Talk:Porto Alegre

message: Porto Alegre hosts many conventions or groups of people meeting there. Doubtless from within and without Grande do Sul. The inclusion of: "In recent years, Porto Alegre hosted the World Social Forum, an initiative of several Non Government Organizations which criticize the supremacy of capitalism in the international economic relations, and advocate that Governments and corporations should have a deeper social concerns when implementing their politics." borders on characterizing the City as the host of this group. That is untrue. How this group meets there is a private or business matter and that need to be pointed out in the paragraph about the WSF. I'm interested in reading others responses.Mark Preston (talk) 17:49, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  World Social Forum 

message: This page has problems with copyright; This section is identical to several other web sites, like the Brazilian Tourism Portal. What should we do?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.146.2.94 (talk) 04:20, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright

message: Why report my change of "Happy Port" to "Gay Port" as a vandalism?
Happy Port is the translation for "Porto Feliz", not for "Porto Alegre".
Alegre in English is Gay, not Happy. The "Happy Port" is an equivalent for the "Porto Feliz" city, in São Paulo state. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.83.133.147 (talk) 21:35, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken the liberty of reverting your changes for now. If you still feel it should read "gay port", please be sure to provide some reliable sources. Thanks. -- Seed 2.0 21:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Isn't my fault the fact of the jokes about the gay people of Porto Alegre in Brazil, but the fact is the name of the city means Gay Port in english. We can't endanger the quality of the article only because some morons make jokes about the people from Porto Alegre. If Porto Alegre means "Happy Port", what about the city of Porto Feliz? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.83.133.147 (talk) 21:56, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed it to "Glad Port" to keep it distinct from Porto Feliz, while also retaining its proper meaning. In recent years, the word 'gay' has changed from its now outdated meaning, 'happy' or 'joyous,' and therefore is not an accurate reflection of the Portuguese word, 'alegre.' Corvokarasu 16:35, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure the word 'gay' is perhaps most commonly used to refer to homosexuality these days, but the original meaning, 'happy' or 'joyous', is still valid and recognized by most English speakers.  Many English words have multiple meanings and the vast majority of English speakers can differentiate between those meanings.  I'm no linguist, but if the literal translation of 'Alegre' is 'gay', then I think that's how the article should read.  If you feel it is necessary, maybe add 'happy' in brackets, or simply remove the translation altogether as it is unreferenced and adds little to the article.  Substituting a synonym doesn't seem appropriate to me. Strobilus 20:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I googled the English translations of alegre on the internet and found no refererence to the word 'gay.'  It was almost always translated as 'happy' or 'joyous.'  The latter makes the most sense, since feliz is the equivalent of 'happy' already.  (In fact, during the year I lived in Porto Alegre, it was always 'joyous (joyful) port' in my mind, since alegria means 'joy.')  I've included a reference within the article.  I'd be happy to hear what you think of the translation. Corvokarasu 21:19, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Joyous' reads alot better than 'glad', and is referenced to boot.  Nice work. Strobilus 21:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: City Name in English

message: This graph has absolutely no consistancy in the number of years between each incriment. The first incriment is a 22 year jump but the last one is a 1 year jump with everything else in between. What's the deal?
-Dave 22:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Time Scale

message: hi! i have added some info to Museums (Museum Felizardo and Museum Júlio) and Historical Buildings (Piratini Palace) sections, but my english is not perfect. could someone take a look and check the wording? thanks!Ricardofrantz 15:38, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  editions 

message: In June of 2007, material was added to this article in bulk here, copied directly from this website. That site has specific re-use allowances which are inconsistent with GFDL (see here), and this material has had to be removed. Contributors to this article are welcome to rewrite that material in their own words, but it must not be reinstated otherwise. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously. Users who violate copyright in spite of warnings may need to be blocked from contributing to protect the project and the rights of copyright holders. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:47, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Additionally, I am checking over other contributions from that source and locating other copyright violations. I have just removed a paragraph copied and pasted from this website, with only a one word change. As with the above, this and subsequent violations I identify may only be included if rewritten from scratch to avoid copyright violation. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:58, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation removed 

message: I believe I have cleaned all of the extensive copyright violations that were introduced on June 2th (see section immediately above). I have not removed images even if associated with text that has been removed. I will leave that to regular editors of this article or for those with more of an eye to design. Accordingly, I have tagged this article for  in the hopes of attracting someone who can help. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:25, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: have added a section on participatory budgeting to this article. Porto Alegre is pretty notable for that (apparently the first example of a fully fledged participatory budgeting process on this scale). The section is a cut and paste from the participatory budgeting article and might need some work/editing to fit better into this article.--SasiSasi (talk) 12:45, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Participatory budgeting 

message: This article contains sentences such as "The bars here are great," and "the popular music scene is good here."  This article looks like it is written by a seventh grader.  It needs to be fixed.  Sbrianhicks (talk) 23:56, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Poorly Written

message: "3,218,000 White people (79.94%), 477,000 Brown (Multiracial) people (11.84%), 300,000 Black people (7.45%), 19,000 Amerindian people (0.48%), 8,000 Asian people (0.20%)."
This is a lie! I live here, and it's more like: White (15%), Multiracial (60%)... I don't know why people write this lies in Wikipedia, anyone who visit the city can know this 80% white is a big lie, of course there are neighborhoods where it is like 70% white, but they are exceptions... Maybe for the rest of Rio Grande do Sul it's 30% white, and in some cities it's 70%...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.107.3.224 (talk) 15:29, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics 

message: This article makes mention several times of "Alluvial port". 
Assuming that what was intended by the author was to state that the city is a port on a river,
should this not be "fluvial port", which is also very similar to the Portuguese "porto fluvial"?
Interestingly, if you Google "Alluvial port" in quotes, it comes up almost exclusively with the text from this page (and a large number of other pages with the identical text...).
I am interested to find out whether or not I am mistaken on this, so have not taken the liberty of editing the original text.
Thank you.
177.81.39.225 (talk) 15:55, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alluvial port? 

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