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The Alaska Demographic Map needs to be updated. There are some areas, such as the Yakutat Borough, that should have their color changed. European Americans have overtaken the Native American population there, making up the majority of the population as of the 2010 census. As such, the color of the borough on the demographic map should be changed to a light shade blue. NorfolkIsland123 ( talk) 20:18, 19 December 2020 (UTC) reply

I think the right time to do this will be when the 2020 census data is available, which will probably be next month (maybe, I just heard on the news they've discovered some issues and discrepancies which may delay the final data yet again). And then we'll need to find someone who is willing and able to actually do it. Beeblebrox ( talk) 01:43, 20 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Based on the last news item I read about the redistricting board, there's belief that the census report could be released as late as summer 2021. I looked at the map as presented in the article. I believe the issue NorfolkIsland is bringing up concerns the lack of "as of" dating in the caption. Readers will default to believing that what we present here reflects up-to-date information, when Norfolk is implying that it's actually been outdated for well over a decade. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 02:20, 20 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Just looked at the file description, which says it's based on 2016 estimates. Therefore, it's of questionable value to retrogress to the 2010 Census when new census reporting is imminent. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 02:30, 20 December 2020 (UTC) reply

I guess because of covid, it's going to be late. There were problems everywhere, and some problems specifically with counting remote villages in the middle of a pandemic. Anyway, final numbers are apparently going to the president at the end of April and the deadline for final release to the states is July 31, although it could come before that. Something tells me the administration may have other things on it's mind besides continuing to monkey with the census numbers as the previous administration wanted to do. Beeblebrox ( talk) 23:52, 14 February 2021 (UTC) reply

Evr 131.106.106.185 ( talk) 17:05, 29 April 2023 (UTC) reply

How should we improve the article so that its suitable to be rated as an A class article? What problems specifically need to be dealt with? PeterPrettyCool ( talk) 22:12, 3 February 2021 (UTC) reply

You can request a copywriter come through (per Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests) to look at the article before nominating it as a good article. There's also this Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles that lets you know what they will look review when assessing the article. So you should go through that yourself and see what parts need fixing.  oncamera  _{(talk page)} 22:19, 3 February 2021 (UTC) reply

Also see these previous discussions: Talk:Alaska/Archive 7#Good article? and Talk:Alaska/GA1. Beeblebrox ( talk) 00:39, 4 February 2021 (UTC) reply

Hello, as an Alaskan myself, it is safe to say that there is nothing wrong with this article; however, the problem is the admins, they are so self-obsessed with their power - if they had more sense, this would be listed as a Good article by now (which it is, and it meets the requirements). This is a GOOD article with GOOD content, I would just nominate it again until it gets accepted, something will give sooner or later. 2601:5C7:4100:3600:FDEF:DD23:2980:6185 ( talk) 15:23, 1 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Nobody in Alaska has ever used Pacific Gulf Yupik, and is only obscurely used by linguists. It should be replaced with Aluutiq or Sugpiaq or Aluutiq/Sugpiaq. 24.69.133.124 ( talk) 07:32, 11 February 2021 (UTC) reply

I assume we're talking about the links in the infobox and the lead section? I tend to agree since it redirects to Alutiiq language anyway. I went to just go and change it, but it isn't done with regular linking but rather some kind of template coding, so it may take a moment to figure out. My inclination would be to have the template parsing changed so it displays "Alutiiq" with that same coding, but I'm no expert on these things. Beeblebrox ( talk) 21:24, 11 February 2021 (UTC) reply

I had hoped the template included a list or something easy to change, but it does not, so I have no idea how to make this change, or if it is even possible. I have asked at Template talk:Native name for some guidance. Beeblebrox ( talk) 21:37, 11 February 2021 (UTC) reply

 Done, I got some pointers to the appropriate place, and modified the list so that using that code anywhere renders it as "Alutiiq". Beeblebrox ( talk) 22:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC) reply

Well, I got reverted for not being compliant with the IANA language-subtag-registry file, whatever that is. Will keep trying. Beeblebrox ( talk) 22:51, 14 February 2021 (UTC) reply

Don't ask me to explain the how and why because I don't get it myself, but apparently it could only be done some other way, and has now been done. Beeblebrox ( talk) 23:35, 14 February 2021 (UTC) reply

Does anyone know how much of Alaska is in the Arctic Circle?-- ImNobodyEpic ( talk) 10:01, 22 February 2021 (UTC) reply

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Change: "the northwest extremity of the country's West Coast, just across the Bering Strait. A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and territory of Yukon to the east and southeast and has a maritime border with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west."

