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Contents 1 Eh? 2 points of interest 3 twin cities 4 New Infobox Template proposition 5 Ecclesiastical History 6 20th Century Italian Occupation 7 Priority 101: Cleanup Tag 7.1 POPULATION 8 Cerbère 9 Map 10 History

[edit] Eh?

Following quote describing the language: "Strong Italian and (less) Corsican influences make it less unintelligible than other non-extinct Provençal dialects that exist around." What does "less unintelligible" mean? Compared to what? Presumably the speakers understand each other, right... Could someone please clarify?

The autocton dialect of Nice is not a Provençal one. It is a dialect close to ligure.

I've a friend from Nice. My father's Parisian. It often takes me minutes to tell if Bruno is speaking French or Italian on the phone, so similar is the accent and affected the vocabulary. Perhaps that's what it meant?

"It is a dialect close to ligure".... Eh? You probably mean that Provençal and Ligure are close enough to say that Nissard is as close to Provençal as it is to Ligure. As a Provencer, I've heard Provençal here and there all my youth, and Nissard for 9 years when I moved from Marseille to Nice. Frankly most of the time the difference is hard to tell.--Stormy Ordos 15:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] points of interest

I've added a points of interest section, would someone like to expand on them?

I've changed the caption of the photo from "Promenade des Anglais" to "Quai des États-Unis", which is correct. The Promenade des Anglais is a continuation of this, which is in the distance.Apgeraint 18:53, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] twin cities

Why is capetown not in the list of twin cities, as capetown has Nice listed as a twin city

[edit] New Infobox Template proposition

I'd like to bring your attention to a new - or other - version of the "Large French Cities" infobox presently at use in a few French cities pages. The present version is much too large, partly because it consecrates too much space to information having little importance to French demography and an only distant and indirect relevence to the city itself. Instead I propose to follow a less cumbersome model closer to that used by the New York City article - you can view the new version in the Paris talk page here. Please view and comment. THEPROMENADER 22:20, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

As a result of some discussion over the past weeks, there is an updated template available for perusal in its 'published ' form (filled with data) here - all comments welcome. -- THEPROMENADER 07:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Many city/town articles have a section for twinned cities rather than have that information in the box, here is how it look in the Sheffield article:

===International links===
Sheffield is formally twinned with:
* Anshan, China
* Bochum, Germany
* Donetsk, Ukraine
* Esteli, Nicaragua

There are more informal links with:
* Kawasaki, Japan
* Kitwe, Zambia
* Pittsburgh, United States.

I'd like to think that presented like that, it looks class. Cheers, Captain scarlet 09:08, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll second that for sure; the flags are very visual and a plus to the '"click" understanding' factor. A 'twin city' template would be cool - and could find use not only in French articles, but all articles. Does one already exist? If not, certainly something to think about. THEPROMENADER 10:19, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ecclesiastical History

I would say this is a subject for a separate article. THEPROMENADER 16:53, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I think there is certainly useful information in there, but there is so much information which is far too specialised for even a History of Nice, let alone the Nice article itself. I suggest you move it to Ecclesiastical history of Nice, much as I have done for Ecclesiastical history of Montpellier and Ecclesiastical history of Lyon. Then link to it from the history section. Hopefully one day, someone will break those articles into sections, and perhaps cherry pick some useful tidbits back into the main article. They're pretty incomprehensible though. Stevage 21:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 20th Century Italian Occupation

Howcome the article does not Mention that Nice was occupied by the Italians from 1940-43?

You're right of course, but there's alot of other little facts that have been omitted from Nice's history. This is a summary. If you feel like writing a complete article about Nice from 350 BC to 2007, go ahead.

--Stormy Ordos 15:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Priority 101: Cleanup Tag

A well-known country article should have a ton of references and citations.. Anyone who's been editing the article, can we get some references? --Nissi Kim 23:43, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POPULATION

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW MANY INHABITANTS NICE HAS,BECAUSE THERE ARE SEVERAL NUMBERS

[edit] Cerbère

When one of you who's more familiar with the area has a few moments, please have a look at the stub on Cerbère, see if you can flesh it out some? Though the ville impressed me, I've only ever seen it by moving train and in pictures. Merci beaucoups! --JT 18:46, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map

The tooltip for the map says that it is a map highlighting the commune of Nice. But from what I understand, it is the map of France, and I don't find Nice being highlighted anywhere. Jay 08:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History

I was an employee of Sporting Car Rental at the airport on October 16, 1979 and I do not recall a Tsunami on that date as is mentioned in the history discussion. JeffreyOvermire@yahoo.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.73.56.141 (talk) 14:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC).