Talk:Vasco Núñez de Balboa

message: I raised the issue of his precise date of death back in July 2008 (now archived), but no discussion ever ensued.    
Various dates appear in sources: 12 January, 15 January, 21 January being the main contenders.  Back in 2008, we were showing the date as 15 January 1519, but it's since been changed to 12 January.  But the text currently says the trial at which he was condemned took place on the "fifteenth of January", so if that's correct, he couldn't have died 3 days earlier.
Since it's so unclear when he actually died, I am going to change the date to simply "January 1519" with a footnote explaining the uncertainty, until we can find an authoritative source.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 21:21, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: just a guess, but maybe the varying dates have to do with the adoption of the Gregorian calender and the 10-day adjustment? Wayne61 (talk) 14:20, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, but that's unlikely imo.  The new calendar was introduced in 1582, and did not have any retrospective effect.  There was confusion during the period when the non-Catholic countries were resisting a change promulgated by a Catholic pope, and if Balboa had died post-1582, that could well explain things.  But he died 63 years before then, when the whole western world was using the same calendar (Julian).  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 20:20, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of death revisited

message: balboa was known as one of the greatest explorers of his time. He lived from 1512-15774. His wife was Maria and he had no children... 2601:182:4300:993B:D898:AD2E:76DA:A096 (talk) 23:53, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: . All of this information is already in the article. What improvements do you think it needs? City</span>]]OfSilver 01:14, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 20 December 2017 

message: In the first paragraph, I think that it has the dates wrong. 2601:241:8800:B10A:4964:8A08:884B:E654 (talk) 17:16, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. JTP (talk • contribs) 17:21, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 January 2018 

message: the http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/balboa.html reference is a dead link,
replace with
https://web.archive.org/web/20110806113241/http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/balboa.html Arminkaric (talk) 16:12, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done clpo13(talk) 16:36, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 30 May 2018 

message: I would like to add an inline citation:
Behind "He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513,"
please add "".
Thank you. Margo92 (talk) 13:52, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Dr. Swag Lord (talk) 04:28, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

text: Done. The Spanish source does indeed provide the date of the crossing. I had a look at the Smithsonian source and it includes both the date and the second half of that sentence, so I've used that as a citation for the rest of it, but it does mean that the Spanish source probably isn't needed for this line. Since the article is lacking citations anyway I'll leave it in at this point as it's probably a good source for someone else to have a look at and use to add inline citations to this article, but I don't speak spanish so I'll just leave it there. Don't worry about coming across as fussy :) Volteer1 (talk) 12:36, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

text: To answer your question about placement of citations, the MOS guideline is at :MOS:CITEPUNCT, although it has not always been strictly followed in articles. - Donald Albury 14:27, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 January 2021 

message: Shouldn't the word slaver be somewhere in the lead paragraph, or is it assumed since he was a conquistador? Awhit003 (talk) 00:47, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Sort of the latter. Trying not to be too crass about it, but taking slaves was very common in that era, and not something that distinguished Balboa from other conquistadors, or other military leaders in most of the world. Donald Albury 01:27, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slaver