Talk:Tarawa
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[edit] Bariki
Bairiki is just one of many islets on the atoll of Tarawa. Tarawa is the capital of Kiribati, although the admninistrative offices (and in a sense, therefore, the capitol "city") is Bairiki. Anyway, this article is about Tarawa, and not just Bairiki - Marshman 21:02, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Plusminus right: Tarawa is an atoll which consists of several (min. 24) islets. One of these islands is Bairiki. On this little island lies the village of Bairiki (the only town of this island), and that's the national capital of Kiribati. There are bigger towns on Tarawa. Belgian man 18:03, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Not exactly: the capitol is precisely South Tarawa (TUC), because neither Tarawa nor Bairiki are correct administrative divisions. Enzino 20:36, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, you're right. Belgian man (talk) 14:02, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the proposal was move. Duja► 13:15, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Tarawa Atoll → Tarawa — None of the other Gilbert Islands have "Atoll" following its name. If we are going to use the original Gilbertese names I think they should all be consistant. This one sticks out. Plus I think we can all agree that all the items currently listed on the Tarawa disambiguation page were named after Tarawa Atoll. A Tarawa (disambiguation) link would be added to the top of the Tarawa page. —Henry W. Schmitt 07:07, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Survey
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- A few more Tarawas are on the dab page; but this one is certainly still primary. Support, and move the dab to Tarawa (disambiguation) Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:39, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Discussion
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[edit] Battle results
The article reports that the US took the island after suffering heavy losses and the totals are given. This seems peculiarly WP:POV. Yes, the US considered the loses heavy, but 5,000 Japanese were killed and 1,000 US. A little bit heavier on one side than the other it seems to me. Student7 (talk) 00:39, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
