Talk:Names of Okinawa

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With the major rewrite, I shifted the focus to the geographical extents the terms in question refer to. --Nanshu (talk) 05:30, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Tomé Pires did not coin "Lequeos"

The following sentence, added by Coastaline (talk · contribs)[1] is plain wrong.

Many [[European exploration of Asia|European explorers]] used other alternative spellings, such as ''Lequeos'', which was coined by [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] navigator [[Tomé Pires]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Lach|first=Donald F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0x1Io6VOuAIC&q=lequeos&pg=PA653|title=Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I: The Century of Discovery. Book 2.|date=1994-04-16|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-46732-0|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Diffie|first=Bailey Wallys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBTqPX4G9Y4C&q=Ryukyus+lequios&pg=PA393|title=Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580|date=1977|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-0782-2|language=en}}</ref>

• Tomé Pires did not coin Lequeos, as we can find earlier instances of it.
• It is a demonym, not a toponym.

--Nanshu (talk) 05:30, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

NPOV

This article was moved and written with malicious intent by Nanshu to "unRyukyu" Okinawa. Most statements about the Ryukyu Kingdom attempt to dismiss, diminish, or remove any association with Okinawa or the other Ryukyu Islands. There is a lot of WP:OR and WP:SYNTH here where Nanshu is drawing his own conclusions from sources and misrepresenting facts. He wrote this article like a college paper making an argument. ミラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 06:55, 13 May 2022 (UTC)