Talk:Málaga

message: I think the entire large paragraph about temperature under the climate section is extremely lacking in references or citations. It seems like a biased personal account, and not a very accurate one I might add. Homerkp (talk) 19:19, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "Warmest European city with population over 100,000" etc.      Seems wrong, or at least not specific enough.   Heraklion, Greece has a warmer average temperature during December-February (although lower maxima).
Limassol, Cyprus is much warmer for average and max.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.140.102.34 (talk) 14:15, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

text: Don't take account of those comments, they were maded in 2011, 6 years ago! --TechnicianGB (talk) 20:16, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate 

message: Added two famous births - does anyone know any other births/ citation for those I put (I'm not sure if citating to another wikipedia article will be enough)
Can someone please add the writer Antonio Soler to this list?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:347B:5230:55E8:DED:D742:9599 (talk) 16:36, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That Antonio Soler does not have an article on English Wikipedia. OrganicEarth (talk) 17:42, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable people 

message: It would be nice to see more about the character of the city - what sort of tourists does it attract, is it more of a city of culture or of drunken British tourists?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amh15 (talk • contribs) 08:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Culture 

message: Sorry, the link should be  www.guide-to-malaga.co.uk  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.4.219 (talk) 15:53, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Please wait for a response on this talkpage when you announce your intentions to include these Terje Raa travel stories. Don’t include them yourself, as including these links are your only contributions here, you seem to have a conflict of interest. Please wait for community input, thanks. --Van helsing 12:36, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

text: External links policy on Advertising and conflicts of interest states You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, and in this case, you are Terje Raa . Unfortunately your  conflict of interest editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote yourself and your articles. Such a conflict is strongly discouraged. Your contributions to wikipedia under Scribbleman  consist entirely of promoting Terje Raa / bootsnall.com / travellady.com and is considered  WP:Spam. Looking through your contributions as a whole, the all seem to be Terje Raa/bootsnall.com/travellady.com related only. Please do not continue adding links to your own websites to Wikipedia. It has become apparent that your account are only being used for spamming inappropriate external links and for self-promotion.  Wikipedia is NOT a "repository of links" or a "vehicle for advertising" and persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines. You're here to improve Wikipedia -- not just to promote yourself, right?  --Hu12 13:40, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: External link

message: I have updated the date of population of Málaga according to the information of 2008 census of National institute of statistics. --195.55.52.201 (talk) 07:51, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Costa del Sol Tourist Board 

message: The last paragraph of the introduction doesn't seem very objective. "Charming citizens" etc. Delete or alter? 82.20.46.147 (talk) 17:36, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-encyclopaedic language

message: I'm not totally sure that Málaga is at New Zealand. Maybe it's the famous continental drift.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.134.140.67 (talk) 21:39, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: I have taken out the table of links to bus timetables for this article and for Nerja.  They don't belong here, as we are neither a directory or a travel guide. They are more suited to Wikitravel.--Dmol (talk) 22:21, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bus timetables removed 

message: I have created new main article History of Málaga which incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Spanish Wikipedia. Carlstak (talk) 06:11, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Created new main article on "History of Málaga" 

message: What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 15:18, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of Málaga]] 

message: Local repression by the Francoist military dictatorship was perhaps the harshest of the civil war, with an estimated 17,000–20,000?
what the number in modern history?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.41.3.21 (talk) 08:21, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  After the Battle of Málaga and the Francoist takeover in February 1937, over seven thousand people were killed.[9]  

