Talk:Uruguayan War

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Lack of text

I believe I´ll be able to start the text about this conflict today. When done, it will be similar in styçe to the one of the Platine War which I also wrote. - --Lecen (talk) 19:00, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cheese

This may be interesting to know. I found it here: In 1865 during a war between Uruguay and Brazil, a Uruguayan ship ran out of cannon balls Instead they fired stale Dutch cheeses one of which dismasted an enemy vessel and killed two sailors. -Shahab (talk) 16:45, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

causality

And the causality was??The number of causality should be given in information box,to improve this article.Ovsek (talk) 15:32, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See aftermath to understand why it's not in the infobox. --Lecen (talk) 15:42, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Brazilian interests

From the paragraph discussing the internal affairs of Brazil, I removed this sentence:

The "fact that Uruguayan citizens had just as valid claims against Brazil as Brazilians had against Uruguay was ignored", said historian Philip Raine.^[1]

I deleted it because (in order of importance):

It's not about the internal affairs of Brazil.
It describes no actual event, provides no detail.
It just sounds like whining.
It comes across as the opinion of a single man.
This sub-section already suggests that Brazil acted like a bully.

In short, it adds nothing to — and seems to take something away from — the paragraph it was in.

- Zulu Kane (talk) 17:47, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's your personal opinion regarding the matter. The historian's opinion is important, to make it even more clear what happened. You have substantially reworded a featured article for no good reason. In what way did you actually improve the text? Changing a few words didn't make it better: you just said the same things a slightly different form. I could understand that had the article been raised to featured years ago, but this happened on July 2013, less than a year ago. In no way I'm disregarding your effort to help. But I can't see any good reason to reword the entire article. --Lecen (talk) 19:49, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is the "Spanish Name" Guerra del Uruguay Real or Invented?

The Spanish name for the conflict is presented in this article as 'Guerra del Uruguay'. However, I can't find any source outside Wikipedia that credibly confirms this to be the case. In the Spanish article, it is specified that Guerra do Uruguai is a term used in Portuguese (in this context, Brazil), and it is distinguished from the Spanish name Invasión brasileña de 1864 (translated to English as "Brazilian invasion of 1864"). Albeit a minor issue, it is wrong for Wikipedia to invent names.--MarshalN20 ^Talk 21:26, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

^ Raine 1956, p. 161.

[FOOTNOTERaine1956161-1] Raine 1956, p. 161.

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