Talk:Quito

message: The "Travel Guide" section has several formatting and grammar problems.  In any case, it would be better suited to WikiTravel.  Any objections to removing it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.124.142.66 (talk) 19:42, 7 July 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I too would like to see the travel guide moved to Wikitravel, though there are licensing issues as Wikitravel uses a stricter license.  Any idea who wrote the thing? --Bletch 17:38, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Early messages

message: In my opinion, this article needs to explain how the economy of Quito works by giving more details, e.g.:
#which foreign or national companies operate in Quito
#poverty in Quito
#corruption and illegal economic activities
#the economical differences between the north and the south of the city
#the main economic activities and industries/factories in Quito
#trade/commerce and transportation of goods
#telecommunications/media/radio and TV stations/newspapers/press/postal service
2004-12-29T22:45Z 01:43, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
The information in this section is entirely unclear to me.  It may be that there is a problem with the grammar or maybe such sentences as "by 2009 the GDP of Quito was approximately $ 10.65 billion by way of production (19% contribution), 4112 millions of dollars in award (8% of award) and 14.762 billion dollars for total GDP (27% from 8% contract, 19% produced)" might give some further reference so a typical reader might have some understanding of what is being talked about.  Looks like someone did a cut and paste from some jargon filled bureaucratic document.  I doubt if I am alone in thinking it is gibberish.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Delonico99 (talk • contribs) 14:19, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy of Quito 

message: There are more than 2 rapid transit systems: the Ecovia, Trole, and also Metrobus (running on Avenida America).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.56.203.131 (talk) 18:07, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transportation 

message: The request is based on the principal that the common denominator, per the new category UTC-5 demonstrates that cities generally have the state or province name. Take for example Ottawa which should redirect to Ottawa, Ontario and not vis-versa. This will help when categorizing cities. --CyclePat 00:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request Move 

message: The map does not guard relation with list. I suggest somedoby with more experience in editing verifies it. If not it will be better that it is removed  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.90.144.16 (talk) 15:13, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parishes of Quito 

message: This duplicates the City infobox.
 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alan.ca (talk • contribs) 10:32, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed this from the main article 

message: The entry says that in 1809 the population of Quito was 10,000 -- but it also says that in 1797 an earthquake killed 40,000.  This is REALLY unlikely.  Can someone check these numbers? scotteaux 21:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: There's serious discrepancy here!

message: I put back in the list of attractions and the reference to getquitoecuador.com for the following reasons. (1) I think the list of attractions is a useful part of the article; feel free to disagree. (2) Encyclopedic content should be cited, and the getquitoecuador.com site was clearly the source for this content. Perhaps there is a better source; feel free to find it. (3) Even though the site is a commercial one, and even though they liberally sprinkled links throughout (which have now been removed), it's still the source for this info. 
So I would propose either: (1) leave it as is, with the info in the article and the citation of getquitoecuador; (2) leave the list in, but find a better reference; or (3) remove it entirely (as was recently done)---but only if the information is not worthwhile or the getquitoecuador.com site is felt, by consensus, to be highly inappropriate. To me (2) is the optimal choice, but requires further research, and (1) is fine in the interim. But I'm sure others may disagree. 
As to the comment "disguised as a reference", the intention was not to disguise anything. Please assume good faith. -- Spireguy 16:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of attractions and reference to getquitoecuador 

message: Currently on the page, we have two types of parishes listed in the politics section: urban and electoral. Can someone please explain the difference between the two. The map of the urban parishes is found on the municipality's website, but those parishes do not show up on the list of parishes on INEC's website (nor do the electoral one). And if the electoral one are just for elections (I suppose based on the name), why does my cedula (an Ecuadorian national ID) list Chaupicruz, an electoral parish, as the subdivision below Quito and not La Concepcion, the urban parish in the same location. 
Once a difinitive difference as been clearly established, changing Template:Parishes of Quito may be necessary, or creating a new one.
Digirami (talk) 21:07, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parishes 

