Talk:Southern Italy

ISTAT lists Sicily and Sardinia as Insular Italy.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.0.24.231 (talk) 9:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Its set in Southern Italy during world war two, about a young guy who falls in love with a girl from northern Italy. My teacher(who was ethnically Italian himself) in junior high showed us this movie along with "Life is Beautiful". My teacher was the first person to bring up this issue of the differences between the Italians in the north/south.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.146.26.199 (talk) 5:48, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I recently edited this article, but I have a big doubt: is it spelled "Southern Italy" or "southern Italy"? The same goes for the "Northern Italy" page; should it be spelled "Northern Italy" or "northern Italy"? I reverting my changes on this page, waiting for a discussion on this topic (the article on Northern Italy spells "Northern" (in capital letters), while the article on Southern Italy spells "southern" (in lowercase). The time has come to decide what to do. Thanks in advance. JackkBrown (talk) 01:10, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Southern Italy is not a formally defined official geo-political area. It is a descriptive name for that part of the country in the south. While it has sometimes been common to capitalise compass points, per MOS:COMPASS, we don't do that here as a matter of course. Capitalisation is governed by MOS:CAPS, which states: ... only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia. This ngram for southern Italy and this ngram for northern Italy show that neither term is consistently capitalised in sources. Consequently, the terms should not be capitalised in Wiki articles. I would be reasonably certain that there will be other such instances of miscapitalisation in Wiki that also need to be corrected. Cinderella157 (talk) 03:45, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Cinderella157: there are three articles to correct: Central Italy, Southern Italy and Northern Italy. Before we edit these three pages, or before you or someone else edits them, we have to be 100% sure; for this I need other opinions (your opinion is, of course, important, but not sufficient). JackkBrown (talk) 11:25, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Notified WT:MOSCAPS. Cinderella157 (talk) 13:14, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

N-grams shows lowercase northern and southern dominate before Italy. So yes I'd support fixing over-capped uses. Dicklyon (talk) 05:43, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

@Dicklyon: I recently (today) edited the Northern Italy page by writing "Northern" of "Northern Italy" in lowercase where the initial letter of this word was capitalised. JackkBrown (talk) 16:27, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that. Dicklyon (talk) 06:46, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Some multi-ngrams: . Lowercase clearly dominates. Contrast this with N/S California results: . Not sure why some of these terms are more often capitalized and others usually lower-case.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  20:52, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

The redirect South Italian has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 March 16 § South Italian until a consensus is reached. Jay 💬 09:11, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Abruzzo is in central Italy, as you can see on every map. Listing it as south just because it was part of the kingdom of Two Sicilirs is ridiculous. Western Abruzzo is closely related to Rome and speaks a dialect of its same group (Sabinian) 82.61.127.227 (talk) 15:33, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

"Southern Italy" is an official statistic region, not a historical one. Abruzzo is in Southern Italy because is officially listed so, both by ISTAT and EUROSTAT.--3knolls (talk) 07:05, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

What about the goudo-culture???~2026-17681-80 (talk) 09:46, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

It's Gaudo, not Goudo culture. See Gaudo culture.--3knolls (talk) 20:19, 21 March 2026 (UTC)