Talk:Galicia (Spain)

message: What currency do they use?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.9.59.249 (talk) 04:01, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: EURO --77.27.16.248 (talk) 20:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Currency?

message: Can we get someone to sort out the pronunciation guide with some proper IPA. The current description is rather lacking for a couple of reasons. Firstly, ESP used to refer to Castilian in contrast to another language from Spain doesn't really make sense and may well be disapproved of by many Spanish people and secondly, many castilian speakers would also pronounce the c similarly to an English th.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.82.193.185 (talk) 17:00, 23 February 2009 
:   All Things Considered today reported on the abandonment (and availability for purchase!) of whole rural villages in the region. The correspondent consistently pronounced the name with an English K sound where the C (followed by I) occurs. I'm inclined to guess that it reflects the garbled recollection of one person's accurate briefing on the topic. But if the linguistic variation (beyond rare ignoramuses) is greater than one would expect, or there are (nearby?) minority languages among whom the K sound is correct it would IMO be worthy of a parenthetical phrase qualifying what we already have.    (At least one bizarre possibility is hinted at by the ancient tie between the modern Galicians and the descendants of (Celtic) Galician veterans of Roman legions, who settled en masse in the north (IIRC) of Asia Minor and to whom were addressed Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. I wouldn't want to guess how such ties, or garbled awareness of them, could produce some otherwise bizarre linguistic variations.)--Jerzy•t 22:28, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:    Hmmm, Galatians (people) suggests i may have invented at least the "legions" part.--Jerzy•t 22:39, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronounciation

message: I added Nacho Novo to the sports section as he is well known in Scotland and has received international call-ups recently. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ricksen (talk • contribs) 16:58, December 27, 2006 (UTC)
: Nacho has never been capped for Spain. He is not a well know Galician, I would personally not include him as he is not really well know there. If you have prove of him ever playing for Spain, please feel free to prove me wrong PatrickC (talk) 19:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sports

message: Isn't this article a little heavy on the pictures in the History section? They do help understanding, but they get in the way of reading, and make it a little hard to follow. Perhaps they should be moved all over to the right. Then they wouldn't interrupt the reading, but they could still be included.Esk3 (talk) 20:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it how it is.--Filll (talk) 22:44, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures? 

message: I removed the map due to two reasons: it was mixing the Suebic Kingdom with Galicia Kingdom (for example, Asturias or León were part of the former but not of the latter), and the extension of the Basque People which is totally wrong, covering parts of Cantabria which have not been Basque ever . I think that the Visigoth Kingdom never comprised the Basque Lands, either, as it is suggested in the map.--Xareu bs (talk) 12:59, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  map 

message: Could someone familiar with this article and the related etymology take a look at what was added here: Cailleach#Galicia. The sources are largely non-English, and I must admit I am suspicious of something that claims to be WP:RS that's not even mentioned here in the main article... and when the sources aren't really WP:V for many users of en-wiki. Thanks! - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 00:18, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Need more eyes on this

message: I'm in the process of translating a lot of material from es-wiki. It is certainly far more extensive than what we've had here, but it doesn't seem nearly as well-researched as some of the es-wiki articles for some other autonomous communities (and even those are nowhere near what we in en-wiki generally consider "good article" status). But it's not awful, and I'm tightening wordings as I go (and even finding some additional references). Should be a general improvement, and certainly a major expansion. However, someone may wish to go through in my wake and see if we can deepen the quality. - Jmabel | Talk 07:54, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I am also doing some translations from the Spanish Wikipedia. I tend to find that sometimes information from tourist guides is used. Is this a proper or acceptable form of citation?--MrNiceGuy1113 (talk) 18:20, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  more material from es-wiki 

message: I specifically did not bring over the following, at least not for now.
Sin embargo, pese a todo, el 30 de diciembre de 2009 se aprobó un decreto que rebajará el uso del gallego en la administración pública, por parte de los funcionarios de la Junta de Galicia o de los Ministerios estatales, y sobre todo, afecta a la educación. ... Elprogreso.galiciae.com La sociedad, que habitualmente no da gran relevancia a las problemáticas lingüísticas, sin embargo, ha rechazado este nuevo decreto (un 90% de los sindicatos de profesores no lo apoyan, y el 100% de las asociaciones estudiantiles se oponen a él, así como la federación de ANPAs públicas y movimientos de renovación pedagógica).
I left this out because (1) it is apparently a current dispute, and we might as well wait until it is more settled to cover it and (2) because this is all based on material directly or indirectly from A Mesa pola Normalización Lingüística, it is rather one-sided: I have no idea what the government is actually proposing. If someone knows enough about this to flesh it out evenhandedly, we could mention it even while it is a current struggle. - Jmabel | Talk 20:06, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Current struggle over language

