Talk:Moruroa
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[edit] spelling preferences
I see, digging through the edit history that the article did indeed start out as a one-line stub (by User:Dirtbiscuit) with the CE spelling "neighbouring", and then that the article was greatly expanded (by User:Bryan Derksen) who used exclusively AmE spellings. Then Bryan went and created the article Fangataufa, again using exclusively AmE spellings. So, for "consistency" "neighbouring" should have been changed to "neighboring", based on the sheer number of AmE spellings used, but for "argument reduction", all the AmE spellings should have been changed to Commonwealth spellings, eventhough doing so would lead to this article being CE and Fangataufa being AmE. As it happens, despite the mini editwar between me and User:Rama, "neighbouring" has weathered the storm and remains in the article. :-/ Tomer TALK 22:43, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
"Greatly expanded" ... lol, is that what you wikipedia guys call ripping content wholesale from another publication? This entire entry is just pure plagiarism without even the decency of a credit.
[edit] Navigation material in lead
Much of the content of the current lead appears to be information for navigators wishing to enter the lagoon. This material should not be on Wikipedia at all, let alone in the lead. That Moruroa was the site of 189 French nuclear tests is of incomparably greater global interest. Is there any reason not to delete the navigational material? -- mglg(talk) 22:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Since nobody has explained any reason to keep it, I'm removing the extraneous navigational information.--mglg(talk) 00:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Google Maps
I just removed the following line:
A sign of the discomfort this matter still causes the French Government is that the Atoll cannot be found in Google Earth search functions.[citation needed]
At january 1st 2008 i could find mururoa with Google Maps. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.145.81.165 (talk • contribs)
