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I think you must put smashers from others regions, for example the best of Central America, I'm from El Salvador and I meet an excelents smashers from Costa Rica, they fight like or better than a professionals of Mexico and anothers countries. [[User:Skylord|Skylord]] ([[User talk:Skylord|talk]]) 20:10, 8 September 2008 (UTC) Skylord (elvin)
I think you must put smashers from others regions, for example the best of Central America, I'm from El Salvador and I meet an excelents smashers from Costa Rica, they fight like or better than a professionals of Mexico and anothers countries. [[User:Skylord|Skylord]] ([[User talk:Skylord|talk]]) 20:10, 8 September 2008 (UTC) Skylord (elvin)
:Yeah, we got in to this when this category was created. I figure you could use these categories: [[:Category:South American smashers]] or [[:Category:Mexican smashers]]. Heck, use this if you'd like. Technically, "American" can mean North, Central, and South American. '''[[User:Silverdragon706|FyreNWater]]''' -  <small>([[User talk:Silverdragon706|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Silverdragon706|Contributions]] )</small> 00:25, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
:Yeah, we got in to this when this category was created. I figure you could use these categories: [[:Category:South American smashers]] or [[:Category:Mexican smashers]]. Heck, use this if you'd like. Technically, "American" can mean North, Central, and South American. '''[[User:Silverdragon706|FyreNWater]]''' -  <small>([[User talk:Silverdragon706|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Silverdragon706|Contributions]] )</small> 00:25, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
::There's a fairly elaborate (albeit perpetually incomplete) [[:Category:Smashers|category tree]] for regional smashers. The reason that you're not seeing a category for Salvadoran smashers is because the articles either don't exist yet, or haven't been correctly categorized.
::But we ''really'' shouldn't bring up the technicality about "America." The word "American" has been used to describe residents of the United States in popular usage for many many years--if you say you're an American, nobody even questions it.
::But to clarify, there has always been some dispute over how the borders are drawn between North and South America, however I would suggest subscribing to the "Isthmus of Panama" theory, where all nations south of the Panama Canal are deemed to be in South America. Panama itself has land on both sides of the canal but it, along with most other "central American" countries, is considered a part of North America politically-speaking. All that said, nothing stops you from creating categories for countries that don't have them yet--there's no reason to lump yourself into [[:Category:Mexican smashers]] unless you're from Mexico! --<font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00|Talk]]''</sup> 21:45, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

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I think you must put smashers from others regions, for example the best of Central America, I'm from El Salvador and I meet an excelents smashers from Costa Rica, they fight like or better than a professionals of Mexico and anothers countries. Skylord (talk) 20:10, 8 September 2008 (UTC) Skylord (elvin)

Yeah, we got in to this when this category was created. I figure you could use these categories: Category:South American smashers or Category:Mexican smashers. Heck, use this if you'd like. Technically, "American" can mean North, Central, and South American. FyreNWater - (TalkContributions ) 00:25, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
There's a fairly elaborate (albeit perpetually incomplete) category tree for regional smashers. The reason that you're not seeing a category for Salvadoran smashers is because the articles either don't exist yet, or haven't been correctly categorized.
But we really shouldn't bring up the technicality about "America." The word "American" has been used to describe residents of the United States in popular usage for many many years--if you say you're an American, nobody even questions it.
But to clarify, there has always been some dispute over how the borders are drawn between North and South America, however I would suggest subscribing to the "Isthmus of Panama" theory, where all nations south of the Panama Canal are deemed to be in South America. Panama itself has land on both sides of the canal but it, along with most other "central American" countries, is considered a part of North America politically-speaking. All that said, nothing stops you from creating categories for countries that don't have them yet--there's no reason to lump yourself into Category:Mexican smashers unless you're from Mexico! --RJM Talk 21:45, 10 September 2008 (UTC)