Talk:Governor-General of the Philippines

Dasmarinas versus das Marinas
It is very unlikely that Luis Pérez das Mariñas is the correct spelling of his name (as opposed to Luis Pérez Dasmariñas). The external link spells his surname without the space, and a Google search turns up about eight times as many hits that way than with the space. (And those with the space are mostly Wikipedia mirrors.) Also, there is a municipality in the Philippines named for him, and spelled without the space. Dos Mariñas would be more believable, but das is not a Spanish word, nor (as far as I know) a particle used in Spanish names.

The same arguments would apply to Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas.

--Rbraunwa 18:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Disputed/Dubious: Weseley Merritt as Military Governor of the Philippines
This discussion impacts this article, the Wesley Merritt article, the Elwell Otis article and, almost certainly, other articles as well.

This article lists Wesley Merritt as the first Governor General of the Philippines. The Wesley Merritt article states, "[ Manila ] fell on August 13 and Merritt became the military governor of the Philippines." The Elwell Stephen Otis article says, "When he arrived, he assumed command of the VIII Corps, replacing Merritt who had become the military governor [...] ." I challenge the unsupported assertion that Merritt held the post of Governor General of the Philippines, and/or that he held the post of Military Governor of the Philippines, and I question the numbering in Wikipedia articles of the Governors General of the Philippines.

This article has Merritt serving as Governor General of the Philippines from August 14, 1898 to August 28, 1898. As of August 28, 1898, the Philippines was still under Spanish sovereignty, there was no American government in the Philippines, and the post of Military Governor, AFAICT, did not exist at that time. Even though a "Protocol of agreement between the United States and Spain, embodying the terms of a basis for the establishment of peace between the two countries" had been signed at Washington Aug. 12, 1898. says, "As commanders, Otis and MacArthur headed both the army and the Office of the Military Governor.", not mentioning Merritt. says, "... August 22: Merritt is replaced by Elwell S. Otis, who became the first Military Governor of the Philippines."

I have not looked further, but I imagine that additional sources supporting this refutation can be found. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 00:51, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * References:


 * , ISBN 0313307911, ISBN 9780313307911.
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 * I see that the article does cite a supporting source, World Statesmen - Philippines. I have conformed the info in the article to the info in that source and removed the dubious tag. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill'') 02:50, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Merge discussion
This article was recently split, forking off the List of American Governor-Generals of the Philippines article. I haven't seen any discussion aimed at building consensus for the split. I've placed merge tags in the two forks, and propose that the forks be re-merged here. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:32, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

I vote for one whole list with both the Spanish and American Governor-Generals in one article. Why split it? It was quicker with just one list. There should have been a discussion and a consensus before doing such big change. Please Bill, I think you should merge them and erase the extra list. Thanks. Briarfallen (talk) 01:09, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yours is the only comment since I proposed the merge over a month ago. Per Silence and consensus, consensus exists for the articles to be re-merged. I've re-merged the articles. There were no article-space links to the (now deleted) List of American Governors-General of the Philippines article, so I haven't left a redirect there.

Table vs. timeline disparities
I noticed some disparities between the governance dates in the tables and in the timelines I haven't attempted to reconcile these. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 20:39, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

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Fixing 1898-1946
The 1898-1946 subsection shows as legends Japanese instead of Spanish, Japanese (Naval) instead of American (Military), and yellow for Japanese instead of black. I am correcting it now.

Also, if I may offer a suggestion: make sure to see if the timelines' legends were correct, please and thank you.

Scarlet Marines (talk) 01:57, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Shōwa
This edit, which would have changed Emperor Shōwa to Shōwa in the Emporer column of the table in the Japanese military governors (1942–1945) section of the article caught my eye. I just changed that back to Hirohito, as it was prior to this 2019 edit which changed that to Emperor Hirohito (Shōwa) and introduced the term Shōwa to the article.

I am no expert, but I glean a bit of background info from the first few paragraphs of the Shōwa era and Heisei era articles. IMO, using Hirahito in that table cell (with a wikilink to the article with that name) best serves the interests of WP readers. Most of those readers are probably not likely to be so well schooled in Japanese customs that they will make the connection between the term Shōwa and the emperor of Japan during the time period relevant to this article. If you disagree, please discuss below. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:52, 16 May 2024 (UTC)