Category talk:American smashers

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 - (Talk • Contributions ) 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)

Category:Central American smashers would be appropriate, imo. --Sky (t · c · w) 01:59, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Not a continent, which is why I haven't gone that route. It's just empirically incorrect is all. Then it draws more questions as to where you draw the line between Central, North and South. Jamaica is in North America....OR IS IT?! :^) There's a good read on it at Wikipedia for the curious. --RJM ^Talk 02:09, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

From what I can tell, we don't have to keep strictly to continent names if the regions are large enough... As for drawing the lines, we already have Category:Mexican smashers, and so we can define North American smashers as everyone north of Mexico, than Mexican smashers, than Central American smashers from the south Mexican border to the south border of Panama, and then South America is subsequently the countries south of Panama (you'll find Risk agrees with me ;D, save for the fact that we already have Mexican smashers). As you pointed out, Jamaica (and the other Caribbean nations) is in ambiguity - I would resolve to add one more category of Category:Caribbean smashers, which are explicitly those smashers living on islands in the Caribbean sea. There are a few islands off the coast of Venezuela and other South American nation-states, which I would add to the South American category. I'd probably subcat Mexican smashers into Central American smashers, and then we're set. :) --Sky (t · c · w) 03:34, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for all of you!!, I have I poor english, please help me to improve my created pages. I'll make a Central America Smashers category