Talk:Zeeland

message: I hate to be a stickler but the Antipodes of Nea Zealand lies in or off the coast of Spain.  I have therefore deleted the claim
Graemec2 09:43, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antipode 

message: The use of the spelling Zeeland in English is incorrect according to traditional English spelling. 
The Dutch province, after which New Zealand is named, has always been spelt Zealand in English. The use of the same name and spelling for the Danish island came into use later. 
Spellings such as Zeeland/Zeelandic and Friesland/Friesian are not acceptable English spellings (they should be Zealand/Zealandic, Frisia/Frisian), although they are used in Wikipedia, and arise from improper knowledge of English orthographic tradition by Dutch contributors to Wikipedia.
-AvL 15 January 2006
: I doubt this. I looked it up in two reference sources, in the Van Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels (1996), which translates 'Friesland' as 'Friesland' and 'Zeeland' as 'Zeeland' (but at the same time, 'Noord-Brabant' is translated as 'North Brabant'); and secondly, the New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English language (1991), which lists under 'Zealand' only the Danish Island, and under 'Zeeland' the Dutch province; also, it lists 'Friesland' (not only for the Dutch province, but also for the entire region) but not 'Frisia' - however, the adjective it uses is 'Frisian' (without 'e'). It seems that, at the very least, the authorities are divided - do you have anything to substantiate your point of view?
: The common usage on Wikipedia seems to be that Friesland refers to the Dutch province, whereas Frisia seems to refer to the entire region that stretches out from the Netherlands to Denmark. Joost 23:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that Friesian with 'ie' is a misspelling (except - apparently - when it concerns certain cows, but I won't make any claims about that). It is only used a few times here on Wikipedia, however, and in general the adjective Frisian is used. About Zeeland: yes, New Zealand is a pointer that, historically, the province may also have been spelled Zealand, but it seems that nowadays, the authorities simply have differing opinions, and I think it goes too far to say that one is simply wrong. So I suggest to edit any occurence of Friesian to Frisian, but other than that just to keep things as they are, as there is nothing which is clearly wrong according to contemporary standards. The article on Zealand (the Danish island) has a redirect to Zeeland at the top, so this shouldn't cause much problems, either. Perhaps it would be better, though, to start the article with: "Zeeland, in English also called Zealand, etc..." Joost 11:02, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: : I totally agree with above! I'm from the Netherlands, but my conclusion is also that the Enlgish name of Zeeland should be "Zealand". The title "Zeeland" is not according to the Wikipedia:Naming conventions. So, therefore I will put the template {move|new title} in top of this article. My suggestion is to rename this article to: Zealand (Netherlands). Demophon (talk) 02:32, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Seems ok, although in that case the Danish one should be renamed Zealand (Denmark) and Zealand without any additions should point to the (already existing) disambiguation page. Arnoutf (talk) 21:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: Should we mention that the ancestral home of the Roosevelt Family (FDR, TR, etc.) is located in Zeeland? 04:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe interesting for the Roosevelt family - merely trivia here. Arnoutf (talk) 21:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roosevelt family ancestral home 

message: Perhaps it's interesting to mention the specific religious situation in Zeeland? In Zeeland are many strict-calvinist churches, Zeeland has an interesting place in Dutch church-history especialy for the so-called 'bevindelijk gereformeerden'. My English is pretty bad :), so I can't do it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.241.190.142 (talk) 12:35, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion 

message: The same photo labelled here as showing the 1953 flood in a town in Zeeland, appears in the article on that 1953 flood but there it's captioned as a different town that's not in Zeeland. Does anyone know which one is correct?
118.93.239.253 (talk) 09:51, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flooding Photo Caption