Talk:Spanish Texas

message: This article desperately needs a map of Spanish Texas.  This map would be perfect, but it is copyrighted and my map-making skills are nonexistent.  I'd like to prepare this for Featured article nomination, but I suspect it will need a better map before it will pass.  Thanks to anyone who can help!  Karanacs (talk) 16:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Since there's already a map of the individual missions and presidios, are you just looking for a replication of the political boundaries and the caminos?  Or something with the notable missions as well? Kuru talk 01:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like primarily the political boundaries of the region, overlaid on an existing map if possible.  The map I linked in my first comments shows the boundary of Spanish Texas and marks the locations of some of the Indian tribes, which could also be useful.  Karanacs (talk) 14:46, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Understood.  I'd like to get the river boundaries in there as well, since they were fairly important in context.  Some of the geographic features may have changed a little as well (the lack of lakes in the 1800s), so I'll need to spot check a little. I'll see if I can get some time this weekend to play with it and get you a draft. Kuru talk 00:37, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: THANK YOU!!!!!!  Karanacs (talk) 15:24, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Map Needed

message: This article's Good Article promotion has been put on hold. During review, some issues were discovered that can be resolved without a major re-write.  This is how the article, as of January 14, 2008, compares against the  six good article criteria:
:1. Well written?: on holdpass - see below for a few minor issuses
:2. Factually accurate?: pass
:3. Broad in coverage?: pass
:4. Neutral point of view?: pass
:5. Article stability? pass
:6. Images?: pass, although it could certainly use a few more, I won't hold it up on that.
Looks good, just a few small issues detailed below
Please address these matters soon and then leave a note here showing how they have been resolved.  After 48 hours the article should be reviewed again.  If these issues are not addressed within 7 days, the article may be failed without further notice.  Thank you for your work so far. 
More detailed issues:
* While I lived in Texas, I often saw "Tejas" used as a reference to the pre-independence region. I didn't see any references to that in the article, but I might have missed it.
**Tejas and Texas are pronounced the same in Spanish.  Under Mexican control, the province was officially spelled Coahuila y Tejas but the Spanish usually used Texas.  For clarity, I've added a bit to the Initial Colonization section to explain that Texas became the name. Karanacs (talk) 19:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good! It passes, and I'll get on the epaperwork right now. Ealdgyth | Talk 21:45, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article nomination on hold

message: I have several problems with this section and think it needs to be at the very least removed:
*It is not specific to Spanish Texas, which is the subject of this article.  The section covers a broad range of time that includes Mexican Texas, the Republic of Texas, and the state of Texas.  That is overly broad and makes it difficult to see exactly how this relates to Spanish Texas.  The Comancheria also covered a broad area, not just the land that was Spanish Texas.
*This relies on a single source, which leads to questions about potentially being POV or not mainstream.
I've been in contact with Donald Chipman, who has done a great deal of research on Spanish Texas, and hope to incorporate his suggestions for the article over the next few weeks.  He didn't feel that we needed this much weight on the Comancheria. 
Karanacs (talk) 14:47, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's an opinion from someone who knows very little about the topic:  it seems to me that the issue with the "Comancheria" section is that it is written with a focus on the Comancheria as a whole.  What makes sense in this article is to discuss how the Comancheria affected Spanish Texas.  Most of the text in the current "Comancheria" section either is or should be in the Comancheria article.  What's needed here is a discussion of the specific interactions between the Comancheria and Spanish Texas. --Pseudo-Richard (talk) 19:27, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, Richard, that is the largest issue.  Even the recent additions are focused on Spanish-controlled land in general, not Spanish Texas in particular. Karanacs (talk) 20:04, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The Comancheria was largely based in Spanish Texas (as the map shows, all of it was in lands claimed by Spain) and was the main reason Spain could not consolidate its control over Texas. That makes it of central importance to the article because it helps explain Spain's failure there. Rjensen (talk) 20:08, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There were threats from native tribes, but not only the Comanche, as many of the books I've read point especially to problems with the Apache and to a lesser extent the Karankawa.  The Comanche allied with the Spanish in Texas through the 18th century.  The books I've read have discussed issues with the Comanche post-1820 - a time period more closely associated with Mexican Texas and the later Republic.  Note also that the area of the Comancheria is in the modern-day state of Texas, but this was not all included in Spanish Texas.  This 1822 map of northern Mexico shows the boundaries.  Very little of the Comancheria was in the area known as Spanish Texas (which does not by any means equal boundaries of modern Texas during time of ownership by Spain).  How to reconcile the scholarly works focused on Spanish Texas which discuss the alliance between the Comanche and Spain against the Apache, and the broader works on the Comancheria? Karanacs (talk) 23:54, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

text: the article talks a great deal about Indians, such as Apaches (whom the Comanches defeated). The problem is that it takes a Spanish viewpoint and ignores the Indian viewpoint.  That is a serious POV flaw that can be overcome by using the recent (post 1980s) scholarship from ethnography. Rjensen (talk) 00:35, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That map posted above, :File:Mexico_in_1822.jpg, oddly shows San Saba as within the northern boundaries of Texas. The brief history of San Saba plays an interesting role in Comancheria and the Spanish-Comanche relationship in Texas. The destruction of San Saba by the Comanche in 1758 or so makes the statement "The Comanche allied with the Spanish in Texas through the 18th century" sound rather odd. Pfly (talk) 03:13, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That said, the Comancheria subsection could certainly be improved. It is largely copied from the Comancheria page, which is okay as a starting point. But it would be better if edited to focus more clearly on the relations between the Comanche and Spanish Texas. I know Hämäläinen has a lot to say on the topic. Pfly (talk) 05:45, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If we can bring this back to more specifics on Spanish Texas (not just Spanish territories) and tie it in better with the other info that we have on the alliances, I think this could be a very good addition.  I don't have access to the Hamalainen book at the moment - can someone else propose some specifics that we can include? Karanacs (talk) 14:53, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comancheria 

message: Which country was Spain threatened by in their claims on Texas territory?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C6:C080:4150:4193:BFC0:1D10:8D72 (talk) 14:23, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  history