Talk:Bikini Atoll

message: ERROR CHECK? The highlighted area on the map/photo indicates the northeast corner of the atoll as the site of the Castle Bravo test crater. The Castle Bravo page has a government map (showing the fallout) which indicates the NORTHWEST corner of the atoll as "ground zero". Also, the coordinates given for the crater are west of the causeway which makes sense. Personally I see a bigger crater in the northwest corner but this can and should be verified. 71.33.125.196 (talk) 05:37, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I guess it's about 4 years after the fact, but noticed this error too and have corrected it.  I have uploaded a new higher-resolution, higher contrast NASA Landsat 7 satellite image for this article and correctly annotated the Castle Bravo crater.  (I didn't make the original)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.17.252 (talk) 07:41, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: comments

message: I heard from a documentary that there's a fishing ban around Bikini atoll which has created an interesting (although difficult to study I guess) marine reserve. This info needs to be added/included Nil Einne 17:17, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fishing

message: It seems as if Bikini Island should be merged into Bikini Atoll because, as Bikini Island is part of the atoll, it would simplify the page and consolidate the information. Users would no longer have to follow a link to view information about the individual island. On the page, there is a "geography" section which indicates only that the main body of land is Bikini Island. Why not just add all info in "Bikini Island" into the Geography section?SeanMD80 02:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay. Belgian man 11:57, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: What does the text on the flag mean? What language is it in? Who designed it? Why does it resemble the US flag? Njál 17:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Flag of Bikini Atoll. Greetings, Belgian man 16:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag 

message: There are plenty of free photos for the article at lcweb2.loc.gov, search Bikini Atoll. If you have some time, please upload and add to the article. Thanks. Bebestbe (talk) 15:53, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Free photos

message: Otto von Kotzebue was a russian baltic navigator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Kotzebue
94.73.248.165 (talk) 13:44, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Explorer

message: It is curious. Mars is the roman god of war and Hall means, for exemple, the Town Hall: Mars Hall. Vibria (talk) 20:54, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Marshall

message: My father was a deep sea diver in the US Navy and I am told he was one of the first divers to go down to assess the damage caused by the hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll.  He was the head of the deep sea diving school and his name was Robert Ward, Chief Petty Officer.  My aunt said he was a hero and they made a stamp with his name on it which she has misplaced.  When I was a child I lived in Honolulu and remember visiting him in the hospital.  I later learned that this was radiation poisoning.  He suffered this his entire life and at times was in a wheel chair. If anyone knows anything about him or the diving team I would be grateful to hear your story  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.217.125.35 (talk) 04:05, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diving to establish damage from radiation 

message: An editor noted that Edmund Teller's comment about the death of the fishermen, "It’s unreasonable to make such a big deal over the death of a fisherman", was dubious, and that it needed a citation, and that the source for the fishermen's death from radiation poisoning may not be reliable. Both facts are supported by a reference at the end of the paragraph by an article cited on The Japan Times, which happens to be Japan's longest-published English-language newspaper. Please bother to check the source before you mark it as dubious. I'm removing the dubious and reliable source templates. — btphelps (talk to me) (what I've done) 08:29, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I have been reverted by another editor when trying to apply WP:ALUM to this article. I am not sure if it is a reading problem or a comprehension problem, or something else, but let's try to discuss here. WP:ALUM aplies to chemistry-related articles, and overrides WP:ENGVAR. The detailed discussion of different radioisotopes and their chemistry clearly puts this article into that category. Does anyone who has read the article seriously disagree with this? --John (talk) 14:35, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: As no objection has been raised here in nearly 24 hours, I will change back to the MoS-compliant version. --John (talk) 13:01, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

text: Edit war - see discussion of cesium vs. caesium on the talk page for Castle bravo  Senor Cuete (talk) 16:47, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I am sorry to hear your declaration that you are edit-warring; that isn't how we do things here. You'll need to be careful or you might get blocked. Meantime I will restore the compliant version, in the absence of any reason not to, per WP:ALUM and per the discussion at Talk:Castle Bravo. --John (talk) 17:23, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:   WP:TIES vs WP:ALUM  

message: I can't see any information of the Operation Ivy in the text...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.178.205.159 (talk) 07:16, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Operation Ivy took place on Enewetak Atoll, not Bikini. 08:51, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation Ivy 

message: This section of the article states that Saratoga is "the world's only diveable aircraft carrier", however this is not, or at least no longer, accurate. Saratoga's own article claims that she is one of three carriers accessible to recreational divers, the others being USS Oriskany and HMS Hermes.
Theberengesniper (talk) 08:29, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diving program 

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Reference named "heritage":
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thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Bikini Atoll]] 

message: The introductory section has the words "Rongerik Atoll could not produce enough food and the islanders starved for lack of food." How else do you starve? Jwood (leave me a message) See what I'm up to 17:08, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Starved for Lack of Food" - what? 

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message: I've just uploaded a collection of photographs of the 1947 Bikini Resurvey Project, which examined the effects of radiation on the atoll, to Commons. They might be of use to editors of this article. :commons:Category:Images from the Donaldson Collection of South Pacific Radiological Surveys. BMacZero (talk) 04:15, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Media Available 

message: The lead seems fine to me. I also don't see any discussion on this talk page about why the 'inadequate lead' tag was added in the first place. If no one objects, I'll remove the tag from the article. Lennart97 (talk) 22:33, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: I actually realized what was wrong with the lead section, and improved it. Lennart97 (talk) 13:31, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead section 

message: — Assignment last updated by Krharrod (talk) 20:08, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Cold War Science

message: Two sources I have included state that 200 residents were resettled in Bikini Atoll before their final removal in 1978, rather then only 100 residents as stated in the first part of the article. -Krharrod (talk) 20:35, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/spongebobs-bikini-bottom-based-real-life-test-site-nuclear-weapons Krharrod (talk) 20:36, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

text: https://www.google.com/books/edition/For_the_Good_of_Mankind/8Q5zAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Krharrod (talk) 20:39, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Were there only 100 people resettled in 1970?