Talk:1492 light sighting

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 * http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/MARVEL01.ART
 * In 1492 light sighting on 2011-05-23 03:04:47, 404 Not Found
 * In 1492 light sighting on 2011-06-01 15:50:32, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 15:50, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Columbus' claim for discovery
Reading the article of Christopher Columbus, it seems evident that he "discovered" the new world before any of his sea mates did. This allows him to make MAJOR claims of the new lands and the property/lands/gains that become him, per agreement with Ferdinand and Isabella. This is NOT shown in the article, so is a major deficiency in terms of possibility. The WP article suggests the "lights" were also possibly a fabrication that allowed him to make such claims. I leave it to the savants to make this clear. --71.10.145.116 (talk) 02:19, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Is This Really Notable? Should it be Consolidated?
I saw this article on the "On This Day" list on the front page but I don't really understand why this is notable enough to warrant its own page. The entire crux of the article is that Columbus and his crew saw a light shortly before making landfall and that some have speculated as to the cause. That doesn't really seem appropriate for a stand-alone article.

Unless anyone objects, in a week or so I may nominate this article for deletion/consolidation into Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

DocFreeman24 (talk) 14:33, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I object, this is the most notable thing. 2601:1C0:4500:BFD0:6041:835A:677D:495B (talk) 21:40, 11 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Ok, why do you think this article meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#General_notability_guideline DocFreeman24 (talk) 22:48, 11 October 2020 (UTC)


 * I've made this a redirect. It's well summarized at the Voyages article and there wasn't anything important or relevant enough here that's been left out. UpdateNerd (talk) 16:10, 16 October 2020 (UTC)