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This illustration isn't accurate

This illustration is not accurate according to this

Some examples:

France should be 83%

Republic Ireland should be 88.4%

Spain should be 94%

UK should be 14%

Also, the scale is ambiguous. Why are the numbers on the border line of the colours?

And no source is quoted for the data thats illustrated.--Trounce 19:42, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Moved from Wikipedia talk page

The following comments were on the talk page of the Wikipedia "version" of this image that was here--Trounce 19:58, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

This map is incorrect

This map is incorrect, for in Belarus there are approximately 12-15% of catholics! Here is the official site of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus. So the colour of Belarus on this map is to be light-orange, not orange!--Bacian 13:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

w:Croatia should be the same colour as w:Italy. Croatia is 87.8%, Roman Catholic, exactly the same as Italy.

Also, w:French Guiana should be the same color as w:France...French Guiana is a part of France (its relationship to France is analogous to w:Alaska or w:Hawaii's relationship to the U.S.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tim4christ17 (talk • contribs) 00:46, 3 February 2007 (UTC).

I just wanna say that I like the red/white colour scheme better. With the rainbow-coloured one, I find myself constantly looking at the legend to determine where on the scale a country fits. 74.110.71.97 02:16, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

The percentage of catholics in Portugal is slightly lower then in Spain. Correct please!!!

Rupublic of Ireland

From Republic_of_Ireland#Religion_and_politics,

  "The Republic of Ireland is 86.8% Roman Catholic..."

But it looks like 50% from the colour on the map. Caffm8 —Preceding comment was added at 23:30, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

France

80% of French people are catholic! Not between 20 and 30% like it's seen with the yellow colour. This map is absolutely wrong!! Please correct this huge mistake or delete this map!! Stymphal (talk) 21:27, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism?

This illustration appears to have been vandalized by User:Nyo I have removed deletion request and reverted image--Trounce 20:31, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Please don't call a differing opinion "vandalism". That's a misuse of the word and some may be offended. We need to assume good faith, and believe Nyo was trying to improve the image. There was no editwarring and or any other sign that the user was trying to be disruptive. Also, we do NOT delete something because it's inaccurate. We fix it or upload an alternate version (and in this case, a reversion was in order—if Nyo doesn't agree with the current version, he needs to choose a different name.) Rocket000 15:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree. Sorry about that. However I am not so sure Nyo's edit could be considered an improvement based on reality or fact.According to this he is way off on his statistics. Plus if you look at this version of the same image there seems to be a lot of reverting to another wildly inaccurate version by user Nyo. But I agree to not call it vandalism, but it sure ain't accurate or helpful.--Trounce 12:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure, but maybe he considered it an improvement. That's the "assuming good faith" part, and there doesn't seem to be any further problems—that's why we do it. We don't want to drive editors away by calling them vandals if they were just trying to help (even if you don't find it very helpful ;) Cheers, Rocket000 21:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

POV

Trounce's edits are very very POV. 80% of Catholics in France or Czechia (!!!) is an absurd statement, maybe based just on figures about baptized people of the Catholic Church. I'm Italian, and in Catholics in Italy are 80%+ of the population (although "real" Catholics are far less, because many people don't care of religion and/or use Catholicism as a label for political agenda), not 90%+!

Trounce should use academic studies as sources, avoiding Catholic Church pushings. Please read the 2005 Eurobarometer Poll which shows NPOV statistics of believers in God. Czechia is well known to be the most atheist European country. Believers in Christian God are just 19% of the total population as of 2005. --Nyo 19:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)