Talk:Alicante

message: The city of Alacant/Alicante has two official names. Alacant is the original Catalan one. The Spanish name Alicante was given by Franco. During this time Catalan language was interdicted. All villages got Spanish names and even family names were re-named. After death of the dictator the city became Alacant again but the Spanish name stayed official as a second hand name. Habitants of Alacant prefer the Catalan name because their mother tongue is Catalan.
Because of this reasons, we re-named the German article in Alacant. You should re-name the English article, too.
Best wishes
Hanno Meissner
:In en:wiki, with few exceptions, we use the name with which English speakers are most familiar, e.g. Florence, not Firenze, although we mention other names in the beginning of the article. The name by which this town is known in English is Alicante. - Montréalais 21:06, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you that it would be preferable if English speakers would call it Alacant. However, we do not have the authority as encyclopedists to effect that change. There is some precedent for preferring a less well known title due to an older title's offensiveness, but as far as I can tell, that is only when the less well known title is still widely known. I'm prepared to debate the question, however. - Montréalais 05:58, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: I'm agree whith this alicantinian. I'm an alacantinian Catalan-speaker, and the Catalan name of Alacant is older as its Spanish name, Alicante. But I'm not agree about the 10% of the population speaks catalan, it must be more exactly explained: the 10% speaks commonly catalan, but the catalan comprehension language is 85% of the population, and the 70% of the population knows speaks Catalan as billingual. By another subject, the name of Alacant cames from the arabic name of Medina Laqant, wich means "Lighting City" taked from the latin name Lukentum, and itselves taked from phoenician name of Akra Leuka. But the arabic population from Alacant (from 8th to 13th century) called it commonly as al-Laqant, wich means "the lighting", and when Catalan and Aragonese christians arrived in 13th century, changed the name to Alacant, Catalan name gave by the King James I "the Conqueror" of Aragon, in his own chronicles book Llibre dels Fets ("Book of facts"). But Alacant was ofered to the King Alfonso X "the learned" of Castille, who changed the name to Villa Laqant. Around 50 years after of it, Alacant returned to Aragonese dominion, under the Kingdom of Valencia. --Martorell 11:17, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: You're in truth. I would apologize for the mistaken that I've done. I probably was confused with another survey. Altough the catalan language was forbiden in Alacant until year 1975, it's gainning in more and more speakers since 1986. From the same study you give below, let's to see the table of percentages:
The Valencian at Alacant	1986	1991	2001
Understands             	56% 	72% 	81%
Talks                   	22% 	25% 	28%
Reads                   	12% 	24% 	33%
Writes                  	3%  	8%  	15%
It's clear there are an important recovering of catalan-speakers group in Alacant, and the latest data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística of year 2003, gives the percentage of alacantinian catalan-speaker the 33% of alacantinian population. 
And about the name, both name are widely known, and both are also official in the law here in Spain. It's meaning that in the maps edited in Spain by the Administation it's obligatory to use both names, in any language used. --Martorell 23:16, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the city 

message: I added a link pointing to www.bootsnall.com/articles/06-09/a-handful-of-spanish-towns-elche-orihuela-murcia-cartagena-and-alicante-spain.html "A Handful of Spanish Towns" This is a travel story connecting Alicante, Elche, Orihuela, Murcia and Cartagena.
Scribbleman 08:06, 26 October 2007 (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 12:37, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: 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 13:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: External link

message: The 'Recent History' section is absolutely too long and it seems to focus only on the recent developments regarding the city's port. Perhaps this matter is deserving of its own article, but I do not believe its place is here - since this is an article about Alicante, a short summary would do.Ilva (talk) 09:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Too long

message: and I appear to be having a bit of a content dispute on the information he/she added to the Recent history section of this article. He/she feels that it "constitutes important public information", while I feel that it verges on original research and soapboxing, putting undue weight on this particular subject. Please comment. AecisBrievenbus 23:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's certainly relevant information but it's too long and unbalances the article. I think it would be best to reduce it down and transfer the rest to a new 'history of alicante' article. Valenciano (talk) 08:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent history section  

message: How can Romanians have illegal alien status in Spain when they are EU citizens (meaning they have a  right to live anywhere in the EU) and they can even work legally there? Spain ended the temporary restrictions to its labour market as employees for Romanians on January 1, 2009.
174.6.67.115 (talk) 04:38, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanians = illegal aliens? 

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message: Here on wiki Alicante winter temps are more like San Jose ca with Dec and Jan averaging in the low 60's,then Los Angeles that averages about 70f in Dec and Jan.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:642:4101:4167:91EE:54B6:3476:22F6 (talk) 03:39, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not as warm as Los Angeles. 

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message: The Climate normals used in the Weather Box are really mixed up. Average temperatures and records highs are from the Alicant/Alacant airport while precipitation and sunshine hours are from the Alicante/Elche airport, record lows are from neither of them and should be considerably lower than they are represented.
The normals that should definitely be altered are the record lows. Ill probably edit that later, if anyone is against that please let me know and I also don't know what should be done with the mixing of climate tables. Average Portuguese Joe (talk) 20:58, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weather Box