert your edit to this template and and replace it in the article of the countries from which you have removed it. I think that have both the Central and North American Templates in the pages serves to make readers understand that as a whole a country like Honduras is located in North America but also more specifically in Central America. --ÅfÇ++ 21:39, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
All right. Copperchair 00:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
North America is everything from Canada southwards up to and including Panama. All these should be on the template. Central America is a subset of North America, consisting of all North American countries south of Mexico. --Carnildo 05:36, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I have submitted this page to get voted on at : Wikipedia:Current_surveys Ravedave 18:44, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Vote for what templates should be applied to Central American countries. The pages that have been involved in this dispute so far are: Nicaragua Panama Honduras Guatemala El Salvador Costa Rica Belize (not all of which are included on the Central_America template)
According to Official Wikipedia Policy, quote: Articles in Wikipedia should refer to facts, assertions, theories, ideas, claims, opinions, and arguments that have been published by a reputable or credible publisher. The threshold for inclusion is verifiability, not truth. With this in mind, and given that Encarta says that quote: North America, third largest of the seven continents, including Canada (the 2nd largest country in area in the world), the United States (3rd largest), and Mexico (14th largest). The continent also includes Greenland, the largest island, as well as the small French overseas department of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and the British dependency of Bermuda (both made up of small islands in the Atlantic Ocean); we can assume that North America consists of the USA, Canada and Mexico as countries and Greenland, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and Bermuda as foreign (European) dependencies. GrandfatherJoe (talk • contribs) 15:33, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
North America is comprised of two nations -- the United States and Canada. Most public school history textbooks provide maps which are confusing and which claim that the Canadian province of Alaska and the Polynesian state of Hawaii are two of 50 of the United States of America.
However often representatives from Alaska and Hawaii have sat with the United States Congress during scheduled sessions, and although they may be perpetually permitted to do so, both territories in reality share status with the United States within the multi-national Congress of Industrial Organizations (C. I. O. ) -- one as a distinct mid-Pacific Oceanic territory, and the other as a province of Canada. Beadtot 10/18/2005 03:35, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Cf here for a discussion pertaining to this template. Regards, David Kernow (talk) 12:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
See Template talk:Countries of Europe#Outside review and above conversation and discuss about making content boxes more uniform. THIS IS A CROSS-POST -- REPLY ON THAT PAGE ONLY. —this is messedrocker (talk) 11:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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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)[reply]
Rewrote to use navbox generic and to have a more general note at the header. That last point might warrant some thought. Is it better worded now, or should we drop the text back in that refers to italics, and re-italicize those nations? MrZaiustalk 13:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
its weird —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.71.122.242 (talk) 19:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
im trying to find central america but my mom says its rong —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.71.122.242 (talk) 19:04, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Bajo Nuevo Bank and Serranilla Bank were previously listed as being grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands. Whatever U.S. government sources lists them as so (according to the USMOI article, there's only one--and the link is broken), is irrelevant until you can establish that the U.S. actually has these banks under their control. The Colombian government lists them as being part of San Andres Department, so there's your equivelant.
Unless an editor can find confirmation from a reliable source, de facto jurisdiction over these banks will remain unconfirmed, and this page should reflect that. Rennell435 (talk) 04:05, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Guadeloupe and Martinique are not dependencies of France, they are part of France, thus making France a country in North America. How best to resolve this? --Golbez (talk) 04:55, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I added France to the list of countries, but it reminded me of another issue: Colombia has some islands off the coast of Nicaragua. That plants it as a Caribbean (and therefore, in the definition of this template, North American) nation. We aren't just talking nearby associated islands like Venezuela has, these are way up the middle of Central America. (Although, some of Venezuela's islands are further north than Aruba and Trinidad...) Any thoughts? --Golbez (talk) 20:45, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think we should include Iceland since it straddles the continental divide --- similar to how Kazakhstan is included on the Europe template and Egypt on the Asia template. sephia karta | dimmi 12:01, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
These are geographically entirely in South America, so I propose we remove them from this template (especially since we have {{Caribbean topic}} and {{Countries and territories of the Caribbean}}) sephia karta | dimmi 19:23, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Shouldn't it technically be Netherlands? I mean the Constituent countries of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are not considered dependencies, and in the Europe template, they are not considered dependencies to the United Kingdom, while although the Netherlands shares the same name as the full Kingdom, Netherlands proper would have to be considered a dependency, same situation with Greenland and Denmark. —SPESH531Other 22:50, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]