Talk:Santa Cruz del Islote

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School

Today's article on the island in the Daily Mail contradicts the statement made in this article that there is no school. According to the article 80 students attend a school on the island. See [1] 68.146.52.234 (talk) 16:02, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Population Density

The article says that Santa Cruz del Islote is the most densely populated island on earth (a bit over 10,000 per km^2), and yet another wikipedia page shows that Migingo island has a population density about 6 times as high (65,500 per km^2). Not sure if the Migingo page is wrong, or if there needs to be a distinction here about islands in the sea versus those in lakes? - but certainly both pages can't be correct as they stand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.68.67.215 (talk) 14:31, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"There are no police on the island, nor is there any crime or violence."

The quoted claim which is currently in the article is bordering on "obviously false".

Crime and violence have been a feature of the human social condition since pre-history, they are, to some degree, present in every large scale human society. Multiple generations of humans, now numbering over 800, living together on a 3 acre island, are inevitably going to have issues with crime and violence: whether its petty theft, fights, sexual assault, or child abuse.

Lets look at the two sources:

[7] https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/santa-cruz-del-islote/index.html

A single quote from a single resident stating "There is no crime here" and "We have no police and we do not need them either.”

[15] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/02/the-magical-realism-of-santa-cruz-del-islote-in-pictures

Quote from the article: "There are no reports of violence, there has never been armed conflict, and people do not worry about crime." No further clarification is offered for how these claims were verified in the article.

So the evidence for this extraordinary claim is that some unspecified number of residents (presumably at least 2) have stated as much? This should be removed or revised.

(i have never posted on wikipedia, apologies for doing everything wrong, this was too absurd not to say something) 2601:14D:8300:5400:7966:B056:DB99:9845 (talk) 13:14, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing this out. I've removed the claim that there is no crime. The CNN article quotes a local saying this and while there may be some truth to the claim, i.e. that crime may be very low, such assertions need reliable, independent sources. The CNN article does say there are no police, something factual that can be retained. Declangi (talk) 09:10, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]