User talk:Wizmut

French Territories

Can you add Réunion, Mayotte, French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique to list of all countries by area because i dont know how to and i want to see the full list thanks Mehmetberkgung (talk) 01:25, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Russia can't be ONLY in europe or ONLY in Asia

Yes, Russia is a transcontinental country, but it can't be ONLY in Asia, it extends to both Asia and Europe. Russia is the largest country in the world, but it cannot be counted in conventionally divided territories such as Asia and Europe, because the country is not located in any of them completely Ethernexis (talk) 18:27, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please discuss this at the talk page for the article in question. There is already a topic open on this so you can add your post there.

Talk:List of Asian countries by area#Inclusion of Russia

The topic of Russia has also been discussed there in 2017[1] and on the population article talk page[2][3] Wizmut (talk) 18:36, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Solar PV capacity by country and territory (MW) and share of total electricity consumption

This table was removed from "Growth of photovoltaics" with comment that is included in "Solar power by country", but I fail to find it there. It was also absent on the date of edit (January 2, 2024). I suggest to add it the later article. Bglazar (talk) 16:50, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, the discussion on the solar growth article found that the data by historical year was not suitable for a table. Which data points do you believe should be present?

Edit: I understand your comment better now. The section in Growth of photovoltaics which had a detailed table like the one in Solar power by country was deemed to be redundant, as that section already links to the table article. Wizmut (talk) 17:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

		The Geography Barnstar
		For your diligent research and high-quality improvements to List of countries and dependencies by area. --Lasunncty (talk) 10:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

Hello, Wizmut. I noticed that your recent edit to Energy development added a link to an image on an external website or on your computer, or to a file name that does not exist on Wikipedia's server. For technical and policy reasons it is not possible to use images from external sources on Wikipedia. Most images you find on the internet are copyrighted and cannot be used on Wikipedia, or their use is subject to certain restrictions. If the image meets Wikipedia's image use policy, consider uploading it to Wikipedia yourself or request that someone else upload it. See the image tutorial to learn about wiki syntax used for images. Thank you. - Sumanuil. _{(talk to me)} 01:54, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching that - I accidentally had "File:File:" in the wikitext. Wizmut (talk) 02:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

United States

9,525,067 is the correct size of the United States. This includes internal waters such as rivers and the United States portion of the great lakes(Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Etc.. it’s not fair or accurate to include all of Canada Portion of the Great Lakes and it’s other large lakes and rivers but exclude the United States Portion of the Great Lakes from its total area. All of Russia lakes are included in its total. Every other country includes their lakes in their total area as well. 9,369,417 is inaccurate information. The United Nations, Brittanica, or the CIA fact book does not have that total listed. We should try our best to include accurate information instead of misinformation ZeusDragon2024 (talk) 21:19, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

United States continued

Size ZeusDragon2024 (talk) 22:41, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The U.S census is used to assess the population of the United States. The United Nations, Britannica, World Atlas, CIA Facebook, World Bank etc.. all include the United States portion of the Great Lakes in its total area. As I mentioned above, Lakes are included in total area of countries. Thats why Canada portion of the Great Lakes is included in theirs, Lake Baikal is included in Russia, the African Great Lakes are also included in their respective countries total area. It’s puzzling why this is up for debate when 99.99% agree that the U.S Great Lake portion should be included in the total area. The census has a different section for the Great Lakes is because the Great Lakes are shared with Canada and are not owned exclusively by the United States. 9,369,417 is not found anywhere to describe the size of the U.S ZeusDragon2024 (talk) 22:41, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of US cities by population

You screwed up the rankings on January 10. 174.67.226.163 (talk) 22:57, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aru Islands Regency

Dear Wizmut, in updating the latest population statistics for the Aru Islands Regency from mid-2022 to mid-2023, I was distressed to notice that you deleted a considerable amount of information from the table of districts, stating that you found it "non-notable". While this data may not have been of interest to you, I assure that it is of interest to many other people, and if you had taken the trouble to look at any other article relating to Indonesia's provinces, regencies or cities, you will see that the table in the Aru Islands article contains comparable data to every one of them. Please do not vandalise articles just because you do not need all of the information they contain. Rif Winfield (talk) 19:57, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not vandalism and please discuss this on the relevant talk page and ping me there. Wizmut (talk) 20:09, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of countries and dependencies by area

