Talk:Taranto

message: This town has an established English name: Tarent. These articles and texts should use it. 62.78.104.103 23:04, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Where is "Tarent" used in English texts? I have always seen it as Taranto. Adam Bishop 03:25, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 62.78.104.103 is wrong. "Tarent" is the French name, that is widely used in heraldry, and he probably copied the names from such a book. The name of the city was Taras in Greek times, Tarentum in Roman times, and Taranto later. No English names.--Panairjdde 08:51, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

text: Taranto has been used in English at least in the last century. See, for example, the Battle of Taranto, as it was called in UK newspapers. As regards heraldry, you can use the form you prefer for unknown offsprings of unimportant nobles, but a prince should be called with the name he ruled with. If you are interested in Renaissance history of Southern Italy, you will find Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini on history books, not John of Tarent, as in your heraldry books.--Panairjdde 08:50, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: It looks like you are more interested in heraldry than in history. Do as you please.--Panairjdde 07:23, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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message: Beth Holmes 1 (talk) 12:23, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: I found and added references for twinning with Brest and being a sister city to Donetsk.  The others should probably be removed though, I can't find any evidence of them being true.  Anyone know about this?
Beth Holmes 1 (talk) 16:17, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twinning 

message: It may be more useful if this was presented graphically. Possibly the arial photo could be labled, or a separate map created.Joshden (talk) 17:05, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Great Sea and the Little Sea diagram 

message: Who was this man?
I can not find anything on him or on his occupation.--88.152.148.24 (talk) 20:24, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael of Taranto? 

message: The name used in modern English atlases, guidebooks and elsewhere is Taranto. It is amazing that above there is an apparently earnest discussion about the place-name. See, for example, The Reader's Digest Illustrated Atlas of the World, 1st ed., 1997. p. 95. For Victorian usage, see for example, Beeton's Dictionary of Geography ..., 19th thousand, n. d., [c.1860], where the place is also called Taranto. What's more, this astounding lack of common sense doesn't even seem to be motivated by the usual Wikipedia horror of 'original research'. Norvo (talk) 03:32, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place-Name again 

message: The article currently claims that ancient Taras, c. 500 B.C.E., had 300,000 people. This is extremely large, though not impossibly large, for ancient cities. This is referenced to four sources. I can't check two of them. I can check the other two, which data from 1811 and 1854, before the emergence of historical demography, before much development of archaeology, etc. I don't see how these sources could have any reliable information about the population of Taras. Mogens Herman Hansen, in The Shotgun Method, states that the walls encompassed 530 hectares, which, given his formua, would give an estimated population of 26,500 people. 96.231.17.143 (talk) 02:24, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient population 

message: There is a big issue going on there with metals dust. I saw a thing last night on abc.net.au and really it was shocking. 
The health risks in Taranto are very substantial, as I learned, and navy ships should not dock there often or for more than a short time. If I was Italian and had a son in the navy, I would urge him to find each and every loophole to not be in Taranto, even leaving the forces. It is a topic that should not be omitted. 2001:8003:AD87:D400:DCDF:1EB4:18E0:5D4 (talk) 02:39, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steel works 

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message: I would like the protection template added. 64.114.239.31 (talk) 16:44, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Madeline (part of me) 17:30, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 September 2022 

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message: 1) I know there are cites but, once you're laundry listing every possible way English speakers mispronounce the Italian name and since there's no common way to badly misread it, you're not actually helping any  at all by bloating the lead sentence like that. That mess belongs at Taranto's Wiktionary entry, not here. (Neither here nor there but the cites don't seem particularly accurate in this case anyway. Some Brits will read it with an /ɒ/ that they can't much distinguish from US /ɑ/ and some Yanks will use /æ/ and it's all six of one, half dozen the other. Similarly, even the current mess doesn't include the common and perfectly acceptable variant pronunciations that use /ɛ/ in the first syllable.
2) I personally don't think the Italian IPA needs to be here either since Italian orthography is very straight-forwardly phonetic in this case, but I do know it's common enough in our articles and, since it's short enough, I'll just leave that as a compromise towards the earlier editors who wanted some IPA in the lede til another editor agrees with me enough to remove that too. (Full support.)
3) What would be better down the road would be for a separate #Name or #Names section to include the various names of the place in various involved languages all together. Once that's created, all the pronunciation info could be dumped there or footnoted from there without the  problems caused by mucking up the lead sentence like we have been doing. — LlywelynII 08:17, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:NOTDICT]]

message: "Overview" is what the article's lead paragraphs should already be doing. That section should be removed as soon as possible by any interested editor and the sections around it changed to incorporate its points appropriately. — LlywelynII 08:17, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Further cleanup