Talk:Mechelen

message: I just want to announce that Openstreetmap.org will organise a mapping party in Mechelen on the 9th of February. Everybody is welcome to come and help. A better map will be available for use in Wikipedia after the event.
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--Polyglot (talk) 17:07, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Openstreetmap.org mapping party 

message: More details about the cavalcade in Mechelen would be helpful, here or on Cavalcade. --Una Smith (talk) 12:40, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cavalcade

message: Philippe Couplet was a Jesuit missionary to China, born in Malines. PHG (talk) 15:43, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Philippe Couplet

message: With some regret I removed the additions by IP-user 84.196.113.124. There was some interesting info there, but the lack of references and the very poor language made it inacceptable to me. Actually, it looked liked some kind of tourist info flyer passed through a translation machine, with little if any subsequent correction or polish-up. Had the user created an account, some discussion had been possible and I would gladly have offered helped in refining the text. Jan olieslagers (talk) 15:18, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed addition about religious orders and buildings 

message: I have some trouble with the recent mention of the French denomination Malines - not as such, but rather with the emphasised side-note "French is an official language in Belgium". While not untrue, this seems irrelevant to me - one might as well emphasise the Greek name of the good city - if any - on the grounds that the city is in Europe, and Greek is an official European language. Greek being an example, of course, Portuguese or Latvian would serve equally. But I know the subject of languages is delicate, especially in little Belgium, so I won't revert the supposedly well-meant modification without discussion. Jan olieslagers (talk) 16:26, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The word "Malines" is not only French it is the english classical and traditional form of the name of this town. --Bruxellensis (talk) 10:36, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I always understood that traditionally the English say "Mechlin" rather. But this is not my point. The Malines mention can certainly be there; but I should prefer it to be on par with any other foreign-language names. Still waiting for Frau Arendt's comments. Jan olieslagers (talk) 11:50, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

text: For example: the Malines Conversations.--Bruxellensis (talk) 12:55, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

text: As a traveller, the name Malines is important. It has nothing to do with politics, rather, when a train conductor gives an announcement in French after garbling the English announcement (if any was given!), this may be the only way to know what he's talking about. A more extreme example has been the issuing of Eurostar tickets to Bruxelles-Midi, while most of the signs say Brussel-Zuid! Or was it vice-versatile? Stagehand (talk) 06:37, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: When travelling to a place where cultures meet, some preparation is never wasted. When travelling from Munich to Milano, one might be confused to find the destination announced as "Mailand". Far worse surprise on the return trip, when the Bavarian capital has become Monaco. But again, I am not saying the mention of Malines should not be there; I just insisted it should be on par with other foreign denominations. Jan olieslagers (talk) 06:43, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Malines" 

message: Böri (talk) 08:52, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the etymology of Mechelen? 

message: In the section on dialect, the Mechlinian dialect is described as "pin-pointingly distinct from other Brabantic dialects". "Pin-pointingly" is not idiomatic English, and I don't understand what is intended by it. Can somebody please correct? GrindtXX (talk) 23:54, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dialect 

message: The name of this Dutch-speaking town is Mechelen. It's traditional English name is Mechlin, whereas the French version, Malines, is also the most common modern English form. The German version has no justifiable place in the articles lead as,  
*German is an official language of Belgium, but this does not apply to the Flemish region, ie. there are no trilingual road signs and the city of Mechelen does not publish any of its official documents in German or anything of the sort. 
*The German version of the article doesn't even use the German form.
*Mechelen has no cultural link to either German or Germany. 
AKAKIOS (talk) 16:43, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed it, seeing that nobody objects. AKAKIOS (talk) 08:35, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of "Mecheln" from the lead