Do you really not know that the United States has an area of 9.8 million square kilometers, not 9.5 square kilometers? Where do you get the information from where they tell you that the United States has an area of 9.5 million square kilometers?? You can find a lot of information but you don't know that the United States has an area of 9.8 million square kilometers? And you try to change that information to make the United States look like 9.5 million square kilometers? 2403:6200:8860:DC8A:61C6:12C:B79:27F6 (talk) 13:49, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please discuss this on the relevant talk page. See Talk:List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area#United_States. Wizmut (talk) 14:10, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Turkey" vs. "Türkiye"

Hi! I saw you used the name "Türkiye" as the name of the country generally known in English as "Turkey" in your recent edit to .List of countries by arable land density.

Here's a Q-and-A about why this shouldn't be done, based on Wikipedia's policies:

Q: Why don't you use the name Türkiye, the correct name for this country?

A: Because the English-language Wikipedia has a WP:COMMONNAME policy. We use names for countries and places that are the names commonly used for them in English, regardless of what official organizations use. Technically, this kind of name is known as an exonym. For example, we use the name Germany, instead of the native endonym Deutschland, and we use the name Japan instead of the native name 日本.

Q: But the Turkish government, U.S. State Department, and United Nations all use "Türkiye", so it must be correct.

A: Indeed they do. But WP:COMMONNAME is not authority-based, but usage-based. Please also see WP:NAMECHANGES for more guidance on this.

Notice that this does not apply when we are quoting a literal name in Turkish; for example, the newspaper is called Türkiye, not Turkey. To do that would be hypercorrection, and we don't do that. Nor do we mangle the name into English in direct quotations, including titles of documents, nor in URLs. But it does apply for all uses in Wikipedia's own voice in the English language, including article titles (so the capital is Ankara, Turkey, not "Ankara, Türkiye")

If or when that general English-language usage changes (as has happened in the past with place names such as Mumbai and Beijing), the same WP:COMMONNAME policy implies that the English-language Wikipedia will necessarily also follow suit. So far, that hasn't happened.

This has been discussed many times, with the same result every time because of the common name policy. If you'd like to discuss this further, please take it up at Talk:Turkey. — The Anome (talk) 08:35, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Missed that one. I'll keep an eye out. Wizmut (talk) 08:46, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Accent (sociolinguistics)

Hi. I made the short description of Accent (sociolinguistics) slightly longer than you had. I think it is necessary, since both accent in that sense and Stress (linguistics) are features of language. I made it, "A distinctive way of pronouncing a language". Cnilep (talk) 00:51, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's short enough to fit into the search bar, so it checks out. Cheers Wizmut (talk) 01:10, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FYI Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Short_descriptors; you may want to have a say. It looks like you stepped into the same issue. - Altenmann >talk 03:35, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NextEra Energy Request

Hi Wizmut, I saw that you were a member of WikiProject Energy, and I was curious if you had any interest in taking a look at my last request for the NextEra Energy article. I have a COI so I can't make any changes directly. I appreciate any insight you can offer. Cheers NextEraMatt (talk) 17:52, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

UK is a transcontinental country

If the Netherlands and Denmark are considered transcontinental countries when their overseas territories are self governing, why isn't the UK? Especially when the UK is listed on page Wikipedia page as a transcontinental country and the only one in all seven. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.8.188.143 (talk) 15:14, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please discuss this on the relevant article talk page. Wizmut (talk) 18:47, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reverting

I understand that I made a wrong edit that I misread from artlebedev.com/susha/ and your edit made me realise my mistake. I just want to thank you for revving my misinformation. Thank you so much :) Kirbstyre 63 (talk) 03:03, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of countries by population density

Please, before reverting any changes, do some math work. The data on the Netherlands did not make sense, since if you were to take the population and divide it by the surface you would not get to that number, plus the surface was wrong. Now they are OK. You can check also on citypopulation.de — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.219.77.2 (talk) 11:35, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citypopulation.de is an admirable site but is not as reliable of a source as the United Nations, which is the source for all the data in the table unless stated otherwise. Wizmut (talk) 12:20, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]