Talk:Hospitaller colonization of the Americas/Archive 1

Requested move 21 April 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: No consensus. .  Anarchyte  ( work  &#124;  talk )   08:31, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Territorial possessions of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta → Hospitaller colonization of the Americas – User:Chicbyaccident moved the GA page Hospitaller colonization of the Americas to the current location and partially converted it into a list. After a discussion on Chicbyaccident's user page (User_talk:Chicbyaccident), we agreed that the move can be undone, but that CBA's list content ought to stay at the new page. – Fishal (talk) 22:20, 21 April 2016 (UTC) --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 05:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:51, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Some of the listed territorial possessions are in the Mediterranean and not in the Americas.
 * The list can't be split off by history-splitting. You will have to edit the text.
 * Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:12, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Excuse me, I contested and still do contest the revert. I instead advocate improving the inmature sections of the new article rather than reverting it altogether. Chicbyaccident (talk) 09:37, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Excuse me, I contested and still do contest the revert. I instead advocate improving the inmature sections of the new article rather than reverting it altogether. Chicbyaccident (talk) 09:37, 22 April 2016 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Good article?
Is this article a good article? I see that it is listed as such but the GA template was removed in January of this year. I know it's gone through some changes over the past several months and was wondering if it had been removed or if it still qualified. Shearonink (talk) 02:28, 6 June 2016 (UTC)


 * It was a Good Article until User:Chicbyaccident came along and messed it up. I'd been meaning to come along and fix it, but haven't had the time. Fishal (talk) 12:23, 12 December 2016 (UTC)


 * No, merged it - meaning parts of it is good, other parts no. Chicbyaccident (talk) 13:07, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Can we have this moved back, please?
It seems reasonable to me that both this article and the former Hospitaller colonization of the Americas article existing alongside one another. There's no point advocating the improvement of the sections which lack information if nobody is inclined to do it. It leaves us all with an article that does not flow well at all.

It also removes the pre-existing consistency of "... colonization of the Americas" articles, of which the Hospitaller one was certainly a part, and a very good part. Now, users clicking that redirect find themselves in the middle of an underdeveloped article, or rather, an incomplete list, on a much broader topic. The simple solution is to link back to a restored Hospitaller colonization article, especially whilst this article exists in an incomplete condition.

So can we begin the process of moving it back, please? As a regular reader who refers to the colonization articles, I'll gladly give my support. FrunkSpace (talk) 11:12, 2 April 2017 (UTC)


 * After all that discussion spanning months and years, I went ahead with the change. Per the Requested Move discussion above, I manually edited the text. This means that the page history is misplaced, but the article is in the correct spot. Fishal (talk) 13:38, 13 August 2017 (UTC)