Talk:Jones-Shafroth Act

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[edit] Introduction/disambiguation

An editor on this article has repeatedly edited it to take out references to the "Jones Act" as another name for this statute, and eliminated disambiguation between this Jones Act, Jones Act (Philippines), and Jones Act (a better-known statute governing shipping). I appreciate his desire to minimize confusion between this 1917 statute governing Puerto Rico and the Jones Act of 1920 governing maritime matters. However, the Puerto Rico statute is referred to frequently, in the literature and by courts, as the "Jones Act" as well as as the "Jones-Shafroth Act." It is very desirable to minimize any confusion among these statutes, but I think the effort to eliminate any use of the term "Jones Act" at all from this article may be taking things a bit too far. This editor hasn't responded to a note I left on his talk regarding this so I'd appreciate input from other editors here before I consider whether to revert again. Newyorkbrad 21:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC)