Talk:Castillo San Felipe del Morro/Archive 1

Archive 1

Amistad

"El Morro was unfortunately used as a film set in the 1996 motion picture "Amistad" by Steven Spielberg to represent an fort in Cuba where African slaves were auctioned in 1839. The real history of Castillo de San Felipe del Morro in Puerto Rico has absolutely nothing to do with the slave trade. No such activity took place on or near El Morro."

While I agree with the sentiment, the word unfortunately is certainly POV. Delfeye 01:17, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Change from America to United States and proper use of apostrophes for possessives

I made a minor edit to change one sentence in the "Spanish Rule" section. The original sentence did not use apostrophes for possessives and used "Americas" (sic) to represent the United States in the possessive. Since "America" in this context could mean the United States, North America, Central America, or South America, I replaced this with the non-ambiguous "United States". This is backed up by the 1915 reference in the time line.

Another issue is that the "Spanish Rule" section declares in its heading that it covers the period through 1898 but includes references to activities after that date. I decline to make a change to correct this, at this time, as it does not detract from the overall article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.108 (talk) 21:48, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 14:55, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

George Clifford

Did George Clifford actually take El Morro, or did he occupy the city of San Juan, but was unable to take the fort? I've seen both presented as fact. Do you have a reference for this?98.170.200.38 (talk) 04:24, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, he didn’t take it militarily. However, they did occupy the city long enough for those inside to run low on supplies and concerned with the spread of disease. El Alternativo (talk) 17:42, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

It's Castillo, for Pete's sake

Please rename the article to the proper name!! "Fort" is incorrect and not even the National Park Service calls its Spanish fortification at St. Augustine a fort. They properly call it Castillo San Marcos. RAMPG (talk) 15:36, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

No castillo is another FORT down on the other side. Hah ha. Castillo means fortifaction or castle. We puerto ricans know our country. Theres three forts in old san juan. KF5LLG (talk) 12:27, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Rampg is right, the proper name is Castillo. According to WP:COMMONNAME we should use the name that is most frequently used or the common name. --Jmundo (talk) 00:43, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Pirates of the Caribbean

Would it be trivial to note that el Morro and Castillo San Cristóbal helped to inspire the "Pirates of the Caribbean" dark rides? The Florida version is behind a facade bearing the name "Castillo Del Morro." I just spent a day exploring the forts and was repeatedly struck by scenes that I am certain inspired the visual aspect of those attractions. The very long "secret tunnel" at San Cristobal seemed to me to be a clean inspiration for the ride queues. PurpleChez (talk) 20:03, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

@PurpleChez: I don’t think it would be trivial, but the castle has inspired a lot of fiction. So, it may be better to create a section for influence in popular culture. Or, maybe, even a separate article given the volume. El Alternativo (talk) 17:10, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

State Party

Not proposing any major change, but the state party should say "United States" rather than "Puerto Rico" because PR itself is not a state party member of UNESCO (only sovereign states recognised by the UN, plus the Cook Islands and Niue are members). This is consistent with the other UNESCO site articles in dependent territories which state that the state party is the mother country (i.e., Bermuda and the United Kingdom in the St. George's article). The La Fortaleza article has the state party as the U.S. See List of World Heritage Sites in the Caribbean. Anonymous MK2006 (talk) 19:35, 7 December 2020 (UTC)