Talk:Hispaniola
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Let's exercise some scholarly civility on this page as well as the main article. Name calling "How dare you"s and such incivil vandalism will be deleted. Intelligent, reasoned discussion and edits are more likely to survive.TjoeC 15:08, 15 October 2007 (UTC) 15:41, 13 October 2007
I think there is a bug. See the history of User talk:Ram-Man. The same situation. Different user. Second edit blanks out the page giskart 21:25 Oct 21, 2002 (UTC)
Hello. On March 10, 1496 Columbus left the island for Spain, ending his sixth visit to the Western Hemisphere. Sixth visit ? It does not match with the biography of Christopher Columbus. Unfortunately, I am not a specialist. -- Youssefsan 15:21, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)
the "15th century" map almost certainly dates to the 16th century, if not later. The filename chosen by the uploader hardly counts as a credible reference. 83.77.221.225 16:22, 9 October 2005 (UTC
guys im pretty sure the island is now called, the island of "Santo Domingo de Guzman" just likt the dominican capital
This article needs cleaning, badly, I wish I knew how to add the clean me up tag
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[edit] Veracity of Quisqueya
There's been some research to indicate that the name Quisqueya may not be a native term at all, but I need to find that book before any edits. If anyone else has read about that let me know. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.21.96.49 (talk) 18:45, 27 February 2007 (UTC).
This article appears to me to have a definite bias vis-a-vis Juan Pablo Duarte and the "Trinitaria". I'd like to see some sources for the outrageous claims.
[edit] History section
The history section at the moment largely consists of a copy and paste from a prior version of the same section in the Dominican Republic country article. I suggest to cut down this section and link to the main articles on the history of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. VirtualDelight 19:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
- I think that is correct. Too much history, Dominican history. It should be cut in the Treaty of Ryswick and then link to the articles on history of both countries. --Pepemar2 (talk) 17:03, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
I have cut the History section with the Treaty of Ryswick because from that moment on there are two colonies and it is better to check the pages of History of the two countries and eliminate favoritism for one country in this article. --Pepemar2 (talk) 22:45, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Treasure Island
A link in Treasure Island directs here, because Hispaniola was the name of a ship in this famous book, but there is no mention in this article of the book or the ship. Should there be? or should there be a separate article about the fictional ship?
Also, the famous map created by Robert Louis Stevenson for his book does seem plausibly similar to the outline of the island and makes me wonder whether early maps of Hispaniola were used as his model. Coconino (talk) 16:18, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Countries Table
The little table included in the article has Hispaniola listed as a country, which is not right and the numbers are mostly redundant being that it is the sum of the previous two countries (Haiti and Dominican Republic). How about deleting the last row? ~RayLast «Talk!» 13:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
