Talk:Archipelago

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message: Isn't it a shame that so much of Wikipedia's content seems to be not Wikipedians' own work, and not even syntheses of others' work compiled from various sources, but wholesale ripoffs from other websites? I've just found this:
http://pedia.nodeworks.com/A/AR/ARC/Archipelago
…which contains a list of archipelagoes remarkably similar to the one on this page. There can be no doubt that one has been copied from the other. Sorry for ranting, but I am an English teacher, and I've warned no end of students that this kind of thing can get them slung out of university. ———Kelisi 2005/2/9
:Kelisi, the reason there can be no doubt that one is copied from the other is that they copied us.  It says so at the bottom of the page you link to!  They're reusing our content, which is perfectly legal under this site's license (the GFDL).  See Wikipedia:Mirrors for more. Jwrosenzweig 21:06, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism? 

message: I think the above bunch of islands, which can be found off the New England and New Jersey shores, constitute an archipelago. Unfortunately, I have no idea if anyone's ever called this island chain a name (the closest that I can think of: Ronkonkoma Moraine and/or "New York island"- yes, in the singular, from the song "This is Your Land, This is My Land"). Of course, we could call them the New York Islands, but this would constitute Original Research which is Forbidden in the Wikipedia realm. Any good suggestions out there?  — Rickyrab | Talk 05:54, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If anyone is still wondering, I've come up with something that about halfway meets this at Outer Lands.--Pharos 20:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manhattan, Staten Is., Liberty Is, Ellis Is., Wards/Randalls Is, Rikers Is, Long Is., Nantucket, et al 

message: Here is just a quick note on how I had previously reorganized this list (User:Kelisi, you thought it was "for no apparent reason"). The list was previously essentially alphabetical, but with certain island groups sorted under a larger group that they are a part of. This has been rearranged in a hierarchical and alphabetical manner so that all sub-groups sort under the parent group (unless I missed some). Of course, different categorizations (e.g. sorting them geographically, by body of water) could also be defensible. In addition, I have reinserted antiquated or otherwise alternative names as a matter of trivia and also as per WP naming convetions, thus following the advice given by you yourself (Kelisi), namely that "you are supposed to expand articles, not shrink them". //Big Adamsky 20:43, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Current listing: alphabetical and hierarchical

message: What about the Milos Archipelago in the Aegean Sea? I believe this refers to the island of Milos and those around it. If so, it might be interesting to add to this list. --Jwinius 23:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Milos Archipelago

message: This sentence is in the lead paragraph. I don't think it is correct. In the newspaper to day there is reference to the British Isles archipelago as indeed the Wp article does. I should like to take it out. Any thoughts, please? BlueValour 23:04, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the absence of any objection I have removed this phrase. BlueValour 17:37, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi; please see Talk:Aegean Sea#Archipelago or sea?. Psychlopaedist 02:44, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice research; I'm very happy with your addition. BlueValour 03:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great -- thanks! Psychlopaedist 03:10, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  principally refers to the Aegean Sea 

message: I recently created an infobox to incorporate into the island articles in the Scottish archipelagoes of The Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland called Template:Infobox Scottish island. I don't know how much cross archipelago collaboration there is, but it occurred to me that there might be case for a general archipelago template. If there is any interest I'd be happy to help design one. Ben MacDui (Talk) 18:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template 

message: Is there a reference for the UK being an "archipelago state"? If the archipelago is formed formed from Britain, the Outer Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, then sure, but without all of Ireland the wider archipelagical (is that a word?) context is disrupted. As a test, is Great Britain, as opposed to simply Britain, considered an archipelago? --sony-youthpléigh 08:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've substituted the UK for New Zealand in the list of four.  The UK includes many islands--even if we leave Man and the Channel Islands off the list; it's territory includes all of Great Britain, part of Ireland, the Isle of Wight, etc, etc.  Tb (talk) 13:31, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Kingdom 

message: in the article it mentions the "four largest 'modern' states that are mainly archipelagos" although New Zealand is not mentioned here, granted it is not the largest, but it is also a developed nation, and far more modern by first-world standards that the philipines or indonesia that is even stated on wikipedia, i propose one of 2 things, a) split the 2 into new groups, mordern and largest or b) scrap the entire paragraph.  Taifarious1   05:41, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Zealand / Modern?? 

message: Moved comment from Talk:Archipelago/Comments - it would never have been seen there. Astronaut (talk) 19:47, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the UK an Archipelego? 

message: I would have thought an archipelago would be an island group rather than a very large island with some very small islands nearby. If the second is true, the largest archipelago would be Australia (or even Eurasia/Africa). Personally I say remove the UK.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by StonePeter (talk • contribs) 01:08, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The UK doesn't appear to be an archipelago 

message: An archipelago article is up for deletion, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taiwan island group. Huayu-Huayu (talk) 15:31, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion 

message: I think this article should contain info about some of the larger archipelagos in the Baltic sea, especially Stockholm archipelago Stockholm's archipelago and  
Åland/Åbo's archipelago Archipelago sea are worth mentioning due to the large amount of islands in each.
//Theblacksmith99 (talk) 15:16, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Baltic archipelagos

message: I've again removed a contentious edit to the page Archipelago, as there is no modern scientific geography reference for the claim that the "British Isles" is an archipelago. If you find one, great, until then it's out.
As theChannel islands are included in the term "British Isles", yet aren't geographically part of Britain, but French Normandy, it's a political term, not a geographic term.
That's plain to see.
86.45.205.129 (talk) 08:53, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: How is French Normandy a geographic area? What constitutes a scientifically defined geographic archipelago? CMD (talk) 10:17, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: The "British Isles" are not an archipelago

message: The five main archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand, and the British Isles.
What is this based on? Land area? -The Canadian Arctic archipelago is much larger than Japan. Population? -The West Indies are much more populous than New Zealand. (Cuba by itself has more than twice the population of New Zealand.) I can't figure out what the basis for this "top five" list might be, and of course it's completely without any cited sources. 206.208.105.129 (talk) 17:58, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "five main archipelagos"? 

message: According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archipelagos_by_number_of_islands, Sweden's combined archipelago accounts for 65,666 islands. How can the British Isles and Chile be included with 6,289 and 5,000 respectively and not a mention of Sweden? Brianbowie (talk) 13:24, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweden not included as an example but locations with less islands are? 

message: Substituted at 08:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: we use money to pay for things like cars,houses,toy's,backpacks,coloring stuff,clothes.....ect  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.27.201.227 (talk) 14:43, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  money 

message: change Easter Island to Galapogos Islands
change Île Amsterdam to Mascarene Islands
include Aleutian Islands as examples of volcanic archipelagos
Just makes more sense to me in an article on archipelagos, the examples cited should be themselves good examples of archipelagos. Brokenglasshearts (talk) 16:21, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: How would this significantly improve the article? Heart (talk) 06:21, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It would make more clear what is an archipelago by only including examples of what are already considered archipelagos by general consensus. Including examples of ambiguous situations dilutes clarity in the article. Easter Island is a particularly bad example, due to unfamiliarity with its smaller islands. I'm also not aware of anyone who considers Île Amsterdam to be an archipelago. Can anyone be cited as considering those situations to be archipelagos?
The volcanic islands example would benefit from further examples of said archipelagos. Again, the benefit is for clarity. Examples should be clear examples or cite authoritaive authority to claim an example is an archipelago.Brokenglasshearts (talk) 20:57, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Also easier to establish verifiability by citing good sources that consider the islands as part of a archipelago. Brokenglasshearts (talk) 21:05, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:34, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 10 June 2021