Talk:North Africa during the Classical Period

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This page is the heart of the maze of redirects. We have:

Africa (Roman province) redirecting to Africa Province, Roman Empire

Africa (province) redirecting to Africa Province, Roman Empire

Africa Proconsularis redirecting to Africa (province)

Roman Africa redirecting to Africa Province, Roman Empire

I've changed the Proconsularis redirect to Africa Province, Roman Empire and the Roman Africa redirect to North Africa in the Classical Period.

I suggest the correct action is to name the name the main article 'Africa Proonsularis' on the model of Aegyptus and Britannia. That will take an administrator to move Africa Province, Roman Empire.

It may be a good idea to move North Africa during the Classical Period to Roman Africa because North Africa in the Classical period is counter-intuitive compared with Roman Africa.

Looks like nobody's been maintaining this for a while but I'll chime in anyway.

The naming of the article is definitely not appropriate. Granted the meaning of the term "Africa" has changed but I think Wikipedia should default to the modern meanings of things unless there is a specific reason not to (and then it should be clear). "North Africa" obviously refers to a lot more than what is discussed here. A better name might be Central North Africa during the Classical Period.

Frankly, I'm not sure this article is really appropriate anyway. It certainly has an overlap with Africa Province (which is what Roman Africa should be redirecting to; I don't understand why it is redirecting here). It also has overlap with Carthage. The only part of this that is not necessarily well covered is the Vandal/Byzantine period. I would propose that this article be done away with replaced by one or two articles on the Vandal/Byzantine period of "Africa" (the Eastern Romans still called it "Africa" so the name is appropriate in that context). Then change the History of Algeria time line to substitute this article with Carthage -> Africa Provice (should be called Roman Africa) -> Vandal/Byzantine Africa.

And I would definitely oppose renaming this article to "Roman Africa" since that is what the subject of Africa Province is.

--Mcorazao 22:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)