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 ? 7 Bosyie Singh 8 Piracy in the Caribbean? 9 LENGTHY. 10 Hacked

[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. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bistor92 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Bosyie Singh

This paragraph was in See also: Boysie Singh was not the uncle of Thelma Haynes, he was hired by Boland Ramkissoon to kill his common law wife- Thelma they were both hanged in Trinidad. Since it contradicts some text, can we have a citation for this or can someone absorb it into the text in a way that doesn't entirely discount the more common account? Julia Rossi 01:33, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Piracy in the Caribbean?

Piracy in the Caribbean without any mention of Hispanic Caribbean pirates such as Miguel Henríquez and Roberto Cofresi? Give me a break, someone needs to do thier homework. Tony the Marine (talk) 06:24, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Well then, you add it in. You don't have to rely on us, even if we DO make a few mistakes here and there. Geez. BlackPearl14^{Pirate Lord-ess} 20:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] LENGTHY.

The section on the late 17th century is WAY TOO LONG. It needs to be divided up into subsections to be more comprehensive. AshleyScripter _{talkback} 00:38, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hacked

The article about piracy has been hacked. What George Bush has to do with 18th century piracy? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.170.106.225 (talk) 05:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)