To: "the northwest extremity of the country's West Coast. A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and territory of Yukon to the east and southeast and has a maritime border with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west, just across the Bering Strait." Erak81 ( talk) 22:52, 23 February 2021 (UTC) reply

 Done. ◢  Ganbaruby!  ( Say hi!) 00:39, 24 February 2021 (UTC) reply

This is listed as a B-class article. The assessment criteria (#1 ) states: The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. There is at least one "needs additional citations" section tag (January 2020), inline tags, and a lot of unsourced content considered "important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged. Continuing in the current state will result in demotion. -- Otr500 ( talk) 04:57, 19 May 2021 (UTC) reply

What is the main Industry in this Country to Deal? Elham1353 ( talk) 18:41, 2 September 2021 (UTC) reply

As should be immediately evident from the first sentence of this article, Alaska is a state in the United States, not a country or "some other deal." There is an entire article on the Economy of Alaska that should answer your question. Beeblebrox ( talk) 18:46, 2 September 2021 (UTC) reply

I’m Alaskan and I am from a little city called Nenana it has 350 people in the town and 750 in the area and at one point in time was the biggest city in Alaska at 5000 people and was part of the Iditarod (It was Where the train stopped) and nobody has heard of it so I want to popularize smaller towns in Alaska 174.26.115.59 ( talk) 21:47, 1 March 2022 (UTC) reply

There's a wikipedia article about Nenana. I believe that the best you could to do popularize smaller towns about it is to develop stubs about it into larger articles given that you have sources about them. 206.213.190.64 ( talk) 18:33, 9 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Well, a whole lot more people have heard of Nenana now: [1]. Beeblebrox ( talk) 22:27, 29 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Why does the flag here only have two stars? 206.213.190.64 ( talk) 18:31, 9 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Does there need to be two of the flag and state seal in the infobox? I feel the second is redundant. /info/en/?search=User:EmilePersaud 02:15, 20 March 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by EmilePersaud ( talk • contribs) reply

The House seat is now vacant. I don't know if there's an established protocol about how to indicate that, but the section is currently inaccurate. Oooooooseven ( talk) 20:25, 29 March 2022 (UTC) reply

I think this is because polygons that span the 180th meridian have some undefined behavior with geospatial libraries. GeoJSON in particular is a bit iffy about this, not sure if that is used here.

Wcedmisten ( talk) 22:09, 25 May 2023 (UTC) reply

Still not corrected. It's a mistake to call the article A class in light of this glitch. Martindo ( talk) 11:46, 1 September 2023 (UTC) reply

@ SamX: The section I removed in March in Special:Diff/1143124233 appears to have been re-added to the article by an IP editor. But I see no reason why we need such a section; and with that context an edit summary saying Added very new information seems to be trolling. Walt Yoder ( talk) 22:52, 2 August 2023 (UTC) reply

@ Walt Yoder: I only edited the page to provide attribution, since I found it via CopyPatrol and the section appeared to have been copied from COVID-19 pandemic in Alaska. I don't have a very strong opinion either way and I'm not going to get into a long-winded dispute over it. I think it's reasonable to include some information about the pandemic, although a few sentences or a short paragraph with a hatnote directing the reader to COVID-19 pandemic in Alaska would probably be sufficient. The COVID-19 pandemic was a major historical event with broad implications and I don't see why it shouldn't be mentioned in the article. I really don't think re-adding the passage was a trolling attempt—sure, it's possible, but absent clear evidence to the contrary we should assume that the IP added the passage in a good-faith effort to improve the article. — SamX [ talk · contribs 03:22, 3 August 2023 (UTC) reply

