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:Although some of PFoster's comments on this matter on Ed's talk page (I think it was) were perhaps a bit too much in the "politically correct" basket, I actually agree with him on this one. Saying that a place with "discovered by so-and-so" does, in my mind, imply that nobody (no human being) knew of it before. I didn't particularly like his altered wording, but how about, "European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands was by Captain James Cook in 1778"? [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 03:45, 15 July 2007 (EDT)
:Although some of PFoster's comments on this matter on Ed's talk page (I think it was) were perhaps a bit too much in the "politically correct" basket, I actually agree with him on this one. Saying that a place with "discovered by so-and-so" does, in my mind, imply that nobody (no human being) knew of it before. I didn't particularly like his altered wording, but how about, "European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands was by Captain James Cook in 1778"? [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 03:45, 15 July 2007 (EDT)
::I agree. Polynesians discovered Hawaii and were its first settlers. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 10:33, 18 July 2007 (EDT)