Talk:Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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[edit] Cabeca
Hi.
I see that some sources refer to this person as "Cabeca de Vaca" (presumeably the same person). Anyone know about this? Perhaps a note could be added to the article? — ishwar (SPEAK) 23:41, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)
- My guess is an older-fashioned (or Portuguese-style?) spelling with c-cedilla, which used to be more or less interchangeable with z. - Mustafaa 10:02, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Uhm, you guys left out something in that article. He was a christian. And he healed people.
[edit] Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca moved to Cabeza de Vaca
Why move the article from the gent's full name to only a part of it? Seems somewhat non-standard to me. –Hajor 02:20, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
it makes sense to revert it if you think necessary but i doubt anybody is going to type Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. redirection would be fine. Orangetuesday 05:40, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I'm going to move it back; doesn't feel right having the article located at what is merely his (and a bunch of other people's) apellido materno after all. But while I'm at it, I'll make sure all the necessary redirects without diacrits, etc. are in place. Cheers, –Hajor 13:04, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
- And also, sometimes, people are lazy and type up just half of the name. sometimes, people have to search him up and was given Cabeza de Vaca like me. tsyoshi 15:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] info
he was in the milatary and was a slave he also wrote is own books
[edit] name
did you know that his name meens "head of cow"
[edit] name
his name is cabeza de vaca
[edit] Two dodgy statements removed
If anyone has a source for these statements (from the "trivia" section), please replace them, and include a citation.
- He was the lead leader with the Golden Hind, which is the name of the ship that Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world in.
- In one awful storm off Cuba, the storm lifted one of his ships into a tree. Really...
[edit] Anyone got any info as to family?
Does anyone know if he had brothers, sisters, wife, kids, what his parents did, anything like that?
[edit] How many men were in the Narváez expedition?
I'm getting tired of edit warring with an anonymous user.
- The Narváez expedition article says "The crew initially numbered about 600."
- Since last year, the Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca article has said "...only survivors of the party of 600 men."
- This external site says "The fleet he took along consisted of[five vessels, in which went about 600 men."
- This anonymous user showed up from nowhere today and made the following series of edits:
- (1) From "600" to "70,000"
- (2) From "70,000" to "600"
- (3) From "600" to "250-300"
- At this point, I reviewed the article history and related articles and reverted it to 600.
- A minute later, he re-reverted it:
- (4) From "600" to "250-300".
I'm now reverting it back to 600, on the theory that this person is just entertaining himself. -- Jim Douglas 02:28, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
