Talk:Rodrigues (island)
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The name for the archipelago is actually "Mascarenhas Archipelago", and not, "Mascarene Islands". The French call it "Les Mascareignes."
[edit] Acropora rodriguensis
I cannot find Acropora rodriguensis on Google. Can anyone confirm that it does exist and is endemic to Rodrigues ? Thierry Caro 07:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
- The diving centre at which I was working had DNA tests done to confirm it as a separate species. However they may not have applied for recognition of it as the picture I submitted shows 1 of 3 of these corals known of at the time. For a new species to be defined they need at least one whole coral, which would be a bit destructive if that accounted for 1/3rd of the population. |--Spaully 01:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Soapbox
Wikipedia is not a soapbox. The grievances posted in this article may be valid, but they have no semblance of a neutral or scholarly perspective. Revise or delete. Homagetocatalonia 03:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Scholarly and neutral usually inhabit the world of make-believe, what I have done, is remain faithful to the cold hard facts that bleed and scream in the night.
Wow oh wow. This is an eggregous example of POV in an article. This article needs a big-time overhaul. I'm sure that the history of the island are very close and very personal to some people, but the language in this aritcle is completely unacceptable. Sparsefarce 21:41, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Unacceptable to U! Would U rather read Taurus Excretus embedded in the language of academia, masquerading as value-free neutrality, or the truth? By the way, Where did your neutrality go? lol —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Loulou 50 (talk • contribs).
- Okay. Here is what we go by when we write articles on Wikipedia. Please review them. Manual of Style, verifiable sources, reliable sources, and points of view. Sparsefarce 00:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Not only is this not NPOV, it may be copyright violation, as it appears to be pasted from http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=11954 Concept14 02:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
No, there is no copyright violation, as I, Alain Leveque, am the original author, and hereby give permission for my paper to be posted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Loulou 50 (talk • contribs) 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- Greater liberators may become worse dictators when they can't accept other people to be wrong. This is clearly a political proclamation, a beautiful and harrowing text, but not an encyclopedic one, and not fitted for Wikipédia because everybody is here free to arrange it. So don't change a word of it, but remove it from wikipedia and put a link to the site where the article has been published. Channer 17:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok, fair enough.
- There is more to the history of Rodrigues. See Francois Leguat; "...the whipping boy, left behind at the mercy of new masters...", a funny parallel indeed were it not so sad. The addition has a valid point, but it is unencyclopedic in style and FAR TOO LONG. Somebody please compact this; the original essay can be linked at leisure. Dysmorodrepanis
