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Because of the way it's built, it doesn't actually work when you try to sort by any of the different columns. It would be great if it actually worked. —Misha Vargas (talk) 00:53, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is no way that this is a B-class article, I have given it the "start" class rating because that is what it is. If there really isn't more to say about this, then I suggest that this be merged with Middle east as a neologism or fork. Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 22:59, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I propose merging West Asia into Middle East. I think the content in West can easily be explained in the context of this article, and merging them would not cause any article-size or weighting problems. And also because West Asia is too vague mainly because of the fact that it could refer to anything in the west of Asia. WP:COMMON NAME is a way of naming articles through how many sources they have that name it this way. "Middle East" shows up more than "West Asia", As such I believe it should be merged because of the reasons that were made. KreamoNoBrainos/Kreamy/Fat Man (talk) 14:06, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support not because of many of your reasons but because West Asia is a WP:NEOlogism for the Middle East. West Asia is used because Middle East is the place's location from a Euro-North American perspective, while West Asia is a more neutral way of describing the place's location. Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 14:25, 15 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose. These terms are not synonymous and should not be conflated. West Asia (or Western Asia) is a neutrally defined subregion of the continent of Asia, whereas Middle East is a geopolitically-loaded term for a transcontinental region with fluid and contested boundaries, sometimes extending as far as Morocco and Afghanistan. The two articles therefore serve different conceptual purposes: one geographic, the other geopolitical.
The claim that West Asia or Western Asia is a neologism is also incorrect. The term Western Asia predates Middle East in English usage, appearing in 18th-century sources; for example, in The British Critic, volume VII, 1796, page 7:
[...] and on the banks of another, was ſeated the “Golden Babylon,” once the proud miſtreſs of the eaſtern world, being the capital of the Aſſyrian monarchy, which comprehended Syria, Meſopotamia, Chaldea, Perſia; in short, except India, all the great nations of weſtern Aſia.
By contrast, Middle East emerged later as a Eurocentric geopolitical concept.
Finally, the suggestion that West Asia is redundant because it “focuses on Arabia and Iran” is false; West Asia also includes the Levant, Anatolia, and the South Caucasus, which is not always consistently included within the Middle East.
Vesperius the table should follow MOS:DTAB and MOS:BOLD, which I fixed but you reverted. The table is also not sortable if you have the sub-regions. Note that the sub-regions were not cited as well. Having the explanations next to the content, and in pseudo-footnotes was less accessible as well and it crowded the table itself. Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 14:23, 15 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
As defined by most academics, UN bodies and other institutions, the subregion […]
This is the current second sentence of the article. Can anyone familiar with the article source that this usage is accepted by "most academics", or does the statement need to be flagged? Tomcatfish (talk) 19:32, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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