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The so-called "White Ranch" site, which a user has tried to re-add to this page and others throughout Wikipedia, has been debunked as a deliberate hoax; a paper was published at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in 2016 exposing the issues with the claims made about the site, and a report was published with the Florida Division of Historical Resources, signed by the archaeologists who published the SEAC paper, stating that the "White Ranch" site does not exist. Boyer's work on the Richardson site (8AL100), which appears to be the genuine site of Soto's Potano and the later mission San Buenaventura de Potano, has been peer-reviewed and published in several venues, and nothing about the "White Ranch" site has ever passed muster with professional archaeologists. Accordingly, I have removed materials concerning the "White Ranch Site" until a peer-reviewed publication contradicting the current data is published, if ever. Veritas20132014 (talk) 22:30, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Currently the article uses the term "La Florida" in two contexts: the name of the chronicle written by Garcilaso de la Vega, and the name of a geographic area, in the section Hernando de Soto#Return of the expedition to Mexico City, after the death of de Soto. It seems strange to introduce this alternate term for the Florida geographic area at this point in the article.

Is this "La Florida" the same as Spanish Florida? If so, this should be clarified, and La Florida should be used consistently in the article. Harris7 (talk) 18:22, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

La Florida was the Spanish name for what is called "Spanish Florida" in English. Garcilosa de la Vega's narrative is called Historia de la Florida, where la Florida again refers to the territory that became the Spanish colony. I have clarified that in the article. - Donald Albury 19:13, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 August 2025 and 5 December 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cigarozx (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Gibu7114, Liznankeen.

— Assignment last updated by Littlesmileymiley (talk) 17:02, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]