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No sources, no edits

why is there an edit war over a map that cites as its only source the map it was cropped from? If you make any changes to this image, it becomes a completely new image, and it needs to be referenced on its own terms. The original references were: britannica some unreferenced scan of a map and another unreferenced scan of another map. Hello? How can there be an edit war before anyone even bothered to identify their sources? I am sure the two unidentified scans are from perfectly quotable sources, the problem is just, the sources aren't quoted. This leaves us with the Britannica map as the only source given for this map. This means that this map must fairly represent whatever is in the britannica map. There isn't any room for debate on this until somebody decides to base this map on another source, which must be identified.

I don't care how you decide to represent minority religions. The important thing is that you do it consistently. In all the maps linked above, South Sudan has exactly the same colour as the Congo. You cannot just switch around the colour of South Sudan because you happen to care about the South Sudan and not the Congo. Your change needs to be consistent over the whole map area. If you want to express "tribal, minority Christian" with some new kind of pattern, you need to apply that to the whole map, and not just to the single country you happen to be interested at the moment. If you do that, you are just breaking the map and we'll not be able to use it anywhere at all. --Dbachmann (talk) 08:48, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

A reliable source by Pew Global religious Landscape

Pew Research Center also gives the percentage and population breakdowns by religion in each country for 2010. This report was released in December 2012 and touches on many of the world's countries including South Sudan, Liberia, Mozambique, Ivory Coast. Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 08:27, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

•  Comment: Its figure of 5.1% for the number of Egyptians who are Christians may seem a bit low--since some Coptic sources and a NYTimes report claim that their community is at most 10% in Egypt--but the number of Christians are definitely a minority and today some Copts are leaving Egypt after the Arab Spring revolution brought in a Muslim brotherhood president that their community did not support. --Leoboudv (talk) 08:41, 16 June 2013 (UTC)