Talk:Tortuga (Haiti)
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Edits to Tortuga (Haiti)[edit]
- Swept in from the pub
The IP editor who has made some edits to the aforementioned article seems to be acting in good faith but seems to be a bit clueless about how stuff works here. Given that we desperately need local knowledge from this corner of the globe and that in the past "recent changes patrol" has made people disappear, how should we handle this?Hobbitschuster (talk) 18:44, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
- While the edits were done in good faith, they are of little value and would require large scale editing to salvage any of it. I do not have access to Wifi, or the time to do this now. I assume that if you were able to do the required edits, you would do so instead of asking others to take care of it here. Unless someone is willing and able, the mess that was added to the article should removed. Perhaps at least you could provide feedback to the contributor to explain why the edits are not acceptable. Ground Zero (talk) 19:52, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
- Furthermore, much of the information is factually questionable. Specifically, "the island is called 'Île de la Tortue' which translates into torture island" is simply wrong. I speak English, French, and Spanish fluently. Tortue means "turtle" in French, whereas the Spanish word for turtle is tortuga, which is, voilà, the title of this article. "I haven't quite found out yet why spanish and english speaking people translate tortue into turtle" - Why? Because that's what the words mean, that's why. Simple. Everything else in that paragraph is pure conjecture (and not even intelligent conjecture). Come the hell on - no one is going to name a place "Torture Island". -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 21:26, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
- I cleaned it up a little bit. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 23:36, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. Hobbitschuster (talk) 23:48, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
- I cleaned it up a little bit. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 23:36, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
- Furthermore, much of the information is factually questionable. Specifically, "the island is called 'Île de la Tortue' which translates into torture island" is simply wrong. I speak English, French, and Spanish fluently. Tortue means "turtle" in French, whereas the Spanish word for turtle is tortuga, which is, voilà, the title of this article. "I haven't quite found out yet why spanish and english speaking people translate tortue into turtle" - Why? Because that's what the words mean, that's why. Simple. Everything else in that paragraph is pure conjecture (and not even intelligent conjecture). Come the hell on - no one is going to name a place "Torture Island". -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 21:26, 18 July 2017 (UTC)