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Questions

Is Chamonix a town it think the article says at the start that it is but then goes on to talk about the valley and not much else

Yes it is a town, it says in the first line: "Chamonix is a town and commune in eastern France" 68.255.0.152 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 07:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is the Climate and area in sq km of Chamonix what is the lanuage? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.55.43.156 (talk) 08:35, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

french article is much much better. Information about the area and not the town should probably go on another page? eg lifts, particularly those not starting in Chamonix town. As people use 'Chamonix' to refer to the area this other page could be linked to as a disambiguation link at the top. Throwawayyy (talk) 12:49, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For tourists looking to reach Chamonix the best option is Alpybus

"For tourists looking to reach Chamonix the best option is Alpybus " Blatant advertising but useful. The same information has been added to the "Tour du Mont Blanc" page by the same IP. I suggest a new page called "Public transport to Chamonix" Mtpaley (talk) 19:58, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, blatant advertising. There is plenty of commercial information about Chamonix on the web. Two promiment sites, chamonix.net and chamonet.com The latter appears to be a copy of the former but does have some unique content. Chamonix.net is better for planning a holiday but chamonet.com has better info for a visitor in the resort. (Rtremayne (talk) 09:43, 10 July 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Racists

The text reads "The first party to publish (1744) an account of their visit was that of Dr. Richard Pococke, Mr. William Windham and other racists[...]"

I think "racists" is not the word the editor was looking for. Anyone with a better choice of words? 85.4.254.66 (talk) 18:16, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Joke?

It looks like someone has slipped a joke into the second paragraph: "Gateway to the European Cascades"? Someone is playing on the fact that Marblemount (at the entrance to North Cascades National Park in the United States) uses "Gateway to the American Alps" as their slogan (as do a number of other towns). I could be wrong, of course. Thebravecowboy (talk) 14:09, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A google book search did not find anything. Various blogs and tourism sites do use the term but did they just get it from Wikipedia?--Charles (talk) 18:55, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Page title

The official name of the city being "Chamonix-Mont-Blanc", why is the title of the page "Chamonix"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Panais24 (talk • contribs)

First off, Panais24, new questions go at the bottom of a talk page, not the top, so I have moved this down.

The answer to your question - which is a good one - is simple. Chamonix is the name commonly used to describe this place by people using the English language. Indeed, whenever I have stayed there, that's what the French people call it, too! On Wikipedia we title articles by what people most commonly refer to something, not by what it chooses to call itself. That's why, on French Wikipedia, I'm sure the article about London is spelled Londres - because that's how French people commonly call the city in their language. See WP:COMMONNAME for English Wikipedia's guidance on this. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~.) Nick Moyes (talk) 12:43, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, the Michelin (French-owned business) 989 Red series map from 1977 also shows it as Chamonix. Surprised at some of the prices.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 17:53, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Name pronunciations

Can someone explain to me why the pronunciations are given in footnotes rather than the body of the entry? Is this a practice I should be imitating in other articles? Linguoboy (talk) 16:00, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Linguoboy: Pronunciations can be hidden within footnotes (and personally I prefer that approach, as they so often get in the way within a key lead sentence). There's more information at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation. That said, I'm not sure this article has actually followed the guidance there to the letter. Nick Moyes (talk) 19:56, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Nick Moyes: Thanks! Looking at that page, it seems best practice would be to use ^{[pron 1]} and not "a", "b", "c". (This is actually what prompted my question, as I thought initially that there was no pronunciation information in the article and the footnotes only indicated sources for the official and unofficial forms of the name.) If I can hunt down sources for the pronunciations, I'll revise it. Linguoboy (talk) 20:10, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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