message: This infobox is the one all the Spain's ACs use. I didn't blank the previous one, I just replaced it. The old infobox had a lot of unnecessary, repeated info which any other country subdivision article's hasn't: Bavaria, Lombardia, Rhône-Alpes. Icallbs (talk) 19:23, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The various articles you have mentioned are all based on the same code from (Infobox settelement) infobox, it's just that the other editors have obviously just copied parts of it created their own national variations - which they shouldn't have done as we should be attempting to normalise all infoboxes related to various types settlements. The Spanish AC's template is exactly the same as the one I have provide, except that some of the fields were not added. With regard to the "unnecessary" information I beg to differ. Are the constituting provinces unnecessary? The seats in the various regional and national legislature? I have left the whole template is so that others editors can fill it in the relevant information. 80.41.22.146 (talk) 12:03, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah, but templates are just that, templates, and almost always they're customized (like in those cases, or like in the American states, or basically any country or country subdivision article), cause a country subdivision's article's infobox hasn't to have the same information as a country's one. For example, the provinces are mentioned in the article, the "devolved government..." thing takes 2 lines, the "Xunta de Galicia", which is linked to in the article and further down in the proper infobox, takes another one... And, apart from that, every other AC article use this infobox, so I'll restore it. Icallbs (talk) 19:51, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  
Explanation for reverts (I have already attempted to reach a compromise by eliminating some of the superfluous fields):
* Native name - This field is only used if it differs from the English name. In any case, the Comunidad Autónoma... name should actually be in the official name field.
* Coordinates region - See ISO 3166-2:ES for why I have added ES-GA.
* Anthem - Deleted. Why?
* Provinces - In the same way a province has the administrative level directly below it listed - the comarcas - I fail to see the reason why the region shouldn't have it's provinces listed. The infobox should provide the important information relating to the article at a glance.
* Government type - Galicia does have a devolved government. Despite not being a sovereign state it has almost the same powers, at a regional level, as Wales or Scotland (see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/publications/unit-publications/64.pdf)
* Population Denonym - If the field already exists within the infobox (population_denonym) why are you replacing it with a blank field in the demographics section?
* Legislature - The Galician Parliament part has been deleted. I have shortened "Congress of Deputies" to "Congress" and "Spanish Senate" to "Senate" so it would only take up a line.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.7.9 (talk) 15:42, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: There is no section for any events that have happened and affected Galicia, and how it has changed in that way...
That is what i was looking for on this page and it's the one thing i can't find out? Can this be added?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.27.149 (talk) 09:54, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Events 

message: I've recently begun to see alot of people attempting to push nationalist "propaganda" into the article. Instead of expanding the Sports section with sports that are actually popular in Galicia, such as maritime sports such as traineras, we're seeing people trying to generally mislead by pushing the most obscure things just to prove just "how different we are" from Spain. 
* The game of billarda is neither popular nor unique. It's basically a child's pastime, similar to that of gilli danda/tip-cat/pee-wee. I can barely find an article from big regional newspapers that refer to it. 
* Rugby is a minority sport in Galicia, even more so than in the rest of central Spain. The only interest in it that I've personally seen has been as a result of the success of Vigo's Iveco Rugby club. They might as well claim American football is popular, given that A Coruña has a team competing in the Portuguese league. 
* Gaelic football is not played at all in Galicia - I've only managed to find an article of an exhibition game played in A Coruña and IMO is nothing more that an attempt to shoe-horn a sport played by our "Celtic brothers"
http://www.xornal.com/artigo/2011/02/04/deportes/futbol-gaelico-estrease-hoxe-galicia-da-man-fillos-breogan/2011020422132102589.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.73.223.174 (talk) 10:41, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationalist propaganda 

