Talk:List of Caribbean islands

message: No don't merge with the Caribbean.  The Caribbean is a body of water and the Bahamas and the Turks are not in the Caribbean.  It's not about politics, demographics or economics, it's just plain geography.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.131.0.32 (talk) 01:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Redirecting to Caribbean.  --Gruepig 17:11, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

text: I assume on the Caribbean page you'd want the main islands, or island groups listed. The purpose of this Article is to list the islands: Enuff Said. (And I have seen rocks listed here and there. Some are famous.[Baja Calif. Sur islands?]) (Notes from SonoranDesert Arizona).. -Mmcannis 00:20, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Caribbean]] 

message: *I moved List of islands in the Caribbean to List of islands of the Caribbean obeying a user request which is now in this edit of page Wikipedia:Requested moves; that request was made by User:Neelix at 19:16, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move? 

message: Please undo the un-discussed move and do this properly. "Islands in the Caribbean" is idiomatic usage in English, "islands in the Antilles" is not. Note as well that "Antilles" is even more narrow in its usage than "Caribbean". The only realistic options in English are "Caribbean" and "West Indies". Guettarda (talk) 03:05, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I cannot as I am not a sysop, but I would not oppose if you moved it back (you appear to be a sysop, right?). I would oppose the term "West Indies", as that is an outmoded, imperialistic and (unintentionally) racist term. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 03:11, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Outmoded? Well, it's what we West Indians use. Guettarda (talk) 03:16, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair point! And articles should use the English variant and terminology of the area being discussed. BTW, I don't know why it didn't occur to me that this would be controversial, and kudos to you for not simply undoing my undiscussed action. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 03:24, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: This article gives a long list of Bahamas islands. There are two reasons I think the Bahamas section should be deleted:
(1) There is already a more complete listing at List of islands of the Bahamas.
(2) More importantly, The Bahamas are not in the Caribbean. This is sort of recognized in the lede, which says This is a list of islands of the Caribbean region.... [bolding added], which may have been written to rationalize the inclusion of The Bahamas. But the article Caribbean says 
:The Caribbean...is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which are enclosed by the sea), and the surrounding coasts.
And the article Caribbean Sea says
:The Caribbean Sea...is bounded...to the north by the Greater Antilles
Also Geography of the Bahamas says
:The Bahamas is a group of about 700 atolls and cays in the western Atlantic Ocean....
without mentioning the Caribbean. So I don't think it's justifiable taking up a substantial amount of space in this article to give a list that's not as complete as the list in the real article, when the list is off-topic. Duoduoduo (talk) 22:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The same comment applies to the Turks and Caicos Islands -- they're in this article, but they're not in the Caribbean.  Duoduoduo (talk) 17:25, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bahamas in the Caribbean? 

message: The lede of this article says
:Some continental countries also have islands in the Caribbean
so it seems reasonable that Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands would be included as sub-headings under the heading United States of America. As it is now, the section United States of America makes it look like the US has only three islands (all disputed) in the Caribbean. Duoduoduo (talk) 23:05, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands 

message: "islans" ?66.74.176.59 (talk) 19:38, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential misspellings ? 

message: Based on the article mentioning that the Caribbean Sea is a broad based term, and the fact that the Bahamas is included within the list, It might be prudent to add the entire Florida Key islands set. I will research a bit more to conculsively determine if this should be added to the list. Gizziiusa (talk) 08:11, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Florida Key islands 

message: There a few tiny islands off the eastern coast, however I've been unable to find their names online.
See: http://www.orangesmile.com/common/img_city_maps/dominica-island-map-0.jpg
Sdrawkcab (talk) 20:20, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dominica 

message: I am using the following convention when building this page:
#Each country or territory should include a Main template with links to the List of islands of and Category:Islands of.
#If there is a separate List of islands of country, then only islands with articles should be listed on the page.
#If there is not a separate List of islands of country, then this page would include all known islands.  If the list gets to big, then a separate page should be used.
#Coordinates from the GeoNames database should be include for each island.  If there is no coordinate in GeoNames, then Google Maps should be explored to see if the island exists.
#subheadings should not include links, per WikiPedia style.
#A few maps and images helps to enhance the presentation of the page.
By including coordinates a map of all islands using GeoGroup can be used.   The coordinates help in confirming the island and its country.  If others have suggestions, please discuss on the talk page.  
Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean  Talk to G Moore 15:19, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Convention

message: I originally linked to this page from the Caribbean section of the page for Lists_of_islands_of_the_Americas. There, the link reads "List of islands of the Netherlands Antilles." I'm not sure why someone decided to divide the Netherlands list in two. 
Research on Wikipedia leads me to think that all of the islands currently listed under the Netherlands heading are administrative territories of the Netherlands; that they all are islands in the Antilles; that at one time the Dutch administered them collectively as the Netherlands Antilles, and that since the Dutch dissolved that administrative unit, people still reference the islands collectively as the Dutch Caribbean or Caribbean Netherlands (as the second portion of the list now shows). 
My suggestions: change "Kingdom of the Netherlands" section title (and the link name on the Islands of the Americas page) to "Caribbean Netherlands" or "Dutch Caribbean." Then, rearrange the Dutch islands list here to put all six island clusters in alpha order and to eliminate the interrupting subtitle.  I can make these edits, but hesitate to do so completely of my own volition. Allgotterer (talk) 21:35, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rearrange/re-title Kingdom of Netherlands section?