Talk:John Canoe

Prince Harry
Prince Harry did the John Canoe: "Prince Harry was soon dancing energetically with the local women and working up a sweat with the John Canoe - a Garifuna dance with African influences." -- Jreferee (talk) 11:59, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

merge?
Shouldn't this be merged with Jankanoo? Aren't these two essentially varieties of the same festival?--2604:2000:C54F:E500:9167:2733:F09C:DDA5 (talk) 04:27, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal
It has been suggested that John Canoe be merged into Junkanoo. Discuss. Proposed since October 2017. MassiveEartha (talk) 23:24, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I've said there why this is a bad proposal (no rationale given, doesn't meet our criteria for a merger): OTOH this article should be about the historical character, yet it contains a load of stuff about Junkanoo (in the Introduction, and in the Creation of the John Canoe festival) so I have re-written them to better reflect the subject, and moved the festival stuff to the Junkanoo page. I trust everyone is OK with that. Moonraker12 (talk) 23:49, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Interlanguage-Link
I think this person is the same as https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Conny --134.102.219.31 (talk) 15:52, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You're probably right; what are you suggesting? Moonraker12 (talk) 02:39, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Paragraph "Despite this internal conflict..."
There are major issues with this paragraph. It was originally an automatic/machine translation from a part of the German article, but has since been ripped completely out of context by subsequent edits, often done in good faith. For example, the introduction "Despite this internal conflict...." did NOT refer to Brandenburg selling the colony to the Dutch, as it now seems, but to a prior period where Canoe had fallen out with the Brandenburgians (see German language version, as well as edits done by 2601:4a:8103:534a:21da:a930:9432:c53a on February 7/8, 2016). Likewise, the quote at the end has completely lost its sense compared to the German version. It did NOT refer to Canoe being a general, but to an incident where Canoe had a Brandenburgian general disposed. The quote in the German article actually says "...if n... can install or dispose of generals at their own whim...."

I think this is too broken to fix it, also, the German language article does not cite any source in this section, not even for the quote. maybe it would be best to delete this paragraph. 93.241.210.5 (talk) 10:50, 7 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Also, another mistranslation: He did not "provide support" for his army and the local population, he "counted on their support".... 93.241.210.5 (talk) 11:02, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Work in the wikiFR - for translation
Hello,

Lately, I have been working on the subject of John Canoe in order to explore all the accessible sources covering this character. (There are still a few restricted sources). However, I'm a French speaker and don't feel up to the task of translating from French to English.

I therefore invite you to consider doing so in order to complete this interwiki article.

Please note that the French version of the article is in the process of being labelled and is being observed and improved by the French-speaking community. By the time you read this message, the label will probably already have been applied.

Other topics related to Ghana and the Gold Coast also receive this treatment, so don't hesitate! May this improvement benefit us all. :)

ClementNanoyo (talk) 08:20, 12 June 2023 (UTC)