Talk:Brazil (mythical island)

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[edit] Isle of Mam merge

I suggest merging the two mythical islands, since they appear to be pretty similar. Are there any other sources for the Isle of Mam, apart from Donald S. Johnson's book?--Nydas^(Talk) 20:21, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Really? Other than the tenuous theory that they represent the same island, I don't see much similarity. There are very few sources for the island (most hits are copies of our article or misspellings of "Isle of Man"), but it is mentioned in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1915?)

"The far superior Catalan map in 1373 named this island as "St. Brendan's Isle," and gave another, "The Isle of Mam," farther to the south".[1]

Enough to confirm that Johnson didn't invent the island, although its notability could be questioned. Warofdreams talk 02:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

The thing is, it's a tenuous theory about a tenuous (and borderline non-notable) theory. I only found the Isle of Mam article because of the disclaimer on the Isle of Man article, and I sincerely doubt that anyone is ever going to get them mixed up.--Nydas^(Talk) 10:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I created the article in the first place mainly because people kept changing the redlink to the Isle of Mam to point to the Isle of Man. Strange, but they seemed to think that Man is a phantom island! Either way, I think we're agreed that there's nothing to be gained from a merger. Warofdreams talk 03:20, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I'd also be opposed to a merger. Their respective articles put them in very different places. As the merge tag has been up since January and its now March, and the consensus has been to not merge, I'll go ahead and remove the tag. Bastun 12:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)