message: Hello everyone. I've been helping with the Quito page in the Wikipedia(ES) but now that I think it's got enough information by now I will help with this one. I'll add and improve the political division (yeh, that thing about parishes is unclear), the culture section, the parks section, a tourism section and many other things. Many tourists before comming to Quito they may come to Wikipedia to see for some information but this page needs to overcome. This page is very disorganised... LAR99 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 06:09, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Information 

message: Latitude: 00°15′00″S 
Longitude: 78°35′00″W  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.91.25 (talk) 23:28, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latitude and Longitude 

message: This article needs more images, both of old Quito and the rest of the city; including affluent and working-class neighborhoods. The few photographs now barely give some idea of the city. I'm a terrible photographer, so I don't own many images, but I'm sure some Wikipedians can help us on this. After all, Quito stands out for it's photographers!! :D  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Libertariandude (talk • contribs) 00:56, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More pictures 

message: Can someone verify this statement in the article:
The latest eruption was recorded on August 23, 2006, when a few puffs of smoke and a large amount of ash were deposited on the city.[citation needed] Although not devastating, the eruption caused significant disruption of activities, including closing of the international airport.
I looked on the Smithsonian/USGS global volcanism site (http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1502-02=&volpage=weekly) and cannot find record of Pichincha erupting in August 2006.
I was in Ecuador (Quito mostly) during that time (July through Sept 2006), and Tungurahua was erupting frequently in July and August, so I suspect that whoever wrote this originally was thinking of one of Tungurahua's eruptions that closed the airport in Guayaquil in late August and spread ash all over to its west.  I am pretty sure Pichincha did not erupt at all in summer 2006, because I would remember!!  But surely someone more authoritative can verify this.
Stephy1771 (talk) 20:25, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography - nearby volcanoes 

message: The daunting problems the city faces should be mentioned, especially the spectacular surge in crime of recent years. As a Quito native, I don't think the encyclopedic article should read as a tourist brochure. 200.31.26.202 (talk) 19:49, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The city's problems 

message: You're right that it should read as a brochure, but problems in crime, as you mention, just started in recent years and they can be fix in the coming ones. Crime has increase, but this usually happens to any city that's growing, I know it has increase more than it should have, but nonetheless, this facts can change and should be left out from the facts.
If we need updates on that, we could read the news. I come here for facts, so as a workaround, maybe a table by year with the increase in assaults, robbery and/or murders can be added, without any bias opinion to it, just the table. --Felipe (talk) 19:06, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can change with time 

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message: As far as I know, the highest capital city in the world is La Paz, Bolivia [3,675 m (12,057 ft) above sea level]. This article on Quito maintains that Quito is "the highest capital city in the world housing the administrative, legislative and judicial functions." This would seem to say that the legislative and judicial functions of the Bolivian state are not housed in La Paz (is this true?). On the other hand, La Paz (whether it houses all three branches of govt. or not) is undeniably the capital of Bolivia and undeniably higher up in altitude than Quito, making the claim at the beginning of this article either erroneous, or nitpicking, at best. I think it should be changed to "second highest capital city in the world" and the part about "housing the administrative, legislative and judicial functions" should either be lost or should go in a separate sentence, if indeed it is important to include (or it could be stated in a sentence as in comparison with La Paz, if the latter does not actually house all branches of govt., by saying that "unlike La Paz, the highest capital city in the world, Quito houses all three branches of govt."
Jbyrdmor (talk) 22:49, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Highest capital city in the world??

message: What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 13:18, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of Quito]] 

message: Certainly crime should be mentioned in the article. Many cities with less crime per capita than Quito discuss crime in their articles. This article is not encyclopedic without some cited crime data. (Heroeswithmetaphors) talk 14:55, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you! be free to add reliable sources!. AlfaRocket (talk) 12:24, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime in Quito 

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message: I found an article in Developing Basic Space Science World-Wide: A Decade of UN/ESA Workshops which states that Colombia's "...National Astronomical Observatory (OAN) built in 1803 is the oldest observatory in the continent." I have removed the claim from the section on the Quito Observatory.
StereoTypo (talk) 21:06, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:   Quito Observatory, oldest observatory in Latin America? 

