Talk:Andaman Islands

message: I've marked this article confusing. This is because large sections of it have not been rewritten from the 1911 Encyclopedia. They are therefore now factually wrong, which is confusing until you realise this. For example, the penal colony section, and the section on the native Andamanese. Francis Irving 22:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing 

message: What is Siberian coffee?  Maybe a mistake or outdated terminology? Maias 07:46, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flora 

message: This article has very much in parallel with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands article. The two groups of islands have very much a common history. I saw that each one has much useful information which the other does not, and a reader getting to only one would miss the information availalbe in the other.  .Adam Keller 08:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No merge Istead, improve all 3 articles:A&N Islands, Andamans, and Nicobars. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WoodElf (talk • contribs) 06:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No Merge the Andaman and nicobar islands and the actual andaman islands are seperate, the Andaman and nicobar islands are a 'state' or a 'province, if you get what i mean, and the andamans are just the collection of ilands that are called thatAustralian Jezza 08:30, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Merge proposal tag is now removed/closed, as it's evident there's no consensus to do so. --cjllw ʘ TALK 08:38, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merging

message: I think it would help article clarity to have another map, showing where they are in the bay of bengal. Not only that, but not all readers will know on which coast of india the bay is... in short, a more "zoomed-out" map might help... unfortunately, I have no experience with mapmaking. Thanks, Storkk (talk) 17:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps :Image:IndiaAndamanNicobar.png could be svg-fied, and modified to point out which island groups are which, then used on both this page and Nicobar Islands page. --Storkk (talk) 17:37, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: request for another map

message: Note:  Project Banner with Andaman and Nicobar Islands workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article  falls under :Category:Andaman and Nicobar Islands or its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the relavent categories to the article --  TinuCherian     (Wanna Talk?)   - 05:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Andaman and Nicobar Islands workgroup Addition 

message: Can anyone with some knowledge on the subject add to the article how this island group is governed, what its structure is, and what influence the central Indian government has? ChillyMD (talk) 19:19, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Government

message: The article seems to have an underlying anti-British sentiment.  Such terms as 'concentration camps' are evocative of very powerful emotions and should not be used unless they were actually used by the British administration. I call for much more politically neutral words to be used, so as not to have wikipedia become an unwitting instrument of revisionist history and propaganda.
66.31.55.175 (talk) 21:23, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the "concentration camp" text. This is a stretch. Normal prison by 19th century standards. 19th century prisons were Not Fun. "Concentration camp" is 20th century terminology. This comes down to the frequently encountered problem in India, to get reliable, unbiased, scholarly information about anything. I left the reference which is fairly reprehensible, because I don't know of anything else offhand that is better! It is pretty bad, but by Indian standards, about average. If you can find a university professor someplace who has written a book, you might have something. But who knows? Student7 (talk) 02:39, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential Bias? 

message: Under Fauna the following appears:
There has been numerous deaths due to their aggressive nature and the government refuses to do anything about it. Sadly, tourist's are not made aware of their existence. 
"Refuses to do anything about it" sounds really biased to me.
Lilly (talk) 16:31, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: An inexperienced editor has been making these edits. They have been reverted. Please revert or delete them when found. Not significant to this article even if referenced. Student7 (talk) 02:28, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More bias? 

message: * The Most Isolated People in the World us1.campaign-archive2.com  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.39.99.159 (talk) 07:37, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people Kortoso (talk) 17:37, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[North Sentinel Island]] 

message: I cannot make sense of this entry in the "timber" section: 
:Silver Grey (a special formation of wood in white utkarsh)
Could anyone please clarify it? Thanks... --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 23:02, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silver Grey wood 

message: This article really needs a paragraph about white people going to the Andamans to surf? That's encyclopedic? 
MarkinBoston (talk) 23:49, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surfing?  

message: Are Andamans really classified as Adivasis in India, since they are much closer to [black] Melanesians than anything to do with Indian aboriginals? The only reason this is part of India is because of British annexation, so I highly doubt Indians would incorporate them as "indigenous Indians."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.187.216 (talk) 05:04, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adivasis? 

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message: Expand etymology section. Some sources suggest the island is named after Hanuman. How true is that? ChandlerMinh (talk) 15:21, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: Of the three citations given for Maratha empire, only one shows any direct evidence connection for any Maratha influence in Andama. Not surprisingly, the source is a defence related forum written by a non-expert hence not WP:RS 
*Source 1 doesn’t make any mentions of Maratha influence in Andaman; it is just a website of Central Public Works Department talking about history of public infrastructure in India 
*Source 2 makes the claim but without any further citations, written by a non-expert in history. The source is an Internet forum hence not WP:RS
*Source 3 again no mention of Maratha having occupied Andaman. Only time the word ‘Andaman’ mentioned here is about a Sādhu being deported to Andaman during British rule. ChandlerMinh (talk) 04:46, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maratha ? 

message: An edit today removed the following information, with an edit summary calling it misinformation:
:According to Werner Gruhl: "Before leaving the islands, the Japanese rounded up and executed 750 innocents."Gruhl, Werner (2007) Imperial Japan's World War Two, 1931–1945 , Transaction Publishers. . p. 102.
The Gruhl reference does indeed contain that claim, and cites two other sources in support of it (although I have not tracked down those sources to verify their claims). What is the argument for regarding the claim as misinformation not worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia? Mgnbar (talk) 19:07, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  End of Japanese occupation