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Map showing how Muammar al-Gaddafi’s proposal for the dismemberment of Switzerland might work out

Article(s): Libya–Switzerland relations

Request: Please translate the names of France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland from German to English on this map. City of Destruction (The Celestial City) 13:28, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried to contact the original author? This map is a PNG, which makes replacing the names a little less easy than it would have been with an SVG. Classical geographer (talk) 16:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

While I applaud you for bringing me to one of the more colorful & amusing wikipedia events articles I've seen, I'm not sure this belongs on Wikipedia per WP:OR. I don't think it would be particularly difficult to change the names, either if kept as an PNG or converted to SVG, but keeping the font would be difficult. I think the deciding factor should be: Are the noted borders either trivially obvious or directly referenced from the UN speech, or would it be possible to draw other conclusions on the precise lines of division from the proposal? Lesqual (talk) 17:21,

28 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for translating it, a map that I'm sure that can hardly be very popular in Switzerland. I actully came across it on an external website, and no, I haven't contacted the original creator though I can if that would be helpful. As to whether this map is original research, I would say it probably isn't as these are precise boundaries based on the linguistic regions of Switzerland, as per Gaddaffi's suggestion that German-speaking Switzerland should become part of Germany and so forth.

Map showing the linguistic divisions of Switzerland

Graphist opinion(s): Request taken by Sudoman. Done

Map showing how Muammar al-Gaddafi’s proposal for the dismemberment of Switzerland might work out