Talk:Tromsø

Romsa or Romssa
The Sámi name of the city is repeatedly changed from "Romsa" to "Romssa". The latter word is found when reading f. ex. "The Municipality of Tromsø" or "the Sámis of Tromsø" in Sámi: "Romssa suohkan", "Romssa sámit". However, this is the genitive case - i.e. the extra "s" adds the meaning "of". The correct name, nominative case, is Romsa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.36.137.7 (talk) 09:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Meaning of 'Trums'
Can anyone look it up and decide on whether it is known or unknown? It doesn't make sense to write "The meaning of the old name Trums is unknown. The name is from the old norwegian word "straumr" which refers to the strong currents in the narrow straits between the island and the mainland when the tide is coming in or going out."
 * I have written in all the three theories I know about. To anyone who feel strongly about the theory that the name derives from Sámi (Pros and Cons): Please leave the entry as it is. Whether one strongly agrees or strongly disagrees, the fact remains that the theory exists - and thus, it should be listed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.36.137.7 (talk) 10:06, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

The fernets
The fernets are hardly of any notable international fame. I'm removing the name and myspace link from the page. If anyone disagrees, explain why here.

Finnmark and the end of WWII
I see that "Finnmark had been devastated" has been replaced with "Finnmark had been evacuated". It is a well-known fact that all buildings were burnt down during the evacuation, and I think it's a lack of respect to the respective owners to "hide" this ... though, arguably, this has nothing to do with Tromsø

The article mentions that it got a bishops seat in 1834, but later said 1803 a bishops seat was established... What gives?

The bishop's seat for Northern Norway was established in 1803 at Alstahaug, and moved to Tromsø in 1834.

Recruitment in Tromsø area
Does anyone know if the area of Troms-Finnmark have any job agencies or organisations helping people with jobhunting? Most agencies mainly cover the south of the country without much attention to the north of the country. If someone'd have information, please contact me at gerrit.df@gmail .com (without the space in front of .com)

Try http://www.nav.no

It's a government job agency, part of the Norwegian social security system. A very good one, covers most vacant jobs in the entire country and you can search for areas, types of jobs etc.

421 m.a.s.l.?
Could somebody write that out in full? I couldn't find it in any dictionary.

Cunningpal 23:30, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

It must be 'meters above sea level' Cunningpal

Well who cares about this article anyways.
 * Probably every article on wikipedia, no matter how small, has somebody out there that cares deeply for the subject. In this case, we are talking about the cultural capitol of a region in Europe - everyone connected in some way to this region will care.

Sami having lived in the area "since the Stone Age"
...as stated at the top of the page. This statement might be concidered quite speculative, as it is not indeed known whether the Sami ethnic identity is this old. (Nothing against the Sami - it would have been just as speculative had it stated that "Norwegians" had lived in the area since the Stone Age...) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.39.140.252 (talk) 16:40, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I removed the claim that they were Sami from the lead and the History section. Should we find any reliable sources later that support the claim, it can be reinstated into the article. --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 16:51, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Pardon my French, but it's bollocks to talk about ethnic identity in the Stone Age. (And I am a Sámi). Of course, the people who lived in the Tromsø area back then are probably the direct ancestors of today's Sámi, and traits of the culture has probably survived into the present Sámi identity. But that doesn't mean we can talk about Sámi living there in the stone age, only the Sámi ancestors. Good job, removing it.

