Talk:South America/Archive 1

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Perhaps I should put up an version of the map labelled in English? --Brion VIBBER
Now the political map under Territories and Divisions is in German. Can someone replace it with a similar map in English? 24.11.123.68 03:49, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Map

message: I think the person who wrote that there is evidence was thinking of the Paracas culture (which is in the Peruvian coast) and not the Incan empire. Shouldn't he point to evidence? Because the Paracas are well known for their 'brain surgery', not the incans
--A Peruvian
24.89.253.218 12:18, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: About Incan Brain Surgery

message: I just tried to move the geography section to an earlier position in the article than the history section, but it makes the article look bad with the current placement of the large map graphics, and I couldn't figure out how to fix that, so I didn't save the edit.  Does anyone else think that the geography section ought to precede the history section? --Eric Forste (talk) 08:52, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm the one who changed the order earlier, and I was unsure of it at the time. I now think it would be better as the first section. I agree with you about the maps images. Maybe we just need to figure out a good way to scatter them. I don't have any better ideas yet. Maurreen (talk) 14:40, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe the map now called "Physical map of South America" should be changed to "Political map of South America" and moved to the end of the history section. Then the "satellite composite image" could replace it next to the TOC. Maurreen (talk) 14:46, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The rearrangement looks good. Maurreen (talk) 16:53, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography before history? 

message: Spanish is the primary language seems to be a poor phrasing to me. If (according to Brazil) Brazil has the largest population, exceeding 50%, than the primary languague of South America would be portuguese, not spanish. Perhaps a better phrasing would sound something like spanish is spoken in most countries... or similar.LtDoc 22:17, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages 

message: This article could benefit from the picture at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03388 --Joy [shallot] 15:26, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  nice picture 

message: I think this sentence needs to be rewritten: "South America is home to many interesting species of animals including parrots, tarantulas, snakes, and mammals." I don't know enough about the animal world, but surely mammals can't be referred to next to snakes, parrots and tarantulas as an interesting species. Just drop the mammals reference?Sholto.mac 02:16, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Species of animals 

message: I'm looking forward to found the Wikipedia:WikiProject Venezuela. I had the idea of creating it when I first made the portal. The project will have the main objective of centrating efforts into a more complete information and a higher quality of the articles in Wikipedia, other media in the sister projects, and the portal itself.
However, the rules say that I should have at least five to ten members willing to integrate and contribute to the wikiproject. So if some of you guys want to join in, then leave me a message, or in this page. I will be back in a few days to see how things are going on. 
Go to Wikipedia:Wikiproject/List_of_proposed_projects#Venezuela and list yourselves if you wanna join.
--Alex Coiro 06:37, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Venezuela 

message: The article says:
:: ...
:: European descendants, especially from Spain, Portugal and Italy.
:: ...
:: Latin peoples
:: Mapuche
According my understanding, people from Spain, Portugal and Italy are Latin peoples.
baloo_rch 13:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I'm changing it. If anyone disagrees, change it back and discuss here. Gerardo199 20:12, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Latin Peoples

message: It does contain the legislative branch of the government, but is never reffered to as a capital. Should it be put as a capital? Gerardo199 22:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In creating the tables for all six populated continents/regions, I sought to make them rather succinct but comprehensive: this includes noting multiple administrative centres for numerous countries (e.g., Netherlands in Europe, South Africa in Africa, et al.)  For now, however, I will concede the current version as sufficient since sources do prevail in noting only Santiago as the de jure capital. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 23:04, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Similar criteria; notes below clearly indicate differences.  I'll mull it over and perhaps retitle the appropriate column headers. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 13:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Valparaiso also a Capital of Chile? 

message: At a broad glance, it seems like the content under the History section of this article and the content on History of South America seem to match, with minor differences. Merge? --Ted 02:54, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. History of South America has the potential for massive expansion. Albrecht 15:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree about keeping History of SA separate, but I'm moving over some text. --Carwil 19:42, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

text: The suggestion for a merge has been here for many months without gaining support, so I'll remove it.-gadfium 18:51, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History and [[History of South America]] 

message: Is partly a South American country? So before the Panama Canal was built it is whjolly no North America, then an artificial structure caused it to go to South America? --Howard the Duck 07:24, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected with Isthmus of Panama. Alinor 07:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm unsure this is the way to intepret it, H. -- the country is of Central America, and Panama occupies a transitional position between North and South America on the isthmus.  See below.  142.150.134.50 19:08, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Anyhow, A.'s edition is incorrect: the country of Panama lies on the Isthmus of Panama: so 'east of' the isthmus means Colombia etc.  Definitions generally indicate that North America extends along the entire isthmus (including Panama) to Colombia... so, if anything, all of Panama should be included in North America and, thus, I am reverting the recent change until something better can be arrived at. 142.150.134.50 18:57, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So the next questions is, is Isthmus of Panama = Panama, and where does the Isthmus start and end? --Howard the Duck 14:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Panama? 

message: I take offense at the wholesale removal of the section regarding pre-historical development of agriculture last night.  While I do recognize that I should have slimmed it down a bit, leaving the longer version for the history page, the fact remains that before I did this this article had nothing on pre-history and only a very small section on Pre-Columbian history.  At the same time, the article has a great deal of information about the colonial and post-colonial history which is obviously a form of bias, indicating that things happening in South America before the arrival of Europeans is unimportant.  I have again added what I wrote, however I did cut it down in size by about half.  The article needs to have something on prehistory as it does on all other periods of history. --The Way 23:31, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't take offence so easily. My point was that the history section in this article should not be a duplicate of the content of History of South America. I deleted it from here, but I integrated your content into that page. Providing a summary of the material here, as you have done now, is fine.-gadfium 01:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps, 'take offense' was a bit much, I just didn't want to see relevant information removed for the reasons I've stated.  I hadn't realized that you had done any integration which is my fault.  Thanks.  --The Way 04:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Section 

message: In the history section it says, 
"In recent years South American governments have drifted to the left, with socialist leaders being elected in Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, and a leftist president in Argentina and Uruguay. Despite the move to the left, South America is still largely capitalist."
But why is it largely capitalist? I think this needs expanding upon. Kennard2 01:59, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History: explaination needed 

message: I would be intrested in some history about south americas participation in ww2, apparently it was allied, but thats as far as i know. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.233.18.116 (talk) 19:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  South America in World War II