Talk:Piracy in the Caribbean

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Contents 1 WikiProject Piracy 2 Pictures 3 Comparisions between 17th century buccaneers and modern pirates 4 Possible copyright violation ? 5 Wording 6 NPOV ?

[edit] WikiProject Piracy

A WikiProject has been proposed on List of proposed projects to improve coverage of and focus on both historic and modern periods in Piracy. MadMax 22:30, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

I think this article could benefeit from more pictures

[edit] Comparisions between 17th century buccaneers and modern pirates

I believe that there is a distinction between modern age and 1600-style piracy. The legitimacy of the counterparts of the ancient outlaws appears less clear than in the case of modern "terrorists", freedom fighters or whatever you call them. 80.134.121.106

[edit] Possible copyright violation ?

Is this a copyright violation from http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Pirates&oldid=4086, or did they copy from us without attribution? RickK 04:58, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The section on the 1600's looks like it's been plagiarised from the manual of the computer game "Pirates" by Microprose 193.130.144.125 11:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

If you have a source text in hand that you can cite, please remove the offending material from the article and provide the citation here so everyone knows why. TCC (talk) (contribs) 21:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Because of potential copyright violations the previous article was removed and replaced with a rewritten version. Someone should note that the section Early Causes is not actually about the Early Causes of piracy and should just be deleted unless someone adds an article there, because the text seems to be a duplication of the first portion of the lower section on the Golden Age of Piracy. If there are still problems I would suggest the entire article on the Golden Age be deleted.

The simple fact that the "writer" failed to enter in a single link or reference to another wiki article is evidence that it's probably copied. the whole Golde Age section need overhauling, possibly with it bieng short and a whole other article on the full Golden Age of Piracy because it is such a famous let alone important era in piracy. I'll try to work on it some myself but I don't have all the time and epertise to do it.---Norton112200 00:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

The period 1560-1720 IS the full Golden Age of Piracy. The article simply does not go into the exploits of a few earlier privateers like Sir Francis Drake. THe Early Causes Section makes no sense and is not about the Early Causes. It should be deleted.

Let us not forget http://www.magicaljourneys.com/Caribbean/caribbean-interest-piracy.html - I'm assuming this article stole all of the content from it directly. 82.32.68.215 15:16, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

That's a mirror of this article. They're the ones probably committing copyvio.......under the GFDL, you must attribute work, which they do in one word at the bottom of the page in tiny print.--The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 01:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I think the wording is identical in the Early Causes and The Early Years, 1560-1600 sections. Could these sections be combined or made substantually different? 150.134.67.33 09:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've checked the content and deleted one of these sections. Fayenatic london 09:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wording

"There was a strong esprit de corps among pirates. This allowed them to win sea battles: they typically outmanned trade vessels by a large ratio." This makes no sense to me - surely the morale would help if the pirates were outnumbered, not the trade vessels? --Air 12:20, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

"great" era? --80.203.27.221 06:49, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV ?

How many Spanish people think this article is written from NPOV? --66.81.122.251 06:32, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Nice, sanitized article, with no mention of what piracy was: the murder, looting and rape of civilians. Cute though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bistor92 (talk • contribs).