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Semi-protected edit request on 3 November 2023[edit]

Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).

Raxmet user (talk) 00:44, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. —Stewpot (talk) 01:02, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]


In the Foreign Relations sub-section of the Politics section, the "a" in "Spain claims Gibraltar, a Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom" should be changed to "an".

103.164.74.98 (talk) 01:24, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, will sort that now. Moons of Io (talk) 01:27, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

Comment about the origin of the name Hispania[edit]

The article mentions that the Phoenicians referred to the region as Spania (meaning "Land of rabbits"). But comparing to Hebrew sources, they most likely referred to the animal known in the Bible as "Shafan" -- hyrax. The mix up between these animals is common in Biblical translations, probably because both appear in the same verse in Leviticus 11:5-6. Amos083 (talk) 07:35, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish Armada / fall of empire in the late 16th century[edit]

Over the past few days, @[[User:Kusilini|Kusilini] has been trying to remove any form of mention of the decline of the Spanish Empire and any mention of the Spanish Armada. These are important times and dates in Spanish history. The peak and golden period of the Spanish Empire is well noted. There should also be a mention on what caused the decline of its empire, as the norm on any European country page which had a colonial empire. Thewinerking (talk) 01:39, 6 February 2024 (UTC)(Nota bene Blocked sockpuppet of Lam312321321, see investigation)[reply]

:That's not true, check my latest edits carefully. The Spanish Armada is mentioned and I have added, with numerous sources, when the decline of the Spanish Empire began.

Specifically, like the Spanish Golden Age, the decline began after the end of the Franco-Spanish War with the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659 in favor of a rising France under Louis XIV. This is supported and I have added numerous reliable sources.
What you are trying to add is that the decline occurred due to the failure of the Spanish Armada in 1588 with England and defeats in some battles with the Netherlands, which is rather false and unsourced, these did not change the status quo ante bellum nor did they start the decline of Spain. Kusilini (talk) 09:46, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To facilitate reading, I am going to briefly explain it with the sources attached:

  • In the 18th century, the Spanish Empire reached its maximum extent (Source/s:[7]) and under the Bourbon dynasty, it carried out numerous reforms and modernized its armed forces to defend (mostly succesfully) its large colonies in the Americas (Source/s:[8])

Therefore, suggesting that the Spanish Empire fell or began its decline at the end of the 16th century after the Spanish Armada is, with all due respect, historically false, unsourced and more typical of old English nationalist propaganda (See: Spanish Black Legend)

Unless you provide reliable sources for the content you are trying to push, it will be removed for being unsourced, WP:POV-pushing and not realible according the WP:Neutrality. Kusilini (talk) 14:00, 6 February 2024 (UTC)(Nota bene Blocked sockpuppet of JamesOredan, see investigation)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 5 March 2024[edit]

For consistency with other pictures, add "in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" to picture at the end, subtitled as "Canarian carnival". Picture is taken in Las Canteras stroll in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Zogas (talk) 15:14, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I added this to the caption and linked to the Las Palmas page. Jamedeus (talk) 23:12, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 8 March 2024[edit]

Change 2 °C (36 °F) of warming to 2 °C (3.6 °F) and 4 °C (39 °F) to 4 °C (7.2 °F) under climate change section. one degree of change Celsius is 1.8 degrees of change F. 2604:2800:0:A998:2486:23D3:E37:51BF (talk) 03:51, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Jamedeus (talk) 04:17, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  1. ^ Hiram Morgan (September–October 2006). Teaching the Armada: An Introduction to the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585–1604. Vol. 14. History Ireland. p. 43.
  2. ^ Douglas R. BurgessThe Pirates' Pact: The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008, p. 29. ISBN 0-07-147476-5
  3. ^ Channing, Edward: A history of the United States. Octagon Books, 1977, v. 1, p. 158. ISBN 0-374-91414-1
  4. ^ Levy 1983, p. 34.
  5. ^ Darby 2015, p. 66.
  6. ^ Parrott 2001, pp. 77–78.
  7. ^ Taagepera, Rein (September 1997). "Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia" (PDF). International Studies Quarterly. 41 (3): 492–502. doi:10.1111/0020-8833.00053. JSTOR 2600793. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  8. ^ James Lockhart and Stuart Schwartz, Early Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983, p. 347.
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