Template talk:Asia topic

UAE

There is no article 'Tourism in UAE', but there is an article 'Tourism in Dubai'. Perhaps this latter article could be use in this Tourism in Asia template. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.26.123.208 (talk) 08:31, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Adding Dubai to Template:Asia topic would mean adding it separately to every navbox based on this template, including {{Geography of Asia}}, {{Television in Asia}}, {{Music of Asia}} and many others. I've created Tourism in the United Arab Emirates as a redirect to the "Tourism in the United Arab Emirates" section of List of United Arab Emirates-related topics, which links to Tourism in Dubai. SiBr₄ (talk) 11:46, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick response! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.26.123.208 (talk) 07:32, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Internet in Asia

In articles like Internet in Yemen, there is a navbox at the bottom whose title is Internet in Asia. It redirects to a deleted section, so it defaults to the Internet article. That isn't helping the reader, so I wanted to unlink it. But I got lost in your labyrinth of templates transcluding each other. So I don't know if the problem is just Internet in Asia or if that's just one example of a wider problem. Art LaPella (talk) 20:31, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

You can set a custom title using the |title= parameter in {{Asia topic}}, as in {{Asia topic|Internet in|title=Internet in Asia}}. Since each article transcludes Asia topic directly, a change to each separate article is necessary, either by adding the |title=Internet in Asia parameter or replacing the direct transclusions with a new specialized {{Internet in Asia}} (I can do either quickly using AWB). SiBr₄ (talk) 20:45, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Alternatively, since {{Asia topic}} checks for existence of the title as a page and unlinks it if the page doesn't exist, deleting the Internet in Asia redirect has the same effect. SiBr₄ (talk) 20:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

WP:Help desk#Saving history Art LaPella (talk) 00:21, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

how about converting the page to an index / directory navigation page?-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:29, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

I think you're talking about rewriting the entire template somehow, so perhaps that suggestion was for SiBr4... Art LaPella (talk) 00:38, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

I moved the redirect, as suggested at the help desk. If nothing bad happens, I can fix some other continents with the same problem. Art LaPella (talk) 01:04, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

TRPoD's suggestion was to make Internet in Asia an list of links to each country's article without further content, similar to an index page. SiBr₄ (talk) 10:33, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

I don't know why the reader would want that. I believe that means that the reader would see the bottom of Internet in Yemen (or any Asian country), see "Internet in Asia", click it, and get the same result he would get by clicking "show". Art LaPella (talk) 22:54, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Individually setting/removing entries

@Codename Lisa: Instead of using parser functions to alter the link for Macau for for a specific topic within this general template, would it be a better idea to add the functionality in {{Europe topic}} of individually changing or removing links to the other continent-topic templates as well? That way the link to Macau can be easily changed within {{Capitals in Asia}} instead of here. SiBr₄ (talk) 10:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi. I don't know. I am not active in this area, so I wouldn't know whether doing this is a waste of time and rendering performance or actually useful. For time being, I assume it safe to say implementing it for Macau alone would be nice. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 01:08, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

It just seems odd to me that the Europe template has several options that not all of the other continents have – the country-specific parameters, the |image= parameter (shared with the Asia template) and the |article= parameter. Adding these options to all templates would make them consistent. SiBr₄ (talk) 20:41, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

I think this is a good idea. If you have the time to sandbox and test these changes, I will happily deploy. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:44, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

@MSGJ: After quite a lot of testing, I have now made the change, updated transcluding articles and templates that would otherwise break and added documentation. I'll do the remaining continents later. SiBr₄ (talk) 19:37, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 25 September 2014

Please change Oman to Oman. A minor change I know but the page name will then bold when visited, which it doesn't do at the moment Gbawden (talk) 11:31, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm afraid this can't be accomplished. The article on Royal Navy of Oman calls the template by

{{Asia topic|Navy of|title=Navies of Asia}}

which means that Navy of is prefixed to every country in Asia. If you change the prefix, it will affect every link in the template. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:42, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

This would be possible if country-specific parameters were added to the template, as I proposed in the previous section. SiBr₄ (talk) 13:27, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Egypt is in Africa!

Why is Egypt in both the Asia topic and the Africa topic when it is clearly in Africa. Please change it. Esmost ^πк 09:48, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

@Esmost: It's both, see #Egypt is a Asian country?How come! above. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:50, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Oh. Ne'ermind, sorry for being rude. Esmost ^πк 09:59, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 12 December 2014

Kindly remove Egypt from the list as it isn't an Asian country. Jon Jonathan (talk) 18:18, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Please see two previous sections on this page, which explain why it is. SiBr₄ (talk) 18:59, 12 December 2014 (UTC)