Missing: "Economy" section
Please add if you can. -- 85.179.174.161 (talk) 01:24, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Ersfjordbotn
Can someone please write Ersfjordbotn into this article so the orphan tag can be removed from Ersfjordbotn? Kingturtle (talk) 20:15, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Name Change
To "Tromso". I am utterly surprised this spelling has been so far allowed. It does not fit with wikipedia's standards for Anglicization on the English wikipedia at all. 78.146.215.203 (talk) 15:05, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Actually, naming guidelines allow this, if it's the common spelling in English sources. In this particular case, it's a bit difficult to determine, which is more common. If we exclude Norvegian websites "Tromso" appears to be more common than "Tromsø", but not by a very large margin, and the frequency is about the same if we count Norvegian websites. Personally, I'm in favour of the change, as there is no "ø" in the English alphabet, and it's a bit jarring and creates some issues with navigation and URLs, but the guidelines aren't very clear on this. Pittaxx 13:01, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

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Weather infobox and climate
For Tromsø, there is very good data available at the world weather information service, link here. I suggest this data is used for average highs and lows, as this is the standard for the other main cities in Norway. Orcaborealis (talk) 21:53, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I suggest that this part of the current climate section is removed from the Tromsø - article and inserted in the Northern Norway - article, as it is relevant to the entire coast of Northern Norway: Tromsø's warm climate, relative to other locations at the same latitude, is often attributed to the relatively warm North Atlantic Current, an extension of the Gulf Stream- It has been shown that northern Europe's mild climate is caused primarily by intercontinental weather patterns driven by North America's mountain ranges. But in Northern Norway, this ocean current fundamendally changes climate, and the coast of Northern Norway would be icebound in winter if not for the warm ocean current. Orcaborealis (talk) 07:26, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Picture comment
The text: The Tromsø Bridge and the Arctic Cathedral can be seen in the lower-right corner. is not corect, and has been removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.161.28.99 (talk) 07:17, 29 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Why isn't it correct? I can see them. Are you aware that you can drag the bar below the image to scroll it horizontally? Best regards, Hayden120 (talk) 08:32, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Conflicting Info
In the list of northern towns, this place is listed as having 58, 000 (or 54, 000 can't remember) but here it is 68, 000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.133.25 (talk) 04:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Problems with the second panorama picture
See here for what went wrong. I hope the problem will be fixed soon. Smitra0 (talk) 14:54, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Temporary emergency solution using a resized version. The correct solution allowing people to click through to the full sized version is yet to come. Smitra0 (talk) 17:54, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

The problem has now been fixed. Smitra0 (talk) 22:20, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Problem with introduction
The introduction claims that Tromsø is the second largest city north of the Arctic Circle, after Murmansk. But isn't Norilsk, Russia, also larger? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:14D:8002:E77C:1D4A:D02F:9E93:8AE1 (talk) 21:40, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

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How high (cable car)
In the cityscape section, it currently says "A cable car goes up to mount Storsteinen, 4 metres (13 feet) above sea level", which would be remarkable use of a cable car. http://fjellheisen.no/en/ suggests it's 421m - but I'm just browsing. Planning to visit next month. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeterParslow (talk • contribs) 11:09, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I've changed it to 420 based on the information at Fjellheisen. Doremo (talk) 11:29, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Pronunciation
The audio clip has a correct pronunciation of Tromsø, but with a south-norwegian dialect. It'd be better with a clip with the Tromsø dialect (which differs rather a bit) Rkarlsba (talk) 21:22, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Pronunciation (IPA)
At the top of the article, the IPA part of the town's pronunciation says "tɾumsœ" and it links to Help:IPA_for_Norwegian. Trouble is, the last character - "œ" - does not appear on that page. Could someone with Norwegian language skills fix that? -- Hux (talk) 04:49, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

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Questionable inclusion of statement about COVID in lead
A recent contribution to the lead paragraph is a statement about Tromsø being the first city in Norway to have a recorded case of COVID-19. Is this appropriate for the lead? Is it important to remark on city pages that they were the origin of a pandemic in that region? Having read the Manual of Style for leads, I do not believe this bit of information is notable or important enough to be in the lead, but I am ambivalent about whether it should be on the page at all. If this information is appropriate for the page, I propose it be moved out of the lead, perhaps to the history section with a link to the Wikipedia page on COVID in Norway. BishopsHouseofHorrors (talk) 18:50, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

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