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old comments from 2005 on scope[edit]

Isn't this page way too broad? i think most of the content here should be in the main Santa Lucia page, since it's not specifically about the city or quarter of Castries --Doviende 04:45, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed! Vivenot 15:06, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Most sources I've seen say the population of Castries is around 60,000 - about a third of St Lucia's population. (AJ Stidwill)

This is probably the population of Castries Quarter rather than the city of Castries.--Vivenot 10:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The images[edit]

Why aren't the images on commons? Aaker 10:44, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Because they were not uploaded there. The licenses are perfectly legitimate for WP use though. Chensiyuan 14:45, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is a flood gut or what should it be changed to?[edit]

The first sentence of the second paragraph of this article starts out with "Castries is in a flood gut". I did a quick Google search to find out what a "flood gut" is, but half of the results I got were websites quoting this article (or it's source) verbatim. The rest were unrelated. It seems that the internet, at large, doesn't know what a flood gut is. So my question is, what exactly is a flood gut? Or, what should the sentence really say? KelvinJT (talk) 04:26, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'll second this point, which also jumped out at me, and I did the same search, which lead me to this talk page. Rick (talk) 19:19, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Date of renaming[edit]

The text previously said that La Carénage was renamed Castries in 1756. This is possible, Castries having recently arrived in St Lucia, and this is still the date given in the article about him.

The text now says the renaming took place in 1785. That seems highly unlikely, because the English had captured St Lucia -- and this harbour and fort in particular -- from the French in 1778, and retained it from then on, and are unlikely to have wanted the place to be renamed in honour of a French soldier. Is this date really given in the cited source? Andrew Dalby 17:00, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]