Talk:History of the British Virgin Islands
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[edit] References?
In the past month this has become a very extensive article -- definitely no longer a stub. But where are the references? --Gruepig 08:35, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- I have been looking at this article a lot recently, and it really needs to be started over. The mass text dump of various unrelated thoughts as to historical aspects of the BVI is a definite improvement on the earlier stub, but it really needs a good clean-up, and to put into some kind of chronological order. Much of the data that is there needs to split out either into new articles or into dedicated sub-pages. I am no historian, but I do have a number of texts of BVI history, and I am happy to spend some time trying to lick this into shape (but I would be even happier if an expert wanted to do it). I suspect that it will spend a lot of time in my sandbox before it is ready to be rolled out though. I'd suggest the following breakdown:-
- Pre-colonial Amerindian history
- Colonial settlement (Dutch, up to 1672)
- Colonial settlement (British, from 1672)
- Post-emancipation (from 1833)
- 20th century developments (independence of legislative council, development of the offshore finance industry)
- Within that I think there is a lot of sub-strata (e.g. religion, piracy, slavery) but I think it is probably easier to have a chronological framework with the sub-strata running through it, rather than than having a list of "topics" and trying to do a separate choronology from each.
- Any comments or views?
- Legis 11:43, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I have been working on a re-write of this article for about 2 months now, and I am getting close to the finished product. If anyone wants to chip in, my draft can be found at User:Legis/sandbox/draft 1. --Legis (talk - contributions) 16:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Josiah's Bay plantation
I have split out Josiah's Bay plantation into its own article (without editing it). It is clearly too specific to be included in the general national history page. The site is historical important for the slave revolts that occurred there (not mentioned at all in the text at the moment, but we'll get there eventually). I have also kept the clean-up tag on that text. --Legis (talk - contributions) 08:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I am actually thinking about splitting out other parts of the article too (notably the piracy subsection), but I'll probably wait until we have a decent "History of the British Virgin Islands" article to replace it. I am working on it, but it is tough going. --Legis (talk - contributions) 08:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Piracy in the British Virgin Islands
Per above, I have now also split out Piracy in the British Virgin Islands out into its own article (with only minor edits). --Legis (talk - contributions) 16:33, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Amendment and restatement
I have now completed a draft amendment and restatement of this article. You can see my draft at User:Legis/sandbox/draft 1. It has taken me 2½ months, so if you are going to criticise, please do it gently. Unless anyone objects, I am proposing to do the amendment and restatement on 22 February 2007 (a week from today). On that date, I will also move the existing text of this article into an archive at Talk:History of the British Virgin Islands/archive 1; despite its poor format and big gaps, it contains some good nuggets here and there, and it would be wasteful to just remove it. --Legis (talk - contributions) 14:01, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- OK, I have now made the changes indicated above. --Legis (talk - contributions) 08:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
