Talk:Florida

Semi-protected edit request on 14 October 2025

96.242.123.153 (talk) 12:02, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template.

Please also consider you have to explain why you think your version is better. Guidelines that may be useful are mostly at WP:PLACENAME. Thank you and happy editing, Slomo666 (talk) 16:08, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Please also see the discussions on Talk:Gulf of Mexico, including the Frequently asked questions section. Unless and until the community decides to rename that article, we will use "Gulf of Mexico" elsewhere, including here, in Wikipedia. Donald Albury 16:57, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

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Edit request 14 May 2026

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<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Fla" redirects here. For the peninsula, see [[:Florida Peninsula]]. For other uses, see [[:FLA (disambiguation)|FLA]] and [[:Florida (disambiguation)]].</div>

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<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Fla" redirects here. For the peninsula, see [[:Florida Peninsula]]. For other uses, see [[:FLA (disambiguation)|FLA]] and [[:Florida (disambiguation)]].</div><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"State of Florida" redirects here. For short-lived unrecognized republic, see [[:Republic of West Florida]].</div>

State of Florida redirects here and the State of Florida was also the official name of the Republic of West Florida.

~2026-27784-66 (talk) 22:54, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

 Not done. First, although it's mentioned there, it's unsourced, and I can't find anything to back it up after a quick search. But either way, it's also kind of obscure, and there's no reason to single it out. Better would be to add a listing for it at Florida (disambiguation). –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 23:28, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Re: Civil War and Reconstruction

Can we add on the very first line on this topic, as per main Florida in the American Civil War lead, totally relevant and well rehearsed and debated, the following;

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Florida participated in the American Civil War as a member of the Confederate States of America. It had been admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1845. In January 1861, Florida became the third Southern state to secede from the Union after the November 1860 presidential election victory of Abraham Lincoln. It was one of the initial seven slave states which formed the Confederacy on February 8, 1861, in advance of the American Civil War.

Florida had by far the smallest population of the Confederate states with about 140,000 residents, nearly half of them enslaved people. Florida sent around 15,000 troops to the Confederate army, the vast majority of which were deployed elsewhere during the war.

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then add the cotton justification etc.

Cheers05:03, 9 June 2026 (UTC) ~2026-33824-56 (talk) 05:03, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 June 2026

i want to fix typos and spelling ~2026-36896-35 (talk) 12:00, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

 Not done No change specified. Mention the typo with their location in the article next time. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 13:23, 25 June 2026 (UTC)