Talk:Golden Age of Piracy

message: I came across this article by chance. Much of what I see in a quick reading is contradicted by The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. What first caught my attention was the schooner in the admittedly nice picture: the first schooner was launched in 1730, the date the article marks as the end of the period. While Oxford places the end of the "classic" age of piracy in as 1750, a schooner is still not typical for the period. The lack of topsails on the schooner and the plain--even semi-clipper--bow of the merchant ship suggests to me something like a century later than the period.
Next Oxford states that buccaneers are not pirates, but either technical privateers (the had letters of marque) or pretend privateers, who didn't have papers but acted like them in not attacking their own nation's ships.
Basically, someone needs to rewrite the article with an authoritative reference at hand, like Oxford. Unfortunately, I cannot do so at the present, but Oxford should be easy to find.
:The Oxford book is inaccurate with reference to the launch date of the first schooner.  The Tryals of Stede Bonnet, a contemporary source available in print, makes clear reference to the "scooner" being used in 1718.  Admittedly, the picture may still be anachronistic.
:"Pretend privateering" such as that engaged in by buccaneers is in fact piracy, the attacking of a ship without commission from a sovereign nation.  Nevertheless, there is no clear consensus on whether the buccaneering period is part of the Golden Age of Piracy. Pirate Dan 18:46, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have found proof that the picture is indeed anachronistic.  It appears in Pirates: Terror on the High Seas From the Caribbean to the South China Sea, edited by David Cordingly, p. 178.  The book identifies the scene as Robert Surcouf's attack on the Hope.  Surcouf's career spanned the 1790s and the first decade of the 19th century, which would not fit any definition of the Golden Age of Piracy.  I will remove the painting and try to locate a suitable replacement. Pirate Dan (talk) 14:04, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massive Revision Needed 

message: I agree with the above statement--there are various sources claiming the begining of the Golden Age was around 1680 and other dates. Please post a verfication of the 1690 date.
Also, I'm going to argue with the origins of piracy. People didn't just go "Oh, I think I'll be a pyrate!" when the war ended; there were various other reasons. At this point, the statemenet is original research--whoever posted it, please post your citation.
There is also no mention of Pirate constitutions, which were counteractions towards towards the situation and high mortality rate they faced.
...and also, I added a PROPER citation to Rekider. *sighs* I will be cleaning up and adding to this section when I get the chance. Kyuu 02:43, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pirate articles 

message: I note that a number of people are attempting to work out the exact (or approximate) dates or sets of dates for the (multiple?) "Golden Age(s) of Piracy". However, untill something comes of it, an articel on a "Golden Age" of anything that doesn't give any dates for the "Age" is incomplete. 68.39.174.238 22:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added "incomplete" 

message: The article needs a clear definition as the first sentence; as is, it only states where the Golden Age of Piracy occurred. I don't know much about the subject, so creating a definition would be better left to others. --MatthewLiberal 01:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition

message: I see no comments from 2008. If anyone wants to work on this article, i will help. Contact me on my talk page. Beam (talk) 15:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anybody going to work on this article? 

message: wschoate@csufresno.edu: Just had to reset the page, let cluebot do the work.  Somebody goatse'd it.  Watch out for this crap on other articles, folks.
We need to know how it ended!!!!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.45.229.238 (talk) 12:48, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: Pirateology: A Pirate Hunter's Companion mentions Arabella Drummond, but there is no mention of her in this article nor is there an article on her.  It's almost certain she's a fictional character - in which case the relevant articles should both spell this out and say who she may have been modelled on.  66.19.243.207 (talk) 23:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Arabella Drummond ??

message: this should be a featured article  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.109.0.155 (talk) 18:09, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured

message: I'm not advocating merging the articles, but the parallels between the "Golden Age of Piracy" and the age of "Privateering" are pretty striking, so I'd say the two (or more?) articles should at least be maintained in concert. 68.174.97.122 (talk) 23:35, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golden Age of Privateering 

message: In the section "Effect on popular culture", it says that Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag "drew heavily from this romanticized ideal of piracy" and that it "helped implant an (often inaccurate) image of old-time pirates in contemporary minds". I've played the game and this is certainly not true. Yes, you play as a pirate and you can attack and plunder ships, but neither piracy nor the era are glorified in any way. The game actually focuses on the darker and unpleasant sides, and how piracy isn't such a good life. Could somebody please rewrite this? 81.242.106.152 (talk) 16:57, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You know what? I'll just remove it myself. 91.177.121.87 (talk) 08:15, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  AC IV doesn't glorify piracy 

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message: Pirates were opium addicts. The spice trade was mostly about opium.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.44.236.4 (talk) 04:10, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pirates were opium addicts 

message: The pirates mentioned as "most well known" in the "Pirates of the era" section are literally all British. Perhaps they're best known in English-speaking countries, but it's not exactly representative. Prinsgezinde (talk) 21:18, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: British

message: "According to Robert Davis,[31][32] between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in Northern Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries."
Note that no other historian agrees with Davis on this estimate, and it's been frequently cited by those trying to bolster claims of "white slavery".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonathan f1 (talk • contribs) 09:22, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
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