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Did you know... that Migingo, an island about half the size of a soccer field, is the subject of territorial dispute and a diplomatic conflict between Uganda and Kenya?

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Nature is infested with nature

"infested with birds and snakes" - I'm sure you mean birds and snakes "lived" there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:7106:7D00:2088:DBDC:1509:65F0 (talk) 19:12, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Football pitch

So, this might be controversial, but I really don't know what a "football pitch" is, or how big one is. I might be helpful for those like me if in the opening analogy "about half the size of a football pitch" we could add something I might be more familiar with, like "a little over half an american football field" or "approximately as big as 1500 medium sized american flags" Lukejodonnell (talk) 06:00, 23 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Submerged

I added the claim that the island was submerged for several decades. However, according to pictures, the island has very high relief. Water level rise needed to submerge this island would have devastating effects on the mainland. Also, the claim that the island has no vegetation seems not to be valid [1] [2] Julius Sahara (talk) 05:45, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 2009 updates

The island is no longer disputed. The government of Uganda has officially (not just in their president's statements) conceded that the island is Kenyan and falls on the Kenya side of the line. What is still disputed is the fishing rights and administration of the fishing taking place.....especially since just 600 meters west of the island you are in Ugandan waters. I suppose Ugandan officials noted what the current survey team is noting/has noted and what anyone with Google Earth or Arc or any mapping system can do: Draw a line just as the 1926 agreement says, from the western end of the (larger) Pyramid Island 2 km south of Migingo straight to Ilemba Island, the next little island northward (0-33-50S 33-55-33E ) and that line passes about 550 meters west of Misingo, placing Misingo in Kenya. That's why all the maps have always showed it in Kenya. Migingo is not west of Pyramid, it is north of it, the little white speck (a acre or two) just 200 meters west of the third and final island in the group, Usingo. DLinth (talk) 14:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Further

Can someone please do something about the recent changes to this article? We are now stating that it is "a Ugandan island" which is very misleading at best (in fact latest official statements from Uganda concede that the island is Kenyan). There seem to have been a lot of POV changes recently. Widsith (talk) 13:41, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A certain user with has recently done POV edit several times on this article. I've been trying to revert those edits, but he/she always reverts them back on the next day. If we wait for few days without reverting those edits, maybe the editor will forget about this article. Julius Sahara (talk) 16:28, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Any idea how to reign in Ugandanpatriot's absurdly POV edits, blind reverts over past months now of good sources (He loves deleting the #1 ref, a respected African news bureau July 2009 TV report confirming, along with ref #2, that even the Ugandan govt. now says the island is Kenyan (though not the nearby waters.)) We have dozens of maps here plus the original documents from 1926 and they all confirm the island as Kenyan. Anyone with Google Earth drawing a line between two points from the '26 agreement (5th reference), the western tips of Pyramid Is. and Illemba Is., can also confirm that the island is Kenyan. Laughably, Ugandanpatriot does not even know where the island is, as he keeps writing that it is west of Pyramid Is., while it is 2 km due north. Help!DLinth (talk) 19:34, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Unexplained reverting

I recently made an edit, which gave information about the population density of the Island. Since then, a number of IP addresses have reverted my edit, namely:

None of their edits came with an explanatory edit summary - aside from the meaningless 'rv vandalism'. As far as I can tell, my edits are not vandalism, as no source is required to give population density (simply calculate using population/area), and since Migingo Island appears here it is fair to say the Island is 'extremely densely populated'. I would be happy to come to some compromise: discuss it below if you want to talk. Please do not revert further, per Wikipedia:Edit warring.

On a separate note, there may be sock-puppetry involved here; it seems strange that five different IPs are doing such similar reverts and leaving similarly blank edit summaries. Dtg50 (talk) 00:14, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Population density etc.

@72.177.2.73: not sure what you mean by 'MO compliance'. Also, as mentioned before, a source is not required for population density as it is a figure calculated from area and population. The supposed 'copyedits' you made actually made some sentences not make sense (e.g. A July 2009 a survey team found that the island is 510m east of the Kenya–Uganda border), this may have been an accident, but please do not write 'ce' in your edit summary when you are simply blind-reverting. Quasar G ^{t - c} 11:34, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment 22 March 2017

Multiple IPs (some listed above) have been reverting my edits. I attempted to communicate, but none of them have used the talk page. There was extensive edit warred about this in January and February, but having received a warning about that, I think the only course of action is to ask someone else to comment. My edits include improving grammar and syntax, and adding a population density figure (which is important for Migingo island, as it is one of the most densely populated islands on earth). Quasar G ^{t - c} 16:21, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe this meets the frame of RFC, there is supposed to be a neutral question and intro, and clear question. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 11:57, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the RFC template, (rather than remove the content itself). I suggest Quasar G. to either ask specific questions about content, or ask for help at one of the WikiProjects. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 20:16, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This debate, by nature, doesn't really fit into the RFC template; as such I have asked an admin for advice. If anyone else wants to review my edit then please do, and suggest any improvements. Quasar G ^{t - c} 21:28, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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2,000 square meters?

The island is nowhere near that size, according to Google Maps: https://i.imgur.com/RznMAYf.png — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.189.82.109 (talk) 10:52, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Huh? The island easily looks 100 metres wide and 20 metres long in the screenshot, quite possibly larger even. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 17:23, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]