Talk:Wake Island

Why not liberated before surrender of Japan?
Being in the center of Pacific Ocean, this island wasn't liberated before the end of Second World War.The article doesn't tells why this island was forgotten, by american military commanders, during World War II.Why this siland wasn't liberated, before surrender of Japan?Agre22 (talk) 02:17, 4 May 2009 (UTC)agre22


 * Who said the island was forgotten? And MOST territory held by the empire of Japan was not liberated before surrender. The US strategy, which in the end resulted in the least number of US combatant, Japanese combatant, as well as the least number of non combatant deaths was skip over these areas and get close enough to Japan to bomb its war making capabilities. See Iwo Jima, Okinawa, or Battle of the Philippines articles here to see what happened with contested attacks on occupied areas.


 * The Japanese lost close ta 1,000 Japanese casualties taking the island from a couple hundred US military. The US would have lost as many or more taking it back contested. The Japanese garrison could defend it, but it could not field air craft. As long as the Jpanses could not field air craft from there, and it could not, taking it would have resulted in mass casualties on all sides for no strategic or tactical gain. Scores of other occupied islands presented the same logic.73.212.229.38 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:31, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Japanese killed everyone on wake island after the attack on Hawaii. 68.169.141.85 (talk) 20:47, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Lead shortening
This article had a four-paragraph lead section until a few days ago. I'm not sure I understand the rationale for putting most of the lead in the new 'Summary' section. In most articles, the lead does the same work as this new summary section. What's the reason for the change? I also noticed that some of the recent changes have been removing information about the Marshall Islands' claim to Wake Island. While the U.S. has de facto control of Wake, the Marshalls' dispute over the island is well documented and shouldn't be minimised so that we ensure WP:NPOV and avoid pro-American bias in the article. CoatGuy2 (talk) 18:42, 6 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Agree, the lead is the summary section, a separate summary section is entirely redundant. On the dispute, I don't know if it needs to be as prominent as it was, but I agree removal is suboptimal. CMD (talk) 02:28, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Needs copyediting
I dropped the copyedit tag on the article after what I saw when correcting typos earlier. There is content that appears written without full fluency in English. I recommend a full review of the article to see where all such issues lie. Stefen Towers among the rest!  Gab • Gruntwerk 22:23, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Short suspension of military operations
Perhaps the IP editor can explain why "Military Operations on Wake Island were suspended in 2014 and the military base was left abandoned, and later restored by 2016 upon operations being resumed." is an important detail for the lead section that generally describes the subject of Wake Island. This 2-to-3-year period seems rather insignificant. Stefen Towers among the rest!  Gab • Gruntwerk 02:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * On investigation of this, I can find nothing to that effect anywhere and is not support by the article. The only time the island was evacuated in recent times, is when a typhoon struck in 2006 (see Hurricane_Ioke) but they returned ASAP. The article says it was quite active during 2014-2016, so I suspect this was actually a vandalism or case of confusion. A75 (talk)
 * Thank you for looking into this. Much appreciated! Stefen Towers among the rest!   Gab • Gruntwerk 18:12, 8 March 2024 (UTC)