Talk:Origins of Falkland Islanders

message: This is an interesting article, and subtly written to avoid POV indictments, but one can't help feeling at the end of it that it ought to be entitled "Argentinian origins of Falkland Islanders".  Can we have more about the British heritage as well, please? Deipnosophista 10:42, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: My understanding is that if a woman goes elsewhere for her confinement, it is often planned well in advance and she will go there while fit to travel whereas "Medical reasons" has a sense of urgency about it.  For that reason I have reverted to the language used in the source. Martinvl (talk) 20:02, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It is rather an outdated term and medical reasons is easier for readers to understand. I'd disagree it implied an emergency and so reverted to the simpler form. Justin talk 21:21, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Referring back to the original source doesn't actually help as it refers to both "confinement" and "medical reasons". Full quote: "Some of those born outside the Islands are children of persons from the Falkland Islands where the mother's confinement, for medical reasons, occurred overseas, but the child arrived within six months of birth." --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 09:02, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reworded the sentence to remove both "confinement" and "medical reasons".  The full text from the source now appears in a reference. Martinvl (talk) 11:02, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confinement vs Medical Reasons 

message: Michael.
Could you please stop the changes to make things "slightly more concise wording", to be blunt about it, you're taking text that reads well and turning it into dull unreadable prose.  This isn't improving the article, these changes actually detract from it.  
Justin talk 13:11, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: He has a point in some cases.  The aim of is not to make things as concise as possible but to make things interesting for the reader. Pfainuk talk 05:56, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

text: I'm sure Justin does have a point in some cases. However, verbosity is not a virtue in writing and the wording of this article does need some attention. Michael Glass (talk) 06:19, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Articles are not a list of facts, which is what you're converting them to.  It makes for articles that are dull and uninteresting to read.  I'm going to challenge edits that detract from the article.  As usual you presume bad faith and presume it is personal.  Justin talk 07:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Justin, I would appreciate it if you did not make personal comments such as the ones above. Michael Glass (talk) 09:36, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Michael, if you take readable text and turn it into dull prose, if I comment on that it is not a personal comment.  Your comments were needlessly personal and if you continue I am no longer prepared to put up with it.  Justin talk 11:53, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

text: I don't have a problem with what you've done.  A simple list of facts is dull and uninteresting, this is about making articles interesting to read.  Justin talk 13:26, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes for slightly more concise wording 

message: the wikisource text has been moved to 
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Report_by_Silas_Duncan_Commander_U.S.S._Lexington_sent_to_Navy_Secretary_Levi_Woodbury
and the shitty editor will not accept the new link without some sort of voodoo, which I refuse to waste time on John.St (talk) 04:52, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 6 

message: This should be merged with Falkland Islanders. BananaBork (talk) 13:53, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree, this article is the original article, Falkland Islanders was a content fork from this one.  Furthermore, this article is about explaining the origins of the population not simply giving facts about the current population.  WCMemail 19:35, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Falkland Islanders]]