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Happy editing! Toastskat (talk) 07:18, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Malta and Sicily

Hello. Regarding your edit and source [1]. Are there any other reliable (additional) sources for Malta/Sicily and African continental shelf? Almost all sources describe Malta and Sicily as part of Europe continent. Even map in Wikipedia [2] based on usgs.gov. At the moment, I only see one source that describes your theory - Pauline Galea from Physics Department, University of Malta. Simply one source is not enough to describe the country as African, if hundreds of other sources describe as European. Additional reliable sources are needed. Subtropical-man (✉ | en-2) 21:42, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That USGS map is misleading and it should be deleted. The map used in the article African Plate is actually a more accurate map:

People often confuse political geography with physical geography. In political geography or cultural geography, Malta, Sicily, Cyprus, Armenia, Madeira, and the Canary Islands are all parts of Europe. In physical geography though, Cyprus and Armenia are parts of Asia; Malta, Madeira, and the Canary Islands are parts of Africa; Sicily is mainly a part of Africa.

In terms of continental shelf, Malta and Sicily sit on an extended African continental shelf called Tunisian Plateau. It can be clearly seen on the map used in the article Southern Europe (light blue area):

In terms of tectonic plates, somewhere on northern Sicily marks the boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. So technically, you could argue that Sicily can be considered a transcontinental island (similar to Iceland) instead of of an outright African or European island.

Link: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Topography-bathymetry-map-of-the-Tyrrhenian-Sea-and-Calabrian-regions-Major-structural_fig1_307694676 N. Mortimer (talk) 04:06, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirects

Hi there. It isn't necessary to "fix" redirects that are working just fine. Please see WP:NOTBROKEN. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 10:18, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment. I only edit those redirects with no chance of being split into different articles. The main purpose of thoese redirects is to remind other editors about potential new articles. N. Mortimer (talk) 03:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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