Talk:Boundaries between the continents
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Map of the differing boundaries between the Asian and European continents.
@Urabura: I am raising this section to discuss the insistence that you have for removing the second and third sentences below File:Possible definitions of the boundary between Europe and Asia.png. I understand that the line labeled "A" in the image follows the International Geographical Union's definitionă, as you have repeatedly stated in your edit comments. I thank you for providing a source for this, I was able to add it to the image summary description on the commons, though it was a bit tricky for me to understand the translation of the Polish text it was written in. However, this does not make the following two sentences incorrect, since the stated "Modern definition" described in the article follows lines "B" and "F" in the image. - Wiz9999 (talk) 15:44, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
- I, too, fail to understand how the statement regarding the boundary accepted by Russia and Kazakhstan during the Soviet era could be deemed to be untrue. What would the fact that the IGU currently uses such boundary make the statement regarding Soviet-era practice incorrect? AuH2ORepublican (talk) 18:22, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
- Where is the source stating that the line labeled "A" in the image follows the International Geographical Union's definition? When I was browsing the IGU's website, I couldn't find any information about some basic geographical definitions such as the number of continents, the boundaries between these continents, the number of continental subregions and their respective boundaries etc.
- If the IAU has the power to determine how many planets does our Solar System have, as the sole international geographic organisation recognised by the international community, wouldn't the IGU have the power to determine these basic geographical definitions too so people worldwide could have a standard to follow? 120.16.170.30 (talk) 12:06, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
- The boundary in the Caucasus is not the generally accepted boundary we use nowadays. It ain't this southern. The generally accepted boundary are the peaks/watershed of the Greater Caucasus mountains, so it runs through (small parts) of Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. And (optionally): many islands of Greece aren't visible on this map, of which some of them are European and some Asian. Can somebody change this please, thank you. 2A02:A44E:FA4A:0:ECF4:9FA4:9BA4:5304 (talk) 02:00, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Content dispute
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Orphaned references in Boundaries between the continents of Earth
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 16:13, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Requested move 16 March 2023
- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: withdrawn. Treetoes023 (talk) 16:19, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- Support per nom. 〜Festucalex • talk • contribs 05:53, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
- Support makes sense to me. Current title is over long and its normal and expected to assume things are about Earth unless stated otherwise. Canterbury Tail talk 13:10, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
- Support the plural form. This article isn't about the generic topic, but is about the specific continental boundaries of Earth, so I think a plural title makes more sense here. Rreagan007 (talk) 16:46, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Rreagan007: Agreed, I'll alter my request. Treetoes023 (talk) 06:04, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose "Continental boundary" is ambiguous and confusing. From a geological perspective, continental boundary could mean a Himalayan Mountains between the Eurasian Plate and the Indian Plate. It could also mean a boundary between continental crust and oceanic crust. I reckon the current title is good enough, it is not too long. We have way longer titles in Wikipedia, such as this one:
- Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. N. Mortimer (talk) 04:37, 19 March 2023 (UTC)]
- @N. Mortimer: If it makes a difference I altered the request to move to the plural form instead as it is more distinctive from convergent boundary. – Treetoes023 (talk) 06:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose Per N. Mortimer. 120.16.92.71 (talk) 08:32, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
- Suggestion Change the title to "Boundaries between Earth's continents" is shorter and better. 120.16.92.71 (talk) 08:37, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose There is a well-reasoned argument against, while the arguments in favor are mostly frivolous. There is no proof the current title is ]
- Oppose. I agree with N. Mortimer that the proposed title would strongly suggest No such user (talk) 12:53, 28 March 2023 (UTC)]
Page move
This article was recently renamed in good faith to
- No such user (talk) 08:02, 29 March 2023 (UTC)]
- Respect your opinion. Wouldn't have reverted if I didn't think there was some controversy about the article's name; therefore, think it calls for more discussion. Yes, oh yes, some RMs are "arduous", specially the more contentious ones, but this? C'mon. Are you really willing to just "settle"? Imho we should look for and find the highest and best title for this article. ed. put'er there 11:04, 29 March 2023 (UTC)]
- Alright, "arduous" was hyperbolic. But I still think that removing "Earth" is uncontroversial (particularly from a No such user (talk) 08:25, 30 March 2023 (UTC)]
- Alright, "arduous" was hyperbolic. But I still think that removing "Earth" is uncontroversial (particularly from a
- Respect your opinion. Wouldn't have reverted if I didn't think there was some controversy about the article's name; therefore, think it calls for more discussion. Yes, oh yes, some RMs are "arduous", specially the more contentious ones, but this? C'mon. Are you really willing to just "settle"? Imho we should look for and find the highest and best title for this article.