Talk:Nuuk

Name: Nuuk vs. Godthåb
"Nuuk" is the most commonly accepted name for this city in English ;it is listed by Lonely Planet guides as being the common name of this city.Vancouverguy 00:33, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
 * The city's name is Godthåb. Finito! I know this better than you, Sir! (Please see the swedish wikipedia: Godthåb, not "Nuuk")


 * Just like Königsberg's name is Königsberg (and not "Kaliningrad")
 * Not in English. Nor does the city itself officially accept the Godthåb name. --mav 00:38, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)


 * This is the English version of Wikipedia, not Danish therefore the names as they are known to English speakers are used. Vancouverguy 00:38, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)


 * The Times Atlas of the World, Tenth Edition (which is pretty authoritative!) shows it as Nuuk (Godthåb), but the bracketed name is shown very small compared with the labelling of Nuuk. GRAHAMUK 01:27, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
 * Try this for evidence: http://dk.nanoq.gl/enhed.asp?page=enhed&objno=522


 * Or indeed this, an official publication of the Danish Government: http://www.denmark.dk/servlet/page?_pageid=80&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&_fsiteid=175&_fid=48229&page_id=1&_feditor=0&folder.p_show_id=48229 -- The Anome 01:31, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Big rush!
Wow a huge rush of talk on the talk page!... and still the article has gained no content since the initial stub in May 2002... looks like I am going to have to try to knuckle down and help out here! Pete 07:18, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Oops
Damn...I put it at Nuuk because that's the official name of the place since home rule in 1979. It's too bad people who know more than I do don't add to the page rather than fight about something they could confirm in five minutes... John

Coordinates wrong...
I tried looking up the coordinates on Google Earth and they point to the southern tip of Greenland...the lat/long are definitely not correct! --Michael
 * I also tried that. They seem to point reasonably accurately to Nasarsuaq, maybe they have been swapped.

Contradictions
On section history it says that:

However on section Demographics it says that: