Talk:Hispaniola

message: ~ The name of island before European invasion was 'Haiti'. Not sure why wikipedia is washing the culture of natives that lived on the island first. https://gsp.yale.edu/case-studies/colonial-genocides-project/hispaniola
*Regardless of how folks may feel about it, the current, widely accepted, and well-documented name of the island is now Hispaniola. If you take a moment to read the article, you will see that Haiti is acknowledged as only one of several names (documented by the Spaniards) that were used by the native inhabitants. Also, Haiti was used by the Taino people to describe the northeast portion of the island, not the entire island. It was premature to make these significant changes before discussing them.  Please revert these edits and wait for consensus to move forward.  Glendoremus (talk) 01:13, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we should follow the guideline for Naming conventions (geographic names), particularly, "When a widely accepted English name, in a modern context, exists for a place, we should use it." Those who want to change the article need to demonstrate that Haiti is more widely accepted than Hispaniola as a name for the island as a whole. Linking to a supposedly sympathetic Yale University article that itself opts for the title Hispaniola is not a good start. Meticulo (talk) 15:11, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

text: Your rationale doesn't work for me. You seem to be claiming that the guideline for geographic names is fallacious because it's a version of argumentum ad populum. But we're not talking about the truth of a proposition, or what something actually is in itself. We're talking about what would be the most widely understood label. In any case, I doubt China's renaming of the Dominican Republic would sway English-language sources to a great extent, and those sources are what English-language Wikipedia relies upon. Meticulo (talk) 13:59, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

text: I'm still not convinced a good case has been made for this article to be an exception to WP:NCGN. But I'm no expert on the region so have posted a request for comment. Meticulo (talk) 15:18, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original name of Island is 'Haiti'. Not sure why we are ignoring the history of natives to favor narrative of white Europeans. 

message: Hispaniola is Latin. The French equivalent would be 'L'Espagnole'. But the Latin form is used in most languages. Including Spanish and French.
Fdezcaminero (talk) 20:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Hispaniola is not a French word

message: I remove a few pictures, but more could go. Or maybe they could be moved around a little. They're all kinda nice pictures but some are less relevant than others. Wizmut (talk) 16:38, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many pictures 

message: Error in the photo of Haiti, that is the population of Haiti but the photo is from the border with the Dominican Republic. I don't know where it says, according to you, what it is. 190.27.214.10 (talk) 21:12, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error foto 

message: In the first paragraph why does it say "consisting the good side of Dominican Republic to the east and the wild and evil axis/Haitian Creole-speaking Haiti to the west." Good side and wild and evil axis? I'm new to Wikipedia edits, I have no idea how to find who made the edit and when. Adimauro (talk) 02:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That was vandalism by an IP editor around four hours ago. I have reverted it. THanks for letting us know. HiLo48 (talk) 02:31, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This doesn't seem right. Someone added a bad edit?