message: Hi. As of May 14, 2019, the mayor of Quito is Jorge Yunda, not Mauricio Rodas. This information is easily found by googling Jorge Yunda, or even by going to the Mayor of Quito page. Yunda does not have an English Wikipedia article yet, but he does have one in the Spanish Wikipedia from which one could be created. Accordingly, the Mauricio Rodas page needs to be updated to mention him as former mayor of Quito. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DresMaria83 (talk • contribs) 23:25, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Mayor (2019) 

message: There is great controversy regarding the most populated cities in the country, however, "Quito has been ratified as the most populous city in Ecuador," as there are no articles in the law or the like that dictate that the population of a city is purely urban, it is municipal as a whole. Quito has 2,735,987 inhabitants (remember that Quito is not only the area of ​​urban parishes, Quito comprises a whole, that is, Quito D.M.), while Guayaquil (understand Guayaquil as a WHOLE) has 2,698,077 inhabitants. A clear difference of just over 38,000 inhabitants, a gap that increases over the years. There are people who defend by sword that Guayaquil is still the most populous city in the country, CLEAR REGIONALISM an desinformation (Wikipedia isn't the only reference). Of course, its urban parishes concentrate more population than those of Quito. 2.6 million vs. 2 million. But 'the term city UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING', not just urban cities, since, as I mentioned earlier, there is no law that indicates that a city is made up of urban parishes. For example, Calderón is a rural parish in Quito, but it belongs to the city of Quito.
If so, otherwise please let me know in my personal discussion. Also, I delete the "controversy" note, because I leave below evidence and sufficient references that notice that Quito is the largest city of Ecuador.
References (all in Spanish):
* Cantonal population projections (INEC - Government): https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/proyecciones-poblacionales/
* Quito es the most populous canton (INEC - Government): https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/quito-el-canton-mas-poblado-del-ecuador-en-el-2020/
* El Comercio: https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/orden-movilidad-desafios-candidatos-alcaldia.html
* El Universo: https://www.eluniverso.com/guayaquil/2019/01/20/nota/7147148/quito-mas-habitantes-frente-guayaquil-proyeccion-abre-debate
* El Telégrafo: https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/editoriales/1/quito-ciudad-maspoblada-ecuador
* Ecuavisa: https://www.ecuavisa.com/video/noticias/quito-sera-ciudad-mas-poblada-del-pais-2020
* Teleamazonas: http://www.teleamazonas.com/2020/04/jorge-yunda-pidio-extender-el-aislamiento-social-en-quito/
Greetings.— Emilio Mondragón (talk) 21:21, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The largest city of Ecuador in 2019 

message: Currently the main reference for the religion section is a CIA world factbook page on Papua New Guinea, not Ecuador. Tellurium128 (talk) 00:09, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  CIA factbook reference 

message: The city isn't recorded as being the largest in terms of population in Ecuador, Guayaquil is. even the metro population is below Guayaquil's actual population. Statistics are hard to come by, the linked aritcles in both Quito and Guayaquil wiki articles for 2019 are Guayaquil 2,698,077, Quito 1,978,376 and Quito Metro ~2,700,000 , Guayaquil metro 3,113,725.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.59.156.54 (talk) 09:36, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population Discrepancies 

message: User Serols has rolled back my edit correcting the climate classification of Quito.
Cfb is oceanic climate, not Subtropical highland climate.
I don't want to go on an edit fight with that person. If someone can correct the mistake again, thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.199.241.25 (talk) 11:44, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello 114.199.241.25, please use sources. --Serols (talk) 11:53, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Köppen climate classification 

message: I assume the statement in the lede that Quito is the second highest capital in the world assumes that La Paz is the highest one. However, La Paz is the government seat but not the capital of Bolivia making Quito actually the highest capital. Ymblanter (talk) 00:17, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Absent any reaction, I went ahead and made the change Ymblanter (talk) 03:38, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Dear Ymblinter. La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia while Sucre is the constitutional capital of Bolivia. Therefore officially, no, but then again many government sites treat La Paz as a capital. Maybe second or first would be a good solution. Have a great day! Reman Empire (talk) 11:20, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Let us wait for a few more days, and, absent any reactions, I do it like this. Ymblanter (talk) 16:33, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second highest capital