Jump to content

Talk:West Asia

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Population in statistical data error

[edit]

the population when arranged in ascending or descending order, it is arranged as if the digits after the point are decimal numbers Y Aquila (talk) 16:01, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Including Greece

[edit]

I was wondering if you can include Greece as Greece does have territory in West Asia? Greece can be considered as a non-contiguous transcontinental country as the islands of Rhodes, Kos, Samos, Chios, Lesbos, Kastellorizo, Strongyli Megistis, and Ro are actually closer to Anatolia (which is an Asia) than mainland Europe. Even the Europe Asia division along to the Aegean Sea places these islands on the Asian side of the divide. Please take this into consideration and have a great day! TomTom7474 (talk) 02:45, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's not what sources do, so we don't do it either. Remsense ‥  02:48, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What do you mean? TomTom7474 (talk) 13:20, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No other reference work would list Greece as a West Asian country, and we reflect what reliable sources say about a subject. Remsense ‥  13:21, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The inclusion of only the southern Caucasus is unfounded and controversial

[edit]

I don't want to start an edit war so I'll post here. The claim that the Greater Caucasus Mountains are the accepted border between Europe and Asia was sourced, in other articles, from Encyclopedia Britannica - and yet, that source doesn't say that at all. Here, it isn't even sourced at all. Encyclopedia Britannica only says that it's one of many ways to separate the two... Considering the socio-political context of the North Caucasus, as well as the fact that other ways to define the border don't include it in Eastern Europe, that shouldn't be the deciding definition. If Azerbaijan and Georgia are here, there's no reason Dagestan and the rest of the Northern Caucasus shouldn't be included. @Remsense

Crystalmenta (talk) 08:06, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I do not get the impulse by editors on articles like this one to do anything but look at the polities mentioned in sources and repeat them. It matters vanishingly little whether we count Russia as a West Asian polity for either Russia or West Asia unless one is imbuing the characterization with some sentimentality—or perhaps conversely, some exactitude—far beyond what can be justified. Remsense ‥  09:07, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You're showing your bias. We're not talking about Russia. Russia doesn't need to count as a West Asian polity for the North Caucasian region that it is governing (in a limited fashion, as it is full of autonomous republics) to be recognized as West Asian. Crystalmenta (talk) 09:41, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, you didn't really address the geographical matter at all, just took an ad hominem jab at what you guessed I was trying to do... Crystalmenta (talk) 09:43, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Which part of the article is this meant to change? The Caucauses watershed is a common geographic boundary, although such boundaries are less in fashion these days. Teh only place entites are listed is Statistical data, and that is a grabbag of statistics that doesn't have much relevance to the article topic anyway. CMD (talk) 11:50, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]