Talk:Puerto Rican independence movement

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Contents 1 Misnomer 2 URGENT MATTER 3 Removal of merge notice 4 Merge to Status of Puerto Rico

[edit] Misnomer

For some reason Puerto Rican statehood redirects to here. Wouldn't statehood in this case refer to movements to make it a US state? If so, where is the artice discussing US statehood with Puerto Rico?Hihellowhatsup 02:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] URGENT MATTER

What the hell is this?!?!? the main independence movement article redirects from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_statehood I'm starting to believe that wikipedia is turning out to be a fraud, not an encyclopedia. THE ONLY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE TWO PARTIES IS A CONTRARY ONE. By no means an article about independence, and all the "independentistas". FIX THIS MATTER URGENTLY, OTHERWISE I'LL TAKE ACTION.

[edit] Removal of merge notice

I'm removing the merge notice because the Puerto Rican Independence movement article and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party article, even though related are not the same and are two seperate articles. The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party is a political party which believes in the islands independence even if it means an armed revolution. The Puerto Rican Indepedence movement covers the subject of various independence groups from the 1860's (before the founding of the Nationalist Party) to the present and covers other political parties that are pro-independence such as the Puerto Rican Independence Party and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party among others, which believe in gaining the islands independence through the electoral process. Tony the Marine 05:53, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

• In conclusion, The Nationalist Party is a group within the Puerto Rican independence movement and an independent subject itself, while the Puerto Rican independence movement is composed of various political parties and an independent subject itself. Tony the Marine 18:47, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge to Status of Puerto Rico

I believe it would be a good idea to rename this from Puerto Rican independence movement to Status of Puerto Rico, merge in all of Puerto Rican status referendums, and merge in portions of Politics of Puerto Rico. There are several reasons for this suggestion:

1. Puerto Ricans are split on their support for independence versus support for statehood, so focusing on independence is discussing only half the issue. (see WP:POVFORK)
2. It would parallel existing article titles Political status of Taiwan, Kosovo status process, and Legal status of Hawaii.
3. It makes it comfortable for the article to cover all relevant historical status changes (whether they be away, towards, or orthogonal to independence or statehood)

--98.206.221.93 (talk) 17:04, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

That makes little sense, there has been a independence movement since the 19th century, since the times of the Spanish colonial government, more than a century before the first status referendum was held, that is the difference between this and other status movements. - Caribbean~H.Q. 02:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)