User talk:Jpthefish

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File:Detailed SVG map of the Francophone world.svg

Hi. FYI, French is still an official language of Puducherry and the Aosta Valley.

Should it be colored as a cultural language in Romania? Perhaps New Hampshire as well. Kwamikagami (talk) 22:27, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Also, for File:Detailed SVG map of the Hispanophone world.svg, is Spanish actually spoken natively in Western Sahara?

I changed the legend, as Spanish isn't the native language in much of the range you showed -- it's only official or co-official; also, it is native in much of the light-blue area (SW USA, where it's been spoken longer than English). Kwamikagami (talk) 22:33, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Created File:Detailed SVG map of the Russophone world.svg to match your maps. Will do Sinophone next. Please feel free to adjust if I got some of the territories wrong. Kwamikagami (talk) 01:22, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi Kwamikagami, I really like your maps! I haven't had time to tend to my wikipedia presence, but I'm happy to see my work expanded further. Jpthefish (talk) 01:55, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

File:Detailed SVG map of the Anglophone world.svg

Hello @Jpthefish, You may have noted that Kwamikagami is on a little rampage regarding the map you've created, basically putting anything as somewhat English-speaking. Needless to say that its current status is downright ridiculous and misleading (and letting you believe that that user has some kind of agenda he's putting foward here...) In short: Would you be so kind as to revert to your version? The more objective and fact based readership here will thank you. As do I. 2A06:4944:10F9:E800:C7F:7BD2:483F:5A6 17:50, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Here's the thing though: is @Kwamikagami really wrong? I mean, English is the world's lingua franca, and many people around the world do speak it. XA1dUXvugi (talk) 20:39, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

A genuine kindergarten argumentation... You'll find speakers of any language anywhere in the world. Only judicial status is meant here. Currently a worthless file of propaganda. 2A06:4944:10FE:A700:CD4A:6996:4993:62D1 17:32, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

If there are any demonstrable errors in the map, they should be corrected. I used Ethnologue, which we generally accept as a RS, so that we would represent English the same way we do French and Spanish. (That is, light blue for places where > 20% of the population speaks the language, though for some other languages we use 15% as the cut-off.) You'd need to make an argument for any correction that's not immediately obvious, or for why English should not be treated like any other language. Kwamikagami (talk) 20:42, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Jpthefish, if we're going to remove English from countries where it is spoken by 20%+ of the population, then we need to do the same for French etc. I don't really care which way we go, but we should treat languages the same. That is, if we're going to remove light blue from the Anglophone map, we should do the same for the Francophone map; if L1 for English, then L1 also for French. Can we perhaps have a table of colors and what qualifications there are for each? Something confirmable, not ambiguous like "cultural". (E.g, wouldn't English be a "cultural" language in Japan, and French a "cultural" language in Russia?) Then we could go through a source that covers all our mapped languages and confirm how they list them per country. Kwamikagami (talk) 09:55, 26 August 2023 (UTC)