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Mosquitos Nation was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was MERGE all content into Miskito#History and REDIRECT. Rossami 22:36, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thought this might be bogus at first; "Mosquitos Nation" gets 0 google hits. "Mosquito Nation" however, gets quite a few and they seem legit, but I think it's the same as the Mosquito Coast, though it's a bit difficult to tell. If someone who knows more about this can verify, then I think merge and redirect to Mosquito Coast is the best option. Otherwise move to Mosquito Nation and expand so its more than basically just a list of kings. -R. fiend 16:34, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Mosquito Nation would be the people, Mosquito Coast the place. -- Jmabel 17:12, Aug 15, 2004 (UTC)

  • Send to Clean Up to see if anyone can find out about the Mosquito Indians and their formation into a tribal nation. If we already have Mosquito Indians, we can almost certainly turn this to a redirect. Geogre 17:13, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • No Mosquito Indians, but there is a page for Miskito. Should we redirect this there? Or merge and redirect so we have the list of kings (basically all this page is)? This article describes the Mosquito Nation as a "state", rather than a "people", and the Miskito article mentions they had political autonomy for a time, so I think we are talking about a state here as well (and if these are Indian tribal kings why do they have such european names?). I don't especially feel like spending a whole lot of time researching this, but something should be done with this page. -R. fiend 17:45, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • This is apparently for real, despite the weird European-ness of the names: [1], [2]. Move or merge (but to what? Miskito monarchy, perhaps?) - Mustafaa 18:51, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Yes, the Mosquito (or Miskito) are English-speakers. To this day, Bluefields is a basically English-speaking town. The Mosquito figured prominently in the contra wars, because initially they were very poorly handled by the Sandinistas and proved to be easy recruits to the contra cause. -- Jmabel 02:13, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Since the list is pretty short, and unlikely to grow, merge it as a section =Miskito rulers= or =historical Miskito state= or =Miskito monarchy= or some such (the latter two are more likely to encourage people to add info about that era), in the Miskito article, and leave Mosquitos Nation as harmless/typo protection redirect. In fact when this is over, we should probably make redirs out of every place we looked for articles about the people, the people's rulers, and the nation. Niteowlneils 22:20, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep or redirect to Miskito and merge. I have read about this in relation to Gregor MacGregor, who "leased" land from one of the kings for his scheme, although I am not sure whether the names are anglisized or not. This could be appropriate as a part of the =History of Miskito= or something similar. - Skysmith 10:52, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Note: The IP who created this is now creating subarticles for the leaders. See Oldman. When we make a decision here, we're going to probably have to make decisions about the chiefs. Geogre 17:13, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
      • I noticed that and started wikifying them, as the general consensus is that al this Mosquitos stuff is encyclopediaworthy, the question is where to put it. But I think I'll wait til he's done and see if we have an idea of what exactly we're going to go with this. He's linking stuff to Mosquitos Nation, even though if nothing else I think it's established that that's a typo. His punctuation is also atrocious. A result of all this may be that we'll have to turn Mosquito into a disambiguation page, although come to think of it a note and a link on the top of that page might do the trick. Right now I guess we have to figure out how to merge this stuff and where to merge it to, and make clear the exact connection between the Miskito and the Mosquito Coast, among other things. -R. fiend 17:23, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Looks real. Merge and redirect to Miskito, which seems to be the more accepted spelling. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:46, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • See [3]. Mikkalai 22:47, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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