message: This is a translation (using Google Translate) of the Galician Wikipedia's entry for the origin of the name "Galicia":
:The name "Galiza" and "Galicia" is derived from the Latin word Galicia (or Callaecia), literally meaning "land of galaicos." The galaicos (Latin: Galicia, in Greek: Καλλαϊκοί) were the most numerous people in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula since before its integration to the Roman Empire in the first century BC, although some authors believe that originally the term "Galician" was used to describe a small tribe to the north of the Douro river, is the case, this name was eventually called an entire ethnic group of Celtic language and culturally homogeneous, located between the Bay of Biscay and the Douro river [5].
:The first historical reference of galaicos, goes back to the year 136 BC when the Roman general Brutus Tenth june Galaico returns to Rome, after his victorious campaign against war two previously unknown peoples, and lusitanos galaicos receiving the self-Roman Senate the title of Gallaecus or "Galician" in honor of the last military expedition against these [6]. After these first contacts, the Greco-Latin world will describe their country as Galicia, as did Strabo, Appian, and Pliny, among others. Does this name Galicia that will evolve for over 13 centuries, and eventually adopt the ways "Galiza" and "Galicia".
:More controversial is, however, the original meaning of the term Gallaicus (Galician) and consequently of Galicia. The author who first theorized about it was Isidore of Seville, in the seventh century who explained that the name "Galician" alluded to the skin white as milk that had its inhabitants, similar to the inhabitants of Gaul [7]. Are many subsequent authors who attempt to seek the meaning of this name, such as Alfonso X the Wise, Ramon Barros sible or Murguía, but now tends to relate to étimos the Celtic languages​​, and Indo-European in general, so the exact meaning of the word is, at present, unknown.
There appears to be more on the subject than is in the English Wikipedia article. Ileanadu (talk) 17:55, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Origin 

message: From Galicia (Spain) to Galicia, Spain request move.Thatpopularguy123 (talk) 07:38, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  From Galicia (Spain) to Galicia, Spain request move. 

message: The history paragraph in the summary should be moved to the history section below.  Maybe leave the autonomy statute sentence, and that is all.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.190.133.143 (talk) 14:25, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  summary before the table of contents far too long 

message: I'm not going to get in an edit war, but the Wikipedia article spells the caldo article with 2 Ls (Caldo gallego).  So you guys spell it as you like.MartinezMD (talk)
:Hi. The issue is not about the name of the "caldo gallego" article (name which can be amended); it is about the lack of "(wikip) officiality" of that or another spelling. An example: we have this article about colour, which in fact redirects to color, with British spelling. But there are 10,000 of instances of the word "colour" in the Wiki, and those are perfectly OK. Cheers.--Froaringus (talk) 17:41, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand, although the color/colour issue is US vs British spelling, and not directly analogous.  So is gallego wrong? if so, should that article be respelled? and if not, why aren't we aligning the spelling?  That is my point. MartinezMD (talk) 22:22, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi. No, “Gallego” is not wrong: it is Spanish spelling; and “galego” is neither wrong: it is Galician spelling. When an editor decides to use caldo galego (Galician broth, or simply broth) and not caldo gallego, is her or his free decision to do so. Substituting the Galician form by the Spanish form is not simply “aligning spellings”, it is substituting one language by another, with all the given implications. Of course, if a reason is coherently adduced for that (let's say, English speakers are familiar with one form, and not with the other, or one of the forms is absolutelly obscure) then I can say “Oh, it's OK, you're right”, but this is not the case. So, here and now, I'm totally against this substitution. Cheers.--Froaringus (talk) 08:00, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caldo 

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message: hello people. I want to comment about the relation of the Celts with Galicia. It is clear that there were Celts in Galicia at the beginning of History. But it is not so clear the relation those Celts had thru long-term History. If we remember how many invasions suffered Galicia in History, with the corresponding change in sovereignty, kings, populations, etc... Thus probably we should carefully study these details, which seem quite poorly studied still. ---88.17.242.240 (talk) 19:10, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Galicia and the Celts 

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message: I would suggest removing the sections 'Galicians', which has no content other than a link to a list of Galicians, and 'Honour', which just seems pointless and unworthy of a top-level section. Conversely, I would elevate 'Transport', currently a subsection of 'Economy', to a top-level section of its own. Views? DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:43, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree that Honor and Galicians sections should both be deleted, they offer nothing. Also good with raising the transportation section up a level. Cristiano Tomás (talk) 13:07, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

text: I agree with these suggestions as well. Carlstak (talk) 14:13, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed section changes 

message: Galicia (Spain) is a despective name. Us a original name Galiza and you don't have problem with disambinguation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia 31.4.243.164 (talk) 09:01, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Despective name Galicia (Spain)