Talk:Punta Arenas

Population 2000 : 120 thousands or 130 thousands, you must see spanish wikipedia.

Sorry : I write french wikipedia; I can't modify easily english wikipedia.

wrong name[edit]

>>>>"Ironically it was an English pirate captain, Thomas Cavendish, who rescued the last surviving member of Fuerte Bulnes in 1587."<<<<< nonono hijo mio. Fuerte Bulnes was founded 1845 by the holy chilean goverment, not in 1587 by the vile race of the spaniards.

uhh, that doesn't sound very NPOV to me.

merge and redirect...[edit]

Someone placed merge tags on [[Punta Arenas]] and [[Punta Arenas, Chile]].

Yesterday another contributor redirected this article to the other article, and then pasted in all the material from this article to the longer article. I think they must be a new user who didn't realize how disruptive this would be. I reverted their changes. An article's edit history is important.

This article should be the primary article. The other article should redirect here, because this article has the longer edit history. -- Geo Swan 17:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good call. Frankly, in my opinion it is unimportant which one of those two page titles is preferable (no disambiguation is needed, so ", Chile" is not really necessary), as long as any page moves are done using the page-moving function which transfers the associated history and discussion. //Big Adamsky 18:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Woudlnt it improve the quality better, if you merged the *lower* quality article into the *higher* quality article? Rather then the simple number of edits? Your call... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.118.64 (talk) 15:52, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History merge.[edit]

In July 2006, the contents of this article were copied and pasted into Punta Arenas, and replaced with a redirect. It was the second cut-and-paste move in the history. The first one was about four months earlier, and it was caught and corrected before any other edits occurred. Since the July move, a lot has happened, so I moved that part of the history over to this title, and merged it with the pre-July history that had been sitting here all along. Back at Punta Arenas, you can still see the pre-July history of that page.

Anyway, for consistency, and per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (settlements)#Chile, the name of the article is Punta Arenas, Chile, and here we are. -GTBacchus^(talk) 20:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC) Bold text[reply]

Potentialy Dangerous.[edit]

Now that Dr Jamie Abarca's paper has been pubslihed, and accepted by a refreed journal, reflecting the study of the deaths of 176 patients from carcinoma, I think we can actually say Fatally exposed to dangerous levels of ozone radtion. Are we still arguing about the causes of ozone depletion while people are dying? ... and the band played on ... Artoftransformation 02:07, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

it's not "ozone radiation" ozone is not radioactive. It's UV radiation.--190.22.121.70 (talk) 23:05, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On the Importance.[edit]

I dont want to troll, but I would like to have this article rated for importance, based upon the previous discussion. If an ozone hole the size of the antartic ozone hole of 2005 ( The largest, and last recorded ), were to appear over the arctic, exposing 2.4 billion people to "Potentially Dangerous" levels of "UV-A and UV-B" radation, and the same rate of carconoma occured, millions would die. Read the last sentence a few times. The impact of this, could be extrodinarlly catostropic. It would make Global Warming insignificant. I just want to add ONE answer to Chief Justice inquiry about 'When is this catastrophy supposed to happen?'

A: http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-12/2006-12-20-voa42.cfm?CFID=187505112&CFTOKEN=45112042

"US First Lady Laura Bush Treated for Squamous Cell Carcinoma"

Citations[edit]

01:22, 21 March 2008 Betacommand ([[User talk:|Talk]])m (17,047 bytes) (Removing external link: *.cruise-reviews.com -- per external link guidelines) (undo) What he/she deleted were the citations that backed up the statement

"Today it is mostly used by tourism cruises and scientific expeditions. The city is often a jumping-off point for Antarctic expeditions, although Ushuaia (Argentina)and Christchurch (New Zealand) are are also common starting points."

The citations are:

Punta Arenas example
Ushuaiaexample
Ushuaiaexample
Ushuaiaexample
Claim that New Zealand is still the jumping-off point for today's expeditions to Antarctica, and the home of several Antarctic research institutes.
[http://www.pacificislandbooks.com/antarctica.htm Christchurch... is still the major jumping off point for Antarctica. It hosts the International Antarctic Centre, a place well worth a visit.

Having citations in articles is a good thing. The citations were put in in such a way as not to constitute advertisements. I have therefore restored them.--Toddy1 (talk) 07:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ambiguous[edit]

It is the largest city south of ... -- Largest such city in Chile or in the world? Kdammers (talk) 07:15, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Magallanes is Spanish for Magellan": false[edit]

In the Geography section, 2nd paragraph, the following statement appears: "Magallanes is Spanish for Magellan"

That is patently false. The Portuguese explorer's name was Fernão de Magalhães. In Spanish he is known as Fernando de Magallanes or, occasionally, Hernando de Magallanes. Magellan is a subsequent, possibly posthumous, anglification of his surname.

PhiDeck (talk) 21:29, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Combined Message Box -- Time to Update?[edit]

I think the combined message box could be updated, although I agree that more citations are needed.

I feel that the following part of the message could be removed:

"*This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. In particular, <very messed up>. (December 2015)"

While the page could certainly be improved and expanded on, it appears to me that the article is reasonably well-organized and concise. It is unclear to me what "<very messed up>" is supposed to refer to--more specificity would be useful to identify the specific issues (?). As far as I can see, the overall information in this article is relevant and easy-to-read. Sturgeontransformer (talk) 08:51, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]