Talk:Devastations of Osorio

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Added cc-by-sa-4.0 attribution for content translated from https://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/1541 — MATRIX! (a good person!)^{[citation unneeded]} 18:54, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Lack of in-line citations and possible stylistic issues

The style of this article is in my opinion not encyclopedic, and while the author did cite some sources for this article, the near total lack of in-line citations makes it impossible to tell which parts of the article came from where, and thus to verify their accuracy. Accordingly, I've tagged it for lacking sufficient inline citations, but I won't tag it on stylistic grounds until a more experienced editor has time to evaluate this article (my opinion on the matter may not necessarily be correct, so I'm holding off on evaluating that). Dragonsandman (talk) 05:40, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Misinformation in the article

An unverified user, from the IP address 200.113.253.86, reverted an edit, saying:

'' Fixed misnomer; the island of Hispaniola was never called Santo Domingo Island; the original Taino name of the island was Ayiti. ''

• The island of Hispaniola or Santo Domingo has been known by those names from 1493 to the present day. The Spanish discovered the island and gave it those names, by which the island is known today. The term Hispaniola is a Latin word whose literal meaning is "The Spanish One" in the feminine sense. Hispaniola is derived from Hispania, which was the name the Romans gave to the Iberian Peninsula, which today comprises Spain and Portugal. The name for Spain in Spanish (España) is derived from Hispania.

• The island is also known as Santo Domingo because the capital city is Santo Domingo de Guzman, its most important city, named after a Spanish saint.

Risantana (talk) 00:36, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Peer review

Devastations of Osorio

I've listed this article for peer review because this historical event on the island of Hispaniola explains the reason behind its division. I understand it is an episode of Caribbean history that is vital to know and emphasize, which is why I want to ensure it meets the highest quality standards.

Thanks, Risantana (talk) 10:14, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

This is a really great topic, and one that I have passing familiarity with, though I have not used this name for the events. I wanted to clean up the references before any real peer review was done.

1. The reference format throughout this article was atypical, so I have changed many of them. Note that for organizational purposes, as the references were never only created in full once and called in a more short-form (they were called in the same full form repeatedly), I did quite a bit to organize the references. Essentially this was a copyedit and I used automated tools in part. Every reference was in a subpar way, so I deleted and re-added several references. I would really recommend that you check my commit to make sure that I did not delete anything or change the style on the references too much.

2. Also note that I was fairly aggressive with translation of sources information here. If you feel anything was not correctly translated (I only speak English and flawed Chinese), please change it back. I would love to see this article grow in the future.

3. I would really recommend you seek a copyedit of these sources. I am new to this and there are definitely still mistakes. Try the Guild of Copyeditors request page.

4. A few sources appear to be duplicates, but I do not want to change the current references. Will you take a look for duplicates? I noticed the records 132438 and 404390 are both cited twice slightly differently.

Specific issues:

5. "Resultados de búsqueda para banda norte espanola" was referenced, this was just a search result, can you find a specific reference to insert where that reference was?

6. There are a few titles of original documents which are not preserved on the various pages they are hosted on. I cannot always read centuries-old cursive in languages I do speak, let alone languages I do not, like Spanish. I would recommend you manually read these titles and replace them.

Pietrus1 (talk) 20:45, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Looking it over, I would also suggest that some of the "overview" pictures at the end of the page contain some debatable information in multiple pictures. I personally think these pictures are pretty great generally, but they are clearly also translations. I'm not sure how appropriate they are at present for wikipedia, particularly for those who lack the background in the history of Hispaniola to discern this. There is also the issue of claimed/de-jure vs. de-facto territorial control in colonial maps from centuries past that arises again and again.

I do not want to suggest deletion of these maps, but at present I do not think they are ideal. Perhaps someone with more experience can add their perspective. Pietrus1 (talk) 20:58, 21 February 2026 (UTC)