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Thailand

Why is Thailand coloured Korean religions, rather than Buddhism? Cesiumfrog (talk) 04:04, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

France

What color is France? 175.197.156.143 (talk) 06:05, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Requirement for someone to return the current version to the more updated version: 12:08, 25 June 2012

Some idiot keeps reverting updated maps to older maps. For no apparent reason other than their own partial dislike and that they don't like the way the map presents religions in some areas.

Reverting the current version to be 2008 is completely out of order and unacceptable. This is 2012 and four years later! And several updated versions have been submitted at least the last ones such as June 2012 are acceptable. And it is correct to put the Sudan border on, and the religions seem more accurate than colouring large sections black by folk religions when they are more correct to be Christianity or the large religions (e.g. Russia).

Please someone who has an account and can sign in, revert this file to the updated 2012 version, at least June and if not June then another. Which is 2012. And not 4 years out of date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get a grip on this page. For Truth's sake.

It is a loser who sends information back to the stone age or even back to 4 years in the past. We want to know up to date statistics and maps. Even up to the day. But since up to the day is not possible we at least want it current in this year! Not 2008.

Jesus.

SOMEONE WITH SOME BRAINS WHO IS AN ARROGANT WIKIPEDIA EDITOR (BECAUSE MOST SEEM TO BE ARROGANT TO HAVE AN ACCOUNT AND LIKE TO REVERT OTHER PEOPLE'S EDITS) EDIT AND UPDATE TO 2012!!! MAYBE WE WILL GET AN ARROGANT ONE WHO CARES TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT INSTEAD OF WRONG.

Thanks.

Waiting for Correct and up to date information at this "encyclopedia" site.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.99.34.55 (talk) 12:04, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

 Not done. All versions of the file are highly inaccurate. The source used is this and the images here are far from being close to it. The image will need to be updated with a new accurate one. - M0rphzone (talk) 08:13, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Response

At the moment this map is not accurate, but then someone can make it accurate by referring to the wikipedia pages on religion of countries or areas of countries where religion must be checked. Because it is a mixture of more than one religion.

This could be a good map. If it was correct for the current year. But it is not.

And it should not be made to copy the original source (several years old) just because it is not correct for the current year. I am sure at least one or more of the updated versions of the map have some information on them, which is an improvement on the original map. Someone just needs to check the information where versions differ, and check by looking at wikipedia pages for religion statistics in countries and areas, and then update the map with the correct information according to wikipedia pages on religion in countries. It is better to correct the map based on wikipedia country religion pages, than an incorrect map edited to favour a person's own religion, or a years out of date map as the original was.

The map should be showing up to date information of the current world state of religious distribution, as far as possible. And in no way be showing several years old data, or having to match a map which is the "source" which is several years old. And does not even have a date. So how are we to know if this wikipedia map is copying a map which is from 2008, or from 1998?

We all want to look at a map which is current as much as possible, for 2013 or whatever the current year is.

The point is wikipedia should be showing the up to date (correct year 2013 now) information on the religion distribution in the world as far as it can be verified today in 2013. Not old data from 2008. Which may have been incorrect even at that date, and is certainly not still correct today.

The source you gave I have looked at and it does not have any date on it. The question is, is that source current, or is it from 2008 when this wikipedia map was created? Or is it a source from even older than 2008 which was used to make a wikipedia map in 2008?

As you can see in some of the updated versions of the map. There are particular differences about religions, in places where the border between christianity and islam is. With particular attention on indonesia, and west africa, and also east africa.

Indonesia is not entirely muslim, and in west papua it is majority christian, and also in some of the small islands to the west of papau at least some of these may be christian majority, as shown in some of the versions of the wikipedia map here. And as you can read in wikipedia entries about religion in these particular states or areas of indonesia.

Here is a map, for religions in indonesia, which shows christianity is the majority in west papua, and north sulawesi, and also a majority in most of maluku. The map is from 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Religious_map_of_Indonesia.jpg

And Eritrea does have christians, and the wikipedia page about Eritrea says it has 62% majority christians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea#Religion So why has the version currently shown on wikipedia, been used to show eritrea as entirely muslim again. When a previous version of the map showed it correctly, as at least majority christian?

Are we having a battle of wishes, where the religion of the person who updates the map will mean that he pushes the religious borders to favour his religion. While a person with another religion who updates the map will push the borders to favour his religion?

Which is why the current version has been updated to make Indonesia more of a "pure almost muslim only" country than it is in reality? And eritrea a "pure muslim only" country?

An old version of the map was correct to have the islands east of borneo as having some christian majority in parts of those islands (north sulawesi, and maluku, as mentioned above). But it has been erased and returned to islam only on the current version of the map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.151.50.14 (talk) 05:02, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname, are all majority Christian. Please stop changing the map with false impressions that they are hindu majority.

In the current version of the map and since 11:49, 12 August 2013. As well as several times in past map versions Angelo and others have put countries like Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname, as hindu majority.

These countries are not hindu majorities. They have "some hindus" in them. But not a majority, and not even half as much as the christian majority. Each of those countries is majority christian, with only a hindu minority.

Guyana is majority Christian 57%, it has only 28% hindu they are not a majority. French Guiana is majority Roman Catholic. In fact here in the wikipedia page, hinduism is not even mentioned for french guiana. Suriname is majority Christian, it has only 27.4% hindu they are not a majority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana#Religion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana#Demographics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname#Religion

Please no more making the small minority in a country, to be called the majority when the majority is more than 2 or 3 or more times as much. Thank you. :)

All countries in the whole continents of the Americas, are Christian majority. Please check statistics before you attempt to change the map differently from that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.89.113 (talk) 14:04, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Indonesia

Map's version of "00:10, 15 March 2014" to "08:55, 12 August 2013" and another older one were not so accurate for some region of Indonesia. South borneo is 96% Muslim refer to [1] , East borneo is 87% Muslim according to [2]. Islam is majority in these area. The scattered area (mixed population with Islam, christian and folk religion) on this island should be put on West borneo (59% Muslim, 34% Christian and others) refer to [3]. Furthermore, please refer to this map [4] if we want make this map more accurate. I am Indonesian and I was born and grew up in Southeast borneo Riyantojayadi (talk) 23:13, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Sweden

Why is Sweden listed as Christian-Atheist while the neighbouring countries are listed as Christian? Irreligiousness is just as common there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.73.66.95 (talk) 16:15, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Agreed I thought it was a bit strange, although it may be due to Census information requiring a certain criteria. Actually when viewing the sources it gets a bit odd since two are dead, one is obsolete and the other flags them all as Christian. Furthermore there is no consensus as to what % a religion needs to constitute the country being that colour. This map does need a good looking at I think. Mishka Shaw (talk) 11:13, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Punjab

Indian Punjab is majority Sikh. Although it isn't listed on the map, it should be, so it should be added. BladderMuffin (talk) 14:42, 3 December 2014 (UTC)