Talk:History of Ecuador

message: So... when was the name Ecuador chosen? Was it named after the equator? --SPUI (talk) 14:30, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Evidently, and it must have been chosen May 1830. 200.63.231.224 21:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Name Ecuador

message: I understand from the Wikipedia piece on the Inca Empire - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca - that the Incas controlled large parts of Ecuador for nearly a century before the Spanish arrived, yet this piece barely refers to that period.
:I'm not an expert, and simply cutting and pasting from one piece to another seems a little rude, but perhaps someone a little better informed could add something? Jonecc 10:46, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incas 

message: Would it be possible to give some more details on why Ecuador became independant from Colombia in 1830.  What were the reasons behind that?  Indisciplined 20:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Independance from Colombia

message: This article needs some major work. It is full of inconsistencies and half-truths. I cleaned it up as best I could, however, lots remains to be done. Among other things, I deleted this passage because it is redundant:
Antonio José de Sucre Alcalá lead the Ecuadorian separatist forces to victory. 
Ecuador's criollo population tried several times to take control of the Quito Audencia in the decade that followed Napoleon's invasion of Spain, but it was not until 1820 that the criollos had enough force to realize emancipation from Spanish colonial rule. In October 1820, in Guayaquil, a junta under the leadership of José Joaquín Olmedo declared Ecuador's independence from its colonial master. Unlike the earlier juntas, Olmedo appealed to Argentina and Venezuela for support. Ecuador's identification with the wider South American independence movement - led principally by Venezuelan Simón Bolívar Palacios and the Argentinean José de San Martín - was ultimately what permitted it to throw off the shackles of Spanish domination as early as it did. Without help from Bolívar and San Martín, Ecuador likely would have languished under colonial rule for at least a few more decades.
Bolívar and San Martín heeded Olmedo's call for help, sending him significant contingents of troops and a number of skilled officers. Antonio José de Sucre Alcalá led the combined Ecuadorian and foreign forces to a number of successive victories before finally being stopped at the city of Ambato in the highlands south of Quito. The royalist success was short lived, Martín sent Sucre the necessary reinforcements and the brilliant young lieutenant went on the offensive again. After another series of triumphs and a decisive victory at the Battle of Pichincha on May 24, 1822, Ecuador achieved its independence. Within hours of his victory on the slopes the volcano outside of Quito, Sucre received the formal surrender of the Quito Audiencia.
Tsekub 12:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Note about changes

message: The bulk of the document seems to have "blatent copywrite infringement" issues.  In trying seperate some of the heavy text to other pages I unknowningly naming a moved section the same as the original.  And was advised the text was was directly copied from The Library of Congress Country Studies pages. Looking at the Library of Congress the bulk of the article seems to be copied.  obv (talk) 16:04, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copywrite Issues 

message: A number of new pages have been created in an effort to shorten this one; however, in the process, the references and external links were left behind, leaving these articles without citations or real context. If any further daughter pages are to be made, please ensure that they have at least a few references, per Wikipedia guidelines. The pages that prompted this message include History of Ecuador 1925-1944: Reform, Chaos and Debacle,  History of Ecuador: The Early Republic, History of Ecuador: Era of Conservatism, and The History of Ecuador: Rule of the Liberals. Thanks! Nikkimaria (talk) 23:17, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daughter page issues 

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message: I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, that Quito existed before the arrival of the Spanish, contradicting the introduction which says that it was founded by the Spanish.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.210.66.18 (talk) 08:49, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  founding of Quito 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hi fellow editors,
I performed a copy edit on the article, updated it to early 2023, and reorganized the heading structure to be a bit more rational in my view. You can see my edits in the edit history. I hope others agree that they are improvements.
I notice that the recent history (since about 2000) is disproportionately long. To an extent this is justified, since a reader may want no more than an outline of the early history for a better understanding of the recent history and the present. However, I think a future improvement could be condensing the post-2000 or even post-1990 content a bit. I think it was added piecemeal. It lacks coherence and historic perspective and includes details that no doubt seemed important at the time but now seem too detailed for a general history of the country. Perhaps these bits could be hived off into separate articles on their specific periods of Ecuador's history. This is no doubt also true of my updates, though I feel we should wait until events take a different turn. That would provide the historical perspective needed to edit the post–2017 content. Marco polo (talk) 23:02, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Reorganization and update