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Entry: Amerigo Vespucci - A32964230
Author: Shagbark (William Hubbell) - U170775

Article on man America is named after.

Isn't there some debate about whether it was named after him, Richard Amerike, or the Amerrique region of Nicaragua? Don't know how likely these other theories are, or whether they're even worth a mention though.

As stated in the article it was so named in the mid 1500s
by mapmakers.
Detail maps of places like Nicaragua came much later.
However, that might make an intersting footnote if you can provide a reference to where it was contested.

I heard it somewhere I can't remember, then I found it on Wiki, so that's why I said I don't know how likely it is to be true. So no references, sorry.

Wiki used a BBC source which I have included in a footnote.

I have added a few links

Hi Shagbark A couple of h2g2 House Style pointers for you:

We should use the h2g2 standard format for all dates, so March 9th, 1454 should be written as 9 March, 1454. This is almost what you have at the bottom of the entry with 22 February, 1512, except you need a space between the comma and the year.

The text part of your link to Martin Waldseemmuller has an extra letter 'm' in it and the letter 'u' should have an umlaut (the two dots above the letter). However these special characters have to be written in a special way. Change the Martin Waldseemmuller to Martin Waldseemüller (exactly as written here).

got those also I made seamanship lower case.
anything else

Hi Shagbark

This has the potential to go all the way. However, there are a number of spelling mistakes and other things that could be addressed first. Here's my list for changes. I hope you don't mind.

Right first things first lure the reader into reading your Entry by using an introduction before the header. Sum up what the person means to you and say when they lived.

You have forgotten a comma after the year 1454 and 1512

Do you mean 'his childhood' rather than 'a childhood' or perhaps even leave the word 'a' out.

What else did he dream of doing?

Traveled is spelt travelled

Traveling is spelt travelling

Fourties is spelt forties

Brazillian should be spelt Brazilian

Use a capital letter for Spain

It may be obvious but perhaps you could define the word 'navigator'.

Always use a capital letter to begin a sentence so <> is incorrect it should start <>

Do you mean Southern Georgia Islands....I think you should write the 'S' word in full

I'm not sure about you guessing what he read

The 'g' in greek should be capitalised

Perhaps you should say literature instead of writings

Ptolomy is spelt Ptolemy

Why is Astronomy capitalised but geography not

Encyclopedia is spelt Encyclopaedia

I don't understand <>

Carribean should be spelt Caribbean

celestrial should be spelt celestial

mathmatics should be spelt mathematics

What others said 'terra incognito' and do you know the literal translation?

Afer should be spelt after

Do you know why they didn't have children?

What did his wife say about him if anything?

Do you know where exactly he was buried in Seville, Spain?

I think you could add more links

Don't give up this is on it's way to being a great Entry.

Was watching QI and they said America is unlikely to have been named after Amerigo Vespucci as they never named places after people's first names unless they were monarchs. If it was named after him it should be Vespuccia. Again, no idea if this is true or not, but Stephen Fry said it!

corrections made .

great

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'ow' eaning 'now' it's not meant to be a painful process

apparently it is a painful process- the sub editor chosen refused it.
note to whoever is chosen to replace Gnomon-
I am happy with the article without any reference to the Queen of Spain- however it wouldn't hurt my feelings if she was mentioned.

for clarification see http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F47997?thread=6190601&skip=1