Talk:History of Puerto Rico

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Date	Process	Result
March 20, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
March 25, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
November 6, 2013	Featured article review	Demoted

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jasmineburgos, A.correa, Mirandafen.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 23:33, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Spain[edit]

Is there a reason, why the viceroyalty of New Spain is not mentioned? To me this looks like writing about Kansas without mentioning, that it is in the United States. The political framework of the Spanish dominions in the new world seems to be missing completely. --h-stt !? 09:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

@H-stt: Well spotted. I have just added this, along with Captaincy General and intendancy status. -- Beland (talk) 20:23, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed accuracy[edit]

This article makes many claims without providing reliable sources to back them up. And in some of the cases when it does provide a source, the source does not support the text used in the article. After tagging many sentences with {{cn}}, a template such as {{disputed}} is better suited since there are so many instances of the same issue. —Ahnoneemoos (talk) 20:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

17 edits by 214.3.138.230[edit]

This edit came up on my watchlist. After looking at the linked main article, I decided to revert it AGF, with an explanation mentioning the cite-supported snippet there saying, "Betances then suggested an outright island-wide rebellion, with a proclamation of independence as soon as possible. and mentions of WP:V and MOS:HEAD]]." When I tried the revert, I saw that this edit was the final one in a string of 17 edits. The changes ,ade by the other 16 can be seen here. I don't know enough about the topic to get into that, and I let it stand. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:37, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Scope, etc.[edit]

Some of the content of this article appears to be out of scope for the topic History of Puerto Rico. I'll mention other issues below.

The final sentence of the lead, "However, the political status of Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth controlled by the United States, remains an anomaly.", appears to be out of scope for the topic.
If that final sentence is to remain, political status of Puerto Rico should probably be wikilinked to that article.
That final sentence flouts WP:DATED.
It's not clear what article body content that refers to -- perhaps the Statehood issue section, perhaps PR's status re the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories that is mentioned in the article on PR's political status, perhaps tther items of in-scope interest.

I have not tried to address any of that because I suspect that might not be as simple as it looks at first glance and I have enough other work on my plate right now. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:56, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]