Talk:South Georgia

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Aviafanboi in topic Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Sources?

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-Zai- could you comment on what you think needs better sourcing, or maybe add some inline cn tags? The only untagged unsourced part I see is the last two sentences of the third paragraph of the history section. GA-RT-22 (talk) 17:54, 25 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Tag added by mistake? Roger 8 Roger (talk) 20:31, 25 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Archives

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I have moved Talk:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands/Archive 1 to Talk:South Georgia (island)/Archive 1 but I think we also need to move Talk:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to Talk:South Georgia (island)/Archive 2. I have disabled archiving until we get this sorted out. GA-RT-22 (talk) 13:43, 26 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

No, and I've reverted that move. Talk:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands/Archive 1 is the archive of Talk:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the talk page of the article about the British Overseas Territory. This talk page (Talk:South Georgia (island)) has never been archived, it's only existed since 2017. I'll re-enable archiving here as well. --rchard2scout (talk) 13:58, 26 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 12 August 2021

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: MOVED Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:45, 21 August 2021 (UTC)Reply


– The island is the apparent primary topic for "South Georgia" and I'm not quite sure how we ended up with the dab page at the base title. Yes, it's almost uninhabited, but it's the major landform in the southern Atlantic, historically important as a whaling base and for events such as Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition or Argentine invasion during the Falkland war. No such user (talk) 10:44, 12 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

The items on the dab page are all WP:PTM: they include South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the parent overseas territory, which is only casually referred to as "South Georgia"; and South Georgia State College, again only casually referred to as "South Georgia"; southern parts of either the U.S. state or the Caucasian country are "not a thing" that could plausibly have an article. I think it's quite a stretch of a dab page. The title of South Georgia (island) now has caused the whole cascade of unwieldy category renaming discussions that started with Category:Islands_of_South_Georgia_(island) and continue with Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_August_11#Geography_of_South_Georgia_(island). I believe the proposed setup is much clearer and that current one only increases readers' confusion and leads to awkward naming. No such user (talk) 10:44, 12 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Indigenous population

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If Europeans were the first to discover and settle the islands, they are the indigenous population, similar to the Scandinavians in Iceland and Polynesians in New Zealand. There seems to be a double standard for applying indigenous to Europeans. 80.195.3.151 (talk) 19:49, 30 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Hello! This is to let editors know that File:South Georgia Island as seen by Sentinel-2.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for August 06, 2023. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2023-08-06. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Aviafanboi (talk) 11:46, 12 July 2023 (UTC)Reply