Talk:Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

message: Between 23 December 2006 and 28 January 2007 there has been a survey about which names the articles for the municipalities in the Brussels region should have. The municipalities in question have different names in French and Dutch, the two official languages of the region. A majority of contributors to the survey prefers using one single same over using both names in the title. This single name should follow English usage, which has been determined using domain specific Google searches. 
The final result of the survey is that:
*for the following municipalities the French name has been chosen, in line with the most commonly used names in English:
**Auderghem 
**Forest, Belgium 
**Ixelles 
**Saint-Gilles, Belgium 
**Saint-Josse-ten-Noode 
**Schaerbeek 
**Uccle 
**Watermael-Boitsfort 
**Woluwe-Saint-Lambert 
**Woluwe-Saint-Pierre 
*for the following municipalities no significant preference in the English language has been found. After discussion, the Dutch names have been chosen:
**Sint-Jans-Molenbeek  
**Sint-Agatha-Berchem 
Details about the survey can be found at Talk:Brussels-Capital Region/NamingArchive3. Markussep 18:39, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Names survey, result

message: The word molen means mill in the singular (cf Old English mylen, French moulin). The plural in Dutch is molens. LynwoodF (talk) 17:52, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivation 

message: The artical mentions Molenbeek as a breeding ground for terrorist. I believe this is unnecessary stigmatizing a whole lot of inhabitants. Molenbeek is now the center of a political "war" (sorry cannot find the correct english word) between old and new regime. The Paris terror attacks, and Molenbeek suspects, are now politically used. I would like Wikipedia to be more neutral. Please undo the edits.Sennaw (talk) 13:31, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Maybe worth mentioning that this is a POV rather than an established fact. Even so Molenbeek is now widely viewed as one of the many places where radical Islam has built a bridgehead. Maybe it will be Sint-Joost next week! Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 20:18, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  regarding Paris attacks 

message: The article mentions, in the section called "21st Century", that the population has grown by 25% since 2010. This is inaccurate. I think the person who wrote this misunderstood their source article, which in any case dates from 2011. 
In fact Molenbeek has grown by under 10% since 2010, as you can see from the French-language entry. That entry has a table of populations of Molenbeek over time. Would it be worthwhile to recopy that table here? In any case I'm changing the inaccurate fact for now. 132.206.33.61 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 19:20, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: What does this line in the opening even mean? It doesn't reference anything.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.12.52.219 (talk) 11:05, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "home to most of the migrants" 

message: Marka is a singer. His real name is Serge Van Laeken and he was indeed born at Molenbeek. There is an article on French WP (link here) and I have put him on my list of possible future articles. LynwoodF (talk) 00:42, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There is now an article on Marka and I have put a link on SJM. LynwoodF (talk) 13:22, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: He probebly is bron in Watermaal bosvoorde and grew -up in Molenbeek. Vdkdaan (talk) 22:01, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marka 

message: I think we can all agree that terrorism is not the defining issue of Molenbeek.  Sadly, however, for 15 years, many of the world's terrorist affairs have originated in Molenbeek.  In fact, there are entire articles in places like Le Monde, Die Welt, The Guardian, Time, etc., dedicated to how much Molenbeek is a center of European terrorism.  Now, this may not be palatable, but the headlines are " "Molenbeek, la plaque tournante belge du terrorisme islamise", i.e., Molenbeek is unfortunately described as "The Hub of Terrorism".  In the headlines.  Now, are we as an encyclopaedia to hide this?I think this is worth mentioning because user  DePiep  entirely blanked out the section.  Cheerio.  XavierItzm (talk) 11:44, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an encyclopedia, not a political pamphlet. At least there should be some logic instead of causeless associations. -DePiep (talk) 15:16, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: So when Le Monde publishes an article about "The Hub of Terrorism" (Molenbeek), this is a causeless association? XavierItzm (talk) 03:47, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

text: It's just social justice warriors not yet getting enough bombings in Europe to have their blinders blown off. Can't offend Religion of Peace(tm) and its adherents, vast majority(tm) of whom are peaceful people. 193.165.237.11 (talk) 21:14, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whitewashing of the terrorism issue 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: :Molenbeek-Saint-Jean →  –
This article title has changed without consensus. There is a long established Brussels naming convention where is agreed that the name of this article should be Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. Brussels is not a French-speaking city but bilingual. --Wester (talk) 23:57, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There was an RfC, just above, where there were two "supports", one "agnostic" (me), and one "let's just call it Molenbeek" or words to that effect. It was closed, plausibly, as consensus for the move. Dhtwiki (talk) 21:13, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we reached consensus that past discussions have concluded that the French name should be used, being the name most frequently used in English. Rp (talk) 08:25, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be true that the Brussels naming conventions should be re-discussed. What was true in 2007 is not necessarily so now. I seriously question whether the average user would genuinely prefer an ugly and genuinely unhelpful term like "Sonian Forest" purely in the interests of linguistic balance. —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:54, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Back to Brussels naming convention

message: I can't find the figures in this section in the referenced document, but it contains figures that contradict them: on tab 1.3.9, it says 3,343 inhabitants in Molenbeek are from North Africa, which is inconsistent with 5,960 being from Morocco.
Let's point out the exact source for the present figures, or replace them. Rp (talk) 14:43, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Migrant communities in Molenbeek with over 1,000 people as of 1 January 2020: