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Allende class frigates[edit]

The picture shows four ships tied up, not three. 2600:100B:B134:22FA:0:3:E248:BA01 (talk) 22:16, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, you're right. But the number is unnecessary anyway so I removed it—and added an -s to "frigate". Largoplazo (talk) 22:49, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 17 January 2024: mis-attributed hyperlink[edit]

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The first sentence for the section on government and politics ends with a hyperlink to the 1917 constitution. This hyperlink is mis-linked to the page for quotation marks. Could someone please correct this this hyperlink. MountainBarley (talk) 06:53, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thanks! ℰmi1y_⧼T·C⧽ 09:37, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Length of lead[edit]

Checking MOS:LEADLENGTH, 3 to 4 paragraphs is apparently normal for an article over 5,000 words. This article has about 8,500 words, according to the automated page stats. I combed through the intro a bit, but a lot of stuff there seemed important. It's currently 5 paragraphs, which even for a topic this important seems excessive to me. If forced to drop it to 3 paragraphs, which the MOS says is typical for featured articles, I'd cut some of the details about history and merge the middle 3 paragraphs into one. Anyone else have any thoughts? 🅲🅻🅴🆃🅴🆁 (a word) 18:07, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As a starting point, I merged the third and fourth lead sentences. 🅲🅻🅴🆃🅴🆁 (a word) 18:19, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 26 February 2024: Grammar[edit]

Kindly change Protestant to Protestantism in the lead infobox as it's grammatically more appropriate.Tromneck (talk) 11:57, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 30 April 2024[edit]

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I'm the environment subheadig hyperlink from Southern highlands and there a citation required for one of the paragraphs. 64.189.18.30 (talk) 04:38, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Subheading was what I meant. 64.189.18.30 (talk) 04:39, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 15:57, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

'Over the next three centuries, Spanish expansion enforced Christianity, spread the Spanish language,...'

Iberians, the concept of Spain came years later after colonisation began, with the assistance of native allies toppled the ruling indigenous empires in the early 1500s and established colonies in slivers of the Americas in the first decades of colonisation, far from the entire continent.

It is estimated that as much as 90% of the native population perished due to diseases rather than warfare so these vast areas not under European rule is what allowed native populations to recover in numbers in the subsequent decades.

This allowed ‘mestizos’, who were of mixed ancestry and outnumbered those who were mostly of European ancestry, to thrive and prosper at the expense of those of mainly native ancestry and gradually assimilated the remaining indigenous population spread across the region in a process that lasted centuries and into the 1800s. By then the main demographic of Iberian colonies would have been Westernised mestizos of varying admixture and indigenous peoples, not people of mostly European ancestry.

There are sources that state that around 60% of the Mexican population spoke a native language in the 1820s, Spanish only became widespread in Latin America after the independence wars were over. So it is erroneous to assert and imply that Spanish was imposed instantly in the 1500s and mostly by those of mainly European ancestry. It was in fact a slow gradual process of assimilation that took centuries and mainly carried out by Westernised Latin Americans of varying ancestry, not too dissimilar to how other indigenous languages would have been disseminated as well.