Talk:Huvadhu Atoll

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The following seems to be a prank contributed by User:Mohonu:

"Its placement on the main sea route around southern India meant this atoll had various contact with mariners travelling the route. It was during one of these voyages that the Scottish explorer Sir Fergus Woodward, according to British shipping reports, was marooned on one of the islands of Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll. Captured in southern India in 1791 by the powerful Baron Jarren of Burns, he was apparently abandoned with a single blunt blade. Descriptions of his escape from the island are colourful, but it appears the most likely explanation is that he swam from island to island till coming into contact with locals who traded with sailors. It was this act of desertion which Sir Fergus recorded in his journal as the moment which "hath inspired in mine heart the evening starr of destruction which shall wipe away the ugliness exposed by day," and provoked his Sunset Crusade."

It is of a piece with prank insertions made between 1 and 15 February 2007 by User:Woofe705, who also made bogus edits at Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, all introducing the apparently invented "Sir Fergus Woodward, the Scottish explorer". Also, there is no "Baron Jarren of Burns." I am asking User:Mohonu how this "information" was come by. --Wetman 01:39, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Slander against Mohonu

I am being slandered. This paragraph is not a contribution of mine. Before engaging into any accussation in Wikipedia it is important to check who did it.Mohonu 04:37, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I am pasting the following exchange from my talk page, to clear up the "slander" (Wetman 04:47, 25 September 2007 (UTC))

If you check carefully you will see that the paragraph in question is precisely not a contribution of mine. Someone else has written that.Mohonu 04:34, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I see. This is the "diff", a record of your edit. Under the circumstances, you can hardly be surprised that I should think you were responsible for putting it into the article. Now I see that in fact you simply cut and pasted this text, which you were shifting from Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, where, you'll be sorry to hear, the text was inserted by a hoaxer, User:Woofe705.

I'll paste our conversation at Talk:Huvadhu Atoll, to keep the record straight. --Wetman 04:47, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Map of Huvadhu

Shouldn't the map image be rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise? I don't know how to do this, or i would... Millichip (talk) 15:05, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

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