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WikiProject Echo has identified Corsica as a foreign language featured article. You may be able to improve this article with information from the Italian or Japanese language Wikipedias.

The political part of this article seems non-neutral. The negative trend does not apply to the whole corsican population. And positive events should be also mentioned.

I removed the notice that this article's neutrality is disputed, because I could find no evidence that it is now, or has ever been, disputed. If someone wants to add the notice back and make suggestions for change here at talk, wonderful... it does no good to slap "unneutral" tags all over Wikipedia. Tuf-Kat 05:13, Sep 21, 2003 (UTC)

This article seems biased. It focuses on violence and does not makes mention of positive facts. On my view, a more positive trend is needed.

That's because when you hear Corsica mentioned in the news anywhere, it's about the violence. Feel free to add other details if you know about Corsica.

Contents 1 Location map 2 Colomb is Corse??? 3 Seeing Corsica 4 "Territorial Collectivity logo" instead of "Région logo" 5 Politics section- a comment. 6 languagee 7 Page protection 8 Italian featured article 9 History Section

[edit] Location map

Can someone add place names on the land masses in the Location map. The location map doesn't inform where Corsica is actually located. Jay 06:20, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've modified Image:Corse map.png by adding names to it and saved it as Image:Corse map with placenames.png. Replaced the link in the article as well. Jay 20:35, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Any idea why User:Hottentot removed this image from the article (6 Sep 2005) and replaced it with the original one without names ? I've added it back as it was tagged as an orphan image for deletion. Jay 17:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colomb is Corse???

How about the legende that Christopher Columbus is born in Corsica? Corsica was a Genoa island in this age.

I've read before that he was actually Catalonian but had been some sort of rebel against Spain and so he pretended to be Genoan. I believe that they found a good deal of evidence to support the Catalonian theory, but if you could find a link or two dealing with him being from Corsica, I think it would be worth mention in the article as a possibility, but I don't believe it should be stated as 100% fact until proved so.Gorovich 22:21, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Are you kidding? Catalonian? Where did you read it? Colomb is without any doubt Genoan. <unsigned>

Genoan he may have been, but Corsica was ruled by Genoa at the time. There is a claim that he was born in the Corsican port of Calvi, but Corsicans do not take this as absolute truth. Guide books, e.g. Michelin, are careful to have a question mark somewhere in the story! Emeraude 16:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seeing Corsica

I was once visiting a Finnish man living in Colomars, southern France. He said he had been told that it was possible to see Corsica from Colomars, and asked me if it was true. I did some calculations, based on the distance between Colomars and Corsica, the highest points in both places, and the radius of the Earth. I do not remember the exact figures but I think the result was that it is indeed possible. I did not try it out, however. — JIP | Talk 04:58, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

it is possible to see Corsica from mainland of France, even from the coast (level 0). Even if it is rare, I've experienced it myself, I saw Corsica from Cannes (French Riviera). This should physically be impossible, but in some specific climatic conditions it is possible to see Corsican montains due to optical deformations (I would not be able to explain more precicely, but it is true)

[edit] "Territorial Collectivity logo" instead of "Région logo"

Is it important the infobox reads "Territorial Collectivity logo" instead of "Région logo" ? If not, we could just use the standard infobox for French regions (Template:Infobox French Région) instead of a specific table. -- User:Docu

It's not just about the logo, it's about the head of the collectivité territoriale of Corsica, who is not a "regional president", but a "President of the Executive Council". Hardouin 11:12, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

That information could easily be noted in the footnotes section. This helps as standardize the infobox. -- User:Docu

Corse is not a région properly speaking, so no need to use the standardized French régions infobox. Hardouin 22:50, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

yeah, "strictly speaking", as the article notes, it's not, but until we defined one for all the other entities, we may as well use it. -- User:Docu

As there is still no template available to adapt even more closely to this region and other entities, I restored the template. -- User:Docu

Please stop reverting this. The status of Corsica as a collectivité territoriale is simply unique in the French Republic, and their is no need for a standard infobox for something that is unique. Hardouin 10:34, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

It's in the nature of infoboxes to be standardized. If you really think it's worth it, why not add an optional feature, instead of undoing others work? -- User:Docu

[edit] Politics section- a comment.

The sub-section entitled 'Politics' in this article seems to relate almost nothing except borderline POV information concerning the indepence movements in Corsica in recent years. That information probably merits its own section instead.

I wrote a PhD Thesis on Corsica which was published under the following title:

Regionalism and Ethnic Nationalism in France: A Case-Study of Corsica, European University Institute: Florence, Italy, 1989.

It is an analysis of regionalist movements in Corsica, but placed in the context of the emergence of similar movements elsewhere in France, from 1945 until 1982.

Finally, it would be useful to add a bibliography of works on Corsica in various languages: French, English, German, Italian (?).

[edit] languagee

Should there noit be a section on the corsican language?

Yes, there should be.

[edit] Page protection

Why is this page protected???? I wanted to add some info...:(--83.45.174.215 10:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

The page is protected because you have repeatedly added a commercial spam link to this page and to the Calvi page, using an unregistered account with a floating IP address. If you decide to stop adding commercial material to Wikipedia the page will be unprotected. All the link-spamming came from the same Netherlands based provider as the one you are using now. olivier 11:44, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Olivier that comment was added by me, Burgas00. I have no intention on adding any commercial link. But is a link to a commercial page reason enough to protect the whole article? Its no big deal... u can erase it untill the person gives up.--Burgas00 15:14, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you were not the one adding the commercial link. In any case, several articles about places in the south of France are currently the targets of VERY persistent spammers. In fact, it is not just about erasing the spams. In some cases, the only contributions during several days are only spam/delete/spam/delete/spam ... until the deleters give up. This process is disturbing for many people, as legitimate editors end up spending a big part of their editing time removing these links. I did not place a total block on this article, but just a "mild" one, in which case only recent and anonymous users are blocked from editing. In my opinion, it is a lesser harm. But the harm was done by the spammers in the first place. olivier 17:16, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Italian featured article

Hi! Corsica is now an italian featured article (see here), please, put the template on the article.
I noticed that the page is blocked from a lot of days, I suppose that the vandalism risk is past (sorry for my horrible english...) --piero tasso 15:48, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

The History Is Poorly Wrote and Makes An abrupt end mid sentence, some other parts also dont make sense.

[edit] History Section

The History section could definitely be fleshed out, since it ends with Napoleon - 200-odd years ago. 71.156.15.166 22:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)