Talk:Portugal/Archive 2

message: This article seems to be being hijacked by
someone who does not want diversity of views
and factual mentions.
Good or bad --
The late years of the corporative regime were not a dictatorship. There was Parliament (even with a small opposition called the liberal side. It was not a democracy, there was censorship, oppressive state police, but not comparable for example with the soviet regime. Go to dictatorship and check for yourself.
Portugal was a founder of OECD, NATO and EFTA. Thgis s a pure fact
There are evidence in public documents, namely in the Portuguese state archive with several recent media reports that there was attempts for reform going on. They did not succeed, at least in time.
* I think it is pretty obvious that the regime was a dictatorship until 1974. Afonso Silva 11:02, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  nature of pre-1974 regime 

message: pedropvz, if you think this is your personal homepage where you state your personal opinions, you should leave the wikipedia community.
[anonymous]
*Learn the basic of wikipedia before talking. POV means Point of View, that is what you added about abortion. Wikipedia is not a blog. -Pedro 00:50, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia is not a personal home page!!! 

message: In the name of all wikipedians, I'd like to ask you to stop arguing, please.
I'm trying to make John III of Portugal a featured article and I need some help. If someone is willing to give me a hand... By the way, I'm open to proposals for a Portuguese kings and Portuguese history projects. Thanks. --Gameiro 02:16, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is nominated for This week's improvement drive. Please help, and vote for it. Thanks.--Gameiro 18:43, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Help needed

message: First, notice to all contributors: English uses articles much more sparsely than portuguese, so refrain from constantly using "the". For example, "Modern portugal has its roots..." instead of "The modern Portugal has its roots...".
My changes were few, mainly to improve style and readability. I did replace
: Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the last 30 and 20 years, respectively, of the 20th century.
for "the last third of the 20th century". I found that too specific and prone to controversy -- several economists and sociologists, for example, place Portugal's early economic rise in the 60's. My version seemed to me abstract enough for embracing different opinions, yet keeping descriptive value. Besides, it's simpler and flows better.
--koenige 23:25, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Improved introduction

message: Just to state that Fernão Mendes Pinto is nomimated for Wikipedia:Biography Collaboration of the Week. Your vote would be appreciated. Gito 00:16, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Biography Collaboration

message: Before adding pictures or adding not very useful info, please think twice:
* the article shouldnt expand too much, it must remain interresting and informative in a global perspective. If you want more specific info, please add in the proper article.
* There are too many pics in the article, some unnecessary. Although we need more and better pics. But related to the section. I would be interresting to add pictures from the middle ages. Or a picture of a Portuguese map, or something that would make the article more beautiful.
pics needed:
*something from the middle ages
*something from the discovery age (map or something in Portugal)
*first republic.
*we need a cool pic from the university of Coimbra or the university of Lisbon.
*A pic for Portuguese cuisine.
*A pic for Jogo do Pau or any other popular game.
*A pic of Marchas populares in Lisbon or São do João of Porto, or braga or wathever looks nicer.
*another ideas?
more info needed on the following sections:
*fauna and flora
*demographics
*mor einfo on other traditional sports. There are so many, we choose the best and the most welldocumented.
*cuisine -- this area is very poor. :(
--Pedro 16:02, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The article is a mess

message: this sections seems a chat, and extremelly POV, wikipedia is not to discuss nothing or reflects one's opinion. This article is about PORTUGAL for god's sake! -Pedro 19:08, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: =The republis subsection

message: The article about Portugal is bigger than the articles about Spain, England or even United States... Some of the text going on here should be considered on individual topics... this or the size of the article seems to represent somekind of reaction to any inferior complexity problems... that's what i thought, and maybe i was not the only one
*nice comment you got there, your complexity problems are not issues in wikipedia. -Pedro 11:14, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something is wrong 

message: Ppl, pics are ok if related to the section, this is not a tourist article nor the Lisbon's article! -Pedro 16:45, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: useless pics

message: I am looking for someone with some knowledge of Portugal, specifically places called Santana, to help sort out some wikilinks. At Special:Whatlinkshere/Santana (disambiguation) there are a few pages that link to Santana, which should ideally link to, for exmaple Santana, freguesias. You would be helping out the link reapir project. --Commander Keane 19:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Santana 

message: Just to state that Henry the Navigator is nominated for Wikipedia:Biography Collaboration of the Week. If you want just add your vote. Cheers!Gameiro 20:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Henry the Navigator 

message: Why is the motto suddenly changing from "For the good of the Nation" to "none" back and forth? Seems the people editing aren't coming to a conclusion. In doubt I searched Google and there are other sites that portray the such "For the good of the Nation/O bem da nacao" motto such as Fifa's world cup website.. who is correct after all? - Guest 23:22, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motto undecided?