Template talk:Europe topic

Jan Mayen

I suggest to add Jan Mayen. It is unincorporated territory of Norway, it is not part of Svalbard. He is missing in the template. Jan CZ (talk) 16:05, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Unlike Svalbard Jan Mayen is under no international treaties. Why should it be included? CMD (talk) 17:06, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

CMD is right. As Jan Mayen is a part of the Kingdom of Norway (Nordland county) and is not autonomous we don't need an entry in a navbox for sovereign states and autonomous territories. De728631 (talk) 18:45, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Jan Mayen is not part of (Nordland county), it is only administered from it. Jan Mayen is unincorporated area. It is listed on List of dependent areas, it is listed on CIA World Factbook separately as country [1]. It is alone European territory listed in this lists which not given to our template.

This template is not "for sovereign states and autonomous territories", but for sovereign states, dependencies and other territories. Jan CZ (talk) 20:59, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Ok, I see. Per that list, "the legal status of Jan Mayen is basically the same as the Svalbard archipelago, and unlike the Norwegian possessions in the Antarctic, which are dependencies and not integral parts of the Kingdom." So we should in fact include Jan Mayen in the "other territories" section of the template like Svalbard. De728631 (talk) 22:37, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

There is also one article Telephone numbers in Jan Mayen that would justify the inclusion of an entry in the Europe topic navbox for practical reasons, but if we include it we should make it opt-in so the major number of occurences of this template will not show a red link. De728631 (talk) 22:49, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

We do not list every territory, just ones we feel we have special reason to. Jan Mayen lacks any unique international agreements like that about Svalbard, so their international positions are different even if official domestic ones aren't. CMD (talk) 01:21, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

We have all coutries from List of dependent areas or CIA World Factbook included in the continental templates. With the exception of the unihabited possesions like Clipperton or Midway Islands. I think add of Jan Mayen into the template formally is OK. But its inclusion may cause a variety of red links, tt is true. I don't know how many functional links (as to Telephone numbers in Jan Mayen) can be established. Eventual functional links can be practical reasons for inclusion. Jan CZ (talk) 10:14, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

I question why Jan Mayen is on List of dependent areas, rather than why it's not here. CMD (talk) 13:16, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

German National Library

In the template for the European national libraries the German link is currently National Library of Germany which is a redirect to the article title, German National Library. Could this be fixed to point directly to the article? I don't know how to and, even if I did, it does state that it'd probably be best if you'd ask about it there too anyway, to avoid arguments. Regards, Calistemon (talk) 06:08, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Not really, everything in the template links to the same pattern, in the library case "National Library of X". CMD (talk) 07:39, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. Calistemon (talk) 07:49, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

You can change the link target using |DE=German National Library in the invocations of the template. Since a lot of the links in the national libraries navbox are redirects, a solution could be to use a wrapper template {{National libraries of Europe}} instead of directly using Europe topic in the articles. SiBr₄ (talk) 10:09, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Fixed now. It took me a while to understand what you meant because I just don't really know how this template works, to be honest, but I got there in the end. Thanks for your help, much appreciated, Calistemon (talk) 12:07, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Very Sophisticated WP syntax

Northern Cyprus has List of universities and colleges in Northern Cyprus page. I wanted to add this to this template. But template's syntax is so complex. So how to add it to this template?Woodgridge (talk) 20:37, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

What page are you trying to add it to? CMD (talk) 20:57, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

unemployment in europe seems badly done

at present the Unemployment at the european countries reads red for most of them, yet there are articles like this one Jobseeker's Allowance for the UK, the template should be fixed to point to the relevant articles and not a generic name that does not apply - this is complicated as redirects may solve the issue, but would be a pain to do every page, so template needs fixing somehow — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.162.68.97 (talk) 02:49, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Unemployment in Poland is the only article that uses this template to link to "Unemployment in ..." pages. Given the sparsity of bluelinks, I'd suggest removing the template entirely; the three existing pages (the UK and Spain being the others) are still linked by a category. A navbox for the Jobseeker's Allowance and other countries' equivalents is better made from scratch. SiBr₄ (talk) 19:53, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

UK as the end of the list

When the United Kingdom is the last country of the list, an unwanted dot appears after UK. Please see Postal codes in Armenia. Can it be removed? --Quest for Truth (talk) 08:58, 4 June 2016 (UTC)