Talk:List of islands in the Mediterranean

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[edit] Purpose of this page

Uhm, see topic ;-) Well, my real question is for criteria; which islands should be included, and why? --Pepijn Koster 17:26, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

My answer is: Any island geographically locaed in the Mediterranean body of water (from the straits of Gibraltar to Bosphorus to the northern entrance of the Sinai canal). I don't really think there are any other criteria for a Mediterranean island. Although there are islands that have a Mediterranean-oid climate in various places. --Big Adamsky 17:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. If we include all islands this will become a long,.. very long list. Do you really think we should list the 1200 islands of the adreatic, the 900 (larger ones..) islands in the Aegean etc? As I have a full list of them here (somewhere...) (did four months of research in the region this year) I should be able to just dump it here, though that would not be of much use.

I suggest we make a choice between;

• a) only including "larger" / important islands. Larger is a very vague term though, don't know how to define it. Or;
• b) do include all islands, but with a system of subpages (per country and also per bio-geographic region).

Aside of all this it should be limited to the Mediterranean, and not including islands in other regions with mediterranean climates. Can be an interesting addition to wikipedia. Will take some effort to do it properly though :-) --Pepijn Koster 18:07, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

No, it makes good sense to include islands with a significant size and population and possibly some that are of strategic or historical importance for some reason or other. Are you a geographer in some way, like me? Check out the List of islands! I have done research on (and in) New Caledonia plus other islands, peninsulas, archipelagos and island arcs. =}

--Big Adamsky 20:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

So we agree. This actually means that nothing will change to the current list ;-) If I have time I will see if I can include some more islands. Interesting links, already browsed most of them though :-) Nope, not a geographer. I'm an "environmental manager", geography is just a small part of that. I find islands interesting thingies; not mainly because of the islands themself, but because of the stories; economical and environmental as Rockall or political like Cyprus :-) --Pepijn Koster 21:32, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Pepijn Koster, in Case you decide to add your list of Mediterranean islands to this list, don't forget the List of islands by name where already several islands in the Mediterranean were included. I'd be glad to help. Brz7 20:11, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comment from Meta

The following comment was posted at meta:Wikimedia site feedback/main#List of Islands in the Mediterranean:

You correctly list "Euboea" as the the 6th largest Island.

BUT ON THE SATALITE MAP YOU SHOW 1/2 OF THE ISLAND AND ALMOST ALL OF ATTICA. You're :editors can do better.

Also; though I assume historicaly correct - in English it might be better to refer to the :islad as Evia - that is how its pronounced.

AA Ravenas Halkis - Evia

(copied here by Thryduulf 19:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC))

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