Talk:Isla Blanca (Santa)

Wolves

"In the environs are wolves, in the borders of their beaches are found shells, clams, choros, maruchas, crabs, snails, cochayuyo, etc."

There are no wolves on Isla Blanca. This error probably results from a wrong translation of the following sentence, as found on www.mychimbote.com: "En los alrededores se encuentran lobos marinos, y en sus playas encontramos conchas, almejas, choros, maruchas, cangrejos, y caracoles."

Whereas lobos are wolves, the lobos marinos mentioned in the citation are sea lions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomato356 (talk • contribs) 17:12, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 1 December 2017

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The result of the move request was: not moved (closed by non-admin page mover) Kostas20142 (talk) 17:16, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

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Isla Blanca (Santa) → Blanca Island – The correct name in English is Blanca Island, Isla Blanca is used in Spanish. Frank R 1981 (talk) 05:41, 1 December 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. Jenks24 (talk) 07:31, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:47, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

• @Frank R 1981: But the place is in Peru, which speaks Spanish much more then English. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:48, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
• @Anthony Appleyard: But this entry is on English Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Article titles. There is already a Spanish Wikipedia entry for all Spanish speakers. Frank R 1981 (talk) 05:52, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
• @Frank R 1981: This seems to be a case of exonym versus locally used name. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:17, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
• @Anthony Appleyard: I agree. I suggest the name change in order to keep uniformity with similar articles on islands and archipelagos with non-English names.Frank R 1981 (talk) 06:35, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose difficult to spot English sources for es:Isla Blanca (Áncash), but looks to me like the island has been called "Isla Blanca" in English sources from the 1970s onwards In ictu oculi (talk) 09:32, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
• @In ictu oculi:,@Anthony Appleyard: Still, Isla Blanca is mostly used in Spanish language sources, with the noun "isla" already meaning island. Isla Blanca Island vs. Blanca Island anyone? See as examples Tiburon Island in Mexico and Cocos Island in Costa Rica.Frank R 1981 (talk) 17:24, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

No, sorry this is not going to fly. For one thing there are just too many islands at Isla Blanca disambiguation to pick one of them for an outmoded English name. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:25, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

• Oppose. Despite what the nom says, they've presented no evidence that the current article name is not correct in English and/or in terms of Wikipedia article naming policy. (I do however find the disambiguator Santa unrecognisable and therefore unsatisfactory.) Andrewa (talk) 11:17, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

The problem is that (Peru) would be ambiguous due to es:Isla Blanca (Ica). Suggest move to Isla Blanca (Áncash) per Spanish wikipedia. But I or someone else will probably be bold and do that anyway after this RM closes. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:23, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

I've also just noticed this. I have now restored to state before the RM. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:43, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

• Oppose – lacking any evidence of which is more common in English; both are very rare, which argues to not translate. Dicklyon (talk) 23:57, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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