message: The mean maximum or minimum (average record high or low) is the average highest and lowest temperatures to be observed in a particular month or year, not simply the highest and lowest average maximums and minimums. Therefore this data cannot be in the same weather box, to avoid confusion. Ever since this data had been added I have been confused looking at the mean maximums, as it would indicate to me that the highest temperature of the year is 33.0°C on average, until I finally worked out this was not the case. Therefore the data is in a seperate box, it is not simply to my liking it is the only correct way to keep it on with the functions that wikipedia currently has.
The record highs and lows should be the highest and lowest temperatures since the weather station began operation. There is no link to the extremes that other editors are claiming, only the official source which says 30.0°C record high in February. It does not matter that the weather station is moved, the extremes aren't going to be that different within the same city. What other weather boxes do not use the full length of the extreme period, the rules say it should be of the longest length possible?--10 December 2017 (talk) 13:46, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: They are ok and they should remain like that, like I inserted them a lot of months ago. Climates like Los Ángeles (amongst loots of others) have also the means included, it's not hard to say at the left to see which is the "mean maximum" and which is the "average highs" so that's easily distinguishable. For the extremes is ok to use data from 1942, I agree with that! But about the mean maximum and minimums are OK and should be in the same weather box just as they are in any article. --TechnicianGB (talk) 18:04, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You are completely disillusioned. The mean maximums and minimums for Los Angeles are absolutely correct and should be in the same weather box, because they are on average the highest and lowest temperatures to be observed in a particular month. There is no way that Los Angeles averaged an average high of 28.5°C in any January, temperatures above the mean maximums and below the mean minimums are meant to be unusual. 20°C is not unusual in Malaga in January and yet the mean maximum is 19.6°C - not the same as the average record high. In contrast, 29°C is unusual in January in Los Angeles. Having them in the weather box when they aren't what they mean is confusing.--10 December 2017 (talk) 21:21, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I see your point. In this case is true so I will rv again and let your proposal. --TechnicianGB (talk) 04:13, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate data 

message: More on the Phoenicians and the strategy they were employing w/r/t forts at the mouths of Iberian rivers at this source. — LlywelynII 07:19, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Phoenicians

message: First the original Phoenician name is given as Malakah. From the West Semitic root MLK, this might be linked to any of several meanings like king, queen, property, realm, kingdom, etc. In the next sentence the article derives the same name from the Semitic root MLḤ meaning salt, providing a plausible reason for naming a city after salt. 
The point is that Semitic roots don't switch around like that. Semitic roots are distinguished by their sequence of three consonants, each of which remains stable throughout the many transformations of the root into different words, and Ḥ is a completely different root letter from K—Hebrew ח and כ, Arabic ح and ك. (Arabic weak verbs, in which certain letters are unstable, do not apply in this case. The Hebrew merger of ח and כ to the same sound /x/ or [χ] is of historically recent development, so at the time of the founding of Málaga they used the ancient pronunciations of Phoenician and Hebrew, where the two phonemes are distinct: /ħ/ and /k/.)
It would be great for the article if this discrepancy has been resolved. If it hasn't, at least the article needs to indicate that the two roots are different and that a discrepancy exists. As it is now, it makes it look like the slide of /ħ/ > /k/ was unremarkable. Which doesn't happen in languages, historically. The article should note that there are two different proposed etymol[o]gies for Málaga. Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 17:11, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, that took forever but . Spanish Wiki and , agree that the Punic name was  () and, despite the cite at History of Malaga, you raise such good objections that we shouldn't mention the "salt" derivation at all, pending better sources. As a general matter, it's much more likely to come from something regarding Iberians, Melqart, or kings than something from an entirely different triliteral root unless we have very specific sourcing about this sound change in Punic. This etymology has been sitting unchallenged on Wiki for so long that it's likely crept into some less careful sources, but they should be discounted. The one at History of Malaga is entirely off topic (it's about Greek pottery) and can't be trusted to have been carefully considered w/r/t this point. — LlywelynII 04:52, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool, thanks. Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 09:20, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate your concerns, LlywelynII, but this is English WP, after all, so I've changed the cites to link to English Google Books, rather than Korean Google Books. Carlstak (talk) 14:57, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you sure it shouldn't be Malaka (i.e., without the "h"}, rather than Malake? Huss is the only scholarly source I can find that spells it Malake. All others I've found use Malaka. Christopher Wawn and David Wood say, "The name Malaga is a corruption of the earlier form, Malaca, which has been taken by some to be derived from the rather obscure goddess Malake. Since no-one appears ever to have worshipped Malake, this seems unlikely. It is far more probable that it is related to the Phoenician word malak or malac, which has associations with the food-salting and conserving industry." Carlstak (talk) 16:12, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semitic etymology 

message: The Spanish word "facultad" doesn't mean faculty. "Facultad" means "school" or "college," in the sense used here, "college of science" or "school of engineering." This doesn't just mean faculty, but also students and the class programs. It should be changed to "college" or "school."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by UnpythonicProgrammer (talk • contribs) 15:20, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: mxh 2A01:C844:206C:B600:F575:7AEF:E764:9236 (talk) 14:33, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universities section: "Faculty"