Talk:Valencia Fallas/Archive 1

Origin
The history section currently states that the Fallas began in the middle ages. However, the Spanish article claims that in spite of differing accounts of its origin, what is known is that it began in the 18th century. I've studied a little of the history of the region, but not nearly enough to know which is right. Any experts out there? Sadangel 10:06, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Valencia is not a Catalan country, we are victim of nationalist and lies from Catalonia. PLEASE STOP LIES


 * -I agree with your view. I am too from the Valencian Comunity, and hopelessly realise that many of the references to paellas, fallas and valencian culture, are filtered into Catalan... Why is this?


 * Alexander89 01:24, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

What does it have to do a table about the Catalan language and culture in a page about the Fallas? What does it have to do the phonetic or grammar of catalan language with the tradition and history of Fallas? Whoever checks wikipedia to know about Fallas is interested just in Fallas, whoever wants to know about catalan language and culture will look for related articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.187.63.107 (talk) 14:42, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree with you, but i also have to say something: I'm from Valencia, and we don't speak Catalan.We are victim. Why do you have to say that Valencia is a part of Catalonia??. We have our own culture, and Catalonia wants to apropiate it. Please, delete from this article the template from "The Catalan-speaking world". VALENCIA IS NOT CATALONIA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.202.23.232 (talk) 17:40, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Fallas / Catalan
Hi, I have deleted the box that stated that this was included as a Catalan tradition. I don't care if valenciano is catalan or not. What is for sure is that this festivity is not part of the catalan tradition. The same as you wouldn't include Serb holidays as being Croatian, or St Patrick's being an English tradition. Please correct me if I'm wrong and imply that StPaddy's is an English tradition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by --Arthurbrown (talk) 14:05, 30 July 2008 (UTC)Arthurbrown (talk • contribs) 14:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * At no point does the article say that it is a Catalan tradition. However the box relates to the Catalan-speaking world, and is therefore completely appropriate. --Bcnviajero (talk) 14:39, 1 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I have to differ and satate that this is not appropriate. In no Flemish tradition does it englobe it with Dutch traditions. This creates confusion as it puts them all under one topic. Valencian traditions have no relation with catalan traditions. It has been accepted that Catalan and Valencian are the same language, but that does not justify that box or it's content. We don not have boxes in Wikpedia of Sout American traditions in a Spanish-Speaking World Box. If we start relating traditions to their languages, we will have too many boxes and the relation tends to be scarce. What importance is it that Falles are spoken in Catalan? At the beginning of the article it says pretty clearly (In Valencian), so if anyone wants to they can click there and discover about the language (catalan or whatever). What is redundant and confusing is including it with El Tió de Nadal and other Catalan traditions. What do we include and what do we not include in that box? Mallorcan traditions?Alghero traditions?

I issue my desire to not only remove this box from this article, but from all the articles that it is in. Maybe a Catalan Traditions box for Catalan traditions, or an article with the Catalan Speaking World, but this box seems too exclusive and pushy.--Arthurbrown (talk) 15:33, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Hm the fact that both regions share the same language (or so they say in the law, it's not really the same, whatever they say) doesn't mean that they share traditions, so yeah, that 'Catalan-Valencian' thing should be removed off the box, it's only a Valencian tradition. AND even if they say that both languages are the same, it's completely legal to call it Valencian as a language itself since the law also states that, so Catalan has nothing to do in this page. Seriously, nothing. (talk) 5:35, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * See discussion in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catalan-speaking Countries. --Carles Noguera (talk) 18:08, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

the Falleres in their dresses really are much prettier
the Falleres in their dresses that the image is not a representation of reality. the Falleres in their dresses really are much prettier picture soon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.53.58.56 (talk) 18:55, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Misspelled
The correct spelling is with 2 As. It should be Fallas not Falles. Check out this Spanish Wikipedia link: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallas_de_Valencia I would have changed it but I don't know how to change it on all the pages that link here e.g.the entry for March. (I'm new to this) 132.228.195.206 (talk) 20:16, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Valencia is a bilingual region, in Spanish is said "fallas", but in Valencian is said "falles". The singular form is "falla" in both languages. Both languages are co-official, but Valencian is the traditional one. You can also check this Catalan Wikipedia link: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falles (Catalan and Valencian are two varieties of the same language or two languages closely related depending who you ask, and there's not a Valencian-especific wiki) 77.231.185.162 (talk) 23:39, 4 April 2010 (UTC)