The word-for-word copy of material I removed in March was not "very new information". The IP could not have thought it was. Walt Yoder ( talk) 04:26, 3 August 2023 (UTC) reply

They could've easily copied it from COVID-19 pandemic in Alaska or noticed that the section had been removed and re-added it without checking the history, and "very new" could just mean "very new relative to the other events described in the article". I really think you're reading into this too much, but I'm not going to engage further. — SamX [ talk · contribs 05:07, 3 August 2023 (UTC) reply

this article says Alaska is an exclave (correct) "slightly comparable to the country of Iran", or words to that effect.

No references or explanation are given.

I struggle to understand this. How is Iran an exclave and/or how is it similar to Alaska?

Okay, so reading down I see it is stated that *if* Alaska were a country, it'd be a similar size to Iran. Regardless of whether or not Alaska is a country (it's not), it's still a comparable size to Iran. But this is neither helpful nor encyclopaedic. If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

I imagine few people have a clear idea of the size of Iran,except insofar as it's huge. It's really a nonsensical comparison. And saying that Alaska is slightly comparable to Iran, without specifying one is talking about area, is ridiculous.

2A00:23EE:1C28:3BCE:59C8:D012:E395:8CF1 ( talk) 00:05, 26 August 2023 (UTC) reply

I've clarified the sentence in the lead section. I don't see the harm in including that comparison in the article, but I won't object if you remove it. — SamX [ talk · contribs 00:19, 26 August 2023 (UTC) reply

thank you Sam. I shan't remove anything, I know better than to edit a WP article. Personally I think the size could be better conveyed with reference to another US state, eg "Alaska is the largest US state, approximately 2.5 times the area of Texas (which is second largest)"

As I mentioned before, I don't reckon most folk have any sense of the size of Iran. And there's the issue of comparing a State to a country.

This kind of comparison is usually done using something relatable, as opposed to something of nearly the same measure (but not as relatable) . For example, "the adult Blue Whale is roughly the length of two double decker buses" instead of "the blue whale is as long as a Predator drone is wide". 2A00:23EE:1C28:3BCE:59C8:D012:E395:8CF1 ( talk) 19:49, 26 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Cut accomplished. The comparison is quite clear in the first sentence of second paragraph of lede. Martindo ( talk) 00:29, 28 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Good edit. I was also struck by the oddness of comparing it to Iran, and was considering make a similar edit to remove it. (I would like to know how many bananas can fit in Alaska though, I bet it's a lot.) Beeblebrox ( talk) 17:05, 28 August 2023 (UTC) reply

For the benefit of Iranian readers it would be more pertinent to consider how many figs could fit into Alaska :) Glad to see this tided up, thank you @ Martindo 2A00:23EE:1C28:3BCE:81D0:3A56:D9F4:AD76 ( talk) 21:26, 28 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Technically Greenland is an exclave of Denmark, separated by international waters over 500 km, so wouldn't greenland be the largest exclave in the world? 2A00:23C7:9588:B301:6190:59FF:3CDC:F139 ( talk) 06:45, 1 October 2023 (UTC) reply

Yes.. but its autonomous .. and not recognised as equal to its mainland.

Eg it left the EU but denmark didnt.

Compare alaska,a fully normal and equal state of the USA.

Not sure what that really matters .

Eg Its not a dodgy microstate like Vatican city , which is indistinguishable from an autonomous ( or special rules ) area of Italy. 2407:E400:8047:8000:4877:6696:407:DF33 ( talk) 11:17, 10 January 2024 (UTC) reply

its not like Greenland could be said to be part of Canada... Its certainly external territory.

But oh, all islands are naturally exclaves of any other mainland ..

Is Okinawa an exclave because its not a main island of japan, by what definition of main island or main land do we work ? Is sumatra an exclave of Indonesia, is tasmania an exclave of Australia ?

So making greenland a continent not an island would make it an exclave of greenland ? 2407:E400:8047:8000:4877:6696:407:DF33 ( talk) 11:24, 10 January 2024 (UTC) reply