Talk:Private island

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Check the recent edits by 84.143.15.190, as they seem to constitute veiled advertisements. – Lunarbunny 07:42, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sovreignty

I'm curious, how do these uninhabited islands remain in custody of governments who merely 'patrol' the waters around them or may update a beacon placed on them occasionally when for all intents and purposes they are in a state of terra nullius for the remainder of the time? Wouldn't the first man to plant a flag on it and start to live there have more of a sovreign claim than the distant claimant? 211.30.71.59 08:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Individuals can't claim territory, only property. Only collectives such as governments or states can claim territory. States then devolve property rights to individuals. -- Just my uninformed opinion of course. That's something for political scientists or philosophers. sure there theories about these things out there. --213.54.18.110 22:59, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links

In response to an e-mail and continued edit warring, I have removed all the links and locked the article. I would advise everyone to read WP:EL for Wikipolicy on External links and to notice that Real estate has no commercial/broker links on it. Only non-commercial (not selling Islands at least) informational links can be included. If there are any issues or links you would like to discuss, please do so here. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 19:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC)